The News in Ten 21 November 2013

The News in Ten is an International news programme from Bostonred

n 1946, peace was less than a year old. Labour was in power and the wartime signals intelligence service had been renamed as GCHQ. Building on their wartime collaboration, Britain and America signed an agreement that was to prove crucial to the so-called "special relationship".

They agreed to share intelligence on foreign countries but not to spy on each other's citizens. Later that was extended to five English-speaking countries, and is known as the "five eyes" agreement.

Now, in a joint investigation with the Guardian, drawing on documents released by the whistleblower Edward Snowden (pictured below), we can reveal exactly when and how that agreement was unpicked.

llinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation Wednesday allowing same-sex weddings starting this summer, making President Barack Obama's home state the 16th overall — and largest in the nation's heartland — to legalize gay marriage.

Four men were arrested for trespassing at a Seattle school building where their organization taught a culturally-based curriculum for African-American students, police said Wednesday. They were released hours later, vowing to continue their work to close what they call a racial achievement gap in education.

Seattle Public Schools (SPS), which owns the off-campus Horace Mann building, said that it wanted to renovate the facility and called the police because some members of the organization had refused to leave.AZ