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• Three killed in clashes as protesters mourn soccer riot deaths

  Vietnam News.Net

  CAIRO - Three people were killed as thousands of angry protesters clashed with security forces in Egypt's capital Cairo and other cities for a second day Friday over the deaths of 74 football fans ...

• Israel says Iran planning retaliatory action after scientist killings

  Vietnam News.Net

  TEL AVIV - Iran is trying to strike Israeli targets around the world in retaliation for the assassination of its nuclear scientists, a top security official has warned. Yoram Cohen, the head of ...

• Former Khmer Rouge commander Duch's prison term enhanced to life

  Vietnam News.Net

  BANGKOK - Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal has rejected an appeal by a Khmer Rouge jailer Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, and increased his sentence to life imprisonment for crimes against ...

• Food crisis persists in Somalia despite good harvest

  Vietnam News.Net

  NAIROBI, Kenya - A good harvest and food aid inflows have improved the situation in Somalia, the United Nations said Friday declaring that the country is out of "famine" situation, while underlining ...

• UN's highest court overrules Italy on Nazi war claims

  Vietnam News.Net

  AMSTERDAM - The International Court of Justice has ordered Italy to annul all compensation claims against Germany for Nazi war crimes, saying Rome had breached international laws when its courts ...

• Wen tells Merkel China may help in eurozone bailout

  Vietnam News.Net

  BEIJING - China, the holder of one of the world's largest foreign exchange reserves, has indicated it may get "more deeply involved" in resolving the European Union debt crisis. This was stated ...

• Panasonic headed for staggering $10.2bn annual losses

  Vietnam News.Net

  TOKYO - Japan's Panasonic Friday predicted staggering annual loss of $10.2 billion, joining rivals Sony and Sharp who have also forecast combined losses of $6 billion. Panasonic said it was ...

• Eurozone service sector grows at fastest rate in four months

  Vietnam News.Net

  LONDON - The eurozone's service sector has shown some growth, marginal though, for the first time in four months, raising expectations that a recession could be kept at bay. The Markit eurozone ...

• Russian gas supply to EU via Ukraine drops

  Vietnam News.Net

  BRUSSELS - Several countries in Europe are facing gas supply crunch with severe cold weather driving up demand and drop in Russian supplies via Kiev, raising fears of a repeat of the 2009 ...

• 1.5bn pounds government fund offers hope for 7 debt-ridden NHS trusts

  Vietnam News.Net

  LONDON - Seven National Health Services (NHS) trusts, including three in London, have been identified for a bailout from a 1.5 billion pounds government fund to relieve major financial ...

• Micron CEO dies in plane crash in Idaho

  Chicago Sun-Times

  FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2005 file photo, Steve Appleton, CEO and chairman of Micron Technology Inc., looks out through the engine compartment of his stunt jet airplane inside the hanger where he ...

• 217 Reported Killed In Syria Ahead Of UNSC Vote

  RadioFreeEurope

  With the UN Security Council due to consider a resolution condemning violence in Syria, a Britain-based rights group says Syrian government forces killed more than 200 people in the city of Homs. ...

• Europol deal with Israel Police hampered due to East Jerusalem offices

  Haaretz

  Chemi Shalev / Don't knock the media's bias and double standards on Israel Disproportionate coverage is the flip side of disproportionate support for Israel, and thus a critical element in ...

• Iranian leader dismisses sanctions, warns U.S. against war

  McClatchy

  WASHINGTON - Dismissing economic sanctions that are beginning to bite, Iran's supreme leader said Friday that his country wouldn't bow to Western demands that it stop enriching uranium and ...

• Anti-Assad protesters break into Cairo, Berlin embassies

  Jerusalem Post

  Activists protested at embassies across the world Friday against Syrian President Bashar Assad's crackdown on citizens. Rallies in both Cairo and Berlin degraded into riots as people broke ...

• PA's Abbas, Hamas' Mashaal to meet in Qatar

  Jerusalem Post

  Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Qatar on Sunday, AFP quoted Fatah party spokesman Azzam al-Ahmad as saying.According to Ahmad, the two ...

