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  1. Singer Britney Spears arrives at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards earlier this year. Spears is "extremely upset" by media reports that disgruntled fans walked out of her first ever Australian concert because she was lip-synching, her promoter Paul Dainty said.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Frazer Harrison)
    Britney Spears "upset" over Australian tour complaints Reuters - Sun Nov 8, 10:54 PM ET

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - Britney Spears has done it again, hitting the headlines during her first Australian tour over a row about lip-synching and a lacklustre performance that her tour promoter said had left her "extremely upset."

  2. A resident walks through strong rain and wind as Tropical Storm Ida approaches, in Gulfport, Mississippi November 9, 2009. A weakened Tropical Storm Ida drenched the U.S. Gulf Coast and oil installations on Monday, shutting down nearly 30 per cent of Gulf energy production. Ida was expected to strike the coast near Mobile, Alabama, early on Tuesday. At one time a Category 2 hurricane, Ida's threat eased as winds dropped to 70 miles per hour (112 km per hour). They were expected to decrease further as the storm approached landfall. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENT DISASTER IMAGES OF THE DAY)
    Ida makes landfall on U.S. Gulf Coast, hits oil supply Reuters - 39 minutes ago

    MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - A weakening Tropical Storm Ida lashed the U.S. Gulf Coast with drenching rain and high surf on Tuesday as it moved ashore after shutting down almost 30 percent of Gulf of Mexico energy production.

  3. Grape pickers walk between the vines as they take a break at the Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, southern England, October 22, 2009. REUTERS/Jas Lehal
    Climate change makes English winemakers see red Reuters - 49 minutes ago

    DORKING, England (Reuters) - The pickers working their way along the hillside, clipping bunches of small, dark purple grapes from the rows of vines and dropping them into plastic buckets are harbingers of a warmer planet.

  4. Former investment bank Bear Stearns hedge fund managers, Ralph Cioffi (L) and Matthew Tannin, are escorted by law enforcement officials after being arrested in New York June 19, 2008 in this combination photo. REUTERS/Chip East
    Trial of ex-Bear Stearns execs goes to jury Reuters - Mon Nov 9, 6:47 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pay and venue were the focus of a jury's early deliberations on Monday in the trial of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers accused of fraud over dealings in mortgage-backed securities early in the financial crisis.

  5. Online auction site launches for rich and famous Reuters - Mon Nov 9, 10:05 AM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Millionaires down on their luck now have a place to sell their mega-yachts, super-cars and family jewels without having to resort to the pawn shop.

  6. Did Sarkozy's son use palace pull to get music grant? The Christian Science Monitor - Mon Nov 9, 4:00 AM ET

    Paris - In France it is a tale of one and now two sons – of President Nicolas Sarkozy. Last month Mr. Sarkozy rolled eyeballs around the Republic when his son Jean, 23 and not finished with college, was tapped as a candidate to run Paris' wealthiest district, La Defense. A slightly shocked public reaction brought a withdrawal from Sarkozy the younger.

  7. White powder sent to three U.N. missions in NY: police Reuters - Mon Nov 9, 11:13 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Letters containing white powder were sent to the U.S. missions of France, Austria and Uzbekistan in New York City on Monday, police said.

  8. A truck is loaded with iron ore at a Rio Tinto-owned mine in Western Australia's Pilbara region. The Anglo-Australian mining giant has said it is interested in collaborating with Chinalco, months after rejecting a massive cash injection from the state-owned Chinese firm.(AFP/HO/Rio Tinto/File/Christian Sprogoe)
    Rio wants to work with spurned Chinalco: chief AFP - Tue Nov 10, 3:29 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto said Tuesday it was interested in collaborating with Chinalco, months after rejecting a massive cash injection from the state-owned Chinese firm.

  9. North Korean soldiers use binoculars to observe their southern counterparts. A North Korean patrol boat was set ablaze after exchanging fire with South Korea's navy, as cross-border tensions rose a week before a scheduled US presidential visit.(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)
    Korean warships clash near disputed sea border AFP - 1 hour, 45 minutes ago

    SEOUL (AFP) - A North Korean patrol boat was set ablaze after exchanging fire with South Korea's navy on Tuesday, Seoul officials said, as cross-border tensions rose a week before a scheduled US presidential visit.

  10. Buddhist monks attend the teaching by their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Tawang in the northeastern Indian state of Arunchal Pradesh November 10, 2009. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
    Remote India town sustains last vestiges of old Tibet Reuters - Tue Nov 10, 3:02 AM ET

    TAWANG, India (Reuters) - Perched in the icy folds of the Himalayas near India's border with China, Tawang Buddhist, monastery, where the Dalai Lama made a controversial trip at the weekend, is at the heart of efforts to preserve old Tibet.

