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Survivors flee Haiti capital; buried still saved (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 04:07 PM PST

A group of men wielding sticks storm a food distribution center, run by Eagle Wings Foundation of West Palm Beach, Florida, at the Carrefour neighborhood, in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. A melee erupted at the charity's food distribution point as people broke into the storehouse, ran off with food and fought each other over the bags. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - The government and international agencies urgently searched for sites to build tent cities on Port-au-Prince's outskirts to shelter hundreds of thousands of the homeless staying behind before springtime's onslaught of floods and hurricanes.

Google co-founders to sell $5.5B combined in stock (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 04:50 PM PST

AP - Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are relinquishing some of their control over the Internet search leader with the sale of 10 million shares worth $5.5 billion at current prices.

UK raises its terror threat level to `severe' (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 04:22 PM PST

Home Secretary Alan Johnson, seen here on January 21, said Britain raised its terror threat level from 'substantial' to 'severe' on Friday, suggesting that an attack is AP - Britain raised its terror threat alert to the second-highest level Friday, one of several recent moves the country has made to increase vigilance against international terrorists after a Christmas Day bombing attempt on a Europe-U.S. flight.

Building boom transforms heart of Beirut (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:38 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 28, 2008 file photo, tourists sunbathe as others swim at the St. George Yacht club in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon drew nearly 2 million tourists in 2009 the highest number ever, exceeding even the years before the 1975-90 civil war that devastated a country whose capital was once known as 'the Paris of the Middle East.' (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)AP - Blocks of historic Ottoman-era buildings, once pocked by bullet holes, have been majestically restored, and new high-rise apartment towers with mirrored facades front the glittering Mediterranean, signs of an unprecedented real estate boom that is transforming Lebanon's capital.

Official: Rescuers reach stranded Russian ship (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:35 PM PST

AP - A rescue ship reached a Russian cargo vessel stranded in icy waters off eastern Russia with 31 crew members aboard and prepared to escort it to safety, officials said Saturday.

The Coast Guard in Haiti: First Responders, in for the Long Haul (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 10:10 AM PST

Time.com - Among the very first on scene of the catastrophe, two Coast Guard vessels had to deal with hundreds of injured until the U.S. Navy sent in bigger ships

Britain hikes terror threat to 'severe' (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 06:08 PM PST

Home Secretary Alan Johnson, seen here on January 21, said Britain raised its terror threat level from 'substantial' to 'severe' on Friday, suggesting that an attack is AFP - Britain raised its terror threat assessment Friday from "substantial" to "severe", the second-highest level, suggesting an attack on the country is "highly likely", Home Secretary Alan Johnson said.

Biden in Iraq to help ease pre-election tensions (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:20 PM PST

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, center, poses for a photo with Gen. Raymond Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, left, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill, right, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad to try to ease rising tensions that have threatened to delay Iraq's March elections. (AP Photo/Thaier Al-Sudani, Pool)AP - Vice President Joe Biden brought Washington's concerns about Iraqi political tensions directly to leaders in Baghdad on Friday, but officials appeared to leave little room for outside mediation over whether to ban hundreds of election candidates for suspected links to Saddam Hussein's regime.

10 days after quake, 2 rescued from Haiti rubble (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 05:19 PM PST

Marie Carida, 84, lies on the ground at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. Relatives said they rescued Carida Friday from the rubble of their home, collapsed during the powerful earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Searchers pulled two survivors from the rubble of Haiti's devastating earthquake on Friday, rescuing a man and an elderly woman a staggering 10 days after homes collapsed on top of them.

Horrors of religious violence found in Nigeria (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:11 PM PST

A Nigerian soldier runs past a burnt out truck at Jos, Nigeria, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Charred bodies with scorched hands reaching skyward lay in the streets and a mosque with blackened minarets smoldered Wednesday after several days of fighting between Christians and Muslims killed more than 200 people. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)AP - Muslim volunteers discovered Friday that sectarian violence in central Nigeria this week extended beyond the long-restive city of Jos and into the burned shell of what used to be a small village near it.

Two jailed in New York for aiding Tamil Tigers (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 04:40 PM PST

Former female Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels watch television at a rehabilitation camp in Ratmalana in 2009. A New York court sentenced two men to 14 and 26 years in prison Friday for providing support to the Tamil Tigers separatist group, the Justice Department said Friday.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - A New York court sentenced two men to 14 and 26 years in prison Friday for providing support to the Tamil Tigers separatist group, the Justice Department said Friday.

Blind skier included in strong Canadian team (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 01:09 PM PST

Reuters - Brian McKeever became the first athlete to gain selection for a Winter Olympics and a Paralympics in the same year when he was included in a strong Canadian cross country team for next month's Vancouver Games.

Australia, N.Zealand order review of 'bible' gunsights (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 11:50 PM PST

File photo shows an Australian soldier scans an area with his rifle's scope. Australia Friday ordered its military to look at removing biblical references from weapons used by troops in Afghanistan, after New Zealand banned the AFP - Australia Friday ordered its military to look at removing biblical references from weapons used by troops in Afghanistan, after New Zealand banned the "completely inappropriate" inscriptions.

Marines to mark official end of their Anbar mission in Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:56 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — U.S. Marines formally end their presence in Iraq's Anbar province Saturday, marking the conclusion of a bloody seven-year battle that claimed hundreds of Marine lives and featured some of the war's fiercest fighting.

With Mideast peace talks stalled, activists fear a new intifada (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 09:58 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - US peace envoy George Mitchell met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday to try to break a diplomatic impasse that some say could give rise to a new Palestinian uprising, or intifada. 

Medics Scramble to Save Quake Survivors (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 10:10 AM PST

Time.com - TIME reporter Siobhan Morrissey follows the surgeons as they try to save children wounded in the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake

Uganda Urged to Stop 'Anti-Gay' Bill (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 09:17 AM PST

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (OneWorld.net) - The international community is urging Uganda's government to scrap a bill proposing the death sentence for "aggravated homosexuality" amid increasing concerns about homophobia across the African continent.

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