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Thai protesters hurl own blood at PM's house after targeting government headquarters

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:16:51 +0000

BANGKOK, Thailand - Red-shirted protesters hurled plastic bags filled with gallons (litres) of their own blood into the residential compound of the Thai prime minister Wednesday, hoping their shock ta...

Police reforms launched in southwestern China city following massive corruption scandal

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:03:21 +0000

BEIJING - Major reforms are planned for police in China's southwestern city of Chongqing, where the former police chief was arrested on bribery charges in a crackdown on widespread corruption and orga...

Australian coroner: 3 asylum seekers set fire to boat that blew up in Indian Ocean last year

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:03:20 +0000

DARWIN, Australia - Three Afghan asylum seekers set fire to their boat in a deliberate act of sabotage last year, causing an explosion that killed five people, an Australian coroner ruled Wednesday. ...

Fiji cyclone damage is overwhelming, prime minister says as troops start relief operations

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:44:48 +0000

SUVA, Fiji - The South Pacific island nation of Fiji has suffered overwhelming damage from a powerful cyclone that battered its shores for more than three days, the prime minister said Wednesday as re...

Local officials fired after electrical fire at central China coal mine leaves 25 dead

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:37:35 +0000

BEIJING - Seven local officials were fired following a fire at a central China coal mine that left 25 dead, highlighting the country's enduring problems with worker safety as its demand for energy con...

Thai protesters to pour own blood at PM's house after targeting government headquarters

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:07:40 +0000

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai protesters seeking a change of government planned more shock tactics Wednesday, saying they would pour gallons (litres) of their own blood at the prime minister's house in an ...

Fiji cyclone damage is overwhelming, leader says as troops start relief operations

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:34:41 +0000

Teen dad of Sarah Palin's grandson ordered to pay $1,750 per month in interim child support

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:42:09 +0000

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The teen father of Sarah Palin's grandson has been ordered to make interim child support payments of $1,750 per month to Palin's daughter. The amount is 20 per cent of 19-year-o...

Hearing set in lesbian teen's lawsuit to force Mississippi school district to hold prom

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:42:11 +0000

JACKSON, Miss. - School officials in a rural Mississippi county told a lesbian student to get "guys" to take her and her girlfriend to a high school prom and warned the girls against slow dancing with...

US official: Virtually all US forces in Afghanistan coming under NATO command

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:15:40 +0000

BRUSSELS, Belgium - A major reorganization of allied forces in Afghanistan will centralize both American and other foreign troops under the direct command of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the senior U.S. a...

Homeland security chief to freeze funds for expanding virtual fence beyond segments in US

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:15:44 +0000

PHOENIX - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that she will freeze funds for expanding the virtual fence that originally was supposed to monitor most of the 2,000-mile (3,200-kil...

Sex scandal hits Brazilian Catholic church after TV broadcasts priest, altar boy having sex

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:15:46 +0000

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Brazilian authorities are investigating three priests accused of sexually abusing altar boys after a video allegedly showing one case of abuse was broadcast on television, pol...

Fiji declares state of emergency after powerful cyclone lashes northern island groups

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:15:37 +0000

SUVA, Fiji - Australian and New Zealand air force planes began airlifting emergency supplies Wednesday to cyclone-battered Fiji, where a state of emergency has been declared and troops ordered to laun...

UN assessor says Haiti needs $11.5 billion to rebuild from earthquake, attack inequities

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:15:41 +0000

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - The U.N. regional assessor for natural disasters says Haiti needs $11.5 billion over three years to rebuild and transform the hemisphere's poorest nation after its ...

Death against all odds: Plane lands on beach, killing jogger who never knew what hit him

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:15:45 +0000

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - Robert Gary Jones was a pharmaceutical salesman on a business trip, looking forward to getting home to celebrate his daughter's third birthday. He was enjoying a moment to h...