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Watch President Barrack Obama deliver a speech on gun control, three days after he delivered a speech of comfort at Newton in light of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

The Irish government said it is in the process of amending the nation's uncompromising abortion laws after the death of Savita Halappanavar, who died of septicaemia after repeatedly being denied an abortion.

Microsoft Corp and Google Inc's Motorola phone unit remain millions of dollars apart in their respective valuations of video and wi-fi patents at issue in a pivotal case before a federal judge in Seattle.