A Somali woman pours water on a smouldering body at the scene of an explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011.
photo: AP / Farah Abdi Warsameh
Somalia Truck Bomb: Explosion Kills At Least 70 In Capital
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MOGADISHU, SomaliaIslamist militants detonated a truck bomb Tuesday in front of the education ministry in Somalia's capital, killing at least 70 people and wounding dozens, a rescue official said. Among the dead were students and parents. It was the biggest attack in Somalia's capital since the al-Qaida-linked group known as al-Shabab...
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, right, shakes hands with India's Junior Minister for Foreign Affairs E Ahamed upon his arrival at the airport in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011.
photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi
Karzai in India on crucial visit
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Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has arrived in New Delhi on a two-day visit described by India as an opportunity for both countries to consolidate their strategic partnership and discuss bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual concern. Tuesday's visit comes against a backdrop of shifting relations in the region.  During...
Libyan revolutionary fighters assemble missiles during an attack for the city of Sirte, Libya, Monday, Oct. 3, 2011.
photo: AP / Bela Szandelszky
Humanitarian fears grow over Libya Sirte battle
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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan interim government forces have captured a district in Sirte after fierce battles that further raised concern about the dire humanitarian situation in Muammar Gaddafi's besieged hometown. Government forces who had for weeks been pinned down by artillery and rocket fire on the eastern edges of Sirte were able to...
Amanda Knox cries after hearing the verdict that overturns her conviction and acquits her of murdering her British roomate Meredith Kercher, at the Perugia court, Italy, Monday Oct. 3, 2011.
photo: AP / Tiziana, Pool
Italy appeals court clears Knox of murder
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Amanda Knox left prison Monday, a free woman for the first time in four years, after an Italian appeals court threw out the young American’s murder conviction for the brutal stabbing death of her British roommate after a drug-fuelled sexual assault. Knox, 24, collapsed in tears after the verdict was read, a stunning reversal in a sensational...
The media focusses on the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, prior to the start of the Eurogroup ministers meeting in Luxembourg, Monday Oct. 3, 2011.
photo: AP / Yves Logghe
Greece debt default ruled out
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A senior European official has said eurozone members are not pushing to allow Greece to default as had been rumoured. Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, also said early on Tuesday that there was no suggestion that Greece would leave the eurozone. Greece's sovereign debt crisis has threatened the union of 17 nations who use...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, May 31, 2011.
photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
Karzai 'accuses Pakistan of double game' over militants
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in a thinly veiled attack on Pakistan, has said a "double game" is being played in the fight against militants. In a televised speech, Mr Karzai said Islamabad had not co-operated on security issues in Afghanistan "which is disappointing for us". He said he would convene a loya jirga (Afghan assembly) following the...
File - "The damaged Blow Out Preventer (BOP), along with the Lower Marine Riser Package (LMRP) Cap, have been removed from the Gulf of Mexico and are currently on board the Q4000. The BOP is considered evidentiary material, and is now under the supervision of the Deepwater Horizon Criminal Investigation Team and FBI Evidence Recovery Team." - National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen.
photo: USCG / PO1 Thomas M. Blue
The escalation of BP's liability
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"If you got caught humping another woman - [if] you're both naked and caught in the act - you'd want BP to explain to your wife how it didn't happen." This colorful analogy was proposed by Dean Blanchard, a seafood distributor on Grand Isle, Louisiana, to explain oil giant BP's continuing machinations to evade liability in the aftermath of the...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the the Islamic Republic of Iran, addresses the general debate of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly, 22 September, 2011.
photo: UN / JC McIlwaine
Like Socrates, Did Ahmadinejad Question the State Religion?
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. At Socrates' trial, Athenians seethed with anger and jealous rage. He had questioned Pericles's Golden Age of Athens. Along with criticizing Athenian lifestyles, ideals, values, and even the gods, Socrates questioned Pericles's limited democracy and Athens' wealth and greatness. How dare Socrates...
Amanda Knox arrives for an appeal hearing at the Perugia court, central Italy, Monday, Oct. 3, 2011.
photo: AP / Stefano Medici
'I am innocent' Amanda Knox tells Italian court
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Amanda Knox made a heartfelt plea for freedom today telling an appeal court she was innocent of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. American Knox declared: "I have paid with my life for things I did not commit." Knox, 24, said she was betrayed by the Italian authorities after the killing of her flatmate in Perugia, Italy, in November...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen during his bilateral meeting with President Barack Obama at the UN Building, Wednesday, Sept., 21, 2011.
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks: Netanyahu Welcomes Quartet's Plan, With Reservations
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's government welcomed on Sunday parts of an international proposal to resume long-stalled peace talks with the Palestinians but said it had concerns about the plan. The plan by Mideast mediators, known as the Quartet, calls for a peace deal in a year and asks both sides to produce comprehensive proposals on territory and...
In the last weeks my new book The Wandering Who has received incredible support from some of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five months of successful strikes against al Qaeda leaders reflect an...
 
U.S. Army Spc. Michael Bartolo, foreground, a grenadier attached to Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team, and Afghan National Army soldiers conduct a combat patrol to sweep for roadside bomb triggermen in the Alingar district of Laghman province, Afghanistan, Aug. 8, 2011.
SLOBODAN LEKIC Associated Press= BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO defense ministers meet Wednesday and they are expected to discuss ways of ending the alliance's aerial campaign in Libya and training Afghan security forces for a larger role in their country's...
photo: USAF / Staff Sgt. Ryan Crane
Amanda Knox, right, arrives from Rome with family members at Heathrow Airport London, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011.
