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Polygamy Thrives in Utah

With 17 of their 25 children still living at home, breakfast is a military operation for the Dargers.

As organized chaos unfolds at the family home in the Utah countryside outside Salt Lake City, the parents come to help out.

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Indonesia Seeks to Protect Ancient Tribe

Deep in a remote forest in the Indonesian archipelago, the Kajang tribe lives much as it has done for centuries, resisting nearly all the trappings of modern life.

Their lifestyle has drawn comparisons with the Amish in the U.S., but they live in even more basic conditions, residing in houses on stilts and dressing only in black sarongs and headdresses.

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Thousands Protest Abortion Reform in Spain

Thousands of women marched in the streets of Madrid on Saturday to protest against the Spanish government's plan to restrict access to abortion.

They yelled "Freedom of abortion!" and waved signs such as "MPs and rosaries, out of my ovaries", targeting the Catholic Church as the supposed driver of the reform.

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Paintings by Guatemalan Master Stolen from Church

Six religious paintings by Guatemala's most important 18th century painter, Tomas Merlo, have been stolen from a church in the city of Antigua, culture ministry officials said Friday.

Two unidentified men overpowered the caretaker of El Calvario church in Antigua and tied him up Wednesday evening as he was closing for the day, officials said.

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Floating School Offers Hope in Nigeria's 'Slum on Stilts'

It's been dubbed the "Venice of Africa" but comparisons between the sprawling Lagos community of Makoko and the historic Italian city begin and end at the water's edge.

Makoko's makeshift huts rise from the murky waters of the lagoon around Nigeria's biggest city, a far cry from the ornate bridges and buildings that mark out Venice's cultural and commercial past.

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Italy Physicists Unearth Art Fake Using New 'Bomb Peak' Method

Italian nuclear physicists turned art detectives said Thursday they have discovered that a painting in the prestigious Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is a fake.

The art world's top experts and researchers have been trying to establish since the 1970s whether a painting believed to be part of the "Contraste de Formes" series produced by French artist Fernand Leger between 1913 and 1914 was genuine.

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U.S. Returns Polish Painting Stolen by Nazis

A painting by Johann Conrad Seekatz stolen from a Warsaw museum by the Nazis during World War II has been handed back to Poland, U.S. authorities said Thursday.

The painting -- "St.Philip Baptizing a Servant of Queen Kandaki" -- was looted from the National Museum of Warsaw during the 1939-1945 conflict, federal prosecutors in New York said in a statement.

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Cambodia Recovers Stolen Buddhist Relics

Police in Cambodia said Friday they have recovered a precious golden urn stolen last year that contains what are considered to be remnants of Buddha's body.

The urn was taken from a mountain shrine 40 kilometers (25 miles) outside the capital in mid-December.

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Mali Communities Renounce Female Circumcision

Community leaders gathered in Mali Thursday to mark an international day of campaigning against female genital mutilation, publicly renouncing a practice that is still legal in the deeply-conservative west African nation.

Moussocoura Sidibe, the spokesman for 14 communities representing numerous ethnic groups in the Muslim-majority country, said they were taking "the solemn commitment to abandon the practice of FGM and early and forced marriage involving girls in our communities".

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3 Arrested after U.S. Theft of Stradivarius Violin

A prosecutor says three people have been arrested in connection with the theft of a multi-million-dollar Stradivarius violin stolen from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster.

Assistant District Attorney Kent Lovern said Wednesday he couldn't reveal any information beyond the arrests.

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