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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 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:42:00 -0500 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:42:00 -0500 30 CAIRO - Egypt has decided to advance the election of a new president, giving in to the demands of increasingly violent protesters and raising hopes of a civilian government taking over the task of fra http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203278082/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:49:56 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203278082/cs/1/ MOSCOW- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stressed need for Russia to adopt new democratic mechanisms to move forward and to be able to react swiftly to the interests and desires of large groups in so http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203277461/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:41:47 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203277461/cs/1/ DAMASCUS - The West voiced its ire over Russia and China's veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria even as more clashes and deaths were reported in the violence-wracked country. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203276650/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:29:51 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203276650/cs/1/ LONDON - Heavy snowfall and intense cold this winter, one of the most severe in decades, has taken its toll across Europe, with many rural areas badly affected and several deaths reported. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203276071/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:24:41 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203276071/cs/1/ NEW YORK - Citigroup's Chinese subsidiary has been granted permission to offer its credit cards in China, becoming the first US based bank and the second foreign bank to receive the nod. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280818/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:59:05 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280818/cs/1/ BRISTOL - Hundreds of traders and business establishments have signed up for Bristol's own currency to be launched May 21, with the backing of the Bristol Credit Union, a bank run as a cooperative. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203279652/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:15:43 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203279652/cs/1/ NEW YORK - The IMF has warned of lower growth in China in view of the economic slump in Europe, and cut its forecast for the world's second largest economy this year to 8.25 per cent from 9 per cent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275615/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:18:55 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275615/cs/1/ ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has said he would continue intense talks with his coalition partners on austerity measures for a 130 billion-euro EU bailout plan second for Greece. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275612/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:09:56 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275612/cs/1/ BEIJING - China's Monday asked its airlines not to pay a charge on carbon emissions imposed by the European Union (EU). http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275609/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:58:28 -0500 Sydney Sun.com http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275609/cs/1/ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and chief of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Hamas politbureau Khalid Mashaal signed here Monday the Doha Declaration of the Palestinian reconciliation. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275608/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:50:39 -0500 IANS http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275608/cs/1/ Al-Qaeda is trying to recruit women for carrying out suicide bombings in Britain, parliament members have warned in a report. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275596/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:10:04 -0500 IANS http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275596/cs/1/ Highlighting how crucial it is that the eventual Republican presidential nominee be able and willing to put Obamacare front and center in the general election campaign, the ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286281/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:52:01 -0500 Weekly Standard http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286281/ Iranian blogger Mehdi Khazali has been sentenced to 13 years and 10 months in prison, followed by 10 years in exile. Khazali was arrested about a month ago and has been on a hunger strike in ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286262/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:40:29 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286262/ WASHINGTON - The Obama administration announced tough new targeted sanctions Monday against the Central Bank of Iran, ratcheting up economic pain on Tehran in a move intended to drive it into new ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286314/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:32:49 -0500 McClatchy http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286314/ Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) is the Knesset member who works hardest to separate religion and state, according to a study by the Open Knesset website and the Reform Movement's Center for Religion ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286268/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:30:06 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286268/ BERLIN - Hungary's Foreign Ministry on Sunday criticized anti-Semitic and pro-Iranian regime statements of Jobbik party lawmaker Marton Gyongyosi.Hungary rejects the statements of ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286266/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:30:01 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286266/ Will the IDF soon be able to better identify enemy targets hidden by camouflage? On Monday, Elbit Systems unveiled a hyper-spectral payload with revolutionary intelligence capabilities that can be ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286267/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:29:56 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286267/ Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu rejected on Monday all calls to reverse last week's cabinet decision that barred 70 West Bank settlements on the "national priority" list from ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286269/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:29:51 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286269/ The Yemeni agreement was followed by two similar reconciliation pacts that were reached under the auspices of the Egyptians. Needless to say, the Egyptian-brokered accords remained ink on ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286270/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:29:37 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286270/ An archeological find at the Hill of Jonah near Ashdod may prove that the area had been occupied during the time when archeologists believe Jonah the prophet walked the Earth. Archeologists have ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286272/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:29:23 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286272/ In honor of Tu Bishvat, the city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa's Beautification Division has supplied 30,000 seedlings of various shapes and sizes to community gardens, schools and other institutions ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286273/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:29:17 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286273/ WASHINGTON, Feb 6, 2012 (IPS) - Following a failed bid to pass a U.N. Security Council Resolution calling for regime change in Syria, Washington is considering other means to influence events on ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286265/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:28:31 -0500 IPS http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286265/ Thousands of Australians have been forced to abandon their homes as a record deluge sweeps through areas still reeling from devastating flooding last year that left 35 people ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286264/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:27:56 -0500 IOL http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286264/ Green tea drinkers fared better as they grew older even taking into account that they generally had healthier diets, lower smoking