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American comedian Bill Cosby will go to trial on charges of sexually assaulting a woman in his home in Philadelphia in 2004.  The veteran entertainer could face up to ten years in prison if convicted.  It's a big legal setback for the man who epitomized the all-American dad on his 1980s sitcom, "The Cosby Show".  Prosecutors revived the investigation into Mr. Cosby after dozens of women came forward in recent years with similar accusations against Cosby as those made by the plaintiff, Andrea Constand:  That Cosby allegedly gave them drugs to make the pass out, when he would sexually assault them.

Baby Wolf Puppies!  Baby Wolf Puppies!  At Chicago's Brookfield Zoo.

Kurdish forces are advancing towards the Islamic State de facto capital of Raqqa, under cover of US and allied air strikes.  Across the border, Iraqi forces are creeping up on Falluja to liberate that city from more than two years of control by IS.  A few thousands is militants are dug in among tens of thousands of civilians. 

Meanwhile, a Russian air base in central Syria appears to have sustained considerable damage from an IS attack.  The defense and intelligence think tank Stratfor says that satellite imagery indicates that four attack helicopters and 20 trucks were destroyed.  "What the imagery tells us is that first of all this was not an accidental explosion, as some of the rumors kept saying," said Stratfor military analyst Sim Tack.  "It shows very clearly that there are several different sources of explosions across the airport, and it shows that the Russians took a quite a bad hit," he added.

Greece has commenced moving the first of 8,000 migrants and refugees from a make-shift camp along the northern border with Macedonia.  Since March, the border crossing that would have eventually led to northern Europe has been shut.  Hundreds of Greek riot police circled the site to move the people - mostly families who fled the wars in the Middle East - to take them to more orderly camps where they can apply for asylum. They didn't want to fill in those forms in Greece, a country with immense financial problems.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is rattling Europe's cage again, threatening to scuttle the agreement to stop the flow of refugees into Europe unless Turkish passport holders gain visa-free access to the bloc.  But the EU is demanding that Erdogan (who once had his balls kicked by a horse) limit the scope of Turkey's anti-terror laws, which are frequently used to target Erdogan's political enemies. 

The police chief of Brussels, Belgium is recovering after being slammed in the head with a rock thrown at the raucous end of an otherwise peaceful anti-austerity protest.  After most of the 50,000 demonstrators cleared the city's center, Chief Pierre Vandersmissen for some reason decided to chase after the ubiquitous end-of-protest rock throwers - without wearing any protective gear.  A man in red chucked a rock and it connected with the chief's helmetless head.  Water cannons and tear gas, a few dozen arrests, and a good time was had by all.

The daughter of South African freedom fighter and retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu has married a woman, and was forced to give up her duties as a priest in South Africa's Anglican church as a result.  "After my marriage," explained Mpho Tutu-van Furth, "The Bishop of Saldanha Bay was advised that he must revoke my license.  I offered to return my license rather than require that he take it from me."  She's in Bali on honeymoon with Marceline Tutu-van Furth.  84-year old Desmond Tutu attended the wedding and says he is "sad but not surprised" at the news.  The anti-apartheid legend has urged the SA Anglican Church to change the rules and recognize gay weddings.

Monsanto has rejected a takeover bid from Bayer AG.  So there.