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World leaders step into Quran burning controversy
North Korea News.NetUN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that no religion in the world can condone the burning of the Quran.
Mullah Omar tells Afghans that Taliban are winning
North Korea News.NetMullah Omar, the shadowy figure who leads the Taliban, has issued a statement saying his group is winning the war in Afghanistan.
Iraq recovers many valuable artifacts
North Korea News.NetThe Iraqi government has put on display hundreds of artifacts recovered from many different sources.
Ordinary Mexicans may soon have legalized marijuana
North Korea News.NetThe government of Mexico, tired of drug war violence, is considering the legalization of marijuana and possibly other drugs.
New York residents attacked by rabid coyote
North Korea News.NetA coyote which bit humans in New York City has been tested positive for rabies.
Pilots safely land Tupolev plane in Siberian bog
North Korea News.NetPilots on a a Tupolev-154 plane in Russia have managed to glide it into marshy ground after developing engine trouble.
Vitamin B cure suggested for Alzheimer’s
North Korea News.NetOxford University scientists have discovered that daily supplements of B vitamins may delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
Obama and Clinton in the sights of ex-soldier
North Korea News.NetAn ex-soldier turned gunman has been accused of trying to kill the US president.
Two US soldiers killed because of sports disagreement
North Korea News.NetAn Iraqi soldier has fired into a group of US soldiers, killing two of them.
UN failed Congo rape victims
North Korea News.NetThe UN failed to adequately deal with rape victims from the Congo, according to Atul Khare, the under-secretary general for peacekeeping operations.
Rattling quake strikes again in New Zealand
North Korea News.NetThe city of Christchurch in New Zealand has been rocked by a powerful aftershock, stemming from a major quake which hit on Saturday.
Shoe factory the target of enraged gunman
North Korea News.NetPolice in Honduras have said they don’t know who shot down victims inside a shoe factory.
Ground Zero edifice to be built by 2013
North Korea News.NetNew York officials have announced that the centrepiece tower to replace the World Trade Centre in New York will be complete in 2013.
Telescope will pick up Wednesday asteroids
North Korea News.NetTwo asteroids are due to whiz past the Earth on Wednesday according to NASA.
Algerian justice for men who ignored fasting rules during Ramadan
North Korea News.NetPolice in Algeria have detained ten men who allegedly ate food during the fasting period of Ramadan.
Polygamist sect leader says no to extradition
North Korea News.NetThe jailed US polygamist sect leader, Warren Jeffs, has been exercising his rights against extradition from Utah to Texas.
US residency for Muslim girl who became Christian
North Korea News.NetA runaway teenager has been granted full residency in the US after she said she wanted to convert from the Muslim faith to Christianity.
Tea Party Express starts barreling forward
Washington TimesFrom Alaska to Florida, the swelling "tea party" front catapulted underdog candidates in Republican primaries this year, but one of its greatest forces has been a highly organized California-based gro...
Courts pinpoint cops' GPS use
Washington TimesLate-18th-century notions of unreasonable search and seizure are clashing with the capabilities of 21st-century surveillance technology as U.S. courts struggle to define a reasonable expectation of le...
Priority Mail ads don't fit cost audit
Washington TimesMade popular by the "If it fits, it ships" slogan in television ads, the Priority Mail initiative is seen as a bright spot during otherwise tough economic times for the
Fenty seeks turnabout for backing Obama early
Washington TimesMr. Fenty , who trails in the polls as District voters prepare for Tuesday's primary, made the appeal during a radio interview on WTOP, acknowledging
Anti-Koran cleric sees modern battle with evil
Washington TimesNEW YORK | The Florida pastor who plans to burn the Koran on Saturday's anniversary of 9/11 is rooted in Pentecostal tradition that believes Christians are engaged in a modern-day spiritual battle wit...
BP report faults partners in spill
Washington TimesGulf oil disaster in an internal report issued Wednesday, acknowledging that it misread a key pressure test of the well. But in a possible preview of its legal strategy, the oil giant also pointed the...
Sarah Palin condemns Koran-burning protest, calls it insensitive and unnecessary
New York PostFormer Alaska Governor Sarah Palin weighed in Wednesday on the current controversy surrounding a Fla. pastor's vow to mark the anniversary of 9/11 by burning a Koran, calling his proposed action "anti...
Missing Mexico Investigators Found Dead, Officials Think
International Herald TribuneMEXICO CITY — The authorities said Wednesday that they thought they had found the bodies of two law enforcement officials who were involved in the investigation of the
Muhammad cartoonist receives German award
New Zealand HeraldBERLIN - A Danish cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad and caused outrage in the Muslim world has received a German prize honouring his achievements for freedom of speech. Government spoke...
Arrests made in Mexico migrant slayings
New Zealand HeraldMexico City police wearing face-masks guard a truck arriving with the bodies of some of the 72 migrants who were killed in northern Mexico while trying to reach the US border. Photo / AP
News agencies concerned over South Africa media restrictions
New Zealand HeraldJOHANNESBURG - Proposed measures that could restrict the work of journalists in South Africa and even allow for the jailing of reporters have drawn protests from a group of international news organisa...
