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  1. Three of ten Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without proper documents or government permission, Drew Culberth, 34, of Topeka, Kansas, far right, Jimmy Allen, 47, of Amarillo, Texas, behind left of Culberth, and Paul Thompson, 43, of Twin Falls, Idaho, third from left, are escorted by Haitian police as they arrive to court in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010.  Nine of the ten Americans were brought to court for a fourth time for questioning. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
    Haiti parents testify they gave kids to Americans AP - Tue Feb 9, 11:46 PM ET

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Parents of some of the children who 10 U.S. missionaries tried to take out of Haiti after its catastrophic earthquake told a judge Tuesday that they freely handed over their kids, the Americans' lawyer said.

  2. A U.S. soldier walks by an MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) vehicles with the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, at West of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
    300 families flee Afghan town ahead of offensive AP - 14 minutes ago

    KABUL - About 300 families have already fled a southern Afghan town ahead of a major U.S.-Afghan offensive planned on a key Taliban stronghold, provincial officials said Wednesday.

  3. Student supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi hold red roses during protests in central Tehran in this December 7, 2009 file photo. Internet messages have been circulating about possible rallies on February 11, 2010, when Iran marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. But the climate in the Islamic Republic is much harder than before last year's post-election protests. Picture taken December 7, 2009. REUTERS/via Your View
    As Iran protest looms, Obama sticks to cautious script McClatchy Newspapers - Tue Feb 9, 7:04 PM ET

    WASHINGTON — At first blush, it seems like a godsend for U.S. foreign policy: a tenacious Iranian opposition, democratic in name at least, is challenging a regime that has caused the U.S. no end of headaches over the last 30 years.

  4. A young earthquake survivor gestures after being pulled out of the rubble by rescuers in Port-au-Prince in this January 19, 2010  video grab. REUTERS/Ben Barkay via Reuters TV
    Doctor says vendor may have been in rubble 27 days AP - 1 hour, 26 minutes ago

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The tale seems dubious: that a rice vendor survived 27 days trapped under the rubble of a flea market following Haiti's devastating earthquake.

  5. A picture obtained from the Fars News Agency shows US-Iranian scolar Kian Tajbakhsh speaking during a press conference after the first hearing in Tehran in August 2009. An Iranian appeals court has reduced to five years a 15-year jail term imposed on the US-Iranian scholar for his alleged role in post-election unrest in June, his lawyer said(AFP/Fars News/File)
    Iran: activists arrested before expected protests AP - 1 minute ago

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iran's top police official says authorities have made a series of arrests of suspected opposition activists before expected protest rallies Thursday.

  6. Pope Benedict XVI arrives for the weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall  at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
    Italian Catholic scandal draws in Pope Benedict AP - Tue Feb 9, 5:16 PM ET

    VATICAN CITY - A scandal in Italy's Catholic Church has morphed into a tale of Vatican intrigue complete with forged documents, reports of dueling cardinals and a papal admonishment Tuesday to put the matter to rest.

  7. Members of the Sydney family stand by a coffin containing the bodies of three members of their family in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010.  Lacking funds for coffins, the survivors of the Sidney family were forced to fill one coffin with the bodies of an aunt and two brothers who were pulled from the rubble of their home Sunday.  A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving many homeless. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
    Haiti raises earthquake's death toll to 230,000 AP - Tue Feb 9, 5:35 PM ET

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti's government has raised the death toll for the Jan. 12 earthquake to 230,000 from 212,000 and says more bodies remain uncounted.

  8. FILE-- In this Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008, Iranian Basij paramilitary volunteers, affiliated to the elite Revolutionary Guards, attend a parade ceremony, marking the 28th anniversary of the onset of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)
    Iran rewards Basij militia with political clout AP - Wed Feb 10, 3:11 AM ET

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - During an Iranian government meeting late last month, a top adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brought a proposal to expand the political voice of a group more known for its street muscle: the civilian militia corps called the Basij.

  9. Controversial Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, has spoken out in support of US Internet giant Google in its standoff with Beijing, and said his Gmail accounts had been breached by hackers.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)
    China artist-activist says Google email hacked AFP - Tue Feb 9, 11:28 PM ET

    BEIJING (AFP) - One of China's most controversial artists on Wednesday spoke out in support of US Internet giant Google in its standoff with Beijing, and said his Gmail accounts had been breached by hackers.

  10. In this undated photo provided by Xue Mingkai's mother Wang Shuqing, Xue Mingkai, dressed as a security worker, poses for a photo in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province. Xue, a 20-year-old factory worker who joined a banned political party because he was unhappy with one-party rule in China, was sentenced to jail for 18 months Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010, his mother said. (AP Photo)
    China jails young man for joining political party AP - Wed Feb 10, 3:34 AM ET

    BEIJING - A 20-year-old factory worker who joined a banned political party because he was unhappy with one-party rule in China was sentenced to jail for 18 months Wednesday, his mother said.

