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A vote will be taken on Monday.No one exp... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227054/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:14:05 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227054/ ZHANAOZEN, Kazakhstan -- Regional government officials and Kazmunaygaz oil and gas company managers are holding talks today with striking oil workers in the southwestern town of Zhanaozen, RFE/RL's Ka... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227055/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:14:04 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227055/ CHICAGO — A federal judge refused Wednesday to postpone the June start of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial, brushing aside defense attorneys' claims that they won't have enough tim... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227046/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:12:49 -0400 New York Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227046/ Perry Comb-over and Dick Swizzle will incorporate Pub Trivia, Dick's Sudden Death Game Show and "Family Feud" into this trivia marathon at The Bell House. If the thought of trivia is daunting, go for ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227047/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:12:48 -0400 New York Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227047/ The popular speed dating event, for nerds and the people who love them, returns to Union Hall. Drink specials include a $4 "mystery love potion." Tickets are $10; RSVP to heartspeeddating@gmail.com. C... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227048/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:12:47 -0400 New York Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227048/ Filed at 3:52 p.m. ET ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigeria's acting president dissolved the Cabinet on Wednesday, purging top officials loyal to the nation's ill president in his first major act since taki... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227043/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:12:24 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227043/ President Obama as an anti-Semite. Mr. Netanyahu said that he “utterly rejected” the comments made by his wife’s brother, whose hawkish views are well known. In a statement distribu... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227044/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:12:22 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227044/ Serious negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have to begin as soon as possible so that the issue of Jerusalem can be resolved, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a press conf... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227068/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:06:59 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227068/ BEIRUT — Arabs across the Middle East are unconvinced the United States will stand up to Israel despite Washington's current public outrage over plans to build new Jewish homes in a northern area of... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227067/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:06:58 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227067/ PRETORIA, Mar 17 , 2010 (IPS) - Spain is breaking new ground in its relations with Africa through an ambitious programme which has seen it increasing its development funding to the continent more than... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227066/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:06:27 -0400 IPS http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227066/ DUBLIN : Pope Benedict XVI faced mounting pressure Wednesday over worldwide child sex abuse allegations, as he vowed to write to Irish Catholics this week offering "healing and renewal" over the scand... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227042/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:58:27 -0400 Channel News Asia http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227042/ North Korean leader Kim Jong Il may die within three years, a senior United States envoy said in Seoul last month. Assistant US Secretary of State Kurt Campbell told US Ambassador Kathleen Stephens i... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227069/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:53:18 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227069/ HAVANA (AP) — Uniformed Cuban security agents prevented the mothers and wives of dissidents from marching on the outskirts of the capital on Wednesday to demand release of their loved ones, shovi... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227028/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:51:46 -0400 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227028/ Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with a kaffiyeh around his shoulders, walks with Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad after visiting Yasser Arafat's grave in the West Bank city of Ra... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227029/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:51:45 -0400 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227029/ Washington (CNN) -- Health care reform advocates inched closer to victory Wednesday morning as a high-profile liberal Democrat switched his position and announced his intention to vote for a sweeping ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227058/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:49:19 -0400 CNN http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227058/ Houston, Texas (CNN) -- School districts nationwide are trimming funds, for custodians to school supplies, to address widening budget gaps. Even public schools in affluent communities such as Mill Val... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227059/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:49:17 -0400 CNN http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227059/ Bullock cited personal reasons as to why she could not attend the London Premiere The scrapped premiere comes amid reports of marital trouble between Bullock and James James had been a constant fixtur... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227060/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:49:15 -0400 CNN http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227060/ John Lloyd has resigned as Great Britain's Davis Cup captain in the wake of the humiliating defeat by Lithuania.Lloyd lost the last five of his eight ties, with Britain facing a play-off against Turke... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227026/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:46:20 -0400 BBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227026/ Twitter, or text us your views & comments on 81111 (UK) or +44 7786200666 (worldwide). 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Messages will be charged at your standard operator rate) http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227025/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:46:19 -0400 BBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227025/ An audit investigation into a regeneration scheme in one of Wales' most deprived areas has found evidence of financial mismanagement.The Plas Madoc Communities First scheme in Wrexham, had "funda... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227024/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:46:18 -0400 BBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227024/ Europe's Planck observatory has given another brief glimpse of its work.The space telescope's main goal is to map the "oldest light" in the Universe, but this data is being kept under wraps ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227027/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:46:15 -0400 BBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227027/ Five people are being held over the kidnap of the British boy Sahil Saeed in Pakistan as the five year old's father flies out to be reunited with him. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227072/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:46:11 -0400 Sky News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227072/ LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been panned by a parliamentary report into the 1998 Omagh bombing, which called for a new investigation into one of the worst acts of the Troubles in No... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227056/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:40:35 -0400 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227056/ Miami - A Miami judge on Wednesday ordered a "miracle" baby rescued from the rubble after the devastating January earthquake struck Haiti to be reunited with her parents thanks to a DNA test. The b... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227062/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:39:15 -0400 IOL http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227062/ Santiago - The family of two victims of Chile's massive quake accused the government of manslaughter in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, saying officials failed to warn them of a deadly tsunami set off b... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227061/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:39:12 -0400 IOL http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227061/ Berlin - Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that sexual abuse of children was not confined to the Roman Catholic Church, as German bishops reportedly drew up plans to compensate victims of pae... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227063/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:39:10 -0400 IOL http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227063/ Berlin - One of four suspected thieves in a spectacular heist at a poker tournament in Berlin has revealed the names of his three accomplices after turning himself in. Four armed raiders made off w... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227064/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:39:08 -0400 IOL http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227064/ Raphael Geys, who was a managing director of European fixed income sales for SocGen, said in documents for his case at London's High Court that he was summarily dismissed without cause in November 200... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227031/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:37:24 -0400 Reuters http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227031/ "} ,{"image" : '/resources/r/?m=02&d=20100317&t=2&i=77469632&w=460&r=2010-03-17T190614Z_01_BTRE62G1H2L00_RTROPTP_0_CUBA', "thumbnail" : '/resources/r/?m=02&d=20100317&t=2&i=77469632&w=50&r=2010-03-1... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227030/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:37:23 -0400 Reuters http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227030/ (Reuters) - A Canadian man charged by U.S. prosecutors two weeks ago with trying to fraudulently obtain aircraft parts from Honeywell International Inc was found dead in his New York apartment, appare... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227032/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:37:22 -0400 Reuters http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227032/ Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 25, 2010, before the Senate Banking hearing on the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227033/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:35:07 -0400 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227033/ Emergency financial manager Robert Bobb, left, talks with Felicia Harvey, center, and her niece Jallycia Sherrod to try and convince them to enroll her children in Detroit Public Schools in Detroit in... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227034/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:35:06 -0400 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227034/ SI.com reported Wednesday . Washington confirmed to SI that he did test positive. Ron Washington has a career 241-245 record as manager of the Rangers. The report also notes that he took the unusu... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227035/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:35:06 -0400 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227035/ In this March 11, 2009 file photo, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Mary Schapiro testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the SEC... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227036/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:35:05 -0400 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227036/ Kraft Foods announced on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 it will cut the salt in its products sold in North America by an average of 10 percent over the next two years. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227037/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:35:03 -0400 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227037/ NATO Warship Sinks Pirate Ship off Somalia (AP) These Somali pirates picked the wrong ship to hijack. Troops aboard the Dutch warship HNLMS Tromp fired warning shots Wednesday off the coast of East... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227038/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:35:02 -0400 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227038/ Religious Sightings of 2009 From the Virgin Mary on a pancake to Jesus emblazoned on an iron, CBSNews.com's Cali Carlin takes a look back at the top five peculiar religious relics that emerged in 2009... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227041/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:35:01 -0400 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227041/ Slaughter Solution ," after House Rules Chairman Rep. Louise Slaughter. "The 'Slaughter Solution' is the ultimate in Washington power grabs, a legislative ploy that lets Democrats defy the will of the... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227040/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:34:59 -0400 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227040/ A tow boat floats offshore from the scene where a small plane crash landed on the beach of Palmetto Dunes along Hilton Head, S.C., Monday. Officials said a man was killed during the plane's emergency ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227039/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:34:58 -0400 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227039/ This is your life, Justin Verlander. This is your life, Cole Hamels. Verlander started for the Tigers yesterday at Bright House Field. Hamels was on the mound for the Phillies. It was one of those n... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227051/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:25:25 -0400 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227051/ Opening Day is nearly four weeks away, but Phillies fever has already scorched the ticket office. Three million tickets have been sold - more than the attendance of a couple of recent seasons. Eight... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227050/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:25:24 -0400 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227050/ Struggling to speak through tears, the mother of 2-year-old Daniel Slutsky told a Bucks County jury today that she was "thrilled" when the boy was born. Lyudmila Slutsky, 36, a nurse, and h... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227049/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:25:22 -0400 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227049/ Upper Merion Township police are seeking the public's help to solve an armed robbery on Friday at a King of Prussia gas station. Police said two men, at least one of whom carried a silver handgun, en... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227052/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:25:21 -0400 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227052/ SCRANTON - Two more politicians in northeastern Pennsylvania were indicted yesterday as a widening corruption probe reached into Lackawanna County government, this time with allegations that elected o... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227053/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:25:20 -0400 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33227053/ Former Iranian parliament deputy Fatemeh Haghighatjou has harshly criticized the decision by Iran's judiciary to ban activities by the major reformist Islamic Iran Participation Front, RFE/RL's Radio ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223410/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:20:34 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223410/ BAKU -- An Azerbaijani opposition journalist jailed on what supporters say were politically motivated charges has been pardoned, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.Qanimat Zahid, the editor in chief... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223411/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:20:33 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223411/ There is the high road and there is the low road for outside supplicants in the European Union. Both roads lead to Brussels.The high road takes in the capitals of the larger of the 27 EU member states... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223412/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:20:32 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223412/ Catholicos Garegin II (right) and Russian Patriarch Kirill lay a wreath at a monument to Russian soldiers killed in the Russo-Persian war in Yerevan. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223413/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:20:29 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223413/ Police in Minsk searched the offices and apartments of journalists, activists, and politicians and allegedly struck a staffer at one NGO during the course of the raids on March 16, RFE/RL's Belarus Se... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223414/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:20:28 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223414/ BISHKEK -- A Kyrgyz opposition leader says police searched his car today as he left a major opposition rally, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.Omurbek Tekebaev, head of the Ata-Meken (Fatherland) party... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223415/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:20:27 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223415/ The Paris Club of 19 creditor countries has announced it is cancelling all of Afghanistan's debt of $1.6 billion owed to its members. The United Sates immediately welcomed the accord reached by Afghan... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223417/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:20:23 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223417/ WASHINGTON — U.S. companies that hire unemployed workers will get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill that easily won final congressional approval Wednesday.The bipartisan 68-29 vote in... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223399/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:18:40 -0400 New York Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223399/ KAMPALA : Two people died Wednesday as Ugandan security forces opened fire to quell unrest amid allegations that arsonists set fire to UN-listed royal tombs near Kampala. The fire on Tuesday night des... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223398/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:04:44 -0400 Channel News Asia http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223398/ A zoo in northeastern China has been shut after a spate of Siberian tiger deaths as reports said dozens of the dead animals may have been used to make a virility tonic. Authorities are investigating ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223422/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:59:52 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223422/ WASHINGTON - United States Attorney-General Eric Holder told Congress that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the US because he will not be captured alive. In testy exchanges with House Republi... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223425/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:59:48 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223425/ Shrink FORT JACKSON - New soldiers are grunting through the kind of stretches and twists found in "ab blaster" classes at suburban gyms as the United States Army revamps its basic training regimen for... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223427/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:59:46 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223427/ The New Zealand Government has committed an initial $1 million in aid to Fiji after a devastating cyclone which has killed at least one person, destroyed homes and knocked out power and communications... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223429/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:59:43 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223429/ Taliban have begun to fight back, launching a campaign of assassination and intimidation to frighten people from supporting the U.S. and its Afghan allies. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223393/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:58:10 -0400 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223393/ Chur diocese says it approached the priest after being contacted by a victim Monday. It said the priest also acknowledged abuses in parts of neighboring Austria and Germany that belong to the same dio... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223392/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:58:09 -0400 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223392/ Berthe Meijer during an interview with the Associated Press at her home in Amsterdam, provides a glimpse of the final days of Anne Frank. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223394/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:58:09 -0400 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223394/ Washington (CNN) -- Saying the United States is "falling behind" in education, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan worked Wednesday to persuade lawmakers that the Obama administration's plan ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223419/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:55:37 -0400 CNN http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223419/ Location-based mobile apps were the big theme at this year's South by Southwest Interactive A rivalry developed between frontrunner Foursquare and upstart Gowalla Both services blend social networking... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223418/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:55:36 -0400 CNN http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223418/ "I'm nearing the end of my first trimester and I'm so excited -- I've been bursting to tell people," says McKellar, 35, who played Winnie on "The Wonder Years," tells PEOPLE exclus... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223421/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:55:34 -0400 CNN http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223421/ A British soldier who died in hospital in Britain on Monday from wounds he suffered in Afghanistan last month has been named by the Ministry of Defence.Capt Martin Driver, 31, served with 1st Battalio... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223387/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:52:37 -0400 BBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223387/ The family of a teenager who died after taking mephedrone has called on the government to make the drug illegal.Louis Wainwright, 18, and Nicholas Smith, 19, died in Scunthorpe on Monday after taking ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223386/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:52:35 -0400 BBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223386/ Turkey's prime minister has threatened to deport 100,000 Armenian migrants, amid renewed tensions over Turkish mass killings of Armenians in World War I.Recent resolutions in the US and Sweden have ca... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223384/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:52:33 -0400 BBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223384/ Mobile firm O2 has stepped into the row over thousands of controversial letters that are being sent to alleged illegal downloaders in the UK.It condemned the attempts "by rights holders and their... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223389/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:52:31 -0400 BBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223389/ (Reuters) - A top Libyan official on Wednesday welcomed as a "step forward" a call by Swiss officials for damages to be paid to a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who was arrested in Geneva in 200... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223396/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:43:27 -0400 Reuters http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223396/ "} ,{"image" : '/resources/r/?m=02&d=20100317&t=2&i=77429325&w=460&r=2010-03-17T172628Z_01_BTRE62G1CGJ00_RTROPTP_0_AFGHANISTAN', "thumbnail" : '/resources/r/?m=02&d=20100317&t=2&i=77429325&w=50&r=20... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223395/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:43:26 -0400 Reuters http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223395/ Onepoll.com surveyed 5,000 women around the globe to determine the "world's sexiest accent." On "The Early Show," co-anchors Maggie Rodriguez and Erica Hill identified the top five accents from the... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223397/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:40:43 -0400 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223397/ ]+(>|$)/g, ""); formObj.field.value += ' (HTML deleted)'; } //alert('After Flag | mT: ' + mT + ' | kP: ' + kP) return insertComment(formObj, true, updateComments, true); }; http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223400/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:31:45 -0400 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223400/ WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is thanking lawmakers , and Republicans especially , for their help sending him a jobs bill. The Senate passed the bill on Wednesday with 11 Republican votes. It c... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223402/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:31:43 -0400 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223402/ A 16-year-old boy is in custody this afternoon after taking a SEPTA bus for a joyride this morning and crashing it into 14 vehicles. "The kid claims he took the bus because he wanted to practice... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223405/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:31:42 -0400 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223405/ A contractor died yesterday when he fell through a skylight at a warehouse in the East Frankford section, officials say.He was identified as William G. Alburger, 52, of King of Prussia. Police said h... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223404/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:31:40 -0400 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223404/ In Ms. Boyd's second grade at Thomas Mifflin School in East Falls, a new girl arrived yesterday, her hair a field of white daisy barrettes. Last week, a student left after less than a month, diagnosed... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223403/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:31:38 -0400 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223403/ BREAKING BAD. 10 p.m. Sunday, AMC. PASADENA, CALIF. - Bryan Cranston signed on for a ride he knew would be mostly downhill, and he's not looking for a soft landing now. Just as well. The role of Wa... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223406/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:31:37 -0400 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223406/ Thomas S. Steele, 69, formerly of Cherry Hill, a mastering engineer who helped create "Philadelphia Sound" recordings, died of complications from heart surgery March 6 at Naples Community Ho... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223407/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:31:36 -0400 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223407/ Get ready: Oprah's coming to town. Maybe. The media mogul - who successfully fended off a $12 million suit a dozen years ago, filed by a group of Texas cattlemen who claimed she defamed beef - could ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223408/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:31:35 -0400 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33223408/ News ) announced Wednesday that the US Food and Drug Administration has accepted for review a New Drug Application for an investigational fixed dose combination of Onglyza and metformin HCl extended-r... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220591/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:26:53 -0400 RTT News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220591/ DUSHANBE -- The spiritual leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) has died at the age 59 after a long illness, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.He was buried this morning in the cap... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220564/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:26:26 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220564/ The killing on March 14 in Cherkessk of young Circassian activist Aslan Zhukov has highlighted once again latent tensions between the Karachai majority and the Cherkess minority in the Russian republi... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220565/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:26:24 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220565/ (RFE/RL) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to expel thousands of Armenian immigrants from the country, amid ongoing tensions over the World War I-era mass killing of Armeni... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220566/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:26:23 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220566/ ETA killed a French police officer in a shootout near Paris on Tuesday night, French authorities said Wednesday. If ETA’s responsibility is confirmed, it would be the first time a member of Fre... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220554/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:24:43 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220554/ LONDON (AP) — The leader of Ireland’s Roman Catholics said Wednesday that he was ashamed of his part in dealing with a child sex abuse scandal 35 years ago, and said he was uncertain what ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220556/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:24:41 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220556/ BANGKOK, Mar 17, 2010 (IPS) - As the water level in the Mekong River dips to a record 50-year low, a familiar pattern of fault-finding has risen to the surface. China, the regional giant through whi... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220584/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:18:44 -0400 IPS http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220584/ Passengers have told of their terror after a Jetstar plane appeared to catch fire in midair after a "loud bang". Jason Bush, 34, who was sitting behind the wing of the plane bound for Darwin, said he... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220586/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:04:26 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220586/ BAGHDAD - A secular coalition challenging the Iraqi Prime Minister in the country's historic parliamentary elections has narrowly pulled ahead for the first time in the overall vote count, although it... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220585/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:04:24 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220585/ Those who chair the jury on book prize panels have to contend with the usual discomforts of the job: too many books, eye strain, a piffling salary for months of intensive reading, and refereeing clash... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220588/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:04:22 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220588/ Shrink ESTORIL - Tonnes of debt, but great beaches and warm weather. Can tourism help rescue Europe's financially troubled Mediterranean countries? The economies of Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220587/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:04:21 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33220587/