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• Iraqis rally to cheer end of US forces

  Asia Pacific News.Net

  Tens of thousands of people have attended a mass rally in Iraq to cheer the cessation of US troop movements in the country. The celebration rally was organized by Iraq's Hezbollah movement to ...

• Washington police close camp near President

  Asia Pacific News.Net

  Police in Washington have closed down a large camping area containing members of the "Occupy" movement. The encampment, one of the biggest protest areas in the United States, was only a few ...

• Putin shows he has his supporters

  Asia Pacific News.Net

  A conspicuous show of support has been made for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Around 140,000 people attended a rally on Saturday in which placards were raised announcing Putin as a man ...

• Drug accused leader in Mexican police custody

  Asia Pacific News.Net

  Mexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders. Torres, the supposed head of a Sinaloa drug cartel, has been accused by police ...

• Prevention of child abuse to be discussed by Roman Catholic bishops

  Asia Pacific News.Net

  Leaders of the Roman Catholic church in Rome are gathering to attend a conference on sexual abuse of minors within the Church. They will attend a prayer service for victims of sexual abuse and ...

• Mitt Romney way ahead of Gingrich in Nevada primary

  Asia Pacific News.Net

  Voting is underway in the western U.S. state of Nevada's Republican presidential caucuses, with members of the party choosing the candidate they want to see take on President Barack Obama in ...

• U.S. Army orders Bradley Manning to face cout martial

  Asia Pacific News.Net

  A private in the U.S. Army is to face a court martial after leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks. Private First Class Bradley Manning, 24, has been in prison since his arrest one-and-a-half ...

• Military in Syria bombards civilians, killing more than 200

  Asia Pacific News.Net

  In the worst violence of the near year-long crackdown by government forces, Syrian security forces have launched a massive attack on the people of Homs. Using heavy artillery, the Syrian forces ...

• Nine dead in clashes as protesters mourn soccer riot deaths

  Asia Pacific News.Net

  CAIRO - Three people were killed in Cairo, and 6 in Suez, as thousands of angry protesters clashed with security forces in Egypt's capital Cairo and other cities for a second day Friday over the ...

• Israel says Iran planning retaliatory action after scientist killings

  Asia Pacific News.Net

  TEL AVIV - Iran is trying to strike Israeli targets around the world in retaliation for the assassination of its nuclear scientists, a top security official has warned. Yoram Cohen, the head of ...

• Former Khmer Rouge commander Duch's prison term enhanced to life

  Asia Pacific News.Net

  BANGKOK - Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal has rejected an appeal by a Khmer Rouge jailer Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, and increased his sentence to life imprisonment for crimes against ...

• Food crisis persists in Somalia despite good harvest

  Asia Pacific News.Net

  NAIROBI, Kenya - A good harvest and food aid inflows have improved the situation in Somalia, the United Nations said Friday declaring that the country is out of "famine" situation, while underlining ...

• Russian gas supply to EU via Ukraine drops

  Asia Pacific News.Net

  BRUSSELS - Several countries in Europe are facing gas supply crunch with severe cold weather driving up demand and drop in Russian supplies via Kiev, raising fears of a repeat of the 2009 ...

• UN's highest court overrules Italy on Nazi war claims

  Asia Pacific News.Net

  AMSTERDAM - The International Court of Justice has ordered Italy to annul all compensation claims against Germany for Nazi war crimes, saying Rome had breached international laws when its courts ...

• J’lem and Berlin sign contract for sixth submarine

  Jerusalem Post

  The Jerusalem Post has learned.The Defense Ministry initiated talks with Germany last year about buying a sixth submarine but Chancellor Angela Merkel's government initially balked when Israel ...

• The inside story on a new documentary on Russian president Vladimir Putin

  The Herald

  The BBC's new documentary series, Putin, Russia & The West, was more than two years in the making – much of it spent trying to persuade senior Russian politicians to take ...

• Blast hits Egypt gas pipeline to Israel for 11th time

  Jerusalem Post

  CAIRO - An explosion hit a gas pipeline running from Egypt to Israel on Sunday, witnesses and state television reported.The pipeline, which also supplies gas to Jordan, has come under attack at ...

