Top Stories: An Iranian official has claimed 70 per cent of university students are against President Ahmadinejad. Big News Network.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:58:26 -0500Israel has complained to Britain about its issuing of an arrest warrant for the Israeli opposition leader, Tzipi Livni. Big News Network.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:51:15 -0500The US government has set out plans to buy a prison in the state of Illinois for the purpose of holding some of the terrorist suspects being held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. Big News Network.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:44:00 -0500Two Americans, linked to two Pakistan-based terrorist organisations, have been jailed for supporting terror groups and providing them with material aid for attacks in the US and abroad. Big News Network.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:57:46 -0500Amnesty International has asked the Saudi Arabian authorities to cancel the imminent floggings and imprisonment of an elderly woman and two younger men. Big News Network.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:36:41 -0500People in the north-central part of the Canadian province of Ontario have been hit by one of the worst snow storms on record. Big News Network.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:42:05 -0500Prosecutors in New York have asked a judge to ignore claims by a TV producer who is accused of trying to blackmail late night host David Letterman. Big News Network.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:30:03 -0500A large explosion rocked Kabul’s main diplomatic and government residential district on Tuesday morning, only hours before President Hamid Karzai was scheduled to attend an anti-corruption conference. Big News Network.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:35:03 -0500Australia has announced it will filter Internet content. Big News Network.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:45:28 -0500The tiny Pacific island-state of Nauru has agrreed to recognise the independence of two breakaway regions of Georgia. Big News Network.com Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:42:11 -0500News ) announced Tuesday that it has signed various financing documents to secure US$14 billion of commitments from lenders for financing the Papua New Guinea liquefied natural gas or PNG LNG project.... RTT News Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:31:29 -0500"I disagree with many policies of the Obama administration, but I know that President Barack Obama and [White House Chief of Staff] Rahm Emanuel believe that what they are doing is good for Israel," s... Haaretz Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:29:04 -0500A group of activists dedicated to bringing Jews to the Temple Mount told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that they were hoping to see hundreds of participants take part in a planned "mass pilgrimage" to... Jerusalem Post Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:26:08 -0500Leroy Prescod washes a bin in the new three-bay sink at Eastchester Middle School. Since $102,000 was spent renovating the kitchen, there have been no health code violations... USA Today Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:13:13 -0500Zach Bonner, a 12-year-old Florida boy who has been volunteering to help the hurt and the homeless half his young life, has been selected the Most Inspiring Person of the Year by the readers and edito... USA Today Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:13:12 -0500(CNN) -- Citing the threat of avalanches, officials Tuesday suspended the search for two hikers missing since Friday morning on Mount Hood and held out little hope they would be found alive. CNN Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:11:13 -0500In 2008, 2,538 people died on Britain's roads, on average nearly seven every day. Using official data released by the Department of Transport, this map plots the location of every fatal road crash in ... BBC Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:08:29 -0500An inquiry is due to open in Berlin into the circumstances surrounding a Nato air strike in Afghanistan in which up to 142 people were killed.Afghan civilians were among the victims of the airstrike i... BBC Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:08:28 -0500Sao Paulo - Doctors at a hospital in north-eastern Brazil have alerted police after finding 50 sewing needles inside a boy they suspect could have been inserted deliberately under his skin, reports sa... IOL Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:02:08 -0500A MALAYSIAN woman and her two daughters have been charged with trafficking in babies, after police uncovered a baby-selling ring and rescued five infants. The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:50:47 -0500"Among all the keywords, hashtags, and phrases that proliferated throughout the year, one topic surfaced repeatedly," Twitter said in a blog post yesterday."Twitter users found the Iran... The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:50:45 -0500Wepukhulu Zebtek, 44, from Ivanhoe in Melbourne, was sentenced in the West Australian District Court today.He pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm in court in October, admitting to having sex with a... The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:50:41 -0500Many areas were expecting the mercury to top 40C today ahead of a cool change later in the day.Adelaide was forecast to have a top of 39C before cooler weather tomorrow.The Bureau of Meteorology said ... The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:50:40 -0500AUSTRALIAN tax authorities today ruled that profits from the disposal of assets by private equity firms may in some cases be classed as taxable income, a move analysts warned could see private equity ... The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:50:38 -0500HOME owners are shunning fixed interest rate loans, with approvals falling to just two per cent nationally, their lowest rate in the past 12 months, a leading mortgage broker says. The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:50:37 -0500PRIVATE Equity Partners has moved to within 10 per cent of securing Energy Developments two days after opening its $431 million bid for the Brisbane-based company. The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:50:35 -0500After meeting with schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman in Chinatown tonight, the 50 Asian students have been boycotting classes at South Philadelphia High agreed to return to school. The 25 or so ... