Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing as he leaves after celebrating Christmas Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011.
photo: AP / Andrew Medichini
Pope Benedict condemns commercialisation of Christmas during midnight mass at St Peter's
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Christmas celebrations have officially got underway with Pope Benedict XVI holding a midnight mass service at a packed St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. The Pontiff used the ceremony to condemn the 'superficial glitter' that now surrounds the holiday, urging the faithful to instead discover its true meaning. The traditional service began with a...
Libya celebrates 60th anniversary of independence day for the 1st time in decades
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Libya celebrates 60th anniversary of independence day for the 1st time in decades
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — For the first time in more than four decades, Libyans on Saturday celebrated the 60th anniversary of the country's independence from Italy and France. Under Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year rule, the celebration was scrapped and instead, only the 1969 date of his coup was marked. "Today we begin the building of Libya as our...
Protesters gather to protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia's parliamentary elections on Sakharov avenue in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011.
photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr
Moscow protests put heat on Russia leader Vladimir Putin
read more The Australian
TENS of thousands of opposition supporters have massed in Moscow to protest the alleged rigging of parliamentary polls, stepping up their challenge to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin's authority. The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dramatically called on Putin to quit, just as he had done when the USSR collapsed exactly two decades ago,...
Mourners pray at a mass funeral Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011 for 44 people killed in twin suicide bombings that targeted intelligence agency compounds in Damascus, Syria.
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi
Mourning Syrians rally for Assad, U.N. condemns bombs
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Funerals for 44 people killed in twin suicide car bombs in Damascus turned into a show of support for President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday, with thousands of mourners denouncing the United States and its Arab allies for interfering in Syria. Men pray next to the coffins of people killed at security sites on Friday in two car...
File - Florence Thompson with several of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother", during the Great Depression, 1936.
photo: US Library of Congress / Dorothea Lange
Does America Need a New Deal for Christmas?
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Right before the catastrophic stock market crash of 1929, I can just imagine capitalists and corporate executives sitting around their dinner tables, well supplied and overly abundant with the finest foods and wines, and praying: "God is great, Greed is good..." Even President Herbert Hoover, who was...
People stand at the site of a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Syrian bombers attack intelligence agencies
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Damascus, Syria -- Two car bombers blew themselves up Friday outside the heavily guarded compounds of Syria's intelligence agencies, killing at least 44 people and wounding dozens more in a brazen attack on the powerful security directorates, authorities said. State-run television said the al Qaeda terrorist network was possibly to blame for the...
File - A North Korean soldier observes the South at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul.
photo: US Army / Edward N. Johnson
What's the plan if North Korea collapses?
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North Korea appears to be making an orderly transition after the death of leader Kim Jong-il last week, but the risk of collapse is higher than before and regional powers need to start discussing that contingency with China, diplomats and analysts say. The problem is China refuses to contemplate any unraveling of North Korea which has nuclear...
Cuba's President Raul Castro speaks to students during his visit to the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 20
photo: AP / Javier Galeano
Cuba to release 2,900 prisoners
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba will release 2,900 prisoners in the coming days for humanitarian reasons in a sweeping amnesty ahead of a visit next spring by Pope Benedict XVI, the Cuban government said on Friday. Those to be pardoned do not include American Alan Gross, serving 15 years in prison for setting up Internet equipment on the island under a...
New elected Tunisian President, Moncef Marzoukii, center, speak with unemployed people during the celebration for the first anniversary of the revolution, in Sidi Bouzid, central Tunisia, Saturday, Dec 17, 2011.
photo: AP / Hassene Dridi
Tunisian constituent assembly approves new cabinet
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Tunisia's constituent assembly has given clear approval to a cabinet proposed by the new Prime Minister, Hamadi Jebali. The assembly was elected in October, with the moderate Islamist...
