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  • Fed chairman says Obama bank legislation might not be enough

    Fed chairman says Obama bank legislation might not be enough

    Ireland News.Net

    The head of the US Federal Reserve has partially opposed president Barack Obama's new rules to regulate financial firms.

  • Iran offers to exchange uranium with the West

    Iran offers to exchange uranium with the West

    Ireland News.Net

    The head of the Iranian atomic energy agency, Ali Akbar Salehi, has told local television the country will make concessions to the West by exchanging Tehran's low-grade uranium for highly enriched uranium that it needs for its medical research

  • Drone attacks target Waziristan militants

    Drone attacks target Waziristan militants

    Ireland News.Net

    US drone strikes have killed at least 10 militants in Pakistan.

  • Christian TV station shut down by Palestinian government

    Christian TV station shut down by Palestinian government

    Ireland News.Net

    The Palestinian Authority has closed down the only Christian TV broadcaster in the Territories.

  • Nazi tainted Picasso to be sold by Andrew Lloyd Webber

    Nazi tainted Picasso to be sold by Andrew Lloyd Webber

    Ireland News.Net

    A painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, which was once withdrawn from sale due to links with Nazis, is to be sold by its current owner, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

  • Tools found in Indonesia over one million years old

    Tools found in Indonesia over one million years old

    Ireland News.Net

    A scientific discovery has shown early humans were living on the Indonesian island of Flores many years before first thought.

  • Nigerian politicians pushed out by acting president

    Nigerian politicians pushed out by acting president

    Ireland News.Net

    The acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed his Cabinet.

  • Aid goes to Fiji after Cyclone Tomas

    Aid goes to Fiji after Cyclone Tomas

    Ireland News.Net

    Aid is being sent to the Fiji islands which have been hard hit by Cyclone Tomas.

  • French policeman killed in ETA action

    French policeman killed in ETA action

    Ireland News.Net

    The French government has blamed the Basque terror organisation ETA for the killing of a French police officer on Tuesday.

  • Airline staff sentenced to jail in Dubai over phone texts

    Airline staff sentenced to jail in Dubai over phone texts

    Ireland News.Net

    The court said there was not enough evidence to determine whether the man and the woman had actually had an affair, which could have brought a harsher sentence.

  • Man arrested after school meal tampered with

    Man arrested after school meal tampered with

    Ireland News.Net

    A school kitchen porter in the UK has been arrested over allegations that he poisoned soup which was being served to students and staff.

  • Australian soldiers identified from WWI

    Australian soldiers identified from WWI

    Ireland News.Net

    The Australian government has announced it has identified the remains of 75 Australian soldiers who fought in the 1916 Battle of Fromelles in France.

  • First-time Jobless Claims Drop Slightly

    Washington Times

    By Christopher S. Rugaber ASSOCIATED PRESS The number of newly laid-off workers requesting jobless benefits fell slightly last week for the third straight time, But initial claims remain above levels...

  • Idaho Signs Anti-health-insurance Law

    Washington Times

    By John Miller ASSOCIATED PRESS BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho is leading the charge in a states'-rights push to defeat a proposal in Congress that would require people to buy health insurance, a key reform p...

  • A.p. Pharma Shares Gain Ground Ahead Of Fda Decision

    RTT News

    News ) are currently trading over 10% at $1.72 ahead of the FDA decision on the company's lead product candidate APF530 for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. The FDA is scheduled to announce i...

  • General Cable Lifts Q1 Adj. Eps View To Reflect Change In Inventory Accounting Method - Update

    RTT News

    News ), Thursday said it raised first quarter adjusted earnings per share outlook, significantly above Street view, due to a change in inventory accounting to average cost method from last-in, first-o...

  • Winnebago Steers To Q2 Profit After Six Straight Losses - Update

    RTT News

    News ), after six straight quarterly losses, it has been a smooth ride in its second quarter of fiscal 2010, influenced by a significant increase in motor home unit deliveries. In pre-market trading T...

