Archive for December, 2009

Injured Berlusconi pens love songs

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has turned to writing love songs as he recovers from an attack that left him with a broken nose and two broken teeth, reports say.
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Video: Feed the Children’s Porn Suit

In a lawsuit, the Christian non-profit organization Feed the Children claims that former leader Larry Jones accepted bribes and hid pornography. KWTV’s Charles Bassett reports from Oklahoma City.

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Escaped convict taunts police on Facebook

An escaped British criminal dubbed “the Facebook fugitive” has become an internet hit, taunting police via the online social networking site and notching up nearly 30,000 “friends”.
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Gunman found dead after mall rampage

A lone gunman killed four people in a rampage in a Finnish shopping mall and also murdered his former girlfriend before being found dead himself.
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Australia gives extravagant welcome to 2010

A jubilant crowd has welcomed a new decade on the foreshores of the Sydney Harbour, in what organisers are calling the biggest New Year’s Eve show in the world.
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CIA says 7 employees killed in attack

The CIA said Thursday that seven of its employees were killed and six others wounded in a terrorist attack on an agency base in Afghanistan.

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World says good riddance to 2009

More than 1 million New Year revelers in Sydney, Australia, get one of the world’s biggest parties started — bidding farewell to the tough year that was 2009 and welcoming a new decade.

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Jobless claims fall to lowest level since ’08

The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits dropped unexpectedly last week, a sign the job market is healing as the economy slowly recovers.

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Jobless claims fall unexpectedly as layoffs ease (AP)

AP – The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits dropped unexpectedly last week, a sign the job market is healing as the economy slowly recovers.

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Police: Gunman kills 5 in Finland, then self (AP)

AP – A gunman clad in black went on a shooting rampage Thursday, killing his ex-girlfriend then slaying four workers at a suburban shopping mall near Helsinki before turning his gun on himself, police said.

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Travelers’ choice: Shed shyness for security? (AP)

AP – As Ronak Ray hunted for his flight gate, he prepared for the prospect of a security guard peering through his clothes with a full body scanner. But Ray doesn’t mind: what he gives up in privacy he gets back in security.

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Yemen: Visa of Nigerian would-be-bomber expired (AP)

AP – The Nigerian suspected in the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner had stayed on in Yemen illegally after his visa expired three months ago and should have been stopped by authorities from leaving the country, Yemeni security officials said Thursday.
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Pakistan seeks terrorism charges against Americans (Reuters)

Reuters – Pakistani police will ask a court to charge five Americans detained in the country this month with planning terrorist attacks and jail them for life, a police official said on Thursday.

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Afghan insurgents seize 2 French journalists (Reuters)

Reuters – Insurgents have kidnapped two French journalists, their translator and driver northeast of the Afghan capital, a police official said on Thursday.
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Court: Mont. law allows doctor-assisted suicide (AP)

AP – The Montana Supreme Court said Thursday that nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, paving the way for the procedure.
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TSA subpoenas bloggers, demands names of sources (AP)

AP – As the government reviews how an alleged terrorist was able to bring a bomb onto a U.S.-bound plane and try to blow it up on Christmas Day, the Transportation Security Administration is going after bloggers who wrote about a directive to increase security after the incident.

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Bicentennial Anxiety: Why Mexicans Are Wary of 2010 (Time.com)

Time.com – The populace is anxious about the bicentennial of the founding of the country because really bad things seem to happen every 100 years

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Morrison baby announcement was hoax: statement (AFP)

AFP – An announcement that music legend Van Morrison had become a father again aged 64 was a hoax, apparently due to hackers targetting his website, a statement issued in his name said Thursday.

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Afghan attacks kill 7 CIA employees, 5 Canadians

KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide bomber penetrated a foreign army base in Afghanistan and killed seven CIA employees on Wednesday, one of the U.S. agency’s largest death tolls, while four Canadian troops and a journalist died in a separate attack.

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Pakistan seeks terrorism charges against Americans

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani police will ask a court to charge five Americans detained in the country this month with planning terrorist attacks and jail them for life, a police official said on Thursday.

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Endangered species to get daily web spot in 2010

GENEVA (Reuters) – Endangered species from polar bears to giant salamanders, great white sharks to beluga whales and Namibian quiver trees to Cuban crocodiles will have their day on the Internet throughout 2010.

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Prudential closes $4.5 bln brokerage stake sale

NEW YORK, Dec 31 (Reuters) – Prudential Financial Inc
said on Thursday it completed the planned sale of its
minority stake in a retail brokerage to Wells Fargo & Co
for $4.5 billion in cash.

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Pfizer shares fall after Prevnar FDA delay

NEW YORK, Dec 31 (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc shares fell
1 percent on Thursday after it said a U.S. decision on whether
to approve the company’s new version of its big-selling Prevnar
vaccine that fights pneumonia and meningitis would push past
the deadline.

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UPDATE 1-Anika buys Italian firm’s unit for $34 mln

Dec 31 (Reuters) – Anika Therapeutics Inc said it
acquired a unit of privately held Italian company Fidia
Farmaceutici Spa in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $34
million.

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Afghan insurgents seize 2 French journalists

KABUL (Reuters) – Insurgents have kidnapped two French journalists, their translator and driver northeast of the Afghan capital, a police official said on Thursday.

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