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  1. Police investigators tag a body found in a shallow grave at the massacre site of a political clan that included several journalists in the outskirts of Ampatuan, Maguindanao in southern Philippines November 25, 2009. The latest death toll in the massacre is 52, police said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Erik de Castro (PHILIPPINES CRIME LAW CONFLICT)
    Philippine massacre probe focuses on Arroyo ally AP - 1 hour, 24 minutes agoSent 1,084 times

    AMPATUAN, Philippines - Philippine authorities, under intense public pressure to make arrests in the country's worst election massacre, said Wednesday they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the government along with four police commanders.

  2. Belgian patient Rom Houben, seen here using a specially-adapted computer to type messages at the Weyerke institute near Liege. Houben, who was wrongly diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years, has revived the debate on care for those considered in a vegetative state, with the astonishing case far from unique according to a recent study.(AFP/Stringer)
    Comatose for 23 years, Belgian feels reborn AP - Wed Nov 25, 4:29 AM ETSent 1,080 times

    BRUSSELS - Helped by a therapist, Rom Houben's outstretched finger tapped with surprising speed on a computer touchscreen, spelling out how he felt "alone, lonely, frustrated" in the 23 years he was trapped inside a paralyzed body.

  3. Butchers with butcher knives participate in religious rituals before slaughtering buffalos during a mass sacrifice ceremony at Gadhimai temple in Bariyapur, about 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
    Festival of mass animal sacrifice begins in Nepal AP - Tue Nov 24, 12:00 PM ETSent 1,012 times

    BARIYAPUR, Nepal - The ceremony began with prayers in a temple by tens of thousands of Hindus before dawn Tuesday. Then it shifted to a nearby corral, where in the cold morning mist, scores of butchers wielding curved swords began slaughtering buffalo calves by hacking off their heads.

  4. FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, a child cries as he waits for ultrasonic scan to detect for problems related to consuming tainted milk formula at a hospital, in Shijiazhuang, northern China's Hebei province. China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassure importers and put to rest one of the country's worst food safety crises. The men were the only people put to death in a scheme to boost profits by lacing milk powder with the industrial chemical melamine; another 19 were convicted and received lesser sentences. At least six children died after drinking the adulterated formula, and more than 300,000 were sickened. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
    China executes 2 for role in tainted milk scandal AP - Tue Nov 24, 3:51 PM ETSent 440 times

    BEIJING - China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula — severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassure importers and put to rest one of the country's worst food safety crises.

  5. A baboon called Fred, back ground, sits inside a car with a baboon called Michael Jackson, left, as he eats at Cape Point on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Visitors heading to South Africa premier holiday destination during the 2010 World Cup maybe worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate but they are more likely to find themselves robbed or mugged by a rather furry kind of felon: baboons. The baboons were named local officials who are supposed to prevent baboons from entering houses and cars. (Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
    Furry felons rob SAfrican tourists, steal food AP - Tue Nov 24, 9:24 PM ETSent 203 times

    CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons.

  6. FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009 file photo, Israeli soldiers wear gas mask as they take part in a home front command army drill simulating a chemical missile attack at an army base near Tel Aviv. With cutting-edge anti-missile systems and two new submarines that can carry nuclear weapons, Israel is readying a new generation of armaments designed to defend itself against egression from outside its borders, according to Eyal Ron, one of the system's developers, saying that final dress rehearsals are expected in December 2009, before the system goes live next year.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
    Israel readying new arms to meet Iran challenge AP - 1 hour, 17 minutes agoSent 100 times

    JERUSALEM - With cutting-edge anti-missile systems and two new submarines that can carry nuclear weapons, Israel is readying a new generation of armaments designed to defend itself against distant Iran as well as Tehran's proxy armies on its borders.

  7. Afghanistan's James Bond: suave killer who drives a Toyota Camry McClatchy Newspapers - Tue Nov 24, 4:59 PM ETSent 89 times

    KABUL, Afghanistan — The television set crackles with breaking news: Terrorists have smuggled a nuclear bomb into Kabul and are preparing to take out the Afghan capital.

  8. FILE - File photo dated Sept. 28, 1938 showing Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, at left in foreground, and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, at right, taken just before the four power conference in Munich, Germany. As a gesture of friendship, Hitler met Mussolini with his car at the Italo-German frontier. Benito Mussolini was a fierce anti-Semite, who proudly said that his hatred for Jews preceded Adolf Hitler's and vowed to 'destroy them all,' according to previously unpublished diaries by the Fascist dictator's longtime mistress. According to the diaries, Mussolini also talked about the warm reception he got from Hitler at the 1938 Munich conference - he called the German leader a 'softie' - and attacked Pope Pius XI for his criticism of Nazism and Fascism. The dairies kept by Claretta Petacci, Mussolini's mistress, between 1932 and 1938 are the subject of a book coming out the week beginning Monday Nov. 16, 2009, in Italy, entitled 'Secret Mussolini.' Excerpts were published Monday by Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera and confirmed by publisher Rizzoli. On a more intimate note, Mussolini was explicit about his sexual appetites for his mistress and said he regretted having affairs with several other women. (AP Photo/File)
    Report: Russian billionaire buys Hitler's car AP - Mon Nov 23, 11:04 AM ETSent 71 times

    BERLIN - A German newspaper is reporting that Adolf Hitler's original Mercedes has been sold to an unidentified Russian billionaire for several million euros.

