GENEVA — Countries planned quarantines, tightened rules on pork imports and tested airline passengers for fevers as global health officials tried Sunday to come up with uniform ways to battle a deadly strain of swine flu. Nations from New Zealand to France reported new suspected cases and some warned citizens against travel to North America.

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MOMBASA, Kenya - An American ship captain was freed unharmed Sunday in a U.S. Navy operation that killed three of the four Somali pirates who had been holding him for days in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa, a senior U.S. intelligence official said.

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Turkish security services have arrested a man of Syrian descent who was planning to assassinate US President Barack Obama during his current trip to Turkey, the Saudi daily Al Watan reported Monday.

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L'AQUILA, Italy — Rescue workers using bare hands and buckets searched frantically for students believed buried in a wrecked dormitory after Italy's deadliest quake in nearly three decades struck this medieval city before dawn Monday, killing more than 150 people, injuring 1,500 and leaving tens of thousands homeless. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake buckled both ancient and modern buildings in and around L'Aquila, snuggled in a valley surrounded by the snowcapped Apennines' tallest peaks.

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President Obama gave Queen Elizabeth an iPod during their private meeting at Buckingham Palace, the BBC reports. "It contains footage of her state visit to the US in May 2007. The Queen has given the president a silver framed photograph of herself and her husband. The official picture is what she gives all visiting dignitaries."

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber demolished a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers attending Friday prayers near the Afghan border, killing at least 48 people and injuring scores more, in the bloodiest attack in Pakistan this year.

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NEW YORK — The New York Times Co. is cutting pay for most employees by 5 percent for a nine-month period and laying off 100 people.

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MOSCOW — Russia's defense minister on Tuesday accused the United States of beefing up its military presence near Russian borders and poaching for mineral wealth there, signaling that Moscow could take a tough position in upcoming talks with Barack Obama's new administration.

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NEW YORK — Careful to blame only himself, a "deeply sorry and ashamed" Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty Thursday to pulling off what could be the biggest, most spectacular swindle Wall Street has even seen, and was sent off to jail in handcuffs to the applause of his furious victims.

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BAGHDAD – The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at then-President George W. Bush was convicted Thursday of assaulting a foreign leader and sentenced to three years in prison, provoking outrage among some Iraqis who consider him a hero.

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SAMSON, Ala. — A gunman who killed 10 people in the worst mass shooting in Alabama history had a list of employers "who had done him wrong," including the nearby sausage plant he quit days before the spree and the metal factory where he shot himself, authorities said Wednesday.

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A 7-year-old Long Island girl was released from a New York hospital Tuesday, more than a month after surgeons removed six of her vital organs to tackle a life-threatening tumor.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI made the first arrest in the $8 billion Stanford Financial Group fraud investigation on Thursday, detaining chief investment officer Laura Pendergest-Holt on federal obstruction charges.

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The internet is abuzz with news of the price fetched for Rihanna's now infamous post Chris Brown altercation photo.

According themediabuffet.com, entertainment magazine TMZ shelled out $62, 500 for Rihanna's photo that had been entered into evidence.

Sources say the hefty price was double that of the law enforcement official's salary that leaked the photo.

As previously reported on Singersroom, LAPD investigators say the official who leaked the photo faces a "painful experience".

BRITISH and French nuclear submarines which collided deep under the Atlantic could have sunk or released deadly radioactivity, it emerged last night. Read On

President Barack Obama is refusing to be rushed into his first decision to send troops into combat, an early sign he may be more independent-minded than U.S. military leaders expected. Read On

President Obama bumped his head boarding Marine One as he left for Indiana Monday morning. Unfortunately for the President, the press got every mila second of the quick bump. CNN has the video:

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Thousands of Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships surrounded Gaza's largest city and fought militants at close range Sunday, the first full day of an overwhelming ground offensive in the coastal territory. continue

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian militants, armed with deadlier missiles than ever before, kept up rocket assaults against Israel on Tuesday, despite relentless air attacks against Gaza's Hamas rulers and unwelcome word from Egypt that it would not bail them out. Continue

KAILUA, Hawaii — President-elect Barack Obama visited military families while they ate Christmas Day dinner, thanking them for their service and posing for pictures.

Obama on Thursday visited Marine Corps Base Hawaii near his rented vacation home and briefly chatted with enlisted members who ate turkey, ham and roast beef. He didn't make formal remarks or speak to reporters during the stop, one of the few public sightings of the president-elect on what aides call a private family vacation. Continue

President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had direct conversations with Gov. Rod Blagojevich about Obama's replacement in the US Senate, FOX News Chicago reports. Continue

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Ex-U.S. Official Cites Pakistani Training for India Attackers

President-elect Obama plans to name Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as his secretary of State shortly after Thanksgiving, two senior Obama aides said. Continue Reading

Barak Obama is now the New President (elect) of the United States.