  11. A panda eats bamboo in Beijing Zoo in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
    Stranded panda lured to safety in China AP - Tue Feb 9, 8:55 AM ET

    BEIJING - It was like getting a cat out of a tree — Sichuan style.

  12. Toyota said it will begin repairs to more than 180,000 cars in Britain on Wednesday as the Japanese automaker struggled to pull its reputation from the scrapheap amid a growing recall crisis.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)
    Toyota to begin repairs to cars recalled in Britain AFP - Wed Feb 10, 3:15 AM ET

    LONDON (AFP) - Toyota said it will begin repairs to more than 180,000 cars in Britain on Wednesday as the Japanese automaker struggled to pull its reputation from the scrapheap amid a growing recall crisis.

  13. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman speaks during a Yisrael Beiteinu party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem. Indirect Middle East peace talks should begin soon, Lieberman said in the first public comment by an Israeli official on a US initiative.(AFP/Gali Tibbon)
    Israel FM says talks with Palestinians likely soon AFP - Tue Feb 9, 10:41 AM ET

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - Indirect Middle East peace talks should begin soon, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday in the first public comment by an Israeli official on a US initiative.

  14. Russian military calls US missile defense a threat AP - Tue Feb 9, 2:29 PM ET

    MOSCOW - U.S. missile defense plans are a threat to Russian national security and have slowed down progress on a new arms control treaty with Washington, Russia's top military officer said Tuesday.

  15. A US marine dog handler with 1/3 Marines Alpha company waits with his dog at a company operation base (COB) in Toor Ghar in the Helmand province on February 8. US Marines on Tuesday stepped up preparations for a major assault on a key Taliban bastion in southern Afghanistan hailed by officers as the biggest offensive of the eight-year war.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)
    As Afghan assault looms, many civilians haven't fled McClatchy Newspapers - Tue Feb 9, 5:55 PM ET

    KABUL, Afghanistan — As U.S.-led coalition troops prepare for a long-awaited offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, few civilians have managed to escape the town at the center of the operation, raising the risk of civilian casualties that could undermine the Obama administration's military strategy for the country.

  16. In this Feb. 4, 2010 photo, Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez sits in her home near the village of Campechuela, where she was born in the Granma region of eastern Cuba.  Bautista, who is also known as Candulia, was born in 1885 according to the civil registry and celebrated her 125th birthday on Feb. 2, making her possibly the oldest person in the world.  A spokesperson for Guinness World Records told the AP they were not aware of Bautista.  (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Prensa Latina)
    Relatives in eastern Cuba say woman has turned 125 AP - Tue Feb 9, 9:23 PM ET

    HAVANA - Relatives in eastern Cuba claim to have held a 125th birthday party for a woman named Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez, but it is not clear if she is really that old.

  17. In this photo taken late Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010, Israeli police officers detain Tony Copti, back left, who participated in the movie 'Ajami,' an Israeli movie nominated for an Oscar, and his brother Jiriass Copti, center, in Jaffa, Israel. 'Ajami', co-produced by the brothers third bother Scandar Copti, depicts the brutal life of drugs, violence and poverty in Jaffa, a mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood near Tel Aviv.(AP Photo/Mohammed Babay)
    Life imitates art in Oscar-nominated Israeli film AP - Tue Feb 9, 10:03 AM ET

    JAFFA, Israel - There's a reason for the gritty feel of reality in "Ajami," an Oscar-nominated Israeli film about the lives of Arabs and Jews in the impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods of this Mediterranean city: Its amateur actors' lives eerily mirror their art.

  18. In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, U.N. political chief B. Lynn Pascoe, left, is greeted by an unidentified North Korean official upon arrival at an airport on the outskirts of Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Pascoe, a senior U.N. envoy, arrived in North Korea, the world body's highest-level visit to the reclusive state in nearly six years, amid an international push to get it back to the nuclear negotiating table. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
    UN envoy in North Korea to spur nuke talks AP - 2 hours, 17 minutes ago

    SEOUL, South Korea - A senior U.N. envoy held talks with North Korean officials Wednesday and the North's top nuclear negotiator met his Chinese counterpart amid an international push for the regime to rejoin disarmament negotiations.

  19. Myanmar court sentences US man to 3 years' prison AP - Wed Feb 10, 2:09 AM ET

    YANGON, Myanmar - A Myanmar court ordered a U.S. citizen Wednesday to serve three years in prison for entering the military-ruled country with forged documents and undeclared foreign currency.

  20. Snow-covered houses are seen in Kabul on February 8. Another 39 bodies have been recovered from the site of avalanches on a treacherous mountain pass in the northof the country, bringing the official death toll from the disaster to 68, an army doctor said.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)
    Officials: Afghan avalanches kill 157 people AP - 2 hours, 28 minutes ago

    KABUL - The death toll from massive avalanches that blocked a mountain pass north of Kabul soared to 157, as hundreds more remained trapped in their snowbound vehicles, Afghan officials said Wednesday.