  9. FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 29, 2005, file photo, a female kangaroo and her joey are seen in suburban Sydney, Australia. An Australian man was in stable condition Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, after being slashed across the abdomen and face by a kangaroo that was holding his dog underwater. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)
    Kangaroo tries to drown dog, attacks owner AP - Mon Nov 23, 8:38 PM ETSent 67 times

    MELBOURNE, Australia - A kangaroo startled by a man walking his dog attacked the pair, pinning the pet underwater and slashing the owner in the abdomen with its hind legs. The Australian, Chris Rickard, was in stable condition Monday after the attack, which ended when the 49-year-old elbowed the kangaroo in the throat.

  10. Reburying Albert Camus: A Political Ploy by Sarkozy? Time.com - Tue Nov 24, 11:50 AM ETSent 65 times

    French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to move Albert Camus' ashes to the famed PanthÉon in Paris as a way of revering the writer and philosopher. His critics, however, see more tactical motivations

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  1. Journalists and journalism students light candles in honor of at least 18 massacred journalists during a rally Wednesday Nov.25, 2009 at Manila's Quezon city in the Philippines. Philippine authorities, under intense public pressure to make arrests in the country's worst election massacre, said Wednesday they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the government along with four police commanders. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
    Philippine massacre probe focuses on Arroyo ally AP - 1 hour, 24 minutes ago

    AMPATUAN, Philippines - Philippine authorities, under intense public pressure to make arrests in the country's worst election massacre, said Wednesday they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the government along with four police commanders.

  2. Israel readying new arms to meet Iran challenge AP - 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

    JERUSALEM - With cutting-edge anti-missile systems and two new submarines that can carry nuclear weapons, Israel is readying a new generation of armaments designed to defend itself against distant Iran as well as Tehran's proxy armies on its borders.

  3. Belgian Rom Houben (R), 46, stays next to his mother Fina at Weyerke institute in Heusden-Zolder November 25, 2009. Houben was misdiagnosed for 23 years as being in a coma until a doctor at Liege University discovered three years ago that Houben's brain was still functioning. Houben was diagnosed as being in a vegetative state following a car crash in 1983. REUTERS/Stringer (BELGIUM HEALTH)
    Comatose for 23 years, Belgian feels reborn AP - Wed Nov 25, 4:29 AM ET

    BRUSSELS - Helped by a therapist, Rom Houben's outstretched finger tapped with surprising speed on a computer touchscreen, spelling out how he felt "alone, lonely, frustrated" in the 23 years he was trapped inside a paralyzed body.

  4. In this Nov. 16, 2009 photo released by the Australian Antarctic Division, an iceberg is seen at Sandy Bay on Macquarie Island's east coast, in the Southern Ocean 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) southeast of Tasmania, Australia. It is very rare to see icebergs from Macquarie Island and is uncommon to find icebergs in this general region. (AP Photo/Australian Antarctic Division, Eve Merfield)
    Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand AP - Wed Nov 25, 4:00 AM ET

    WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Ships are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting toward New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said.

  5. Grandmother Zheng Shuzhen holds a portrait of her deceased grand-daughter Zhou Mengxin at the Complaints Department of the Ministry of Health in Beijing, May 2009. Two men were executed in China on Tuesday for their roles in a contaminated milk powder scandal that led to the deaths of at least six infants and sickened up to 300,000, state media said.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)
    China executes 2 for role in tainted milk scandal AP - Tue Nov 24, 3:51 PM ET

    BEIJING - China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula — severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassure importers and put to rest one of the country's worst food safety crises.

  6. A map of China locating the city of Hegang and Heilongjiang province, where 107 miners died in a mine explosion(AFP Graphic)
    Death toll in China mining blast rises to 107 AP - Wed Nov 25, 2:25 AM ET

    BEIJING - The number of dead in China's worst mining accident in two years rose to 107 Wednesday after three more bodies were pulled out of the coal mine, state media said.

  7. Reburying Albert Camus: A Political Ploy by Sarkozy? Time.com - Tue Nov 24, 11:50 AM ET

    French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to move Albert Camus' ashes to the famed PanthÉon in Paris as a way of revering the writer and philosopher. His critics, however, see more tactical motivations

  8. In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, center, the former chief of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison, now known as Tuol Sleng genocide museum, stands in the court room of the U.N.-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. Prosecutors in the genocide trial of the former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded he be sentenced to 40 years in jail for his role in the killing of thousands of Cambodian prisoners. (AP Photo/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
    Khmer Rouge prison chief could get 40 years AP - 31 minutes ago

    PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Prosecutors in the genocide trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded a 40-year jail sentence Wednesday for a man they described as responsible for snuffing out innocent lives and spreading terror across Cambodia.

