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Top Stories: SYDNEY - In a dramatic move, Kevin Rudd resigned Wednesday as Australia's foreign minister sparking speculation that he may challenge the leadership of Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Big News Network.com Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:52:44 -0500TEHRAN - Amid Iran's standoff with the West over its contentious nuclear programme, the UN nuclear watchdog has said that Tehran stopped its inspectors from visiting Parchin, a key military site. Big News Network.com Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:48:16 -0500LONDON - The UN Security Council Thursday unanimously agreed to a resolution drafted by Britain to sizably increase in the strength of the African Union troops in Somalia and give them the mandate t... Big News Network.com Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:44:30 -0500KABUL - Talks between Afghan officials and Taliban are underway in Pakistan, a top member of a peace council has said in an indication that Islamabad government is backing the peace move. Big News Network.com Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:31:06 -0500LONDON - The eurozone's service sector shrank this month while the manufacturing also did not perform so well, according to a new business survey. Big News Network.com Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:15:51 -0500BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Scores of people were killed and hundreds injured Wednesday when an overcrowded suburban train derailed at a central city station, Buenos Aires Civil Defence director Daniel... Big News Network.com Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:04:54 -0500LONDON - Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell has offered to buy African oil exploration major Cove Energy for 994.4 million pounds ($1.6 billion) to expand its operations in Mozambique and Kenya. Big News Network.com Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:56:11 -0500AUCKLAND - Founder of file sharing website Megaupload.com Kim Dotcom alias Kim Schmitz, who has been jailed here since January 20 at the request of the US, has been granted bail by a New Zealand court... Big News Network.com Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:23:16 -0500SAN FRANCISCO - Dell, the world's No.3 computer maker, has predicted weak sales for the current quarter triggering slump in its stocks that went down by over seven percent in pre-market trading Wednes... Big News Network.com Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:51:24 -0500LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -; A medical examiner didn't find any evidence that an 82-year-old pilot suffered a medical event before the plane he was flying crashed in central Arkansas last ... Sign on San Diego Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:27:42 -0500During tonight's GOP debate, Ron Paul took exception to Rick Santorum's claim that Paul had finished "in the bottom half of Republicans this year" in ratings published by the ... Weekly Standard Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:25:09 -0500During Wednesday night's debate in Arizona, Rick Santorum had a chance to answer a recent barrage of criticisms from Mitt Romney on Santorum's record on earmarks. While Santorum may have ... Weekly Standard Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:25:07 -0500Here's a transcript of tonight's Republican presidential primary debate in Arizona, courtesy of CNN: JOHN KING, DEBATE MODERATOR, CNN ANCHOR AND CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Thank you. ... Weekly Standard Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:25:03 -0500');me.before(before);before.height($(document).height()); me.css('top', ($(window).scrollTop() + Math.round($(window).height()/2 - me.height()/2)) + 'px'); $('object, ... RadioFreeEurope Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:12:02 -0500Supporters of Vladimir Putin will voice their support for his bid to become Russia's next president at a rally today in Moscow. His aides said Putin, the current prime minister, may address ... RadioFreeEurope Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:12:01 -0500Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambaev arrives in Moscow today on a three-day working visit. Strengthening ties, especially in business, is expected to top the agenda during the Kyrgyz ... RadioFreeEurope Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:11:59 -0500Aleksandr Ankvab poses with his portrait presented to him by journalists during a news conference in Sukhumi in August, shortly after being pronounced Abkhaz ... RadioFreeEurope Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:11:51 -0500At Arizona debate of US presidential candidates, Romney says support for anti-Assad forces is needed to turn Syria away from Iran; Gingrich: US allies already covertly helping to destroy Assad ... Jerusalem Post Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:57:39 -0500UNITED NATIONS - An Iranian research center that has been investigated by UN nuclear inspectors appears to have played a key role in Tehran's atomic program, which Western powers fear is aimed ... Jerusalem Post Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:57:34 -0500A race team on a unique mission will attempt to spread its message of Israeli support on the grandest stage in motorsports, the Daytona 500.America Israel Racing (AIR) was formed to raise ... Jerusalem Post Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:57:25 -0500The most generous way to celebrate one's birthday is to organize a "blood party," in which the person honored and the attendees each donate a pint of blood to Magen David Adom. The ... Jerusalem Post Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:57:23 -0500Over 80,000 pieces of tissue and organs that have been stored for years after collection during autopsies at the L. Greenberg Institute for Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir will be buried within ... Jerusalem Post Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:57:21 -0500Environment and infrastructure firm Shikun u'Binui (Housing & Construction Holding Company) launched its solar thermal research and development facility in the Arava Desert on Wednesday, ... Jerusalem Post Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:57:20 -0500By establishing a