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Breaking News Mon, 26 Oct 2009
Reject my passport photo again and I'm flying by dog basket
Caribbean   Passport   Photos   Travel   UK  
 Hong Kong Standard 
Reject my passport photo again and I'm flying by dog basket
Watch out! The world craziness index is ZOOMING up. Last week we reported that a black man, Paul Ashman, had his passport photo rejected by the UK authorities because it was "too dark." | //--> Friday... (photo: WN / Farida Azzawi)
The European Council building is reflected in a photograph of the EU flag on the wall of the European Council building in Brussels Friday June 17, 2005. During the second day of a two-day summit twenty-four European Union leaders confronted British Prime Minister Tony Blair Friday demanding he give up his country's multi-billion euro (dollar) rebate in talks aiming to secure a new EU budget.
Czech Republic   EU   Klaus   Photos   Politics  
 The Star 
Czech PM doesn't see EU treaty ruling at Tuesday hearing
| PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Constitutional Court is unlikely to make an immediate ruling when it considers a complaint against the European Union's reform treaty on Tuesday, Prime Minister Jan Fisc... (photo: AP / Michel Euler)
 Britainīs Prime Minister Tony Blair, speaking after he toured a new scientific project known as the Diamond, in Chilton, England Thursday Nov. 2, 2006. The Diamond is a powerful microscope that uses electrons to generate what is known as synchrotro  The Australian 
Blair's European prospects up for grabs
| FORMER British prime minister Tony Blair's European future, if he has one, will be thrashed out in the corridors and backrooms of the European Council building in Brussels this week. | At least eigh... (photo: (AP /Alastair Grant, Pool))
Blair   Britan   EU   Photos   Politics  
A crater, 9 meters (27 feet) wide and 3 meters (9 feet) deep, reportedly created by a meteorite-like object that crashed into a meadow in the Mazsalaca region, northern Latvia, near the Estonian border, on Monday, Oct. 26, 2009  Independent online 
 Meteorite is a flash in the pan
| Riga - A remote field in northern Latvia briefly became the site of a media feeding frenzy on Monday after local media reported a meteor strike on Sunday night. | But by Monday afternoon, more and m... (photo: AP / AP Photo)
Disaster   Geologist   Latvia   Meteorite   Photos  
Top Stories
Spotting-01-0025 Air Berlin (D-ABGD), Airbus A319, The Guardian
TUI Travel takes 9.9 pct stake in Air Berlin
* Buys 8.4 million Air Berlin shares * Air Berlin shares end down 4 pct, TUI Travel down 1 pct FRANKFURT, Oct 26 (Reuters) - TUI Travel Plc and Air Berlin moved closer to... (photo: Creative Commons / Flickr)
Airlins   Berlin   Photos   Transport   Travel  
Moulted snake skin, found in a forest near Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. From Elaphe quatuorlineata? Hierophis viridiflavus? Philadelphia Daily News
Norwegian accused of skin-crawling snake smuggling
| The Associated Press | OSLO - A man has been arrested in Norway trying to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into the country by hiding them under his clothes. | Custo... (photo: Creative Commons / Lucarelli)
Family   Norway   Photos   Skin   Snake  
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during an event with the title 'Made in Germany: The social economy" organized by the 'Initiative New Social Economy' in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. The Times
World Agenda: Will Angela Merkel's Cabinet cut it?
| It took Angela Merkel almost a month to form her new centre-right Government but somehow it fails to impress. | At the heart of its 124-page programme - essentially a f... (photo: AP / Michael Sohn)
Economy   Germany   Kids   News   Photos  
raq's Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh (R) talks to Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki at the Green Zone in Baghdad Pravda RU
Iran To Send Low-Enriched Uranium to Russia and France
| Teheran is ready to partially accept the offer from the United Nations Organizations to send its low-enriched uranium abroad, particularly to Russia, to have it process... (photo: WN / Jamal PenjwenyBarham Saleh)
France   Iran   Photos   Russia   Uranium  
 Hokkaido,Japan - Kentucky Fried Chicken - KFC - Fast Food Restaurant. (ps1) LA Daily News
KFC and El Pollo Loco locked in chicken war
Daily News Wire ServicesUpdated: 10/26/2009 07:26:21 AM PDT | The newest skirmish in the chicken wars will be fought Monday as Kentucky Fried Chicken conducts its th... (photo: WN / patricia)
Chicken   Kentucky   Photos   Restaurants   Sweepstakes  
Leonie Ashfield from Christie's Auction house, display a natural pearl necklace that belonged to Arab singer Umm Middle East Online
Dubai auction sets highest guide price for Arab artist
DUBAI - Auction house Christie's has set the highest ever guide price for a work by an Arab artist by putting a value of 600,000 to 800,000 dollars on a double calligraph... (photo: AP / Wigglesworth)
Arts   Culture   Dubai   Investment   Photos  
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, escorted by a member of his entourage, walks into a Serb television facility in Pale, Saturday, Jan. 6, 1996 to deliver a Christmas greeting. Orthodox families are preparing to celebrate Christmas on Sunday and the Bosnian Serb leader was out and about in Pale handing out his good wishe The Guardian
Karadzic isn't the only one on trial
| The trial of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, must go ahead with or without the participation of the accused. He has attempted to stall proceedings at ... (photo: AP / Darko VOJINOVIC)
Bosnia   Justice   Photos   Serbia   War Crime  
