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Fri Jun 26, 2009 3:08 am by Admin

LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop" who reigned over the music world like no other, died Thursday as he prepared for a comeback bid to vanquish nightmare years of sexual scandal and financial calamity. He was 50.

Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center after being stricken at his rented home in Holmby Hills. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him at his home for near...

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Sun May 17, 2009 10:13 pm by Admin

Sun May 17, 1:07 pm ET

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The Tamil Tigers admitted defeat Sunday in their fierce quarter-century war for a separate homeland as government forces raced to clear the last pockets of rebel resistance from the war zone in the north.

Far from the battlefield, thousands of Sri Lankans danced in the streets of Colombo, celebrating the stunning collapse o...

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Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:46 pm by Admin

MADRID – The top EU health official urged Europeans on Monday to postpone nonessential travel to parts of the United States and Mexico because of the swine flu virus, and Spanish health officials confirmed the first case outside North America.

Russia, Hong Kong and Taiwan said they would quarantine visitors showing symptoms of the virus amid a surging global concern about a possible...

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Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:11 pm by Admin

Italy has held the first funerals for victims of the powerful earthquake which struck the country's central Abruzzo region.

Officials say 260 people are now known to have died in Monday's quake and about 28,000 are homeless.

As aftershocks continue to rattle the region, hopes are fading of pulling any more people alive from the rubble.

A mass funeral...

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Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:10 pm by Admin

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Tens of thousands of Jewish faithful turned out before sunrise on Wednesday in front of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and elsewhere in the country to bless the sun in a prayer said once every 28 years.

Dressed in white prayer shawls, men and women, adults and children filled the plaza in front of the wall, Judaism's holiest site, and crowded onto nearby rooftops to...

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Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:10 pm by Admin

AS United States (U.S.) Vice President, Joe Biden, seeks to break with the unilateralist tilt of the George W. Bush years by emphasising cooperation and diplomacy in a major weekend foreign policy speech in Germany, the ailing former Cuban President, Fidel Castro, has accused Barack Obama of intending to print "enormous sums of money" to keep American society from grinding to a halt. ...

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Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:46 pm by Admin

WASHINGTON – It's already been a lousy year for workers less than a month into 2009 and there's no relief in sight. Tens of thousands of fresh layoffs were announced Monday and more companies are expected to cut payrolls in the months ahead.

A new survey by the National Association for Business Economics depicts the worst business conditions in the U.S. since the report's inception ...

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Mon Jan 26, 2009 4:04 pm by Admin

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – Iceland's ruling coalition collapsed on Monday under the pressures of the country's financial meltdown, the first government to fall as a direct result of the global economic crisis.

Prime Minister Geir Haarde said he would hand in his resignation to President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson after talks to save his government failed.

Developments on Monda...

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Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:57 pm by Admin

PRESIDENT Barack Obama yesterday began his first full day as United States President with a full menu of reality on his table at the Oval Office where the buck stops. Among his major actions was to suspend the trial of Guantanamo Bay suspects and a reported phone call to some Middle East leaders on solving the many problems of the region.

"Tonight we celebrate, but tomorrow the...

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