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  • Al-Qaeda flag planted at killing site in Iraq

    Al-Qaeda flag planted at killing site in Iraq

    The Cambodia News.Net

    Al-Qaeda militants killed 23 members of Iraq's security forces across the country on Thursday.

  • Frenchwoman blamed for deaths of eight babies

    Frenchwoman blamed for deaths of eight babies

    The Cambodia News.Net

    Police in France say a woman has admitted to suffocating eight newborn babies.

  • Russian special branch turns tables on hijacker

    Russian special branch turns tables on hijacker

    The Cambodia News.Net

    Russia's special forces have managed to prevent a hijacker from taking complete control of a plane carrying 105 passengers.

  • Drowning numbers high in Pakistan flash floods

    Drowning numbers high in Pakistan flash floods

    The Cambodia News.Net

    Over 100 people have died in flash floods triggered by torrential rains in Pakistan and Kashmir.

  • FBI called in on Wikileaks issue

    FBI called in on Wikileaks issue

    The Cambodia News.Net

    The FBI has been asked to look into how Wikileaks got hold of more than 90,000 classified US military documents.

  • Arizona law brings out protesters

    Arizona law brings out protesters

    The Cambodia News.Net

    Police in riot gear stared down protesters in a tense stand-off in Pheonix, Arizona on Thursday.

  • Another US serviceman found dead after going missing

    Another US serviceman found dead after going missing

    The Cambodia News.Net

    Another US serviceman has been found dead in a remote area of Afghanistan.

  • Indonesian sect members attacked at Indonesian mosque

    Indonesian sect members attacked at Indonesian mosque

    The Cambodia News.Net

    Indonesian police have been involved in a confrontation with people who were attacking a mosque used by a minority Islamic sect.

  • Pakistan poll finds Taliban support

    Pakistan poll finds Taliban support

    The Cambodia 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.

  • Kohinoor diamond to stay in British crown

    Kohinoor diamond to stay in British crown

    The Cambodia News.Net

    The British government has refused to consider returning the jewel in the British monarch's crown.

  • Netherlands heads for first postwar minority government

    Washington Times

    The Netherlands appears on track to have its first minority government since World War II, Dutch party leaders announced Friday. The arrangement would see Mark Rutte's victorious Liberal Party forge a...

  • 2 killed in plane crash pulled from Lake Michigan

    San Diego Union-Tribune

    This undated photo provided by Cessna shows a Cessna 206. A medical transport plane carrying five people to the Mayo Clinic crashed into Lake Michigan on Friday July 23, 2010 and one person was rescue...

  • Bodies of 2 plane crash victims recovered in Mich.

    San Diego Union-Tribune

    This undated photo provided by Cessna shows a Cessna 206. A medical transport plane carrying five people to the Mayo Clinic crashed into Lake Michigan on Friday July 23, 2010 and one person was rescue...

  • Top Shelf Stories: You Went to College for That?

    New York Post

    Top New York storytellers will reflect on their college majors at this show. The show will be hosted by acclaimed standup comic and storyteller Ophira Eisenberg and feature Andy Christie (NPR, The Lia...

  • Oy vey! Jews and non-Jews plenty mad over McMahon's 'Jewish money' gaffe

    New York Post

    The “Jews” are not happy about Rep. Mike McMahon’s “Jewish money” gaffe.The Anti-Defamation League is demanding an apology from the freshman Bay Ridge Democrat after a st...

  • Prosecutors won't pursue charges against Al Gore in Oregon sex case

    New York Post

    Prosecutors have declined to push ahead with a criminal case against former Vice President Al Gore for allegedly sexually assaulting a massage therapist in 2006, according to a new report. The Multnom...

  • Outdoor Cinema in Socrates Sculpture Park

    New York Post

    Head to the waterfront park as its annual Outdoor Cinema series continues. This week's installment includes films from India, including "Sita Sings the Blues." In the spirit of highlighting the divers...

