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US President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:22:00 +0000

U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world "hope for a better future" and striving for nuclear disarmament.

Bail set at $30 million in Dugard kidnap case

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:30:00 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California judge set $30 million bail on Monday for a man accused of kidnapping, raping and holding captive an 11-year-old girl for 18 years.

Dying Manson follower Atkins denied parole

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:21:47 +0000

Susan Atkins, a follower of mass killer Charles Manson convicted nearly four decades ago in some of the most notorious murders in U.S. history, lost her 18th bid for release on Wednesday.

Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy dies at age 77

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:07:00 +0000

BOSTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate and haunted bearer of the Camelot torch after two of his brothers fell to assassins' bullets, has died at his home in Hyannis Port after battling a brain tumor. He was 77.

CIA memo details procedures for breaking detainees

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:07:00 +0000

Sleep deprivation, "insult slaps", water dousing and "walling", or slamming a detainee's head against a wall, were techniques used by CIA interrogators to break high-value detainees, according to an agency memo.

Prosecutor Named to Probe CIA Prisoner Abuses

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:41:00 +0000

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday named a special prosecutor to probe CIA prisoner abuse cases, a move that could distract President Barack Obama from his drive to reform the healthcare system.

Wild Fire in Greece Forces Evacuation of 10,000

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:00:00 +0000

A raging wild fire swept into a suburb of Athens, Greece early Sunday, forcing authorities in one town to order 10,000 people to evacuate their homes.

American Lutherans to allow sexually active gays as clergy

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:34:00 +0000

MINNEAPOLIS — The nation's largest Lutheran denomination took openly gay clergy more fully into its fold Friday, as leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to lift a ban that prohibited sexually active gays and lesbians from serving as ministers.

Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions; Used Gun, Drill in Interrogation

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:34:00 +0000

A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock executions as part of the agency's post-9/11 program to detain and question terror suspects, NEWSWEEK has learned.

JFK's sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at age 88

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:40:00 +0000

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who emerged from a powerful male-dominated political family to found the Special Olympics and become a leading advocate of the mentally disabled, died on Tuesday at the age of 88.

California prison riot injures over 250 inmates

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:32:00 +0000

Rioting inmates smashed and burned a large California prison on Saturday night and Sunday morning, injuring 250 prisoners and hospitalizing 55.

Car fleeing California police hits pickup, killing 8 including 5 children

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:38:00 +0000

A stolen car fleeing from police ran a stop sign and slammed into a pickup in California's Central Valley, killing five young children in the truck and all three people in the car, police said Sunday.

Over one million flee as typhoon batters Taiwan and China; 34 people killed; up to 1,000 missing

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:31:00 +0000

A powerful typhoon toppled houses, flooded villages and forced nearly 1 million people to flee to safety on China's eastern coast and Taiwan and left about a thousand people missing before weakening into a tropical storm Monday.

Massachusetts chemical leak sends 119 to hospitals

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:29:00 +0000

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Noxious fumes at a trash disposal facility sent 119 people to hospitals Monday, including two who were listed in critical condition.

Posters depicting Barack Obama as Joker appear on Los Angeles streets

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:40:00 +0000

Posters of American President Barack Obama which shows him as Heath Ledger’s Joker from the latest Batman sequel has covered the streets and highways of Los Angeles and numerous American web sites are reporting about them.

Happy Birthday, Mr. President: US President Barack Obama Turns 48

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:32:00 +0000

A presidential birthday isn't all that bad -- just think Marilyn Monroe crooning "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy. But if President Barack Obama wants to make his 48th birthday today a happy one, he would be advised not to look at photos of how his predecessors aged in office.

Different US locations weighed for Guantanamo trials

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:32:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — Staring at a January deadline, the Obama administration is debating between two dramatically different schemes for putting Guantanamo Bay detainees on trial: big-city courtrooms in the nation's capital, New York and Virginia — or a one-of-a-kind superjail in the Midwest.

Australia votes to recognise same-sex unions

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:19:00 +0000

SYDNEY — Australia's centre-left ruling party on Saturday voted for national recognition of same-sex unions but stopped short of lifting a ban on gay marriage.

Foreigners flee as violence reignites in South African townships

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:58:00 +0000

“The hate is back” proclaimed the headline of one of South Africa’s leading newspapers after foreigners were this week once again targeted in violence sweeping through townships across the country.

Indonesia arrests suspected suicide bomb recruit

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:54:00 +0000

Indonesian police arrested Thursday a suspected would-be suicide bomber trained by the group believed to be responsible for last week's deadly hotel attacks in Jakarta.