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12/15/2009 10:43:08 AM

In this Dec. 4, 2009 photo, a steel worker at MRP in South Plainfield, N.J. fabricates a steel beam. According to company president David Floyd, the company had 75 employees at the facility a year ago and now has 130. Industrial production rose a better-than-expected 0.8 percent in November, a sign of recovery taking root in some parts of the economy.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Evidence that the economic rebound could eventually raise inflationary pressures emerged in a report Tuesday that wholesale prices surged last month.


12/15/2009 10:42:14 AM

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 16, 2009  file photo, an aerial view of the Thomson Correctional Center is seen in Thomson , Ill. The White House plans to announce Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009, that a rural Illinois prison will be acquired by the federal government to become the new home for a limited number of Guantanamo Bay detainees.  (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - President Barack Obama has ordered the federal government to acquire an underused state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terror suspects now held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.


12/15/2009 11:10:32 AM

U.S. President Barack Obama listens to his Lebanese counterpart Michel Suleiman in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington December 14, 2009. REUTERS/Jim YoungAP - After months of turmoil, President Barack Obama called Senate Democrats to the White House Tuesday afternoon to say it's time to come together and pass legislation embracing a wholesale remodeling of America's health care system.


12/15/2009 11:14:18 AM

Boeing Co. employees cheer as a Boeing Co. 787 airplane takes off on its first flight Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, at Paine Field in Everett, Wash.  Pilots Michael Carriker and Randall Neville lifted off in the big blue and white jet at about 10 a.m. PST from Everett's Paine Field on a four-hour flight over Washington state, beginning the extensive flight test program needed to obtain the plane's Federal Aviation Administration certification.(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - Boeing Co.'s new 787 jetliner finally took to the skies Tuesday, more than two years later than the company had planned.


12/15/2009 10:59:46 AM

A nurse drawing up a syringe with swine flu vaccine. More than three-quarters of a million doses of swine flu vaccine for infants and children were recalled Tuesday in the United States after routine tests showed they had lost potency.(AFP/DDP/File/Sebastian Willnow)AP - Hundreds of thousands of swine flu shots for children have been recalled because tests indicate the vaccine doses lost some strength, government health officials said Tuesday.


12/15/2009 10:31:53 AM

FILE - This 1977 file photo shows members of Swedish pop group Abba, from left,  Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha (known as Anna) Faltskog, Annifrid (known as Frida) Lyngstad and Benny Anderson. (AP Photo, file)AP - ABBA is dancing its way into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, The Hollies and The Stooges.


12/15/2009 10:54:58 AM

FILE - This is an Oct. 26, 2008, file photo showing Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren watching the second quarter of an NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers, in San Francisco. A person familiar with the meetings has told The Associated Press that former Seattle and Green Bay coach Mike Holmgren is visiting with the Cleveland Browns for a second day. The person spoke on condition of anonymity on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009,  because Cleveland owner Randy Lerner wants to keep his search secret. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)AP - The Cleveland Browns may have finally found their leader.


12/15/2009 11:09:32 AM

A foreclosed home is seen in Bullhead City, Arizona, November 4, 2009. REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonReuters - U.S. home buyers are less willing to buy foreclosed properties than they were six months ago, citing risks like hidden costs, but demand could grow because of the government's expanded tax credit, a survey showed on Tuesday.


12/15/2009 10:01:01 AM

African delegates gather for a meeting at the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen December 15, 2009. REUTERS/Bob StrongReuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Danish hosts urged countries on Tuesday to compromise to salvage agreement on a new U.N. pact aimed at averting dangerous climate change.


12/15/2009 8:55:21 AM

A U.S. Marine of the 8th Regiment Second Battalion takes up position after they came under fire from Taliban insurgents while patrolling in the Mian Poshtay area in Helmand province, October 20, 2009. REUTERS/Asmaa WaguihReuters - The first reinforcements of President Barack Obama's Afghanistan "surge" will give U.S. Marines the forces needed to tackle the last major Taliban stronghold on their patch, a commander said on Tuesday.


12/15/2009 10:48:18 AM

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner sits outside the Boeing assembly plant in Everett, Washington, July 8, 2007 before it's world premiere. REUTERS/Robert SorboReuters - Boeing's revolutionary lightweight 787 Dreamliner took to the skies for the first time on Tuesday, marking a new era in air transport as it became the largest passenger jet to fly made mostly of composite materials.


12/15/2009 10:56:50 AM

In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, a guard stands in a cell block at Camp 5 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, May 31, 2009. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/PoolReuters - The Obama administration said on Tuesday it will move some Guantanamo Bay detainees to an Illinois prison, in a move that drew immediate fire from Republicans worried about bringing high-risk prisoners to U.S. soil.


12/15/2009 9:08:03 AM

A member of Cuba's Communist Youth League holds a Cuban flag outside the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana during an event asking for the release of five Cuban agents arrested by the United States a decade ago in Havana June 18, 2009. REUTERS/Enrique De La OsaReuters - Cuba's arrest of a U.S. government contractor employed to help Cuban dissidents may rattle U.S. President Barack Obama's initiative to improve ties with Havana but should not derail it, analysts said.


