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GAZA CITY: Israeli mortar shells exploded on Tuesday near a UN school in Gaza sheltering hundreds of people displaced by Israel's onslaught against Hamas militants, killing at least 30 Palestinians, tearing bodies apart and staining streets with ...
For an outfit known for its lack of drama, Team Obama has become a downright thrill show. Bill Richardson! Rick Warren! Rod Blagojevich! Roland Burris! Talk about a ride through the fun house. President-elect Barack Obama doesn?t bear ...
President-elect Barack Obama gave a strong defense on Tuesday to his unannounced choice to lead the CIA, Leon Panetta, in the face of criticism that Panetta lacks experience on intelligence matters. Two senior Democrats, California Sen. Dianne ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. ? Republican Norm Coleman filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Democrat Al Franken 's apparent recount victory in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race , delaying a resolution of the contest for weeks or months. At a Capitol news conference ...
Roland Burris, the former Illinois Attorney General chosen by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to fill the U. S. Senate seat vacated by President-Elect Barack Obama. Roland Burris announced Tuesday he was rejected for Barack Obama's Senate seat, in ...
Valkyrie, Inglourious Basterds, Defiance, The Reader ? more than six decades on, the Second World War is still taking Hollywood by storm. Why? It's got more to do with the modern psyche than history, argues Geoffrey Macnab Who wants to go and see a ...
Rafael Nadal bounced back from his World Tennis Championship defeat by demolishing Fabrice Santoro in the Qatar Open. World number one Rafael Nadal bounced back from his defeat by Andy Murray in the final of the World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi ...
This week the Russian bear demonstrated it never really hibernated after the dissolution in 1991 of the Soviet Union, of which Russia was the biggest component. The Kremlin's military leaders on Sunday approved a plan to deploy ships permanently in ...
TAIPEI (Reuters) - The age of the desktop PC appears to be over as its more portable cousin, the laptop, surges ahead with consumers clamouring for light-weight computers in funky designs for use at home, in cafes and on the train to work. Not a ...
President George W. Bush on Tuesday defended his record on the environment as he designated three regions in the Pacific Ocean as the world's largest marine protected areas. The trio of "marine national monuments" span a total of 195,274 square miles ...
