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  • Rape in Russian prison results in charges against jailers

    Rape in Russian prison results in charges against jailers

    Phoenix News.Net

    Top prison officials in Saint Petersburg have been charged with the rape of two prisoners, one of whom was awaiting trial.

  • Unity Government ministers shut out by Mugabe

    Unity Government ministers shut out by Mugabe

    Phoenix News.Net

    Zimbabwe's Unity Government has suffered what might be a fatal blow at the hands of President Robert Mugabe.

  • Migrants warned of jail if they protest in Thailand

    Migrants warned of jail if they protest in Thailand

    Phoenix News.Net

    Thailand has warned it will imprison migrant workers who attend anti-government rallies scheduled for this weekend in Bangkok.

  • Votes being counted after Iraq elections

    Votes being counted after Iraq elections

    Phoenix News.Net

    With vote counting underway in Iraq, officials have said their work is being complicated by the large number of overseas votes coming in.

  • Pakistan police say arrested man is not Gadahn

    Pakistan police say arrested man is not Gadahn

    Phoenix News.Net

    An American-born al-Qaeda spokesman, Adam Gadahn, who was supposedly captured in Pakistan over the weekend, has escaped an intelligence dragnet after all.

  • Joe Biden goes to Middle East peace talks

    Joe Biden goes to Middle East peace talks

    Phoenix News.Net

    US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Monday to take part in a high-level peace conference.

  • US/Iran envoys agree there could be common ground on drugs

    US/Iran envoys agree there could be common ground on drugs

    Phoenix News.Net

    At a meeting in Vienna, the United States has told Iran it would be happy to work with the country on a drug eradication program.

  • Thousands of Ugandans relocated because of mudslides

    Thousands of Ugandans relocated because of mudslides

    Phoenix News.Net

    Uganda has told 300,000 people living on the slopes of Mount Elgon they will be immediately moved because of the risk of mudslides.

  • Deaths recorded in Turkey earthquake

    Deaths recorded in Turkey earthquake

    Phoenix News.Net

    Eastern Turkey was struck by a 6.0-magnitude quake on Monday, killing 51 people.

  • Gay life of US senator revealed

    Gay life of US senator revealed

    Phoenix News.Net

    A California state senator has come out as a homosexual after many years as a staunch opponent of gay rights.

  • Man stabbed in Los Angeles cinema

    Man stabbed in Los Angeles cinema

    Phoenix News.Net

    A man attending a movie in a US cinema has been stabbed after asking a woman to turn off he phone

  • Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: McQueen's Mesmerizing Finale

    International Herald Tribune

    PARIS — With a pattern of angel wings undulating over her shoulder blades, the model walked through the gilded salon in one of Alexander McQueen’s final creations before he chose to leave ...

  • Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Chanel Leads the Ice Pack

    International Herald Tribune

    PARIS — The South of France is suddenly smothered in unseasonable snow. Climate change is in the air. And nowhere more so than in the frosty chill that rose from ice sculptures on the set of the...

  • Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Fur Takes Center Stage Again

    International Herald Tribune

    Paris in winter has a fairy-tale quality. There are silver skies, palatial buildings and enchanted forests of shivering black trees lining the avenues. There are beauties and there are beasts — ...

  • Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Sobriety Sorority

    International Herald Tribune

    PARIS — It could have been a scene from a Fellini film: black-clad nuns with strange habits; hats encasing the heads like wimples; gilded chains dangling with graven images; capes in sheer plast...

  • Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Beige Is Beautiful

    International Herald Tribune

    The problem for brands, like Chloe, that have embraced the menswear style: How to tell them apart? Almost any piece from the designer Hannah MacGibbon — the camel coats, the darker tan versio...

  • Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: A Classic in Stripes

    International Herald Tribune

    Striped, long-sleeved T-shirts are a French staple, as Gallic as garlic or a beret, and their enduring appeal has turned them into a classic that is having yet another revival this spring.

  • Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Saint Laurent: Revolutionary Romantic

    International Herald Tribune

    PARIS — The wall is pitch black, yet as eyes adjust to the dark, outfits appear like cats in the night: the gleam of satin on a lapel, the sheen of a button, the outline of “le smoking&rdq...

  • Vatican on Defense as Sex Scandals Build

    International Herald Tribune

    note read on Vatican Radio, the Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, also cautioned against limiting the concerns over child sex abuse to Catholic institutions, noting that it also affected th...

  • Pennsylvania woman known as 'Jihad Jane' charged in terrorist plot

    New York Post

    A Pennsylvania woman was charged Tuesday with plotting to provide material support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill in a foreign country.An indictment unveiled Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney for the...

  • Get ready! Here’s your chance to become a Beach Bum

    New York Post

    Hey ladies! It’s time to get in touch with your inner beach bum.Open tryouts have been scheduled for the Coney Island Beach Bums, the dancers/cheerleaders who keep fans fired up at Brooklyn Cycl...

  • Lox of luck to not being kosher

    New York Post

    A Brooklyn bris without a lox plate is like Coney Island without the ocean.Thus Brooklyn businesses that specialize in serving lox to Orthodox Jews bristled at the notion that smoked salmon, a.k.a. lo...

  • White people have less sex than other Americans: study

    New York Post

    White people report having less sex than members of other races, according to a study released Monday on ethnicity and sleeping habits in America. However, they don’t have the least amount, the ...

  • ENVIRONMENT-UGANDA: Landslides - Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come

    IPS

    KAMPALA, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS) - Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual. But Mar. 1 was not a usu...

  • NAMIBIA: Female Hip-Hop Artists Challenge Stereotypes

    IPS

    WINDHOEK, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS) - African hip-hop prides itself on a more positive portrayal of women, but traditional cultural attitudes towards women still dominate the industry, say Namibian female rap...

  • ECUADOR: Avatar Downfall a Blow for Indigenous Communities

    IPS

    QUITO, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS) - Science fiction blockbuster Avatar was the big loser in the Oscar awards ceremony - not only a blow for director James Cameron but also seen as a symbolic reverse in the str...

  • Snow snarls traffic, strands thousands in southern Europe

    Channel News Asia

    BARCELONA, Spain: Heavy snow on Tuesday stranded thousands of road travellers on the French-Spanish border, blanketed Italian cities and left 10,000 homes in Corsica without power. A freak snowstorm d...

  • Israel, Syria eye nuclear power plants

    Channel News Asia

    PARIS: Israel and Syria are separately eyeing plans to develop nuclear power to meet the energy needs of the volatile Middle East, ministers told a conference hosted by France on Tuesday to promote re...

  • Northern Ireland backs transfer of key powers despite row

    Channel News Asia

    BELFAST: Northern Ireland's lawmakers approved on Tuesday a landmark deal on transferring key powers from London to Belfast, after a stormy debate and a rare intervention from former US president Geor...

  • Google welcomes chance to export sevices to Iran, Cuba

    New Zealand Herald

    GENEVA - A senior Google executive welcomed a US decision to relax restrictions on exporting internet communications services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba. Bob Boorstin, Google's director of policy commun...

  • U.S.: Terror charges for 'Jihad Jane'

    CNN

    Colleen LaRose, known as "Jihad Jane" and "Fatima Rose," has also been charged with making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft.

  • Rahm Emanuel in political cross hairs

    CNN

    Washington (CNN) -- White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is accustomed to working in the shadows, but he now finds himself the subject of newspaper stories.

  • U.S. serial killer won 'The Dating Game'

    C News

    This Jan. 11, 2010 file photo shows Rodney Alcala, a former death row inmate who was twice convicted of the 1979 killing of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl, sitting in Orange County Superior Court...

  • Court denies atom smasher would destroy world

    C News

    BERLIN - A German woman has failed in a bid to force her country's government to halt experiments at the world's largest atom smasher which she feared would lead to the Earth's destruction. Germa...

