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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Sydney Sun.com http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/c08dd24cec417021/ en-us Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:30:02 -0500 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:30:02 -0500 30 US Vice President Dick Cheney and former attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on organized crime charges over alleged abuse of inmates in private prisons. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431913/cs/1/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:43:14 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431913/cs/1/ The Gaza Strip is being choked and its 1.5 million population is being held hostage as collective punishment, a UN official says. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/432225/cs/1/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:39:48 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/432225/cs/1/ Supporters of US President-elect Barack Obama don't seem to be too happy over the prospect of a Cabinet post being offered to former US First Lady and now New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431911/cs/1/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:40:00 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431911/cs/1/ With the Pakistan army aggressive in its operation against the militants on its side of the border, the Taliban are running out of places to hide, says a US Army commander in charge of operations in Afghanistan. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431912/cs/1/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:41:48 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431912/cs/1/ A house in northwestern Pakistan has been hit by rockets from a US drone aircraft. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431910/cs/1/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:38:20 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431910/cs/1/ Coalition forces in Iraq have captured suspected terrorists in a mission to dismantle al-Qaeda. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431909/cs/1/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:36:33 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431909/cs/1/ Britain and the United States have been castigated over their invasion of Iraq by a senior judge in the UK. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431908/cs/1/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:35:05 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431908/cs/1/ Chinese President Hu Jintao has been meeting with Fidel Castro in Havana. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431907/cs/1/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:33:24 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431907/cs/1/ President-elect, Barack Obama, in unveiling a $15 billion annual investment plan to build a clean energy future, said his presidency would engage vigorously in negotiations on climate change. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431764/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:58:36 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431764/cs/1/ The US treasury chief and central bank chairman have given evidence to the US Congress to defend their management of the $700 billion financial rescue program. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431763/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:57:00 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431763/cs/1/ As a sign of improved US/Libyan relations, a son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been in Washington for meetings with Bush administration officials. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431762/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:53:45 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431762/cs/1/ The Grand Ayatollah, Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, has said any agreement on US troops in Iraq should restore the nation's full sovereignty. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431761/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:51:31 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431761/cs/1/ Newsweek has reported that President-elect, Barack Obama, has decided to hire Eric Holder, a former senior official in the Clinton administration, to be Attorney General. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431759/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:48:13 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431759/cs/1/ The secretary-general of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has the alliance should re-evaluate its relations with Russia. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431757/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:46:45 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/431757/cs/1/ Police investigating the death of a schoolboy footballer while he was canoeing on a Welsh river say tests have shown he did not drown. Stewart McEwan, 13, from Earley near Reading in Berkshire, died ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683163/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:51:31 -0500 BBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683163/ That's just one of the "Yugo jokes" about the cheap and much-maligned subcompact that won notoriety for being one of the worst cars ever exported to the United States. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683159/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:55:53 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683159/ Ayman al Zawahiri also warned the US President-Elect against sending more troops to Afghanistan. The United States condemned the comments. "It's just, you know, more despicable comments from a terro... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683167/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:51:21 -0500 Sky News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683167/ MANAGUA : Waving sticks and hurling stones, thousands of protesters backing the leftist Sandinista party angrily took to the streets here to support the results of local elections earlier in the month... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683168/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:49:06 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683168/ President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly tapped Former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., to head his health policy working group. Here, the former Congressional leader is seen during an interview in Washin... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683156/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:55:50 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683156/ GENEVA (AP) — Mediators succeeded Wednesday in getting direct talks going between Russia and Georgia, pressing the two neighbors to resolve security and refugee issues from their August war in th... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683152/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:55:56 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683152/ GENEVA : More than three months after their war over the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Russia and Georgia on Wednesday got down to "intensive" and "productive" talks aimed at defusi... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683170/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:49:03 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683170/ THE United Nations has launched its largest ever aid appeal, saying it will need $US7 billion ($A10.73 billion) to help 30 million people in 31 countries during 2009. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683179/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:19 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683179/ But a scheme teaching finders and landowners of potential rewards for such discoveries, has led to a rise in the number of treasures being reported, a study revealed today. The British Museum's Treas... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683184/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:07 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683184/ Israel will consider the possibility of letting UNIFIL control the northern part of the village of Ghajar, a village cut in half by the Israel-Lebanon border fence. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683144/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:10:42 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683144/ SAYING they were tired of YouTubers "ripping us off", British comedy troupe Monty Python have struck back, launching their own channel on the video-sharing site. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683178/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:22 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683178/ AL-QAEDA number two Ayman Zawahiri ridiculed US President-elect Barack Obama as a "house negro" and warned him against sending more troops to Afghanistan, in an internet audio message releas... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683177/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:27 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683177/ PARIS : Former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin will stand trial on criminal charges of complicity in an alleged smear campaign that targeted Nicolas Sarkozy before he was elected president, a jud... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683169/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:49:04 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683169/ PARIS: The European Union's anti-piracy operation off the coast of Somalia - its first-ever naval mission - will begin on December 8, France's defence minister said on Wednesday. Five or six warships ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683147/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:04:14 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683147/ Amnesty International has appealed to Sri Lanka's government to allow aid to reach more than 300,000 people displaced by fighting in the north. The human rights group urged both the government and Ta... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683166/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:51:28 -0500 BBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683166/ SCIENTISTS said they have reconstructed about half of the genome of the woolly mammoth, a species that became extinct at the end of the last Ice Age some 11,000 years ago. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683188/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:30:58 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683188/ THE cost of living in America fell at its fastest rate in 61 years in October, providing new evidence that the world's biggest economy is plunging headlong into a severe recession. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683192/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:30:47 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683192/ AN Indian warship destroyed a pirate "mother vessel" in the Gulf of Aden, the Indian navy said, as bandits demanded a ransom for a seized Saudi super-tanker. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683176/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:25 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683176/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve officials slashed economic growth forecasts through 2009 and some believed even deeper interest rate cuts may be needed if growth slows further, minutes of their... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683173/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:44:22 -0500 Reuters http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683173/ Live from the courtroom, the Inquirer is blogging the federal corruption trial of State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo and his longtime friend and associate Ruth Arnao. Highlights of testimony, rulings and the... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683193/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:26:03 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683193/ Not to mention the money the city spent to build the Linc so that they could reach the 1 billion dollar mark. That money could have funded the Fire Department, libraries, and pools for years. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683199/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:25:52 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683199/ WORCESTER, Mass. - A Worcester woman was charged with raping and beating her teenage niece and forcing her to work for the rest of the household in a "Cinderella-type situation."Mara Escobar was order... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683200/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:25:50 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683200/ The American Commerce Center, a 1,510-foot skyscraper proposed for 18th and Arch streets, cleared its first hurdle yesterday when the City Planning Commission signed off on legislation for necessary z... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683198/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:25:54 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683198/ (RTTNews) - Automakers took to Capitol Hill for a second straight day Wednesday, once again fielding questions from legislators wondering why they should be bailed out. CEOs from Detroit's Big Three ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683143/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:17:11 -0500 RTT News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683143/ A NEW voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries, reports said. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683180/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:15 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683180/ The two-year-old daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes tops Forbes.com's second annual list of Hollywood's 10 Hottest Tots. Forbes.com, which ranked celebrity children five years old and younger ba... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683187/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:00 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683187/ NEW YORK (AP) — Opera-loving philanthropist Alberto Vilar was convicted on fraud charges Wednesday for swindling investors, including the mother of actress Phoebe Cates, out of millions of dollar... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683154/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:55:55 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683154/ LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jury selection resumed Wednesday, with a defense attorney looking to eliminate potential jurors he said dripped with "venom" for his client, a Missouri mother accused of taking... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683153/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:55:54 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683153/ A 12-year-old Philadelphia student has been suspended and faces expulsion after he allegedly attempted to sexually assault a 24-year-old teacher Monday at the Beeber Middle School in the city's Overbr... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683201/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:25:49 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683201/ An FBI agent was shot and killed early today as he and at least one other officer were attempting to serve an arrest warrant in Indiana Township. He was identified today as Special Agent Samuel Hicks.... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683197/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:25:56 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683197/ WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consumer prices plunged by the largest amount in the past 61 years in October as gasoline pump prices dropped by a record amount. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683204/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:59:06 -0500 New York Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683204/ German baroness Maria-Luise Bissonnette has lost a bid to recoup the Nazi-era painting "Girl from the Sabine Mountains" believed to have been painted by Franz Xavier Winterhalter. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683151/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:55:58 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683151/ Fearing extreme violence, the IDF does not plan to evacuate the disputed four story building in Hebron this week, senior defense officials saidon Wednesday. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683145/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:10:40 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683145/ The officials tell The Associated Press that Special Agent Kevin Merkel is accused in a secret indictment of possession and intent to distribute crystal methamphetamine. They spoke on condition of ano... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683155/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:55:49 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683155/ Former President Bill Clinton will reportedly help to raise money for the memorial for the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., planned for the National Mall in Washington. Here, a model of the memorial ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683157/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:55:51 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683157/ Getting a college education in Pennsylvania is more expensive than in many other areas of the country, and students generally graduate with higher debt, says a state education report released today. ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683194/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:26:00 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683194/ Jay Nixon, Missouri's longest-serving attorney general, won election as governor Tuesday by turning back Republican Congressman Kenny Hulshof. