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Monday, December 1, 2008

Highest tide in 20 years floods historic Venice

People wade through high water by Venice’s Rialto Bridge, northern Italy, Monday.
By Associated Press
VENICE, Italy - Venice could use a bailout. The city built on water has too much of it. Residents and tourists waded...
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Facebook group creator detained by Croatian police

By Associated Press
ZAGREB, Croatia - Send good karma, post a photo, criticize the prime minister — all things you can do with the click of a mouse at Facebook, right? In...

Russia to upgrade missiles to evade US space arms

By Associated Press
MOSCOW - Russia’s military is planning to upgrade its missiles to allow them to evade American weapons in space and penetrate any prospective missile...

Ministry: One Dutchman died in Mumbai attacks

By Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Netherlands’ foreign ministry says a Dutch man died in the Taj Mahal hotel during last week’s terrorist attacks on...

German man shoots himself after court sentencing

By Associated Press
BERLIN - German police say a man has shot himself in a courtroom seconds after a judge convicted and sentenced him on six counts of arson. Police in the...
Sunday, November 30, 2008

Pope condemns violence in India and Nigeria

Pope Benedict XVI is framed by a statue as he leads a mass during a pastoral visit to the Basilica of San Lorenzo, in Rome, Sunday.
By Associated Press
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI has condemned terrorist attacks in India and sectarian fighting in Nigeria as "cruel...

German’s wife missed call before he died in Mumbai

By Associated Press
BERLIN - The wife of a German businessman who fell from a window at Mumbai’s Taj Mahal hotel during a terrorist attack says she missed a phone call from...

Hundreds protest Russian journalist’s beating

By Associated Press
MOSCOW - A few hundred people have demonstrated in the Russian capital to protest an attack on a crusading journalist. Rights activists and opposition politicians...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

Iceland PM Geir H. Haarde defies calls to resign amid crisis

Geir H Haarde Prime Minister of Iceland in an interview with the Associated Press in Reykjavik, Iceland, Saturday.
By Associated Press
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Iceland’s prime minister said Saturday he has no intention of stepping down over his country’s...

Flip-flop flingers come to the rescue of tipsy tourists

By Associated Press
LONDON - Volunteers will hand out free flip-flops to drunks hobbling home on high heels, British police in the resort area of Torbay said yesterday. Partygoers...
Friday, November 28, 2008

Brits look to flip-flops to prevent drunk injuries from heels

By Associated Press
LONDON - Volunteers will hand out free flip-flops to intoxicated partygoers hobbling home on high heels, British police in the resort area of Torbay said today. Partygoers...

Court: Sarkozy Voodoo doll should not be stabbed

A woman puts a pin through a Voodoo doll depicting French President Nicolas Sarkozy. (File)
By Associated Press
PARIS - A French appeals court says Voodoo dolls of President Nicolas Sarkozy may remain on sale, but must carry a notice...

France sweeps for black boxes in Airbus crash

By Associated Press
PARIS - A minesweeper searched choppy seas today for the flight recorders of an Airbus A320 passenger plane that crashed off France’s southern coast,...

Britain investigating links to India attacks

By Associated Press
LONDON - The British government is investigating whether some of the attackers in the deadly India shootings could be British citizens with links to Pakistan...

CD of songs based Pope John Paul II ’s poems on sale

Tenor Placido Domingo looks on as he presents his cd collection titled \
By Associated Press
VATICAN CITY - A new album of songs based on poems by the late Pope John Paul II and performed by Placido Domingo goes...

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