  • Weekly story time at Barnes & Noble

    New York Post

    Come to Barnes & Noble in Fresh Meadows for the store's weekly children's storytime. For more details, call 718-380-4340 or visit www.barnesandnoble.com.

  • LI Judge: business man in divorce trial 'despicable'

    New York Post

    A Long Island judge said a "despicable... vindictive, vengeful and hateful" business man is the ex-husband from hell because he tried to stick his former wife with a $1.6 million tax bill, faked a bus...

  • 'Watts' up at the Bushwick Starr? Innovative comic Reggie Watts

    New York Post

    moves it about. The Williamsburg-based performer has a way of captivating an audience, keeping listeners hanging on his every word, waiting for the punchline.Part of it has to do with the fact that th...

  • Lindsay Lohan ordered to report directly to rehab after jail release: report

    New York Post

    Lindsay Lohan was ordered to report directly to rehab after her upcoming release from a California jail, People Magazine reported Friday."Lindsay's going to rehab directly from jail, she's been ordere...

  • 'Cityscape: Surveying the Urban Biotope' final day

    New York Post

    The exhibit, which examines the presence of nature in urban life, features 11 new works by artists Saul Becker, George Boorujy, William Cordova and more. This is the final day you can catch it; call 7...

  • ‘Jersey Shore’ star busted for disorderly conduct: report

    New York Post

    “Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi was reportedly taken into police custody earlier today for disorderly conduct.The pint-sized guidette was nabbed by police in Seasid...

  • Afghan Women Fear Loss of Rights if the Taliban Return

    International Herald Tribune

    Afghanistan have begun seeping away. Girls’ schools are closing; working women are threatened; advocates are attacked; and terrified families are increasingly confining their daughters to home.

  • IAF strikes Gaza strip; response to Ashkelon missile attack

    Jerusalem Post

    This followed Friday morning's Grad missile attack in Ashkelon, for which the Aza Din al-Kassem Gazan terror group claimed responsibility on Friday.

  • MidEast Internet Users Highly Educated

    Jerusalem Post

    The vast majority of Middle Eastern Internet users are highly educated, with 69 percent having either graduate or post-graduate degrees, a new survey has found. The study, “Media Consumption and Hab...

  • PERU: Families of Victims of Biggest Shining Path Massacre Seek Justice

    IPS

    SICUANI, Peru, Jul 30, 2010 (IPS) - For 26 years, Gregoria Aguilar has been mourning the loss of her son, son-in-law and nephew, who were killed in the biggest massacre committed by the Maoist Shining...

  • Man jailed for US vomit assault

    New Zealand Herald

    PHILADELPHIA - A 21-year-old New Jersey man was sentenced to jail on Friday for vomiting on another spectator and his 11-year-old daughter in the stands at a Philadelphia Phillies major league basebal...

  • Trial set over ownership of $550m emerald

    New Zealand Herald

    LOS ANGELES - The case of an emerald the size of a boulder will arrive in a courtroom in September, accompanied by a small army of lawyers representing those who have laid claim to the 381-kilogram ro...

  • Boy fired shot that killed 3-year-old

    New Zealand Herald

    INDIANAPOLIS - A 4-year-old Indianapolis boy picked up a gun left lying on a kitchen table and fired a shot that killed the 3-year-old daughter of his father's girlfriend, police said Friday. After f...

  • Israel retaliates for Gaza rocket attack

    New Zealand Herald

    Israel has carried out air strikes on Gaza Strip targets, according to reports. The air strikes were in retaliation to a rocket fired on Friday from the Palestinian territory that hit the city of Ash...

  • Bangladesh lifts its rag trade pay 80pc

    New Zealand Herald

    DHAKA: Bangladesh has raised minimum monthly wages for its millions of garment workers by about 80 per cent after months of violent protests over poor pay and conditions, a Government minister said ye...

  • Village shocked by baby deaths

    New Zealand Herald

    A gentle arc of eight candles in glass holders - five red, two yellow and one blue - stands before the locked gate of 8 Sentier du Pre. It is an odd house, with a dull cream front and a sloping roof,...