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during her press conference at the G20 Summit at the Excel centre in London, Thursday, April 2, 2009. The Star
Merkel says coalition plan a path to growth
| BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel defended on Monday her incoming government's plans to cut billions of euros in taxes, saying the new policy programme offere... (photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Berlin   Germany   Media   Photos   Politics  
President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraiser for Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., in Stamford, Conn., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009.President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraiser for Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., in Stamford, Conn., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. DNA India
Obama asked Spain to deliver message to Cuba
| Washington: US President Barack Obama asked Spain to pass Cuba a message on the need for democratic reform when he met Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapate... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)
Government   Obama   Photos   President   Washington  
Rawls Hall, Purdue University Modern Ghana
Rawlings faults support of corruption by development partners
Former President Rawlings says the failure of Africa's development partners to check corrupt leaders has led to such corruption taking a life of its own. He said it was u... (photo: Public Domain / Huwmanbeing)
Africa   Campaign   Development   Photos   President  
BUSINESS & ECONOMY SPORT
- Reject my passport photo again and I'm flying by dog bas
- Santander Banks on Brazil
- Markets rise on SKorea growth; oil earns awaited
- Libya's Gaddafi "sorry" for UK policewoman'
Reject my passport photo again and I'm flying by dog basket
Reject my passport photo again and I'm flying by dog basket
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- Atletico chief reveals he rejected big-money bids
- EXCLUSIVE: I Am Improving With Every Game For Barcelona - Zl
- Fabio Capello 'saddened' by Ultras' behaviour at
- Robinho: Moving to Barcelona could make me the best player i
FC Barcelona's Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Sweden, right, reacts after scoring with his teammate Lionel Messi of Argentina against Zaragoza during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009
EXCLUSIVE: I Am Improving With Every Game For Barcelona - Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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POLITICS SOCIETY & CULTURE
- US military base in Romania to become permanent
- Ticking the Wrong Boxes
- IMF Mission to Visit Romania
- Romania's Bloody Revolution: 20 Years Later
 Patriot missiles PAC-3 launchers are seen at the Kadena U.S. Air Base in Okinawa, southern Japan, Friday, Feb. 9, 2007. The deployment is part of a multibillion dollar effort to build a ballistic missile shield in the Pacific to counter the threat of an
Ticking the Wrong Boxes
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- Ticking the Wrong Boxes
- Romania crisis deepens as PM candidate rejected
- IMF efforts to help E. Europe weather the recession run into
- Madonna shoes offered to Gypsy charity in Romania
 Patriot missiles PAC-3 launchers are seen at the Kadena U.S. Air Base in Okinawa, southern Japan, Friday, Feb. 9, 2007. The deployment is part of a multibillion dollar effort to build a ballistic missile shield in the Pacific to counter the threat of an
Ticking the Wrong Boxes
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
- Gene Therapy Helps Blind Boy See
- Anger over German swine flu jab
- Swine flu decision defended by French football chiefs follow
- H1N1 Is Still Spreading Globally
President Barack Obama speaks during his final news conference at the 5th Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Sunday, April 19, 2009.
H1N1 Is Still Spreading Globally
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- Coral 'cryobank' saves reef species
- Did we have sex with Neanderthals?
- Activists demand climate action
- Countries join 'last chance' climate change summit i
In this photo released by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Kingman Reef is seen in this photo, date unknown. Parts of three remote and uninhabited Pacific island chains are being set aside by President George W. Bush as national monuments to protect them from oil and gas extraction and commercial fishing in what will be the largest marine conservation effort in history. The three areas _ totaling some 195,280 square miles _ include the Mariana Trench and the waters and corals surrounding three uninhabited islands in the Northern Mariana Islands, Rose Atoll in American Samoa and seven islands strung along the equator in the central Pacific Ocean.
Coral 'cryobank' saves reef species
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ENTERTAINMENT SCIENCE & NATURE
- Carmen Electra tops list of celebrities strippers would like
- Katherine Jenkins wows crowd at legendary London club G-A-Y
- Michael Jackson's personal items to go on display in Lon
- Chris Brown to Release New CD
Carmen Electra waves the green flag (and checkered) for 2008 Dodge Challengers.
Carmen Electra tops list of celebrities strippers would like as pole partners
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- Barack Obama must attend Copenhagen climate summit, says Lor
- President Obama 'still undecided' about attending Co
- Treaty omission spells bad news for rainforests
- Pats praise for Wembley
Senator Barack Obama
Barack Obama must attend Copenhagen climate summit, says Lord Stern
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