  • Palestinian Official Says U.s. Envoy To Return To Mideast

    RadioFreeEurope

    George Mitchell's visit had been expected to usher in indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks, but that has been thrown in doubt by Palestinian anger at plans for 1,600 more homes for Jewish settlers near ...

  • Armenia Says Turk Expulsion Threat Rings Of 1915

    RadioFreeEurope

    YEREVAN (Reuters) -- Armenia has compared a threat by Turkey's prime minister to expel thousands of illegal Armenian immigrants to the language that preceded the World War I mass killings of Armenians...

  • Afghan Children 'face World's Worst Conditions'

    RadioFreeEurope

    HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) -- Afghanistan is the hardest place in the world to be a child, the South Asia regional director for UNICEF said, with high child mortality rates, poor levels of nutrition...

  • Call To Release Iran's 'blogfather' For Norouz

    RadioFreeEurope

    The mother of a controversial, well-known blogger, Hossein Derakhshan, who is often described as Iran's "blogfather" because he helped popularize blogging in Iran,

  • A Turkish Role Model For Iran?

    RadioFreeEurope

    "It's so pleasant here in Turkey," says Kaveh, a 40-year-old Iranian from Tehran who's visiting Istanbul, just as he has many times over the last 20 years. "You feel free leaving Iran f...

  • Ngo Uniting Ethnic Ukrainians In Russia Under Pressure

    RadioFreeEurope

    A nongovernmental group in Russia that unites ethnic Ukrainians is under threat of closure, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. Last month, the Russian Justice Ministry officially asked the Supreme Co...

  • Health Care Reform Would Cost $940 Billion Over 10 Years

    New York Post

    House Democrats are on track for a Sunday vote on sweeping health care legislation that will expand coverage to millions of uninsured while also reducing the federal deficit, leaders said Thursday.The...

  • Truck Pushes Car Down Highway At 60 Mph

    New York Post

    Amazing footage of a truck careening at 60 mph along a British freeway with a car trapped sideways on its front bumper emerged Thursday, sparked an investigation.Video shows a trucker thundering along...

  • Wide Hunt Led To Freedom For Young Hostage

    International Herald Tribune

    Pakistan ’s Punjab Province to the streets of Paris and, finally, to a suitcase stuffed with used bills in an apartment house near Barcelona, Spain. The remarkable trail led police to arrest th...

  • Elyashiv: Don't Budge Barzilai Bones

    Jerusalem Post

    Plans to build a rocket- and missile-proof new emergency room at Ashkelon’s Barzilai Medical Center were dealt a blow on Thursday when Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the top rabbinic authority for t...

  • Politics: The Pentagon's Propaganda Networks – Part 2

    IPS

    WASHINGTON, Mar 18, 2010 (IPS) - Propaganda networks that conduct "psychological warfare" for the Pentagon have been in vogue for a long time. Mike Furlong, a senior Pentagon official who is now being...

  • U.s. Commander Says Security Bolstered In Kandahar

    USA Today

    U.S. Army 1Lt. Scott Doyle, left, moves soldiers into position while under fire on Tuesday at Howz-e-Madad in Kandahar province, Afghanistan.

  • Thursday's Forecast: Rockies, Plains Brace For Winter Storm

    USA Today

    A strong Pacific storm system over southwestern Canada is forecast to produce a mix of precipitation across the northern and central Rockies and high Plains as it dropped southeast into

  • Some Fargo, N.d., Residents Refuse To Move Despite Floods

    USA Today

    FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Mac Butler believes he'll beat the bloated Red River and save his home again this year. But a canoe and kayak are tied up outside his house just in case he's wrong.

  • Red River Area Waits For Flood

    USA Today

    Volunteers form an assembly line to pass sandbags while building a dike up to 40-feet around a south Moorhead, Minn., home on March 17. Schoolchildren, parents and hundreds of residents have spent day...

  • Psg Fan Dies After Attack By Own Fans

    The Independent

    A Paris St Germain fan attacked by supporters of his own club has died after weeks in a coma. The 38-year-old unnamed man passed away late last night after being involved in street clashes be...

