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Police officers detain a woman, center, and load her into a police van during a routine stop and search operation on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011 in Camden, North London.
photo: AP / Karel Prinsloo
Murder and mayhem: the fallout from England's riots
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Straight-A student on looting charge Stereotype of underclass need not apply Scotland Yard says it has arrested a total of 1047 people in connection with the violence, disorder and looting in London, with 584 of them charged. Meanwhile, the death toll from the riots has risen to five after a man who was attacked by a mob as...
People walk by the London Stock Exchange in the City of London, Friday, Aug. 12, 2011.
photo: AP / Sang Tan
European shares recover on big Wall Street gains
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Bank stocks recovered their poise Friday and helped European stock markets push higher as investors assessed the impact of a short-selling ban on financial shares in four eurozone countries. The advance in Europe follows big gains on Wall Street Thursday, which helped support most markets in Asia. However, wild swings over recent...
Rape danger as women flee Somali famine
photo: UN / Stuart Price
Rape danger as women flee Somali famine
read more Canberra Times
Women and girls fleeing the famine in Somalia for refugee camps are being raped, abducted and forced into marriage by gangs of armed bandits. The United Nations said the journey to camps in Kenya was long and perilous and many women and girls...
A Somali man from southern Somalia cuts tree branches to construct a makeshift shelter in refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday Aug. 11, 2011.
photo: AP / Farah Abdi Warsameh
Somalia, Dark Clouds and Silver-lining
read more Scoop
Friday, 12 August 2011, 5:43 pm Article: Abukar Arman Somalia, Dark Clouds and Silver-lining August 12, 2011 The painfully haunting pictures of severely malnourished children on the verge of death, transmitted through all forms of media tell a horrific tale of human misery. The scope and the level of urgency is abundantly clear to all those who...
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian photographers take pictures for a burnt police vehicle, after a weeklong military assault that the government said was aimed at rooting out "terrorists," in Hama city, Syria, on Wednesday Aug. 10, 2011, which has seen some of the largest anti-government protests of the 5-month-old uprising.
photo: AP / SANA
Syria unrest: US calls for wider sanctions
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for wider international sanctions on Syria as the government's violent crackdown on dissent continues. Mrs Clinton said China and India in particular could significantly increase pressure on President Bashar al-Assad because of their energy investments. She said the US did not want to call for Mr...
Police make an arrest during the second night of civil disturbances in central Birmingham, England, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011.
photo: AP / Tim Hales
UK's Cameron under pressure over cuts after riots
read more Khaleej Times
LONDON - Prime Minister David Cameron risks his government's austerity drive, particularly its plans to cut police funding, becoming the focus of Britons' fears about the future after the worst looting and rioting in decades hit English cities this week. The Conservative party leader took a hardline approach to the violence on Thursday, vowing "the...
Somalia Famine: Parents Facing Horrendous Choice
photo: UN / Stuart Price
Somalia Famine: Parents Facing Horrendous Choice
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DADAAB, Kenya — Wardo Mohamud Yusuf walked for two weeks with her 1-year-old daughter on her back and her 4-year-old son at her side to flee Somalia's drought and famine. When the boy collapsed near the end of the journey, she poured some of the little water she had on his head to cool him, but he was unconscious and could not drink. She...
Burned cars are seen during civil disturbances in Salford near Manchester, England, Tuesday, Aug. 9 2011.
photo: AP / Jon Super
British PM Cameron vows crackdown on rioters
read more The Star
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron, facing a defining crisis of his premiership, promised on Thursday to crack down on street gangs as a national priority and said rioters behind Britain's worst violence in decades would be hunted and punished. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron leaves 10 Downing Street in London August 11, 2011....
Somalis from southern Somalia carrying their belongings make their way to the refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday Aug. 11, 2011.
photo: AP / Farah Abdi Warsameh
Somali children struggle in famine-struck Mogadishu
read more Yahoo Daily News
In drought-ravaged Somalia where food is scarce, three-year-old Ibrahim is so severely malnourished he weighs less than eight kilos (18 pounds), about the same as an eight-month-old baby. "My child is very sick, he's had a fever, vomiting and got diarrhoea," said his mother Rukyo Abdullahi, sitting worriedly by her tiny son's bedside, his skin...
Riot police hold shields in front of Welsh police vans in Eltham, London, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011.
photo: AP / Matt Dunham
MPs due to return to parliament to debate riots
read more The Independent
An emergency session of Parliament will be held today to discuss the rioting and looting which has caused devastation across England and left three men who attempted to protect their community from the violence dead. MPs have been recalled to the Commons by Prime Minister David Cameron who yesterday declared a fightback against those responsible...
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'Somalia has been through a famine before – but this time is different'
In a refugee camp so big it is now Kenya's third largest city, the unfolding tragedy of Somalia is told by people forced by starvation and war to flee their homes. Words by Xan Rice. Portraits by Sven Torfinn Interactive: Somalia famine refugees tell...
photo: UN / Stuart Price
Cruel choice in famine: Which child lives?
