President Barack Obama is expected to announce on Tuesday that he will approve the sending of 30,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan.
Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:13:58 -0500

A Spanish High Court judge, Baltasar Garzon, has threatened to seize money from Banco de Chile and other individuals who are suspected of laundering funds for the former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet.
Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:28:19 -0500

Switzerland's ban on the building of minarets has released criticism from religious and political leaders around the world.
Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:40:04 -0500

Heavily armed police in Seattle raided the house of a suspect in the killing of four police officers on Monday, only to find the man had already gone.
Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:13:35 -0500

Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the Chevron World Challenge golf tournament because of injuries suffered in a car crash near his Florida home.
Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:52:09 -0500

Ongoing hostilities between Cambodia and Thailand are believed to be jeopardising the completion of the Trans-Asian Railway.
Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:31:53 -0500

A judge in Argentina has overturned a ruling that would have allowed the first gay marriage in Latin America...
Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:34:22 -0500

The toll from a ferry accident in Bangladesh’s southern Bhola district rose to 71 Monday after rescuers retrieved more bodies trapped in the sunken vessel.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:39:16 -0500

US film director Michael Moore has spoken about the Afghanistan war in a message to President Barack Obama.
Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:23:02 -0500

Two Japanese courts have partially recognized law suits from five more people suffering from radiation-linked illnesses due to the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:31:31 -0500

Iran's vice-president has said Iran only decided to build ten new nuclear facilities because of UN rebukes.
Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:38:36 -0500

In their latest ploy to cause maximum damage to international forces stationed in Afghanistan, the Taliban is using donkey ’suicide’ bombs to attack British troops in southern Afghanistan.
Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:27:33 -0500

More and more United States' citizens are making use of government food aid.
Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:57:28 -0500

The Kaiga nuclear power plant in India is under investigation after several workers tested positive for increased levels of radiation after they had consumed water from a cooler.
Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:37:06 -0500

A man who has been accused of being a guard at a Nazi death camp is to appear in court in Munich for what will likely prove to be the end of Holocaust trials.
Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:28:45 -0500

In the US, a gunman has burst into a coffee shop in Tacoma, Washington with a gun, killing four police officers who were typing on laptop computers.
Big News Network.com Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:15:44 -0500

Swiss voters have approved a right-wing initiative banning construction of new minarets attached to mosques.
Big News Network.com Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:33:04 -0500

More than 30 people were killed in road accidents in Bangladesh during the Eid-ul-Azha festival rush Saturday while 53 died when an overloaded boat capsized, media reports said Sunday.
Big News Network.com Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:10:18 -0500

Susan Boyle's album "I Dreamed A Dream" has made chart history in the UK, rushing to the top of the charts in its first week.
Big News Network.com Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:23:22 -0500

News ) to buy Vivendi's 20% stake in NBC Universal for $5.8 billion, according to media reports on Monday. The deal, if finalized, would clear the way for the creation of an NBC Universal joint ventur...
RTT News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:47:09 -0500

A few years ago, the 25 year old Marquette High School alum did m ission work in the slums of Kenya. He was determined to go back and film a documentary on poverty in Africa. He began by recruiting th...
News Channel 5 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:42:54 -0500

A growing budget crisis that threatened to upend many crucial programs for absorbing new immigrants has been reversed with the addition of some NIS 172m. to the Absorption Ministry's coffers for fisca...
Jerusalem Post Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:42:18 -0500

The street hawkers of Shanghai may still sell the occasional Mao Zedong wristwatch to nostalgic tourists on Nanjing Road, but modern China's obsession with Western brands is writ large on the vast pla...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:40:36 -0500

LONDON: Britain is to send an extra 500 troops to Afghanistan in December, tipping its deployment there over the 10,000 mark, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday The announcement of new troops to ...
Channel News Asia Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:36:27 -0500

BRUSSELS: The EU's first president, Herman Van Rompuy, officially took office Tuesday as the bloc's reforming Lisbon Treaty entered into force, giving the European project a human face as it enters a ...
Channel News Asia Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:36:25 -0500

Australia leads New Zealand in leisure time, longevity and house size, according to a new report, and it now seems they have better work Christmas parties than us as well. Today The Australian newspa...
New Zealand Herald Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:32:19 -0500

Mississippi Valley State University students and supporters protest a proposal to merge the school into Jackson State. By Brian Albert Broom, The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger...
USA Today Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:30:52 -0500

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that President Obama will make clear in his speech Tuesday that Afghanistan is not an open ended commitment.
USA Today Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:30:51 -0500

