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Yemeni cleric calls for killing US civilians (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 01:43 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 2008 file photo provided by Muhammad ud-Deen shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. Al-Awlaki, an American-Yemeni cleric whose Internet sermons have helped inspire attacks on the U.S. is advocating the killing of American civilians in a new al-Qaida video posted Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammad ud-Deen, File)AP - A U.S.-born cleric who has encouraged Muslims to kill American soldiers called for the killing of U.S. civilians in his first video released by a Yemeni offshoot of al-Qaida, providing the most overt link yet between the radical preacher and the terror group.

UK tabloid: Duchess offered access for cash (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 02:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2007 file photo Britain's Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson arrives at the third annual Quill Awards, honoring books and authors, New York. Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson feels devastated after she was secretly recorded apparently offering to sell access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew in return for 500,000 pounds ($724,000), her spokeswoman said Sunday May 23, 2010. The tabloid News of the World posted video on its website that appears to show Ferguson discussing payment terms. She is heard to say '500,000 pounds when you can, to me, open doors.' Asked if she was referring to the prince, she said: 'Yeah.' The newspaper said Ferguson, 50, spoke to an undercover reporter posing as a businessman. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, file)AP - Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson said Sunday she was "very sorry" for her lapse of judgment after she was recording apparently offering to sell access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew in return for 500,000 pounds ($724,000).

Black box found after fiery India plane crash (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 11:13 AM PDT

A search operation team member carries a box recovered from the remains of the Air India Express plane that crashed in Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, Sunday, May 23, 2010. Investigators searching for clues as to what caused India's worst air disaster in more than a decade recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder Sunday from the charred remains of the flight. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - As crash investigators pulled the black box from the charred, twisted wreckage of an Air India plane Sunday, Koolikkunnu Krishnan marveled that he escaped the crash alive. Of the 166 passengers and crew aboard when the plane overshot a hilltop runway and plunged over a cliff at dawn Saturday, 158 were dead. Krishnan and just seven others survived.

Fiscal crises threaten Europe's generous benefits (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 01:55 PM PDT

A civil guard stands outside the Economic Ministry during a demonstration in Madrid Thursday May 20, 2010. The protest came after the Spanish Government announced job cuts for public employees and said it will raise taxes for high-income earners to help chip away at the country's outsized deficit. (AP Photo/Paul White)AP - Six weeks of vacation a year. Retirement at 60. Thousands of euros for having a baby. A good university education for less than the cost of a laptop.

Baby Gap: Germany's Birth Rate Hits Historic Low (Time.com)

Posted: 23 May 2010 01:50 PM PDT

Time.com - New figures reveal Germany's birth rate has fallen to its lowest point in over 60 years. With an aging population and a debt that could take generations to settle, can the country convince its citizens to build bigger families?

Rolling Stones return to top of album chart (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 04:42 PM PDT

L-R: Musician Charlie Watts, singer Mick Jagger, and musician Keith Richards attend the re-release of The Rolling Stones' AFP - The Rolling Stones scored their first British number one album in 16 years Sunday after re-releasing one of their classic records, "Exile on Main Street."

Top Shiite cleric in Iraq calls for unity (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 01:38 PM PDT

An Iraqi worker with the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) checks a box containing ballots of parliamentary elections during the recounting process in Baghdad May 14, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenAP - The leader of the Sunni-backed coalition that won the most seats in Iraq's March election said the country's most influential Shiite cleric assured him in a meeting Sunday that no group would be excluded from the new government.

Jamaica: Gunfire, fire bombs in barricaded slum (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 04:29 PM PDT

Alleged drug gang leader Christopher 'Dudus' Coke is shown in this undated photo. Jamaican Police have an arrest warrant for 'Dudus', who is sought by U.S. authorities on drug and arms trafficking charges but residents in West Kingston neighborhoods have set up barricades to prevent the police for entering the slums to execute the order. (AP Photo/The Jamaica Gleaner) ** JAMAICA OUT **AP - Masked men torched a police station and traded gunfire with security forces in a patchwork of barricaded slums in Jamaica's capital Sunday, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency.

Fresh religious violence hits Nigerian city (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 01:45 PM PDT

A man points to a mass grave of people killed during the January sectarian violence in Jos, in Plateau State, in April 2010. Fresh violence between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria left one person dead and another seriously wounded on Sunday, a day after three others were killed, witnesses said.(AFP/File/Susan Njanji)AFP - Fresh violence between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria left one person dead and another seriously wounded on Sunday, a day after three others were killed, witnesses said.

Indian plane crash investigators find cockpit voice recorder (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 04:38 PM PDT

Rescue personnel work at the crash site of an Air India Boeing 737-800 aircraft which crashed upon landing in Mangalore. Investigators sifting through the charred wreckage of an Indian passenger plane that plunged into a ravine, killing 158 people on board, found Sunday the cockpit voice recorder.(AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)AFP - Investigators sifting through the charred wreckage of an Indian passenger plane that plunged into a ravine, killing 158 people on board, found Sunday the cockpit voice recorder.

Australia says door open on mining 'super tax' (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 04:31 AM PDT

A coal dredger tears into the face of the Loy Yang Open Cut coal mine in Latrobe Valley near Melbourne. Australia has signalled it is open to compromise on the controversial plan to tax the AFP - Australia signalled Sunday it is open to compromise on the controversial plan to tax the "super profits" of the Asian-driven mining boom but insisted the 40 percent headline rate will stay.

An Eerie Silence Precedes Ethiopia's Election (Time.com)

Posted: 23 May 2010 12:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Five years of repression have shut-out members of the opposition from most public venues but they haven't stopped trying to be heard, even at huge personal risks

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