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This past summer, Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, told a magazine how he’d practice the opaque dialect known as “Fed speak” in his nearly two...
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Secret details of Alexander Litvinenko’s life as a British intelligence agent were revealed yesterday at a preparatory hearing into the poisoned former KGB officer’s death. The...
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Posted: December 12, 2012 Juventus defender Leonardo Bonucci has been fined and banned for one Italian Serie A match after he attempted to deceive the referee into giving his side...

President Barack Obama wipes his eye as he talks about the Connecticut elementary school shooting, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, in the White House briefing room in Washington.
Washington: In a rare show of wrenching emotion, US President Barack Obama wiped tears from his face and choked on his words as he spoke to reporters at the White House on Friday in a live televised broadcast after a deadly mass shooting at an...
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster
Parents leave a staging area after being reunited with their children following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of New York City, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012.
More than two dozen people, mostly elementary school children, were shot and killed at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school this morning, federal and state sources tell ABC News....
photo: AP / Jessica Hill
Tropical cyclone Floyd over the Timor Sea, 2006. The International Hydro graphic Organization (IHO) defines the Timor Sea as being one of the waters of the East Indian Archipelago.
SYDNEY (AP) — A powerful cyclone has ripped through the South Pacific island nation of Samoa, flattening homes, uprooting trees and flooding streets. New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully said on Friday that there were reports three...
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UN Ambassador Susan Rice listens at right as President Barack Obama speaks before a meeting with his cabinet, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington.
Susan Rice is U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. On Thursday I asked that President Obama no longer consider me for the job of secretary of state. I made because it is the right step for this country I love. I have never shied away from a fight...
photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin
New Ukrainian Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov speaks to lawmakers in parliament, Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, March 11, 2010.
THE Ukrainian parliament has voted to reinstate its prime minister after dozens of opposition and pro-government lawmakers brawled for a second day in the chamber notorious for its fisticuffs. Newly elected world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko...
photo: AP / Sergei Chuzavkov
Police officers stand guard the entrance to Argentina's Tigre's dressing room after a fight among teams' members at the end of the first half of the Copa Sudamericana final soccer match against Brazil's Sao Paulo FC in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012.
Brazilian authorities on Thursday began investigations into allegations that security personnel beat members of a visiting Argentine football club at the halftime of the Copa Sudamericana. South American football officials described it as the most...
photo: AP / Andre Penner
From right, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin's Chief of Staff Sergei Ivanov and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev walk after Putin's state-of-the nation address in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin criticized US legislation designed to punish Russian violators of human rights on Thursday but said Moscow’s reaction should not be excessive. The US Senate last week approved a bill that would require...
photo: AP / RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service
updated 15 Dec 2012; published 15 Dec 2012
4:10
Connecticut Shooting: Sandy Hook Elementary Teacher Kaitlin Roig Protected Her Students
CNN 15 Dec 2012, December 15, 2012 -- Updated 0947 GMT (1747 HKT) Newtown, Connecticut (CNN) -- The bodies of children and educators lay where they fell in a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school -- in classrooms and hallways -- as investigators worked to identity the dead early Saturday while piecing together the path of the gunman. Twenty children and six...

updated 14 Dec 2012; published 14 Dec 2012
3:38
Tsunami victims on Japan's election
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 15 Dec 2012, TOKYO -- The Japanese voters who Sunday will elect a new government are loyal to no party and frustrated with each of the recent leaders to hold power. They are political pessimists facing a choice among a ruling party with an approval rating in the teens, an unreformed opposition party that was booted out only three years ago and a raft of minor...

updated 15 Dec 2012; published 15 Dec 2012
4:10
Connecticut Shooting: Sandy Hook Elementary Teacher Kaitlin Roig Protected Her Students
Jakarta Globe 15 Dec 2012, Newtown, Conn. Twenty schoolchildren were slaughtered by a heavily armed gunman who opened fire at a suburban elementary school in Connecticut on Friday, ultimately killing at least 27 people including himself in the one of the worst mass shootings in US history. The 20-year-old gunman, identified by law enforcement sources as Adam Lanza, fired...