WASHINGTON ? The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday testing when whistle-blowers who discover fraud in federal programs may sue in the name of the United States and collect some of the settleme...
USA Today Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:30:50 -0500

"I think it happens a lot," says Donahue, 39, a documentary filmmaker who works in public relations in Sacramento. "Once they start down that process of being engaged – even if they are feeling ...
USA Today Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:30:49 -0500

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vowed to keep the Senate in session every weekend in December to finish the bill, saying "we have some things to work through."...
USA Today Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:30:47 -0500

WASHINGTON - The couple who crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner communicated with a senior Pentagon official about going to the event, but the official denies that she helped the cou...
MSNBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:30:11 -0500

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -Bobby Bowden said Monday evening at his home that he has not made a decision about his coaching future at Florida State and plans to meet with university officials again Tuesda...
MSNBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:30:10 -0500

New analysis of a 13,000-year-old Mars meteorite, retrieved from Antarctica, has rekindled the debate about whether the ancient rock holds signs of past microbial Martian life.
MSNBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:30:05 -0500

CHICAGO - The first rigorous study of behavior treatment in autistic children as young as 18 months found two years of therapy can vastly improve symptoms, often resulting in a milder diagnosis.
MSNBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:30:04 -0500

SALT LAKE CITY - A federal court hearing to determine if the man charged in the abduction of Elizabeth Smart is mentally competent to stand trial began Monday with testimony from an expert on religiou...
MSNBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:30:01 -0500

LOS ANGELES - Three boys were booked on suspicion of bullying or kicking red-haired students at a middle school when a "Kick a Ginger Day" prank inspired by a "South Park" episode got out of hand, aut...
MSNBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:29:59 -0500

As Notre Dame begins yet another search (its fourth this decade) for yet another coach in its never-ending quest to wake up the echoes for longer than a year or two, potential candidates should take a...
CNN Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:28:44 -0500

The NHS in England must get better at diagnosing cancers at an earlier stage if it is to continue to improve survival rates, the cancer tsar says.Prof Mike Richards wants more focus on one-year surviv...
BBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:25:34 -0500

Barcelona and Argentina striker Lionel Messi has been named European Footballer of the Year to win the prestigious Ballon d'Or award.French magazine France Football said that Messi beat last year's wi...
BBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:25:32 -0500

Lisbon Treaty . In the end, European politics delayed the treaty’s passage until late this year, and Mr. Solana, now 67, who spent the last 10 years building the institutions of a European Union...
International Herald Tribune Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:22:45 -0500

Comcast Exploring Stake in NBC (AP) General Electric Co. has reached an agreement to buy the 20 percent stake in NBC Universal held by French media conglomerate Vivendi SA, The Associated Press has le...
CBS News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:16:21 -0500

AN unexploded bomb has been found near a police station in Northern Ireland, officers said, in the latest threat to the troubled British province's fragile peace.
The Australian Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:09:23 -0500

BABY bottles containing the chemical Bisphenol A should be banned because there is "compelling" evidence linking it to breast cancer risk, British campaigners, scientists and health charitie...
The Australian Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:09:22 -0500

THE mother of a woman strangled by her husband received a call that sounded like somebody was "drowning" on the night her daughter died, a court has been told.
The Australian Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:09:20 -0500

FOOTAGE of a mother encouraging her daughter and another teenage girl to brutally assault a shy and vulnerable teenager has been played to a Melbourne court.
The Australian Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:09:19 -0500

THE odds of Labor retaining government at the next election have narrowed slightly after Tony Abbott was installed as Opposition Leader.
The Australian Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:09:18 -0500

And history shows these companies should enter the market in calm waters, as the All Ordinaries and ASX/S&P 200 indices finished the last two Decembers about where they had started, despite the ca...
The Australian Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:09:17 -0500

THE Australian stockmarket was slightly higher by early afternoon as investors awaited the Reserve Bank's decision on interest rates.
The Australian Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:09:16 -0500

BUILDING approvals unexpectedly fell in October, dragged lower by a slump in approvals for flats and townhouses, new data released today showed.
The Australian Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:09:15 -0500

KEVIN Rudd was forced to return to Washington today during the journey home to Canberra after meeting US President Barack Obama because his RAAF plane suffered a mechanical fault.
The Australian Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:09:12 -0500

PITTSBURGH - Pennsylvania's two-week rifle deer season is under way, and an estimated 750,000 hunters are expected to take to woods and fields in search of deer. The season runs through Dec. 12. Betw...
Philadelphia Daily News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:07:45 -0500

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Philadelphia Daily News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:07:44 -0500

