Local residents sit on the footpath following 5.8-magnitude quake which struck north Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011.
photo: AP / New Zealand Herald, Geoff Sloan
New Zealand's Christchurch struck by earthquake
read more London Evening Standard
A series of strong earthquakes struck Christchurch, New Zealand, today, rattling buildings, sending goods tumbling from shelves and prompting terrified Christmas shoppers to flee into the streets. There was no tsunami alert issued and the city appeared to have been spared major damage. One person was injured at a city mall and four people had to be...
File - An F-15E Strike Eagle roars into the sky Oct. 6, 2011, over Afghanistan.
photo: USAF / Tech Sgt. Matthew Hecht
US accepts some blame for Nato strike that killed Pakistani troops
read more The Independent
While placing blame on both sides, the US report apparently accepts that American and Afghan commandos were wrong when they concluded there were no Pakistani troops in the area where they were conducting an operation. When the troops came under fire, they called in an airstrike from F-15 fighter bombers, Apache attack helicopters and an AC-130...
People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011.
photo: AP / Karim Kadim
Iraq: Hashemi blames PM Maliki for Baghdad blasts
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Iraq's Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi has said Prime Minister Nouri Maliki is to blame for a sudden surge of violence in the country. Dozens of people were killed in a string of blasts...
Speaker of the House John Boehner of Ohio speaks at a news conference to announce an agreement for a 2-month extension to the payroll tax cut on Capitol Hill Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, in Washington.
photo: AP / Evan Vucci
Payroll tax deadlock ends as House caves
read more The Guardian
LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Thursday caved to demands by President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats and fellow Republicans for a short-term renewal of payroll tax cuts for all workers. The breakthrough almost certainly spares workers an average $20 a week tax increase Jan. 1. After days of wrangling...
A Tanzanian, left, is rescued by a life saver, right, in yellow jacket in flood water following fresh flood in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011.
photo: AP / Khalfan Said
Floods wreak havoc in Tanzania
read more Al Jazeera
At least 23 people have been killed in the worst floods to hit the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam in 50 years, officials have said. "The tragedy has left at least 23 people dead and 4,909 displaced," Said Meck Sadick, Dar es Salaam's regional commissioner told the AFP news agency on Thursday, warning that the death toll could rise. Businesses...
Iraqi security forces and people inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011.
photo: AP / Hadi Mizban
Iraq tensions rise after deadly Baghdad bombings
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Baghdad - A string of deadly bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Thursday have triggered fears that the country is sliding toward a civil war after US troops completed their withdrawal. More than 70 people were killed in the apparently coordinated bombings that hit mostly Shiite neighbourhoods in the morning rush hour. Shops were closed and...
File - Fleeing drought and famine in their home country, thousands of Somalis have taken up residence at refugee camps across the border.
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
Quest for survival: Thousands flee war, famine, chaos in Somalia
read more Middle East Online
When famine ravaged southern Somalia earlier this year, camel herder Ibrahim Mohamed refused to join the thousands fleeing for help, vowing to stay on in his homeland to save his dying animals. But after Islamist Shebab gunmen stole his last two camels to have survived the drought and then ordered him to join their militia, he had no choice but to...
File - U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Alpi Reyes, who is from the Dominican Republic, waits for his ride on Combat Outpost Herrera, Paktia Province, Afghanistan.
photo: US Army / Spc. Ken Scar
Fighting one per cent wars
read more Al Jazeera
- America's wars are remote. They're remote from us geographically, remote from us emotionally (unless you're serving in the military or have a close relative or friend who serves), and remote from our major media outlets, which have given us no compelling narrative about them, except that they're being fought by "America's heroes" against...
Pro-regime protesters chant slogans during a rally at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Arab League team due in Syria
read more Irish Times
Arab League officials are due in Syria today to prepare for monitors overseeing a peace plan, after activists said government forces carried out the deadliest assault in their nine-month crackdown on protests. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian forces killed 111 civilians and activists were killed on Tuesday when president Bashar...
File - Women shrouded in black cross street against backdrop of imposing " revolution monument", in Baghdad, Iraq, a modernistic 150' long frieze of 14 groups in low relief bronze created by Iraq's late sculpture painter Jawad Saleem.
photo: AP
Wave of bombings across Iraqi capital kills 18
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BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of blasts Thursday morning in Baghdad killed at least 18 people and injured dozens more in a coordinated attack designed to wreak havoc across the Iraqi capital. The blasts were the worst violence to hit the country since a political crisis between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite factions erupted this weekend. The political spat,...
Let's celebrate the end of an eventful 2011 with a fable. Once upon a time in the young 21st...
A charity he set up in the 1990s restored the buildings, and the church found a new use as a...
If foreign intelligence agencies have learned one thing about North Korea, it is to pay...
