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  1. Canada woman to fight insurance co. over Facebook AP - Mon Nov 23, 4:29 PM ETSent 6,280 times

    MONTREAL - A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression said Monday she would fight an insurance company's decision to cut her benefits after her agent found photos on Facebook of her vacationing, at a bar and at a party.

  2. File photo shows an iceberg pictured off the New Zealand Coast. More than 100, and possibly hundreds, of Antarctic icebergs are floating towards New Zealand in a rare event which has prompted a shipping warning, officials have said.(AFP/HO/Getty Images/File)
    Over 100 icebergs drifting to N.Zealand: official AFP - Mon Nov 23, 2:09 AM ETSent 4,061 times

    SYDNEY (AFP) - More than 100, and possibly hundreds, of Antarctic icebergs are floating towards New Zealand in a rare event which has prompted a shipping warning, officials said on Monday.

  3. FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 29, 2005, file photo, a female kangaroo and her joey are seen in suburban Sydney, Australia. An Australian man was in stable condition Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, after being slashed across the abdomen and face by a kangaroo that was holding his dog underwater. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)
    Kangaroo tries to drown dog, attacks owner AP - Mon Nov 23, 8:38 PM ETSent 1,116 times

    MELBOURNE, Australia - A kangaroo startled by a man walking his dog attacked the pair, pinning the pet underwater and slashing the owner in the abdomen with its hind legs. The Australian, Chris Rickard, was in stable condition Monday after the attack, which ended when the 49-year-old elbowed the kangaroo in the throat.

  4. The hand of one of dead victims lies across a police line at a hillside in Datu Ampatuan, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines, on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo placed two southern provinces under a state of emergency, giving security forces free hand to pursue gunmen who killed at least 24 people in one of the country's worst election massacres. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
    Philippines declares emergency after 46 killed AP - 15 minutes agoSent 414 times

    AMPATUAN, Philippines - The Philippine president placed two southern provinces under emergency rule Tuesday as security forces unearthed more bodies from one of the worst incidents of election violence in the nation's history, pushing the death toll to 46.

  5. Healthcare workers at a hospital. A Belgian man thought to have been in a coma for 23 years has told of his "second birth" after doctors realised he was in fact conscious, a German weekly reported Monday.(AFP/File/Simon Maina)
    Belgian says he was alert but mute for 23 years AP - Mon Nov 23, 9:31 PM ETSent 344 times

    BRUSSELS - For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out.

  6. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks after he addressing delegates attending the Sierra Leone Trade and Investment Forum on 'Why I am supporting Sierra Leone', in London Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. Blair is believed to be one of the candidates for the position of the first full-time President of the European Union, whose appointment will be decided by EU leaders at a dinner in Brussels, Thursday Nov. 18, 2009.(AP Photo/Sang Tan)
    Report: Leaked UK documents detail Iraq war chaos AP - Sun Nov 22, 12:42 PM ETSent 146 times

    LONDON - Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the Iraq war and show plans for the U.S.-led 2003 invasion were being made more than a year earlier, a newspaper reported Sunday.

  7. Scientists gather at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) data quality satellite control center of the ATLAS detectors during the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Scientists turned on the Large Hadron Collider on Friday night, Nov. 20, 2009, for the first time since the machine suffered a failure more than a year ago and had to be shut down shortly after the start. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)
    Big Bang atom smasher starts speeding proton beams AP - 3 minutes agoSent 87 times

    GENEVA - Scientists running the world's largest atom smasher used the $10 billion machine's accelerator to speed up proton beams for the first time Tuesday, in a step toward experiments about the makeup of the universe.

  8. Iranian short-range missile is test-launched during war games in Qom, September 2009. A commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said that air defence forces would "annihilate" Israeli warplanes if they attacked the Islamic republic, as the forces began five days of war games.(AFP/File/Shaigan)
    Iran begins war games to protect nuclear sites AP - Sun Nov 22, 7:45 PM ETSent 85 times

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country could deter any military strike by Israel.

  9. Romania's President in office, Traian Basescu, smiles upon seeing exit polls in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday Nov. 22, 2009. Romania held presidential elections, the first since the country joined the European Union in 2007.According to exit polls Basescu leads after the first round followed by the Social Democracy Party candidate Mircea Geoana. An election runoff will be held on Dec. 6. (AP Photo / Vadim Ghirda)
    Romania's president, rival in runoff election AP - Mon Nov 23, 12:43 PM ETSent 81 times

    BUCHAREST, Romania - The third-place candidate in Romania's presidential election threw his support Monday behind the Western-backed socialist who faces the centrist president in a runoff seen as key to the country's emergence from political and economic crisis.

