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2/1/2010 2:18:40 AM

AP - President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.8 trillion budget on Monday that will increase spending in the fight against high unemployment, boost taxes on the wealthy and freeze spending for a number of government programs.

2/1/2010 1:42:19 AM

AP - The arrest of 10 Americans for trying to take children out of Haiti has raised an uncomfortable question in this brutally poor and earthquake-devastated country: could some children be better off abroad under the grim circumstances?

2/1/2010 12:21:27 AM

AP - The U.S. military is scheduled to resume airlifts that brought hundreds of Haitian earthquake victims to hospitals in the United States before the flights were suspended last week.

2/1/2010 12:17:16 AM

AP - The death of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud would inflict major damage against an al-Qaida ally already under pressure from U.S. and Pakistani attacks, but is unlikely to deal a killer blow to an organization blamed for scores of bloody bombings.

2/1/2010 12:51:05 AM

AP - President Barack Obama says he wants to double exports over the next five years, supporting 2 million American jobs. The doubling is doable; the job increase is debatable.

2/1/2010 12:58:30 AM

Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp will announce on Monday details of its plan to fix accelerator pedals that have led to the recall of 2.4 million cars in the United States as it scrambles to put its worst public relations crisis behind it.

2/1/2010 12:05:34 AM

AFP - Envoys of the Dalai Lama returned to India on Monday following secretive talks in China on the future of Tibet that marked the resumption of dialogue after a 14-month hiatus.

2/1/2010 2:06:03 AM

Israel reveals it has disciplined two top officers over the use of white phosphorus shells in Gaza, its first such admission of errors.

2/1/2010 2:07:54 AM

At least 16 people are killed in a suicide bomb attack on Shia pilgrims in north-east Baghdad, police say.

2/1/2010 12:53:26 AM

President Barack Obama is to unveil his 2011 budget of $3.8tn, aiming to tackle the record US deficit.

2/1/2010 12:12:08 AM

Royal Dutch Shell shuts oil flow stations in Nigeria after a pipeline is sabotaged, shortly after a militant group ended its truce.

2/1/2010 2:02:55 AM

China castigates the US for "arrogance" and "double standards" over plans to sell $6.4bn worth of arms to Taiwan.

1/31/2010 6:03:46 PM

Breast reduction for men is the fastest growing part of the cosmetic surgery industry for the second year running, plastic surgeons say.

1/30/2010 5:49:38 PM

Thousands of fraudulent e-mails were sent out ahead of Sunday's tax return deadline, Revenue & Customs says.

2/1/2010 1:00:39 AM

Low budget Iraq drama The Hurt Locker wins at the Directors Guild awards, pitting it against Avatar in the Oscars race.

2/1/2010 1:35:34 AM

US actor Rip Torn, known from Men In Black and The Larry Sanders Show, is arrested drunk and armed in a bank.

2/1/2010 12:54:11 AM

South African President Jacob Zuma, who has three wives, is criticised after a report he has fathered a child with another woman.

2/1/2010 2:04:09 AM

Allegations that a CAR rebel was tortured to death need to be investigated, opposition leaders, rights groups and France say.

2/1/2010 12:23:33 AM

Gunmen kill at least 14 people at a high school student party in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez.

2/1/2010 2:04:02 AM

Attackers fire grenades at the interior ministry in Russia's restive North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, killing at least one policeman.

1/31/2010 8:26:16 PM

Indian composer AR Rahman wins two Grammy Awards for his soundtrack to the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.

2/1/2010 1:45:00 AM

Chinese lanterns released into the air at outdoor social events such as weddings, barbecues and parties are killing livestock, farmers say.

1/31/2010 10:59:33 PM

The Homeland Security Department has joined the social-media movement and for the first time is reading Twit ter posts, blogs ...

1/31/2010 10:34:58 PM

Lion>Lottery players in dozens of states hit the jackpot Sunday as two national games Powerball and Mega Millions began selling ...

1/31/2010 8:34:08 PM

Three of the 10 commissioners studying the financial crisis have consulted for legal firms involved in lawsuits over the crisis, ...

1/31/2010 4:52:28 PM

Cancer and tragedy took a toll, but Jim Stone faces the future with vigor.

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1/31/2010 2:48:10 PM

Russian police broke up anti-Kremlin protes protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg on Sunday, and detained more than 100 demonstrators, ...

1/31/2010 10:28:36 PM

President Obama's $3.8 trillion budget plan for fiscal 2011 will likely try to strike a balance between fiscal restraint and job creation when it is unveiled Monday.

1/31/2010 9:02:41 PM

The Pentagon will no longer shape the U.S. military to fight two major conventional wars at once, according to a draft of a strategic outlook to be announced Monday.

1/31/2010 7:31:25 PM

Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States will resume within a few hours, the White House announced Sunday.

1/31/2010 7:44:16 PM

A massive food distribution coordinated by the World Food Programme, international aid agencies and the Haitian government began today in the capital.

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1/31/2010 4:16:59 PM

Ten Americans face child trafficking charges after they tried to bus 33 children across the Haitian-Dominican Republic border without proper paperwork, authorities said.

1/31/2010 12:42:55 PM

An American accused of sexually abusing boys he was supposed to help in Haiti now faces additional charges, federal court records show.

2/1/2010 12:09:25 AM

Much of Oklahoma remained under a freezing fog advisory until noon Monday as the death toll from a powerful, multistate storm climbed to seven.

1/31/2010 7:50:19 PM

As many as 15 gunmen stormed into a house party in Juarez, Mexico, and opened fire, killing 13 people in one of the deadliest attacks in the city this year, police said.

1/31/2010 1:33:39 PM

Well, Mel Gibson has joined Denzel Washington and Dwayne Johnson on the list of stars that couldn't stand up to "Avatar's" box-office might. The film on track to cross Titanic's domestic gross of $600 million in mere days took the top spot again this weekend, falling just 14 percent, which is a smaller drop-off than last weekend. Earning an additional $30 million, "Avatar's" domestic total now stands at $594 million.