| Pakistan: Gunmen in rickshaws attack cricket team (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 04:05 PM PST AP - A team of heavily armed gunmen, some traveling in rickshaws, ambushed Sri Lanka's national cricket team Tuesday as it arrived for a match, killing six police guards and wounding seven players. The brazen attack heightened fears that Pakistan is becoming increasingly unstable.
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| Cologne building collapses; 3 missing, many escape (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 02:14 PM PST AP - Cologne's six-story city archive building groaned then collapsed in a pile of rubble Tuesday as people inside fled in panic. All managed to escape safely but police said three people were feared missing in other damaged buildings nearby.
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| Afghan tech boom: Mullah embraces iPhone (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 12:24 PM PST AP - Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef is a former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan. He spent almost four years in Guantanamo. He wears a black turban, has a thick beard and is never without his Apple iPhone.
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| Russian oil tycoon's motions rejected at new trial (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 12:53 PM PST AP - Lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky protested court actions Tuesday on the first day of a new trial that could keep the imprisoned former oil tycoon behind bars for decades.
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| Global new deal 'possible' in months : Brown (AFP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 03:27 PM PST AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown raised the prospect of a global "new deal" to fix the finance industry within months, setting the stage for April's G-20 economic summit with President Barack Obama.
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| US soldier killed in attack on base in Iraq (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 01:50 PM PST AP - Insurgents attacked a main U.S.-Iraqi base Tuesday in the northern city of Mosul, killing one American soldier and striking directly at the Iraqi command center for an offensive against the militants.
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| PR gov: 30,000 workers could be fired amid crisis (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 04:19 PM PST AP - More than 30,000 government employees about 14 percent of the public work force could lose their jobs and new taxes will be introduced as Puerto Rico attempts to shore up its ailing economy, the governor of the U.S. island territory announced Tuesday. |
| Matt Damon moved by plight of Zimbabwean refugees (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 03:39 PM PST AP - Matt Damon listened emotionally Tuesday as a Zimbabwean woman described how she was raped while pregnant during a perilous journey to cross into South Africa from her troubled homeland.
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| NZealand won't tour Pakistan after attack: cricket chief (AFP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 04:28 PM PST AFP - New Zealand have cancelled their tour of Pakistan after the deadly attack against Sri Lanka's team, New Zealand's top cricket official said on Wednesday amid increasing doubts over the future of international cricket in the troubled Asian country.
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| Australian firefighters win reprieve from extreme conditions (AFP) Posted: 02 Mar 2009 11:34 PM PST AFP - Firefighters battling Australia's worst wildfire outbreak had a reprieve Tuesday when predicted extreme conditions gave way to light rain and mild temperatures.
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