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:48:58 -0500The Pennsylvania Department of Health today expanded eligibility for the swine flu vaccine, saying health-care providers that had already immunized patients most at risk could now make vaccine availab... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:48:57 -0500When two out of three people accused of violent crime walk free on all charges, we have a problem. When illegal guns are rampant, witness intimidation is epidemic, and a top prosecutor says "the... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:48:49 -0500In the end, Oscar Alvarado, the murder suspect who escaped from Philadelphia's newest and largest prison on Thanksgiving, did not get very far. He was nabbed around 3 p.m. yesterday at a hotel in Lowe... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:48:48 -0500TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Oral Roberts, who helped pioneer TV evangelism in the 1950s and used the power of the new medium - and his message of God's healing power - to build a multimillion-dollar ministry... New York Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:28:00 -0500EVERETT, Wash. (AP) -- Boeing's new 787 jetliner finally got airborne Tuesday, the long-delayed inaugural flight of the world's first commercial plane mostly constructed from lightweight composite mat... New York Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:27:58 -0500GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. (AP) -- Two climbers missing on Mount Hood for the past five days are likely dead and a search will not resume anytime soon because of severe avalanche danger, officials said Tue... New York Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:27:57 -0500TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- A Massachusetts school district on Tuesday night denied a father's claims that his son was suspended for drawing a stick figure of Jesus on a cross. New York Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:27:56 -0500News ) announced Tuesday that the bankruptcy court has approved its plans of reorganization for about $10.25 Billion of secured mortgage loans. The loans are associated with 194 debtors owning 85 regi... RTT News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:00:47 -0500News ) confirmed Tuesday that it is in settlement discussions with U.S. authorities related to U.S. dollar payments involving parties subject to US sanctions. The settlement could see Credit Suisse pa... RTT News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:00:46 -0500President Shimon Peres acknowledged the contribution made by Holocaust survivors to the establishment, security and continued existence of the state at a Hanukka candle-lighting ceremony at Beit Hanas... Jerusalem Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:55:47 -0500NEW YORK - In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal Monday to review a lower court's dismissal of a case brought by four British former Guantanamo prisoners against former Defence Secretary Don... IPS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:55:01 -0500CHICAGO: A Chicago businessman, accused of helping to plot an attack on a Danish newspaper and having such close ties to terrorists that he had advance knowledge of the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege, was d... Channel News Asia Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:49:33 -0500WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama is to transfer dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees to a jail in rural Illinois as he battles to close the notorious facility on Cuba's southern tip, officials said... Channel News Asia Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:49:31 -0500MOSCOW: NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen was to meet Russian leaders on Wednesday in Moscow, the first visit by a head of the Western military alliance since the Georgia war blew a Cold War chill thro... Channel News Asia Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:49:29 -0500WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved sanctions legislation aimed at forcing Iran to freeze its nuclear programme by depriving the Islamic republic of gasoline... Channel News Asia Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:49:27 -0500Immigration and Customs Enforcement agreed to delay the deportation of Rigoberto Padilla, 21, a University of Illinois-Chicago student. By Brett T. Roseman for USA TODAY... USA Today Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:42:53 -0500One of the Bell 412 helicopters given to the Mexican air force by the United States is on display Tuesday in Mexico City - part of an aid package intended to combat drug cartels with thousands of foot... USA Today Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:42:52 -0500WASHINGTON - Thirteen patients with healthy new kidneys from what's believed to be the world's largest kidney exchange met the donors who made it happen Tuesday — including three who are sure to fac... MSNBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:42:12 -0500WASHINGTON - A single patient infected with the increasingly common "superbug" known as MRSA can cost a hospital $60,000, U.S. researchers reported Tuesday. MSNBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:42:11 -0500 Dec. 15: Senator Tom Harkin talks with Rachel Maddow about the state of the health reform bill in the Senate and why it's still worth passing despite the many compromises that have dismayed liber... MSNBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:42:08 -0500SHENANDOAH, Penn. - Federal prosecutors charged three police officers in a racially tense Pennsylvania coal town with orchestrating a cover-up in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant by altering e... MSNBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:42:06 -0500Donald Eugene Gates stands outside a Phoenix bus terminal on Tuesday. Gates was released from a federal prison in Tucson, Ariz. earlier after serving 28 years for a rape and murder that DNA evidence r... MSNBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:42:04 -0500GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Federal health advisers say expanded use of AstraZeneca's cholesterol pill Crestor can benefit patients with healthy cholesterol levels by preventing heart attack, stroke and death... MSNBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:42:03 -0500WASHINGTON - The District of Columbia City