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  • Nouri al-Maliki closing in on leadership in Iraq

    Nouri al-Maliki closing in on leadership in Iraq

    Sacramento News.Net

    In Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition has taken the lead after last weekend’s vote.

  • Opposition Internet sites shut down in Iran

    Opposition Internet sites shut down in Iran

    Sacramento News.Net

    Iran has dismantled several opposition Internet networks it says were backed by the US.

  • Pope weathering paedophile slurs

    Pope weathering paedophile slurs

    Sacramento News.Net

    The Vatican has denounced attempts to involve the pope in scandals surrounding paedophile activity within the Catholic Church.

  • Prison break could be behind Afghan attacks

    Prison break could be behind Afghan attacks

    Sacramento News.Net

    Suicide bombers have killed around 30 people in Kandahar City, Afghanistan.

  • Obama education plan to be set for US

    Obama education plan to be set for US

    Sacramento News.Net

    President Barack Obama of the US is now pushing for education reform.

  • Thais demonstrates against government

    Thais demonstrates against government

    Sacramento News.Net

    Many backers of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from all over Thailand are converging on Bangkok.

  • Death toll climbs as Pakistan suffers triple terrorist attacks

    Death toll climbs as Pakistan suffers triple terrorist attacks

    Sacramento News.Net

    In the third terrorist attack in two days, a Pakistani court has been targeted by a suicide bomber leaving at least ten dead.

  • U.s. Jihadi Blondie Raised Tiny Terror

    New York Post

    Her conversion was so complete, Paulin-Ramirez changed her son's name from Christian to the Islamic name Walid after enrolling him in a fire-breathing Muslim school in Ireland. The terror mom's stepfa...

  • O Gives Kick To 'behind'

    New York Post

    President Obama wants to leave No Child Left Behind behind. The president unveiled yesterday a series of dramatic changes to President George Bush's signature education legislation -- even vowing to d...

  • How To Cut $9 Billion

    New York Post

    While revenues are rolling in during good economic times, elected officials spend like drunken sailors. When the economy falters, well, they still spend like drunken sailors.Assorted tax increases fol...

  • Did The Cia Test Lsd In The New York City Subway System?

    New York Post

    On Nov. 28, 1953, Frank Olson, a bland, seemingly innocuous 42-year-old government scientist, plunged to his death from room 1018A in New York’s Statler Hotel, landing on a Seventh Avenue sidewa...

  • Don't Fail Kids By Cutting Regents

    New York Post

    Dating back to the 1870s, the Regents set the standard for proficiency in various subjects. Currently, 17 tests are offered to all New York high school students, in everything from algebra to history ...

  • The Terrorist & The Spy

    New York Post

    Since Kiriakou first began making such statements three years ago, he’s become a pet of liberal writers and bloggers, but his fast, funny, incisive, insistent and frequently outraged new memoir,...

  • Protesters Surge Into Bangkok Wanting New Vote

    International Herald Tribune

    BANGKOK (AP) -- Leaders of tens of thousands of protesters who swarmed into Bangkok from Thailand's rural areas Sunday threatened mass street demonstrations if the government didn't respond to their d...

  • The Best Sin To Tax

    New York Post

    Gov. Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg want to tax soda to fight obesity and, more notably, help plug the state’s $9 billion gap. But here’s a better way to raise cash: tax lies.

  • In My Library: Suzan-lori Parks

    New York Post

    Libraries are a girl’s best friend. At least they can be if, like Suzan-Lori Parks, you ever needed a peaceful retreat.“My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my f...

  • I Even Fill Jobs In My Free Time

    New York Post

    Thanks for allowing us to help fill this job. As you know by now I forwarded your note to New York City's social service agency and it sent you four candidates for this job. And you picked a 40-year o...

  • This Bank Really Does God's Work

    New York Post

    There's at least one bank in the New York metropolitan area that's doing God's work -- and no, we're not talking about Goldman Sachs. Atlantic Stewardship Bank, based in Bergen County, NJ, donates 10 ...

  • Top Terrorist Nabbed In Ramallah

    Jerusalem Post

    In a joint operation combining the forces of the IDF, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and police, member of the Hamas military wing Maher Ouda was arrested overnight Saturday in Ramallah.According t...

  • Cabinet Vote On Barzilai Postponed

    Jerusalem Post

    The Cabinet vote on whether to spend NIS 100 million more to change plans for the construction of a fortified emergency room for Ashkelon's Barzilai Medical Center at the demand of Deputy Health Minis...

  • Berlusconi Probed After Hostile Talk Shows Cut

    The Herald

    Mr Berlusconi is accused of attempting to influence officials in the state broadcaster RAI to get a number of hostile political talk shows taken off the air. In a much-criticised move, RAI decided to ...

  • More Slayings In ‘city Of Lost Women’

    The Herald

    The shooting was the second such attack in two days. On Thursday, gunmen in the border city of Ciudad Juarez shot dead six young men and a woman at a wake held for another shooting victim, and serious...

  • Obama Seethes As Israel Gives Joe Biden The Finger

    The Herald

    The strength and political influence of the country’s settler faction became apparent as soon as US Vice-President Joe Biden arrived in Jerusalem to attempt to reopen the stalled peace talks wit...

  • How An Oscar-winning Movie Put Japan’s Dolphin Slaughter On The World Stage

    The Herald

    seasonal slaughter of dolphins, where the animals are herded into shallow waters and butchered with knives. The end result is a delicacy that does not enjoy high demand globally. Despite the profile n...

  • Fresh Storm Wreaks Havoc In Us

    New Zealand Herald

    Kennedy International Airport, said Massport spokesman Matthew Brelis. Among the planes diverted because of heavy rain and high wind was the double-decker Airbus A-380, the biggest commercial passenge...

