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• Stricken Italian liner shifts, 29 people missing (Reuters)
• Nigeria unions suspend strike after fuel price cut (Reuters)
• Twelve more killed in Syria despite Arab monitors (Reuters)
• Explosions damage Italy tax agency: Naples police (Reuters)
• Islamist set to be Egypt's new parliament speaker (Reuters)
• Pakistani Prime Minister Faces Off with the Military (Time.com)
• UK police clear Parliament Square protesters (AP)
• Al-Qaida in Yemen captures town south of capital (AP)
• 3 more women held in Mexico child-trafficking case (AP)
• US seeks stronger democracies, partners in Africa (AP)
• Microblogging use in China quadrupled in 2011: think tank (Reuters)
• Provinces bristle at federal health "deal" (Reuters)
• Asher Elias uses high-tech training to lift Ethiopian Jews in Israel (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Germany's Youngest College Lecturer Is Just 16 Years Old (Time.com)
• In India, the challenge of building 50,000 colleges (The Christian Science Monitor)

Stricken Italian liner shifts, 29 people missing (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:38 PM PST Reuters - A stricken Italian cruise liner shifted on its rocky resting place on Monday as worsening weather disrupted an increasingly despairing hunt for survivors and authorities raised their estimate of the number missing to 29 people.

Nigeria unions suspend strike after fuel price cut (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 11:23 AM PST Reuters - Nigerian trade unions called off strikes and protests on Monday, ending a major confrontation over fuel prices after President Goodluck Jonathan said he would cut them by one third.

Twelve more killed in Syria despite Arab monitors (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 11:50 AM PST Reuters - Twelve people were killed on Monday in Syria, where a peace plan monitored by Arab observers has failed to douse a 10-month-old struggle between President Bashar al-Assad and his foes.

Explosions damage Italy tax agency: Naples police (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:18 PM PST Reuters - Three explosive devices blew up outside the Naples offices of Equitalia, a state agency that collects overdue taxes and fines, on Monday night, breaking windows but injuring no one, a police official told Reuters.

Islamist set to be Egypt's new parliament speaker (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 10:50 AM PST Reuters - Leading Egyptian political parties will back a senior figure in the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) for the assembly's speaker, with another Islamist group and a liberal party taking the deputy posts, an FJP official said on Monday.

Pakistani Prime Minister Faces Off with the Military (Time.com) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:45 AM PST Time.com - The civilian Prime Minister is feuding with the all-powerful generals and with the Supreme Court, and opposition politicians itching to join the melee

UK police clear Parliament Square protesters (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 03:37 PM PST AP - British police on Monday removed tents and protesters from Parliament Square in the latest twist in a decade-long battle to clear prime London real estate.

Al-Qaida in Yemen captures town south of capital (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 11:04 AM PST AP - A band of al-Qaida militants took full control on Monday of a town 100 miles south of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, overrunning army positions, storming the local prison and freeing at least 150 inmates.

3 more women held in Mexico child-trafficking case (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:46 PM PST AP - Investigators in Mexico say they have detained three more women in the city of Guadalajara linked to an apparent child-trafficking ring that aimed to supply babies to Irish couples.

US seeks stronger democracies, partners in Africa (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:15 PM PST AP - After an intense year of diplomacy sparked by revolution and repression across the Arab world, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking stock this week of an entirely separate democratic advance a half-continent away in West Africa.

Microblogging use in China quadrupled in 2011: think tank (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 12:18 PM PST Reuters - Use of microblogging in China quadrupled in 2011 compared with the previous year, with nearly half of all Chinese Internet users now taking to the near-instant service to gather news and spread views, a government Internet think tank said Monday.

Provinces bristle at federal health "deal" (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:19 PM PST Reuters - The provinces unanimously believe the federal government's unilateral decision to impose a new formula for how it will help fund the public healthcare system "was both unprecedented and unacceptable," British Columbia Premier Christy Clark said Monday.

Asher Elias uses high-tech training to lift Ethiopian Jews in Israel (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 09:12 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The poster in Tech-Career's simple office shows a young black man and woman, each with dreadlocks, leaning on each other as they work away on laptop computers.

Germany's Youngest College Lecturer Is Just 16 Years Old (Time.com) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:45 AM PST Time.com - By all accounts, Carina Lämmle is the youngest college lecturer in Germany. She also happens to teach a discipline so advanced, few have ever heard of it

In India, the challenge of building 50,000 colleges (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 09:04 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Here's a job most 27-year-olds never get: starting up a new university â€" from scratch. Like an Athenian at the dawn of Greece, Dhawal Sharma is converting 25 acres of farmland outside New Delhi worked by man and ox for millenniums into the kind of marble-and-grass campus that launches odysseys of the mind.

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