DADAAB, -- Wardo Mohamud Yusuf walked for two weeks with her 1-year-old daughter on her back and her 4-year-old son at her side to flee 's drought and famine. When the boy collapsed near the end of the journey, she poured some of the little water she...
photo: UN / Stuart Price
Zubairu Shaba show a picture of one of his kids tested with the meningitis epidemic experimental drug and now suffering brain damage, in his home in Kano, Nigeria Thursday, July 19, 2007.
US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has begun long-awaited compensation payments to families over a 1996 drug trial blamed for the deaths of 11 children and disabilities in dozens of others. But the payments, which started on Thursday, were initially...
photo: AP / George Osodi
Cairo ready to lift state of emergency
Cairo - Egypt's cabinet said on Thursday that it has decided to end a decades-long state of emergency, a key demand of protesters who toppled Hosni Mubarak earlier this year. The...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
President Barack Obama talks with senior advisors in the Oval Office to discuss ongoing efforts in the debt limit and deficit reduction talks, Sunday, July 31, 2011.
In mid-April, the House passed Paul Ryan's Budget Plan, complete with its provision to privatise Medicare. In late May, Democrat Kathy Hochul won an upset special election in upstate New York, winning what had been over a 70 per cent GOP district...
photo: White House / Pete Souza
In this Monday, April 26, 2010 file photo, an Ultra-orthodox Jewish boy walks past a construction site in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo.
Final approval has been given for the building of 1,600 settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem by the Israeli interior ministry. The ministry is expected to approve the building of a further 2,700 homes, an official has said. This comes weeks ahead...
photo: AP / Sebastian Scheiner
Ibrahim Shegow from southern Somalia, right, watched by other relatives lowers the body of his 7 month-old boy into a grave in a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday Aug. 10 2011.
UNITED NATIONS - Ten percent of Somali children aged under five are dying every 11 weeks in the country's devastating famine, which is spreading faster than aid agencies can cope with, UN officials warned Wednesday. The envoy, Augustine Mahiga, said...
photo: AP / Farah Abdi Warsameh
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Youths walk past a car burning after it was set on fire by rioters in Hackney, east London, Monday Aug. 8, 2011. Netherlands' Wesley Sneijder Euro - Currency Specialist Peter Mazza, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Sept. 30,
A Somali man from southern Somalia cuts tree branches to construct a makeshift shelter in refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday Aug. 11, 2011. Suzuki Ichiro INDIA-PRAWN-ITEMS-FOOD-DISHIndia Prawn Items Food Dish display on the City Hotel  in Eastern India ------ WN/BHASKAR MALLICK School children in the classroom.
President Democratic Freedom Party and senior separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah (C) speaks to his supporters as he tries to reach Martyr's Graveyard, where Sheik Abdul Aziz is buried, in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 11 August 2011. Police detained Shabir Shah when he tried to come out of his residence to reach Martyr's Graveyard to offer prayers at Sheikh Abdul Aziz's grave on the anniversary of his death. Aziz, a separatist leader, was killed in a shooting incident on 11 August in 2008 in Baramulla district while leading a march to the Line of Control. India's Gautam Gambhir plays a shot as he jumps up during the third test against South Africa played in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Jan 6, 2011. Building Construction Tourists enjoying a late evening on the Banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 11 July 2011. To promote tourism in Jammu and Kashmir as state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said bringing the valleys onto the international tourist map was among the top priorities of his government.
Peru's newly sworn-in President Ollanta Humala, right, greets supporters as his wife first lady Nadine Heredia, left, applauds before the start of swearing-in ceremony for his cabinet at Government Palace in Lima, Peru, Thursday July 28, 2011. Germany's Bastian Schweinsteiger Yamaha Corporation. President Of Venezuela Hugo Chavez
In this image from television Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 and released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, streets blocked with barriers are shown in the central city of Hama, Syria. Iraq ' s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks at the Invest Iraq London 2009 conference in London. April 30 2009 Early in the morning at lovely Corniche, Abu Dhabi A member of a pro-Islamic group holds a crossed-out poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with words in Turkish that reads "dictator Mubarak, get out of Egypt " as people demonstrate in show of solidarity with protestors in Egypt, outside the Fatih Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011.
Anti-government protesters, holding a placard with a photo of British Prime Minister David Cameron, gather behind members of the media as they wait outside the Portcullis House, adjacent to the Houses of Parliament in central London, Tuesday July 19, 2011. Australia's Shane Watson acknowledges the crowd after scoring a century during their second one-day international cricket match against Bangladesh in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, April 11, 2011. Australia won the first match of the three-game series on Saturday. Australian dollar -  Dollars - Aussie Currency Dog - Pet - Animal
 
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