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Two killed and 11 injured in Burma emergency landing
Full Article BBC News
25 Dec 2012

Two people, including a young child, have been killed and another 11 injured during an emergency landing in Burma, officials say. The Air Bagan plane was carrying more than 60 passengers, many of whom were foreign...
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Members of Myanmar Fire Brigade team gather near a damaged Air Bagan passenger plane in Heho, Shan State, Myanmar, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012.
photo: AP

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
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Burma Air Bagan emergency landing kills two at Heho
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
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Burma Air Bagan emergency landing kills at least two
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
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Myanmar Air Bagan plane crash-lands on Myanmar road Killing 2 Injuring 11
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
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Four Brits Injured In Burma Plane Crash
updated 15 Dec 2012; published 23 May 2011
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Burma Soldier Film Interview (English Version)
updated 03 Nov 2012; published 02 Sep 2011
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Christian World News: September 2, 2011 - CBN.com
Pope leads Christmas Eve celebrations
Full Article Canberra Times
25 Dec 2012

DPA Pope Benedict XVI has prayed for peace in the Middle East and warned against religious fundamentalism as he celebrated a traditional Christmas Eve mass for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. Thousands of people flocked to the Vatican Basilica in St Peter's Square for the two-hour service which was also broadcast worldwide. Holding a golden...
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Pope Benedict XVI holds the pastoral staff as he celebrates the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012. Heralded by the blare of trumpets reflecting Christmas joy, Pope Benedict XVI is presiding over Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, packed with tourists, Romans and other faithful. The ceremony began at 10 p.m. (2100 GMT) Monday night instead of the traditional midnight start time, which was changed at the Vatican years ago to let the pontiff rest before a Christmas Day speech to be delivered the next day from the basilica's central balcony.
photo: AP / Gregorio Borgia

updated 09 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2011
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Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Christmas Eve Mass Vatican city 2011
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
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Raw: Midnight Mass at the Vatican | Pope Benedict XVI presides over packed Christmas Eve Mass
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
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Pope Benedict XVI presides over packed Christmas Eve Mass at the Vatican | Pope marks the nativity
updated 26 Dec 2011; published 26 Dec 2011
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The Pope's Christmas Day Message
updated 19 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2011
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Pope Benedict XVI urges an end to the violence in Syria in his Christmas message
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
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Pope Benedict XVI presides over packed Christmas Eve Mass
India Rape Protests: Injured Policeman Dies
Full Article Skynews
25 Dec 2012

An Indian policeman who was injured in clashes during a protest over a gang-rape in New Delhi has died. The 47-year-old police constable, Subash Tomar, was deployed at the India Gate monument on Sunday to control the protests....
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Indian protesters are escorted by police as they demonstrate against the brutal gang-rape of a woman on a moving bus New Delhi, India, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012.
photo: AP / Altaf Qadri

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
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Gangrape protests: Constable injured at India Gate dies
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
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Delhi Protest: Police officer dies in India rape case clashes.25/12/2012
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
7:42
TV9 News: Delhi Gang-Rape Protests: Injured Delhi Police Constable 'Dies'
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
2:48
Delhi Gang Rape Anger: Video of violent protests gripping India
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
3:51
Aam Aadmi Party under Trouble over constable's death
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 11 Sep 2012
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Thousands enjoy Christmas in Bethlehem
Full Article Stuff
25 Dec 2012

Thousands of Christians from the world over have packed Manger Square in Bethlehem to celebrate the birth of Jesus in the ancient West Bank town where he was born. For their Palestinian hosts, this holiday season was an especially joyous one, with the hardships of the Israeli occupation that so often clouded previous Christmas Eve celebrations...
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Christian worshippers and tourists celebrate at the Manger Square in front of the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012.
photo: AP / Adel Hana

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2011
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Middle East peace urged at Christmas Mass
updated 17 Oct 2012; published 25 Dec 2010
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Christmas celebrations from across the world
updated 13 Aug 2010; published 08 Jan 2009
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Stop the bloodbath in Gaza
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 22 Apr 2011
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updated 24 Aug 2012; published 24 Dec 2011
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Crowds flock to Bethlehem for Christmas
updated 11 Dec 2012; published 16 Oct 2009
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Christians Fleeing Bethlehem´s Muslim Majority
Chavez "improves slightly" after surgery - official
Full Article The Star
24 Dec 2012

