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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks to supporters at his election watch party after winning the Michigan primary in Novi, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Romney wins Michigan and Arizona
| Mitt Romney's tentative hold on the status of GOP front-runner received a significant boost with victory in Michigan, where he won his native state and fought off a spirited challenge from Rick Sant... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert) The Los Angeles Times
Mit Romney   Photos   Politics   US   Wikipedia: United States presidential election, 2012  
Fire trucks and emergency vehicles are parked near the Pentagon Building as firefighters conduct rescue operation hours after American Airlines Fight 77 was piloted by terrorists into the building, during the September 11, 2001 attacks. (Substandard image Pentagon: Some 9/11 victims' remains dumped in landfill
| WASHINGTON - Some cremated remains of people who were killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were disposed of in a landfill, the Pentagon revealed Tuesday, tracing the problems with the handling o... (photo: US DoD) Seattle Times
Attack   Pentagon   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: September 11 attacks  
Two Occupy London protesters look on from the middle of the road outside St Paul's Cathedral in London after bailiffs moved in to remove tents from the Occupy London camp, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Occupy London protesters evicted from St Paul's site
| Some of those who decided to stay at the campsite in defiance of a High Court order built barricades, while others sat on the steps of Sir Christopher Wren's cathedral as the paraphernalia of their ... (photo: AP / Sang Tan) The Independent
Economy   London   Photos   Protest   Wikipedia: Occupy London  
An undated picture made available by the Costa Crociere press office showing the Costa Allegra cruise ship. The Italian coast guard says a fire has broken out on an the Costa Allegra cruise ship off the Seychelles islands, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, and the ship is adrift, but the passengers are safe. Costa cruise ship adrift off Seychelles
| AFP - An Italian cruise ship from the same fleet as the tragedy-struck Costa Concordia was adrift on Tuesday in pirate-infested seas off the Seychelles with no power and with more than 1,000 people ... (photo: AP / Costa Crociere) France24
Cruise   Maritime   Photos   Travel   Wikipedia: MS Allegra  
A protesting truck driver hold a Greek flag as he protests in front of Riot police outside the Greek parliament in central Athens, on Friday, July 30, 2010. Greek debt downgraded again
| Ratings firm Standard & Poor's has declared Greece in "selective default" after banks agreed to write off more than half of their Greek debt holdings in a second EU bailout of the country. | The... (photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris) Al Jazeera
Debt   Economy   Greece   Photos   Wikipedia: Greek government debt crisis  
A man holds up a child during a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's regime in the outskirts of Idlib, northern Syria, Sunday Feb. 26, 2012. Syria approves constitution amid bloodshed
Amman - Syrian artillery pounded rebel-held areas of Homs on Monday as President Bashar al-Assad's government announced that voters had overwhelmingly approved a new constitution in a referendum derid... (photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd) Independent online
Democracy   Photos   Syria   Violence   Wikipedia: 20112012 Syrian uprising  
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