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  • Thai demonstrators may be responsible for grenade attacks

    Thai demonstrators may be responsible for grenade attacks

    Indianapolis News.Net

    Two Thai soldiers have been hurt in grenade attacks.

  • Japanese whalers arrest New Zealand activist

    Japanese whalers arrest New Zealand activist

    Indianapolis News.Net

    A New Zealand anti-whaling activist has been handed over to Japan for possible trial.

  • High winds hit Fiji

    High winds hit Fiji

    Indianapolis News.Net

    A powerful cyclone has hit Fiji creating fears of mass evacuations.

  • Israel told it must make urgent peace concessions

    Israel told it must make urgent peace concessions

    Indianapolis 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

    Pakistani helicopters rout Taliban

    Indianapolis News.Net

    Helicopter gunships belonging to Pakistan have pounded Taliban hideouts in the north-western tribal district, killing at least 13 militants.

  • US Consul workers killed in Juarez Mexico

    US Consul workers killed in Juarez Mexico

    Indianapolis News.Net

    Drug violence in Western Mexico has led to the deaths of three people who worked within the walls of the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez.

  • Invasion hoax sends Georgia into a panic

    Invasion hoax sends Georgia into a panic

    Indianapolis 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.

  • Poor maid burned alive to stop her talking

    Poor maid burned alive to stop her talking

    Indianapolis News.Net

    A Christian maid has allegedly been burned alive to prevent her from reporting a rape in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

  • Gubernatorial candidate threatens Elton John

    Gubernatorial candidate threatens Elton John

    Indianapolis News.Net

    A candidate for governor in Atlanta, Georgia has been arrested for allegedly threatening singer Elton John.

  • British House of Lords to go

    British House of Lords to go

    Indianapolis News.Net

    In a plan being devised by the UK government, the country’s House of Lords could be abolished.

  • House Starts Process For Health Care Fix

    Washington Times

    Jennifer Haberkorn Two House Democrats voted Monday against the first procedural move to pass President Obama's health care overhaul through reconciliation. The procedural vote passed the House Bu...

  • Toyota: 'significant Inconsistencies' In Runaway Prius Account

    Washington Times

    Joseph Weber Toyota defended itself Monday against the recent wave of bad publicity, saying a preliminary investigation of the 2008 Prius that purportedly sped out of control recently in California s...

  • Heather Mills' False Leg Checked For Explosives At Heathrow

    New York Post

    Heather Mills was forced to have her artificial leg swabbed for explosives at London Heathrow airport, Sky News reported Monday.The 42-year-old and ex-wife of Paul McCartney was at the airport to catc...

  • 18 Injured In Bus-train Collision In Houston

    New York Post

    A commuter bus collided with a light rail train in downtown Houston Monday afternoon, injuring at least 18 people. At least four people were taken from the train on stretchers. The extent of the injur...

  • Coroner's Office Identifies Man Killed In Boulder City Plane Crash

    Las Vegas Sun

    killed in a small plane crash in Boulder City on Friday as 45-year-old Brett Dean Beuckens of Queen Creek, Ariz. Officials said the plane came from Deer Valley Airport in Phoenix and was traveling to...

  • Ex-senator's Mistress: 'i'm No Gold-digger'

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink Four years, one love-child, and thousands of column inches after their chance encounter at a New York hotel, former US Senator John Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, has broken her silence abou...

  • Study: Doctors Need Tools To Help Patients Slim Down

    USA Today

    "Physicians are going to have help patients lose weight," in the next five to 10 years, says Christine Ferguson, director of the STOP Obesity Alliance.

  • U.s. Criticism Of Israel Ignites Firestorm

    USA Today

    Israel last week has ignited a firestorm in Congress and among powerful pro-Israel interest groups who say the criticism of America's top Mideast ally was misplaced.

  • Link Between Nuts, 'pine Mouth Syndrome' Is Hard To Crack

    USA Today

    Americans are expanding their repertoire of foods but confronting new medical problems along with it. The latest: pine mouth syndrome, a bitter, metallic taste in the mouth that can develop a day or t...

