Top Stories: The 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 -0500A leak of radioactivity from Three Mile Island on the weekend has put the facility back in the news. Big News Network.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:06:43 -0500US scientists have revealed that laboratory tests suggest morphine could encourage the spread of cancer, for which it is routinely prescribed. Big News Network.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:56:20 -0500Pisa, Nov 23 (IANS/AKI) At least five people were killed Monday when an Italian military C130 Hercules aircraft crashed during a training exercise near the central city of Pisa's Galilei airport, officials said. IANS Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:50:03 -0500Matthew Mosk While the White House is mum about who will be among the 300 or so lucky invitees to President Obama's first state dinner Tuesday night, word is already leaking out about who's not on th... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:04:07 -0500Ralph Z. Hallow Eager to ensure that "tea partiers" don't undermine GOP candidates, conservative members of the Republican National Committee are pursuing the creation of a rule that would bar the Re... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:04:06 -0500Gabriella Boston The Bourbon Reds can cost up to $225 apiece. No, we're not talking fancy oak-barrel-aged liquor. We're talking heritage turkeys, relatively rare breeds of bird raised like thei... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:04:04 -0500Julia Duin American activists are demanding Obama administration action on the arrest of Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong, who was dragged away from his home in front of his family after be... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:04:03 -0500David M. Dickson A first-time homebuyer tax credit, historically low mortgage rates and falling home prices combined in October to propel existing home sales to their biggest monthly percentage incre... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:04:02 -0500Ben Conery The Justice Department on Monday announced terrorism charges against eight people for activities involving an al Qaeda-inspired organization in Somalia -- including recruiting, financing a... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:04:01 -0500OPINION/ANALYSIS: Willing student or not, reality continues to give Barack Obama a late education in how the world -- including the United States -- actually works. The president and his attorney gen... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:04:00 -0500By Andrew Miga ASSOCIATED PRESS Edward M. Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. His death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly ... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:03:58 -0500By Kevin Freking ASSOCIATED PRESS In the weeks since Carly Fiorina announced her run for a California Senate seat, the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive has been working to convince conserva... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:03:57 -0500Donald Lambro Former Sen. Norm Coleman, Minnesota Republican, who narrowly lost his bid for a second term in a bitter eight-month recount battle with Democrat Al Franken, may be poised for an improba... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:03:56 -0500S.A. Miller A top House Democratic leader says Americans no longer fear bringing terrorist suspects from Guantanamo Bay detention center to the United States, a shift in public opinion that he says w... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:03:55 -0500By John Milburn ASSOCIATED PRESS TOPEKA, Kan. | U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, the only Democrat in Kansas' congressional delegation, said Monday he will not seek a seventh term, calling it "time for a new ... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:03:54 -0500By now, Susan Boyle, the Scottish spinster and unlikely torch singer, needs no introduction. The stout, bedraggled 48-year-old shocked the studio audience of "Britain's Got Talent" with her angelic re... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:03:53 -0500By ASSOCIATED PRESS LAREDO, Texas (AP) | A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American borders has begun attracting just the sort of customers who place a premi... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:03:52 -0500OPINION/ANALYSIS: What international agreement produced 10 times the climate benefits of Kyoto and could produce several times more greenhouse-gas reductions than any post-2012 climate agreement? The... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:03:50 -0500Cheryl Wetzstein As Thanksgiving 2009 comes into view, we the people, hard-wired to connect, are beginning to gather together out of love and friendship and gratitude for God's blessings. As if on... Washington Times Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:03:48 -0500Shula Zaken on Tuesday told the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court that she was not guilty of fraud and breach of trust for her role in the Tax Authority affair. Jerusalem Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:51:40 -0500Elements of the new US administration of President George Bush were already discussing "regime change" in Iraq two years before the invasion of 2003, the official inquiry into the war was ... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:50:30 -0500Broadcasting organisations were flooded with complaints about an S&M-themed performance by a reality show star at the American Music Awards, which included him kissing a male keyboard player. ... The Independent Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:50:22 -0500LONDON - Britain has built the world's biggest DNA database without proper political debate and police routinely arrest people just to get their DNA profiles onto the system, the genetics watchdog sai... MSNBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:37:56 -0500March 28, 1979: Two reports from the day of the Three Mile Island disaster discuss how the blow out at this nuclear plant in Pennsylvania sent radioactive steam into the air and how it sparked protest... MSNBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:37:54 -0500I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! contestant Katie Price has apologised on live TV for her behaviour since she split with ex-husband Peter Andre.During her exit interview on the ITV1 programme, P... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:33:10 -0500Police are investigating whether a man who pointed a gun at a child while robbing a south Belfast sweet shop is behind two other armed robberies.The man, believed to be in his teens, robbed a shop nea... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:33:09 -0500Schools inspectorate Ofsted is going to "focus sharply" on a "stubborn core of inadequate teaching" in England, its chief inspector has said.Her annual report has fewer inadequate ... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:33:08 -0500Silvio Berlusconi's colourful lifestyle, which has embroiled him in a number of high-profile sex scandals, has won him the title of 'Rock Star of the Year' in Italy. Sky News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:33:01 -0500Britain formally opened an official public inquiry on Tuesday into the Iraq war ? a conflict that stirred deep opposition here as former Prime Minister... International Herald Tribune Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:29:51 -0500AMPATUAN, Philippines (Reuters) - The Philippines placed two southern provinces and a city under emergency rule on Tuesday after gunmen killed 46 people in a brutal election-related massacre that has ... Reuters Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:25:04 -0500FRANCE'S first lady, singing ex-supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, has agreed to star in US auteur Woody Allen's next movie, she told a television interviewer. The Australian Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:16:12 -0500OPPOSITION Leader Malcolm Turnbull says the Federal Coalition has agreed to a deal on Labor's carbon pollution reduction scheme following a marathon meeting today.He has declared "I'm the leader"."The... The Australian Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:16:09 -0500LUCKY, the world's oldest sheep, has died and has been buried on the Victorian property where she was born and hand-reared more than 23 years ago. The Australian Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:16:06 -0500PORT RICHMOND residents said yesterday that an off-duty officer who fatally shot a young man during a large street fight Saturday night is a bully who's maced their kids and brandished his gun around ... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:14:44 -0500Mayor Nutter, trying to regroup after the sting of losing a Philadelphia institution, met yesterday with area university officials to discuss life without the nation's largest collegiate rowing event,... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:14:41 -0500DENVER - Barring a trade, the Flyers will be Team Patchwork for at least the next month. And if last night is any indication, it could be a wild stretch. Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:14:38 -0500Efforts to revitalize Philadelphia's Delaware River waterfront took another step forward yesterday with the selection of Cooper Robertson & Partners, a New York design firm, to create and implement a ... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:14:37 -0500Officials of The Philadelphia Inquirer National Sudoku Championship have disqualified the third-place winner of the Oct. 24 tourney after an investigation, which included a retesting at The Inquirer l... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:14:34 -0500]+(>|$)/g, ""); formObj.field.value += ' (HTML deleted)'; } //alert('After Flag | mT: ' + mT + ' | kP: ' + kP) return insertComment(formObj, true, updateComments, true); };... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:14:31 -0500A Jenkintown woman accused of helping her boyfriend murder her father was convicted of voluntary manslaughter by a Montgomery County Court judge yesterday. Christina Rubin, 23, pleaded guilty to an o... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:14:29 -0500One year ago, for the first and so far only time, Andy Reid took Donovan McNabb out of a football game because of his performance. Not because of injury, not because the score was one-sided, but becau... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:14:27 -0500THE GREAT FREE agent-auction of 2009 began last Friday. There were 171 ballplayers hoping - no, praying - their agents would be able to leverage them into a lucrative change of scene. If the majority... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:14:25 -0500AMPATUAN, Philippines (AP) -- A police official says 11 more bodies have been unearthed from a mass grave in the southern Philippines, bringing the death toll from a massacre of political supporters a... New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:54:43 -0500GENEVA (AP) -- Scientists running the world's largest atom smasher used the $10 billion machine's accelerator to speed up proton beams for the first time Tuesday, in a step toward experiments about th... New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:54:42 -0500HOUSTON (AP) -- Rob Bironas kicked a 53-yard field goal with less than a minute remaining and the Tennessee Titans beat the Houston Texans 20-17 Monday night for their fourth straight victory after an... New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:54:42 -0500News ) said Monday that Judge Richard A. Kramer of the San Francisco Superior Court has recommended the company to coordinate its antitrust case against certain memory manufacturers and the