• Seven dead as street battles rage on in Egypt

  Jerusalem Post

  Most of those killed in the Port Said football stadium on Wednesday night were crushed in a stampede and the government declared three days of mourning, but protesters hold the military-led ...

• Iran blocks IAEA inspectors at military site

  Jerusalem Post

  VIENNA - Iran's apparent reluctance to let UN inspectors visit a military site near Tehran underlines the uphill task they face in getting the Islamic state to address suspicions it may be ...

• Sitting pretty: Gaza renews furniture exports

  Jerusalem Post

  Israel's blockade of goods coming into the Gaza Strip has been the target of flotillas and a cause for concern among human rights activists and economists alike. But the difficulty of getting ...

• Prince William, the Birdsong heart-throb and the wacky waistcoats of the Eton society

  Daily Mail

  The pair, seen here posing with their fellow prefects, were members of the elite group known as the Eton Society, founded in 1811 as a debating ...

• 'She doesn't care for celebrity': Princes Harry and William pay tribute to the Queen for first time

  Daily Mail

  In one episode, future heir Prince William, now the Duke of Cambridge, reveals that despite being one of the most famous women in the world, following her 60-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II ...

• Fresh choice for Mr Cameron: No special treatment for PM as he queues like the rest of us on supermarket dash

  Daily Mail

  But the man queueing up at the checkout with a basket full of fresh fish and vegetables for a family meal had in fact just dealt with a resignation from one of his Cabinet ...

• Grief and pride of organ donor's parents: Our son's death helped this little girl to be born

  Daily Mail

  ‘When we saw Mark and Caroline’s beautiful daughter it was so emotional, knowing that Adam had helped make it happen,’ said Mrs Rogers, 59, from Blackburn, a former assistant ...

• Prince Charles right that plants really can communicate with one another

  Daily Mail

  In news to gladden the heart of Prince Charles, who was once much mocked for having conversations with cabbages and the like, it appears science has caught up with what many gardeners have long held ...

• Thanks Ma'am, that's one planted. Now just 5,999,999 trees to go! How you can take part in the Queen's Jubilee Woods celebration

  Daily Mail

  Many great events are being planned for this Diamond Jubilee year — from the river pageant along the Thames to royal tours of every region in the land. But nothing will endure quite like what ...

• Mars is too dry to support life on its surface

  Daily Mail

  Samples of soil found that the surface had been starved of any moisture that might enhance the view that there are living organisms on the red ...

• Openly gay verger accused of groping married woman in cathedral is cleared

  Daily Mail

  A Cathedral verger who was accused of groping a woman as she waited for a service to start said yesterday that he was gay and ‘had no reason to touch ...

• Number of cancer cases set to rise 30% by 2030 due to ageing population

  Daily Mail

  The UK ranks 16th out of 27 countries in the European Union for the predicted rise in cases, according to the data published by the World Cancer Research ...

• 50,000 pet owners face crippling vet bills after their insurance is axed

  Daily Mail

  Thousands of pet owners are preparing to pay huge veterinary bills – or face the heartbreaking prospect of having their beloved animals put down – after their insurance policies were ...

• Mamma beer! Bizarre drink that's gone down a storm in the U.S. hopes to get slice of UK's lager market

  Daily Mail

  A drink and a takeaway is a staple of a weekend evening in, but one enterprising couple have combined the two in one bottle by selling pizza flavoured ...

• Tragedy of the 50 soldiers killed in Afghanistan who couldn't afford life insurance

  Daily Mail

  He suggested that young soldiers earning a basic private’s salary of just ...

• Royal College of GPs says Health and Social Care bill should be scrapped

  Daily Mail

  The professional body representing GPs has demanded the Government scrap its NHS reforms, warning that they will cause ‘irreparable damage’ to patient ...

• More than half of women gamble after a surge over the last decade

  Daily Mail

  Excluding those who only enter the National Lottery, the proportion of the female population who gamble has soared by a third to more than half for the first ...