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the lawmakers of his Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Erdogan called on Libyan authorities to be sensitive toward the safety of foreigners as his governments scrambled to send planes and ships to pick up their citizens stranded by Libya's bloody unrest on Tuesday, with thousands of Turks crowding into a stadium to await evacuation
photo: AP
Turkey accuses France of genocide in Algeria
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Turkey has responded to French genocide allegations with a charge of its own, accusing France of committing genocide during its colonial occupation of Algeria. Turkey's accusation on Friday, comes a day after French legislators voted to outlaw denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, now threatening to cause a huge...
So here's a story of good cheer. I've just completed 21 interviews on Turkish radio, television...
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...
 
Christian priests hold the Christmas midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem early Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011.
BETHLEHEM, Palestine -- Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal - the Catholic church's top spiritual leader in the Holy Land - on Saturday led the procession on the eight-kilometer (about 5-mile) road from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. For the Christmas...
photo: AP / Majdi Mohammed, Pool
Members of Syrian security chant slogans and raise their weapons at the site of a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011.
Residents in the Syrian city of Homs are calling for western intervention, as activists say the area has come under renewed attack from forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Residents told Al Jazeera on Saturday that army tanks were shelling the...
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Buddhist spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet during a teaching ceremony at the main Tibetan temple in Dharamshala, India, 19th December 2011.
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Dharamsala, India: - The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, has expressed his sadness and concern over the recent flooding in the Philippines that killed more than a...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
The flag draped coffin of late former Czech President Vaclav Havel, stands among flower tributes and medal decorations during a state funeral attended by many foreign dignitaries at St. Vitus' Cathedral in Prague on Friday Dec. 23, 2011.
Dozens of leaders from all over the world were in Prague to attend the state funeral of the dissident writer, who helped to lead Czechozlovakia through the "velvet revolution" to freedom in 1989. The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton,...
photo: AP / Michal Cizek
Egyptian protesters shout anti-military ruling council slogans during a protest at Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt Friday, Dec. 23, 2011.
Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Protests calling for an end to military rule broadened from Cairo to other cities on Friday as thousands turned out in anger at widely circulated images of...
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Britain's Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, walks by war veterans during a ceremony for the Opening of the Field of Remembrance, on the grounds of the Wesminster Abbey, in central London, Thursday Nov. 9, 2006. The ceremony is part of events to honour Britain's war dead and those who sacrificed their lives for their country
PRINCE Philip had heart surgery on Friday to relieve a blocked artery after suffering chest pains as the Royal family prepared for Christmas. The Queen’s husband was rushed from Sandringham, the royal estate in rural Norfolk, to the top cardiac unit...
photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
Silicone gel-filled breast implants
Interpol has said it is seeking arrest of the founder of a French firm at the centre of a global breast implants scare. The international police agency listed Jean-Claude Mas, aged 72, as being being sought in...
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters gathered in front of his Justice and Development Party headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, late Sunday, June 12, 2011. Brazil's Neymar sits on the ground during a Copa America group B soccer match against Paraguay in Cordoba, Argentina, Saturday, July 9, 2011. Neymar was substituted and the match ended in a 2-2 draw. Traders watch market activity at the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010 in New York 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.
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. A unitload vehicle for delivering steel plates (blanks). AGVs are a preferred method of moving materials in the pharmaceutical industry. 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.
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.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivers her speech at the 2nd Australia China Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum and Prime Ministerial Dinner at a hotel in Beijing Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Australia and China signed a series of cooperation agreements on Tuesday at the start of a visit by Gillard intended to strengthen ties and smooth over recent spats with her country's top export market. Venus Williams of the U.S. puts her hands up to celebrate, after thinking she had won, before a line judge called the ball out as she plays Andrea Petkovic of Germany at the Eastbourne international grass court tournament in Eastbourne, England, Monday, June, 13, 2011.  KLps1 - Sydney Opera House - Sydney - Australia - Travel - Tourism. (ps1) Henna tattoo -tattoo -art
 

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