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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008 file photo, Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka smiles during a reception on the occasion of his 80th birthday, at a gallery in Vienna. Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka, whose controversial works in metal, paint and pencil alienated as much as attracted the public died Saturday, Austrian media reported. He was 81. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss, File)
FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008 file photo, Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka smiles during a reception on the occasion of his 80th birthday, at a gallery in Vienna. Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka, whose controversial works in metal, paint and pencil alienated as much as attracted the public died Saturday, Austrian media reported. He was 81. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss, File)

VIENNA -- Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka, whose controversial works in metal, paint and pencil alienated as much as attracted the public died Saturday, Austrian media reported. He was 81.


LOS ANGELES -- The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected a lesbian as assistant bishop Saturday, the second openly gay bishop in the global Anglican fellowship, which is already deeply fractured over the first.


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