  • Big bucks for Chelsea Clinton's big day

    New Zealand Herald

    RHINEBECK: Imagine spending $346,500 on flowers. Or $28,000 on a cake. How does $20,000 to $25,000 for toilets sound? Wedding industry experts say that when Chelsea Clinton gets married tomorrow at a...

  • FBI on the trail of Afghan leaks

    New Zealand Herald

    A criminal investigation into the leak of tens of thousands of secret Afghanistan war logs could reach beyond the military, Defence Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday, and he did not rule out that ...

  • Quiet country church became a marriage machine

    New Zealand Herald

    With its imposing red-brick walls, gently sloping grounds and long wooden knave, the church of St Peter and St Paul in St Leonards-on-Sea is as pretty a place as any to get hitched. Boasting a congre...

  • Whistleblower site's greatest hits

    New Zealand Herald

    2. Guantanamo Bay operating procedures The "Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta", the US Army manual for soldiers dealing with prisoners at Camp Delta, was released on Wikileaks in 2007. Hu...

  • Cameron resurrects Thatcher diplomacy

    New Zealand Herald

    In just a few days, new Prime Minister David Cameron has openly declared Britain is no more than the "junior partner" of the United States, irritated Israelis by calling Gaza a prison camp and enraged...

  • Al Qaeda flies flag after attack

    New Zealand Herald

    BAGHDAD - Militants flew an al Qaeda flag over a Baghdad neighbourhood yesterday after killing 16 security officials and burning some of their bodies in a brazen afternoon attack that served as a grim...

  • Gruesome charges against Nazi guard

    New Zealand Herald

    BERLIN: The world's third most wanted Nazi suspect was involved in the entire process of killing Jews at the Belzec death camp: from taking victims from trains to pushing them into gas chambers to thr...

  • Over 6000 grave errors in national cemetery botch-up

    New Zealand Herald

    WASHINGTON: Estimates of the number of graves that might be affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew from hundreds to as many as 6600 yesterday, as the United States cemetery's former s...

  • Employee to sue blogger over race smear

    New Zealand Herald

    SAN DIEGO: A woman who was ousted from her job at the Agriculture Department said yesterday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last we...

  • Ariz. governor considers changing immigration law

    USA Today

    Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks to media in Tucson, Ariz., Wednesday, following a federal court ruling blocking some of the key provisions of a controversial immigration law.

  • Obama defends education policies to critics

    USA Today

    President Barack Obama speaks on education reform at the National Urban League 100th Anniversary Convention in Washington, D.C., July 29.

  • Gulf oil spill released toxic, tough-to-track chemicals

    USA Today

    Oiled marsh grass is seen underneath absorbent booms in Barataria Bay on the coast of Louisiana June 20. Months after the start of the worst offshore oil spill, scientists say wetland damage is severe...

  • Earthquake hits Iran, injures dozens

    CNN

    Iran lies on a series of seismic fault lines and has experienced devastating earthquakes -- most notably in December 2003, when a 6.6-magnitude quake devastated the ancient city of Bam in southeast Ir...

  • Russian fires kill 25 amid record heat

    CNN

    Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- Wildfires in Russia, among the worst ever there, have killed 25 people, destroyed more than 1,000 homes, and prompted the prime minister to call on local officials to resign, r...

  • Opinion: U.N. needs a better boss

    CNN

    Unless Hillary Clinton and her UN ambassador, Susan Rice, are prepared to contradict Ahlenius' assessment, they will have no choice but to withdraw America's support for Ban's re-election (his term ex...

  • Last days to nominate a 2010 CNN Hero

    CNN

    What do they have in common? Each was selected as a CNN Hero after being nominated by someone like you -- someone who wanted us to share their story with the world.

  • Israel launches Gaza air strikes

    BBC

    The strikes came after a rocket fired from the coastal enclave by militants earlier on Friday hit the Israeli city of Ashkelon on the Mediterranean coast.