  21. Alleged Islamic militant Amir Abdillah, center, is escorted by plain-clothed police officers after his first trial at South Jakarta District Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. Abdillah went on trial Wednesday on charges of harboring terrorists behind twin suicide hotel bombings in the Indonesian capital that killed seven and wounded more than 50 last year. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
    Suspect on trial in Indonesia hotel bombings AP - Wed Feb 10, 1:57 AM ET

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - An alleged Islamist militant being tried on charges of harboring terrorists behind deadly twin hotel bombings in the Indonesian capital claimed Wednesday that he had helped craft a plot to assassinate the president.

  22. This is an undated handout made available from the North Bristol National Health Service Trust in western England on Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 of the new hospital gown, right, which protects patients' 'dignity and privacy' by keeping their bottoms covered up, and the old gown, left. Traditional robes which fasten at the back can expose the rear - so two Bristol hospitals are phasing them out in favour of the new 'dignity gowns'. The more modest model,  ties up at the sides and wraps around the body.  (AP Photos/North Bristol NHS Trust/PA)   UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES
    It's a wrap! Hospitals test new, more modest gown AP - Tue Feb 9, 1:59 PM ET

    LONDON - The British government is getting behind a plan to replace drafty open-backed hospital gowns with versions that preserve patients' modesty.

  23. 2nd German traveler camps out in Brazil airport AP - Tue Feb 9, 12:20 PM ET

    BRASILIA, Brazil - A German man who went to Brazil for a woman he met on the Internet has been camping out in an airport for more than a month after thieves took all his money and possessions, authorities said Tuesday.

  24. New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, pictured in 2008, has rejected a call by the newspaper's ombudsman for the Jerusalem bureau chief of the Times to be reassigned because his son is serving in the Israeli army.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Gries)
    NY Times editor rejects call to remove Jerusalem bureau chief AFP - Tue Feb 9, 3:17 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - New York Times executive editor Bill Keller has rejected a call by the newspaper's ombudsman for the Jerusalem bureau chief of the Times to be reassigned because his son is serving in the Israeli army.

  25. Irish abuse victims ask pope to replace bishops AP - Tue Feb 9, 3:31 PM ET

    DUBLIN - Prominent Irish victims of Catholic sexual abuse have written to Pope Benedict XVI asking him to take responsibility for the church's concealment of child molestation by forcing out bishops implicated in the decades of cover-up.

  26. Canada seeks to appeal Vancouver drug site decision Reuters - Tue Feb 9, 3:57 PM ET

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will ask the Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court decision that allowed North America's only sanctioned drug-injection site to remain open in Vancouver despite the federal government's objections.

  27. A bicycle is seen under heavy snow fall in Chevy Chase, Maryland. A second major snowstorm in less than a week struck the eastern United States, paralyzing the US capital, shutting down the federal government and forcing school closures from Virginia to New York.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)
    Fresh snow misery hits US east coast AFP - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - A second major snowstorm in less than a week struck the eastern United States Wednesday, paralyzing travel for millions, shutting down the US capital, and forcing school closures from Virginia to New York.

  28. Iranians protest at Rome's Tehran embassy AP - Tue Feb 9, 11:19 AM ET

    ROME - About 100 Iranians protested Tuesday in front of the Italian embassy in Tehran, shouting "Death to Italy, Death to Berlusconi, " Italy's foreign minister said. Protests were also held outside the French and Dutch embassies.

  29. A suspect man wearing a police officer uniform who alleged was working for a drug cartel in Tijuana, center, is guarded by federal police as he is presented to the press in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. The man was arrested yesterday in Baja California, along with other alleged key members of a drug cartel operating in the border town of Tijuana. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
    Arrested Tijuana cops were hailed as models AP - Wed Feb 10, 2:04 AM ET

    TIJUANA, Mexico - Just a few weeks ago, the two officers were lauded as part of a new breed of honest cop, elevated to become key players in a drive to overhaul one of Mexico's most notorious police forces.

  30. FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2009  file photo Binyam Mohamed, 30, foreground, a British resident  held at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years, covers his face as he leaves RAF Northolt in west London in the back of a car, after nearly seven years in U.S. captivity. The British government on Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010 disclosed once-secret information on the treatment of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed. The information, contained in seven paragraphs, summarizes an American account of Mohamed's treatment by U.S. authorities before he was interviewed by an MI5 agent in May 2002. Judges rejected the government's claim that revealing the information would damage U.S.-British intelligence cooperation. (AP Photo/ Sang Tan)
    Britain discloses secret data on terror prisoner AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

    LONDON - Britain's government on Wednesday disclosed once-secret information on the treatment of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who says he was tortured in U.S. custody, losing a long court battle to keep the material classified.