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  • Karzai welcomes Pakistani help in reconciling with Taliban

    Karzai welcomes Pakistani help in reconciling with Taliban

    United Kingdom News.Net

    Afghanistan has praised Pakistan's offer to help mediate with the Taliban.

  • Israel provides no recognition for churches and mosques

    Israel provides no recognition for churches and mosques

    United Kingdom News.Net

    The U.S. State Department has scolded Israel for only recognizing Jewish holy sites.

  • U.S. builds support among Gulf nations for sanctions against Iran

    U.S. builds support among Gulf nations for sanctions against Iran

    United Kingdom News.Net

    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has met lkeaders in Saudi Arabia and the UAE to garner support for increasing sanctions against Iran.

  • Massive insurance payout for workers effected by Ground Zero dust

    Massive insurance payout for workers effected by Ground Zero dust

    More than 10,000 workers who cleaned up after the September 11 2001 attacks, and suffered from ailments caused by dust, will received more than $600 million in compensation.

  • CIA accused of LSD mind control experimenting

    CIA accused of LSD mind control experimenting

    United Kingdom News.Net

    The UK newspaper The Telegraph has revealed allegations contained in a new book that the CIA engaged in a mind control experiment in a village in France.

  • Unstable Chile gets new president

    Unstable Chile gets new president

    United Kingdom News.Net

    Sebastian Pinera has been sworn in as Chile's new president as the country still shakes from aftershocks following February's massive earthquake.

  • Salt could be banned in New York restaurants

    Salt could be banned in New York restaurants

    United Kingdom News.Net

    A state legislator in New York wants salt banned from pre-packaged and restaurant food.

  • Iranian president denigrates US presence in Afghanistan

    Iranian president denigrates US presence in Afghanistan

    United Kingdom News.Net

    With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local affairs.

  • Philippines police stage daring rescue of kidnapped man

    Philippines police stage daring rescue of kidnapped man

    United Kingdom News.Net

    Police officers rescued an Indian businessman a day after he was kidnapped by four unidentified gunmen in the Philippines, a provincial police chief said Friday.

  • Twitter Unveils Tool To Share Tweeting Locations

    Washington Times

    By ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Twitter can now let the world automatically know your whereabouts as well as your thoughts and activities. A new feature unveiled Thursday gives Twitter u...

  • Retail Sales Rise Unexpectedly In Feb.

    Washington Times

    By ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) -- Retail sales posted a surprising increase in February as consumers did not let major snowstorms stop them from storming the malls. The advance, the biggest sinc...

  • Roche's Avastin Disappoints In Late-stage Study Of Prostate Cancer - Update

    RTT News

    Roche Group Member Genentech Says Phase III Study Of Avastin Plus Chemotherapy In Advanced Stomach Cancer Did Not Meet Primary Endpoint - Quick Facts

  • Former Un Mediator, Eu Special Representative Visit Abkhazia

    RadioFreeEurope

    to Sukhumi this week after a seven-year hiatus for talks with Abkhaz leaders, including Sergei Bagapsh, the breakaway Georgian region's de facto president. He will travel to Tbilisi on March 17. EU sp...

  • Nato: Nukes Still Needed For 'credible Deterrence'

    RadioFreeEurope

    NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the reduction of nuclear arsenals has to be carried out in a balanced manner, but that atomic weapons were still needed for deterrence reasons. At an ...

  • Why Is Iran Releasing Some Postelection Detainees?

    RadioFreeEurope

    The Iranian authorities in recent weeks have begun to release some of the former officials, activists, and intellectuals detained in last year's post-election unrest.Those released in recent days incl...

  • Fugitive Kazakh Banker Blames Nazarbaev’s Relative For Strike

    RadioFreeEurope

    ZHANAOZEN, Kazakhstan -- A former Kazakh banker has accused President Nursultan Nazarbaev's son-in-law of prompting a strike by several thousand workers at an oil facility in southwestern Kazakhstan, ...