Tessera Te... RTT News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:32:15 -0500Iran's Foreign Ministry said the country is ready to exchange its low-enriched uranium with a higher enriched one, but only on its own soil. Jerusalem Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:27:22 -0500WASHINGTON : The United States will announce a target for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions before the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, removing a major obstacle to a deal, officials have said... Channel News Asia Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:21:10 -0500MANILA, Philippines - Eleven more bodies were recovered from a mass grave in the southern Philippines on Tuesday raising the number of massacre victims to 35, a police official said. MSNBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:14:39 -0500These days, 24-year-old Delonta Spriggs spends much of his time cooped up in his mother's one-bedroom apartment in Southwest Washington, the TV blaring soap operas hour after hour, trying to stay out ... MSNBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:14:37 -0500For his wife and for millions of women around the country, Winfrey has become, over the years, much more than a regular television date. Talk to her fans, and you hear a familiar refrain: Oprah's like... MSNBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:14:36 -0500Fifty-seven million people said they will definitely head to stores this year An additional 77 million said they will wait until seeing the weekend deals Some stores are extending hours on Black Frida... CNN Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:13:32 -0500United Nations (CNN) -- The body of a United Nations worker, who had been missing for 24 years, has been found in eastern Lebanon, a representative of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said... CNN Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:13:31 -0500A 65-year-old man has died in a four-car collision on the M8 in Glasgow, after a car was driven the wrong way down the motorway.The crash happened near junction 15 Townhead, close to Glasgow Royal Inf... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:10:36 -0500Julie Walters and Ben Whishaw have taken the top acting prizes at the International Emmys while Sir David Frost won a lifetime achievement award.Walters won for BBC assisted suicide drama A Short Stay... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:10:35 -0500Three Palestinians have been injured in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical workers have said.The Israeli military said it had hit a "weapons-manufacturing facility" n... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:10:32 -0500At least 36 people have been arrested overnight in Spain as part of a police operation against a banned youth group linked to radical Basque separatism.Officers raided a number of properties in the Ba... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:10:31 -0500Both men faced a firing squad for their part in producing and selling contaminated milk that left tens of thousands of babies sick and six babies dead. The milk was contaminated with melamine, which ... Sky News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:10:24 -0500The 62-year-old, dubbed the "Robin Hood banker", was found guilty of moving a total of 7.6 million euros (£6.85m) between 2003 and 2005. She carried out 117 separate transfers to try and stop people... Sky News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:10:22 -0500By Daily Mail Reporter A girl of 16 died after slipping in her high heels and falling under a train. Megan Moore was running along the platform as the train pulled away. She had just got out ... IOL Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:05:03 -0500Sydney - Drugs are being smuggled into Aboriginal communities in Australia's far north inside dead kangaroos, the Northern Territory parliament was told on Tuesday. Former indigenous affairs minist... IOL Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:04:53 -0500An Australian couple competing in a speedboat race in Temora Australia escape a spectacular accident without injury. Alan Carr and Jo Price, from Western Australia, lost the control of their speedi... IOL Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:04:50 -0500However a challenge could be looming in the Coalition partyroom after Malcolm Turnbull is believed to have declared victory on his climate change deal despite uncertain numbers. A marathon party room ... The Australian Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:52:26 -0500BAGHDAD - Iraq's national elections, scheduled for January and vital for the country's stability and for U.S. troop-withdrawal plans, could be delayed for weeks, or even longer, as parliamentary effor... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:50:51 -0500PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani troops killed 18 militants in a fresh offensive Tuesday against insurgents blamed for a wave of recent bombings in the main northwestern city of Peshawar. New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:30:50 -0500No one really expects brevity when reinventing something as complex and huge as the nation's health insurance system, which accounts for one-sixth of the economy. Indeed, legislation of comparable siz... New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:30:49 -0500WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 2.1 million drop-side cribs by Stork Craft Manufacturing are being recalled, the biggest crib recall in U.S history, following reports of four infant suffocations. New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:30:48 -0500COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Legislators irked for months over Gov. Mark Sanford's summertime vanishing act and his tearful revelation that he was in Argentina for a rendezvous with his lover plan to start ... New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:30:47 -0500Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, however, says he doesn't think that will happen. But last week the Fed chief did warn the recovery faces "important headwinds," such as tight credit and a weak job market th... New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:30:46 -0500BEIJING (AP) -- China executed two people Tuesday for their roles in a tainted milk powder scandal in which at least six children died and more than 300,000 became sick. New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:30:45 -0500LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mya is poised to take the "Dancing With the Stars" title after finishing three points away from perfect during the final night of competition Monday. New York Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:30:43 -0500Soldiers in the ultra-Orthodox battalion of the Nahal infantry brigade claim that they were strip-searched on Monday upon entrance to a battalion ceremony. The commanders searched the soldiers fearing... Haaretz Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:08:01 -0500The Israel Air Force carried out three airstrikes in the Gaza Strip late Monday, targeting a weapons-manufacturing facility and weapons smuggling tunnels. The IDF said that the the aerial assaults cam... Haaretz Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:07:59 -0500Israel is "closer than ever" to reaching a deal leading to the release of captive IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor) said on Tuesday morning, am... Jerusalem Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:04:45 -0500Police inspect a crime scene. [illustrative] Uzan, former player with the Hapoel Beersheba soccer club, was found dead overnight Monday in his vehicle. The car had crashed into a pole on Rehov Le... Jerusalem Post Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:04:43 -0500WASHINGTON: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday that India is "open for business" with US firms. Speaking ahead of his White House visit, Singh said India wanted US participation acros... Channel News Asia Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:58:04 -0500Nov. 23: As the nation grapples with emotional issues like health care reform, abortion and same-sex marriage, the Catholic church is flexing its religious and political muscle by asking U.S. Rep. Pat... MSNBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:51:18 -0500OKLAHOMA CITY - A former Marine has been arraigned on six counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home, including a prostitute featured on the ... MSNBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:51:17 -0500An independent report into anti-terror raids across north-west England is expected to criticise the police.It is likely to say Greater Manchester Police should have consulted specialist lawyers before... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:47:12 -0500Three of the five men arrested after an attack on a police officer in County Fermanagh at the weekend have been released without charge.One of the men had been arrested by Irish police in County Leitr... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:47:11 -0500Thanks to greater access to powerful drugs the HIV death toll has dropped by a tenth and more people are surviving with the virus, latest figures show.The World Health Organization and the Joint UN Pr... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:47:09 -0500Stephen Spielberg's Tintin film is in the can, but it will take two years for the computer animation to be completed, producer Peter Jackson has said.The Lord Of The Rings director told the BBC: "... BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:47:08 -0500They were suffocated after becoming trapped in drop-side cots manufactured by Canada-based Stork Craft. The cots have a side that moves up and down to allow parents to lift children from them more ea... Sky News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:46:58 -0500A boy aged four has become one of the youngest children in Britain to be expelled from school. He was thrown out of his primary just weeks after starting for constantly disrupting classes and attac... IOL Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:40:59 -0500ZURICH (Reuters) -- Scientists have smashed together proton beams for the first time in a 27-kilometre tunnel under the French-Swiss border in an initial step toward discovering how the universe came ... Reuters Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:39:23 -0500The Dad Vail battle isn't over yet. Mayor Nutter and U.S. Rep. Bob Brady met yesterday with area universities to discuss holding a regatta on the Schuylkill next year on the same weekend as the Dad V... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:27:04 -0500"The idea is to hit your opponent, to batter him if necessary. If you don't, he'll hit and batter you. Every so often, a boxer dies. Whenever that happens, some people like to shout that boxing s... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:27:02 -0500Convicted cop-killer John "Jordan" Lewis today could learn if a Philadelphia jury will sentence him to life in prison without parole, or death. After defense and prosecution attorneys deliv... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:26:59 -0500The strange case of Lucie Marie Hamilton has been closed, but for her mother at least, the mystery surrounding her death remains. Hamilton, 20, a male-to-female transgender from Little Rock, Ark., di... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:26:56 -0500SO LAST WEEK came word that City Councilman Jim Kenney's proposed bicycle-crackdown laws include a $1,000 fine on anyone riding a brakeless bicycle on our public streets. Talk about a big bowl of &qu... Philadelphia Daily News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:26:54 -0500 | 
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