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A political analyst says former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's decision to grant clemency to the suspect in the killing of four Washington state police officers could cost him if he...
Philadelphia Daily News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:07:43 -0500

PHILADELPHIA POLICE were searching last night for the man they say beat and raped a blind woman inside her home in the Northeast yesterday. The 50-year-old victim was walking toward the front door of...
Philadelphia Daily News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:07:39 -0500

On Saturday, the free-agent rightfielder, who played for the Phillies the past two seasons, had a street named after him in his hometown of Fredericton in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. And ...
Philadelphia Daily News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:07:32 -0500

The price for driving and dialing goes from zero to $75 Tuesday in Philadelphia as city police begin enforcing the new cell phone ban on city roadways. It's not just motorists who will earn the $75 f...
Philadelphia Daily News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:07:29 -0500

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After months of debate, President Barack Obama will spell out a costly Afghanistan war expansion to a skeptical public Tuesday night, coupling an infusion of as many as 35,000 more ...
New York Post Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:46:58 -0500

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Riven by partisanship, the Senate plunged into a widely anticipated debate Monday over sweeping health care legislation that President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have ...
New York Post Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:46:57 -0500

SEATTLE (AP) -- Using search dogs and going door to door, hundreds of police intensified the hunt Monday for the man wanted in the coffeehouse killings of four officers after a SWAT team came up empty...
New York Post Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:46:56 -0500

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's announcement of plans to build 10 more uranium enrichment facilities is largely bluster after a strong rebuke from the U.N.'s nuclear agency, analysts said Monday. Nonethel...
New York Post Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:46:55 -0500

As recently as Sunday, hours before the shooting suspect was linked to him, Huckabee said he was leaning against running again for president, telling "Fox News Sunday" he was "less likely rather than ...
New York Post Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:46:54 -0500

LYNDON, Kan. (AP) -- A former Missouri city official previously accused of assaulting his wife was charged Monday with capital murder in the shootings of her and their two teenage daughters in eastern...
New York Post Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:46:53 -0500

MIAMI (AP) -- A South Florida woman has been charged with calling in a bomb threat to keep her boss from missing a flight. An arrest report said a 31-year-old woman was charged Thursday with making a ...
New York Post Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:46:51 -0500

The Israel Defense Forces Spokesman's Office is to begin drafting computer experts with an eye toward establishing an Internet and new media department unit, Army Spokesman Brig. Gen. Avi Benayahu sai...
Haaretz Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:16:50 -0500

Palestinian statehood is a "vital" component necessary for regional peace, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, in a message to mark Monday's annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestin...
Jerusalem Post Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:14:17 -0500

After consultation with state officials from the military censor, Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch said on Sunday that no agreement has been reached with Hamas on a prisoner exchange, and that t...
Jerusalem Post Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:14:09 -0500

Hamas said Monday that a prisoner exchange agreement with Israel could be concluded in December, as negotiations for the release of captive soldier Gilad Schalit dragged on longer than initial media r...
Jerusalem Post Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:14:07 -0500

The opening of the John Demjanjuk trial on Monday in Munich had to be delayed by over an hour because of the flood of visitors - including Holocaust survivors - who wished to observe what might be the...
Jerusalem Post Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:14:03 -0500

Tiger Woods won't be coming to Hollywood any time soon, but the "other woman" linked to his mysterious late-night car crash is already there – holed up with one of America's most headline-prone ...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:13:12 -0500

The reputation of modern art went on trial in the south of France yesterday. Two brothers are accused in a court in Grasse of faking sculptures, supposedly by the internationally celebrated French art...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:13:09 -0500

Foreign and Commonwealth Office sources last night confirmed that five British sailors have been detained by the Iranian Navy while sailing a yacht from Bahrain to Dubai. the sailors were delivering ...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:13:04 -0500

The capture of five British sailors by the Iranians carries strong echoes of the moment two-and-a-half years ago when 15 Navy sailors and Royal Marines were detained. This time, the hostages are civi...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:13:00 -0500

Dozens of local Chinese officials and reporters have been charged with bribery in the cover-up of a coal mine accident that killed 35 people just weeks before the Beijing Olympics, a newspaper repor...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:12:56 -0500

A top Swiss official said yesterday that voter approval of a ban on minarets next to mosques could be struck down in court, as critics at home and abroad condemned the vote, saying it undermined the c...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:12:54 -0500

Somali pirates have seized an oil-laden supertanker en route from Saudi Arabia to the US in a move that has underlined the growing reach and ambition of their operations. The Maran Centaurus, one of ...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:12:51 -0500

