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Yemen's president open to dialogue with al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 04:42 PM PST

A Yemeni soldier checks drivers identity cards and searches for weapons, at a checkpoint in the capital San'a, Yemen Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. Yemen's president said he is ready to open a dialogue with al-Qaida fighters who lay down their weapons and renounce violence, despite U.S. pressure to crack down on the terror group. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - Yemen's president said he is ready to talk to al-Qaida members who renounce violence, suggesting he could show them the same kind of leniency he has granted militants in the past despite U.S. pressure to crack down on the terror group.

UK reporter, US Marine killed in Afghan blast (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 11:56 AM PST

This undated photo released Sunday Jan. 10, 2010 by the Sunday Mirror shows the newspapers defense correspondent Rupert Hamer who was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan Saturday Jan. 9, 2010. An explosion in southern Afghanistan killed a British journalist, a U.S. Marine and an Afghan soldier, Britain's military said Sunday. The Sunday Mirror's defense correspondent Rupert Hamer and photographer Philip Coburn were accompanying a U.S. Marine patrol in southern Afghanistan when the vehicle they were traveling in was hit by a makeshift bomb Saturday, the Defense Ministry said. (AP Photo/Sunday Mirror)AP - An explosion outside a village in southern Afghanistan killed a U.S. Marine and a veteran war correspondent who became the first British journalist killed in the conflict, officials said.

China becomes biggest exporter, edging out Germany (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 10:59 AM PST

FILE - A worker stands in front of containers at the newly open Yangshan deep water port in this Dec. 10, 2005 file photo taken in Shanghai, China. China has overtaken Germany as the world's biggest exporter after December exports rose 17.7 percent despite weak global demand. Chinese state media said Sunday Jan. 10, 2010 the country's total 2009 exports were $1.2 trillion. That was just above the 816 billion euros ($1.17 trillion) in exports forecast last month by Germany's national foreign trade association for 2009. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - Already the biggest auto market and steel maker, China edged past Germany in 2009 to become the top exporter, yet another sign of its rapid rise and the spread of economic power from West to East.

Heavy snow halts planes, trains and cars in Europe (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 09:29 AM PST

A police officer directs a car to exit the motorway A20 to a parking area near Grimmen, northern Germany, after the highway was closed for traffic due to the heavy snowfall and snow banks piled up by gale force winds on Sunday morning, Jan. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Thomas Haentzschel)AP - Europeans were struggling to restore roads and railways Sunday after heavy snow caused hundreds of traffic accidents, halted flights from Germany and France, downed power lines in Poland and trapped more than 160 people overnight on a frozen German highway.

Europe slapping rich with massive traffic fines (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 08:30 AM PST

AP - European countries are increasingly pegging speeding fines to income as a way to punish wealthy scofflaws who would otherwise ignore tickets.

The New Slave Trade in South Africa (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 01:10 PM PST

Time.com - South Africa's New Slave Trade -- And One Man's Campaign to Stop It

Jurist Josipovic wins Croatia presidential election (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 04:18 PM PST

Ivo Josipovic, presidential candidate of Croatia's Social Democrats, who leads in the exit polls in the second round of presidential elections, greets his supporters at his campaign headquarters in Zagreb January 10, 2010. REUTERS/Nikola SolicReuters - Opposition Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic convincingly won Sunday's Croatian presidential election, promising to help the government's efforts to complete European Union membership talks and join the bloc in 2012.

Abu Dhabi sheik in torture trial acquitted (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 11:44 AM PST

AP - A member of the United Arab Emirates' ruling family on trial in connection with the videotaped beating of an Afghan man was cleared of all charges Sunday.

Salvaging corpses at a bend in the river (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 10:33 PM PST

In this photo taken Oct. 27, 2009, Maria Ines Mejia points to the Cauca River bank where she recovered several hundred bodies over more than a decade in Marsella, Colombia. Mejia's story highlights a daunting challenge for Colombia at a historic juncture: locating and identifying victims of a three-decade war that ripped the country apart. With murders sharply down and fears of retribution subsiding, thousands have come forward to chronicle killings and disappearances and lead authorities to common graves. Colombia's chief prosecutor's office has compiled a list of 26,564 Colombians murdered since in the mid-1980s by 714 confessed killers from illegal armed groups. (AP Photo/Frank Bajak)AP - At this bend in the Cauca River, an eddy urges debris ashore. The rocky bank is scattered with sticks, reeds and plastic bottles, and vultures pick at the sodden, shiny white carcass of a small dog.

Radical Muslim cleric flown back to Kenya (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 02:53 PM PST

AP - A radical Jamaican-born Muslim cleric who led a British mosque attended by convicted terrorists was flown back to Kenya on Sunday after an attempt to deport him failed, officials said.

China writers say Google ready to settle book row (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 04:02 PM PST

FILE - In this April 12, 2006 file photo, Chinese poke their heads through a Google logo shortly after Google debuts its Chinese Language brand name in the Beijing Hotel in Beijing, China. The Chinese Writers' Association said Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 that Google Inc. has apologized for its 'poor communication' with Chinese authors about scanning their books into its online library, leading to a copyright dispute. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File)AP - Google Inc. wants to apologize for its poor communication with Chinese authors about scanning their books into its online library and is ready to work out a settlement to allay copyright concerns, a writer's group said Sunday.

Australian WWII wreck seen for first time in 66 years (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 10:53 AM PST

The small raised star on the side of the wreck of Australian hospital ship Centaur, lying at a depth of 2,059 metres, off Australia's northeast coast. The ship was torpedoed in World War II and sank with the loss of 268 lives was seen for the first time in 66 years on January 10 when a remote-control camera captured footage of the wreck.(AFP/The Finding Centaur Project)AFP - An Australian hospital ship which was torpedoed in World War II and sank with the loss of 268 lives was seen for the first time in 66 years Sunday when a remote-control camera captured footage of the wreck.

Opposition lawyer wins Croatia presidential runoff, exit polls show (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 11:58 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Croatian voters have firmly decided in favor of Social Democrat law professor, Ivo Josipovic, as Croatia's third president, according to exit polls. Mr. Josipovic won more than 60 percent of the vote in Sunday's runoff against Milan Bandic, the populist mayor of Croatia's capital, Zagreb, who left the opposition Social Democrats to campaign as an independent.

What al-Qaeda Can't Do (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 01:10 PM PST

Time.com - Amid the Hysteria, A Look at What al-Qaeda Can't Do

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