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Online translation on the rise, changing lives

Online translation on the rise, changing lives
By MARTHA MENDOZAAP National Writer MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - You might use Google Translate to read a hard-to-find Manga comic book or to decipher an obscure recipe for authentic Polish blintzes. Or, like Phillip and Niki Smith in rural Mississippi, you could use it to rescue a Chinese orphan

Online translation on the rise, changing lives

Online translation on the rise, changing lives
By MARTHA MENDOZAAP National Writer MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - You might use Google Translate to read a hard-to-find Manga comic book or to decipher an obscure recipe for authentic Polish blintzes. Or, like Phillip and Niki Smith in rural Mississippi, you could use it to rescue a Chinese orphan

Online translation on the rise, changing lives

Online translation on the rise, changing lives
By MARTHA MENDOZAAP National Writer MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - You might use Google Translate to read a hard-to-find Manga comic book or to decipher an obscure recipe for authentic Polish blintzes. Or, like Phillip and Niki Smith in rural Mississippi, you could use it to rescue a Chinese orphan

Crisis, separatism dominate Spanish elections

Crisis, separatism dominate Spanish elections
By HAROLD HECKLE and JORGE GARMAAssociated Press BILBAO, Spain (AP) - Voters in Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's northwestern home region of Galicia have given their support to his handling of the economy, but those in the turbulent Basque region handed a major victory to nationalist

Crisis, separatism dominate Spanish elections

Crisis, separatism dominate Spanish elections
By HAROLD HECKLE and JORGE GARMAAssociated Press BILBAO, Spain (AP) - Voters in Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's northwestern home region of Galicia have given their support to his handling of the economy, but those in the turbulent Basque region handed a major victory to nationalist

Britain has helped other children in trouble

Britain has helped other children in trouble
By SYLVIA HUIAssociated Press LONDON (AP) - Fourteen-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousufzai, who was airlifted to a British hospital for medical care and protection after she was shot in the head by the Taliban, is the latest of many foreign children in need that Britain has welcomed in

Spain crisis fuels Catalan separatist sentiment

Spain crisis fuels Catalan separatist sentiment
By JOSEPH WILSONAssociated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Three weeks after a massive Catalan separatist march in Barcelona - the biggest since the 1970s - the independence flags still flutter from balconies across Spain's second largest city. Spain's crushing recession has had this

Spain urged to seek aid despite strong bond sale

Spain urged to seek aid despite strong bond sale
By CIARAN GILESAssociated Press MADRID (AP) - Spain raised €4.8 billion ($6.2 billion) in a debt auction Thursday that saw strong demand and a substantial drop in its borrowing costs. But analysts and investors warned that Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy should not take the successful sale as a

Spain's Rajoy at center of bank bailout firestorm

Spain's Rajoy at center of bank bailout firestorm
By CIARAN GILESAssociated Press MADRID (AP) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was a lackluster career politician until, at the third attempt, he led his conservative Popular Party to a landslide win over the Socialists last November. Rajoy, 57, inherited a