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 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.  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. 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... 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... '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... 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. 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... 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... 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.
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