12/15/2009 10:58:05 AM

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon gives a press conference at the Bella center of Copenhagen on the the 9th day of the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference. Ban said world leaders faced a AFP - UN chief Ban Ki-moon said world leaders faced a "defining moment in history" as they balanced their nation's interests with a global clamour to halt the juggernaut of climate change.


12/15/2009 8:35:40 AM

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi reacts after being assaulted on December 13. Berlusconi has thanked well-wishers from his hospital bed where he is recovering from the attack, saying AFP - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday thanked well-wishers from his hospital bed where he is recovering from an attack, saying "love always triumphs over hate".


12/15/2009 11:00:06 AM
President Obama orders the government to buy a prison in Illinois to take a number of inmates from Guantanamo Bay.
12/15/2009 10:20:45 AM
High-level talks at the UN climate summit begin, with UN chief Ban Ki-moon telling nations to "seal a deal" on climate change.
12/15/2009 10:27:51 AM
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft takes to the sky on its first test flight - almost two and a half years late.
12/15/2009 9:42:32 AM
In his first message since an attack left him in hospital, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi says love will triumph over hate.
12/15/2009 9:30:42 AM
Israel condemns as "cynical" the issuing of a war crimes arrest warrant in the UK for former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
12/15/2009 10:57:05 AM
Wolves are at Man Utd while Bolton host West Ham among four Premier League matches on Tuesday, as Stockport and Torquay finally play their FA Cup second-round tie.
12/15/2009 10:14:59 AM
Mercedes chief executive Nick Fry drops the strongest hint yet that seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher will come out of retirement to race next year.
12/15/2009 11:12:45 AM
Planet-hunters discover two "super-Earths" - rocky planets orbiting two nearby Sun-like stars.
12/15/2009 10:17:13 AM
A Nasa satellite mission has weighed the water lost by the US State of California's heartland since 2003.
12/15/2009 11:03:23 AM
A court in Istanbul finds 39 alleged leftists guilty of a range of crimes after a trial lasting a record-breaking 28 years.
12/15/2009 3:06:10 AM
At least eight people die in a suicide bombing in Kabul, as President Hamid Karzai opens an anti-corruption meeting there.
12/15/2009 4:05:36 AM
India beat Sri Lanka by just three runs in a sensational first one-day international.
12/15/2009 6:27:02 AM
Poor white teenage boys in England have slipped further behind other youngsters in their GCSE results in this year's exams.
12/15/2009 8:24:55 AM
Mistakes made before and after the Iraq invasion must not been allowed to happen again, a top diplomat says.
12/15/2009 10:32:36 AM
A middle school principal in Virginia has called off an assignment that asked some students to represent the views of the Taliban ...


12/15/2009 10:01:06 AM
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office says he's held a videoconference on the climate talks with U.S. President Obama, German ...


12/15/2009 11:06:25 AM
Hundreds of thousands of swine flu shots for children manufactured by French drug company Sanofi Pasteur have been recalled because ...


12/15/2009 9:30:53 AM
A woman killed herself and three other family members, including two young children, in what may have started as a child custody ...


12/15/2009 10:09:03 AM
The small village of Thomson, Ill., 150 miles east of Chicago, has become the center of controversy over what to do for a limited ...


12/15/2009 9:35:21 AM
A car bomb exploded outside the home of a politician in Pakistan's most populous province Tuesday, killing 22 people and wounding ...


12/15/2009 5:54:00 AM
The man who attacked Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was carrying pepper spray and a crucifix as he waited for the premier, ...


12/15/2009 5:14:31 AM
Car bombs and other explosions ripped through Iraq's capital and a major northern city on Tuesday, killing nine people and showing ...


12/15/2009 7:46:44 AM
Authorities say whiteout conditions on Oregon's Mount Hood will prevent mountaineers or aircraft from searching for two climbers ...


12/15/2009 2:46:26 AM
Houses with dreary urban facades covered in polka dots. A traveling dollhouse made from the remnants of abandoned homes. A dilapidated ...


12/15/2009 1:45:01 AM
Japan needs more time to reach a decision on the relocation of a major U.S. military base on the southern island of Okinawa, ...


12/15/2009 9:37:15 AM
Some people who live in Thomson, Illinois, are happy that Guantanamo Bay detainees may be moved to a prison in their town.
12/15/2009 10:43:56 AM
Five people, including three police officers, have been indicted in the fatal race-related beating of a Latino man in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the Justice Department said today.
12/15/2009 11:02:25 AM
Philippines authorities are evacuating about 50,000 people living near a volcano after it spewed lava and ash. A large-scale eruption was forecast as imminent.
12/15/2009 11:09:35 AM
Thousands of people tuned in to watch the CNN/YouTube Climate Change Debate, which took place Tuesday at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
12/15/2009 9:27:14 AM
Nearly one-sixth of teens who own cell phones have received nude or nearly nude images via text message from someone they know, according to a new survey on "sexting" from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
12/15/2009 9:34:45 AM
Last Tuesday, Danny Cahill became the biggest 'Biggest Loser' ever when he dropped 239 lbs. in seven months to win the eighth season title.


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