updated 14 Dec 2012; published 30 Nov 2012
4:51
Tahrir reacts to Egypt's draft constitution
Khaleej Times 15 Dec 2012, Egyptians vote Saturday on a new constitution supported by the ruling Islamists but bitterly contested by a secular-leaning opposition that failed to scupper the referendum with mass protests. Polls open at 8:00 am (0600 GMT) in Cairo, Alexandria and eight other provinces and are scheduled to close at 7:00 pm in the first round. The rest of the...

updated 15 Dec 2012; published 15 Dec 2012
1:48
News Wrap: US Contributes Troops, Missiles for Turkey
The Inquisitr 15 Dec 2012, Posted: December 14, 2012 Several Scud missiles that were fired at rebels by the Syrian government landed “fairly close” to the Turkish border, according to NATO’s top military commander. The comments came from a blog on Friday, which explained why Patriot anti-missile batteries are being sent to Turkey, reports Reuters. The comments on Syrian...

updated 04 Aug 2012; published 02 Feb 2011
10:54
Congo Refugees - Life in Limbo 1 of 2 - BBC Documntary
BBC News 15 Dec 2012, Humanitarian workers have warned of a sharp rise in refugees in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo as a result of recent fighting. The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)...

updated 13 Dec 2012; published 12 Dec 2012
2:07
Britain boosts military aid to Syria 11.12.12
The Times of India 14 Dec 2012, BEIRUT: Desperation for food is growing in parts of Syria, where fist fights or dashes across the civil war front lines have become part of the daily struggle to secure a loaf of bread. Conditions are especially dire in the northern city of Aleppo, where civilians enduring incessant clashes and air raids in rebel-held districts say hunger is a new...

updated 13 Dec 2012; published 12 Oct 2012
2:04
Walmart Black-Friday Walkout: Workers Protest Labor Practices Threaten Big Shopping Day
Al Jazeera 14 Dec 2012, Former President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, meet 55-year-old Martha Sellers. For the past nine years, Sellers has worked as a Walmart cashier in Paramount, California. On November 23, the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States, while most television hosts were asking...

updated 13 Dec 2012; published 09 Dec 2012
2:26
Hamas' Meshaal vows to 'continue resistance'
The Independent 14 Dec 2012, The green banners of Hamas were openly raised at Nablus on the West Bank as thousands gathered for the militant Islamist group's first permitted rally in the West Bank in five years, a sign of a thaw in a bitter split with Fatah, the faction that dominates the Palestinian Authority. Police observed but did not interfere in the celebration of...

updated 14 Dec 2012; published 12 Dec 2012
5:17
Open War? Obama backs Syria rebels 'infiltrated with terrorists'
CNTV 14 Dec 2012, One of Syria's key allies has admitted for the first time the Assad regime is losing the 20-month ground war. Russia’s deputy foreign minister’s comments are significant because Russia has blocked action to stem the violence, supplied weapons to the Assad regime, and vetoed three UN resolutions -- even as other countries called for Assad to step...

updated 14 Dec 2012; published 12 Dec 2012
5:55
North Korea launches long-range Unha-3 rocket despite warnings
BBC News 14 Dec 2012, North Koreans have gathered in Pyongyang for a mass rally to celebrate Wednesday's long-range rocket launch. State television showed huge crowds cheering to mark the launch, which has been condemned by many nations as a banned test of missile technology. South Korea, meanwhile, says it has retrieved debris from the rocket and will study it to...

updated 14 Dec 2012; published 14 Dec 2012
3:03
Susan Rice Withdraws From Consideration for Secretary of State
The Examiner 14 Dec 2012, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice abruptly withdrew her name from consideration for the position of Secretary of State on Thursday. Rice informed President Barack Obama in a letter. “I am highly honored to be considered by you for appointment as secretary of state,” Rice said in the letter. “I am fully confident that I could serve our country ably and...

updated 19 Nov 2012; published 17 Nov 2012
0:53
West Bank holds rallies over Gaza raids
Deutsche Welle 14 Dec 2012, Hamas has staged a rally in the West Bank, the territory of its rival, Fatah. It is the first time that the former has been able to do so in five years. Hamas, the Islamist organization that governs the Gaza Strip, staged its first rally in the West Bank in years on Thursday, in celebration...

updated 14 Dec 2012; published 14 Dec 2012
0:21
Mubarak assets worth millions seized in Spain
The Times of India 13 Dec 2012, MADRID: Spain announced on Thursday it had seized 28 million euros ($37 million) in financial products, luxury cars and buildings linked to ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Egypt requested Spain's help under UN...