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LATEST World News, Dec 13, 2011

Landmark new laws protect women from abuse in conservative Muslim Pakistan
Washington Post
Pakistan ranked third to last in 2011 in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report, only beating Chad and Yemen. The report captures the magnitude of gender-based disparities in things like health and education. The newlaws explicitly ...
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Microsoft's latest Windows Phone move: Changes at the top
Network World
By Bob Brown, Network World Getting a read on how well Microsoft Windows Phone has been doing has been tricky in recent months, with each indication of momentum seemingly offset with one or more negative market share or news reports. ...
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New laws protect women from abuse in Pakistan
NDTV
Pakistan ranked third to last in 2011 in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report, only beating Chad and Yemen. The report captures the magnitude of gender-based disparities in things like health and education. The new laws explicitly ...
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NDTV
Developing world leads the way in global aid
The Guardian
Two crises put these new dynamics in the spotlight. When Japan, one of the world's largest donors, was struck in March by an earthquake and tsunami, quickly running up a multibillion-dollar reconstruction bill, dozens of developing countries were quick ...
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The Guardian
South Africa's Johannesburg rises again
Boston.com
New York-born musician Joao Orecchia organized a series of concerts in Maboneng over the last year in not-quite renovated buildings. Audiences climbing six stories to a rooftop for one concert could see the rubble of what had been the elevator from the ...
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Boston.com
Jonny Wilkinson: not quite Mr Perfect
The Guardian (blog)
His last performances unfolded during England's humiliation at therecent World Cup in New Zealand. No longer a great player, he remained a decent man. He shuddered at the antics of his team-mates and, deep down, I think Wilkinson was relieved to have ...
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The Guardian (blog)
New data said to narrow hunt for 'God' particle
The Australian
From: AP RESEARCHERS hunting for an elusive sub-atomic particle believed to be a basic building block of the universe announced last night that they have narrowed down the search thanks to the latest data. The Higgs boson - popularly referred to as the ...
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EU treaty: BBC made it sound like the world had ended after David Cameron's veto
Daily Mail
But what makes this latest coverage so depressing is that the Corporation is fully aware of its pro-EU bias and seems incapable of behaving any differently. Lastyear, BBC Director General Mark Thompson accepted the Corporation had previously been ...
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One International Motor Show after another
Philippine Star
It offers the latest technology that Subaru is well known for. The packaging is perfect for our market.” The last official activity for the day was watching how the recognized international guru of stunt-driving perform while using several Subaru high ...
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Battle Over "Plain Packaging" of Consumer Products Could Boomerang on Australia
Forbes
Last April, a Washington Legal Foundation Legal Pulse post noted the latest developments in an international movement to impose “plain packaging” on consumer products. The movement has (of course) initially targeted tobacco products. ...
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Forbes
Friends of the Earth: Disastrous 'Durban Package' Accelerates Onset of Climate ...
eNews Park Forest
The further unravelling of the legally-binding international framework to deliver climate action on the basis of science and equity. A new “Durban Platform” which will delay climate action for a decade. Instead of implementing the existing, ...
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IMF concedes Greece can't tax its public any more
USA Today
Thomsen, speaking about the IMF's latest report on Greece's progress, said the country's structural reforms have fallen "well short" of expectations. But he said it was too early to say whether newausterity measures would have to be taken next year. ...
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USA Today
Hezbollah Station Identifies 10 Supposed CIA Officers
New York Times
Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. The report Friday on Al Manar, Hezbollah's television channel, was the latest in a series of claims from Hezbollah and the Iranian government, its main sponsor, to have unraveled a web ...
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Home Sweet Home: The New American Localism
NPR
Here Ron Samascott organizes apples from his orchard in Kinderhook, NY, at the Union Square Greenmarket in New York. You can talk about the global village, a mobile society and the World Wide Web all you want, but many in our country seem to be turning ...
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Giving Thanks by Giving Back
Huffington Post (blog)
As the new year approaches, I'm thankful for the entire team working on the OneWorld Futbol Project. But, this idea would never have come to fruition if it weren't for the hard work and support of my incredible co-founder -- and wife -- Lisa Tarver....