• BBC accuses Iran of intimidating its staff

  Daily Mail

  The head of the BBC on Friday accused Iran of intimidating staff members of its Persian service through slander, snooping and the arrest of their ...

• Daily Mail War Memorial investigation: The vultures who buy stolen war memorials

  Daily Mail

  Etched into three brass war memorials were the names of men who had made the ultimate sacrifice for this country in the fight to defend freedom and overcome the rise of ...

• SamCam to join PM for first official trip abroad

  Daily Mail

  The two-day trip, which begins with a glamorous state dinner at the White House on March 13, is the first time Mrs Cameron has accompanied her husband on an official trip abroad since he became ...

• Now that's cheap! Why the most expensive roses may not be the best

  Daily Mail

  M&S did not fare much better in fourth place with 83. Their roses, priced ...

• HMV security guard Charles Oloro struggling to pay 2 mortgages sacked for chasing a thief

  Daily Mail

  Sacked: Charles Oloro outside the HMV store where he worked until he was fired for apprehending a shoplifter who had already made it through the front ...

• The Mecca of the city: In a London street, the faithful find a way to pray as their mosque overflows

  Daily Mail

  Yesterday’s hour-long service a stone's throw from the heart of the financial district proved so popular that worshippers filled the streets around the tiny community mosque. City workers ...

• Nuclear sub on Falklands patrol... as the flames of fury continue in Argentina

  Daily Mail

  The Royal Navy is sending a nuclear submarine to the South Atlantic to protect the Falkland Islands from the threat of Argentine military action (file ...

• Stock market surges as US job creation and UK services revival boost hopes for global economy

  Daily Mail

  A monthly ‘health check’ of the UK economy showed it rebounded strongly in January, easing fears of a double-dip recession after a slump at the end of last ...

• Apple forced to stop selling iPhones and iPads in Germany over row about patents

  Daily Mail

  'Apple appealed this ruling because Motorola repeatedly refuses to license this patent to Apple on reasonable terms, despite having declared it an industry standard patent seven years ...

• Radioactive leaks at crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant increase two months after it was declared safe

  Daily Mail

  Yet now it has emerged that radioactive water is continuing to leak at the stricken site. These were spotted by workers at the reprocessing areas and were found to release enough beta rays that can ...

• We'll fight to the bitter end for Las Malvinas: Argentine warning to 'conquistador' British as William lands in the Falklands

  Daily Mail

  Proudly flying the British Red Ensign, the giant cruise liner 'Star Princess' had sailed into the Argentinian port of Ushuaia before heading north to the Falkland ...

• Girl cuts hair of mother suffering from cancer: A touching moment too intimate for youtube?

  Daily Mail

  Michael died of mesothelioma, an incurable cancer that takes hold in the lining of the lungs. Nothing could have saved him. He and his wife had decided not to tell their two young children of his ...

• RBS chairman Sir Philip Hampton: Bankers' pay is too high and must be 'corrected'

  Daily Mail

  Bank bosses have been 'creaming it' at the expense of their shareholders over the last decade, the chairman of troubled Royal Bank of Scotland admitted ...

• Don't jump! Oh, he can't... Incredible chalk drawings that appear to change London's skyline

  Daily Mail

  In the film, a New York police psychologist has to attempt to talk down a former policeman who has threatened to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel ...

• The Queen wears head scarf to protects against 'Siberian' cold at Jubilee tree planting ceremony

  Daily Mail

  But the freezing conditions didn't keep the Queen and Princess Anne from taking part in a tree-planting ceremony at the new 20-acre Jubilee Wood on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk ...

• Cross-eyed rioter caught after police spot his eyes on CCTV

  Daily Mail

  Burls, from Peckham, South London, thought he had evaded police as he covered most of his face with a scarf while setting fire to a Peckham store and nearby Post ...

• You can sell Hitler schnapps! Austrian police abandon investigation into sale of alcohol with Hitler's face on bottle

  Daily Mail

  A legal probe was launched last year after complaints that an Austrian website was offering alcohol for sale adorned with portraits of the Nazi leader and ...