• Other questions were from Viscount Craigavon, a crossbench peer, who asked the government what priority it is giving in international development to population issues and reproductive health and rights.

    BBC: Lib Dem peer criticises Afghanistan rules of engagement

  • If Augusta National admits it was prepared to make an offer but she wouldn't accept, it has admitted that membership is open to women, and it will immediately be asked who the next candidate will be and when.

    CNN: Let women into Augusta golf club

  • Haggling over fees seems almost distasteful, especially for squeamish Brits who tend to pay what is asked and resent it later.

    ECONOMIST: Investment-banking fees

  • Since 1998, we have asked questions about the American Dream that measure who believes it is possible and what it means.

    FORBES: American Dream Wounded, But Endures

  • Why is it, he asked, that those who "consider it 'ideological' and somehow reprehensible" that Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas tend to vote together still consider it "principled and admirable" that Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg tend to vote together?

    CNN: Supreme Court in a no-win position on Obamacare?

  • Now, consumers are being asked to use the experiences they have had to identify who is getting it right and who deserves recognition.

    BBC: Shopping and voting

  • This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from Arthur, who has asked one of the most dangerous questions it's possible to ask the internet.

    ENGADGET

  • Yet Mr Dunlap, a man who has the answer to every question off pat before it is even asked, is more prone to blustering assertions than to analysis.

    ECONOMIST: Ready, fire, aim

  • The Foreign Office said it is helping two of the four injured protesters, who have asked to leave.

    BBC: Britons acting as 'human shields'

  • But the question needs asking, and it is unlikely to be asked by an observer like Mr Halberstam, who has come to think the best of America's brightest.

    ECONOMIST: Washington chronicle

  • By the way, for those of you who have asked whether I would wash a shirt after swapping it with a player the answer is a definite yes!

    BBC: David Beckham (left) tangles with Owen Hargreaves

  • It is ammunition too for those who say the prime minister should never have asked him to take the quasi judicial role in deciding the bid.

    BBC: A question of judgement

  • And the way they found out about the information is interesting, is somebody who collects plane crash information and just puts it up on the Internet asked for that stuff and was given the stuff.

    NPR: Invoking the State Secrets Privilege

  • "What we think is going on there is that people who get the call to participate in the poll, they're asked to say if it's Obama or Clinton, " Greenwald says.

    NPR: As Obama Leads Polls, Bradley Effect Examined

  • Participants were asked to comment on their experiences in their local area - so it wasn't a case of someone who is used to shopping in London reviewing service in our more relaxed area of the country.

    BBC: Devon - Have your say: are you being served?

  • The Defense Department has been asked to send someone to testify but is having a hard time finding anyone who wants to go on the record as supporting it.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Bottom-of-the-sea treaty

  • Lawyers for the claimant, who is set to pursue a civil case, said it was the first time a court had been asked to rule on whether the "relationship between a Catholic priest and his bishop is akin to an employment relationship".

    BBC: Hampshire & Isle of Wight

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