LATEST World News, Sep 04, 2011

Retelling 9/11: Movies about the attack still too much for audiences Sacramento Bee World War II films, in text or subtext, could be more narratively uncomplicated – and perhaps more satisfying to viewers – than today's war films because the enemy was clearly defined. "The idea of global terrorism … presents a narrative problem for ... See all stories on this topic »

The law of the global jungle Jamaica Observer That is the law of the global jungle. You must first register and then login to be able to post a comment. 1. We welcome reader comments on the top stories of the day. Some comments may be republished on the website or in the newspaper – email ... See all stories on this topic »

Whether cracking wise or rifling drives, Watson's a tour enigma CBSSports.com The Watsons latest water pastime is a sport called wakesurfing. "You haven't heard of it?" wife Angie Watson said, producing a video on her smart phone of herself surfing behind their boat. It's a relatively new twist on skiing and wakeboarding ... See all stories on this topic » CBSSports.com

Reporter reflects on defining decade for Southeast Asia Alaska Dispatch It was the summer of 2001. I was covering an election in East Timor, a newly minted nation at the end of the world. It was my first assignment for the Monitor, the start of a decade of reporting in Southeast Asia, filing hundreds of stories from across ... See all stories on this topic »

61 TIFF films reviewed Toronto.com PH Melancholia: Lars von Trier finds grand science friction at world'send, with sisters and planets colliding. The mercurial Dane sets a fractious family wedding amidst impending global doom, threatened by a rogue sphere heading towards Earth. ... See all stories on this topic » Toronto.com

Mean, ornery and just plain wrong Salon To top it off, his company, which makes body armor for our troops in Afghanistan, allegedly paid out more than $6 million to cover his personal expenses, including plastic surgery for his wife and pornographic videos for his son. ... See all stories on this topic » Salon

African experience inspires areer change Edmonton Journal The answer came in the form of a $24000 United World College scholarship to Duino, Italy. This was the ultimate trip for Shih, who, as a child, would wonder about the places she heard about in her parents' stories about Africa and China. ... See all stories on this topic »

The Atrocity of 9/11, 10 Years: That Terrible Day Right Side News For many he was regarded as a national political joke but his speech following the attack was a masterpiece of brevity combined with emotion for the nation and perhaps the wider world. It occupies a place of honor in my video library. ... See all stories on this topic »

Letter from America: Israel - the 'Untouchable' Rogue State Asian Tribune It also contradicted an earlier report, prepared in September by three human rights experts appointed by the UN's top human rights body, on the Gaza flotilla incident which found that Israeli forces had violated international law when they raided the... See all stories on this topic »

Ocean advocates showcase solutions that stick at Savannah Ocean Exchange Savannah Morning News A renowned coral reef biologist with an endowed position at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Knowlton has seen for herself how overfishing,global warming and runoff pollution are decimating the world's coral reefs. ... See all stories on this topic »

''Yes'', because we can! Deccan Herald When our economy opened and our top educational institutions produced world class professionals, the world saw India in a new light. This set the expectation of excellence from an Indian work force and India rapidly became the world's No.1 outsourcing ... See all stories on this topic » Deccan Herald

Libyan Quagmires and Academic Pilgrims: Media Communication in Closed Regimes American Thinker The Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation, chaired by Saif, later donated £1.5m to the London School of Economics Global Governance research centre, of which it received $300000." Gaddafi used to be as anti-Western as they come. ... See all stories on this topic »

Top 10 Stories On Zawya Dow Jones On Sep 4 At 0815 GMT Zawya (subscription) By Nikhil Lohade Prospects for Saudi Arabia's economy will deteriorate if the worldslips into recession, says Jadwa Investment in a note. By Nikhil Lohade Persian Gulf stocks are seen mixed Sunday as investors price in global market activity over the ... See all stories on this topic »

With Texas Network, UT Remakes the Playing Field New York Times For stories, reviews, news and more, go to: texasmonthly.com. He might as well have added, “We're Texas — and you're not.” Never has a single television channel caused such controversy without reaching any viewers. Long before its first live football ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Facebook Testing Translate Feature for Page Postings PC Magazine No longer will users have to copy and paste text into the third-party translate tool of their choice just to figure out what their friends are saying across the site. For more from David, follow him on Twitter @TheDavidMurphy. For the top stories in ... See all stories on this topic »

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New Zealanders get ready to host Rugby World Cup SI.com Those kind of stories have put off some Australians, said Mike Jones, the general manager of Total Sports Travel in Melbourne. He said his bookings are down from four years ago when the tournament was held in France. He blames the globalrecession. ... See all stories on this topic »

AP IMPACT: 35000 worldwide convicted for terror CBS News AP's findings start to fill in the largely blank picture of what has happened with theglobal war on terror, launched by the United Nations with the strong backing of the United States. "There's been a recognition all around the world that terrorism ... See all stories on this topic »

Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult truthout During periods of political consensus, for instance, the World War II and early post-war eras, the Senate was a "high functioning" institution: filibusters were rare and the body was legislatively productive. Now, one can no more picture the current ... See all stories on this topic » truthout

September Book Buzz Picks The Missourian The pig loses himself in stories, and even gets a job at the front desk. Poindexter's life changes when a shell-shocked turtle named Shelby needs help finding a book on how to make a friend. Answers sometimes lie in helping others, and that's the case ... See all stories on this topic »

