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The de facto head of Samsung, Jay Y. Lee, is facing the potential of years behind bars after South Korean prosecutors said today that they intend to indict him on bribery charges, the Wall Street Journal reported. Lee was arrested earlier this month on bribery, embezzlement, and perjury charges related to giving $37 million …

Today’s Google Doodle pays tribute to Ed Roberts, an early leader of the disability rights movement and co-founder of the World Institute on Disability. After contracting polio at age 14, Roberts was paralyzed from the neck down. In spite of spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair and …

Image copyright Twitter Image caption Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his wife, Lucy, at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Australia’s prime minister has long supported same-sex marriage, but does he possess the influence – or the will – to make it happen? The BBC’s Greg Dunlop investigates. When …