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Haitians pray, cry for help in the ruins (AP)
Elderly and abandoned, 85 Haitians await death (AP)
UN's Ban in Haiti to support relief efforts (AP)
Billionaire Sebastian Pinera wins Chile presidency (AP)
Foe of Orange revolt tops Ukrainian vote (AP)
With the Military in Haiti: Breaking the Supply Logjam (Time.com)
Britain facing decade of economic pain: forecasters (AFP)
Iran ex-prosecutor denies role in torture deaths (AP)
Religious Haitians see hand of God in earthquake (AP)
Muslim, Christian clashes erupt in Nigeria (AFP)
At age 50, US-Japan bond hits growing pains (AFP)
Britain's Prince William on official visit to NZ (AP)
After the devastation, the emotional wreckage (Time.com)

Haitians pray, cry for help in the ruins (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:05 PM PST

AP - Prayers of thanksgiving and cries for help rose from Haiti's huddled homeless Sunday, the sixth day of an epic humanitarian crisis that was straining the world's ability to respond and igniting flare-ups of violence amid the rubble of Port-au-Prince.

Elderly and abandoned, 85 Haitians await death (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 05:07 PM PST

AP - The old lady crawls in the dirt, wailing for her pills. The elderly man lies motionless as rats pick at his overflowing diaper.

UN's Ban in Haiti to support relief efforts (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:18 PM PST

AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made an emotional visit to the Haiti peacekeeping mission's devastated headquarters Sunday and delivered a message of hope to the country's earthquake victims, acknowledging that many of the survivors are growing desperate.

Billionaire Sebastian Pinera wins Chile presidency (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:15 PM PST

AP - Billionaire Sebastian Pinera won Chile's presidential vote Sunday in the country's first democratic election of a right-wing ruler in 52 years.

Foe of Orange revolt tops Ukrainian vote (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 03:36 PM PST

AP - The archenemy of Ukraine's pro-democracy movement won a first-place finish in the initial round of presidential voting Sunday, setting him up for a showdown with the heroine of the 2004 Orange Revolution, exit polls showed.

With the Military in Haiti: Breaking the Supply Logjam (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 10:10 AM PST

Time.com - Riding with U.S. military choppers, a TIME correspondent watches as aid finally stars reaching Haitians devastated by the quake

Britain facing decade of economic pain: forecasters (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:05 PM PST

AFP - Britain faces the prospect of a decade of economic pain, after binging on cheap debt, and its recovery will rely on trading more with Asian tigers like China, forecasters warned on Monday.

Iran ex-prosecutor denies role in torture deaths (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:02 PM PST

AP - Tehran's former chief prosecutor on Sunday rejected a parliamentary report blaming him in part for the torture and deaths of at least three anti-government protesters during the turmoil after June's disputed presidential election.

Religious Haitians see hand of God in earthquake (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

AP - Deeply religious Haitians see the hand of God in the destruction of Biblical proportions visited on their benighted country. The quake, religious leaders said Sunday, is evidence that He wants change.

Muslim, Christian clashes erupt in Nigeria (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 01:45 PM PST

AFP - Clashes erupted between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria's central city of Jos Sunday, killing at least 10 people and prompting the government to impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew, residents and officials said.

At age 50, US-Japan bond hits growing pains (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:30 PM PST

AFP - Fifty years after signing a landmark security pact, the United States and Japan are renewing their vows but also confronting some of the biggest questions yet on how to shape their alliance.

Britain's Prince William on official visit to NZ (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:26 PM PST

AP - Britain's Prince William took the reins of the winning America's Cup yacht and visited the site of the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand on Sunday at the start of his first official overseas trip on behalf of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.