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1/30/2010 2:22:04 AM

FILE - In this July 20, 2006 photo, a U.S.-made Patriot missile is launched during the annual Han Kuang No. 22 exercises in  Ilan County, 80 kilometers (49 miles) west of Taipei, Taiwan. The United States is planning to sell US$6.4 billion in arms, including Black Hawk helicopters, Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles, mine hunter ships and information technology, to Taiwan, a move that will infuriate China and test whether President Barack Obama's efforts to improve trust with Beijing will carry the countries through a tense time. (AP Photo/File)AP - China suspended military exchange visits with the United States on Saturday in protest over $6.4 billion in planned U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and warned the U.S. ambassador that the sales would harm already strained ties.


1/30/2010 2:44:16 AM

Men play board games in Columbus Park across the street from Manhattan Federal court, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 in New York. Facing growing opposition to its plans to hold the Sept. 11 terrorist trial in New York City, the Obama administration is considering moving the proceedings elsewhere. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - A letter and a speech may have doomed plans to bring the Sept. 11 terror trial to New York.


1/30/2010 2:45:27 AM

Congressman from Massachusetts and Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, USA, Barney Frank speaks with journalists as he arrives for a bankers meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Saturday Jan. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)AP - International bankers and government officials met behind closed doors Saturday to discuss proposed financial reforms the industry feels are threatening economic recovery — and emerged calling the talks useful but inconclusive.


1/30/2010 3:01:58 AM

Serena Williams of the United States reacts to a point won against Justine Henin of Belgium, during the Women's singles final match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010.   (AP Photo/Mark Baker)AP - Serena Williams has won her fifth Australian Open title, beating Justine Henin 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 in the final.


1/30/2010 2:15:14 AM

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama gestures while delivering his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Supreme Court's decision on campaign finance has jumbled a seemingly simple rule of American politics — foreigners should play no role in U.S. elections. Now that the court has declared that corporations have a constitutional right to spend from their general treasuries to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, the prospect of foreign influence in campaigns has emerged as a flashpoint in the back-and-forth between critics of the ruling and its defenders. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - The Supreme Court's decision on campaign finance has jumbled a seemingly simple rule of American politics — foreigners should play no role in U.S. elections.


1/30/2010 2:48:29 AM

Visitors check a car at a Toyota Motor Corp.'s showroom in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. A flood of recalls in the U.S. shows Toyota compromised on quality control in an overzealous drive to cut costs and expand sales during its climb to the top of the world auto market. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - American Toyota owners are understandably alarmed about ballooning recalls over faulty gas pedals and floor mats. In Japan, the automaker's home market, where there have been no such recalls, the reaction is — also understandably — muted.


1/30/2010 2:57:32 AM

Suspected looters lie with their hands tied as they are detained in an appliance store in downtown Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.  Sporadic looting continues as earthquake survivors scavenge for anything they can find in the rubble left by Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - They are the latest scenes of survival and of death in Haiti's deadliest disaster — a looter shot dead for breaking into an appliance store and crowds erecting new houses on shaky ground.


1/30/2010 3:00:35 AM
AP - From parties to rehearsals to gift suites, Grammy-related activities were taking over L.A.'s weekend scene in advance of Sunday night's awards show at Staples Center. Here's a tour around town:
1/30/2010 2:04:02 AM

A child runs past a torpedo on display outside the Taiwan Armed Forces Museum in Taipei January 30, 2010. REUTERS/Pichi ChuangReuters - China moved swiftly on Saturday to suspend military exchanges with the United States after Washington's announcement of arms sales to Taiwan, widening rifts in their far-reaching relationship.


1/30/2010 1:19:41 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown (2nd L) shakes hands with Foreign Secretary David Miliband (2nd R) as they and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (L), and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai leave the stage at the end of the opening session of the 'Afghanistan: The London Conference' in central London, January 28, 2010. REUTERS/Matt Dunham/PoolReuters - NATO troops clashed with their Afghan army allies and called in air strikes, killing four Afghan soldiers and wounding six, Afghan provincial officials said on Saturday.


1/30/2010 2:29:34 AM

Fighters with Afghanistan's Taliban militia stand on a hillside in Wardak province in this 2008 photo. The Taliban has denied that leaders of the group fighting to overthrow the Afghan government had met UN representatives to discuss bringing peace to Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Str)AFP - The Taliban denied Saturday that leaders of the group fighting to overthrow the Afghan government had met UN representatives to discuss bringing peace to Afghanistan.