Possibly the least surprising result in a year of predictable elections in Africa was another victory for Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Admittedly, the brutal autocrat, who has r...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:12:49 -0500

Declaring that "there's no more time for divisions", and hoping to draw a line under the political crisis that has paralysed Honduras for almost six months, conservative candidate Porfirio Lobo has cl...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:12:43 -0500

The suspense, such as it was, is over. Chelsea Clinton, the 29-year old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, will marry her long-time boyfriend, inv...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:12:36 -0500

Asian workers make up a large proportion of Dubai's labour force. India in particular is expected to be hit by the loss of jobs and money sent home in remittances...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:12:32 -0500

He is alleged to be the last Nazi mass murderer ever likely to stand trial but John Demjanjuk cut a strange and pathetic figure as he was wheeled into a heavily guarded Munich courtroom on a hospital ...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:12:27 -0500

Malcolm Turnbull says he will not resign from parliament after losing a federal Liberal leadership contest against Tony Abbott on Tuesday. He congratulated Mr Abbott on his succession to the party le...
New Zealand Herald Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:03:54 -0500

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - The police officer in a small Arkansas town who used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl has been fired for violating department policy - not for using the Taser itself bu...
New Zealand Herald Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:03:53 -0500

Sugato Chakravarty introduces guest speaker Neil Klemme, a local State Farm Insurance agent, to the students in his personal finance class Nov. 16 in Lilly Hall on the Purdue University campus. The qu...
USA Today Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:02:16 -0500

If using Roman shades with hidden strings on the back side, raise the shades high enough so children can't reach them. Free safety kits to retrofit window blinds are availalbe at...
USA Today Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:02:15 -0500

Washington (CNN) -- President Obama has informed several top diplomatic and military officials about his decision regarding new U.S. strategy and troop levels in Afghanistan, White House press secreta...
CNN Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:59:48 -0500

"American terrorism is the source of every terrorism in the world," Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech from an undisclosed location.
CNN Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:59:45 -0500

(CNN) -- A Texas inmate escaped from a prison van near Houston after pulling a gun on two guards who were transporting him between prisons, according to a Texas prison statement Monday.
CNN Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500

Home reports have not hindered the Scottish housing market, Scotland's chartered surveyors have claimed.The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) research found sellers were using the home rep...
BBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:56:35 -0500

More than one in four of the entire population of England is now in education or training, according to figures from the government.There are about 14.5 million people in nursery, school, post-16 cour...
BBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:56:33 -0500

Sea levels are likely to rise by about 1.4m (4ft 6in) globally by 2100 as polar ice melts, according to a major review of climate change in Antarctica.Conducted by the Scientific Committee on Antarcti...
BBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:56:32 -0500

ATTEMPTS by golfer Tiger Woods to draw a line under an early-hours car crash that left him dazed and bloodied appeared to have failed last night amid growing speculation over events leading up to the ...
The Scotsman Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:55:29 -0500

THE admission this week of Rwanda to the Commonwealth by heads of state at the club's summit in Trinidad and Tobago has elements of grand farce far more entertaining than mere politics.
The Scotsman Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:55:27 -0500

World leaders have commented on the crisis – but not those in the United Arab Emirates itself, where the authorities have said little as UAE markets fell and the central bank opened an emergency fac...
The Scotsman Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:55:25 -0500

SURVIVORS of a Nazi death camp listened yesterday as the lawyer for John Demjanjuk, accused of being an accessory to mass murder, painted his client as a victim.
The Scotsman Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:55:23 -0500

But biologists are beginning to form a generally sunnier view of humankind. Their conclusions are derived in part from testing very young children, and partly from comparing human children with those ...
International Herald Tribune Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:53:23 -0500

Makhachkala - A bomb exploded under a train in Russia's troubled Dagestan on Monday but there were no fatalities, police said, just days after a similar blast killed 26 passengers on a train from Mosc...
IOL Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:49:58 -0500

Saturna, British Columbia - A float plane crashed off Canada's Pacific coast, killing six people, including a Vancouver doctor and her sixth-month-old baby, as well as two American residents. Two peop...
IOL Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:49:55 -0500

Saturna, British Columbia - A float plane crashed off Canada's Pacific coast, killing six people, including a Vancouver doctor and her sixth-month-old baby, as well as two American residents. Two peop...
IOL Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:49:30 -0500

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tiger Woods pulled out of a golf tournament this week, the latest fall-out from a minor car accident that has left a swirl of mystery and a hint of scandal around the world's top gol...
Reuters Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:48:28 -0500