• With Kevin Morgan short of match practice due to injury and Gareth Thomas left out, the match is a chance for another player to lay a claim on the Wales 15 jersey.

    BBC: Henson still struggling - Bennett

  • Nearly 200 members of a Philippine Muslim clan took over an entire Malaysian village to lay claim to a sprawling Borneo state they insist is theirs by royal birthright.

    NPR: Filipino Gunmen Seek Ceasefire In Malaysia Borneo

  • This is how Apple can now lay claim to a patent on a rectangle with rounded corners.

    FORBES: If Apple Can Copy Braun Then Why Can't Samsung Copy Apple?

  • Asia can thus easily lay claim to a new golden age.

    CNN: Building On A Golden Age

  • Finally, we have the rumored 5730 (pictured) -- the only of the three to run S60 and lay claim to a genuine smartphone title.

    ENGADGET: Nokia introducing 5030, 5330, and 5730 XpressMusics at tomorrow's event?

  • It certainly does not lay claim, as dreamers of a unified Greater Kurdistan do, to a fantastical spur of land that would jut across south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria to reach the Mediterranean, plus another tongue of territory stretching south-eastwards to let Kurds dip their toes in the Persian Gulf beyond Basra.

    ECONOMIST: Iraqi Kurdistan

  • They also assert that, as a member, America could itself lay claim to some 600 square miles of additional Arctic seabeds.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Russian LOST and found

  • More Gypsies are beginning to lay claim to their own history, holding a string of memorial services across Europe and North America in August to commemorate the month when several thousand of them had been sent to their deaths at Auschwitz.

    ECONOMIST: A Gypsy awakening

  • The fundamental problem is that MP3 wasn't just dreamed up by a dude in a lab somewhere, it's a standard which builds on the work of earlier codecs and formats, so it's easy for a variety of different entities to legitimately lay claim to having some patents related to its creation.

    ENGADGET: Fight over who owns MP3 gets messier and messier

  • Inara is the daughter of the late Little Feat frontman Lowell George and can lay claim that the charismatic DNA that made daddy a star before his untimely passing when she was but five years old.

    NPR: The Bird and the Bee, Getting Buzz

  • Since the collapse of communism it has become increasingly hard (except in the Muslim part of the world, and maybe even there too) to persuade people that a small group of self-selected wise men can claim a special expertise about Important Things which entitles them to lay down the law for everybody else.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of geopolitics

  • Or was it the impeccable stillness of a fortnight spent mostly sheltered indoors with the only two people she could lay claim to?

    NEWYORKER: Naima

  • That way, even if a tenant or visitor wins a judgment against your rental home, he will have no right to lay claim to your personal assets.

    FORBES: Attention Landlords: Beware Litigious Tenants

  • Eastwood looked the natural replacement for Sean Long, sidelined with a broken jaw, as he kicked six goals from eight attempts to further lay claim to the number seven jersey when the former Great Britain scrum-half leaves Knowsley Road at the end of the season.

    BBC: Warrington 26-40 St Helens

  • Welsh people could lay claim to be the most ancient Britons, according to scientists who have drawn up a genetic map of the British Isles.

    BBC: Welsh people could be most ancient in UK, DNA suggests

  • The project undertaken by the Kerala Highway Research Institute in India, where shredded plastic waste has been mixed with bitumen to lay roads, is certainly a good example of the former, particularly as the proponents of the scheme claim the road is stronger and more durable than non-plastic roads, although that remains to be seen.

    CNN: All about plastic

  • They included a mastery of science and technology, and an international reputation two qualities Mr Habibie would certainly lay claim to.

    ECONOMIST: Indonesia

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