Yahoo! News: World News

---

• Mexican evangelical drug boss killed in raid (Reuters)
• Climate talks show signs of Kyoto compromise (Reuters)
• Iran TV shows stoning woman acting out husband's murder (Reuters)
• Amanda Knox's Appeal: A Friendlier Venue This Time? (Time.com)
• Police say Croatian ex-PM arrested in Austria (AP)
• Iran airs new confession by woman in stoning case (AP)
• Eccentric La Familia cartel chief killed in Mexico (AP)
• Navratilova hospitalized after Kilimanjaro attempt (AP)
• China censors Nobel ceremony honoring dissident (AP)
• Canada new home prices edge higher in October (Reuters)
• Car carrying Prince Charles attacked by London protesters [VIDEO] (The Christian Science Monitor)
• For U.S. Troops in Afghanistan, Coalition Forces Are Mixed Blessing (Time.com)
• Shanghai test scores have everyone asking: How did students do it? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Mexican evangelical drug boss killed in raid (Reuters) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 04:41 PM PST Reuters - Mexican security forces killed a top leader of the cult-like La Familia drug cartel, the government said on Friday, relieving some pressure on President Felipe Calderon in his flagging drug war.

Climate talks show signs of Kyoto compromise (Reuters) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 04:39 PM PST Reuters - Global climate talks showed progress on Friday as negotiators hinted at a compromise between rich and poor nations on greenhouse gas emissions.

Iran TV shows stoning woman acting out husband's murder (Reuters) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 05:09 PM PST Reuters - Iranian television aired a documentary on Saturday in which a woman whose stoning sentence caused global outrage staged a graphic reconstruction of her husband's murder for which she faces possible hanging.

Amanda Knox's Appeal: A Friendlier Venue This Time? (Time.com) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 03:25 PM PST Time.com - Since Amanda Knox was convicted last year of killing her British roommate Meredith Kercher, the tide of public opinion in Italy has turned in her favor. As her appeal trial gets underway, could Italy's change of mind help set her free?

Police say Croatian ex-PM arrested in Austria (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 04:16 PM PST AP - Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was arrested Friday on an international warrant a day after he left his home country amid a corruption probe.

Iran airs new confession by woman in stoning case (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 02:37 PM PST AP - An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery confessed to helping a man kill her husband and re-enacted the alleged crime in an interview broadcast Friday by Iranian state television — an apparent effort by the government to deflect international criticism over the case.

Eccentric La Familia cartel chief killed in Mexico (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 06:27 PM PST AP - The eccentric leader of the brutal La Familia drug cartel was killed in a shootout during two days of fighting between federal police and gunmen that terrified civilians across a western Mexican state, the government said Friday.

Navratilova hospitalized after Kilimanjaro attempt (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 12:25 PM PST AP - Martina Navratilova was hospitalized in Kenya because of fluid accumulation in her lungs after attempting to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. The 54-year-old tennis great is expected to recover.

China censors Nobel ceremony honoring dissident (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 06:06 PM PST AP - China repeated its claim Saturday that the world is meddling in its affairs after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in absentia to imprisoned democracy activist Liu Xiaobo. The ceremony was censored in China, which has seen a clampdown on dissidents and some news websites blocked in recent days.

Canada new home prices edge higher in October (Reuters) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 05:39 AM PST Reuters - New home prices in Canada edged higher by 0.1 percent in October from September, for the third

Car carrying Prince Charles attacked by London protesters [VIDEO] (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 04:42 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Peaceful protests in London turned ugly, Thursday, after British Prime Minister David Cameron´s government approved a 300 percent tuition hike for British universities that would set tuition at $14,000 per year. The close 323-302 vote was the spark that caused some of the 30,000 peaceful student protesters to break off from the main assembly and run a muck in the streets of London.

For U.S. Troops in Afghanistan, Coalition Forces Are Mixed Blessing (Time.com) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 03:25 PM PST Time.com - Having Polish and other NATO forces in the field creates a pleasing image of burden sharing, but Ghazni demonstrates that they can't always hold the line

Shanghai test scores have everyone asking: How did students do it? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 02:14 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - When the results of an international education assessment put Shanghai and several other Asian participants ahead of the US and much of Western Europe, many Americans were shocked. “Top test scores from Shanghai stun educators” read the headline in The New York Times.

You are subscribed to email updates from Yahoo! News: World News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610