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  1. Oldest woman to give birth dies, leaving twins AP - 2 hours, 3 minutes agoSent 1,585 times

    MADRID - A Spanish woman who deceived a U.S. fertility clinic about her age and become the oldest woman to give birth has died at 69, leaving behind 2-year-old twins, newspapers reported Wednesday.

  2. In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), a rescue worker attends to the scene of a plane crash near the village of Jannatabad, outside the city of Qazvin, around 75 miles northwest of Tehran in Iran, Wednesday, July 15, 2009. An Iranian passenger plane carrying 168 people crashed a quarter-hour after takeoff Wednesday, smashing into a field northwest of the capital and shattering to pieces, with State television saying all on board were killed. (AP Photo/ISNA, Sina Shiri)
    168 killed in Iran plane crash AP - 1 hour, 31 minutes agoSent 330 times

    TEHRAN, Iran - A Russian-made Iranian passenger plane carrying 168 people crashed shortly after takeoff Wednesday, nose-diving into a field northwest of the capital and shattering into flaming pieces. All on board were killed in Iran's worst air disaster in six years, officials said.

  3. FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009 file photo, Palestinians react after hearing news that their mother had been killed in Israeli shelling in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military used reckless force during the fighting in Gaza earlier this year, resulting in needless deaths and damage, Breaking the Silence, a group of former Israeli soldiers, charged in a report Wednesday July 15, 2009. In testimonies collected by Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli army reservists, 26 soldiers who participated in the three weeks of Gaza fighting describe demolishing homes and using firepower beyond what was necessary given the relatively light resistance they encountered. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
    Israeli soldiers: 'No clear red lines' in Gaza war AP - 1 hour, 34 minutes agoSent 267 times

    JERUSALEM - Israeli soldiers who fought in last winter's Gaza War say the military used Palestinians as human shields, improperly fired incendiary white phosphorous shells over civilian areas and used overwhelming firepower that caused needless deaths and destruction, according to a report released Wednesday.

  4. Map locates epicenter of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake which hit off west coast of New Zealand’s south island1c x 2 inches; 46.5 mm x 50 mm;
    7.8 quake strikes off NZ; small tsunami generated AP - Wed Jul 15, 7:48 AM ETSent 228 times

    WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off New Zealand's western coast Wednesday generating a small tsunami. No injuries or major damage were reported.

  5. FILE - This Thursday, April 13, 2006 file photo from an undated video provided by IntelCenter,  posted on the Internet shows Al-Qaida's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri. In a new English-language audio message by Ayman al-Zawahri dated July 14 and addressed to 'my Muslim brothers and sisters in Pakistan', Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader warned the Pakistani people that U.S. interference in their country's affairs posed a grave danger to Pakistan's future and very existence. (AP Photo/HO, IntelCenter, File )
    Al-Qaida No. 2 calls for support from Pakistanis AP - 53 minutes agoSent 38 times

    CAIRO - Al-Qaida's deputy leader called on Pakistanis to join his group's holy war against the United States in Pakistan and Afghanistan and warned they could face the destruction of both countries and provoke God's wrath if they don't.

  6. British backpacker Jamie Neale is embraced by his father Richard Cass at Katoomba Hospital, 100 km (62 miles) west of Sydney, July 15, 2009. According to local media, Neale, 19, from North London, was found by two bushwalkers on Wednesday after he went missing in the Blue Mountains for 12 days. REUTERS/Dean Lewins/Pool
    British backpacker survives 12 days in Aussie bush Reuters - Wed Jul 15, 4:32 AM ETSent 27 times

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - A British backpacker was found alive Wednesday after being lost for 12 days in rugged bushland west of Sydney.

  7. A visitor looks at a collage made of pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at a unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Monday, July 13, 2009. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, a news report said Monday, days after new images of him looking gaunt spurred speculation that his health might be worsening following a reported stroke last year. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
    Korean armies face off but repeat of war unlikely AP - Wed Jul 15, 7:34 AM ETSent 24 times

    SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's barrage of missile tests and a recent underground nuclear blast have unnerved many South Koreans. Yet for all the scaremongering on the Korean peninsula, an all-out attack by either side is unlikely.