This is truly historic since Barak Obama is the first African American President and has now been recorded in the History Books.

Barack Obama's grandmother, whose personality and bearing shaped much of the life of the Democratic presidential contender, has died, Obama announced Monday, 1 day before the election. Madelyn Payne Dunham was 86.

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So, Joe The Plumber was out on the trail with John McCain today, apparently giving the thumbs up to someone in the crowd who felt that an Obama Presidency would bring about the end of Israel.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents exchanged fire with U.S. troops aboard a Black Hawk helicopter in central Afghanistan on Monday before the aircraft was hit and forced to land. The crew was rescued, but in the north a suicide bomber killed two U.S. soldiers.

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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says it has broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree.

Police say a campaign volunteer confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter B in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.

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HONOLULU -- On a whirlwind trip back to Hawaii, Senator Barack Obama spent more than an hour visiting his ailing grandmother late Thursday and is set to return to her bedside on Friday morning after arriving here on a nine-hour flight from the Midwestern battleground of the presidential campaign.

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WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida supporters suggested in a Web site message this week they would welcome a pre-election terror attack on the U.S. as a way to usher in a McCain presidency.

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama is canceling nearly all his campaign events Thursday and Friday to fly to Hawaii to visit his suddenly ill 85-year-old grandmother, his spokesman said.

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With the economy dominating the news, several new polls show Barack Obama widening his lead over John McCain, with voters trusting the Democratic candidate to fix the "serious economic crisis" and firmly rejecting the recent spate of negative personal attacks targeted at Obama.

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William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

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CNN's Matthew Chance sat down for an exclusive interview with Russian Prime Minster Vladimir Putin.

McCain, Palin hit trail

CNN's Dana Bash reports on Gov. Sarah Palin's first day on the road with John McCain as they hit the Buckeye Store.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan:
Her Father, a former leader of Pakistan in 1971, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was hanged in 1979, after the ruling party who took over rule by force, and 18 years later, Benazir Bhutto, the first woman in the modern era to rise to power in Pakistan was also eliminated.

Omaha, Nebraska:
When the Omaha Mall re-opened on Saturday, December 8, 2007, shoppers and mourners still have a vivid recollection of the events three days ealier where a teenager ruthlessly turned his gun onvictims killing eight of them.
19-year-old Robert Hawkins fired a Ak-47 Rifle indiscriminantly on persons in a store on the Westroads Mall before taking his own life, in a horrific murder/suicide saga.
A suicide note left behind by the young killer did nothing to heal the pain from grieving relatives.

SAN DIEGO: California
Wildfires which are aided by hot climate, dry grass and a marauding wind has burnt about 2,000 homes in California, International Media reported.

Johannesburg, South Africa:
Lucky Dube, a South African Reggae star was killed on Thursday night, October 18, 2007, in what local Police say was attempted robbery of his motor vehicle in the Rosettenville suburb of Johannesburg.

*New PSAs Part of a Multi-Platform Campaign to Encourage

Young People to Get Tested Together

KINGSTON – LIVE UP: Love. Protect. Respect – The first pan-Caribbean effort led by

broadcasters to inspire and empower young people to combat HIV/AIDS – launched on June 25, 2007.

A series of television and radio public service ads (PSAs) to promote HIV testing. LIVE UP is the multi-platform public education campaign of the Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership on

HIV/AIDS (CBMP), a growing coalition of over 40 leading Caribbean media houses from 23 countries committed to expanding HIV/AIDS-related programming and public education activities across the Caribbean.

*America paying dearly for God's absence in their life
The Unites States, as great a nation it is, is paying a heavy price for taking prayers and the spiritual powers of God from their school curriculum and their society on a whole.
In recent times, the nation billed: 'Land of opportunity' and has on a fifty dollar note 'In God we trust' now as strict measures outlawing the use of prayer in schools.
However, over the years, the nation located in North America has seen a number of mass public shootings in different locations, including schools.

*Virginia Tech. Massacre- 32 murdered, gunman kills self
A lone gunman slaughtered at least 32 students before turning the gun on him self yesterday April 16, 2007, in an orchestrated bloody attack at Virginia Tech. University, the worst school shooting in USA history.

*Three teenagers shot, two perish in seperate incidents
Authorities in the United States of America were busy combing for clues after three teenagers were shot, two fatally in two bizarre incidents in two different states in America on Wednesday March 7, 2007.

The US military has reported (Wednesday Feb, 07) that another chopper went down in IRAQ. Base on the reports ten (10) persons were on board. The insurgents are claiming responsibility.

This news has increased the frustration level as with regards to the war in IRAQ. I can just imagine the grief that the family members of those troops are facing today.

What do you think should be done to end the war in IRAQ?

Should America:
a) Withdraw their troops?
b) Send more troops?
c) Have dialog with the insurgents?
d) Ask for assistance from other Arab countries?

