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 FBI called in on Wikileaks issue
The Orlando News.Net
The FBI has been asked to look into how Wikileaks got hold of more than 90,000 classified US military documents.
 Pakistan poll finds Taliban support
The Orlando News.Net
The US polling group, Pew Research Centre, has done a survey in Pakistan to determine how Pakistanis view the Taliban and other terrorist groups.
N.Y. village awaits Chelsea Clinton wedding
Washington Times
View results RHINEBECK, N.Y. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton made a long-anticipated appearance in the upstate New York village where his daughter is getting married tomorrow, drawing crowd...
European Bank Stress Tests Worked: Sort Of
International Herald Tribune
stress tests on the largest European banks, market data is starting to provide an indication of whether the exercise had the desired effect on confidence. The answer: sort of. Bank stocks rose in the...
Fires and Storms Kill at Least 28 in Russia
International Herald Tribune
Russia , wildfires burned down several villages in the central part of the country, killing about two dozen people, government officials said on Friday. In the hardest hit area, near the city of Nizh...
China Sentences 3 Webmasters of Uighur Sites
International Herald Tribune
BEIJING — Three men accused of “endangering state security” for their role in maintaining popular Uighur-language Web sites have been sentenced to prison terms of 3 to 10 years, acco...
Rocket From Gaza Hits Israeli City
International Herald Tribune
Gaza struck the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon on Friday, damaging buildings and causing panic after more than a year of relative calm. There were no physical injuries, but police said that several...
Rocket prompts complaint to UN
Jerusalem Post
The Foreign Ministry instructed Israeli ambassadors to file an immediate complaint to the president of the UN Security Council and the Human Rights Council in Geneva following the Grad missile attack ...
Quake hits Iran villages, injuring at least 110
Channel News Asia
TEHRAN: A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck Iran's northeast on Friday, injuring at least 110 people, damaging villages and disrupting communications, media reports said citing officials. The quake...
New BP boss vows to stay the course in Gulf clean-up
Channel News Asia
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana: Incoming BP boss Bob Dudley on Friday vowed the British energy giant would not abandon Gulf residents for years to come, as engineers fine-tuned plans to kill a ruptured well f...
Greg Ansley : Voters to choose macho or makeover
New Zealand Herald
So much for vision and the big picture. If Australians tick their ballot papers according to the weight of media coverage of this campaign so far, the outcome of the August 21 election will rest as mu...
City that chose to outsource everything
New Zealand Herald
When two uniformed police officers approached Hector Hernandez as he arrived at the City of Maywood's official Fourth of July celebrations, he feared the worst. The stocky 22-year-old - whose neck ta...
Toy boy at 100th birthday
New Zealand Herald
New Zealander Mavis Cook turned 100 this week at her apartment in the Sydney suburb of Marsfield - with her 91-year-old "toy boy" on her arm. Ms Cook turned down a marriage proposal when she was a sp...
College students may get break on textbook expenses
USA Today
Proponents say the law will give students more time to take advantage of textbook buy-back programs, book rentals and prices that are often lower online than in college bookstores. They expect it will...
'Daddy's in heaven': The first victims
CNN
--Arleen Weise, mother of rigger Adam Weise At his home in town, Adam's presence is everywhere. His cat, Tits, prances in the grass near his giant black pickup, the Big Nasty. An American flag waves f...
Two die from mosquito-borne disease
C News
TAMPA, Fla. - Two Florida residents have died from Eastern equine encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease that is rare among humans but has infected a rising number of horses in the state, health offic...
Sisters detained over stab death
BBC
Sisters detained over stab death Two sisters from north Manchester are detained after one stabbed her boyfriend and the other let him bleed to death.
Pair forced six children to beg
BBC
The children were forced to beg on the streets for up to 12 hours a day, not sent to school and had no access to doctors. Some had cigarette burn marks.
Argentine gay weddings go ahead
BBC
An architect and a retired office administrator have become the first gay couple to marry in Argentina under a new law legalising same-sex marriages.
Further Chile quakes 'possible'
BBC
Chilean authorities are working with seismologists in order to prepare for a possible earthquake that could strike the country "any day".
Boy, 4, 'kills 3-year-old girl'
IOL
Indianapolis - Police say a four-year-old boy fatally shot his three-year-old playmate. Lt Jeff Duhamell told The Indianapolis Star that the boy picked up a loaded .45-calibre handgun that had been...
Infanticide case: mother was 'a pearl'
IOL
By Nicolas Gubert Villiers-au-Tertre, France - The French mother who admitted killing eight of her newborn babies is relieved her secret is finally out, her lawyer said Friday, in a case that has s...
Elephants trample man to death
IOL
Banda Aceh, Indonesia - Wild rampaging elephants trampled a farmer to death in western Indonesia on Friday, the second attack in as many weeks. Salahuddin, 30, was fishing with a friend when they s...
'CIA killed Chile army chief'
IOL
Santiago - The former head of Chile's secret police has denied involvement in the murder of the country's ex-commander in chief of the army, claiming the Central Intelligence Agency ordered the assass...
Mosquito-borne disease claims 2
IOL
By Robert Green Tampa, Florida - Two Florida residents have died from Eastern equine encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease that is rare among humans but has infected a rising number of horses in t...
Fire prompts evacuation of 2,000 homes north of L.A
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A fierce brush fire nearly doubled in size overnight as it threatened power lines that supply electricity to the greater Los Angeles area, but evacuation orders for 2,000 homes...
Canadian serial killer Pickton denied new trial
Reuters
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's highest court refused on Friday to grant a new trial for serial killer Robert "Willie" Pickton, who was convicted of killing drug addicts and prostitutes and butchering ...
"Static Kill" of Oil Well to Be Delayed
CBS News
Gulf Visibly Cleaner, Oil Rare On day 100 of the devastating oil spill, Mark Strassmann reports from Gulfport, Miss. that with the well capped and the spill breaking up it's tough to find any oil on t...
Ethics Panel Suggests Charles Rangel Reprimand
CBS News
Texas Democratic Rep. Gene Green, the chair of the subcommittee investigating ethics charges against New York Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel, told CBS News Capitol Hill Producer Jill Jackson and other...
Man Gets Jail for Phillies Game Vomit-Assault
CBS News
(CBS/AP) A 21-year-old New Jersey man was sentenced to jail Friday for vomiting on another spectator and his 11-year-old daughter in the stands at a Philadelphia Phillies game. Matthew Clemmens, of...
A Look Back at Presidential Weddings
CBS News
Pictures: Presidential Daughters Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, became an instant celebrity and fashion icon when her father assumed office. She was a White H...
Marine Corps Teach Afghan Cops How to Read
CBS News
Third Battalion, First Marines at home, and abroad in Afghanistan. Two remarkable statistics: out of all the people arrested by the local police and convicted of any crime in Garmsir in southern Afgha...
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