• 'UNSC inaction on Syria reaffirms unreliability'

  Jerusalem Post

  Russia and China's veto at the UN Security Council blocking a resolution condemning Syrian President Bashar Assad reaffirms Israel's belief that the UN cannot be relied on to prevent war ...

• New traffic enforcement cameras switched on

  Jerusalem Post

  Drivers beware. Dozens of traffic enforcement cameras situated at accident-prone roads and junctions are due to be switched on Sunday.Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch approved the final ...

• Sarkozy: France, partners planning Syria crisis group

  Jerusalem Post

  PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Saturday France was consulting with Arab and European countries to create a contact group on Syria to find a solution to its crisis ...

• Anger at Polish builders squatting in Army homes - and using British law to live there for free

  Daily Mail

  Two other Polish men left the house next door recently after squatting there for a fortnight. They were also thought to have been doing cash-in-hand building work in the ...

• 'Princess Pushy' has her husband's birthday parties pooped for being too extravagant

  Daily Mail

  Princess Michael of Kent has been told to drop plans for a three-day celebration to mark her husband’s 70th birthday after they were deemed too ...

• Britons' blunders over Seven Wonders

  Daily Mail

  And some are simply impossible - such as the quarter of Britons who have claimed to have visited ancient Wonders of the World which have not existed for hundreds of ...

• Millions urged to miss work to avoid one-hour Olympic queues on the Tube

  Daily Mail

  Millions of workers at Britain’s recession-hit companies are being urged to stay at home during the Olympics after organisers warned of hour-long queues at Tube ...

• Who's Cam's sham Wigwam man! Westminster is transfixed by Twitter spoof of PM's eccentric guru - and his 'Wigwam of Trust'

  Daily Mail

  Now Steve Hilton has been targeted by a mystery internet prankster, who has set up a spoof Twitter account parodying his consciously trendy, California-influenced ...

• Prince William takes to the skies on six-week tour of duty in the Falklands

  Daily Mail

  The pilot prince has been branded a 'pirate prince' by protestors - but William would have been concentrating on closer-to-hand issues as he prepared for his first ...

• Syria: Violent clashes in London after massacre leaves hundreds dead in regime crackdown

  Daily Mail

  Protesters gathered following reports that more than 200 people had been massacred in Syria when government forces shelled civilians in a rebel ...

• Tragedy of Made in Chelsea star's dashing father who killed himself in Hong Kong after losing bank role

  Daily Mail

  With her tousled blonde hair, bronzed limbs and radiant smile, Made In Chelsea star Francesca ‘Cheska’ Hull must have been exactly the sort of girl the producers had in mind when they ...

• Mad Cow Diesease: Plans to secretly test 30,000 NHS patients as CJD fears escalate

  Daily Mail

  Thousands of NHS patients could be secretly monitored by the Government for symptoms of the human form of mad cow disease amid concerns that there could be another wave of ...

• Illness forces Uggie to take his final bow-wow at Oscars

  Daily Mail

  But Uggie, the irresistible Jack Russell star of the hit silent film The Artist, is suffering from a debilitating illness that has cut short his ...

• 'Hadrian's Wall' customs if Scotland goes it alone to stop illegal migrants flooding into England

  Daily Mail

  The Foreign Office experts raise fears that a fully-fledged international border would be necessary because Scotland could be required to join the ‘Schengen’ open-borders system used by ...

• Support to end smacking ban as parents say it would have prevented summer riots

  Daily Mail

  Calls to scrap curbs on smacking have overwhelming public support – and parents believe such a move would help prevent a repeat of last summer’s ...

• How train robbery team got the wrong Mr Biggs and Post Office ended up blaming its own staff

  Daily Mail

  The Post Office wrongly suspected some of its own staff of being involved in the Great Train Robbery – because they shared the same surname as ‘the bandit’ Ronnie Biggs or they had ...

• Harry sports 'nasty' gash on nose as he parties with Becks after hostage course

  Daily Mail

  He also had to live in the wild with no tent as part of the tough SERE course – meaning Survive, Evade, Resist, Extract – ahead of his return to the front ...