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Green light for new boy
Doncaster Today
By Les Payne Doncaster Rovers The former Senegal internationaljoined Rovers last week on a short-term deal and, although training with them, any chance of a game was put on hold whilst the clearance formalities were undertaken. ...
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German investor confidence rises after summit
Sydney Morning Herald
Fitch said that despite most EU countries deciding last week to tighten budgetary coordination to resolve the debt crisis, "market tension remains high." Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, struck a similarly downbeat note when he warned that ...
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Past Is Prologue in the GOP Primary
The Atlantic Wire
ut once the world knew Hart was the other candidate, voters defected from Glenn, Cranston and the other candidates in droves – there was no one left with which to split votes and Hart started to win state after state starting with New Hampshire. ...
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The Atlantic Wire
Newest 'Call of Duty' blasts past $1 billion
Houma Courier
By Mike Snider The game's publisher, Activision Blizzard, announced that thelatest release in the first-person shooting series surpassed the $1 billion mark in just 16 days since its Nov. 8 debut. By comparison, last year's Call of Duty: Black Ops did ...
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US retail sales post modest November rise
Sydney Morning Herald
Demand for autos, the latest fashions and electronics propelled the increase in spending last month, while households cut back on groceries and restaurant meals, showing how limited job and income gains are holding consumers back. ...
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Marty Burger named co-CEO at Silverstein Properties
Real Estate Weekly
Burger most recently led the effort to secure financing for the company's latest development project, the Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort, which is set to open in 2014. Construction on the $364 million, 444-room luxury resort ...
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Real Estate Weekly
New giant plane to launch people, cargo into orbit
eTaiwan News
By DONNA BLANKINSHIP and SETH BORENSTEIN AP Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan are building the world's biggest plane to help launch cargo and astronauts into space, in the latest of several ventures fueled by technology ...
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Markets await Fed's economic assessment
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By PAN PYLAS AP LONDON — Stock markets traded within fairly narrow ranges Tuesday after big declines the previous day as investors awaited the latest assessment of the US economy from the US Federal Reserve. A man smokes in Central, business district, ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
Last updated at 5:56 PM on 13th December 2011
Daily Mail
Angelina has said she wouldn't mind having another child, seen with her whole family in New York last week One of the few close female friends that is not deterred by Angelina's reputation is singer Gwen Stefani. Earlier this year the A-listers were ...
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Daily Mail
Outrage emerges as Dutch firm is accused of using World Trade Center as ...
Digitaltrends.com
Last week, we brought you images of ” The Cloud” a luxury highrise planned for development in the Yongsan Dreamhub of Seoul, South Korea. It appears now that Rotterdam-based, Dutch architectural firm, MVRDV has found itself in hot water as their latest ...
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Digitaltrends.com
Cain Disappointed by Latest GOP Debate
Fox News
And then I'm watching the spin right after the debate, that was the biggest gaffe in the world. Oh, this is ridiculous. I wanted to get your reaction. CAIN: Sean, I agree with you. There were no winners in that debate Saturday night. ...
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Lem's latest: Hopkins won't fight Ward, eyes Bute
Crave Online (blog)
Ward faces fellow 168-pound titleholder Carl Froch in Super SixWorld Boxing Classic final on Saturday. THE RING light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins told RingTV.com last week that he will never fight WBA super middleweight titleholder Andre Ward ...
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Crave Online (blog)
Video of 'Times' photographer's confrontation with police touches off another ...
Capital New York
Yesterday's incident with the Times photographer, Robert Stolarik, was the latestexample. In a video posted to YouTube, officers were seen to be confronting Stolarik and intentionally blocking his shots, and at points physically restraining him from ...
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Leaders are defiant, but many Iranians fear war
Washington Post
Anxiety is also being fueled by the latest rounds of international sanctions against Iran. While Iranian officials continually say the country can cope with the growing limitations, average Iranians are faced with soaring prices and a plummeting ...
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Latest Mission is from a Bird's-eye view
San Antonio Express
That can be battling with Optimus Prime, Gotham City or on the top of the tallest building in the world." Indeed, the world's tallest building, Dubai's Burj Khalifa, is the site of the film's key sequence, a complicated switcheroo caper bookended by a ...