  8. France approves Sunday work AP - Wed Jul 15, 10:49 AM ETSent 19 times

    PARIS - French legislators have approved a divisive bill that allows more stores to stay open — and more people to work — on Sundays.

  9. An employee of the Arab news station Al-Jazeera packs equipment at the station's offices  in the West Bank city of  Ramallah, Wednesday, July 15, 2009. The Palestinian government suspended the West Bank operations of Al-Jazeera on Wednesday, alleging incitement and unbalanced reporting from the Palestinian territories. The move came one day after a talk show guest claimed, without presenting evidence, that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas played a role in the 2004 death of his predecessor, Yasser Arafat. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
    Palestinians suspend Al-Jazeera in West Bank AP - 59 minutes agoSent 18 times

    RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinian government shut down the West Bank operations of the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera on Wednesday, a day after a guest on the station accused the Palestinian president of involvement in Yasser Arafat's death.

  10. FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2007 file photo Natalya Estemirova, a human rights activist, seen in the Chechen capital, Grozny, southern Russia. Natalya Estemirova, a prominent human rights advocate, was kidnapped and killed in Chechnya Wednesday July 15, 2009. Her body with gunshot wounds was found in the neighboring region of Ingushetia. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)
    Russian activist abducted in Chechnya found slain AP - 23 minutes agoSent 17 times

    MOSCOW - A well-known Russian rights activist was found slain execution-style on Wednesday, hours after being kidnapped in Chechnya — the latest in a series of brazen murders targeting critics of the Kremlin's violent policies in the war-torn North Caucasus.

  11. FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2008 file photo, singer Britney Spears performs on ABC's 'Good Morning America' show at the Big Apple Circus in New York.  Britney Spears' 'Circus' won't be coming to Warsaw.  The singer, whose hits include '...Baby One More Time' and 'I'm a Slave 4 U,' has been playing a series of shows this summer in Europe, including in Britain, France and Sweden. The July 24 2009 show in Warsaw was canceled because of a contractual dispute that could not be resolved, a statement released by her publicist said Wednesday July 15 2009.  (AP Photo / Peter Kramer, file)
    Britney's Warsaw stop on European tour canceled AP - 2 hours, 1 minute agoSent 12 times

    WARSAW, Poland - Britney Spears' "Circus" won't be coming to Warsaw following a dispute between her international and Polish organizers.

  12. Afghan men inspect the site of an explosion in Logar province south of Kabul July 9, 2009.REUTERS/ Omar Sobhani
    July equals deadliest month of Afghan war Reuters - Wed Jul 15, 9:41 AM ETSent 12 times

    KABUL (Reuters) - The death toll for foreign troops in Afghanistan halfway through July equaled the highest for any month of the eight-year-old war, tallies showed on Wednesday, as a U.S. escalation has met unprecedented violence.

  13. A member of the Nigerian navy patrols an oil depot alongside pipelines damaged in an attack by Niger delta militants, in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, July 13, 2009. Nigeria's main militant group said Monday it set fire to an oil depot and loading tankers in the country's populous economic center of Lagos, marking the first attack by the group outside the restive Niger Delta region.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
    Nigerian rebels call truce, fear troop movements AP - 1 hour, 38 minutes agoSent 11 times

    ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigerian militants called a halt Wednesday to their campaign of attacking oil installations and kidnapping foreigners, then said military gunboats and troops were heading toward a rebel camp in a move that could upend the deal.

  14. AP Newsbreak: US, Colombia near base access deal AP - 1 hour, 9 minutes agoSent 11 times

    BOGOTA - The United States and Colombia are nearing agreement on expanding the U.S. military's presence in this conflict-torn nation, potentially basing hundreds of Americans in a central valley to support Air Force drug interdiction missions.