1/30/2010 2:57:53 AM
China announces a series of moves in retaliation for a US proposal to sell $6.4bn of weapons to Taiwan.
1/30/2010 3:03:47 AM
A suspected suicide bomber kills at least nine people in an attack on a checkpoint in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
1/30/2010 2:51:04 AM
Tennis' world number one Serena Williams beats Justine Henin in three sets to win her fifth Australian Open title.
1/30/2010 2:46:17 AM
Some of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes, kept for decades by a family friend, are scattered into the Indian Ocean off South Africa.
1/30/2010 1:56:37 AM
The Afghan Taliban deny reports that some of their members met UN special envoy Kai Eide to discuss peace.
1/30/2010 2:34:13 AM
The first of 250 First World War soldiers who were killed in the 1916 Battle of Fromelles are to be reburied with full military honours.
1/29/2010 7:20:23 AM
Businessman Tony Fernandes tells BBC Sport seven clubs have approached him about a possible takeover since his failed bid for West Ham.
1/29/2010 8:58:10 AM
Turkey tolerates Greek return to clifftop monastery
1/30/2010 2:46:50 AM
The mother of two toddlers found dead in holdalls in the boot of a car in East Sussex appears in court charged with their murders.
1/30/2010 1:55:09 AM
Talks to break the NI devolution impasse will resume later after discussions into the early hours of Saturday failed to produce a deal.
1/30/2010 2:57:53 AM
China announces a series of moves in retaliation for a US proposal to sell $6.4bn of weapons to Taiwan.
1/30/2010 3:03:47 AM
A suspected suicide bomber kills at least nine people in an attack on a checkpoint in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
1/30/2010 2:51:04 AM
Tennis' world number one Serena Williams beats Justine Henin in three sets to win her fifth Australian Open title.
1/30/2010 2:46:17 AM
Some of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes, kept for decades by a family friend, are scattered into the Indian Ocean off South Africa.
1/29/2010 7:26:07 PM
The Nigerian militant group Mend ends a ceasefire in the oil-rich Niger Delta, warning companies to prepare for an "all-out onslaught".
1/29/2010 4:24:51 PM
Google begins to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, the browser identified as the weak link in a cyber attack.
1/29/2010 3:00:26 PM
More than 100 Haitians are picked up off the Turks and Caicos islands after trying to flee Haiti by boat after the earthquake.
1/30/2010 1:56:37 AM
The Afghan Taliban deny reports that some of their members met UN special envoy Kai Eide to discuss peace.
1/30/2010 2:34:13 AM
The first of 250 First World War soldiers who were killed in the 1916 Battle of Fromelles are to be reburied with full military honours.
1/29/2010 9:20:05 PM
California names the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon as a state historical resource.
1/29/2010 9:02:43 AM
A struggling football team resorts to asking a priest to bless their pitch in a bid to stop their run of bad luck.
1/29/2010 11:57:00 PM
England football captain John Terry is named as the sportsman behind a court injunction involving his private life.
1/29/2010 7:20:23 AM
Businessman Tony Fernandes tells BBC Sport seven clubs have approached him about a possible takeover since his failed bid for West Ham.
1/28/2010 11:22:46 AM
Tony Blair has faced questions in public for the first time about taking the UK to war against Iraq. Your thoughts?
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1/29/2010 4:24:27 PM
Haiti's 'ghost' tent villages amid aid effort confusion
1/29/2010 10:42:45 AM
Questions remain for Tony Blair after his Iraq evidence
1/29/2010 8:58:10 AM
Turkey tolerates Greek return to clifftop monastery
1/29/2010 4:57:43 PM
Why people vote against their own interests
1/29/2010 8:02:15 AM
Why does India's 'untouchable' icon want statue police?
1/29/2010 4:49:39 PM
Cyprus is shackled by rituals of separation
1/29/2010 1:31:48 PM
Toyota says it is recalling up to 1.8 million cars in Europe, including 220,000 in the UK, due to an accelerator problem.
1/29/2010 7:15:42 AM
US economic growth hit 5.7% in the final three months of 2009, more than twice the pace of the previous quarter.
1/29/2010 8:20:37 PM
Argentina's central bank chief Martin Redrado resigns after a bitter public row with the country's president.
1/29/2010 1:08:26 AM
The way a UK law firm is pursuing alleged net pirates has been criticised with calls for the Information Commissioner to investigate.
1/29/2010 2:56:26 AM
Cyber conmen are launching attacks that trade on surging interest in Apple's iPad tablet computer.
1/28/2010 3:12:53 PM
A potential obstacle to producing energy by laser fusion is swept aside, along with the record for the highest-energy laser pulse.
1/29/2010 3:38:51 AM
American novelist JD Salinger, author of classic 20th Century book The Catcher In The Rye, has died aged 91, his son says.
1/29/2010 3:01:29 AM
Funk musician Sly Stone files a $50m (£30.9m) legal claim against his former manager, alleging fraud and stolen royalties.
1/29/2010 3:31:38 AM
Scientists reveal how frogs perform the architectural feat of building floating foam "meringue" nests.
1/29/2010 10:37:24 AM
Almost 60% of the people killed by natural disasters in the past decade lost their lives in earthquakes, data shows.
1/29/2010 6:29:22 AM
Bill and Melinda Gates say they will donate $10bn over 10 years to develop vaccines for children in developing countries.
1/29/2010 10:05:29 AM
The wife of South Africa's intelligence minister is arrested and charged with arranging drug smuggling.
1/29/2010 9:59:36 AM
Schoolgirl absenteeism in Ghana could be cut by half by providing free sanitary towels, a study shows.
1/29/2010 7:01:59 PM
The last of 4,000 tourists stranded at Machu Picchu after flooding are airlifted to safety by the Peruvian authorities.
1/29/2010 7:36:58 AM
Bolivia's president declares a state of emergency in areas of the country, as thousands are affected by flooding.
1/29/2010 4:17:23 AM
Prices in Japan fell at a record level in December, official figures show, heightening concerns about deflation.
1/29/2010 6:54:24 AM
The US expresses deep concern about the fate of 20 Uighur asylum seekers deported from Cambodia back to China.
1/29/2010 9:37:03 AM
Russia unveils its new stealth fighter, meant to rival the radar-evading US F-22, in a test flight over the country's far east.
1/29/2010 3:25:43 AM
Unemployment in the eurozone hit 10% in December for the first time since the single currency was introduced, figures show.
1/29/2010 11:17:35 AM
A defiant Tony Blair tells the Iraq inquiry it was right to remove Saddam and says he would take the same decision again.
1/29/2010 12:51:23 PM
Dubai says it has identified several "European passport holders" as suspects in the killing of a Hamas military commander.
1/29/2010 8:25:06 AM
Sri Lankan special forces raid the campaign office of defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka, his aides say.
1/30/2010 12:34:31 AM
Mumbai police arrest a second man over an alleged sexual assault on a Russian girl of nine in the Indian resort region of Goa.
1/30/2010 2:46:50 AM
The mother of two toddlers found dead in holdalls in the boot of a car in East Sussex appears in court charged with their murders.
1/29/2010 10:42:35 PM
Briton Laura Robson loses in the Australian Open girls' final for the second year running, beaten by sixth seed Karolina Pliskova.
1/29/2010 8:02:31 PM
The government has "significantly underestimated" the cost of delivering free social care, council chiefs say.
1/30/2010 1:55:09 AM
Talks to break the NI devolution impasse will resume later after discussions into the early hours of Saturday failed to produce a deal.
1/30/2010 12:52:40 AM
The UK's big supermarket chains are breaking disability laws by having strict time limits in car parks, charities say.
1/29/2010 2:28:48 PM
John McFall, chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, announces he is standing down after 23 years as an MP.
1/30/2010 1:07:52 AM
An al-Qaeda front group in Iraq is claiming responsibility for a suicide car bombing earlier this week at Baghdad's main crime ...