Mass Koran burning to go ahead, says US minister
New Zealand HeraldUS authorities believe a proposed 'Burn a Koran Day' by a Gainesville, Florida will have serious and possible violent ramifications worldwide. Photo / AP
O'Connor retired from court, not discourse
USA Today"I never thought I would see the day when we stopped teaching civics and government," says O'Connor, wearing a royal blue Cubs jacket and keeping an eye on the field. "Now, it could be a little boring...
ER visits for abdominal pain up, chest pain down
USA TodayO'Connor says chest and abdominal pain — which span an array of diseases — are the top reasons people visit the UVA ER. He says the chest-pain drop seen in the survey could be caused by mo...
'46 Mommas' shave their heads for cancer research
USA TodayTrendy hairstyles are nothing new to the streets of Los Angeles, but 46 women who shaved their heads Tuesday in front of the Hollywood & Highland Center, an entertainment complex that includes the
New mosque in Kentucky an oasis of calm
USA TodayWith the dome and dramatically arched windows, the mosque and an adjacent school under construction represent the boldest architectural expression of Islam to date in Louisville, a city where thousand...
Philippine family plotted massacre over dinner, says servant
The IndependentA servant of the politically powerful clan accused in last year's massacre of 57 people told a Philippine court yesterday that the family members plotted the killings of rivals and journalists over di...
Sarkozy defiant over pensions
The IndependentPresident Nicolas Sarkozy defied French trade unions yesterday, refusing to back down on plans to raise the retirement age despite Tuesday's protests against pension reform. Mr Sarkozy said he was as...
Sri Lankan president tightens his hold on power
The IndependentSri Lanka's parliament voted to eliminate term limits for the president yesterday, a move critics say could lead to dictatorship. The amendment will also tighten President Mahinda Rajapaksa's hold on...
Monk massacre film reopens old wounds
The IndependentHollywood may have abandoned the Western as a movie genre but the spirit of John Ford rides again this week – on an improbable subject in an unlikely place. One of the most horrific and still u...
Rodney King to marry juror who secured his $3.8m court pay-out
The IndependentIt was an emblematic case of police brutality and racism, which ignited America and prompted almost a week of violent rioting. Yet, after 19 years and a multi-million dollar payout, divorce and a stin...
Nigerian gunmen free 800 in prison break
The Independentheavily armed gunmen attacked a prison and freed up to 800 inmates, including 150 suspected members of a militant Islamic sect. Police said the gunmen killed one soldier, a police officer and two res...
Castro criticises Iran on anti-Semitism
The IndependentFidel Castro has criticised the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for denying the Holocaust and promoting anti-Semitism. The former Cuban leader also warned that an escalating conflict between I...
For first time in decades, Chicago faces life without a Daley in charge
The IndependentNo Daley in City Hall? It sounds about as likely as waking up one morning to find they had drained Lake Michigan. To the astonishment of nearly everyone, Richard M Daley has announced that he will not...
We will burn hundreds of copies of the Koran, insists Florida church
The IndependentDove World Outreach Center church pastor Terry Jones walks to a news conference where he announced the burning of the korans will continues as planned
We have failed, admits UN, as fresh wave of Congo rapes emerges
The IndependentThe United Nations has been urged to go back to basics in protecting civilians in Eastern Congo after admitting that 500 rapes in the space of a single month amounted to a serious failure in its missi...
Iran says it is 'reviewing' stoning sentence
The IndependentIranian authorities have suspended the execution by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said yesterday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world. "The verdict rega...
Backlash begins as BP attempts to spread blame for rig explosion
The IndependentBP set the scene for a vicious multibillion-dollar legal showdown with its contractors in the doomed Deepwater Horizon oil rig, pinning them with much of the blame for the explosion which led to the l...
Greek eonomy shrank 3.7 per cent as consumption slumped
The IndependentGreece's austerity-hit economy shrank at an annual rate of 3.7 per cent in the second quarter, a faster pace than previously thought, as consumption slumped. Household spending eroded at a record annu...
Obama rejects demands to extend Bush-era tax cuts
The IndependentBarack Obama dismissed a cacophony of voices calling for Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy to be extended beyond the end of this year, setting up a showdown with the Republicans that could define the ...
Castro casts doubt on 'Cuban model'
CNN(CNN) -- Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that the "Cuban model" no longer works, an apparent admission of failings in the communist economic model introduced by his revoluti...
Taliban chief says victory close
BBCTaliban leader Mullah Omar says his fighters are winning the war in Afghanistan and that the Nato-led campaign has been "a complete failure". In a rare statement, the shadowy leader called ...
Child detention 'harm' documented
BBCA medical charity says it has documented for the first time the effects of immigration detention on children facing removal from the UK. Medical Justice, which sends doctors into removal centres, loo...