American student Amanda Knox headed for home today after spending four years in an Italian jail, leaving the family of Meredith Kercher to express their anguish at being no closer to the truth about her murder. Knox left Rome shortly before midday...
photo: AP
2000/06/22 Evidence for Recent Liquid Water on Mars:"Weeping" Layer in Gorgonum Chaos - This image, acquired by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) in May 2000 shows numerous examples of martian gullies that all start--or he
WASHINGTON: Scientists have discovered that the upper atmosphere of Mars contains up to a hundred times more water than previously thought, a finding they say could change our understanding of the Martian climate. The discovery, published in the...
photo: NASA/JPL/MSSS file
Residents inspect damage caused by an arson attack on a mosque in the Bedouin Arab village of Tuba-Zangariyye, northern Israel, Monday, Oct, 3. 2011.
Reporting from Jerusalem—   Jewish extremists are suspected of torching a mosque in a northern Israeli town Monday, the latest in a string of anti-Arab attacks that have enraged Palestinians and alarmed Israeli security officials....
photo: AP / Oded Balilty
Europe Must Fight Back Against US-UK Speculative Attacks
The speculative attack by Wall Street and City of London banks and hedge funds against European countries, European banks, and the euro is now reaching a crescendo. The current European crisis does not derive primarily from economic fundamentals, but...
photo: European Community / EC
File - Jan Watson with AARP speaks Friday, July 29, 2011, during a protest outside the downtown office building where U.S. Sens. Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski have offices in Anchorage, Alaska.
As its people suffer as they haven't since the Great Depression, the United States' political elites have turned away from thinking about real human suffering in the name of a pious concern with the abstraction of fighting "deficits". But if that...
photo: AP / (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Tennzin Gyatso with security personals during a 4-day teachings the main Tibetan temple in Dharamshala, India, 01 October 2011.
ANI Posted On Monday, October 03, 2011 at 12:13:08 PM...
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The media focusses on the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, prior to the start of the Eurogroup ministers meeting in Luxembourg, Monday Oct. 3, 2011. Brazil forward Neymar, right, holds off U.S. midfielder Alejandro Bedoya during the first half of an exhibition soccer match Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, at New Meadowands Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Brazil won 2-0 Pedestrians pass outside the headquarters of Greece's General Accounting Office in Athens on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. Employees at the agency joined Greek customs officials in walking off the job Tuesday, for a three-day strike to protest government austerity measures designed to pull the country out of a debt crisis that has shaken the entire eurozone. A poster notifying the public about the strike is taped on the door.Pedestrians pass outside the headquarters of Greece's General Accounting Office in Athens on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. Employees at the agency joined Greek customs officials in walking off the job Tuesday, for a three-day strike to protest government austerity measures designed to pull the country out of a debt crisis that has shaken the entire eurozone. A poster notifying the public about the strike is taped on the door. Firemen secure a way in the village of Onna near L' Aquila, Italy, on the eve of the G8 Summit, Tuesday, July 7 2009. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Sivio Berlusconi are scheduled to visit this village three months after a devastating earthquake on Wednesday. Leaders of the Group of Eight will push for common positions on promoting democracy in Iran, combatting climate change and coordinating their exits from huge government stimulus measures, even amid a growing sense that the group's pre-eminence may be fading.
Internally displaced Libyans flee from the city of Sirte, Libya, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2011. Egypt's during match their 2012 African Cup of Nations qualifying soccer match against South Africa at Military stadium in Cairo, June 5, 2011. Defending champions Egypt were all but eliminated from the African Nations Cup qualifying campaign after being held to a 0-0 draw by South Africa in Cairo on Sunday. File - Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai attends a memorial service at a local church held to remember those killed during Zimbabwe's election violence, in Harare, Wednesday, April, 6, 2011. Phone hacking often involves unauthorized access to the voicemail of a mobile phone. Phone hacking is a form of surveillance, and is illegal in many countries unless it is carried out as lawful interception by a government agency.
Actor Sean Penn looks on during a news conference lobbying the state of California to recognize Harvey Milk Day in San Francisco, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Penn won an Oscar for his portrayal of Milk, one of San Francisco's first openly gay politicians. Argentina's Javier Pastore practices during a training session ahead the Copa America in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, June 23, 2011. Argentina will host the Copa America soccer tournament from July 1 to July 24. Bolivia's President Evo Morales gestures during a press conference at the presidential palace in La Paz, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009. Bolivians could approve, in a referendum on Sunday, a new constitution proposed by Morales and opposed by the a majority of the middle and upper clas Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen is seen during a press conference in Madrid, Tuesday, March 20, 2007. Bundchen is in Madrid to promote a new collection of shoes that support the 'Y Ikatu Xingu, Pure Xingu Water' campaign for protection of Brazilian environmental diversity.
Tony Blair, Special Envoy of the Middle East Quartet speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009 at United Nations headquarters. Defected army soldiers gather on a vehicle as they guard protestors during a demonstration to demand the resignation of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. A Total fuel station, located Along Percival street in Freetown. LIBYA: Overstretched health service needs sustained support
President of South Africa Addresses High-Level Meeting to Commemorate 10th Anniversary of Durban Declaration West Indian fast bowler Courtney Walsh, spokesman for the striking West Indian Test Cricketers, says he believes that the dispute over pay with the West Indian Cricket Board will be resolved, Sunday as he spoke to the media at a hotel near London's Heathrow Airport, Saturday November 7 1998. The West Indian team had been due to fly out for a cricket tour of South Africa, when dispute the occured. Sugar should be taken in small quantity to maintain normal blood glucose level. Seabirds LC0141
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