1/30/2010 12:52:16 AM
A letter and a speech may have doomed plans to bring the Sept. 11 terror trial to New York.


1/30/2010 12:20:54 AM
The Southeastern U.S. was next in line for icy roads and snowy landscapes as a storm pushed eastward Friday after knocking out ...


1/29/2010 10:26:17 PM
With a police lieutenant mortally wounded aned and his alleged assailants fleeing in a work truck, more than 50 law officers sped ...


1/29/2010 9:32:07 PM
A man who said he killed prominent Kansas abortion provider George Tiller in order to save the lives of unborn children was convicted ...


1/29/2010 8:22:55 PM
Intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed five people in northwestern Pakistan.


1/29/2010 12:41:05 PM
Snow and ice in the Southeast and Northwest and unusually chilly temperatures in the Northeast and Midwest will be a harsh reminder ...


1/29/2010 12:40:06 PM
Why Earth's surface temperature hasn't warmed as expected puzzles scientists. Water vapor in the stratosphere may be a factor, ...


1/29/2010 12:13:59 PM
Southeastern states were bracing Friday as snow began to fall from a storm that has already toppled Midwestern power lines, closed ...


1/29/2010 11:48:32 AM
North Korea notified the U.S. that it has another American in custody for allegedly entering the country illegally, the State ...


1/29/2010 11:33:29 AM
A police lieutenant from a Phoenix suburb was shot and killed during a traffic stop and after a 50-mile chase, the two suspects ...


1/29/2010 11:29:16 AM
The Air Force says a missile-intercept test will be conducted during the weekend with launches from California and a Pacific ...


1/29/2010 10:31:59 AM
Police say a dispute on Facebook led to a shooting outside a Philadelphia high school that critically injured two men and wounded ...


1/29/2010 9:16:19 AM
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned China on Friday it risks diplomatic isolation and disruption to its energy ...


1/29/2010 10:44:27 AM
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to ...




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