  15. Cuban President Raul Castro (L) sits with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak moments before the inauguration ceremony of the 15th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Sharm El-Sheikh. More than 50 heads of state from the developing world met Wednesday in Egypt to tackle the fallout from the global economic meltdown, with calls for a "new world order" to prevent a repeat of the crisis.(AFP/POOL/Cris Bouroncle)
    Calls for 'new world order' at NAM summit AFP - 2 hours, 1 minute agoSent 10 times

    SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) - More than 50 heads of state from the developing world met Wednesday in Egypt to tackle the fallout from the global economic meltdown, with calls for a "new world order" to prevent a repeat of the crisis.

  16. The team of researchers, from left, Russian Sergei Ryazansky,  Aleksei Baranov, German Oliver Knickel, Russian Aleksei Shpakov, French Cyrille Fournier and Russian Oleg Artemyev are greeted after ending an imitated flight to Mars in Moscow, Tuesday, July 14, 2009. The four Russians, a German and a Frenchman emerged from three months of isolation in Soviet-era capsules in Moscow Tuesday, after simulating a three-month mission to Mars for the Russian and European space agencies. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
    6 men endure Mars flight simulation experiment AP - Wed Jul 15, 4:58 AM ETSent 9 times

    MOSCOW - Russian engineers broke a red wax seal and six men emerged from a metal hatch after 105 days of isolation in a mock spacecraft, still smiling after testing the stresses that space travelers may face on the journey to Mars.

  17. Pirates on a skiff off Somalia's coast in 2008. Pirates seized a Turkish cargo ship with 23 people on board off the coast of Somalia(AFP/US NAVY/File)
    World pirate attacks more than double this year AP - Wed Jul 15, 3:19 AM ETSent 9 times

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Pirate attacks worldwide more than doubled in the first half of 2009 amid a surge of raids on vessels in the Gulf of Aden and the east coast of Somalia, an international maritime watchdog said Wednesday.

  18. Palestinian workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) clear the rubble at the former Palestinian central security headquarters and prison, known as the Seraya,  in Gaza City, Monday, July 13, 2009, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Dec. 2008. Removing the rubble is one of the first steps on the ground taken by the UN as part of the reconstruction plan for Gaza after the war. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
    'Everyone is your enemy,' Israeli soldiers in Gaza told McClatchy Newspapers - Tue Jul 14, 8:47 PM ETSent 8 times

    JERUSALEM — Israeli combat soldiers have acknowledged that they forced Palestinian civilians to serve as human shields, needlessly killed unarmed Gazans and improperly used white phosphorus shells to burn down buildings as part of Israel's three-week military offensive in the Gaza Strip last winter.

  19. In this image made from television broadcast Tuesday, July 14, 2009 by the International Criminal Court, former Liberian President Charles Taylor, address the U.N. backed Special Court for Sierra Leone. Wearing a gray double-breasted suit and dark glasses, Taylor spoke confidently as he introduced himself to the three-judge panel as the 21st president of the Republic of Liberia. It was his first time on the witness stand.  Taylor is charged with 11 counts of murder, torture, rape, sexual slavery, using child soldiers and spreading terror during Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war. He is the first African leader to stand trial for war crimes.  (AP Photo/ICC)
    Liberia's Taylor rejects war crimes charges AP - 1 hour, 45 minutes agoSent 7 times

    THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The American CIA and Libya's leader Moammar Gadhafi both had a hand in Charles Taylor's rise to power as Cold War politics and pan-African struggles helped propel him to the presidency in Liberia, according to his testimony Wednesday at his war crimes trial.

  20. A Belarussian girl holds a Don Sphynx cat in June. Scientists have said that cats coax their owners into giving them what they want with a special purr that blends their normal soft, low sound with a high-pitched element that is hard to ignore.(AFP/File/Viktor Drachev)
    Cats purrfect the art of getting what they want: study AFP - Tue Jul 14, 6:58 AM ETSent 6 times

    LONDON (AFP) - Cats coax their owners into giving them what they want with a special purr that blends their normal soft, low sound with a high-pitched element that is hard to ignore, researchers said on Tuesday.