World News
 High winds hit Fiji
St Louis News.Net
A powerful cyclone has hit Fiji creating fears of mass evacuations.  Israel told it must make urgent peace concessions
St Louis News.Net
The Israeli prime minister was strongly rebuked on Friday by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who angrily questioned him on Israel's refusal to back down on settlement expansion.  Pakistani helicopters rout Taliban
St Louis News.Net
Helicopter gunships belonging to Pakistan have pounded Taliban hideouts in the north-western tribal district, killing at least 13 militants.  Invasion hoax sends Georgia into a panic
St Louis News.Net
Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has complimented a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a drama which implied that the country was being invaded.  British House of Lords to go
St Louis News.Net
In a plan being devised by the UK government, the country’s House of Lords could be abolished.  Canadians dead in snowmobile avalanche
St Louis News.Net
In Canada, three people are dead while others are still buried under piles of snow, after an avalanche hit a snowmobile competition near Revelstoke, British Columbia. Census Forms Arrive In The Mail: What To Expect
Washington Times
By ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) -- Let the count begin. More than 120 million U.S. census forms begin arriving Monday in mailboxes around the country, in the government's once-a-decade populat... Suicide Car Bomber Kills 4 In Western Iraq
Washington Times
By Hamid Ahmed ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber killed four people and wounded 29 others when his vehicle exploded in a busy street Monday during the morning rush hour in western Iraq... Officials: U.s. Wants Israel To Cancel Building Plans
Washington Times
By Amy Teibel ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM -- The United States is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project whose approval has touched off the most serious diplomatic feud... Rally Supporting Media Freedom, Rfe/rl Held In Bishkek
RadioFreeEurope
BISHKEK -- Some 250 people -- prominent opposition politicians, lawmakers, and rights activists among them -- gathered today outside the offices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Eur... Netanyahu Offers An Apology, But No Shift In Policy
International Herald Tribune
Haaretz newspaper reported Monday. Mr. Netanyahu, who was by all accounts surprised by the announcement by Israel’s Interior Ministry, told his cabinet on Sunday that the incident took place &l... China Compensates Evicted Artists
International Herald Tribune
daring protest in the heart of Beijing against forced evictions last month is getting compensation for giving up claims to property, a representative of the artists said Monday. The group, from an ar... Cost Of Barn Raising Sends City Back To Drawing Board
New York Post
Efforts to reconstruct a 19th century barn adjacent to the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum have been stalled by financial issues.While $2.5 million had been set aside to pay a general contractor to rebuild t... No Sugar Please, Levin Opposes Domino
New York Post
City Councilmember Steve Levin (D-williamsburg) joined a growing list of opponents to the New Domino rezoning by stating his support for Community Board 1’s recommendation of disapproval.In a st... Erin Andrews Peeper Faces Sentencing
New York Post
LOS ANGELES — The man convicted of stalking ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and shooting nude videos of her through a hotel room peephole is facing sentencing in a Los Angeles courtroom.Michael Barre... Brooklyn Blogger Nailing Subway Louts
New York Post
Annoying subway riders, beware. A local comedian -- and frequent straphanger -- has started a blog campaign against the worst behavior underground, using a sharp wit and a fast camera phone shutter. W... Hi-tech 'screen' Doors A Threat To City Doormen
New York Post
Doormen of New York -- watch your backs. James Bond-like facial- and voice-recognition programs -- cheaper than humans -- could kill the need for the uniformed doorman guarding city buildings, one sec... New Digg To Get More Personal And Fast
CNN
Austin, Texas (CNN) -- The popular news-sharing site Digg is getting an overhaul that will personalize results, dramatically expand content and, most importantly, make the site "wicked fast,"... Beckham Injury Dashes Cup Hopes
CNN
(CNN) -- David Beckham's prospects of crowning his stellar professional football career with one final World Cup appearance this year appeared to be in tatters Monday after he suffered a suspected Ach... 21 Top Time-saving Cities
CNN
To assess which places help you make the most of your precious hours, we sorted through reams of data on dozens of large American cities, ranked each on various criteria in five categories (see below)... Man Arrested Over City Body Find
BBC
A man has been arrested over the death of a mother-of-three who went missing after a night out in Dundee, Tayside Police have said.Mary McLaren's body was discovered in undergrowth near the city centr... Israel Closes Protest Villages
BBC
The Israeli Defence Force has barred Israelis and foreigners from two West Bank villages, the scene of protests against Israel's "separation wall".Soldiers have posted flyers declaring areas... Universities Heads' 'wages Soar'
BBC
More than 80 heads of universities earn more than the prime minister and some have seen their pay treble in the past decade, a Guardian report says.The probe said 19 vice-chancellors earned more than ... Tiger Decline 'sign Of Failure'
BBC
Governments need to crack down on illegal tiger trading if the big cats are to be saved, the UN has warned.The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in Doha, Qatar he... Zuma To Meet Mugabe Over Power-share Deal
Sky News
Mr Zuma is due to arrive in Harare on Tuesday amid growing signs of stalemate in the 13-month-old Government of National Unity. Zimbabwe's prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai has accused his old rival, ... In Fashion: Klein's Owner Buys Tommy Hilfiger
Sky News
New owner Phillips-Van Heusen reportedly hopes to take advantage of Hilfiger's strong European distribution networks for its own products. Leading UK private equity group Apax Partners purchased Hilf... Tiger Woods 'to Appear' In Cartoon South Park
Sky News
Woods will be seen claiming he can get away with anything and that he is rightfully entitled to enjoy all the temptations around him. An image released from the episode shows an animated version of W... Thai Pm Refuses Demand For New Election
The Australian
Abhisit Vejjajiva, the key target of the large demonstration, said he could not give in to the protesters' demand to dissolve parliament by midday yesterday (4pm AEST) but he left room for compromise.... Quake-struck Chile Plunged Into Darkness
The Australian
SANTIAGO: A blackout plunged nearly the entire Chilean population into darkness yesterday, rattling a country already anxious over last month's 8.8-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks. Furious Us Turns Up Heat On Israel
The Australian
THE US is turning up the heat on Israel as relations between the two countries continue to deteriorate in the wake of last week's disastrous visit to Israel by US Vice-President Joe Biden. Jakarta Seeks The Extradition Of Five
The Australian
.The extradition request was delivered during last week's visit by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.It's understood Dr Yudhoyono also raised the fate of 173 Indonesians held in Australian jails, acc... Married To The Lehman Mob
The Australian
WHEN a 2200-page legal report on the collapse of Lehman Brothers landed with a thud in New York last week, exposing the grand deception the firm used for years to mask its perilous financial situation... Graves Goes On Last Mission
The Australian
LOS ANGELES: Peter Graves, the tall, stalwart actor probably best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps in the long-running television series Mission: Impossible, died yesterday, just days before his ... French Voters Punish Sarkozy At Regional Polls
The Australian
PARIS: France signalled its displeasure with President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday in the first round of regional elections, which are expected to end with a clean sweep for the opposition Socialist Par... Large Aftershock Rocks Chile
IOL
Washington - A strong magnitude 6.0 aftershock struck Chile on Monday, two weeks after a huge quake and tsunami waves killed hundreds of people and caused massive damage. The US Geological Survey s...
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