Top Stories: Heterosexuals are at greatest risk amongst those engaging in unsafe sex practices in China. Big News Network.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:57:33 -0500US President Barack Obama has told a Washington war council meeting he intends to finish the job in Afghanistan by destroying al-Qaeda and its extremist allies so that they can't operate in the region. Big News Network.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:16:46 -0500Survivors and relatives of the victims of Chile's military dictatorship may have another chance to register for compensation. Big News Network.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:59:06 -0500An emergency has been declared in the Philippines in the aftermath of a savage political massacre that left at least 46 people dead. Big News Network.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:52:37 -0500International scientists, working on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, have given a report on their most recent data and observations. Big News Network.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:41:25 -0500A civilian helicopter has plunged into the sea off central Israel, killing three tourists on board and the pilot. Big News Network.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:22:07 -0500Human Rights Watch has accused Britain of being complicit in the torture of terrorism detainees in Pakistan. Big News Network.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:31:15 -0500Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has offered to mediate in a football row between Algeria and Egypt. Big News Network.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:11:13 -0500Spanish police have arrested 36 members of banned youth group with alleged links to ETA. Big News Network.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:03:30 -0500The United States is in secret talks with the Afghan Taliban, with countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Britain playing the role of mediators. Big News Network.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:51:56 -0500Leaked documents in the UK have raised the question of whether ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair knew about the Iraq war a year earlier than admitted. Big News Network.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:34:10 -0500Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is hoping to relaunch stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks by convincing his cabinet to freeze West Bank settlement construction for ten months. Big News Network.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:41:17 -0500A report issued by Global Footprint Network, an international think tank, has said the world's population each year uses resources equivalent to nearly one-and-a-half times what the Earth has to offer. Big News Network.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:01:31 -0500An Italian military C-130 Hercules transport has crashed on take-off during a training flight near Pisa in the northwest of the country. Big News Network.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:21:57 -0500The UN criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has told former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic he must stay with the London barrister who was appointed to him. Big News Network.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:16:51 -0500In the latest in a string of attacks directed against foreigners in Indonesia, gunmen have fired at the home of two US academics in the Indonesian province of Aceh, which is on the nothern tip of Sumatra. Big News Network.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:05:24 -0500The UN Development Programme has found that almost a quarter of the world’s 6 billion people live without electricity. Big News Network.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:51:49 -0500A convicted murderer who was once a personal assistant to the Duchess of York, otherwise known as Fergie, has escaped from a low-security prison in southern England. Big News Network.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:42:16 -0500Compensation claims made by UK teachers last year cost taxpayers 3 million pounds. Big News Network.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:33:58 -0500News ) will close its last three U.S. news bureaus outside of the Washington, D.C. area, in a cost-cutting move, according to media reports on Tuesday. The decision effectively means The company will ... RTT News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:15:07 -0500News ) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, announced Tuesday the recall of 110,000 Toyota Tundra Pickups citing excessive corrosion.The NHTSA revealed that the excessive ... RTT News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:15:05 -0500News ) said Tuesday that it has approved a $6 million transition award to retiring chief executive officer Ronald Logue. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said ... RTT News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:15:04 -0500In a sign that negotiations on an Isralei prisoner exchange for captive soldier Gilad Schalit were moving forward, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh canceled a trip to Saudi Arabia for the annual Mu... Jerusalem Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:09:32 -0500Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday accused US President Barack Obama of doing "nothing" to achieve peace in the Middle East. Speaking to Argentinian newspaper Clarin, Abbas said ... Jerusalem Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:09:28 -0500UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday announced the creation of a network of male role models to encourage men to stand up against violence against women. This "Network of Men Le... Channel News Asia Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:03:21 -0500GEORGIA - Someone made off with loot from a church but also left behind an apology. A note scrawled on the wall said: "Sorry but I'm poor. Forgive me Lord." The Rev. Roger Davis tells WSB-TV that ex... New Zealand Herald Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:59:00 -0500LOS ANGELES - An "evil" US con man who portrayed himself as a "Hanoi Hilton" prisoner of war survivor to scam victims in New Zealand, Australia and the US