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 Gaddafi receives apology from US
St Louis News.Net
The US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
 Letterman blackmailer confesses his crime
St Louis News.Net
A former television producer on the David Letterman show has admitted in a New York court that he tried to extract two million dollars from the famous television compere.
Poll: Obama more popular than Congress
Washington Times
By Liz Sidoti ASSOCIATED PRESS Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Obama, a bright s...
German diocese to examine choir abuse
Washington Times
By Juergen Baetz and Kirsten Grieshaber ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN (AP) -- A spokesman for the Regensburg Catholic diocese in Germany says the diocese will investigate allegations of physical and sexual...
Gates keeps up pressure on Iran with Gulf visit
Washington Times
By Anne Gearan ASSOCIATED PRESS RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was keeping up the pressure on Iran on Wednesday, consulting with the United States' closest and most in...
Google to digitize old books from Rome, Florence
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME -- Google says it will scan up to 1 million old books in national libraries in Rome and Florence, including works by astronomer Galileo Galilei, in what's being described ...
Tide Of Protest Engulfs More Russian Cities
RadioFreeEurope
Like millions of Russians, Tatyana had been bracing for the annual hike in utility tariffs that comes with the new year.But her bill for January exceeded her worst nightmares. It had jumped 25 percent...
Focus On Iran As Prague's One World Festival Kicks Off
RadioFreeEurope
of Europe's largest human rights film festival shows a 20-something brunette in leather pants ready to lasso, cowgirl-style, the attention of potential attendees.She's also wearing a green jacket. It'...
Yanukovych Eyes Coalition, Cabinet This Week
RadioFreeEurope
KYIV (Reuters) -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych pushed today for a new ruling coalition within the week to avoid snap elections and tackle a deep economic crisis.The ex-Soviet republic, batter...
Protesters Try To Send Presidential Son Into Exile
RadioFreeEurope
NARYN, Kyrgyzstan -- Some 3,000 people rallied today in the central Kyrgyz city of Naryn to demand that President Kurmanbek Bakiev's son, Maksim, resign as head of a state agency and leave the country...
Uncharted Waters Of The Holocaust In The Soviet Union
RadioFreeEurope
The American Forum of Russian Jewry, with the help of the Russian Mission to the UN, launched on March 9 at the UN headquarters in New York the "Encyclopedia of the Holocaust on the Territory of ...
LI 'hit' mom got glammed up before arrest
New York Post
She's a coldblooded hottie. The Long Island mom of four charged with trying to hire a hit man to knock off her hubby looked in her mug shot like she had just walked out of a salon -- and it turns out ...
Kathryn Bigelow: How Oscar Found Ms. Right
International Herald Tribune
No matter if they’re a source of loathing and laughter, the Oscars matter as a cultural flashpoint, perhaps now more than ever. All those Oscar viewers might not be ticket buyers, but when they ...
Iran and U.S. Trade Barbs in Kabul Visit
International Herald Tribune
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , shot back Wednesday at American allegations that Iran was providing support to Afghan insurgents, accusing the United States of playing its own “double game” in the c...
WARNING TO MR. BIDEN: WE NEGOTIATE LIKE WE DRIVE
Haaretz
Memo to Mr. Biden: Everything you need to know about these people, my friends, the Israelis, you'll see from your motorcade window.You may see the garbage piling up alongside the streets, the conseque...
PM Brown fires gun on British election with budget date
Channel News Asia
LONDON : The British government will unveil a pre-election budget on March 24, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday, fuelling expectations of a general election in May. Brown added that Britain'...
Families: Three Americans detained in Iran call home
USA Today
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Cindy Hickey had rehearsed what she would say to her son when she finally got to talk to him months after he was detained in Iran. When the time came, the conversation lasted o...
Actor Corey Haim dies
CNN
Actor Corey Haim, 38, pronounced dead at Burbank, California, hospital Haim's death appears to be accidental, possibly a drug overdose, police say Haim's most famous role was in 1987 movie "The L...