rates, were better educated and had more friends and family to rely ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286286/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:20:04 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286286/ It raises the prospect of parents at the school gates bumping into the radical cleric, who was known as Osama Bin Laden’s ambassador in ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286287/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:56 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286287/ Judges have quashed a notorious ruling which allowed a Nepalese killer with no wife or children to stay in the UK to protect his right to a family ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286288/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:50 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286288/ A new study has found that babies who use their fingers to eat during the weaning process are less likely to become obese than those who are spoon-fed pureed ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286289/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:42 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286289/ Yesterday a spokesman for Ugandan-born Dr Sentamu said the Archbishop received a ‘large quantity’ of correspondence following the interview, adding: ‘Amongst many positive ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286290/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:36 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286290/ Tough new rules to ban unsustainable mortgages and prevent another housing bubble are to be handed to the Bank of England, the Chancellor signalled last ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286292/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:31 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286292/ Government sources said the change would apply to married and unmarried couples, whether disputes were over the division of assets or over access to ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286291/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:19 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286291/ Staff say they are increasingly forced to disrupt classes to change pupils or clear up ‘accidents’ because parents believe toilet training is a school’s ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286293/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:14 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286293/ Police hunting a gang of Asian youths who battered a Caucasian teenager and left him for dead were treating the savage beating as a ‘hate crime’ last ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286294/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:08 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286294/ Although nationally one in seven stores is empty the situation is much worse in places such as Margate in Kent and Leigh Park, Hampshire, which have a 36 per cent vacancy ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286295/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:02 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286295/ There’s that famous song ‘There’ll always be an England . . . if England means as much to you as England means to me.’ That’s how many of us think about teapots. ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286296/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:18:55 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286296/ A statement on behalf of his wife, Baroness Paisley, said: ‘She requests the family’s privacy be respected at this difficult ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286297/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:18:45 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286297/ Energy Secretary Ed Davey performed a spectacular U-turn on nuclear power last night – as he declared he would not block plans for a new generation of ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286298/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:18:37 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286298/ Britain is to send equipment to help the opposition oust Syrian dictator Bashar Assad after William Hague said there was ‘no limit on what resources we can ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286299/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:18:27 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286299/ Last week Network Rail was forced to apologise after it admitted health and safety breaches over the deaths of two teenage girls at a level crossing in ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286300/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:18:18 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286300/ A secret recording in which a patient allegedly tells her married GP that he has ‘such a kissable mouth’ was played to a disciplinary panel ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286301/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:18:08 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286301/ Struggle: A cynical move by councils to raise tax by 3.49 per cent means that many families will need to ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286302/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:17:59 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286302/ Quick exit: Redknapp is seen leaving the court at the end of yesterday's proceedings. He had hoped to attend his team's league match with Liverpool but his flight was ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286304/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:17:37 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286304/ Bloodshed: President Bashar al-Assad will stop at nothing to retain power for his corrupt and blood-stained regime With each day, the Syrian tragedy grows deeper. Over the past weekend we have had ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286305/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:17:28 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286305/ She and her female partner are fighting his demands, saying he has ‘betrayed’ a ‘pact’ made before the child was conceived under which the father would have only ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286306/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:17:22 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286306/ But the Service Prosecuting Authority refuses to drop the case and has charged Cpl C – described as a man of ‘impeccable character’ – with assault. He is due to appear at a ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286309/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:17:12 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286309/ Those guilty of the most serious misconduct could have their press cards removed, in the same way as doctors are struck off. But all newspapers and accredited freelance agencies would have to sign ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286310/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:17:02 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286310/ Yet, far from welcoming this largesse, the Indian nation is increasingly exasperated at being treated as a needy beneficiary. As the Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said recently, ‘We ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286311/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:16:55 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286311/ A city's independent traders are launching their own currency to boost local businesses and prevent it becoming another victim of 'Clone Town ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286308/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:16:50 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286308/ In a letter the author posted to the 19-year-old, he arranged for ‘3 Doz Sherry, 2 Doz Port and 3 Doz light claret to be sent down to ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286307/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:16:40 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286307/ Iranian authorities are increasingly arresting and threatening the families of BBC journalists to force them to quit its Persian news service, its head said ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286312/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:16:30 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286312/ Robert Laird, 25, Paul Yates, 38, his partner Williamina Stewart, 37, her brother Hector Stewart, 30, and teenager Paul Noble, who was 15 at the time, all from Aberdeen, are accused of the ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286313/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:16:22 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286313/ LAS VEGAS, Nevada: Republican Mitt Romney won the Nevada presidential caucus with 50 percent of the vote, more than twice