Top Stories: A daughter of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has fled to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran after being held under house arrest for eight years. Big News Network.com Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:12:20 -0500President Barack Obama's commitment to close the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay has taken a hit. Big News Network.com Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:09:46 -0500India's home minister has revealed that terror strikes on the country were averted this year due to intelligence operations. Big News Network.com Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:36:17 -0500A US has been charged with sexually abusing patients. Big News Network.com Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:46:21 -0500In the US state of Virginia, five people have been taken hostage in a post office in the small town of Wytheville. Big News Network.com Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:49:46 -0500The driver of a coach carrying UK schoolchildren home from a skiing trip has suffered a fatal heart attack while driving through Germany. Big News Network.com Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:52:25 -0500A wrongly convicted man who was freed in 2008 by DNA evidence has issued a writ against his civil lawyer in a complaint which alleges he was charged too much in legal fees. Big News Network.com Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:48:06 -0500In a Colorado court, US man Richard Heene, 48, who falsely claimed his son was adrift in a helium balloon, has been sentenced to 90 days in jail. Big News Network.com Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:43:03 -0500An American Airlines plane has overshot the runway on landing in the Jamaican capital Kingston. Big News Network.com Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:38:35 -0500Sarah Abruzzese RICHMOND | Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine said Wednesday that a 1 percentage point increase in the state's income tax that he has proposed in his final weeks in office is the most responsibl... Washington Times Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:14:36 -0500By William Ehart and Andrea Billups THE WASHINGTON TIMES Decades ago, when Deborah Hampton was a young divorced mother of two, her father encouraged her to go to work for his employer, General Motors... Washington Times Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:14:35 -0500Valerie Richardson DENVER | The Gap is naughty, Target is nice, and Dick's Sporting Goods is a little of both, according to preliminary results of Focus on the Family's annual Stand for Christmas pro... Washington Times Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:14:34 -0500Valerie Richardson DENVER | The Fort Collins, Colo., parents behind the balloon-boy hoax received short jail sentences for falsely reporting that their young son had floated off in a homemade balloon... Washington Times Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:14:33 -0500OPINION/ANALYSIS: How did the European left rationalize communism's crimes and transform itself into a viable political force after the fall of the Soviet Union? It's all explained in "Last Exit to U... Washington Times Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:14:31 -0500By Don Thompson ASSOCIATED PRESS SACRAMENTO, Calif. | Noel Smith moved his wife and teenage daughter to one of California's most far-flung regions five months ago, a landscape of rolling mountains, r... Washington Times Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:14:29 -0500By Verena Dobnik ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK | Fresh bread will soon be baking high above ground zero. The new World Trade Center got its first restaurant Wednesday -- a sandwich shop at the top of ... Washington Times Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:14:28 -0500By Glen Johnson ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON | Teresa Heinz Kerry says she is being treated for breast cancer discovered through mammography and argues that younger women should continue undergoing the te... Washington Times Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:14:26 -0500By Jay Lindsay ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON | A Hummer, a 1957 hot rod, a comfortable house in a gated community -- if Bob Vigliotti wanted something, he bought it. Cash or credit didn't matter. As a succ... Washington Times Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:14:25 -0500Julia Duin Does God have an opinion on the Obama health care bill? Most religious groups think so, which may be why 1,950 Jews told Sen. Joe Lieberman to do "tshuvah" -- a Hebrew word meaning repenta... Washington Times Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:14:24 -0500By ASSOCIATED PRESS WYTHEVILLE, Va. | A daylong standoff at a small-town Virginia post office ended peacefully Wednesday with three hostages set free and a disabled suspect surrendering to police in ... Washington Times Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:14:23 -0500By Anne D'Innocenzio ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Expecting a stash of gift cards for the holidays? Better use them wisely. That's become a little easier, because many retailers have eliminated expir... Washington Times Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:14:23 -0500By Rob Gillies ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO | When Corey Marshall's BlackBerry mysteriously stopped sending and receiving messages, he realized all too clearly just how much he depends on the device: He ... Washington Times Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:14:22 -0500The Archbishop of York spoke out today against anti-homosexual laws being debated in Uganda. John Sentamu, who was born in the country, said proposals which could see gay people put to death ... The Independent Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:00:54 -0500A British tourist has gone missing from a Swiss ski resort, police said today. Myles Robinson, 23, was last seen at the Blue Monkey bar in Wengen at around 2am on Tuesday. The Swiss army ... The Independent Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:00:52 -0500Child protection campaigner Sara Payne is critically ill after being taken to hospital with complications following brain surgery.Ms Payne, 40, of Surrey, fell ill on Wednesday and is believed to be r... BBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:44:14 -0500Sir Alex Ferguson has branded Manchester City's dismissal of Mark Hughes as "unacceptable".The Welshman was sacked moments after Saturday's 4-3 victory over Sunderland, with Italian Roberto ... BBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:44:12 -0500Eritrea has labelled UN sanctions imposed on Wednesday as shameful, and denied allegations that it arms Islamist militants in Somalia.Eritrea's UK ambassador Tesfamichael Gerahtu told the BBC that the... BBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:44:11 -0500Russia and Georgia have agreed to reopen a border crossing that has been closed since July 2006, Georgia's foreign ministry says.The Kazbegi-Upper Lars crossing is likely to reopen next March, deputy ... BBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:44:09 -0500Shoppers searching for bargains in the seasonal sales may find they are a year too late for the best deals, according to experts.Retailers offered huge discounts at Christmas in 2008 as they had exces... BBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:44:07 -0500Europe's Goce satellite is returning remarkable new data on the way the pull of gravity varies across the Earth.Scientists say its first maps clearly show details not seen in previous space and ground... BBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:44:05 -0500The latest Star Trek film was illegally downloaded more than 10 million times in 2009, according to an internet blog site that monitors file-sharing.The figures suggest it is 2009's most pirated film,... BBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:44:04 -0500A YouTube video suggesting that face recognition cameras installed in HP laptops cannot detect black faces has had over one million views.The short movie, uploaded earlier this month, features "B... BBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:44:03 -0500Sydney - Australian holidaymakers were evacuated on Thursday from a campsite in the path of raging wildfires, a day after an inferno destroyed 13 homes in the country's south-east, officials said. ... IOL Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:37:55 -0500A suicide bomber targeted a security checkpoint in Pakistan's Peshawar on Thursday, killing four people in the second such attack in as many days in the flashpoint northwestern city. Attacks are es... IOL Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:37:52 -0500Yemeni forces killed 34 suspected al-Qaeda members, including senior leaders, in a dawn raid Thursday in a remote mountainous region of Yemen's Shabwa province, a security source said. "The raid wa... IOL Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:37:49 -0500DUBAI (Reuters) - Kuwait's Agility, accused of overcharging the U.S. Army by $60 million, said its court case in the U.S. is being rescheduled and a date and time will be announced soon, a U.S-based s... Reuters Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:36:32 -0500Closing in On Health Bill Senators need to finish work on the health care bill before heading home for Christmas. As Wyatt Andrews reports, the bill has cleared its final procedural hurdle, expected t... CBS News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:34:34 -0500Search for Ft. Hood Motive Investigators searched shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan's apartment and questioned his coworkers in an attempt to pinpoint a motive in the Ft. Hood shooting. Kimberly Dozie... CBS News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:34:33 -0500HEROIN laced with anthrax is being sold on the streets of Britain and has already killed two people in Glasgow, prompting warnings to addicts to be on their guard, The Times reported. The Australian Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:27:31 -0500Winds of 30km/h had been making making things difficult for fire crews trying to contain the blaze in the Great Sandy National Park at Cooroibah today.But conditions had eased slightly late in the day... The Australian Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:27:23 -0500Richard Collier was a 26-year-old left tackle for the Jacksonville Jaguars when he was the victim of a drive-by shooting last year. The 14 gunshot wounds left Collier paralyzed and cost him one of his... Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:25:29 -0500TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A major winter storm lumbering across the nation's midsection promised a white Christmas for some but brought headaches for residents without power and travelers crawling along sl... New York Post Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:05:33 -0500WYTHEVILLE, Va. (AP) -- A disabled man in a wheelchair who authorities say held three people for more than eight hours inside a small-town Virginia post office surrendered to police after freeing the ... New York Post Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:05:32 -0500PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber struck a neighborhood full of government buildings in Pakistan's main northwest city Thursday, killing four people and underscoring that militant groups ret... New York Post Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:05:30 -0500WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's commitment to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by next month may be delayed until 2011 because it will take months for the governmen... New York Post Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:05:27 -0500BEIJING (AP) -- China on Thursday accused some diplomats of interfering in its internal affairs because they criticized the detention and trial of a prominent dissident who faces up to 15 years in jai... New York Post Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:05:25 -0500Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, partners for 23 years and parents of two sons, split up over the summer, publicist Teal Cannady said in a statement Wednesday. She did not elaborate. New York Post Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:05:23 -0500NEW YORK (AP) -- Gary Patterson guided TCU to its best season in 70 years on the way to becoming the first Associated Press Coach of the Year from outside the six conferences with automatic BCS bids. New York Post Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:05:21 -0500News ) announced that its biologics unit MedImmune has filed its reply to a complete response letter issued last November for Motavizumab for the prevention