  • Dentist Accused Of Performing Paper-clip Root Canals

    C News

    A Massachusetts dentist has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of illegally prescribing drugs and using paper-clips in his patients' root canals, the state attorney general office announced Wedn...

  • Three Jailed For Auschwitz Theft

    BBC

    A Polish court has convicted three men for stealing the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the former Auschwitz death camp last December.The trio were given jail sentences ranging up to ...

  • Ex-detective Jailed For Drug Plot

    BBC

    A former Metropolitan Police detective has been jailed for 22 years for his part in a £200m cocaine-smuggling plot.Michael Daly, 49, who is already serving eight years behind bars for a similar ...

  • Lorry Filmed Pushing Car On M-way

    BBC

    Dramatic footage has emerged of a lorry apparently pushing a car sideways along a motorway in Yorkshire.The footage, which was posted on YouTube, shows the truck travelling along the A1(M) near Wether...

  • Harrods Dob-dob-dobbed In After Scouts Fall Foul Of Uniform Policy

    BBC

    A group of scouts say they were turned away from London department store Harrods after refusing to remove their neckerchiefs and woggles.The 1st Bordon Scout Group, from Hampshire, was in the capital ...

  • Live Text - Cheltenham Festival

    BBC

    606 or text us your views on 81111 (UK) or +44 7786200666 (worldwide) with "RACING" as the first word. (Not all comments can be used. Messages will be charged at your standard operator rate)

  • Meps Hear Torture Exports Claims

    BBC

    Euro MPs have heard claims that EU companies are exporting equipment used for torture despite legislation aimed at preventing such trade.Amnesty International has published a report detailing the clai...

  • Soap Star 'tried To End It All'

    BBC

    Gordon Hennell, prosecuting "It is important to have in your minds at all times that you are trying the defendant as an individual and not the character of Les Battersby, some of whose attrib...

  • Al Qaeda 'on The Run' In Pakistan, Says Cia

    Sky News

    The head of the CIA claims the spy agency has al Qaeda "on the run" and the terror group's leaders were "scrambling" to co-ordinate operations against the West.

  • Body Of Missing Teen 'found In Church Roof'

    Sky News

    The disappearance of 16-year-old Elisa Claps has gripped Italy for almost two decades, with no trace of her ever found. The mystery even reached England - with the prime suspect in the case now livin...

  • Corey Haim Death: Arrest Made Over Drug Ring

    Sky News

    The crime gang were using stolen doctors' identities to order prescription pads and then selling them to drug addicts and dealers on the street. During an investigation in San Diego police found an u...

  • Obama Breaks Network Ban To Talk Health Reform

    The Australian

    BARACK Obama has taken his battle for US health reform into enemy territory for the White House with a strained interview on Fox News.

  • Acting Leader Purges Nigeria's Cabinet

    The Australian

    ABUJA: Nigerian Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved the country's cabinet yesterday, purging top officials loyal to the nation's ill President in his first major act since taking ov...

  • Revised Death Count Refuels Dresden Debate

    The Australian

    DRESDEN: A furious debate about one of the most controversial episodes of World War II has ignited after an official German report found fewer people were killed in the Allied bombing of Dresden than ...

  • Genocide Vote May Destabilise Region

    The Australian

    BEWARE the law of unintended consequences. The US congressional panel's resolution on Armenian genocide may right a historical wrong but, in doing so, it may also jeopardise a peaceful future in ...

  • Europe's Carbon Trade In Crisis

    The Australian

    Two carbon exchanges were forced to suspend trading yesterday as panic hit investors fearful they had bought invalid permits.BlueNext and Nord Pool, the French and Nordic exchanges, suspended trading ...

  • Netanyahu, Aides In Desperate Effort To Appease Us

    The Australian

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has held marathon meetings with the six most powerful ministers to come up with a course of action that will satisfy the US, particularly Secretary of State H...