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  1. Ida makes landfall on U.S. Gulf Coast, hits oil supply Reuters - 39 minutes ago

    MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - A weakening Tropical Storm Ida lashed the U.S. Gulf Coast with drenching rain and high surf on Tuesday as it moved ashore after shutting down almost 30 percent of Gulf of Mexico energy production.

  2. U.S. International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA ambassador Glyn Davies gestures as he attends a board of governors meeting in Vienna September 7, 2009. REUTERS/Herwig Prammer
    U.S. says can give Iran time to okay nuclear deal Reuters - Mon Nov 9, 9:52 PM ET

    VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States is willing to give Iran time to decide whether to accept a U.N.-brokered deal meant to allay suspicions it is after atomic bombs but which has drawn Iranian objections, a U.S. diplomat said Monday.

  3. Joshua Fattal (R), seen here in an undated family photo with his mother Laura Fattal. Iran charged three Americans it captured in July near the border with Iraq with espionage on Monday, prompting Washington to demand the release of what it says are innocent hikers.(AFP/Fattal Family-HO/File)
    Iran charges three US citizens with spying AFP - Mon Nov 9, 3:21 PM ET

    TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran charged three Americans it captured in July near the border with Iraq with espionage on Monday, prompting Washington to demand the release of what it says are innocent hikers.

  4. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army doctor identified by authorities as the suspect in a mass shooting at the U.S. Army post in Fort Hood, Texas, is seen in this undated handout photo from a pdf file of the U.S. Government Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences downloaded on November 6, 2009. REUTERS/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences/Handout
    Fort Hood suspect contacted Islamist: sources Reuters - 49 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies learned an Army psychiatrist contacted an Islamist sympathetic to al Qaeda and they relayed the information to authorities before the man allegedly went on a shooting spree that killed 13 people in Texas last week, U.S. officials said on Monday.

  5. Police and rescue workers are seen through a damaged vehicle at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Matni village near Peshawar November 8, 2009. REUTERS/K. Parvez
    Pakistani Taliban vow tough guerrilla war Reuters - 19 minutes ago

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants vowed to fight a tough, protracted guerrilla war against the army on Tuesday as a suicide car-bomber killed up to 20 people in a northwestern town, police said.

  6. A German army vehicle is pictured during a patrol near Taloqan, about 75 kilometres from the town of Kunduz in this October 18, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Sabine Siebold
    NATO, Afghans claim to kill 130 Taliban in Kunduz Reuters - Mon Nov 9, 7:35 AM ET

    KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - NATO and Afghan officials claimed on Monday their forces had killed at least 130 Taliban fighters in a major operation over the past week in an area of Afghanistan's north where militant activity has surged.

  7. In El Salvador 91 die in floods caused by hurricane Reuters - Sun Nov 8, 6:32 PM ET

    SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - At least 91 people died and another 60 or more are missing after floods and mudslides in El Salvador triggered by Hurricane Ida, the government said on Sunday.

  8. NASA satellite image shows Hurricane Ida as it churns through the Caribbean on November 7. Ida weakened to a tropical storm on Monday and hurricane watches and warnings were lifted for the US coastline between Louisiana and Florida, US forecasters said.(AFP/NASA/File/Ho)
    Deadly hurricane takes aim at United States AFP - Mon Nov 9, 8:47 AM ET

    MIAMI (AFP) - Hurricane Ida took aim at the United States and oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday after causing flooding and landslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.

  9. A North Korean soldier looks south through a pair of binoculars on the north side of the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, about 55 km (34 miles) north of Seoul, July 8, 2009, on the 15th anniversary of the death of North Korea's founder and the late leader Kim Il-sung. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak
    Cold War frontier gone in Germany, remains in Korea Reuters - Mon Nov 9, 1:00 AM ET

    SEOUL (Reuters) - As a united Germany marks the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall on Monday, about 1 million soldiers face off across the Cold War's last great divide -- the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas.

  10. Abbas al-Bayati (C), a Turkmen member of the Iraqi parliament, speaks to the media after voting on an election law at the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad November 8, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen
    Iraq election set for January 21 after new law passed Reuters - Mon Nov 9, 10:32 AM ET

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqis will vote in a general election on January 21 now that parliament has passed a law needed for a vote to take place, the head of the country's electoral commission said on Monday.

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