  10. FILE - File photo dated Sept. 28, 1938 showing Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, at left in foreground, and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, at right, taken just before the four power conference in Munich, Germany. As a gesture of friendship, Hitler met Mussolini with his car at the Italo-German frontier. Benito Mussolini was a fierce anti-Semite, who proudly said that his hatred for Jews preceded Adolf Hitler's and vowed to 'destroy them all,' according to previously unpublished diaries by the Fascist dictator's longtime mistress. According to the diaries, Mussolini also talked about the warm reception he got from Hitler at the 1938 Munich conference - he called the German leader a 'softie' - and attacked Pope Pius XI for his criticism of Nazism and Fascism. The dairies kept by Claretta Petacci, Mussolini's mistress, between 1932 and 1938 are the subject of a book coming out the week beginning Monday Nov. 16, 2009, in Italy, entitled 'Secret Mussolini.' Excerpts were published Monday by Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera and confirmed by publisher Rizzoli. On a more intimate note, Mussolini was explicit about his sexual appetites for his mistress and said he regretted having affairs with several other women. (AP Photo/File)
    Report: Russian billionaire buys Hitler's car AP - Mon Nov 23, 11:04 AM ETSent 73 times

    BERLIN - A German newspaper is reporting that Adolf Hitler's original Mercedes has been sold to an unidentified Russian billionaire for several million euros.

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  1. File photo of conveyor belts carrying coal from an open cut mine to the Loy Yang B power station in the Latrobe Valley, 150km east of Melbourne. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has urged parliament to approve legislation aiming to slash carbon pollution by up to 25 percent by 2020 ahead of next month's global talks on climate change.(AFP/File/Paul Crock)
    Over 100 icebergs drifting to N.Zealand: official AFP - Mon Nov 23, 2:09 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - More than 100, and possibly hundreds, of Antarctic icebergs are floating towards New Zealand in a rare event which has prompted a shipping warning, officials said on Monday.

  2. Philippines declares emergency after 46 killed AP - 15 minutes ago

    AMPATUAN, Philippines - The Philippine president placed two southern provinces under emergency rule Tuesday as security forces unearthed more bodies from one of the worst incidents of election violence in the nation's history, pushing the death toll to 46.

  3. Grandmother Zheng Shuzhen holds a portrait of her deceased grand-daughter Zhou Mengxin at the Complaints Department of the Ministry of Health in Beijing, May 2009. Two men were executed in China on Tuesday for their roles in a contaminated milk powder scandal that led to the deaths of at least six infants and sickened up to 300,000, state media said.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)
    China executes 2 for role in tainted milk scandal AP - 1 minute ago

    BEIJING - China executed two people Tuesday for their roles in a tainted milk powder scandal in which at least six children died and more than 300,000 became sick.

  4. Belgian says he was alert but mute for 23 years AP - Mon Nov 23, 9:31 PM ET

    BRUSSELS - For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out.

  5. Pakistani police officers carry coffins of their fallen colleagues who were killed in Thursday's suicide attack in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. A suicide attacker killed 19 people while trying to enter in courthouses in Peshawar. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
    Pakistani troops kill 18 Islamist militants AP - Tue Nov 24, 3:14 AM ET

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani troops killed 18 militants in a fresh offensive Tuesday against insurgents blamed for a wave of recent bombings in the main northwestern city of Peshawar.

  6. In this Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 photo, Dr. Igohwo Etuh examines Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud in a hospital in Kijabe, Kenya. Mohamoud became one of the latest victims of Somalia's savage war when he was caught in the crossfire between Islamist insurgents and government forces while walking home from the largest market in Mogadishu. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)
    AP Enterprise: Bullet tears open Somali boy's face AP - Mon Nov 23, 5:30 PM ET

    NAIROBI, Kenya - The bullet hit mother and son as they walked through Somalia's capital. She felt a sharp pain in her palm. Then she saw her 8-year-old: The bullet tore through his cheekbones, nose and mouth. Blood gushed down to his waist.

  7. The Mistral French amphibious assault ship/helicopter carrier/hospital ship docks on the Neva River in downtown St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, with one of the city landmarks, St. Isaac's Cathedral, in the background. Russia is planning to buy a Mistral-class ship worth 400-500 million euros (around $600-$750 million) from France. Russian Navy and defense industry experts are expected to inspect the ship during the visit. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
    France shows off cutting-edge navy ship in Russia AP - Mon Nov 23, 9:50 AM ET

    ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - A cutting-edge French warship sailed into St. Petersburg Monday to show off its capabilities to potential buyers in the Russian navy, whose pursuit of an amphibious assault capacity is frightening some neighboring countries.