 
Dr. Maurice Mimoun, a plastic surgeon at the St Louis hospital, holds a silicone gel breast implant made by French company Poly Implant Prothese, or PIP, that he removed from a patient because of concerns that they are unsafe, Paris, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011.
PARISTens of thousands of women with risky, French-made breast implants should have them removed at the state's expense, the health minister recommended Friday, adding that such removals were "preventive" and not urgent. While implants made...
photo: AP / Michel Euler
Nigeria oil spill
LAGOS/LONDON (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities were putting emergency measures in place on Thursday to prevent an oil spill from a Royal Dutch Shell facility, the biggest leak in Nigeria for more than 13 years, washing up on its densely populated...
photo: AP / Charlie Riedel
File - The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh arriving at the Full Planning Commission Meeting on the Issues for Approach to the 12th Five Year Plan,, in New Delhi on April 21, 2011.
Indian PM Manmohan Singh has said that criticism of government policies by the country's business leaders was hurting economic growth. Mr Singh told a meeting of businessmen that was disappointed to hear that government policies were to blame for the...
photo: PIB of India
Pakistani Prime Minister Raza Yousuf Gilani, center, gestures while talking to members of Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 7, 2011.
PAKISTAN'S embattled Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said conspirators were plotting to bring down his government and delivered an unprecedented tirade against the powerful military. In astonishing confirmation that he fears being ousted,...
photo: AP / Fareed Khan
A federal police agent stands guard outside the federal police office where a group of top officials from the Mexican central state of Michoacan are detained due to their alleged ties to La Familia drug cartel, in Mexico City, Saturday May 30, 2009.
MEXICO CITY — At least 11 people were killed by an armed gang on Thursday in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz, where drug-related violence flared this autumn, before five gunmen were shot dead by security forces. Only on msnbc.com...
photo: AP / Marco Ugarte
This May 31, 2007 file photo, shows a view of the LHC (large hadron collider)
AP European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) scientists control computer screens showing traces on Atlas experiment of the first protons injected in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) during its switch on operation in CERN's control room, near Geneva,...
photo: AP / Keystone, Martial Trezzini
Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki talking with people in Baghdad
REBUFFING a plea by the US administration, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has signalled that he is ready to drop his main coalition partner, the largely Sunni Iraqiya bloc, and move towards a government run solely by Shiite parties. At a news...
photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny
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Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda bows as he is elected as the new leader of the Democratic Party of Japan at a voting by the party lawmakers in Tokyo Monday, Aug 29, 2011. Santos' soccer player Neymar, of Brazil, gestures during an interview in Santos, Brazil, Saturday Oct. 15, 2011. The Maersk Sealand ship "Sealand Commitment" is seen loading and unloading containers Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2000 at Massport's Conley Terminal in Boston. A vegetable farm - agriculture - farming - India
File - Southern Sudan rebel leader George Athor, looks on during a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011. Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde, right, speaks with Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos during a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa Pursue Steadily Stronger Economic and Political Ties - New Report In this Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 picture a caretaker looks after a baby girl in the Siaya hospital in Western Kenya. The girl was found abandoned in the street and suffering with malaria. A new vaccine being tested at the hospital is giving the medical community hope that for the first time it will soon be able to reduce by half the number of African children killed by the mosquito-borne disease every year.
File - Venezuelan Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal, left, sits in a Paris courtroom in this Nov. 28 2000 photo, with his French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, right. Arsenal's Thomas Vermaelen, left, reacts as Liverpool's Raul Meireles, centre, and Luis Suarez, right, celebrate after the opening goal during their English Premier League soccer match against Liverpool at the Emirates stadium, London, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. Liverpool took the lead after an own goal. Brazil lawsuit against Chevron may scare investors Spectators watch FIFA President Sepp Blatter during a live viewing of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts announcement, at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels, Thursday Dec. 2, 2010.
People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. File - U.S. Army Spc. Brad Cook, an infantryman from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, provides security during a mission in Fara Shia, Iraq, Feb. 8, 2008. In this file photo taken Wednesday April 23, 2003 engineer Ali Hussein steps around crude oil that has leaked from a pipe at the K-1 pumping station near the Babagurgur oil fields in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Iraq's capital Baghdad. Early in the morning at lovely Corniche, Abu Dhabi
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar speaks during the concluding press conference for Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth, Australia, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. India's captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni throws a ball for a catching drill during a practice session in Kingston, Jamaica, Saturday June 18, 2011. The first Test of the three-match series between India and the West Indies starts on Monday.  A child walks away from a store selling Fisher-Price toys in Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007. China said it would work with the United States to improve product safety amid a massive U.S. recall by Fisher-Price of 1 million plastic preschool toys A shop selling variety designs of treadmill for exercise was seen at a mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
 

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