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's condition has "improved slightly" after a cancer operation in Cuba, the information minister said on Monday, amid doubts over whether the former soldier is in good enough health to continue governing. A supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds a picture of him, as she...
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ALTERNATIVE CROP OF XLAT152 - In this photo released by Cubadebate and taken by Estudios Revolucion, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez walks in the hospital in Havana, Cuba, Friday March 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Estudios Revolucion

updated 11 May 2012; published 28 Feb 2012
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Venezuela: Chavez in good health condition after surgery
updated 19 Dec 2012; published 19 Dec 2012
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Solidarity with President Hugo Chavez health condition grows from all over the world.
updated 11 Jul 2012; published 13 Jun 2012
25:35
Inside Story Americas - Are Venezuelans better off under Chavez?
updated 15 Dec 2012; published 15 Dec 2012
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Obama: I will not speculate about Chávez's health condition
updated 20 Dec 2012; published 14 Dec 2012
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Hugo Chavez dies DEAD or on Death Bed? Cancer VENEZUELA Vice President Prepares people
updated 16 Jul 2012; published 16 Jul 2012
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Venezuela's Chavez in "Good Physical Condition" ?
Afghan policewoman kills US adviser in Kabul
Full Article my SA
24 Dec 2012

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan policewoman shot and killed an American adviser outside the police headquarters in Kabul on Monday, the latest in a rising tide of insider attacks by Afghans against their foreign allies, senior Afghan officials said. The woman, identified as Afghan police Sgt. Nargas, had entered a strategic compound in the...
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A member of security escorts a U.S. convoy in to the Kabul police headquarters, where a an American advisor was killed in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012.
photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq

updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
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Afghan Policewoman Kills US Aide
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
2:11
Afghan Policewoman Kills US Adviser In Kabul
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
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Afghan Policewoman Kills US Adviser In Kabul
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
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TOLOnews 24 December 2012 FARAKHABAR / فراخبر ۲۴ دسمبر ۲۰۱۲
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
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Afghan policewoman kills US police adviser in Kabul
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
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American police adviser shot dead by Afghan officer
Liberating Burdensome and Tortuous Beasts (An Animal Liberation Theology)
Full Article WorldNews.com
24 Dec 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. A deadly silence immediately followed after a bullet penetrated the calf's skull. Against my wishes, Vic had decided against either amputating its leg or contacting a veterinarian-something he reasoned would have been too expensive. The unfortunate calf had slid down into a ravine where its hind leg,...
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Anbetung der Hirten (Adoration of the Shepherds) (c. 1500–10), by Italian painter Giorgio da Castelfranco. Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary as a fulfillment of the Old Testament's Messianic prophecy.
photo: Creative Commons / Giorgione

updated 31 Aug 2012; published 13 Jun 2012
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666 The Beast: Jesus talks about the Golden Calf economic slavery, Bitcoin etc.
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 03 May 2007
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Battle at Kruger
updated 01 Jan 2012; published 28 Oct 2010
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vegans taste better.wmv
updated 09 May 2012; published 25 May 2009
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Leviticus 22 (with text - press on more info. of video on the side)
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 23 Dec 2010
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Best Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary Yourofsky
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 09 May 2012
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The Real Matrix - 101 Reasons for Taking the Red Pill
Egypt's opposition to appeal constitution referendum result
Full Article The Siasat Daily
24 Dec 2012