  • Kissinger Released From South Korea Hospital

    CNN

    Henry Kissinger discharged from Seoul hospital after overnight stay Former U.S. secretary of state was admitted to hospital after suffering stomach pains Kissinger served under U.S. presidents Nixon, ...

  • Bangkok Dangerous: Anti-govt Demo Fears

    Sky News

    As tens of thousands of anti government demonstrators gathered in Bangkok, British holidaymakers in Thailand have been warned that the political situation is increasingly "volatile".

  • Incoming Drexel President Has Ambitious Plans

    Philadelphia Daily News

    Two months before former Drexel University president Constantine Papadakis died, he met with John A. Fry, president of Franklin and Marshall College, to discuss starting a Drexel medical school campus...

  • Burlco Bridge Commission Has Deep Ties To County Gop

    Philadelphia Daily News

    As he assumed control of the obscure but powerful Burlington County Bridge Commission three years ago, chairman John Comegno oversaw the launch of a public-relations campaign designed to burnish a bad...

  • Christie To Take A Giant Step

    Philadelphia Daily News

    TRENTON - Three months into his term, Gov. Christie is ready to jump off the cliff. For weeks he has referred to the scene in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in which the bank-robber her...

  • Students Say Assault Report Is Lacking

    Philadelphia Daily News

    Duyngoc Truong is a lithe, 16-year-old junior who stands 5-foot-3 and weighs 108 pounds. At dismissal Dec. 3, she was chased through the streets outside South Philadelphia High School until she ran o...

  • Yemenis: U.s. Terror Suspect Tricked Guard

    Philadelphia Daily News

    SAN'A, Yemen - An American al-Qaeda suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said yesterday. He then killed a gu...

  • Disquiet In Google's Online Library

    Philadelphia Daily News

    Courtney Mitchel, a librarian participating in the Google Books Library Project, scans an antique Bible in Ann Arbor, Mich., into the database. Google aims to store millions of the world's texts.

  • Sidestepping To Move Up

    Philadelphia Daily News

    I don't know about you, but I need a break from workplace malaise, grim jobs reports, bankruptcies, and buyouts. So today I offer a charming bit of counterprogramming. Consider it a reminder that even...

  • Moorestown Shows Its Muscle

    Philadelphia Daily News

    Albert Young's football jerseys from (from left) the Minnesota Vikings, Moorestown High, and the University of Iowa are part of the exhibit. Curated by Lenny Wagner, it runs through June.

  • At Least 3 Snowmobilers Dead In Canadian Avalanche

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    Royal Canadian Mounted Police direct traffic at the staging area for avalanche search & rescue operations near Revelstoke, B.C. on Saturday March 13, 2010. Rescuers were scouring Boulder Mountain in t...

  • Manny Pacquiao Retains W.b.o. Welterweight Title

    International Herald Tribune

    Manny Pacquiao, right, dissected and destructed his latest overmatched opponent, Joshua Clottey, pummeling Clottey’s ribs and midsection for most of the fight.

  • Israel Nabs Hamas Leader Behind 2003 Terror Attacks

    Haaretz

    Israel Defense Forces soldiers late Saturday arrested a top Hamas official in Ramallah, suspected of leading military cells responsible for the murder of more than 70 Israelis over the course of the s...

  • Jumblatt Formally Apologizes To Assad

    Jerusalem Post

    After years of alliances with Western-leaning politicians and fierce anti-Syrian rhetoric, Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has issued a formal apology to Syrian President Bashar Assad for controv...

  • Top Hamas Terrorist Arrested In Ramallah

    Jerusalem Post

    In a joint operation combining the forces of the IDF, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and police, member of the Hamas military wing Maher Ouda was arrested overnight Saturday in Ramallah.According t...

  • Paul Holmes: A President Under Attack

    New Zealand Herald

    Despite his difficulties, President Barack Obama still rates highly as a tremendous communicator. US News has just asked Americans in a poll: who do you think has been the greatest modern presidential...

  • Colombia Set For Legislative Poll

    BBC

    Colombians are to vote in legislative elections, seen as a barometer for the presidential election on 30 May.President Alvaro Uribe cannot run for a third term and a court last month closed any possib...

  • Chinese Pm Rejects Yuan Criticism

    BBC

    Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has rejected criticism that China is keeping its currency undervalued in order to boost exports.He said keeping the yuan stable was "an important contribution" to ...

  • Runaway Prius Probe Can't Verify 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.

  • Storm Leaves Half Million Without Power

    CBS News

    (AP) Strong winds and heavy rain pounded parts of the Northeast on Saturday, knocking out power to more than a half-million homes and businesses and stranding about 500 passengers on a New York-bound ...

  • Queen Rania: We Need More Educated Girls

    CBS News

    Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan and Katie Couric Saturday at the Women in the World summit, sponsored by The Daily Beast, in New York, March 13, 2010.

  • China Alleges Diplomatic Snub At Copenhagen Summit

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reacts as he sits down for his press conference after the closing of the National People's Congress held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 14,...

  • China's Wen Says External Pressure On Yuan Not Helpful

    RadioFreeEurope

    Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says Beijing will keep "the yuan basically stable" and said "external pressure" to let it rise in value "is not helpful." Many U.S. lawmakers c...

  • No Pain, All Gain

    Jerusalem Post

    The possibility of a longer-term local anesthetic that works only on pain is being hailed as one of the most important medical discoveries of all time.

  • Graffiti Group To Bring Solidarity Message To Sderot

    Jerusalem Post

    BOMBIN ’, became something of a forum for pro-Israel views.However unlikely, the graffiti community, touched by 9/11 and smarting from increased police cameras that stopped them from freely painting...