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683149/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:56:03 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683149/ Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, singer and wife of France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, is interviewed on the NBC "Today" television program THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Richard Drew NEW YORK - Carla Bruni-Sarkozy think... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683161/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:53:14 -0500 C News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683161/ CHICAGO (AP) -- Associates of Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband say the former first lady is weighing whether to leave the Senate and become secretary of state, believing the job is hers if she w... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683206/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:59:02 -0500 New York Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683206/ New York City's Triborough Bridge is renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge on Monday in a ceremony attended by, among others, left to right, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Kennedy widow Ethel Kennedy, standi... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683150/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:55:59 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683150/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will loosen terms of its foreclosure-prevention effort so that the program, meant to backstop $300 billion in home loans, ca... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683171/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:44:20 -0500 Reuters http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683171/ JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Wednesday that Israel had made a final decision not to participate in a U.N. forum on racism and urged other countries to boycott what she te... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683174/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:44:19 -0500 Reuters http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683174/ The state Legislature voted 41-6 Wednesday to give second-round approval to the limit. A final vote is expected Friday and then the bill will go to Gov. Dave Heineman, who has said he would support a ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683148/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:56:01 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683148/ IRELAND is to ban handguns, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said, after the number of licences issued for the weapons in society mushroomed in recent years. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683185/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:05 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683185/ LEGENDARY Welsh singer Tom Jones shocked passers-by in central London by performing an impromptu set on a pavement to raise money for a cancer charity. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683189/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:30:55 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683189/ WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top Senate Democrats suggested Wednesday that a bill to rescue Detroit's Big Three automakers was stalled and challenged the Bush administration to take steps to save the industry i... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683209/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:59:01 -0500 New York Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683209/ HOLLYWOOD actress Winona Ryder has been taken to a London hospital after falling ill on a British Airways plane flying in from Los Angeles, the airline said. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683190/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:30:53 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683190/ Pennsylvania's health-care watchdog agency got a life-extending injection from Gov. Ed Rendell this afternoon.At a 2 pm press conference, Rendell announced that he has signed an executive order allowi... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683196/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:25:58 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683196/ A small plane crashed on a remote island off British Columbia's southern coast Sunday, killing seven of the eight people on board. One survivor walked away, rescue officials said. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683203/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:15:48 -0500 Gadsden Times http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683203/ David Phyall, 50, took his own life because he was "irrationally opposed" to leaving his home, which had been repossessed, Deputy Coroner Simon Burge said at Winchester Coroner's Court in so... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683186/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:02 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683186/ WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Democratic officials said Wednesday. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683210/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:59:00 -0500 New York Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683210/ CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al-Qaida's No. 2 slurred Barack Obama with a demeaning racial term for a black American who does the bidding of whites in a new Web message Wednesday intended to dent the presiden... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683211/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:58:59 -0500 New York Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683211/ BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police say they apprehended a man who got in a cab with a rifle, asked for a ride to Washington and mentioned the White House. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683158/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:55:52 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683158/ WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve on Wednesday sharply lowered its projections for economic activity this year and next, and signaled that additional interest rate reductions may be needed to hel... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683205/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:59:04 -0500 New York Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683205/ AUDIO: Emergency call from plane crash The Federal Aviation Administration has released the air traffic control audio from the September plane crash involving Travis Barker and DJ AM. Four people we... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683142/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:26:17 -0500 NewsTalk Radio 810 http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683142/ WASHINGTON (AP) -- The health insurance industry said Wednesday it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, regardless of pre-existing medical condition... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683212/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:58:58 -0500 New York Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683212/ SEATTLE (AP) -- Don Wakamatsu became the first Asian-American manager in major league baseball history when he was hired Wednesday by the Seattle Mariners. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683213/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:58:55 -0500 New York Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19683213/ Pirates who seized oil tanker anchor off Somalia MOGADISHU - A major Norwegian shipping group yesterday ordered its more than 90 tankers to sail around Africa rather than use the Suez Canal as Somali ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677179/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:41:51 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677179/ Former Bill Clinton staffer Eric Holder has reportedly been offered the U.S. attorney general's job by President-elect Barack Obama and has accepted. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677189/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:39:56 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677189/ The chief officer for the West Midlands Fire Service has resigned after he was arrested in connection with a child pornography inquiry. Frank Sheehan was arrested in Sutton Coldfield on Tuesday as pa... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677212/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:35:12 -0500 BBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677212/ A court hearing is scheduled for today in the case of an 8-year-old Arizona boy charged with shooting and killing his father and another man. Here, the Apache County Courthouse in St. Johns, Ariz., is... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677187/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:39:59 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677187/ SHANGHAI : On Aug. 2, 1949, with the Communists about to seize power in Beijing, the United States recalled its ambassador to China, John Leighton Stuart, a respected missionary, educator and diplomat... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677221/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:32:33 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677221/ The Pied Piper's services might be needed again in Hamelin, northern Germany - because the rats are back. An abandoned allotment site on the edge of town has become a haven for rats, with plenty of d... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677213/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:35:13 -0500 BBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677213/ ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Iranian banks are operating in the Gulf financial hub of Dubai despite U.N. sanctions and authorities should keep a close eye on them, a U.S. official involved in tracking suspic... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677227/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:27:33 -0500 Reuters http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677227/ William Jefferson Clinton Follow the ups and downs of President Clinton's years in office, see photos and learn about his life before and after the presidency. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677230/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:24:27 -0500 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677230/ + ] By Henrique Almeida LUANDA (Reuters) - Angola's government should crack down on the spread of illegal religious sects to prevent them from exploiting the poor, the African nation's leading Cath... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677232/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:20:13 -0500 Reuters http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677232/ US stocks opened in negative territory today after the government reported consumer prices in a record plunge in October, highlighting slowing demand in the world's largest economy. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677236/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:13:26 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677236/ SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — For the first time at Guantanamo, defense lawyers have seen a top-secret prison where the alleged 9/11 plotters and other high-value detainees are held. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677188/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:39:57 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677188/ Internet service providers have been told over the years to block access to political, human rights and women's sites, as well as anything deemed pornographic or anti- http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677216/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:34:58 -0500 Sky News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677216/ CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - A retired Virginia school teacher and librarian who died two years ago left more than $2 million to split between the universities she attended, the schools announced Tuesday. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677202/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:38:43 -0500 MSNBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677202/ ' }, { url: 'http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2008/11/18/image4613487g.jpg', alt: '', text: 'This undated picture made at an unknown location shows the the MV Sirius Star a Saudi oil supertanke... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677228/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:24:30 -0500 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677228/ For as long as she could remember a 60-year-old British woman, known only as KH, has been unable to recognize voices, not even the voice of her own daughter. Unless she sees the face of the person spe... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677199/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:38:49 -0500 MSNBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677199/ Buckingham Township police were looking yesterday for a man who, while naked, sexually assaulted a township woman who had been jogging alone on a rural road. The man grabbed the woman from behind, h... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677243/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:09:04 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677243/ The conclusions are contained in twin reports presented Wednesday by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Obtained by The Associated Press, the confidential documents are being shared with the 35 n... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677193/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:39:52 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677193/ KAYNA - Rebels were yesterday pulling back their forces from the frontlines to allow talks with the Army, their spokesman said, as retreating army soldiers battled mobs of spear-wielding militiamen in... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677184/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:41:41 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677184/ Israeli police check the bombed car before Yaakov Alperon's body is removed. Photo / AP RA'ANANA - For a moment, as the first few of the hundreds of mourners came up the cypress-lined avenue to the ma... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677185/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:41:39 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677185/ Saint-Julien-Le-Montagnier, France - French police and sniffer dogs scoured a patch of rocky woodland near this picturesque southern village on Wednesday, hunting for clues to the fate of three missin... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677223/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:29:15 -0500 IOL http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677223/ DAYS after seizing a fully laden Saudi oil tanker, Somali pirates struck three times yesterday as an Indian warship destroyed a pirate mother ship that opened fire off the Somali coast. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677234/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:13:22 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677234/ THE owners of a hijacked Saudi supertanker with a $100 million oil cargo are in negotiations over a possible ransom payment, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677235/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:13:24 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677235/ Conservative leader David Cameron ditched his party's pledge to match Labour's public spending totals yesterday in a significant u-turn that will allow him to offer "permanent" tax cuts at the next ge... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677182/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:41:46 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677182/ Hanoi - Vietnam said on Wednesday it would recall one of its diplomats from South Africa after she was filmed conducting an illegal transaction in rhinoceros horn. Television footage shot two month... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677224/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:29:09 -0500 IOL http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677224/ Washington - Former President Bill Clinton has offered several concessions to help his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, become secretary of state, people familiar with the presidential transition... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677222/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:29:12 -0500 IOL http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677222/ Internet matchmaker eHarmony.com will provide same-sex matching services in 2009 under the terms of a settlement reached today in New Jersey.The online dating service, founded in 2000 in California, h... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677245/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:09:03 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677245/ Ffostrasol is the main manufacturing base for the company Ceredigion At least 20 people are to lose their jobs at one of the largest employers in south Ceredigion. Around 30 workers at the Prothe... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677211/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:35:11 -0500 BBC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677211/ More than 100 people in line at a Camden church this morning can't be called fugitives anymore. They were turning themselves in to legal authorities, as part of New Jersey's experiment with Fugitive ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677246/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:09:01 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677246/ CHICAGO: Democrats familiar with president-elect Barack Obama's vetting process for a new administration say former president Bill Clinton has offered several concessions to help his wife Hillary beco... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677240/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:13:18 -0500 The Australian http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/19677240/