Egypt, December 23: Egypt's main opposition bloc named " the National Salvation Front" said in a press conference Sunday that it would appeal the result of the constitutional referendum that initially showed approval of the draft constitution, claiming that it was based on fraud. The front's statement, read by communist politician Abdel- Ghaffar...
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An Egyptian election worker counts ballots at the end of the second round of a referendum on a disputed constitution drafted by Islamist supporters of president Mohammed Morsi at a polling station in Giza, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Nasser Nasser

updated 13 Dec 2012; published 11 Dec 2012
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EGYPTIAN CRISIS; Protesters call for morsi/mursi to back down, [Referendum Rejeccted]
updated 08 Dec 2012; published 08 Dec 2012
2:23
VIOLENT PROTESTS AGAINST DICTATOR MORSI Continue Across Egypt
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 08 Dec 2012
3:13
Religious State in Egypt? Protests Heat Up
updated 11 Dec 2012; published 11 Dec 2012
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Egypt Protests: Army Calls For Unity Talks
updated 26 Nov 2012; published 20 Nov 2008
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16. Athenian Democracy (cont.)
updated 22 Jul 2012; published 15 Feb 2011
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13 Byrd on Rome
India PM appeals for Delhi calm after rape protests
Full Article BBC News
24 Dec 2012

Indian PM Manmohan Singh has appealed for calm in the capital, Delhi, following violent protests over the gang rape of a woman. Mr Singh said his government would "make all possible efforts to ensure security and safety to all women". More than 100 people were hurt in clashes at the weekend - police say at least 70 officers were injured....
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An Indian police officer gestures to camera as police block a road to prevent protests in central New Delhi, India, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012.
photo: AP / Tsering Topgyal

updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
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India PM calls for calm following New Delhi gang-rape protests
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
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INDIAN PM APPEALS FOR CALM AMID PROTESTS AFTER DELHI GANG RAPE
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
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India PM appeals for Delhi calm after rape protests
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
2:24
Indian PM calls for calm amidst anti-rape protests
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
1:14
News: Indian PM appeals for calm amid rape protests. 24/12/2012
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
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Indian PM appeals for calm amid rape protests
Govt air strike on Syria bakery kills 'more than 60'
Full Article Zeenews
24 Dec 2012

Zeenews Bureau Moscow: A deadly air strike by Syrian government on a bakery in Halfaya of Syria’s Hama on Monday killed more than 60, even as international envoy Lakhdar Barhimi is in the country to negotiate the solutions to the ongoing civil war. "Dozens of people were killed in an air strike on Halfaya," Lebanon's Naharnet said citing the...
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In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 photo, an elderly Syrian man smokes a cigarette while standing next to a residential building destroyed in a government airstrike, in Maaret Misreen, near Idlib, Syria.
photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 23 Dec 2012
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Activists: At least 90 killed in air strike on Syria bakery
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
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Syria Airstrike: Deadly Air Strike On Civilian Bakery. Many Killed Injured. SEE THE BODIES. Doc, 23
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 23 Dec 2012
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Syrian activist: Lethal attack on bakery was a 'message'
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 23 Dec 2012
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DEAD CIVILIANS as REGIME AIR-STRIKE hits bakery in Syria [WW3 in ACTION]
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
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Syrian Airstrike: At least 90 killed in air strike on Syria bakery.
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 23 Dec 2012
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18+ Syria - Assad MIG Mass Murder of Bakery Bread Line in Halfaya 12-23-12 - part1

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Married 48 years, but now it's official
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After spending nearly a half-century as husband and wife, Bob and Norma Clark are finally married. The couple from Redlands, an inland California city halfway between Los Angeles...
Chomsky on Civil Liberties, Obama and the Future of Progressive Politics
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Linguistics professor Noam Chomsky has been America’s premier political dissident since the Vietnam War. As a vocal critic of US foreign policy, the self-described “libertarian...
Assange to publish 'million more files'
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Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has said he will release over a million more documents in the coming year that will affect "every country in the...