cleantech "cluster" within its bounds, the Negev will simultaneously stimulate regional development as a whole, experts agreed during a workshop at the Eilat-Eilot ... Jerusalem Post Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:57:18 -0500Relatives of inmates who perished in a fire last week that left 360 dead in a Honduras prison demanded a new investigation on Wednesday to confirm a report from US experts who said the blaze was ... IOL Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:56:29 -0500Washington - Three members of the US Congress have received threatening mail containing a suspicious powder later found to be harmless and law enforcement officials on Wednesday warned that more may ... IOL Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:56:24 -0500A firefighter signals to shore after recovering a body aboard the stricken cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground off Giglio Island off the coast of Tuscany on January ... IOL Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:56:20 -0500Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from a French police station on Wednesday after two days of questioning about an alleged illegal prostitution ... IOL Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:56:14 -0500THE Greek government told rebellious lawmakers yesterday to back a deeply unpopular European Union/International Monetary Fund rescue in parliament or send the nation down "an unknown, ... The Herald Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:54:39 -0500Two Western aid workers kidnapped in Pakistan in January are being held by the Pakistan Taliban near the border with Afghanistan, a senior militant commander said ... The Herald Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:54:38 -0500Snow blanketed Rome's suburbs yesterday, and has settled in the capital's centre. On Friday, schools closed as a precaution, and monuments including the Colosseum were shut to the public ... The Herald Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:54:37 -0500These presidential campaign and spending plans give some idea of how the Republican race will play out on March 6 when 10 states vote. Cash will be needed to campaign in these states which include ... The Herald Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:54:35 -0500A monk who led a 2007 uprising against Burma's former military government has returned to his monastery after being questioned by the authorities just weeks after his release from ... The Herald Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:54:32 -0500Mali is determined to quell a heavily armed Tuareg rebellion in its north before an election scheduled for April, the defence minister said ... The Herald Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:54:31 -0500Rapper Jay-Z and wife Beyonce have unveiled pictures of their new baby daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, posting intimate family shots on the social networking site Tumblr rather than selling ... The Herald Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:54:29 -0500Libya has demanded Niger hands over one of Muammar Gaddafi's sons who is under house arrest in the neighbouring nation after he warned in a television interview that Libya is facing a new ... The Herald Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:54:28 -0500An Imperial Household Agency official said that the 78-year-old was admitted to the University of Tokyo Hospital yesterday to undergo tests, but that the visit was not an emergency. The emperor has ... The Herald Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:54:26 -0500It seems that Marie Colvin, the distinguished Sunday Times journalist killed in a Syrian army rocket attack alongside photographer Remi Ochlick, was deliberately targeted. During her distinguished ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:49:52 -0500An eyewitness told the Politics Home website that Mr Joyce, a former Army officer who represents Falkirk, pushed a Tory MP and then started punching other Conservative members seated at the back of ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:49:46 -0500'She wanted one more story': Mother of veteran war reporter Marie Colvin said her daughter was due to leave Syria on SAME DAY she was killed in rocket ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:49:35 -0500Even when he spoke to Santander again the next day, the conversation ended when he gave the same answer – even though he does indeed live at number 8 on his street in West Hampstead, ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:49:22 -0500The woman who was photographed leaping from a burning building in the most iconic image of the summer riots had filmed the man accused of starting the blaze, a court heard ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:49:10 -0500The American Embassy in Afghanistan said its staff were in 'lockdown' and travel had been suspended as thousands of people expressed fury over the burning of Islam's holy ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:48:59 -0500George Best’s sister has prevented his ex-wife from selling awards and shirts from the late football star’s career, fuelling an ongoing family ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:48:48 -0500Whatever the reason — a search for relief from the gloom of the economic slump, perhaps — this year’s Oscar voters, like their Bafta counterparts before them, seem to be yearning ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:48:37 -0500Boost: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg attends a meeting with Intercontinental hotels Chief Executive Richard Solomons and school leavers today. The firm will create nearly 3,000 new jobs across ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:48:27 -0500He admitted the Bank’s policy of pumping more money in to the economy – called Quantitative Easing – had slashed the rate paid on retirement ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:48:19 -0500But he has also secretly examined proposals to launch air strikes on al-Shabab Islamic extremists who are linked to Al Qaeda and control one third of the ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:48:02 -0500Anti-capitalist demonstrators outside St Paul’s Cathedral will finally be evicted after a court ruled that the human rights of the public outweighed those of the ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:47:38 -0500Prime minister Francois Fillon has also banned the phrase ‘nom de jeune fille’, meaning ‘maiden name’, from official paperwork because it is ‘archaic’ and has ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:47:27 -0500The alarming admission came as union leaders warned MPs that even more passengers’ lives will be put at risk due to new European rules that could allow pilots to land their aircraft after 22 ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:47:16 -0500Will everything the Cambridges touch turn to gold? Judging by souvenirs sold since her marriage, Kate Middleton memorabilia may soon rival that of Princess ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:47:05 -0500Forget meeting important work deadlines or trawling around for the weekly big shop, research shows parents find driving their children to and from school is the most stressful part of their ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:46:57 -0500Secret wartime letters just uncovered reveal that Professor Alister Hardy, a marine biologist at Hull University, told colleagues that plankton – the term for a range of drifting organisms ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:46:47 -0500Rottweiler Axel and Staffordshire bull terrier Bully were starved and denied water and exercise for weeks before they died in agony, emaciated and dehydrated, a court ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:46:38 -0500In an experiment similar to the reality Channel 4 show Ten Years Younger, participants were asked to guess the age of patients before and after ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:46:29 -0500‘Nothing makes me prouder than coming home with six Grammys, then coming to the Brits and winning Album of the Year,’ said Adele. ‘I am so, so proud to be British and to be flying ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:46:23 -0500The Mail yesterday ran a story which should make us think about the values of our society and the power of the State to direct our lives. It concerns a man who was left to drown in a 3ft-deep ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:46:18 -0500I say that not as some fetishist for suffering, some weird, religious flagellant seeking the mortification of flesh — the more stripes on one’s bare, bleeding back, the better. I say it ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:46:13 -0500There on the dais was the Queen. And in front of her, her own mother – or rather, Helena Bonham Carter, who played the Queen Mother in the hit film The King’s ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:46:10 -0500In a passionate defence of the ‘inherent moral worth’ of enterprise, he will pour scorn on critics who have attacked Tesco and other firms for taking part in a Government-led work ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:46:01 -0500He pointed out there were no openly gay footballers in Premier League clubs and said it would send an ‘incredibly strong signal’ if football showed a more tolerant ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:45:50 -0500George Osborne is examining proposals to impose super council tax bands above the current band H in order to force the wealthiest to pay more for their ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:45:40 -0500Tressa Middleton is to go on trial after she pleaded not guilty to number of offences, including two charges of theft by shoplifting at an Argos ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:45:22 -0500'He told me to get on the bed and told me to have sex with him': Girl, 15, gives harrowing account of being plied with alcohol and passed around Asian gang for ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:45:13 -0500David Cameron was not much pleased by this – perhaps he had some statesman to telephone, or a pretty girl to take to lunch. He kept huffing, visibly, every time Mr Squeaker called yet another ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:45:07 -0500A Christian pastor who converted from Islam is to be put to death for leaving Islam following the ruling of an Iranian trial court, it was reported ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:45:00 -0500A Northumbria Police spokeswoman said the girl was initially treated at Sunderland Royal Hospital before being transferred to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, where her condition was ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:44:54 -0500Germany is rejecting demands from an EU body that it should stop surgically castrating sex criminals - a practice that dates back to the Nazis - because it is ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:44:47 -0500Stephen Farrow will appear before North Avon Magistrates' Court, Bristol, tomorrow charged with the killing of clergyman John Suddards and retired teacher Betty ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:44:38 -0500It was almost a month after he indecently exposed himself to a 35-year-old woman in Madeira Drive, Brighton, on August 9, and another woman, aged 23, at Dukes Mound, Brighton, on August 11, a Sussex ... Daily Mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:44:19 -0500BAGHDAD: A wave of bombings and shootings across Iraq killed at least 32 people and wounded dozens more on Thursday, security officials said.Most of the violence was centred in Baghdad, where ... Channel News Asia Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:42:13 -0500WASHINGTON: The US is looking for ways for the majority of the international community to help the Syrian people, as the violence continues.An international conference is planned for Tunisia for the ... Channel News Asia Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:42:10 -0500CHICAGO: Retired NBA superstar Michael Jordan announced on Wednesday that he has filed a lawsuit in China against a Chinese sportswear and shoe manufacturer over unauthorized use of his ... Channel News Asia Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:42:03 -0500Researchers have found a flaw in the experiment that startled the science world last year by appearing to show particles travelling faster than ... The Independent Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:26:31 -0500George Huguely was found guilty of second-degree murder in the 2010 death of his ex-girlfriend, and recommended he serve 25 years in prison. (Handout) A jury on Wednesday found former University of ... C News Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:25:15 -0500An ultrasound machine. (REUTERS, file) PORTSMOUTH, Va. - Virginia lawmakers on Wednesday passed a revised ultrasound requirement for women seeking abortions that dropped a mandatory internal scan, ... C News Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:25:09 -0500People carry a banner in a march celebrating Tuesday's ruling on Proposition 8 in West Hollywood, California, February 7, 2012. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. judge on Wednesday ... C News Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:25:07 -0500Police took the schoolboy into custody after the shooting at the Armin Jahr Elementary School in Bremerton, 15 miles west of Seattle. The girl, aged eight, was taken by air ambulance to Harborview ... Sky News Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:17:46 -0500"The Shabab control a third of the country. Famine and instability in Somalia are spreading instability across the wider region. "Our national interest is clear: we can't just sit ... Sky News Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:17:45 -05001 of 9. Republican presidential candidates former Senator Rick Santorum and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) laugh as they shake hands at the conclusion of the Republican presidential ... Reuters Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:57:12 -0500President Barack Obama addresses the audience attending the ''In Performance at the White House'' event, at which music legends and contemporary artists perform to celebrate ... Reuters Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:57:07 -0500KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban urged Afghans on Thursday to target foreign military bases and "beat and kill" Westerners in retaliation for burnings of copies of Islam's holy book, the ... Reuters Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:57:02 -0500VIENNA/TEHRAN (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's latest mission to Iran failed to budge a defiant Tehran over its disputed nuclear program, sending oil prices to a nine-month high over ... Reuters Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:56:58 -0500AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs, reducing buildings to rubble and killing ... Reuters Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:56:54 -0500WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Could history repeat itself? That is a question uppermost in the minds of many Americans as they warily watch gasoline prices at the pump rise week after ... Reuters Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:56:49 -0500TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A federal judge declared on Wednesday that a Washington state rule requiring pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptives against their religious beliefs is ... Reuters Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:56:43 -0500SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - Experimental obesity drug Qnexa won the backing of U.S. health advisors on Wednesday, raising hopes for approval of the first prescription weight-loss pill in 13 ... Reuters Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:56:38 -0500(AP) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The first two cars were packed as usual for the morning rush, so tightly that people stood pressed flesh to flesh, sandwiched between bicycles and the few seats, many ... CBS News Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:50:32 -0500(Credit: AP/Daily Progress via Charlottesville Police Department) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Jurors in the trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player have found him guilty of ... CBS News Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:50:28 -0500(AP) INDIANAPOLIS - Union members went to federal court Wednesday to ask a judge to block Indiana's new right-to-work law from being enforced, the first lawsuit and latest conflict over the ... CBS News Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:49:57 -0500(AP) A federal judge in San Francisco says the U.S. government cannot deny health benefits to the wife of a lesbian court employee by relying on the 1996 law that bars government recognition of ... CBS News Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:49:52 -0500(CBS News) A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration overwhelmingly backed approval for diet pill Qnexa on Wednesday, two years after it rejected the drug because of potentially ... CBS News Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:49:46 -0500(CBS News) In his first and only television interview, former reality television producer Bruce Beresford-Redman, accused of killing his wife at a Cancun resort in 2010, speaks out for the first ... CBS News Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:49:41 -0500Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced a ballot for the leadership of the Labor Party amid a bitter tussle with Kevin Rudd. The move comes hours after Mr Rudd, who was ousted as PM ... BBC Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:48:17 -0500About 500,000 Afghans displaced by war are struggling to survive and are ignored by their government and foreign donors, Amnesty International says. A report by the human rights group says that at ... BBC Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:48:12 -0500Former Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has pleaded not guilty to electoral fraud before a court in Manila. She was escorted under tight security to court from a military hospital where she is ... BBC Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:48:08 -0500At least nine Indian soldiers have died and 11 others were trapped in two snow avalanches that hit defence installations in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials say. Six of the deaths took place ... BBC Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:48:05 -0500US and North Korean officials are meeting in Beijing for talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programme. The talks are the first since the death in December of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. The US ... BBC Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:47:59 -0500 |
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