Top Stories: Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar has shifted his base from Quetta to Karachi with the help of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence, the Washington Times reports. ANI Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:50:19 -0500The US launched a missile strike at Taliban rebels in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing eight of the Islamists... Big News Network.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:23:11 -0500Peruvian police have arrested four people who are under suspicion of killing dozens of people for their fat. Big News Network.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:06:42 -0500Three Iranian men have been sentenced to hang for raping a 17-year-old boy, who reportedly committed suicide after the event. Big News Network.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:34:43 -0500The Belgian Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy, will be the new president of the European Union. Big News Network.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:41:47 -0500US talk show star Oprah Winfrey will stop production of her influential daytime show in 2011. Big News Network.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:06:50 -0500Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has denied rebel groups in Yemen are being assisted by Tehran. Big News Network.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:29:38 -0500The Israel Air Force has attacked two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip. Big News Network.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:50:20 -0500The BBC has reported that hundreds of people have fled severe flooding in parts of Cumbria. Big News Network.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:20:42 -0500By Mike Stobbe ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu. It's the first... Washington Times Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:12:39 -0500COCKERMOUTH, England - A policeman died after being swept away by floods in Britain's scenic Lake District, officials said Friday, as helicopters helped evacuate hundreds of stranded residents. The po... Channel News Asia Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:52:57 -0500SANTIAGO : Chilean airports resumed normal activity on Friday, after some 2,000 airport workers launched a country-wide strike that caused flight delays, the General Directorate of Civil Aviation said... Channel News Asia Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:52:55 -0500PRISTINA : Kosovo's main ruling party withdrew on Friday its threat to split from its junior coalition partner in the first such rift since Pristina proclaimed independence in 2008. The clash between ... Channel News Asia Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:52:53 -0500TEGUCIGALPA : The Honduran de facto regime on Friday ordered citizens to turn in their weapons in a bid to avert violence around disputed presidential elections to be held at the end of the month. Ous... Channel News Asia Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:52:51 -0500YEMEN - Yemen's coastguard says Somali pirates have hijacked a Panamanian cargo ship in the treacherous Gulf of Aden between the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa. A coast guard official says ... New Zealand Herald Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:47:01 -0500NEW YORK - Unicef urged the world to help the one billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care - and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence - two decades ... New Zealand Herald Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:46:57 -0500The U.S. attorney's office said Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez entered the plea Friday in federal court. Prosecutors say the teenager admitted entering the United States illegally from Mexico to rob ... USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:45:17 -0500The Government Accountability Office said last month that the Army made mistakes in testing a new body armor design. And it recommended the process be reviewed before the armor is sent to troops in Ir... USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:45:16 -0500WASHINGTON (AP) ? With no margin for rebellion, Senate Democrats pushed toward a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill Friday, and wavering moderates appeared to be falling... USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:45:15 -0500Stocks fell for the third straight day Friday as a disappointing earnings report from computer maker Dell Inc. weighed on technology shares. The Nasdaq composite index, with a big representation of te... MSNBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:44:15 -0500Tesla will compete with established automakers like Ford, General Motors and Nissan Motor Co, all of which are racing to launch electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles. MSNBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:44:13 -0500The Peoria family came home Thursday afternoon and found the garage door open and the house ransacked. The burglars stole electronics and a wooden music box. MSNBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:44:11 -0500Kennett, Missouri (CNN) -- A woman accused of cutting in line in a Wal-Mart, shoving merchandise and assaulting police officers took the stand Friday and denied all charges in the racially charged cas... CNN Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:43:05 -0500Fort Lauderdale, Florida (CNN) -- A Florida teenager attacked and set on fire last month, allegedly by five teenage friends, was undergoing skin graft surgery Friday, the first procedure in his recove... CNN Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:43:03 -0500New Delhi, India (CNN) -- A band of right-wing activists ransacked an Indian television station in the country's financial hub of Mumbai in an assault their party said was an act of retaliation agains... CNN Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:43:02 -0500(CNN) -- Less than a month before the Civil War's start, a newly inaugurated President Lincoln took time from his frantic schedule to write to an Illinois boy whose classmates didn't believe he'd met ... CNN Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:43:01 -0500Brenda, one of two Brazilian transsexuals who were involved in a political scandal last month with the former governor of Lazio region, is seen at his apartment building in Rome, in this October 24, 2... C News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:42:37 -0500A host of stars are taking to the stage in a concert at the Wales Millennium Centre in aid of Children in Need.Only Men Aloud!, Stereophonics, opera singer Bryn Terfel and Swansea's Bonnie Tyler top t... BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:39:47 -0500A replay of the controversial World Cup play-off between France and the Republic of Ireland is out of the question, the French Football Federation (FFF) has said. Sky News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:39:41 -0500Iraq since the 2003 invasion, building tens of thousands of hospitals, water treatment plants, electricity substations, schools and bridges.But there are growing concerns among American officials that... International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:37:08 -0500With the European Union’s top new jobs going to two low-key bridge-builders, the bloc appears to have set its sights on smoothing over internal divisions before trying to construct a bigger glob... International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:37:05 -0500President Obama to raise the issue during his visit to Beijing this week, the American Embassy in Beijing said Friday. The geologist, Xue Feng, has also been tortured by interrogators who pressed ciga... International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:37:02 -0500Amanda Knox (C), accused of taking part in the killing of her British roommate Meredith Kercher two years-ago, talks with her lawyers Carlo Dalla Vedova (L) and Luciano Ghirga (R) upon her arrival for... International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:37:00 -0500WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's announcement of a new strategy on Afghanistan will not take place until after the Thanksgiving holiday next week, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs sai... Reuters Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:31:55 -0500Hasan Wrote of Joining Imam in "Afterlife" (CBS/ AP) An attorney for the Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in his hospital r... CBS News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:29:21 -0500Swine Flu: H1N1 Scott Pelley reports on the H1N1 flu - which is increasingly targeting young, healthy people - and how the government plans to fight the flu pandemic. CBS News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:29:18 -0500Demonstrators protest in front of a closed off University of California, Berkeley building on the Berkeley, Calif., campus, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, during a demonstration against university fee hikes a... CBS News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:29:17 -0500Rasmussen Reports poll finds McCain in a virtual tie with a conservative Phoenix radio host and former Congressman J.D. Hayworth. Hayworth has expressed interest in running against McCain, but he h... CBS News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:29:15 -0500New Moon's Hollywood Premiere Hearthrobs Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner greeted a frenzy of fans at the Hollywod premiere of "Twilight: New Moon." Hattie Kauffman reports. CBS News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:29:13 -0500A LOS Angeles judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Miley Cyrus which accused the teen icon of discriminating against Asians after she was photographed making "slant eyes". The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:21:44 -0500ITALIAN dictator Benito Mussolini's blood and brain went on sale for €15,000 ($24,343) on online auction website eBay before the company pulled the ad posted by an anonymous seller. The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:21:42 -0500"The first tests of injecting sub-atomic particles began around 1600 (01:00 AEDT),'' CERN spokesman James Gillies said.He said the injections lasted a fraction of a second, enough for "a half or even ... The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:21:39 -0500It is believed six people were in the ute collecting firewood when the driver lost control of the vehicle on a steep hill on Mt Sugarloaf-Deptford Rd around 7pm (AEDT).Three male passengers in the tra... The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:21:38 -0500One officer who works on fire prevention and control said field staff were "regarded as the SAS of firefighters"."They are winched into inaccessible areas by helicopter to put in strategic burns and p... The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:21:35 -0500John "Jordan" Lewis will have to wait through the weekend to learn if he is to live or be sentenced to death for murdering a Philadelphia police officer. The Common Pleas jury hearing his c... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:19:48 -0500After St. Joseph's Prep football coach Gil Brooks found out earlier this year that one of his players - a kid just finishing his freshman year in high school - already had an offer to play college foo... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:19:46 -0500PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight students take a fitness course to graduate has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts. Offi... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:19:45 -0500Two more narcotics officers have lost their police powers and been forced to give up their weapons in an ongoing corruption investigation that has ensnared three others this year. The officers were i... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:19:44 -0500Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Stephen Raslavich agreed today to extend until at least Jan. 31 the period during which Philadelphia Newspapers L.L.C. has the exclusive right to propose a reorganization p... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:19:42 -0500Not that there was anything out of the ordinary about Sunday's loss to San Diego, when 58 passes and 13 runs were called. If the Eagles are always pass-happy, maybe they were pass-delirious this time,... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:19:41 -0500THE FIRST was Dinkel Acker. Dale Van Wieren of Lansdale, Montgomery County, cracked open the dark German lager on March 19, 1971, wrote its name in a notebook, poured himself a glass and put the bott... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:19:39 -0500When 90-year-old Sam Snipes was a boy in the 1920s, Falls Township was a bucolic place with about 2,500 people. Nearly all the land was occupied by farms. In the ensuing years, some of that fertile s... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:19:34 -0500FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually as... New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:53 -0500KABUL (AP) -- Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so... New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:53 -0500ROME (AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday. New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:50 -0500ROME (AP) -- A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth. The claim made in a new book by historia... New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:49 -0500Oprah Winfrey fans have only two more years to watch her syndicated show. AP Entertainment Editor Michael Weinfeld tells us what will happen after that. New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:48 -0500KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) -- Authorities in western Michigan arrested a person twice in three days for driving the wrong way down the highway Kalamazoo County deputies said they were alerted about 1:30 a.... New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:47 -0500NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Retired NBA star Jayson Williams will not be in a New Jersey courtroom Friday to enter a plea in the 2002 shooting death of a hired driver. State Superior Court Judge Edward M. Co... New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:46 -0500CANBERRA - Eastern Australia remained ablaze yesterday as thousands of lightning strikes ignited parched grass and bushland in a nightmare opening to the summer. A cooler change and some rain helped ... New Zealand Herald Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:47:23 -0500PARIS - Herman van Rompuy, a Belgian politician who is poorly known in Europe and virtually invisible in the rest of the world, will become the first President of the European Union, under a decision ... New Zealand Herald Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:47:22 -0500Signs of life in the RV industry here are welcome news for the few hundred workers recently called back to a handful of manufacturing lines. But for Covey, along with many of the more than 14,000 othe... MSNBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:44:53 -0500Sheets is part of a military experiment to try to predict who's most at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder. Understanding underlying triggers might help reduce the burden of those who return psyc... MSNBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:44:49 -0500CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Atlantis' astronauts anxiously awaited word on the birth of one crewman's daughter Friday, as they moved more supplies into the International Space Station and geared up for ano... MSNBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:44:47 -0500Don’t have your cat declawed in San Francisco, or West Hollywood, or you could face fines up to $1,000 and six months in jail. This month, the city by the bay became the first major metro area in Ca... MSNBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:44:44 -0500Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast's homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. CNN Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:43:35 -0500A British couple kidnapped by pirates have said via video footage they fear they may be killed within a week.In the video obtained by Channel 4 News, Paul Chandler said "they will not hesitate to... BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:40:19 -0500A cleaner who tried to kill her 77-year-old employer with a hammer after stealing her store card has been jailed for 15 years.Nia Roberts, a widow, suffered multiple factures to her face in the assaul... BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:40:18 -0500English universities are in danger of falling behind those in other countries for want of investment, the head of the funding council has said.Sir Alan Langlands, chief executive of the Higher Educati... BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:40:17 -0500United Nations Security Council ’s demands and expressed disappointment that Iran had not yet accepted a draft agreement to export most of its enriched uranium for needed nuclear fuel. The offic... International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:37:37 -0500An enraged father allegedly shot dead his son after the teenager allegedly confessed he had sexually abused his three-year-old half-sister. Jamar Pinkney reportedly ordered Jamar Jnr, 15, to strip ... IOL Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:59 -0500Mumbai, India - Suspected Hindu hard-liners on Friday ransacked the offices of an Indian television news channel in the western Indian city of Mumbai, using iron rods and baseball bats to beat employe... IOL Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:56 -0500PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a survey on Friday that Russia had the world's most fraudulent economy, and attempts to stamp out white-collar crime had done little to stop its spread during the global... IOL Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:53 -0500WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pace of job losses slowed in many U.S. states in October, and the unemployment rate slipped in hard-hit Michigan, the Labor Department said on Friday, hinting the recession ... Reuters Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:32:23 -0500GENEVA (Reuters) - Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as the only country outside the pact, UNICEF said Friday. Reuters Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:32:22 -0500(CBS/AP) A foot model in New York City is suing her upscale apartment building, claiming the co-op board is trying to force her out because she married its former doorman. Christina Ambers filed a ... CBS News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:29:40 -0500President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, sit for a family portrait in the Green Room of the White House, Sept. 1, 2009. CBS News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:29:39 -0500Philadelphia's new Delaware waterfront manager isn't supposed to choose a master planner until its Monday meeting, but in characteristic fashion, the politicians are laying the dynamite to sabotage th... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:45 -0500Luke DeFilippo and his mother, Laura, greet Rowan University football players at halftime. Luke met his teammates through the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation. Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:43 -0500Lawyers for John "Jordan" Lewis - convicted by a Philadelphia jury yesterday of first degree murder in the Halloween 2007 shooting of Police Officer Chuck Cassidy - this morning began trying... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:40 -0500A vigil will be held tonight in Philadelphia for Jorge Lopez Mercado, 19, who was found dead on the roadside in his hometown of Caguas, Puerto Rico on Nov. 14. Mercado was found partially burned, dec... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:38 -0500The Internal Affairs Bureau has stripped two more narcotics officers of their police powers and service weapons in connection with an expanding federal-local investigation into allegations of perjury ... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:34 -0500Man, this car is hot! What is it?" The wide-eyed pedestrian is standing in the intersection of one of Manhattan's hopelessly gridlocked streets, mouth agape and feet welded to tarmac. Certa... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:30 -0500General manager Ruben Amaro Jr. and his staff have long since established their off-season priorities: The Phillies need to sign a third baseman, remake their bench, and improve their bullpen. Now the... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:29 -0500Valero Energy Corp., the largest U.S. refiner, announced today that it will permanently close its Delaware City, Del., plant because of losses brought on by the poor economy. The shutdown is expected... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:25 -0500New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer. New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:58:46 -0500Oprah Winfrey fans have only two more years to watch her syndicated show. AP Entertainment Editor Michael Weinfeld tells us what will happen after that. New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:58:45 -0500Jennifer Haberkorn Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Friday morning she has not decided whether she's going to vote to allow debate to start on the health care reform bill, despite reports that the Arkansas ... Washington Times Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:29:18 -0500S.A. Miller The Senate Select Committee on Ethics admonished Sen. Roland W. Burris on Friday for giving "inconsistent, incomplete and misleading" testimony about contact with disgraced former Illinoi... Washington Times Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:29:18 -0500BREAKING NEWS: WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., for making "inconsistent, misleading or incomplete" statements about the circumstances s... Washington Times Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:29:16 -0500TEMUCO, Chile, Nov 20 (IPS) - "This lie has got to end," said a sobbing Luisa Marilef, a 55-year-old Mapuche woman who says her son's arrest and prosecution under Chile's anti-terrorism law was part o... IPS Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:15:44 -0500Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, left, sits with husband Prince Philip as she addresses the State Opening of Parliament in London on Wednesday. USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:02:32 -0500Gorbachev said that corruption and overdependence on oil exports have aggravated the impact of the global economic crisis on Russia. He urged President... USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:02:30 -0500Harrison says the panel will begin talking about whether Sanford was neglectful when he left he state for five days in June without telling staff where he was going. When he returned, the governor con... USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:02:30 -0500Nov. 20: Attorneys began closing arguments in Italy today in the case against American student Amanda Knox. Her parents talk with TODAY’s Meredith Vieira. MSNBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:01:40 -0500The Thomases, who lived outside Swansea, about 185 miles west of London, were on holiday in their camper van in July 2008. After having their sleep disturbed by cars racing nearby, Brian Thomas had a ... MSNBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:01:38 -0500Nov. 19: John Delaney, the Head of the Football Association of Ireland, calls out F.I.F.A. and Thierry Henry for missing a call in Ireland's World Cup qualifier match against France. MSNBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:01:36 -0500PLEASANT HILL, Mo. - A woman who had been charged with child endangerment after almost 370 animals were seized from her Missouri farm has been placed on two years of unsupervised probation. MSNBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:01:33 -0500WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The new mammogram recommendations out earlier this week caused quite an uproar. Now comes another change in screening tests for women -- this one for cervical cancer. CNN Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500Officials are investigating the disappearance of at least 60 people who may have been killed by gang members in two mountainous states in central Peru, the nation's attorney general said in a release ... CNN Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:59 -0500 | 
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