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Breaking News Sat, 30 Jul 2011
British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne watches Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, during a news conference at the end of the G20 nations summit in Toronto, Canada, Sunday June 27, 2010.
Comments   Debt   Photos   Plan   Wikipedia :George Osborne
 The Daily Telegraph 
Why Chancellor George Osborne must not flinch from carrying out his austerity plan
Sat 30 Jul 2011
Attention is understandably focused on the tortured "US debt-ceiling" negotiations. 'The danger that the UK faces isn't that George Osborne's austerity programme is too harsh. The real problem is that... (photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis)
A protester waves an Egyptian flag that reads "We Love Egypt" during a demonstration after Friday prayers in Tahrir Square where many have set up protest tent camps in the main city square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday July 29, 2011.
Egypt   Islam   Photos   Protest   Wikipedia: 2011 Egyptian revolution
 Al Jazeera 
Visions collide in a sweltering Tahrir Square
Sat 30 Jul 2011
Signs of strains between secular and Islamist forces have been showing for months. But both sides were to be represented in Friday’s mass demonstration.  Between 800,000 and a million... (photo: AP / Khalil Hamra)
People inspect the scene of a bomb attack in Taji, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 5, 2011.  CNN  Sat 30 Jul 2011
U.S. official: Iraq 'less safe' than it was last year
Baghdad (CNN) -- The U.S. official in charge of overseeing reconstruction in Iraq says the country is more dangerous than it was a year ago, a blunt assessment that comes five months before American... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban)
Iraq   Peace   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Post-invasion Iraq (2003 to present)
Jennifer Lopez pauses for a photo outside the Fox party after the Golden Globe Awards Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, in Beverly Hills, Calif.  The Daily Telegraph  Sat 30 Jul 2011
Jennifer Lopez wins fight to have court hearing on intimate videos heard in private
A battle for intimate home videos of Jennifer Lopez should not be heard in a public court case, a California judge has ruled, in a victory for the singer. Jennifer Lopez and husband Ojani Noa at the... (photo: AP / Chris Pizzello)
Court   Fight   Hearing   Photos   Wikipedia :Jennifer Lopez
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File - U.S. Air Force Airmen, assigned to the 432nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, put together an MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle after it returned from Afghanistan at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., May 19, 2008. Al Jazeera Sat 30 Jul 2011
Fighting back against the CIA drone war
They call it "bug splat", the splotch of blood, bones, and viscera that marks the site of a successful drone strike. To those manning the consoles in Nevada, it signifies... (photo: USAF / Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr.)
CIA   Photos   US   War   Wikipedia: Drone attacks in Pakistan
A worker uses a computer at the reception of Alibaba.com office on Wednesday Aug. 10, 2005 in Shanghai, China. Yahoo Inc. and a major Chinese e-commerce site, Alibaba.com, are discussing a possible alliance in a deal that could be worth up to US$1 billion, Chinese and foreign news reports said Wednesday. Herald Tribune Sat 30 Jul 2011
Yahoo and Alibaba Resolve Dispute Over Alipay
After a simmering feud that reached soap opera proportions, Yahoo and the Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet company it partly owns, have reached an agreement over a... (photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko)
Chinese   Group   Opera   Photos   Wikipedia :Yahoo
David Miliband, Britain's former foreign secretary, center, speaks with members of the audience following a talk by Miliband called: "Afghanistan, Mending It Not Just Ending It" at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass., Wednesday, April 13, 2011. The Daily Telegraph Sat 30 Jul 2011
David Miliband begins return to frontline politics
The former Foreign Secretary is to take on his first major task for Labour since being defeated by his brother, Ed, in the party leadership contest. David Miliband has... (photo: AP / Steven Senne)
Britain   Labour   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia :David Miliband
INDIA-FLOODED-AREA Herald Tribune Sat 30 Jul 2011
North Korean video shows flooding from heavy rains
SEOUL, South Korea - Heavy rains in recent days have inundated rice fields in North Korea and flooded parts of a city near the border with South Korea. Footage obtained... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Korean   Photos   Rains   Seoul   Wikipedia :Flooding
Libyan men carry the coffin, gesture and chant slogans during a funeral of Libyan rebels' slain military chief Abdel-Fattah Younis in the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Friday, July 29, 2011. BBC News Sat 30 Jul 2011
Libya conflict: Younes death betrays rebel divisions
On Wednesday, British Foreign Secretary William Hague hailed the Libyan rebels' "increasing legitimacy, competence, and success". On Thursday, with impeccable timing, it... (photo: AP / Sergey Ponomarev)
Africa   Libya   Photos   War   Wikipedia: 2011 Libyan civil war
A malnourished child waits for emergency medical assistance from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an active regional peacekeeping mission operated by the African Union with the approval of the United Nations, 16 July, 2011. Somalia is the country worst affected by a severe drought that has ravaged large swaths of the Horn of Africa. Al Jazeera Sat 30 Jul 2011
Genocidal politics and the Somali famine
Droughts are common in the Somali peninsula, but only an exceptional one produces famine. For instance, the Horn of Africa drought of 1984 did not produce famine in... (photo: UN / Stuart Price)
Africa   Disaster   Photos   Somalia   Wikipedia: 2011 Horn of Africa famine


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