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R&B Singtress Beyonce' Knowles has taken the number one spot in the Bill Board hot 100 chart with her smash hit 'irreplaceable', (Columbia Records) from her latest Album B'Day.
she forces Akon's I Wanna love (Featuring Snoop Dogg) into second place on Billboard's latest released top ten.

Baby from embryo rescued after Katrina due this month
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- The baby album for Rebekah Markham's soon-to-be-born child could include something extra special: photos of officers using flat-bottomed boats to rescue her frozen ...

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The baby album for Rebekah Markham's soon-to-be-born child could include something extra special ... NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- The baby album for Rebekah Markham's soon-to-be-born child could ...

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New York Daily News - World & National Report - Oh baby! Katrina ...
NEW ORLEANS - The baby album for Rebekah Markham's soon-to-be-born child could include something extra special: photos of officers using flat-bottomed boats to rescue the youngster's frozen embryo ...

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Birth Near For Embryo Rescued From Katrina
(AP) The baby album for a soon-to-be-born child could include something extra special: photos of officers using flat-bottomed boats to rescue the youngster's frozen embryo from a sweltering hospital ...

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Star of the mega hit motion picture "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's chest" Johnny Depp was the toast of the 33rd People's Choice Award in Los Angelles, America on Tuesday night January 9, 2007.

Johnny Depp was chosen by the people as their star in three categories, consisting Most popular male star, male action star, while Depp and his co-star Keira Knightey picked up the award as On-screen matchup, and the "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's chest" film voted as the most popular movie overall and also the most popular movie drama.

American President George Bush announced that he will be sending 21,500 more troops to IRAQ. This is estimated to cost the US goverment an additional US 1 billion dollars.

The question is will this renewed stratedgy work I really don't think so. IRAQ is now in the middle of a civil war where all the factions are fighting for power. According to the president if the US was to pull out of IRAQ the country would crumble.

Listening to CNN last night the analyst are saying that to adequately secure IRAQ would require an additional 200,000 troops.

Busta Rymes was charged Thursday January 4, 2006 for beating up a bwoy over money.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Neil Ross set bail at $3,500 for the third-degree assault charge, and set Rhymes' next court date for Feb. 20.

Mike Tyson was arrested on Friday 29 Dec, for suspicion of driving under the influence of and in possession of Cocaine.

Boy Tyson troubles seem to never end, now he is under the influence of the white lady.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein, among the world’s most brutal dictators, struggled briefly after American military guards handed him over to Iraqi executioners. But as his final moments approached, he grew calm. Dressed in a black coat and trousers, he clutched a Quran as he was led to the gallows, and in one final moment of defiance, refused to have a hood pulled over his head.

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According to TMZ Staff writer December 28th 2006 Britney Spears is losing the respect of even her most ardent fans – and now one of the Britster's most popular fan sites is shutting down.

WorldofBritney.com, a faithful and well-visited chronicler of all things Britney since 2000, is closing up shop, and its webmaster had some parting shots for Spears as he announced his site's demise. "As Britney keeps losing her identity and credibility within fans and industry people, so is [World of Britney]," writes Ruben Gray. "I believe Britney is unfortunately done (for me at least). No matter what anyone thinks or how they may disagree, it's very hard to maintain the respect needed to keep things going."

American Veteran Singer James Brown, who was once called the ‘Godfather’ of soul died at age 73 on Christmas morning December 25, 2006.

Brown died due to complications from severe pneumonia.

"MANCHESTER, N.H. - The political phenomenon known as Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) descended Sunday on the state with the nation's first presidential primary, drawing enthusiastic crowds and trailed by a huge media horde as he continued to stoke interest in a possible bid for the White House in 2008."

This story was of interest to me since Obama is truly an inspiration, not because he is a black man but more so because he is charismatic and an excellent communicator. These character traits have resulted in him having a large following across racial and gender lines.

Passenger lighted matches to hide odor

By SAMUEL SHU
For The Tennessean

Flatulence brought 99 passengers on an American Airlines flight to an unscheduled visit to Nashville early Monday morning.

American Flight 1053, from Washington Reagan National Airport and bound for Dallas/Fort Worth, made an emergency landing here after passengers reported smelling struck matches, said Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport Authority.

Jamie Foxx wins the award for favourite male artiste in the soul/rhythm & blues category. Not only did he snag his first AMA, for best soul-R&B male artiste, but his biological mother attended the show. He had not seen her in years.

Authorities are still contemplating whether to charge Calvin Broadus affectionately known as Snoop Dogg for attempting to carry a Collapsible baton in his luggage while he board a flight to New York.

The rapper claims that the weapon was a prop for a movie. Whether this is true or false is yet to be proven. Snoop should have known that this would have cause a problem in this time of increased security at the airports in the USA.