  • Group: Web Helps Cyber-hate Proliferate

    CNN

    Internet's unregulated nature has aided proliferation of cyber-hate, report says Number of hate-affiliated Web pages jumped 20 percent in past year Personal blogs, mainstream social-networking sites a...

  • Toyota: Data Refutes Runaway Prius Story

    CBS News

    In Full: Prius Driver's 9-1-1 Call Listen to the 9-1-1 call of the Prius driver whose car sped out of control on a San Diego highway before coming to a stop.

  • Pilots Who Overshot Airport May Fly Again

    CBS News

    Wayward Pilots: We Were Working on Laptops (AP) Two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot the Minneapolis airport have agreed not to fight the revocations of their licenses but could fly again. Un...

  • Another Awesome Martian Avalanche

    CBS News

    ice. Some of that dry ice sits at the tops of cliffs, and when it thaws it dislodges the material there. The rock and debris on Mars then does the same thing it would do on Earth: it falls. Fast. And...

  • Incoming Drexel President Has Ambitious Plans

    Philadelphia Daily News

    John A. Fry and his wife, Cara, accept congratulations from Drexel student Stephanie Boyle. Among his goals: more living space on campus, closer ties to Penn, a better gateway to Center City and an ex...

  • Polanco Leaves Game With Injury

    Philadelphia Daily News

    BRADENTON, Fla. -- Placido Polanco lost the pop up in the sun and found the back of the pitcher's mound instead. And immediately after falling to the ground, he was concerned. "When it first hap...

  • Dodd Announces Plan For Finance Regulation

    Washington Times

    By Jim Kuhnhenn ASSOCIATED PRESS A new Democratic bill in the Senate to tame U.S. financial markets would give the government new powers to break up firms that threaten the economy and would force th...

  • Bbc Interruption Amid Media 'clampdown'

    RadioFreeEurope

    The BBC's local-language service in Kyrgyzstan experienced an unexplained interruption today, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported, sparking concerns the U.K.-funded broadcaster might share the fate of ot...

  • U.s. Helsinki Group Slams Baku Court's Refusal Of Bloggers' Appeal

    RadioFreeEurope

    The U.S. Helsinki Commission has criticized a Baku court's rejection of appeals by two Azerbaijani bloggers against their prison sentences, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.Emin Milli was sentence...

  • Tatars Bid Farewell To Prominent Intellectual

    RadioFreeEurope

    KAZAN, Tatarstan -- Tatarstan's political, scientific, and cultural elite gathered today in Kazan to honor veteran public figure Mansur Khasanov, RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.Khasanov died o...

  • Missing Kyrgyz Rights Activist In Detention In Tajikistan

    RadioFreeEurope

    DUSHANBE -- A Kyrgyz human rights activist who disappeared in Dushanbe last month is being held in a detention center for homeless people, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. Muhammadsoleh Muhammadtohir t...

  • Georgian Opposition Leader's Relative Dismissed From Diplomatic Post

    RadioFreeEurope

    TBILISI -- Georgia's ambassador to the Netherlands says she was dismissed because she is a relative of opposition leader Irakli Alasania, RFE/RL's Georgian Service reports.Maya Panjikidze, who is the ...

  • Russian Skinheads Guilty Of Murder In Racial Attacks

    RadioFreeEurope

    Eleven skinheads in St. Petersburg have been found guilty of hate crimes, including murder, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.The members of the group were found by a jury to have stabbed several Moldo...

  • Iran Said To Ban Activities Of Largest Reformist Party

    RadioFreeEurope

    TEHRAN (Reuters) -- Iran's judiciary has banned the activities of a leading reformist party, the semiofficial ISNA news agency quoted an official as saying, in a further attempt to end the reform move...