  8. An unidentified relative of a victim weeps while waiting for news at Sekupang port in Batam, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Rescuers returned to choppy waters off Indonesia's Sumatra island Monday to search for passengers still missing after a ferry sank in a storm on Sunday. (AP Photo/Tjundra Laksamana)
    Woman found 25 hours after Indonesia ferry sank AP - Mon Nov 23, 2:12 PM ET

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia's Sumatra island. At least 29 people drowned, and 20 others were missing.

  9. The Linac 2 (Linear Accelerator 2) is pictured at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva October 16, 2008. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Files
    Big Bang atom smasher starts speeding proton beams AP - 3 minutes ago

    GENEVA - Scientists running the world's largest atom smasher used the $10 billion machine's accelerator to speed up proton beams for the first time Tuesday, in a step toward experiments about the makeup of the universe.

  10. Yemen conflict inflaming Saudi-Iranian rivalry AP - 2 hours, 56 minutes ago

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - For years just an obscure fight raging in remote desert mountains, Yemen's war with Shiite rebels has been dragged up to a new level, inflaming the rivalry between the Middle East's two powerhouses Saudi Arabia and Iran.

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  1. German Rolf-Dieter Heuer, right, Director General of CERN, and Steve Myers, left, CERN's Director for Accelerators and Technology, seen, during a press conference on the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) restart at CERN (the European particle physics laboratory) in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Scientists turned on the Large Hadron Collider on Friday night, Nov. 20, 2009, for the first time since the machine suffered a failure more than a year ago and had to be shut down shortly after the start. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)
    Big Bang atom smasher starts speeding proton beams AP - 3 minutes ago

    GENEVA - Scientists running the world's largest atom smasher used the $10 billion machine's accelerator to speed up proton beams for the first time Tuesday, in a step toward experiments about the makeup of the universe.

  2. Philippines declares emergency after 46 killed AP - 15 minutes ago

    AMPATUAN, Philippines - The Philippine president placed two southern provinces under emergency rule Tuesday as security forces unearthed more bodies from one of the worst incidents of election violence in the nation's history, pushing the death toll to 46.

  3. VIDEO: Hamas release footage of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Originally filed: 021009. Duration: 0:49(Israël 10)
    Netanyahu: Prisoner swap not a done deal AP - 50 minutes ago

    JERUSALEM - Israel's prime minister is trying to temper expectations that a deal to free a long-held Israeli soldier is imminent.

  4. China executes 2 for role in tainted milk scandal AP - 1 minute ago

    BEIJING - China executed two people Tuesday for their roles in a tainted milk powder scandal in which at least six children died and more than 300,000 became sick.

  5. Belgian says he was alert but mute for 23 years AP - Mon Nov 23, 9:31 PM ET

    BRUSSELS - For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out.

  6. In this Friday, Sept. 25, 2009 photo, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud is transported at Medina Hospital in the Somali capital of Mogadishu after being shot in the face by a stray bullet. Mohamoud became one of the latest victims of Somalia's savage war when he was caught in the crossfire between Islamist insurgents and government forces while walking home from the largest market in Mogadishu. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
    AP Enterprise: Bullet tears open Somali boy's face AP - Mon Nov 23, 5:30 PM ET

    NAIROBI, Kenya - The bullet hit mother and son as they walked through Somalia's capital. She felt a sharp pain in her palm. Then she saw her 8-year-old: The bullet tore through his cheekbones, nose and mouth. Blood gushed down to his waist.

  7. TV: Israel proposing 10-month settlement freeze AP - Mon Nov 23, 4:06 PM ET

    JERUSALEM - Israel TV reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proposing a 10-month freeze in construction in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

  8. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, embraces Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at Itamaraty palace in Brasilia, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Ahmadinejad is on a one-day visit to Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
    Brazil's president urges West to work with Iran AP - Tue Nov 24, 2:12 AM ET

    BRASILIA, Brazil - Iran's leader got a welcoming bear hug from the Brazilian president, who urged Western nations to drop threats of punishment over the Iranian nuclear program and instead negotiate a fair solution.

  9. Iran bans paper for running photo of Baha'i temple AP - Mon Nov 23, 12:36 PM ET

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian authorities have banned the country's largest-circulation newspaper for publishing a photo of a Baha'i temple, state media reported Monday.

  10. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers a speech during a ceremony to sign agreements with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia. Lula da Silva on Monday urged his visiting Iranian counterpart to find a "just solution" with the West to Tehran's contested nuclear program.(AFP/Evaristo Sa)
    Iran's Ahmadinejad on controversial trip to Brazil AFP - Mon Nov 23, 11:26 AM ET

    BRASILIA (AFP) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday began a controversial visit to Brazil, the key leg of a tour to sympathetic Latin American and African countries he sees backing Tehran's vision of "a new world order."

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