Council voted Tuesday to legalize gay marriage, giving supporters a victory after a string of recent defeats elsewhere and sending the issue to Congress, whi... MSNBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:42:01 -0500Dec. 15: President Barack Obama summoned Democratic senators to the White House Tuesday for talks aimed at getting health care reform passed by the end of the year. NBC's Savannah Guthrie reports. MSNBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:42:00 -0500This video image made available by LA7-L'INFEDELE shows Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi being struck in the face by a statuette hurled by an attacker at the end of a rally in Milan, Italy on Dec. 1... MSNBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:41:59 -0500Al Nash is spokesman for Yellowstone. He says it's common for snow levels to be low early in the winter season. In some years he says the park has to open using a combination of wheeled vehicles and t... MSNBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:41:58 -0500NEW YORK - The hunt for Tiger Woods is on, or at least the first photographs of the golf superstar since his late-night car crash and damaging news of his marital problems. MSNBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:41:56 -0500Student-run endowment makes the grade Dec. 12: The recession decimated some of the country's largest university endowments, but student investors managing an $11 million fund at the University of Dayt... MSNBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:41:54 -0500(CNN) -- Comcast rolled out a Web-based on-demand television and movie service on Tuesday that gives customers access to more than 2,000 hours of television and movies. CNN Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:40:46 -0500A vicar from Worcester is taking his diocese to an employment tribunal over claims he was forced out of his "toxic parish".The Reverend Mark Sharpe said he was retiring on health grounds aft... BBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:37:56 -0500The announcement comes 15 months after Russia began lobbying its allies to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the two separatist territories at the center of its 2008 war with Georgia. Nauru, an ei... International Herald Tribune Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:35:02 -0500For many months now, American and European intelligence agencies have been trading theories about a spare, two-page document written in Persian that, if genuine, would strongly suggest that scientists... International Herald Tribune Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:35:00 -0500European Union initialed a deal on Tuesday to resolve a dispute over banana imports dating back more than 15 years, ending the longest trade battle in its history as a bloc and potentially opening the... International Herald Tribune Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:34:56 -0500Multan, Pakistan - A suicide car bombing in a busy market in central Pakistan on Tuesday killed at least 27 people, the latest in a stream of deadly attacks to hit the country, a senior official said.... IOL Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:31:21 -0500London - A nursery worker in south-west England was jailed indefinitely on Tuesday for sexually assaulting children in her care and swapping pictures of her abuse via the Internet in a case that has s... IOL Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:31:17 -0500By Mike Corder Brussels - New EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton plans to visit the Middle East soon to discuss the stalled peace process and will stick to the EU stance of urging Israel and ... IOL Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:31:14 -0500Paris - A junior French minister has told young Muslims living in France they should dress properly, find a job and stop speaking slang. Opposition politicians from the left denounced the comments ... IOL Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:31:11 -0500Berlin - A 81-year-old German woman dubbed the "Drogen-Oma" ("Drug Granny") in the local underground scene was jailed for five years on Tuesday after admitting dealing heroin. Christa Koehler, who ... IOL Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:31:09 -0500AN advert for a TV dating show has been banned for suggesting that people with ginger hair were unattractive, Britain's advertising watchdog said. The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:20:36 -0500But she accepted there was "some degree" of remorse demonstrated by Evans' plea of guilty to one count of defensive homicide.Evans will become eligible for parole after five years' imprisonm... The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:20:35 -0500Perth Now reports .He was partially disembowelled when he sat on an older-style skimmer box in the family’s backyard swimming pool and has to wear a colostomy bag for several months while his in... The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:20:34 -0500. A second man was also being questioned in relation to the same matter. Knights chief executive Steve Burraston said he was "flattened by the news" and Wicks had been stood down immediate... The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:20:32 -0500THE West Australian coastal community of Kuri Bay is on red alert after Tropical Cyclone Laurence was upgraded to category five status. The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:20:31 -0500SOUTH Australian Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond has been zapped with a Taser stun gun, fulfilling her promise to experience the impact of the new policing tool. The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:20:30 -0500AUSTRALIA'S competition regulator is baring its teeth again, today saying it will reject GUD Holdings' proposed $266.8 million hostile takeover of rival kitchen appliance supplier Breville G... The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:20:29 -0500THE dollar was more than half a cent lower at noon after markets began pricing in a pause in interest rate rises after the release of weaker than expected GDP figures. The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:20:28 -0500AUSTEREO Network's Sydney pop station 2DAY FM will be slapped with a new license condition to provide increased protection for children appearing on its program after a stunt on its Kyle & Ja... The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:20:27 -0500The trouble is that, unlike Santa, Funtastic is compelled by the profit motive, but is continuing to make a right old hash of things in a climate that, we would have thought, was conducive to turning ... The Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:20:25 -0500PITTSBURGH - The Flyers were hoping to build on Monday's impressive win in Boston, but the Pittsburgh Penguins would not cooperate tonight. They rarely do when they face the Flyers at Mellon Arena. Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:18:47 -0500HARRISBURG - Five-and-a-half-years after the legalization of slot machines in Pennsylvania, the state House tonight narrowly gave final approval to legislation authorizing table games. By a 103-92 vo... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:18:45 -0500NEW YORK - A Canadian doctor who has treated golfer Tiger Woods, swimmer Dara Torres and NFL players is suspected of providing athletes with performance-enhancing drugs, according to a newspaper repor... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:18:42 -0500By Mario Cattabiani HARRISBURG - Prosecutors in the so-called Bonusgate investigation today announced theft and conspiracy charges against former House Speaker Bill DeWeese and former state Revenue S... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:18:35 -0500TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Oral Roberts, who helped pioneer TV evangelism in the 1950s and used the power of the new medium - and his message of God's healing power - to build a multimillion-dollar ministry... New York Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:57:41 -0500MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Cities around the country that have installed energy-efficient traffic lights are discovering a hazardous downside: The bulbs don't burn hot enough to melt snow and can become cruste... New York Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:57:40 -0500COPENHAGEN (AP) -- If they fail to reach a climate deal in Copenhagen, world leaders flying in their private jets and huddling in five-star hotels will have little to show for their efforts beyond a b... New York Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:57:37 -0500NEW YORK (AP) -- The blockbuster trade sending Roy Halladay to Philadelphia and Cliff Lee to Seattle could be completed Wednesday, and it's become a four-team swap that involves Toronto shipping a pro... New York Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:57:35 -0500One of the major policy challenges for successive Israeli governments has been administering the Negev, which accounts for around half of the country's land area. Alongside planning for new Jewish com... Jerusalem Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:16:21 -0500Some of them initiatedorganizations following a personal experience they encountered; others after difficulties they experienced while trying to reach their own personal goals. Yair Greenberg couldn'... Jerusalem Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:16:02 -0500The Absorption Ministry has failed to pay subsidies to several hundred lone immigrant soldiers for the past four months, The Jerusalem Post has learned. Jerusalem Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:16:01 -0500Less than six months after being appointed head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, former Soviet dissident, Israeli politician and philosopher Natan Sharansky is putting his years of Zionist thinking an... Jerusalem Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:16:00 -0500Do Jews believe in exorcisms? It depends who you ask. A liturgical text dating back to the 18th century is being used by a British researcher as proof that they do, or at least did at one time. An... Jerusalem Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:15:58 -0500PLO to vote on extending Abbas's term Abbas announced earlier Tuesday that the Palestinians would not resume peace talks unless the international community recognized the 1967 borders as th... Jerusalem Post Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:15:57 -0500Ethiopia, one of Africa's poorest countries, last night put forward a radical multibillion-dollar plan to break the continuing deadlock at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen – which was immediat... The Independent Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:14:33 -0500A woman in Sierra Leone barred from running for chief of her district because of her gender has appealed for a new election and a place on the ballot. Elizabeth Kumba Simbiqa Torto, a nurse in her si... The Independent Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:14:29 -0500An Irish backbencher has been propelled into political prominence after startling the Dublin parliament by using the F-word during a debate on the budget. It would be going too far to say that his re... The Independent Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:14:27 -0500The Triangle, a new 50-storey building planned for the Port de Versailles area of Paris, could be completed by 2013, but critics attack it as 'bling architecture'... The Independent Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:14:24 -0500Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian kidnap victim, has revealed in a new film that her captor shaved her head, forbade her to cry and brutally abused her during the eight years she was held in the cellar ... The Independent Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:14:22 -0500The Philippines' most active volcano oozed lava and shot up plumes of ash yesterday, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes. State volcanologists raised the alert level on the cone-shape... The Independent Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:14:19 -0500Members of the Eastern Africa Standby Brigade, made up of troops from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Burundi, Comoros, Seychelles and Somalia, on parade in Djibouti... The Independent Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:14:15 -0500The Italian government may rush through emergency measures to outlaw websites inciting hatred following the attack on Silvio Berlusconi, which left the billionaire premier in hospital with a fractured... The Independent Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:14:10 -0500A devastating suicide bomb tore through Kabul's diplomatic quarter yesterday, killing eight people and injuring dozens of others in what appeared to be an assassination attempt on a former vice-presid... The Independent Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:14:07 -0500 | 
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