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 Gaddafi receives apology from US
Paris News.Net
The US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.  Letterman blackmailer confesses his crime
Paris News.Net
A former television producer on the David Letterman show has admitted in a New York court that he tried to extract two million dollars from the famous television compere.  Gay life of US senator revealed
Paris News.Net
A California state senator has come out as a homosexual after many years as a staunch opponent of gay rights. Main Street Capital Q4 Loss Widens - Update
RTT News
News ) reported a net realized loss for the fourth quarter that widened from the year-ago period, hurt by a wider net realized loss from investments and a 7% decline in investment income. The Houston,... U.S. Woman Accused In Terrorist Plot
RadioFreeEurope
It was not immediately clear if the case was linked to alleged terrorist threats to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks over his 2007 drawing of the Prophet Muhammad. Biden Condemns Israeli Settlement Plans
RadioFreeEurope
Israel announced plans to build 1,600 more homes on land Palestinians claim for a future state during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Jerusalem. Biden met March 9 with Israeli Prime Minister ... City OKs Berkeley Carroll plan
New York Post
The city this week approved the expansionist plans of a Park Slope private school, a controversial scheme that vexed some residents who fear the new building will catalyze the very dissolution of the ... Pennsylvania Woman Tied to Plot on Cartoonist
International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON — A Pennsylvania woman who called herself JihadJane was tied Tuesday to an alleged assassination plot against a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the prophet Muhammad atop the body of a... Flu Shots in Children Can Help Community
International Herald Tribune
flu shots to schoolchildren protects a whole community from the disease. Although previous studies have demonstrated what scientists call “herd POLITICS: U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Web Services
IPS
WASHINGTON, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS) - After U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's January address on the role of internet freedom in U.S. foreign policy, the Barack Obama administration appears to be ta... Haitians wary of US military reduction
Channel News Asia
PORT-AU-PRINCE: A US Navy hospital ship was recalled from Haiti Tuesday as the US military cut its emergency deployment to the quake-hit nation, where aid efforts are now turning to reconstruction. Th... Red tape in Kabul hinders success
USA Today
Kabul ," says the report, released last week. The embassy "faces serious challenges in meeting the administration's deadline for 'success' in Afghanistan," it adds. Iraqi parties both claim lead in election
USA Today
BAGHDAD (AP) The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections that the top U.S. co... Toyota faced with 2 more cases of runaway Priuses
USA Today
Toyota sought to contain the fallout from a California sudden-acceleration case involving a Prius, another driver's out-of-control Prius slammed into a stone wall in New York on Tuesday. Health care ad cyclorama to clog airwaves
USA Today
WASHINGTON It's not quite election season, but President Obama is on the stump, pushing his health care bill. Now, millions of dollars in political ads aimed at swaying Congress are hitting the... China may ban eating dogs, cats
CNN
Guangzhou, China (CNN) -- Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone... Opinion: Gays have right to privacy, too
CNN
Supreme Court was not so hands-off in gay-marriage-related cases. Twice, the court intervened in cases in which active opponents of gay marriage, in California and Washington, have claimed that their ... Formal Suu Kyi ban in Burma poll
BBC
Burma's military rulers have issued a law which will bar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in planned elections.The new law prohibits anyone with a a criminal conviction from ta... More schools likely to be failed
BBC
More schools are being judged inadequate under a new inspection regime, figures from England's schools watchdog are expected to show.Ofsted introduced a new framework in September 2009 which requires ... Ring may be giant 'impact crater'
BBC
Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, scientists say.The 36-46km-wide feature, identified in DR Congo, may be one of the largest such structures discovered ... Britain protests to US over Falklands
The Australian
BRITISH diplomats have expressed serious concerns to the US State Department at least three times over Washington's response to the latest dispute over the Falkland Islands. Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius
Reuters
LOS ANGELES/DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota dispatched teams on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier, as the automaker strugg... J. Roberts: State of the Union "Troubling"
CBS News
President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address Jan. 27, 2010. In a question-and-answer session with law students March 9, 2010 Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts called Obama's s... Insurance icon 'Flo' all smiles
Philadelphia Daily News
You might not recognize Stephanie Courtney even if you were riding in a cramped elevator with her. This despite the fact that she's on TV more than Neil Patrick Harris and Ellen DeGeneres combined. T... Marlin Jackson Visits, Could Be Your FS
Philadelphia Daily News
As I mentioned in the paper today (buy one, it's an incredible value), Jason Avant's agents also handle Marlin Jackson, the Colts CB/safety who will visit NovaCare after stopping by Baltimore today. J... Massa denies sexually groping male staffer
Washington Times
By Andrew Miga ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, acknowledged Tuesday groping a staffer but denied it was sexu... Judge gets tossed from 44th District City Council race
New York Post
Amid alleged dirty politics, Republican candidate Jonathan Judge was thrown off the ballot Tuesday for the special 44th District City Council election.State Supreme Court Judge Larry Martin ruled that... Angered by U.S. Security, Pakistanis Return as Heroes
International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A tour of the United States arranged by the State Department to improve ties to Pakistani legislators ended in a public relations fiasco when the members of the group refus... Butcher shop shooting solved
New York Post
Butcher shooter bustedInvestigators have arrested one of the men allegedly responsible for last year’s shooting at Romeo Brothers Meats and Foods.Prosecutors said that 36-year-old Andrew Gibson ...
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