Analyst: Trouble at Chrysler
CNN
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The car company that is off to the worst start of 2010 isn't Toyota. It's Chrysler Group. Industry experts say that even though Chrysler's overall sales are down only 3% dur...
Airlines seek exemption to delay rule
CNN
JetBlue, Delta ask for exemption at JFK to new tarmac delay limit Rule will impose fines on airlines with flights that sit on tarmac for more than three hours Major runway closure at JFK prompted requ...
Rollins: 'Hurt Locker' Oscar timely
CNN
Editor's note: Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, is senior presidential fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University. He was White Hous...
Woman charged with recruiting jihadists online
C News
American Colleen LaRose was indicted Tuesday March 9, 2010, accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas. A federal indictment charges that Colleen R. LaRose...
Lost Boys actor Haim dies aged 38
BBC
The Lost Boys actor Corey Haim has died aged 38, the Los Angeles coroner's office has confirmed.A spokeswoman said he passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning at Providence St Joseph Medica...
Man guilty of murdering daughter
BBC
A 48-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering his teenage daughter.Gary Fisher, from Solihull, West Midlands, had denied the murder of Chanelle Sasha Jones, 17, in a car park in Ceredigion on 2...
UK global clout 'waning' - Hague
BBC
The Conservatives have pledged to reverse what they say is the UK's "shrinking" influence in the world.Shadow foreign secretary William Hague said the UK's economic and diplomatic clout had ...
Daly 'fighting' to save marriage
BBC
Strictly Come Dancing presenter Tess Daly has said that her marriage to fellow TV host Vernon Kay is "worth fighting" for.It is the first time Daly has spoken on TV about her husband since h...
Carla Bruni: Sarkozy Would Never Cheat
Sky News
What is even more surreal is asking a taxi driver to take you to a secret address across the city, so secret in fact, even you don't know it. We wait in a corner bistro cafe until it's time to go up ...
Overdose Kills Eighties Pin-up Corey Haim
Sky News
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that the Lost Boys star died at 3.30am on Wednesday. He was found unresponsive at an apartment in Oakwood, near Burbank, said the LAPD's North Hollywood Di...
Driver Smashes Through Gardens In Cop Chase
Sky News
download Flash from the Adobe download website. Jeffrey Haywood was followed by police helicopters and cars, as he drove through garden fences trying to escape. Pedestrians were forced to jump...
Junta bars Suu Kyi from election
The Australian
RANGOON: A new election law unveiled by Burma's ruling military yesterday bars pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from running in upcoming elections, forcing her own political party to say the...
Ex-producer admits Letterman threats
The Australian
NEW YORK: A former television producer has admitted trying to extract vengeance and money from David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night talk show host's affairs with staffers.
Time for rethink on Indian race issue
The Australian
Kumar, 33, was a single, hard-working Indian engineer who came to Australia last year for work.He settled in Mildura, in northwest Victoria, picking fruit on contract for local producers and studying ...
Police tracked terrorist for weeks
The Australian
INDONESIAN police were shadowing Bali bombing planner Dulmatin for several weeks before shooting him and two other suspected terrorists in execution-style killings in Jakarta.
US condemns Israeli plan
The Australian
US attempts to restart the Middle East peace process were in serious doubt last night after Israel announced 1600 new homes in sensitive East Jerusalem during a visit by US Vice-President Joe Biden.
Indian bill backs women MPs
The Australian
INDIAN politicians and activists have hailed a historic vote to reserve one-third of all state and national parliamentary seats for women, even as the 14-year-old bill faced stiff opposition in the lo...
Bulger killer posed 'trivial' risk on release
The Australian
LONDON: A psychiatric report that paved the way for the release of Jon Venables, one of the killers of British toddler James Bulger, concluded that he posed a "trivial" risk to the public.
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