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Steve Jobs' Mega-Yacht Free To Sail After Temporary Reprieve more
Aviva is a 68 metres (223 ft) length motor yacht, currently the 80th longest motor yacht in the world.
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Steve Jobs was controversial in life, and now his high-tech mega-yacht is associated with a controversy long after his death. The former Apple CEO's ship was impounded in Amsterdam in the middle of a financial battle over a disputed bill. Phillippe...
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Turkey lifts objection to NATO cooperation with Israel more
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen are seen during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. Rasmussen is in Turkey for talk with Turkish leaders.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has given approval for Israel to participate in non-military NATO activities in 2013, withdrawing an earlier objection driven by an ongoing dispute between the former regional allies, a Turkish official said on Monday....
photo: AP / Umit Bektas, Pool
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Syria: UN-Arab League Envoy Holds Talks on Crisis more
Syrian citizens pass by a poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad, in the southern city of Daraa, Syria, on Monday March 21, 2011.
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Tuesday, 25 December 2012, 7:31 am Press Release: United Nations Syria: UN-Arab League Envoy Holds Talks on Crisis with President Bashar Al-Assad New York, Dec 24 2012 11:00AM The Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of...
photo: AP / Hussein Malla
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Afghan policewoman kills coalition contractor in Kabul: NATO more
Afghan and NATO forces secure the entrance of the police headquarters after a Taliban suicide attack killed the police chief of southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, Khan Mohammad Mujahid and his two bodyguards, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday April 15, 2011
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KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan woman wearing a police uniform shot dead on Monday a civilian contractor working for Western forces in the police chief's compound in Kabul, NATO said. The incident is likely to raise troubling questions about the...
photo: AP / Allauddin Khan
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North Korea may have technology to fire missile that could reach the U.S. West Coast, ... more
In this photo taken Sunday, April 15, 2012, what appears to be a new missile is carried during a mass military parade at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the country's founding father Kim Il Sung.
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Protests Over Rape Turn Violent in India more
An Indian protester is chased by a police officer during a protest in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012.
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Angry protests escalated into violence in India's capital on Sunday, after thousands of people gathered to demand justice for the victim of a recent gang rape in New Delhi and improved safety for women. Protesters flocked to the India Gate monument...
photo: AP / Altaf Qadri
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Unwavering NRA opposes any new gun restrictions more
A Sailor assigned to Weapons Department gets ready to shoot a M-14 rifle with an MK-87 line-throwing adapter.
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An unwavering National Rifle Association said Sunday that new gun regulations would not make children safer and that a White House task force on gun violence may try to undermine the Second Amendment. The organization blasted "a media machine" that...
photo: US Navy / Photographer's Mate Airman Ricardo J. Reyes
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updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
1:05
Myanmar Air Bagan plane crash-lands on Myanmar road Killing 2 Injuring 11
Two killed and 11 injured in Burma emergency landing
BBC News 25 Dec 2012, Two people, including a young child, have been killed and another 11 injured during an emergency landing in Burma, officials say. The Air Bagan plane was carrying more than 60 passengers, many of whom were foreign...

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
1:07
Raw: Midnight Mass at the Vatican
Pope leads Christmas Eve celebrations
Canberra Times 25 Dec 2012, DPA Pope Benedict XVI has prayed for peace in the Middle East and warned against religious fundamentalism as he celebrated a traditional Christmas Eve mass for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. Thousands of people flocked to the Vatican Basilica in St Peter's Square for the two-hour service which was also broadcast worldwide. Holding a golden...

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 22 Dec 2012
3:58
Delhi gang-rape: water cannons, lathicharge as protests intensify
India Rape Protests: Injured Policeman Dies
Skynews 25 Dec 2012, An Indian policeman who was injured in clashes during a protest over a gang-rape in New Delhi has died. The 47-year-old police constable, Subash Tomar, was deployed at the India Gate monument on Sunday to control the protests....

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
0:43
Christmas Day Mass in Bethlehem
Thousands enjoy Christmas in Bethlehem
Stuff 25 Dec 2012, Thousands of Christians from the world over have packed Manger Square in Bethlehem to celebrate the birth of Jesus in the ancient West Bank town where he was born. For their Palestinian hosts, this holiday season was an especially joyous one, with the hardships of the Israeli occupation that so often clouded previous Christmas Eve celebrations...

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 23 Dec 2012
15:17
Strongman: Hugo Chavez and His Legacy
Chavez "improves slightly" after surgery - official
The Star 24 Dec 2012, CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's condition has "improved slightly" after a cancer operation in Cuba, the information minister said on Monday, amid doubts over whether the former soldier is in good enough health to continue governing. A supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds a picture of him, as she...

