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Saturday, November 21, 2009

E-mail leak turns up heat on global warming advocates

In an embarrassing blow to the movement to combat global warming, hackers have posted hundreds of e-mails from a world-renowned...

China says 42 dead, 66 trapped in mine explosion

In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, rescuers go down the exploded coal mine in Hegang City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, on Saturday evening. BEIJING — A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people...

Chinese activist detained during Obama trip

WASHINGTON — A leading Chinese human rights lawyer who tried unsuccessfully to meet with President Barack Obama in...

Italian police arrest 2 linked to Mumbai attacks

ROME — Italian police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund and providing logistical support for last year’s terrorist...

Rocket hits outside luxury hotel in Afghan capital

Afghan police and Army soldiers rush to the scene where a rocket hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday. KABUL — A rocket hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel in Afghanistan’s capital late Saturday, wounding two...

Life requested for US suspect in Italy murder case

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox reacts during a hearing at Perugia’s court, Italy, Saturday. PERUGIA, Italy — Prosecutors requested life sentences Saturday for an American student and her former Italian...

Russia president criticizes ruling party over vote

ST.PETERSBURG, Russia — Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday chided officials in the ruling Kremlin-backed party with unprecedented bluntness,...

Police: 17 arrests in soccer match-fixing probe

Representatives of police, public prosecutors and UEFA during a news conference about sports betting fraud, at the police headquarters in Bochum, Germany, Friday. FRANKFURT — German prosecutors investigating match-fixing in soccer say 15 people in Germany and two in Switzerland...

Galileo’s lost fingers, tooth found at auction

A finger attributed to Galileo Galilei. ROME - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei’s corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century...

Mexico says new data reflect economic recovery

MEXICO CITY — Rising oil prices and increased exports are slowly dragging Mexico’s economy out of a severe recession,...

Iran to hold war games to protect nuclear sites

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will begin large-scale air defense war games Sunday aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities...

Pope and Anglican leader agree on closer relations

In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, left, shakes hands with the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams during their meeting at the Vatican, Saturday. VATICAN CITY — The archbishop of Canterbury held his first talks Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI since the Roman...

Nightmare is over for British man

LONDON - A British man who said he was having a nightmare about fighting off an intruder when he strangled his wife to death...

Quick restart of Big Bang machine stuns scientists

CERN scientists control computer screens showing traces on Atlas experiment of the first protons injected in the LHC during its switch on operation in CERN’s control room, near Geneva, Switzerland. GENEVA — Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world’s largest atom...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Palestinian president agrees to delay elections

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a visit to a religious museum in Salvador, Brazil, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone parliamentary and presidential...


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