  • Man admits blackmailing Letterman

    BBC

    A US television producer has pleaded guilty to attempting to blackmail US chat show host David Letterman over his sexual affairs.Robert Halderman was charged after threatening to reveal all unless pai...

  • Medal honours Holocaust 'heroes'

    BBC

    A medal honouring ordinary Britons who helped Jews and other persecuted groups escape the Nazis has presented to two men by Gordon Brown at Downing Street.Sir Nicholas Winton helped saved nearly 700 J...

  • Bali Bomb Mastermind 'Killed In Shootout'

    Sky News

    Jemaah Islamiah , was apparently killed in a raid on a property south of the capital Jakarta. A police source said it was "strongly suspected" that Dulmatin had been killed. If true, his death would...

  • Two Charged Over Killing Of Scarlett Keeling

    Sky News

    Indian media said local men Samson D'Souza and Placido Carvalho had been charged with culpable homicide, grave sexual assault, administering a drug with intent to harm, outraging modesty and destroyin...

  • Lohan Sues Over Baby Advert 'Likeness'

    Sky News

    In a lawsuit filed in Nassau County, New York state, the actress accuses E*Trade of invoking her "name, characterisation and personality" without permission. The firm's advert features a "milkaholic"...

  • Accused Letterman extortionist pleads guilty

    Reuters

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A television producer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from U.S. talk show host David Letterman by threatening to reveal his affairs with women who worked ...

  • Guilty Plea in Letterman Extortion Case

    CBS News

    Judge Won't Toss Letterman Case (CBS/AP) Last updated 3:57 p.m. Eastern A television producer admitted Tuesday to trying to shake down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's aff...

  • Gov't: Baby Slings Can Cause Suffocation

    CBS News

    The Consumer Product Safety Commission is set to issue a warning about popular "baby slings" which can force the infant into a position that constricts breathing, leading to at least seven deaths.

  • Report: Massa Allegedly Groped Male Staffers

    CBS News

    reports . Citing three unnamed sources, the Post reports that the allegations date back at least a year and involve "a pattern of behavior and physical harassment." Massa resigned this week after it c...

  • U.S. Condemns New Israeli Settlements

    CBS News

    Israel's approval of 1,600 new settlement homes in disputed East Jerusalem Tuesday. Israel approved the new construction earlier in the day- a move that immediately clouded a visit by Vice Presiden...

  • Meet The 15-Year-Old Conservative Wunderkind

    CBS News

    Bob Schieffer spoke with Jonathan Krohn, the 15 year-old wunderkind about his new book, "Defining Conservatism". Plus; Unplugged gives a health care primer with Norm Ornstein and Keli Goff.

  • As Chile Shook, Cities Shifted to the West

    CBS News

    Using GPS technology, scientists have measured significant movement from the magnitude-8.8 earthquake that struck Chile on February 27. Concepcion, the largest city near the quake's epicenter, shifted...

  • Drexel board expected to name John Fry as president

    Philadelphia Daily News

    Drexel University trustees tomorrow are planning to name John A. Fry - president of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster and a former University of Pennsylvania executive - as the new president,...

  • George Chavanne Sr.: Mummer, court officer dies

    Philadelphia Daily News

    George H. Chavanne Sr., 84, of South Philadelphia, a retired court officer, Mummer, and commander of the Philadelphia Municipal War Veterans Association, died of complications from a stroke Sunday at ...

  • Two men arraigned in Camden torture killings

    Philadelphia Daily News

    Two men were arraigned today in connection with the brutal slaying of a couple who was tortured and buried in the back yard of a Camden row home. Darrel Pierre, 19, and Clive Hinds, 18, were both cha...

  • Bucks nurse sentenced for stealing from Alzheimer’s patient

    Philadelphia Daily News

    A Bucks County nurse who stole thousands of dollars from an infatuated, 71-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease was sentenced to prison this afternoon. Donna Hammerstone, 46, sobbed and begged for m...