his nearest rival Newt Gingrich on 21.1 percent, full results showed on ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286253/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:14:16 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286253/ The German Chancellor is not supporting anyone in the French presidential election - but Angela Merkel, the leader of the German Christian Democratic party, is throwing her weight behind Nicolas ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286221/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:01:07 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286221/ Anders Behring Breivik, who admits killing 77 people in the worst peacetime massacre Norway has ever seen, told a court yesterday that he deserved a medal for the ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286223/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:01:00 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286223/ When a retired church administrator called Mimi Alford decided to write a memoir of her teenage love affair with President John F Kennedy, her publisher was quick to deny that she intended to cash ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286222/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:00:58 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286222/ Josefina Vazquez Mota, 51, a former Education Minister, beat Ernesto Cordero, the preferred choice of President Felipe Calderon, in the National Action Party's primary election on Sunday.She ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286225/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:00:47 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286225/ An elections panel has affirmed Aung San Suu Kyi's candidacy for parliament in another step towards political openness in a country emerging from nearly half a century of iron-fisted military ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286226/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:00:41 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286226/ Britain and the US rounded on the Syrian government yesterday, recalling embassy staff and issuing stern warnings to the regime to end its fierce crackdown on dissent. The move came as a renewed ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286227/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:00:35 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286227/ The bizarre case of a Utah woman missing for two years took a horrific turn when a powerful house explosion killed her husband and his two young ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286228/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:00:29 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286228/ Rescue workers struggled to reach dozens of survivors trapped in the rubble of a factory that collapsed in Lahore yesterday, killing at least nine ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286229/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:00:24 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286229/ "There are rockets raining down on many neighbourhoods and bodies buried under rubble. It's absolutely impossible to go out - Homs is surrounded and besieged. Snipers on the rooftops are ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286230/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:00:18 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286230/ One of Wall Street's most powerful figures has become the first major business leader to join a national campaign in support of same-sex ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286231/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:00:12 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286231/ Known for his commentary on international relations and US politics, Rupert Cornwell also contributes obituaries and occasionally even a column for the sports pages. With The Independent since its ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286232/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:00:06 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286232/ His campaign is stretched so thin he sometimes sleeps in supporters' spare rooms and even taps them for a lift to his own rallies. But Rick Santorum, one of the remaining contenders for the ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286233/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:59:59 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286233/ Barack Obama, according to a new poll from The Washington Post/ABC News, is getting better marks on several fronts even if the mood of voters remains sour when it comes to the economy. Notably, in a ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286234/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:59:52 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286234/ No place is this more apparent than the Blue Dog Coalition, a faction of centrist, fiscally conservative House Democrats whose ranks have been decimated by the 2010 Tea Party wave, a crop of recent ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286237/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:59:46 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286237/ Emil Boc made a televised speech saying that he had decided to step down in order "to release the tension in the country's political and social situation".Mr Boc, who has been Prime ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286235/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:59:45 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286235/ In an article for the respected daily newspaper Kommersant, the Prime Minister wrote that Russia hadbecome wealthier and more orderly over the past decade. He admitted, however, that this process ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286236/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:59:39 -0500 The Independent http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286236/ In a clear signal that little progress has been made to reach a deal despite weeks of bipartisan negotiations, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said on Monday that he will prepare a ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286242/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:58:48 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286242/ ROME - Catholic clergy must report paedophile priests to police, a top Vatican official told the Holy See’s first conference on the sex abuse crisis on Monday, but victims’ groups ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286278/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:58:08 -0500 C News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286278/ U.S. President Barack Obama discusses about the economy at Fire Station Number Five in Arlington, Va., February 3, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama - bolstered by a ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286279/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:58:05 -0500 C News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286279/ Play video WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Republican contests are coming fast and furious this month, with three taking place across the country Tuesday. Mitt Romney is polling 15 points ahead of ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286280/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:58:02 -0500 C News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286280/ Two American brothers of a Mexican casino magnate who fled drug and fraud charges in the United States and has been seeking a pardon enabling him to return have emerged as major fund-raisers and ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286261/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:57:15 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286261/ ROME - Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church began a four-day symposium on Monday about the prevention of sexual abuse of minors by the clergy, an unprecedented assembly described by the Vatican as a ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286257/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:54:39 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286257/ The bureau began implementing the change the day after the Jan. 23 ruling in which the court found that attaching such a device to a car amounted to a search covered by the Fourth Amendment, ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286240/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:52:41 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286240/ "I have not seen anything like this in 50 or 60 years," said Adele Zanzero, an 87-year-old retired fruit vendor, who was born in Rome. "When I was a young girl we had snow storms, but the city moved ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286238/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:47:13 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286238/ LAHORE, Pakistan - Long unchallenged, Pakistan's top spy agency faces a flurry of court actions that subject its darkest operations to unusual scrutiny, amid growing calls for new restrictions on ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286258/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:47:10 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286258/ As part of a crackdown on rampant painkiller abuse in Florida, the Drug Enforcement Administration charged a major health care company and the two CVS pharmacies in Sanford, Fla., with violating ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286243/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:46:10 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286243/ New Zealand has renewed its calls for the United Nations to try to put a stop to the Syrian crisis. Violence has escalated in Syria in recent days, as protesters continue to fight against the Syrian ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286277/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:40:13 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286277/ That would seem a small victory to celebrate ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286239/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:36:46 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286239/ After paying $16 to file a one-page claim to an empty, $340,000 ($407,000 NZD) home in an upscale Dallas suburb, Kenneth Robinson moved in furniture, hung a "No Trespassing" sign in the front window ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286276/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:34:12 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286276/ (CBS News) The situation in Syria is getting more dangerous by the hour. On Monday, the U.S. State Department closed its embassy in Damascus, saying it was vulnerable to attack. Ambassador Robert ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286246/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:28:43 -0500 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286246/ (CBS/AP) GRAHAM, Wash. - Authorities say Josh Powell planned the deadly house fire that killed him and his young sons for some time, dropping toys at charities and sending final emails to multiple ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286249/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:28:39 -0500 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286249/ (MoneyWatch) Now that Super Bowl ads have become as closely watched as the action on the field, a new crop of analysts has sprung up: The Monday Morning Mad Men. Around the water cooler they submit ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286248/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:28:34 -0500 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286248/ (Credit: istockphoto) (AP) "How are you?" the doctor asks a patient with brewing dementia. The patient answers that she is fine. But is this enough? According to Dr. Laurel Coleman, a ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286247/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:28:28 -0500 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286247/ Head coach Tom Coughlin of the New York Giants argues a call with an official in the third quarter during Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium on Feb. 5, 2012 in Indianapolis. (Getty Images/Jeff ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286250/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:28:24 -0500 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286250/ New York Giants fans celebrate a touchdown as they watch the broadcast of the NFL football Super Bowl between the Giants and the New England Patriots, in a midtown Manhattan bar Sunday, Feb. 5, ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286251/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:28:18 -0500 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286251/ (Credit: istockphoto) (CBS) Is green tea the elixir of immortality? The brew has long been thought to have health benefits ranging from improving mental alertness to treating stomach disorders to ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286252/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:28:12 -0500 CBS News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286252/ Gunmen have attacked a police station with explosives and automatic weapons in Kano, Nigeria's second most populated city, and blasts hit Maiduguri, the base of a radical Islamist group. A ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286283/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:21:50 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286283/ Gunmen have killed five Libyan refugees at a camp in a Tripoli suburb, residents and hospital sources said. The attackers came to the gate of the makeshift settlement in a disused naval academy in ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286282/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:21:45 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286282/ Police strikers occupying the state legislature in the Brazilian city of Salvador have vowed to resist if troops try to flush them out amid a tense standoff between the security forces. More than ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286284/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:21:39 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286284/ Mihai Razvan Ungueranu, the head of Romania's foreign intelligence service, has been asked to form the country's new government. President Traian Basescu nominated Ungueranu after Emil ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286285/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:21:35 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286285/ There should be a term in German that describes the sinking feeling you have when reading a serious book of scholarship, one whose determined author deserves praise and tenure, that no civilian ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286259/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:09:22 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286259/ Joy Reidenberg's trip from Dublin to New York in January 2009 was without a doubt the most embarrassing flight of her life. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286260/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:07:45 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286260/ Let's face it: Those dreaded airline fees are now as much a part of the traveling experience as long security lines. But that does not necessarily mean that passengers always have to pay them. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286255/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:07:15 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286255/ The bill passed the Senate 75-20, despite labor opposition to a deal cut between the Democratic-controlled Senate and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on rules governing union ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286241/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:06:21 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286241/ Legislators in three states ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286245/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:30:32 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286245/ Expats who took part in a Waitangi Day pub crawl around London have rubbished claims their drunken behaviour was vulgar and embarrassing. Even the Prime Minister has weighed in on the debate - ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286275/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:20:35 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286275/ Ban called the mounting death toll, and especially the continued artillery shelling of civilian area in the city of Homs, "totally unacceptable before humanity," his spokesman Martin Nesirky said. ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286244/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:13:02 -0500 USA Today http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286244/ The spot is supposed to be encouraging, as it focuses on the resilience of Detroit. "It's halftime. Both teams are in their locker room discussing what they can do to win this game in the ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280866/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:56:26 -0500 Weekly Standard http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280866/ in danger of losing already earned pension benefits if a proposed IRS rule goes into effect this June. The public comment period on the regulation ends today, with no word from the agency regarding ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280867/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:56:24 -0500 Weekly Standard http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280867/