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
0:59
Afghan Policewoman Kills US Adviser in Kabul
Afghan policewoman kills US adviser in Kabul
my SA 24 Dec 2012, KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan policewoman shot and killed an American adviser outside the police headquarters in Kabul on Monday, the latest in a rising tide of insider attacks by Afghans against their foreign allies, senior Afghan officials said. The woman, identified as Afghan police Sgt. Nargas, had entered a strategic compound in the...

updated 20 Dec 2012; published 24 Aug 2009
4:14
Liberation Theology
Liberating Burdensome and Tortuous Beasts (An Animal Liberation Theology)
WorldNews.com 24 Dec 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. A deadly silence immediately followed after a bullet penetrated the calf's skull. Against my wishes, Vic had decided against either amputating its leg or contacting a veterinarian-something he reasoned would have been too expensive. The unfortunate calf had slid down into a ravine where its hind leg,...

updated 05 Dec 2012; published 01 Dec 2012
25:04
Talk to Al Jazeera - Amr Darrag on Egypt's 'perfect' constitution
Egypt's opposition to appeal constitution referendum result
The Siasat Daily 24 Dec 2012, Egypt, December 23: Egypt's main opposition bloc named " the National Salvation Front" said in a press conference Sunday that it would appeal the result of the constitutional referendum that initially showed approval of the draft constitution, claiming that it was based on fraud. The front's statement, read by communist politician Abdel- Ghaffar...

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 22 Dec 2012
3:58
Delhi gang-rape: water cannons, lathicharge as protests intensify
India PM appeals for Delhi calm after rape protests
BBC News 24 Dec 2012, Indian PM Manmohan Singh has appealed for calm in the capital, Delhi, following violent protests over the gang rape of a woman. Mr Singh said his government would "make all possible efforts to ensure security and safety to all women". More than 100 people were hurt in clashes at the weekend - police say at least 70 officers were injured....

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 23 Dec 2012
3:41
18+ Syria - Assad MIG Mass Murder of Bakery Bread Line in Halfaya 12-23-12 - part1
Govt air strike on Syria bakery kills 'more than 60'
Zeenews 24 Dec 2012, Zeenews Bureau Moscow: A deadly air strike by Syrian government on a bakery in Halfaya of Syria’s Hama on Monday killed more than 60, even as international envoy Lakhdar Barhimi is in the country to negotiate the solutions to the ongoing civil war. "Dozens of people were killed in an air strike on Halfaya," Lebanon's Naharnet said citing the...

updated 20 Dec 2012; published 12 Dec 2012
3:47
North Korea's rocket launches
North Korea rocket launch was 'missile test'
Al Jazeera 23 Dec 2012, North Korea's launching of a rocket into space last week amounted to the test of a ballistic missile capable of carrying a half-ton payload over 10,000km, the South Korean defence ministry says. "Based on our analysis and simulation, the missile is capable of flying more than 10,000km with a warhead of 500-600kg," a defence ministry official told...

updated 24 Dec 2012; published 09 Dec 2012
24:56
Inside Syria - How real is Syria's chemical weapons threat?
Syria's chemical weapons safe for now: Russia
Newstrack India 23 Dec 2012, Tweet Moscow, Dec 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Chemical weapons in Syria are under the control of the government, which has consolidated them in one or two locations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. "As of right now, the (Syrian) government is doing all it can to safeguard those weapons," he said. "We are following all leads concerning...

updated 18 Dec 2012; published 17 Dec 2012
2:36
Primary results of Egypt referendum announced
Muslim Brotherhood: Egyptians Approve New Constitution
Voa News 23 Dec 2012, Egypt's Islamist Muslim Brotherhood says voters have approved the country's new controversial constitution. The Brotherhood said about 64 percent of the voters cast a...

updated 23 Dec 2012; published 19 Dec 2012
2:29
Brutal Gang Rape anger over boils over in India
India govt to probe gang-rape, enhance punishment
Khaleej Times 23 Dec 2012, A commission will be set up to probe the gang-rape and torture of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi and measures to ensure such crimes do not recur while laws will be amended to enhance punishment for rape, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said . He also appealed the thousands of protesters on the capital’s streets, demanding justice for the...