out of almost US$4 (NZ$5.6) million has been ... New Zealand Herald Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:58:59 -0500A US man who discovered that his biological father is convicted murderer Charles Manson said it was like "finding out Adolf Hitler is your father". Matthew Roberts, a 41-year-old Los Angeles DJ, grew... New Zealand Herald Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:58:57 -0500SAN FRANCISCO - Google is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the First Lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site. Google placed ... New Zealand Herald Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:58:55 -0500Rio de Janeiro 's posh beach neighborhoods lost power for hours in sweltering summer weather Tuesday, prompting restaurants to toss out spoiled food and business owners to send employees home. USA Today Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:57:20 -0500Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- A federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday against Atlanta police over a September raid at a gay club, on behalf of 19 patrons who say they were forcibly searched and detained. CNN Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:55:15 -0500Pinsky said he was not sure he would do it again. "It's treacherous," he told CNN in a telephone interview. "I don't want people to think I'm exploiting my followers."... CNN Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:55:14 -0500The UK government's claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) is to be probed later by the official inquiry into the war.On its second day of hearings in London, the Iraq inquiry wi... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:52:04 -0500Millions of trees should be planted to cover an extra 4% of the UK in woodland in order to tackle climate change, the Forestry Commission has recommended.It said planting 23,000 hectares a year would ... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:52:03 -0500But offering that reassuring if somewhat contradictory signal ? that by adding troops he can speed the United States toward an exit ? is just the first of a set of tricky messages Mr. Obama ... International Herald Tribune Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:49:48 -0500The public outrage that many thought would usher in a political groundswell for a firmer government response has dissipated. India has done little of the painful public soul-searching that followed th... International Herald Tribune Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:49:45 -0500WASHINGTON ? It is an old tradition, a White House dinner governed by ritual and protocol that happens to be this city’s hottest social event. But at their first state dinner on Tuesday nig... International Herald Tribune Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:49:41 -0500Iran ’s president made his first state visit to Brazil, an aide to Mr. da Silva said Tuesday. Mr. Obama did not explicitly criticize Mr. da Silva for hosting President... International Herald Tribune Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:49:36 -0500London - The first full-scale inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war opened on Tuesday with testimony suggesting Washington was gearing up for possible conflict two years before Tony Blair led Lo... IOL Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:45:43 -0500WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sought to reassure Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday of his commitment to boosting U.S. ties with India even as his administration has set i... Reuters Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:44:14 -0500The Government wants to introduce the plan to justify the failed intervention in the NT to combat child abuse, she said.The intervention welfare management scheme will be repealed under the proposed c... The Australian Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:34:29 -0500AFTER two weeks searching for a man believed responsible for the Sydney stabbing deaths of his father and sister, there's been a confirmed sighting of just kilometres from the murder scene, polic... The Australian Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:34:27 -0500CONVICTED murderer Shayne Wigney says the sexual abuse he suffered as a teenager is the main reason for his life of crime ? and he's suing the state of New South Wales for compensation. The Australian Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:34:27 -0500THE dollar was higher at noon after making gains against a weaker US dollar and being led by a recovery on domestic equity markets. The Australian Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:34:25 -0500At 12.00pm AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 10.9 points, or 0.23 per cent, at 4695.90, while the broader All Ordinaries gained 9.9 points, or 0.21 per cent, to 4718.10.Bell Financial Group ... The Australian Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:34:24 -0500CHINA Metallurgical Group Corp has approached nickel miner Minara Resources to launch a joint bid for BHP Billiton's idled Ravensthorpe nickel mine. The Australian Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:34:22 -0500KEVIN Andrews has declared he will stand for the position of Liberal leader if a spill is called today, declaring Malcolm Turnbull's decision to support the Rudd Government's emissions tradi... The Australian Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:34:20 -0500Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull walks from his office to theOppositionparty room amid speculation of a leadership spill. Picture: RayStrange... The Australian Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:34:19 -0500WASHINGTON - War-weary Americans will support more fighting in Afghanistan once they understand the perils of losing, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday, announcing he was ready to spell out war ... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:32:49 -0500WASHINGTON (AP) -- War-weary Americans will support more fighting in Afghanistan once they understand the perils of losing, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday, announcing he was ready to spell ou... New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:11:38 -0500WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are using everything short of forklifts to show Americans that Democratic health care legislation is an unwieldy mountain of paper. They pile it high on desks, hoist it ... New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:11:37 -0500A panel on Tuesday began debating whether his failure to inform his staff of his whereabouts and put anyone in charge rise to the high standard of impeachment, usually reserved for officeholders who b... New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:11:36 -0500BRUSSELS (AP) -- Helped by a therapist, Rom Houben's outstretched finger tapped with surprising speed on a computer touchscreen, spelling out how he felt "alone, lonely, frustrated" in the 23 years he... New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:11:36 -0500FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- On the surface it all seemed like a gruesome hate crime in a rural part of Kentucky with a history of disdain for the government: a census worker found bound with duct tape and ... New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:11:35 -0500WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission on Tuesday promised swift action to get dangerous products off the market, acknowledging that the agency didn't move quickly enoug... New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:11:34 -0500NEW YORK (AP) -- Albert Pujols' third National League MVP award put him in select company. Only Barry Bonds has more. "I'm just humbled," Pujols said. Pujols won unanimously Tuesday, becoming the firs... New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:11:33 -0500World Israel's interest has always been the opposite: To release Schalit far away enough from the elections - which have since been postponed to an unknown date - to prevent the mass release of pris... Jerusalem Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:36:20 -0500To borrow a computer term, if Ayatollah Khomeini, Osama bin Laden, and Nidal Hasan represent Islamism 1.0, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (the prime minister of Turkey), Tariq Ramadan (a Swiss intellectual), an... Jerusalem Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:36:17 -0500Israel will continue to demand that its own electronic-warfare systems be integrated into the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) fifth-generation stealth fighter jet, senior defense officials said Tuesday, am... Jerusalem Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:36:14 -0500The educational content of the Hamas children's Web site Al-Fateh (The Conqueror) is not a form of pedagogy, but an "indoctrination to suicide bombing," said David Oman, the director of communications... Jerusalem Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:36:13 -0500A Moscow hairdresser is suing bailiffs from the Russian region of Udmurtia after they found a picture of her on a social networking site and used it to lure unsuspecting debtors into meetings. In a t... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:35:24 -0500Zimbabwe will be offered a seat back in the Commonwealth within two years as long as it agrees to political and economic reform. President Robert Mugabe pulled the nation out of the Commonwealth, whi... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:35:22 -0500Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals that has infuriated animal welfare protesters. A ... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:35:19 -0500Like most users of Twitter, Roger Avary keeps the world abreast of his daily monotonies, telling thousands of his "followers" what he has eaten for lunch, what he's reading, and passing wry comment ab... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:35:16 -0500Much of the increasingly lawless southern Philippines is today under a state of emergency following a brutal mass killing that has left at least 46 people dead in one of the country's worst bouts of p... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:35:14 -0500Three Afghan cabinet ministers and 12 former ministers are under investigation for alleged corruption, the attorney-general's office said yesterday, announcing cases that could signal whether the gove... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:35:10 -0500The attack came at first light. The village of Bogoro was turned into a slaughterhouse where "some were shot dead in their sleep, some cut up by machetes to save bullets", the International Criminal C... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:35:07 -0500President Barack Obama said yesterday that he is almost ready to announce how many troops he will deploy to "finish the job" in Afghanistan, but added that he expected America's allies similarly to me... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:35:04 -0500With lavish food, a live performance by the singer Jennifer Hudson and hours of face-to-face talks, President Barack Obama worked to uphold a tradition of grand hospitality to visiting Indian leaders ... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:35:03 -0500An Indian government investigation released yesterday reportedly implicates dozens of Hindu nationalist politicians – including a former prime minister – in the 1992 demolition of a mosque... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:34:58 -0500The HIV pandemic which started 28 years ago is officially in decline, two of the world's leading health organisations said yesterday. The number of new HIV infections peaked in the mid-1990s and has ... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:34:56 -0500After embarrassing breakdowns caused by bread-dropping birds and hugely expensive repairs, the world's biggest science experiment – the Large Hadron Collider – has suddenly burst into life... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:34:52 -0500Just before the France-Ireland football match in Paris, I met my charming, gentle, retired, 60-something, French neighbour on the stairs of our Paris apartment building. "No," he said. "I'm not watchi... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:34:49 -0500He doesn't have any ears, his chin's lop-sided, and his haircut bears a passing resemblance to the roof of a thatched cottage. But to police in Bolivia, he's public enemy number one. The picture, wid... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:34:45 -0500VIENNA: World powers have drafted a resolution to be voted on by the UN atomic watchdog later this week, condemning Iran for concealing a second uranium enrichment site, diplomats said on Tuesday. The... Channel News Asia Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:28:35 -0500Now, assisted by a speech therapist who moved his finger letter-by-letter along a touch-screen keyboard, Houben says years of being unable to move or express himself left him feeling "alone, lonely, f... New Zealand Herald Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:24:06 -0500A New York judge has dismissed public lewdness and other charges made against a model who posed for a nude photo shoot at a museum while visitors looked on. Kathleen "K.C." Neill, 26, was arrested in... New Zealand Herald Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:24:05 -0500Benin's naval chief says pirates have killed a Ukrainian sailor and wounded at least two crew members in a rare attack off the coast of the West African country. Maxime Ahoyo said pirates had attacke... New Zealand Herald Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:24:04 -0500One of the world's leading palaeontologists told The Independent that fossil rustling had become a "huge international problem" stretching from developed markets like Britain to dinosaur hotspots such... New Zealand Herald Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:24:01 -0500Flights will be packed, especially Wednesday, Sunday and Monday — the busiest flying days around the holiday, according to the Air Transport Association (ATA). The airline trade group urges peop... USA Today Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:22:19 -0500Your family might be sharing more than turkey and pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving. Swine flu may also be on the table — and at crowded airports and shopping malls. MSNBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:21:25 -0500BRASILIA, Brazil - Rio de Janeiro's posh beach neighborhoods lost power for hours in sweltering summer weather Tuesday, prompting restaurants to toss out spoiled food and business owners to send their... MSNBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:21:24 -0500NEW YORK - The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that it is offering a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb-maker suspected of once targeting commercial airliners and of aiding the ... MSNBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:21:22 -0500WASHINGTON - Abe Pollin, the Washington Wizards owner who brought an NBA championship to the nation’s capital and later had the mettle to stand up to Michael Jordan, died Tuesday. He was 85. MSNBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:21:21 -0500But when a casting director for a UK magazine announced on a British reality show that he had airbrushed a baby’s photo so as to hide the creases on his chubby little arms, the world came unglued. O... MSNBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:21:19 -0500New York Times TV critic Jack Gould likened that spectacle in September 1956 to Presley's "striptease behavior on last spring's Milton Berle program."... MSNBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:21:18 -0500Smart armor being developed by scientists and engineers at U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center in Michigan can not only predict its own failure, but also identify th... MSNBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:21:16 -0500A review of the way protests are dealt with in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is expected to propose major changes to police public order tactics.Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephen... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:16:13 -0500Powers to ban airguns and set drink-drive and speed limits should be handed from Westminster to Scotland, the UK government is to announce.Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy is also expected to tell the Co... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:16:11 -0500A trainee spy for Israel's secret service agency Mossad was arrested by Tel Aviv police while taking part in a training operation, media reports say.The young trainee was spotted by a female passer-by... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:16:09 -0500The mother of a woman who died of a suspected drugs overdose has appealed to the public to help police catch drug dealers.Kate Shanks, of Elgin, lost her daughter Suzanne earlier this year. The 30-yea... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:16:08 -0500The government's maximum daily salt intake target has been set too high for people to avoid unnecessary stroke and heart deaths, UK experts are warning.Consensus Action on Salt and Health (Cash) says ... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:16:06 -0500TWENTY years after he helped bring down communism in central Europe, Poland's Lech Walesa has taken his country's leader to court for claiming the former Solidarity chief and one-time Polish president... The Scotsman Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:15:16 -0500US PRESIDENT Barack Obama last night finally committed to increasing the number of American troops in Afghanistan and a statement on definitive numbers is expected within a week. The Scotsman Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:15:14 -0500LED BY the heart rather than the head, Israel's public is poised to back a woefully lopsided prisoner swap with the Palestinian militant group Hamas in order to retrieve the country's collective lost ... The Scotsman Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:15:12 -0500WITH a care worker holding his hand, a Belgian man who was diagnosed as comatose for 23 years typed out a message yesterday: he felt reborn after decades of loneliness and frustration. The Scotsman Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:15:10 -0500WASHINGTON ? Fed policy makers have become slightly more optimistic about the pace of the economic recovery, but they continue to predict that unemployment will remain well above 9 percent throug... International Herald Tribune Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:13:12 -0500Saniag, The Philippines - The Philippines declared a state of emergency in parts of the volatile south on Tuesday as anger spiralled over a savage political massacre that left at least 46 people dead.... 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