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World News - New laws protect women from abuse in Pakistan
By MUNIR AHMED, SEBASTIAN ABBOT
Pakistan ranked third to last in 2011 in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report, only beating Chad and Yemen. The report captures the magnitude of gender-based disparities in things like health and education. The newlaws ...
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NBC: Cop Killer Was Let Go After Arrest Last ... - Yeshiva World News
By Y.W. Editor
The man accused of shooting and killing a 22-year NYPD veteran officer in EastNew York early Monday was released by a judge after a drug arrest in Coney Islandlast month, despite an outstanding warrant in North Carolina for a violent ...
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Detectives believe Milly Dowler's voicemails were deleted ...
Inquiry chairman Lord Justice Leveson had last month been told, by a lawyer representing Milly's family, that private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who was employed by defunct News International newspaper, the News of the World, had made deletions. But three weeks ago Mr Mulcaire denied ... And today a lawyer representing the Metropolitan Police, which is investigating phone hacking by theNews of the World, outlined the latest police thinking. "It is conceivable that otherNews ...
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WaPo critic oddly not in love with new NBC News correspondent ...
By Ed Morrissey
As soon as NBC announced its opportunistic addition of Clinton as a very special correspondent to its news staff last month (using the broadest definition of “news” to include the sort of uplifting, socially concerned puff pieces Clinton will contribute), all sorts of longstanding bargains have been nullified. Clinton, who turns 32 in ... I don't think Chelsea Clinton is the world's most boring human, but it's hard to argue that she has any mad skilz for this kind of work, either. NBC did her no ...
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Egypt's military will have final say on country's new constitution ...
Scaf generals say they will have final approval over new political system, whatever the outcome of ... The Guardian, UK and World news, User comments, Web ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../egypt-military-final-say-constitution
UK leaves the euro's last-chance saloon | euronews, world news
world news - The summit billed as the last chance to save the eurozone has ended with all ...
www.euronews.net/.../uk-leaves-the-euro-s-last-chance-saloon/
Liam Broady into last 16 | World News: the latest local news ...
Britain's George Morgan won the tournament last season, but the event has been switched onto claycourts this year. Source: Latest Sports News and Results ...
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The Latest Greek Drama: Government Statistics : NPR
The country sought to improve its standing last year when it created a new and ...and more than two decades at the International Monetary Fund in Washington. ...
www.npr.org/.../the-latest-greek-drama-government-statistics
Deal at last at UN climate change talks | euronews, world news
world news - UN climate change talks have ended in Durban with agreement to force all the world's biggest polluters to take action to slow the pace of global ...
www.euronews.net/.../deal-at-last-at-un-climate-change-talks/
Today World News | Pakistan blockage of Nato convoys 'may last ...
IBNLive.com. Pakistan blockage of Nato convoys 'may last weeks' BBC News The blocking of Nato convoys into Afghanistan via Pakistan may continue for ...
todayworldnews.org/.../pakistan-blockage-of-nato-convoys-m...
Auction treasures from Jackson's last home unveiled - Latest news ...
Personal effects from Michael Jackson's last home were put on display ... Los Angeles mansion where he Latest news around the world and developments close ...
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World News : Clinton highlights democracy on last day of Myanmar ...
LATEST NEWS TECHNOLOGY AND FINANCE ... YANGON (World News) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was due for a final meeting with pro-democracy...
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Yahoo! Maktoob News – Middle East and World news
The latest world news and Middle East news headlines from Yahoo! Maktoob ...Last Thursday, gunmen destroyed at least 34 trucks in a gun and rocket attack at...
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BBC News - Euro crisis: UK alone as Europe agrees fiscal compact
That will not mean becoming a lender of last resort - a commitment to the ... Six others - including Denmark, Poland and Latvia - have agreed to join the new deal .... International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help debt-stricken eurozone members ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16115373
Media-shy Chelsea Clinton explains her new role as television ...
Miss Clinton, 31, has landed a stint as a contributor to NBC News Photo: REX ...died last month aged 92, gave the advice that is now shaping Miss Clinton's new... and campaigning for my Mom, I wasn't doing enough in the world," she said. ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Media-shy-Chelsea-Clinton-explains-...

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