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REUTERS World News, Sep 04, 2011

US Open - Djokovic Dances After Beating Davydenko (VIDEO) International Business Times Picture - Reuters. World number Novak Djokovic progressed to the fourth round of the US Open 2011 after beating Nikolay Davydenko. However, rather than some particularly sublime rallies and plays, the highlight of the match came afterwards, ... See all stories on this topic » International Business Times

EU targets Syrian oil firms, says may get tougher Montreal Gazette "We would ask other countries in the world to join us in making it," he told Reuters. Hague and Juppe both said the EU would continue to press for a tougher response at the United Nations, where some global powers, including Russia and China, ... See all stories on this topic »

The roots of the Sino-Forest mystery CTV.ca Sino-Forest analyst Richard Kelertas of Dundee Securities told Reuters that despite the loss of the Mandra sales agreement, “there is no impact whatsoever on Sino-Forest.” Several months later, Sino-Forest came along with a substantial offer: It would ... See all stories on this topic »

Biggest rally in Israel's history presses PM | Reuters TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands marched Saturday for lower living costs in the largest... CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi on dissidents: rights group | Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world'slargest international multimedia news agency, ... www.reuters.com/.../us-israel-economy-protests-idUSTRE782...

Reuters World News Highlights, Sep 02 - TrustLaw Reuters World News Highlights, Sep 02. 02 Sep 2011 13:59. Source: reuters // Reuters. AMMAN - The European Union agreed to impose sanctions on Syrian oil ... www.trust.org/trustlaw/.../reuters-world-news-highlights-sep-0...

EU agrees oil embargo as Syrians march against Assad | Reuters AMMAN (Reuters) - The European Union decided to impose sanctions on Syrian oil exports on ...Wall St slides 2 percent after job growth stalls | Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largestinternational multimedia news agency, providing ... www.wellingtonstpost.com/article41162-France-pushes-for-U-...

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CNN World News, Sep 04, 2011

Wael Ghonim's revolution: No leaders, just tweeters CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff Zurich, Switzerland (CNN) -- The former Google executive who used social media to jump-start social change in Egypt knows the key to leading a grass-roots revolution: Make it leaderless. "If you want to use the internet to change ...

CHINESE Sports News, Sep 04, 2011

Wanted: New field and new translator China Daily By Tang Zhe (China Daily) KUNMING, Yunnan - Somewhere in China, there is a pitch good enough to hold World Cup qualifiers. Though the Chinese men's soccer team is unbeaten on that field, it proved troublesome to both teams during a 2-1 victory over ... See all stories on this topic » China Daily

An experience of a lifetime The Cord “Again, China's put on a great extravaganza,” said Laurier athletic director Peter Baxter. Baxter was in Shenzhen as Team Canada's Chef de Mission; he was also a member of the Canadian delegation at the 2009 Winter Universiade in Harbin, China. ... See all stories on this topic »

China Scores Fatal Own Goals in Competition for post-Gathafi Libya Middle East Online China's failure to do so will be at its own peril. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer. See all stories on this topic »

'Soccer is boring': why high-rise Harry puts his money into league Sydney Morning Herald ''I don't think that in my business, where I mostly sell to Chinese, it helps me a lot. We have to convert them [to league]. But generally, in public, it is very important because people come up to me and talk about the team. If the team is going good, ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

Liverpool targets one-sport India The National Reuters Soccer fans cheer during a friendly soccer match between Argentina and Venezuela in Calcutta. EPA The Indian Premier League, the cricket tournament launched three years ago, changed the way the colonial-era sport is viewed in the subcontinent. ... See all stories on this topic » The National

Medomak Valley student returns to school with tales of China knox.VillageSoup.com She plays soccer and softball, and skis in the winter. She is a class officer and plans to join the math team. Hunt said the National Security Language Initiative for Youth program will be offered again next summer. She encouraged students to look into ... See all stories on this topic » knox.VillageSoup.com

Buick isn't just for geezers anymore (Rick Haglund column) Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com The luxurious Buick Enclave crossover has been attracting fashionable soccer moms for several years. The stunning LaCrosse sedan is a serious competitor to Lexus. And the sporty (yes, you can now use “sporty” and “Buick” in the same sentence) new Regal ... See all stories on this topic » Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com

China coach still optimistic of taking Olympic women's soccer berth Shanghai Daily (subscription) JINAN, China, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Despite ranking fourth with two goalless ties, China coach Li Xiaopeng on Saturday still showed his optimism of taking an Olympic women's soccer berth. "We have gone this far and two points for two matches was Ok for ... See all stories on this topic »

Surveying the obscure survivors ESPN The two are friendly off the court, piling on to the couch with a bunch of other players to watch the Barcelona versus Real Madrid soccer game in the players' lounge in Cincinnati three weeks ago. 2009 US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro is back ... See all stories on this topic »

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BBC World News, Sep 04, 2011

Scotland v Czech Rep as it happened BBC News By Keir Murray 1723: We'll have highlights of the match on the BBC Sport website later this evening, available to UK users. If you can get to a TV, don't miss Sportscene on BBC One Scotland at 2215 BST. You'll be able to make up your own minds on those ... See all stories on this topic »