  9. A feral camel searches for food near Alice Springs in Australia. Some 6,000 feral camels are running wild in a remote Australian outback community in search of water, smashing infrastructure and invading the airstrip.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)
    Thousands of wild camels besiege Australian town AFP - Wed Nov 25, 4:37 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - Some 6,000 feral camels are running wild in a remote Australian outback community in search of water, smashing infrastructure and invading the airstrip, officials said on Wednesday.

  10. A tea vendor looks for customers opposite the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai. A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has indicted seven suspects over last year's Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people and all those in the dock pleaded not guilty.(AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)
    Pakistan charges 7 suspects in Mumbai attacks AP - 48 minutes ago

    ISLAMABAD - Pakistan charged seven men on Wednesday in last year's Mumbai terror attacks, its first indictment in a case being watched closely by India and the United States to see if Islamabad makes good on promises to bring those responsible to justice.

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  1. 6.8-magnitude quake rattles Tonga AP - Tue Nov 24, 11:02 AM ET

    NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific island nation of Tonga, sending panicked residents into the streets at night, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

  2. Israel readying new arms to meet Iran challenge AP - 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

    JERUSALEM - With cutting-edge anti-missile systems and two new submarines that can carry nuclear weapons, Israel is readying a new generation of armaments designed to defend itself against distant Iran as well as Tehran's proxy armies on its borders.

  3. Journalists and journalism students light candles in honor of at least 18 massacred journalists during a rally Wednesday Nov.25, 2009 at Manila's Quezon city in the Philippines. Philippine authorities, under intense public pressure to make arrests in the country's worst election massacre, said Wednesday they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the government along with four police commanders. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
    Philippine massacre probe focuses on Arroyo ally AP - 1 hour, 24 minutes ago

    AMPATUAN, Philippines - Philippine authorities, under intense public pressure to make arrests in the country's worst election massacre, said Wednesday they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the government along with four police commanders.

  4. Afghanistan's James Bond: suave killer who drives a Toyota Camry McClatchy Newspapers - Tue Nov 24, 4:59 PM ET

    KABUL, Afghanistan — The television set crackles with breaking news: Terrorists have smuggled a nuclear bomb into Kabul and are preparing to take out the Afghan capital.

  5. In this picture taken Thursday Nov. 19, 2009, Rahimullah stands at an Afghan National Army checkpoint soldier , the car he was traveling in being stopped because of his weapon, in the Tagab Valley some 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Kabul, Afghanistan. Rahimullah, a former Taliban fighter, changed side, joined the Afghan forces and was given an AK47 automatic riffle. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
    Wooing of Taliban fighters is dangerous game AP - Tue Nov 24, 12:24 PM ET

    SHINKAY, Afghanistan - A battered taxi sped up a dusty road toward a squad of Afghan soldiers searching for bombs planted in the dirt. Army gunmen who had fanned out for protection readied for a suicide attacker. The car screeched to a halt.

  6. A map locating the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Tonga. The strong quake rattled the Pacific island nation but the US Geological Survey said there was no threat of a widespread destructive tsunami.(AFP/Graphic)
    Strong quake strikes off Tonga: USGS AFP - Tue Nov 24, 3:59 PM ET

    NUKU'ALOFA (AFP) - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 hit off the Pacific island nation of Tonga on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said.

  7. Magnitude 6.8 quake recorded near Tonga Reuters - Tue Nov 24, 8:48 AM ET

    SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck northeast of the South Pacific island nation of Tonga on Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey said, but a destructive tsunami was not expected.

  8. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, front left, and Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro, front right, look on upon Ahmadinejad's arrival at Caracas main airport, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Ahmadinejad is on a two-day official visit to Venezuela and will meet Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. (AP photo/Ariana Cubillos)
    Iran's leader makes inroads in Latin America AP - 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won support for his country's nuclear ambitions and expanded his reach in Latin America in a three-country goodwill tour that took him to close ally Venezuela for his final stop.

  9. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony at the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, 350 km (217 miles) south of Tehran, April 9, 2007. REUTERS/Caren Firouz
    Iran says needs guarantees to send uranium abroad Reuters - Tue Nov 24, 2:54 PM ET

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran could consider sending its low-enriched uranium abroad, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, apparently softening its opposition to a U.N. plan aimed at keeping a check on its nuclear ambitions.

  10. Israel's Industry and Trade Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer (L) and Turkish Defence Minister Vecdi Gonul speak during an economic meeting after signing an agreement on cooperation in Ankara. Turkey and Israel Tuesday pledged commitment to improve ties as an Israeli minister held talks in Ankara, the first since the Jewish state's war in Gaza poisoned ties between the two regional allies.(AFP/Adem Altan)
    Turkey, Israel pledge to mend battered ties AFP - Tue Nov 24, 1:42 PM ET

    ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey and Israel Tuesday pledged commitment to improve ties as an Israeli minister held talks in Ankara, the first since the Jewish state's war in Gaza poisoned ties between the two regional allies.

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