of serious respiratory syncytial virus dise... RTT News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:40:28 -0500Amid an apparent earthquake in Kadima following the commitment by six MKs to leave the party, Kadima No. 2 Shaul Mofaz on Thursday asked for an urgent meeting with party head Tzipi Livni to discuss th... Jerusalem Post Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:35:23 -0500Charles Dickens, when writing his ever-popular Oliver Twist, coined the phrase 'The law is an ass'. Indeed it is, because laws are made by committees, some or all of the members of which seek to amend... Jerusalem Post Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:35:21 -0500In anticipation of the upcoming Christmas Holiday, the IDF and Civil Administration have issued an unlimited quota of one month-long permits for Palestinian residents of the Judea and Samaria region, ... Jerusalem Post Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:35:18 -0500A disabled man was in custody today after a gunman who took several hostages at a rural post office in Virginia finally surrendered. The hostages' ordeal ended when police who had surrounded t... The Independent Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:33:59 -0500By LOLITA C. BALDORASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has poured nearly $70 million in military aid to Yemen this year, a massive financial infusion aimed at eliminating the expandi... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:23:44 -0500May 13: Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Coll discusses his new book, ‘The Bin Ladens’, which addresses how the wealth and diversity of one of Saudi Arabia's most eminent families influenced its most f... MSNBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:21:54 -0500The existence of these arrangements are not new, but the scope is larger than previously thought, a new study by the Pan American Development Foundation found. The foundation conducted the largest fie... CNN Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:20:49 -0500Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti is hoping young strikers Fabio Borini and Daniel Sturridge will score goals while his first-choice forwards are unavailable.Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou leave for the A... BBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:17:06 -0500Spanish police are searching for an 18-year-old soldier from West Sussex who has gone missing while on holiday with his girlfriend in Tenerife.Matthew Jackson, from Crawley, is stationed in Germany wi... BBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:17:04 -0500Motorists and last minute Christmas shoppers have been urged to take caution as freezing temperatures and fog continue to affect Scotland.All of the country's main roads are open but police have warne... BBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:17:02 -0500This year children will have a range of hi-tech options when it comes to following the progress of Santa on Christmas Eve.The North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) has been tracking Santa f... BBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:17:01 -0500The festive disguise included a red suit, furry hat and full fake beard. Wielding a gun, he demanded a cashier hand over money. CCTV images show the costume clearly but his face is partly obscured b... Sky News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:16:53 -0500Lionheart, the early-music ensemble, performing its “Tydings Trew” program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday. International Herald Tribune Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:14:19 -0500SANAA (Reuters) - A radical Muslim preacher linked by U.S. intelligence to a gunman who killed 13 people at a U.S. Army base is believed to have died in a Yemen airstrike on al Qaeda militants, a secu... Reuters Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:09:19 -0500US investigators have arrived in Jamaica to investigate the crash of an American Airlines jet that left a mangled mess on a beach but no fatalities after overshooting an airport runway. Security was ... iafrica.com Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:08:39 -0500Children In Danger Warning signs, state-by-state child services information and a history of child welfare reforms. (AP) A pediatrician charged with sexually abusing his patients likely attacked more ... CBS News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:07:17 -0500Mexican Drug Lord's Revenge The family of a man hailed as a national hero in Mexico's drug war was executed just hours after he was laid to rest. Jeff Glor reports. CBS News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:07:15 -0500A court in Utrecht ruled yesterday that the 14-year-old can remain with her father, and possibly set off on her circumnavigation in just three months' time, despite sparking an international alert las... The Australian Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:00:52 -0500THREE people were killed and 24 missing today after two boats collided in darkness near Manila during the Christmas holiday rush, the latest disaster to hit the Philippines in a year of tragedy. The Australian Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:00:51 -0500The attack occurred during an argument between an elderly man travelling with his 17-year-old son, and a couple in another vehicle on Bonnyrigg Avenue, Bonnyrigg, at about 4pm (AEDT) today, police sai... The Australian Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:00:45 -0500The senior constable, attached to a specialist command, was arrested after he kicked over a parked scooter while off duty in Surf Lane, Cronulla, about 11.25pm (AEDT) on Tuesday, police say.It's also ... The Australian Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:00:44 -0500]+(>|$)/g, ""); formObj.field.value += ' (HTML deleted)'; } //alert('After Flag | mT: ' + mT + ' | kP: ' + kP) return insertComment(formObj, true, updateComments, true); };... Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:59:26 -0500SO IF YOU WANTED to buy a Philly souvenir, and you had to choose between a mini-replica of Independence Hall or a sequined, befeathered Mummers bobble-head doll, which one would you choose? I'd go wi... 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I have been trying to get him to wri... Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:59:14 -0500National Park Service officials have called off this winter's long-planned and highly controversial deer kill at Valley Forge National Historical Park. Park Superintendent Michael Caldwell confirmed ... Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:59:11 -0500HARRISBURG - Gov. Rendell said yesterday that he would again propose a tax on natural-gas drilling, and hinted that he might resurrect his proposal to raise the personal-income tax to cope with the ne... Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:59:10 -0500NOTE: You still need to confirm your registration before you can fully access our site features.Please go to the email we sent you at ' + userEmail + ' and click on the confirm link. '); }... Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:59:05 -0500It was sometime in the spring of 2007. Harrisburg Democrats had just learned of the criminal investigation that would become known as Bonusgate. As one of them later testified to a grand jury, staff ... Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:59:02 -0500In what may be a precedent, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will charge premium ticket prices for its forthcoming show "Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris." Such pricing generally is reser... Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:59:00 -0500Nehemiah Davis, 22, wraps presents with his twin sisters. He opened a produce stand at 19, and soon after started Asset Cleanouts, which removes junk from clients' homes and businesses. Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:58:59 -0500SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - To some who know it well, this Ocean County beach town is known, not so affectionately, as "Sleazeside." It's the summer playground for bored city kids who pack boar... Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:58:57 -0500She was Bonnie to his Clyde, federal authorities say. And for most of the last decade, investigators allege, they were partners in a criminal enterprise that trafficked in cocaine and prostitution, a... Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:58:54 -0500Two of the region's leading medical centers have racked up the city's highest number of "diversions" - periods when ambulances are advised to steer clear because the emergency room is so ful... Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:58:53 -0500News ), which has been hoping for regulators to approve its revised electricity and natural gas rate request in full.Ruling on a rate request, which was filed by Avista on January 23, 2009, the Washin... RTT News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:13:28 -0500About 200 Israeli teenagers soon to be drafted have sent a letter to Defense Minister Ehud Barak saying they would refuse to enforce any government orders to dismantle settlements in the West Bank.The... Haaretz Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:10:33 -0500Some 200 youths before enlistment sent Defense Minister Ehud Barak a letter on Thursday morning, in which they blamed the former chief of staff for endangering the IDF by using it for "political ends ... Jerusalem Post Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:07:10 -0500The Pro-Israeli lobby European Friends of Israel has filed a lawsuit in Belgium against Hamas leaders, demanding that they be brought to justice for war crimes. Jerusalem Post Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:07:09 -0500THOMSON, Ga. - An east Georgia man trying to get revenge on his estranged girlfriend by firebombing her home was being held without bond after he threw the device into the wrong house, police said. MSNBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:54:04 -0500Utah kick returner Shaky Smithson leaves California kicker Giorgio Tavecchio sprawled on the ground as he returns a kickoff 61 yards to set up a Utes score in the first quarter of the Poinsettia Bowl ... MSNBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:54:03 -0500BRASILIA, Brazil - Doctors on Wednesday removed 14 more needles from the body of a 2-year-old Brazilian boy who was stuck in what his stepfather has said was a murder plot to spite his wife. MSNBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:54:01 -0500Dec. 21: Rachel Maddow is joined by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, fresh from attending the climate change conference in Copenhagen for a discussion of whether anything of substance was ach... MSNBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:54:00 -0500A spokeswoman for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said herds in the Calico Mountains Complex in northwestern Nevada are overpopulated and need to be reduced to protect the horses and the rangelands tha... MSNBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:53:55 -0500The "Idol" franchise has been rocked by rumors that Cowell will depart the show after the upcoming season as he prepares to bring his hit UK music competition series "X-Factor" to the United States. MSNBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:53:53 -0500Families in Wales planning their Christmas getaway are being warned to take care travelling because of ice.The Met Office issued a severe weather warning due to concern about treacherous road conditio... BBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:49:26 -0500The brother of Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has said he will not surrender himself to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Liam Adams' solicitor said his client did not feel he could get a fair ... BBC Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:49:25 -0500The attack, in a busy commercial area with many government buildings, was the second in the city in three days. It followed a wave of violence that has seen more than 500 people die in Pakistan since... Sky News Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:49:19 -0500The light aircraft crashed into water around Dent Island, which is beside Hamilton Island in the Whitsundays, about 3.15pm (AEST) today, a spokesman said.The male pilot was plucked from the water by b... The Daily Telegraph Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:44:22 -0500Washington - US authorities arrested and charged a woman in Hawaii last week for allegedly threatening to kill President Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, days before the Obamas were due to arrive in the... IOL Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:42:49 -0500 | 
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