• For censors' eyes only: The X-rated Bond scenes that fell foul of our film watchdogs

  Daily Mail

  He may have triumphed over the world’s greatest criminal masterminds, but in his early days James Bond suffered countless defeats at the hands of Britain’s film ...

• An older mum OR dad increases autism risk going against current perceptions

  Daily Mail

  Couples have a greater risk of having a child with autism if either the father or the mother is over the age of 35, according to a major international ...

• Will soccer star Barton be the first tweeter accused of contempt? Footballer investigated over John Terry tweets

  Daily Mail

  The Queens Park Rangers captain gave a robust view of the incident that led to Terry being accused of using racist language against Barton’s team-mate Anton Ferdinand last ...

• Briton missing after fall from world's biggest liner: 225,282-ton Allure of the Seas chartered by gay and lesbian holiday firm

  Daily Mail

  He was among more than 4,500 passengers on board Allure of the Seas as it sailed from Florida to an island south of Cancun on a gay and lesbian-themed seven-day ...

• Justine Greening: Britain is the whiplash capital of Europe - and I'm going to stop it

  Daily Mail

  The raft of fees means a windfall for everyone involved in the complex chain of charges - except ordinary policyholders who are left to pick up the ...

• The 'boutique' dating agency promised I'd meet eligible high-flyers... All I got was an IT worker in an anorak called Terry!

  Daily Mail

  Having tried internet dating and found it too hit-and-miss, she turned to one of the new breed of ‘boutique’ dating clubs, promising a bespoke service for busy ...

• Car insurance rip-off: 5,000 firms chasing claims... and 700 of them have been struck off

  Daily Mail

  The crackdown comes as an investigation by this newspaper revealed there are an astonishing 5,399 claims-management companies (CMCs), which refer car-crash victims to no-win, no-fee law firms in ...

• Costa Concordia: Grim quest for bodies on board capsized cruise ship

  Daily Mail

  After the tragedy has come the quiet heroism of the Italian rescue teams. Live was given exclusive access to the divers and sappers who are searching for bodies in a half-submerged hulk they know ...

• What this picture of Prince William's Eton days tells us about modern Britain

  Daily Mail

  The bronze plaques are mounted on the cloister wall of School Yard, right at the heart of Eton College. On them are engraved the names of all the school’s old boys, many hundreds of them, who ...

• Britain's first serial killer Mary Ann Cotton: She poisoned 21 people including her own MOTHER, CHILDREN and HUSBANDS.

  Daily Mail

  This is the home in which Britain’s first serial killer, Mary Ann Cotton, claimed her final victim. It is the house in which she was arrested and then taken away to be incarcerated, before ...

• Two girls, both 16, 'kidnapped' by 19-year-old boys they met online

  Daily Mail

  Teenagers Amber Henry and Kirsten Kamradt were discovered by U.S. marshals and FBI agents after they were forced across state lines by the 19-year-old ...

• Iran moves to cut oil exports to some countries in Europe

  Daily Mail

  Iran has vowed to cut oil exports to some European countries in retaliation over the bloc's recent decision to ban oil imports from the Islamic Republic. It has not named the countries which ...

• Occupy DC protesters arrested

  Channel News Asia

  WASHINGTON: Police moved in Saturday to clear the Washington offshoot of Occupy Wall Street, arresting at least seven protesters in a sometimes chaotic day-long raid on the tent colony near the ...

• International Students Pay Top Dollar at U.S. Colleges

  International Herald Tribune

  SEATTLE - This is the University of Washington's new math: 18 percent of its freshmen come from abroad, most from China. Each pays tuition of $28,059, about three times as much as students from ...

• Anti-Putin protest makes a splash

  The Independent

  Tens of thousands of Muscovites endured icy temperatures of around minus 20 degrees to attend a protest march against Vladimir Putin ...

• Newt Gingrich is a loser in Las Vegas as Romney romps in

  The Independent

  Mitt Romney, who won a signal victory in the Florida primary on Tuesday, was poised to double up with a thumping victory in yesterday's Nevada caucus. The win can, in the argot of local ...