  • Russian High Court Upholds Yabloko Ban In Election

    RadioFreeEurope

    MOSCOW -- The Russian Supreme Court has upheld a ban on the opposition Yabloko party taking part in upcoming elections to the Sverdlovsk Oblast Duma, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. Yabloko's press ...

  • Kadyrov Orders Drivers To Clean Their Cars Regularly

    RadioFreeEurope

    Chechnya's Ramzan Kadyrov is the meddling type of strongman and there is nothing he won't speak out about. In the past he's taken firm stands on the state of the Russian republic's roads and amount of...

  • President Obama Delays Asia Trip To Push Health-care

    New York Post

    WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has delayed his visit to Asia, his first international trip of the year, to focus on the push to salvage health care legislation after a year of contentious debate...

  • Woman Gets 16 Years For Raping Adopted Daughter

    New York Post

    TACOMA, Wash. — A 47-year-old woman in Washington state has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for raping her 8-year-old daughter adopted from China. Donna Marie Whisenhunt, of Lacey, pleaded ...

  • Suicide Bombs Kill 43, Wound 100 In Pakistani City

    New York Post

    LAHORE, Pakistan -- A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 43 people in this eastern city and wounding about 100, ...

  • Jogger Believed Mauled To Death By Wolves In Alaska

    New York Post

    A teacher killed while jogging in Alaska is thought to have been mauled to death by wolves, Sky News reported Friday.The post-mortem carried out on Candice Berner recorded "multiple injuries due to an...

  • Nj Man Linked To Al Qaeda Worked At Us Nuclear Plants

    New York Post

    BUENA, N.J. — Sharif Mobley, who is in custody in Yemen as a suspected member of the same branch of al-Qaida that's linked to the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of a Detroit-bound jet, wor...

  • James Brown's Body Is Missing From Crypt: Daughter

    New York Post

    -father of Soul."One of Brown's daughters reportedly claims that the singer's body has gone missing from its crypt -- part of an elaborate plot to prevent her from carrying out an autopsy that will de...

  • German Church Leader Apologizes To Abuse Victims

    International Herald Tribune

    Pope Benedict Friday the pontiff had encouraged him to press ahead with tough new measures. Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, head of the German Bishops' Conference, vowed the German Church would take ste...

  • Cop Who Wrote Up Roethlisberger Report Posed For Photos With Him Earlier: Report

    New York Post

    The police officer who wrote up the police report on an alleged sexual assault involving Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger posed for a photo with him just hours earlier.Sgt. Jerry Blash, who lat...

  • Vonn Wins 3rd Straight World Cup

    International Herald Tribune

    Lindsey Vonn won her third consecutive World Cup overall title Friday with a victory in the super-G at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Vonn now has 33 World Cup wins, the most for an American skier.

  • Governing Israel: The Ultimate Insider’s Account

    Jerusalem Post

    Post readers will be familiar with Avner’s storytelling skills. Often, over the years, he has bequeathed us installments of his elegant prose, first-hand reports from his personal archive set in the...

  • Column One: The March Of The Red-green Brigades

    Jerusalem Post

    The Red-Green alliance is on the march. On Wednesday, the leftist-controlled European Parliament in Strasbourg passed a resolution endorsing the Goldstone Report. That report, it will be recalled, den...

  • Kiwi War Hero Aiming To Stay At The Front Line

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink "The man on the ground is the most important thing out here ... you can't win a war from far away." These are the words of New Zealand's latest war hero, British Army rifleman James McKie, wh...

  • Heir Dies In Plane Crash

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink Stace Hopper was involved with development of the Marsden Cove residential marina. A member of a prominent Far North family has been killed after his plane crashed in a field near Whangarei ye...

  • Rachida Dati - Stilettos With A Steely Edge

    New Zealand Herald

    Rachida Dati refuses to renounce her fashion sense - like her stylish stilettos (right) - while juggling her roles of politician and single mother. Photo / AP

  • The New Potency Of The F-word

    New Zealand Herald

    It is 40 years since Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch hit the bookshops. When it was first published, the passionate polemic calling for the end of the oppression of women caused a sensation. Edwa...