  • Russia Rewards Vancouver Medalists But Warns Officials

    RadioFreeEurope

    MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Russia's newest Olympic medalists have received state medals, while sports officials were given a fresh warning they could be sacked after the country's worst-ever showing at a Win...

  • Saakashvili's Erratic Response To Invasion Hoax Raises Suspicions

    RadioFreeEurope

    Facing mounting criticism over a hoax television broadcast claiming a Russian invasion, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has climbed down from his initial defense of the report.Saakashvili was f...

  • German Priest Suspended In Abuse Case Close To Pope

    International Herald Tribune

    The priest, Peter Hullermann, was suspended after church officials acknowledged in a statement on Friday that he had continued working with children even after being forbidden in 2008. His supervisor,...

  • Rielle Hunter Calls Racy Gq Photos Of Her 'repulsive'

    New York Post

    John Edwards' baby mama Rielle Hunter is so upset with the racy photos of her in the new issue of GQ magazine that she deemed them "repulsive."Speaking on ABC's "The View" this morning, co-host Barbar...

  • Toyota Probe Shows Inconsistencies In 'runaway' Prius Owner's Story

    New York Post

    SAN DIEGO — Toyota cast doubt Monday on a man's claim that his Prius sped out of control, saying the report is inconsistent with the findings of the company's preliminary investigation.Toyota sa...

  • Kremlin Sweeps Regional Elections

    International Herald Tribune

    MOSCOW — The pro-Kremlin party, United Russia, has again dominated regional elections, according to preliminary results released Monday, though opposition parties have made slight gains in a vot...

  • ‘marry A Nice Jewish Boy Instead’

    Jerusalem Post

    Far-right activist Baruch Marzel has sent top international model Bar Refaeli a strongly worded letter urging her not to marry long-term non-Jewish boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio.Marzel, formerly of the ...

  • Us Sends Fbi To Probe Consular Slayings In Mexico

    Channel News Asia

    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico: Faced with a brazen challenge from drug cartels, US FBI agents have joined a Mexican probe into attacks on US consular staff and their families that left three dead in this bord...

  • Uncertainty Over Tiger's Return Continues

    New Zealand Herald

    Tiger Woods' comeback date to golf is still not known. A PGA Tour teleconference this morning was tipped to announce Woods' return date to the Tour but it was, instead, about continuation of a sponso...

  • Fcc: High-speed Internet For All Of U.s.

    CNN

    The plan aims to get 90 percent of Americans on high-speed connections by 2020 The government plans to put one "ultra-high-speed" connection in every community The FCC says faster Internet c...

  • Study: Ed May Indicate Heart, Death Risk

    CNN

    American Heart Association that men with cardiovascular disease, also known as heart disease, and ED were twice as likely to die from all causes than men who did not have erectile dysfunction. And tho...

  • Continental Cuts Back On Free Food

    CNN

    Food-for-purchase program to be instituted on most domestic routes in U.S. and Canada Free food also will be cut on some leisure routes to Latin America and the Caribbean Intercontinental economy-clas...

  • Live - Premier League

    BBC

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  • People Leave Unique Trail Of Germs

    Reuters

    (Reuters) - People leave more than fingerprints when they touch stuff -- they also deposit a tell-tale trail of germs that could help investigators solve crimes, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

  • Obama: Health Bill Will Help Medicare

    CBS News

    Health Care Reform Lacks Votes Erica Hill spoke with Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer about the lack of votes needed to pass health care reform despite the White House's optimistic deadline.

  • Rielle Hunter: Pictures In Gq Are "repulsive"

    CBS News

    NEW YORK (CBS) Rielle Hunter may not regret breaking her silence, but the GQ photo shoot which shows her pantless is breaking her heart. Hunter reportedly "cried for two hours" after she saw the pictu...

  • Bin Laden Son Calls For Release Of Kin

    CBS News

    Osama Hops on Global Warming Bandwagon (AP) A letter purportedly from one of Osama bin Laden's sons is calling on Iran's supreme leader to release members of his family believed to be under house arre...