Aid reaches new area of Haiti

Aid reaches new area of Haiti

Aid reaches new area of Haiti

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 12:02 AM PST

Christian Fraser spent the day with workers from one charity as they ventured into a new area of Haiti for the first time.


China says it needs no Internet lessons from U.S.

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 12:41 AM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - China needs no lessons about its Internet from the United States, the head of an online media association said through official media on Saturday after the United States rapped Beijing over information freedom.


UK terror threat level 'severe'

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 12:20 AM PST

The risk of a terrorist attack on Britain has been raised to 'severe', the second highest level on the five-point scale.


Haitians to mourn Catholic leader killed in quake

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 12:11 AM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - After more than a week of searching for trapped survivors, Haiti prepared on Saturday to mourn its dead amid signs that daily life in the earthquake-shattered country is beginning to resume.


FACTBOX - Britain's threat level history

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 12:11 AM PST

Britain on Friday raised the threat level to 'severe' – its second highest level of terror alert.


China, U.S. spar over Internet censorship

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 10:12 PM PST

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - China hit back at U.S. criticism of Internet censorship and hacking on Friday, warning that relations between the two global heavyweights were being hurt by a feud centered on web giant Google.


Britain raises terror threat level to "severe"

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 09:40 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain raised its terrorism threat level to 'severe' -- the second highest level -- on Friday, days before London hosts major international meetings on how to deal with militancy in Afghanistan and Yemen.


Stars perform, plead for help at telethon for Haiti

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 09:40 PM PST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of the biggest names in film and music sang in somber tones and urged the world to donate to earthquake-stricken Haiti on Friday at a benefit led by actor George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean.


Arrests over synagogue arson in Crete

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 07:21 PM PST

Two British men have been arrested in connection with arson attacks on a medieval synagogue on the Greek island of Crete.


New face of recognition software

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 07:13 PM PST

A Japanese company that specialises in face recognition technology has claimed the need for security passwords and identity swipe cards may soon become a thing of the past.


Haitians clamour for food as two more rescued alive

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 08:23 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled two barely alive survivors from the rubble of Port-au-Prince on Friday as hungry and homeless Haitians clamoured for food, which was slow in arriving 10 days after the massive earthquake.


Prosecutors to quiz Japan ruling party 'don' - media

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 06:49 PM PST

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese ruling Democratic Party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa was set on Saturday to undergo questioning by prosecutors over a funding scandal that is dimming the party's prospects in a mid-year election, Japanese media reported.


Hamas won't compromise despite "temptation" - Meshaal

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 06:21 PM PST

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Hamas will not recognise Israel despite new pressures on the group and will give priority to building resistance to the Jewish state, the Islamist group's leader Khaled Meshaal said on Friday.


Two sentenced in N.Y. in Tamil missile-buying case

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 05:47 PM PST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two Canadian men who pleaded guilty in a plot to acquire anti-aircraft missiles and other military equipment for the Tamil Tigers rebel group in Sri Lanka were sentenced on Friday to 26 and 14 years in prison.


Britain raises terror threat level to "severe"

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:19 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain raised its international terrorism threat level to 'severe' -- its second highest level of terror alert -- from 'substantial' on Friday, Home Secretary (interior minister) Alan Johnson said.


Haitians clamor for food as two more rescued alive

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:19 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled two barely alive survivors from the rubble of Port-au-Prince on Friday as hungry and homeless Haitians clamored for food, which was slow in arriving 10 days after the massive earthquake.


Britain raises terror threat level to "severe"

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 02:21 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain raised its international terrorism threat level to 'severe' -- its second highest level of terror alert -- from 'substantial' on Friday, Home Secretary (interior minister) Alan Johnson said.


Feisty Obama: "I won't stop fighting for you"

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 02:21 PM PST

ELYRIA, Ohio (Reuters) - President Barack Obama rejected criticism that he has spent too little time trying to generate jobs and defended his focus on healthcare in a speech that showed a feisty tone at the end of a tough week.


Woman, 84, rescued alive 10 days after Haiti quake

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 02:21 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - An 84-year-old woman was pulled alive by rescuers from under a wrecked building in Port-au-Prince on Friday, 10 days after the earthquake that devastated much of the Haitian capital, the doctor who treated her said.


China, U.S. spar over Internet censorship

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 02:21 PM PST

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - China hit back at U.S. criticism of Internet censorship and hacking on Friday, warning that relations between the two global heavyweights were being hurt by a feud centered on web giant Google.


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