  • Last Chance To Escape The Firing Squad

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink This was diplomacy at its rawest. Behind closed doors and away from the glare of public declarations of friendship and goodwill, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd this week sat down with President Su...

  • West Bank Unrest Strains Limits Of Israel's Patience

    New Zealand Herald

    Shortly after 2.30pm a shot rang out, and Ehab dropped face down on the ground before being carried vomiting and bleeding from the wound above his right eye by four older men to relative safety back u...

  • Fran O'sullivan: Lessons To Learn From Irish

    New Zealand Herald

    It's a brave politician who traipses halfway round the world while her political opponents are calling for her head and her job could be up for grabs in an upcoming Cabinet reshuffle. But Irish Cabin...

  • Suicide Bombers Kill At Least 43, Wound 100 In Pakistan

    USA Today

    LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 43 people in this eastern city and wounding ab...

  • Democrats Pare Differences On Health Bill

    USA Today

    President Obama, seen here at the White House on March 2, postponed his pending trip to Asia on Friday to work on his stalled health care bill.

  • Iraqi Pm: Laying Groundwork For New Coalition Government

    USA Today

    BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi prime minister's bloc said Friday it has started laying the groundwork to form a coalition government, signaling growing confidence after preliminary election results sho...

  • Senators Question $1 Million Pay For Charity's Ceo

    USA Today

    Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding fo...

  • Nicolas Sarkozy Laughs Off Questions About Affairs

    The Independent

    French president Nicolas Sarkozy today tried to laugh off rumours about his marriage to former model Carla Bruni. Mr Sarkozy was asked at a joint Downing Street news conference with Gordon Br...

  • Mexico City Stages First Gay Marriages

    The Independent

    Two glowing brides in matching white gowns and four other same-sex couples made history in Mexico City as they wed under Latin America's first law that explicitly approves gay marriage. Mayor...

  • Australia Probes Navy Sex Games Claims

    The Independent

    Australian officials launched an investigation into allegations that sailors on board a navy ship were running a sex competition during an overseas deployment last year. The Defence Departmen...

  • Pope Meets German Bishop Over Sex Scandal

    The Independent

    The Pope held talks with Germany's leading bishop today amid a spiralling abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church in his homeland. Archbishop Robert Zollitsch has apologised to German victim...

  • New Earthquake Strikes Chile As Billionaire Sebastian Pinera Is Sworn In As President

    The Independent

    It couldn't have been a more dramatic prelude to Sebastian Pinera's presidency. As the new Chilean leader arrived at the Congress building yesterday to be sworn in to office, a 7.2 magnitude earthquak...

  • Mercy Killing Wife Vicki Wood Takes Life At Swiss Clinic

    The Independent

    A woman who walked free from court 10 years ago after the attempted mercy killing of her husband has ended her own life in a Swiss clinic. Celebrated toymaker Vicki Wood, admitted the attempte...

  • Obama Delays Trip As Health Care Vote Nears

    CNN

    NEW: President Obama delays trip to Indonesia and Australia to work on health care House Budget Committee expected to vote on key procedural piece on health care Party leaders in House, Senate hold ex...

  • Disfigured Girl Stuck In Haiti

    CNN

    Prieto said nearly 30 of their kids are stranded in Haiti waiting for help, and there are countless more who could be endangered by lack of care for otherwise treatable conditions. She said her organi...

  • Opinion: Fury Over Sex Offender

    CNN

    In any case, I wouldn't be surprised if, throughout San Diego County, video stores are having trouble keeping that movie on the shelf. For the last 10 days, 3.2 million people have been working throug...

  • Teacher-student Sex 'never Kid's Fault'

    CNN

    However the situation unfolds, the it's always the responsibility of the teacher to keep appropriate boundaries. "It's never the kid's fault," said New York pyschologist Judith Alpert.