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• Rescuers pull girl from quake debris in Haiti (AP)
• AP: Haiti govt gets 1 penny of US quake aid dollar (AP)
• 7 dead after Belgium apartment building collapses (AP)
• Sri Lanka re-elects president; opponent cries foul (AP)
• Austrian Kidnap Victim Natascha Kampusch Revisits Cellar (Time.com)
• Sweet sexinesss at Elie Saab (AP)
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• Man's head found in Mexican town square (AP)
• Nigerian elites urge stiff penalty for Jos crisis instigators (AFP)
• Report: North Korea fires more artillery towards South (Reuters)
• Quebec's Liberals edge back in lead: poll (Reuters)
• Man caught at airport with 44 lizards in pants (AP)
• Haitians Build Homes as Little Quake Aid Reaches Them (Time.com)
• Africa a Challenge for Obama in 2010 (OneWorld.net)

Rescuers pull girl from quake debris in Haiti (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2010 04:49 PM PST AP - French rescuers pulled a teenage girl from the rubble of a home near the destroyed St. Gerard University on Wednesday, a stunning recovery 15 days after an earthquake devastated the city.

AP: Haiti govt gets 1 penny of US quake aid dollar (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2010 04:04 PM PST AP - Less than a penny of each dollar the U.S. is spending on earthquake relief in Haiti is going in the form of cash to the Haitian government, according to an Associated Press review of relief efforts.

7 dead after Belgium apartment building collapses (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2010 04:27 PM PST AP - Rescue workers recovered seven bodies from the rubble of a crowded apartment building that collapsed Wednesday after an apparent gas explosion.

Sri Lanka re-elects president; opponent cries foul (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2010 04:13 PM PST AP - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa swept to a second term in office, but his chief rival vowed to challenge the results and for hours insisted he was being held a virtual prisoner in a tony hotel surrounded by hundreds of soldiers.

Austrian Kidnap Victim Natascha Kampusch Revisits Cellar (Time.com) Posted: 27 Jan 2010 01:35 PM PST Time.com - In a new documentary, kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch reveals the cellar ofthe home where she was held captive for eight years -- and opens up moreabout her torment

Sweet sexinesss at Elie Saab (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2010 04:43 PM PST AP - Hollywood's favorite Lebanese designer, Elie Saab, on Wednesday delivered a sexy and sweet spring-summer 2010 haute couture collection of heavily beaded slip gowns in muted pastel tones.

(AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2010 02:18 PM PST AP - Lebanese army officer says signals detected from black boxes on Ethiopian jet that crashed

Man's head found in Mexican town square (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2010 03:40 PM PST AP - Mexican authorities say a man's head and a threatening message referring to a drug cartel have been found on a town square.

Nigerian elites urge stiff penalty for Jos crisis instigators (AFP) Posted: 27 Jan 2010 03:39 PM PST AFP - Leading figures in northern Nigeria on Wednesday called on the government to impose "stiff punishment" on those involved in religious violence that claimed more than 300 lives in the city of Jos last week.

Report: North Korea fires more artillery towards South (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2010 04:57 PM PST Reuters - North Korea fired several artillery rounds on Thursday in the direction of a South Korean island off the west coast of the peninsula in a second day of shooting, Yonhap news agency said.

Quebec's Liberals edge back in lead: poll (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2010 08:46 AM PST Reuters - Quebec's ruling Liberals have edged in front of the separatist Parti Quebecois in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province, according to a poll published on Wednesday.

Man caught at airport with 44 lizards in pants (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 09:35 PM PST AP - A German man who stuffed 44 small lizards into his underwear before trying to board a flight has been sentenced to prison in New Zealand for plundering the country's protected species.

Haitians Build Homes as Little Quake Aid Reaches Them (Time.com) Posted: 27 Jan 2010 01:35 PM PST Time.com - In cities like Leogane and Port-au-Prince, those who lost their homes in the quake have erected working communities out of plastic sheeting and plywood

Africa a Challenge for Obama in 2010 (OneWorld.net) Posted: 27 Jan 2010 02:33 PM PST OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (OneWorld.net) - Barack Obama is "missing a historic opportunity" to improve lives across the continent of Africa, says a new report from a pair of Africa policy think tanks, urging the U.S. president to create a new, "people-centered" strategy to tackle major ongoing challenges including HIV/AIDS, poverty, human rights violations, and climate change.

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