UK Lib Dems face popularity slump as party meets

UK Lib Dems face popularity slump as party meets


UK Lib Dems face popularity slump as party meets

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 01:01 AM PDT

LONDON, Sept 18 — Liberal Democrat leaders and activists meet in Liverpool this weekend with their poll rating in freefall since joining a coalition government set on slashing spending and sacking thousands of public sector workers. The centrist party has seen its popularity slump since agreeing to join the larger Conservatives in government after ...


Security, rain dampen China protests against Japan

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 01:19 AM PDT

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - About a hundred Chinese protesters on Saturday demanded Japan free a Chinese boat captain, but tight security and rain deterred a bigger show of anger over an issue that has ratcheted up territorial tensions.


Abdullah all for 1Malaysia test

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 12:53 AM PDT

Former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has supported a proposal that those aspiring to positions of authority undergo the '1Malaysia test.'

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Women 'marry' women in Tanzania tribal custom

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 12:33 AM PDT

TARIME, Saturday 18 September 2010 (AFP) -- Fifteen years after her husband died, Ana Mwita, greying and wrinkled, ventured once more into matrimony, this time with a young woman as per an old tradition among Tanzania's Kurya people.

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Race on to find Bosnian war victims in 'mass grave' lake

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 12:31 AM PDT

VISEGRAD, Saturday 18 September 2010 (AFP) -- Battling constant rain, a forensics team races against time to find the remains of Muslim victims of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war in the bed of an emptied lake.

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Thai 'Reds' head north for coup, crackdown rallies

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 12:29 AM PDT

BANGKOK, Saturday 18 September 2010 (AFP) -- A convoy of Thai "Red Shirts" headed to their northern heartland Saturday for rallies marking four years since the coup that ousted Thaksin Shinawatra and four months since deadly protests ended.

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N.Korea may have hit succession snag: report

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 12:28 AM PDT

SEOUL, Saturday 18 September 2010 (AFP) -- North Korea may have hit a snag in its move to annoint Kim Jong-Il's youngest son as successor, being forced to delay a key party conference, a government source in Seoul was quoted as saying Saturday.

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Japan press welcomes cabinet but warns on yen, China

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 12:27 AM PDT

TOKYO, Saturday 18 September 2010 (AFP) -- Japanese newspapers broadly welcomed Prime Minister Naoto Kan's new cabinet Saturday but warned ministers had to work hard to tame a booming yen and put a lid on a damaging territorial row with China.

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Protesters stage anti-Japan rallies in China

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 12:26 AM PDT

BEIJING, Saturday 18 September 2010 (AFP) -- Waving banners and chanting anti-Japanese slogans, protesters staged rallies in China Saturday to voice anger over the arrest of a Chinese trawler captain which has sparked a major diplomatic row.

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British star arrested after scuffle at LA airport

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 12:24 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES, Saturday 18 September 2010 (AFP) -- British comedian-turned Hollywood star Russell Brand was arrested after allegedly attacking a photographer at Los Angeles airport, police said.

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Cambodia jails monk for filming naked women

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 12:24 AM PDT

PHNOM PENH, Saturday 18 September 2010 (AFP) -- A Cambodian Buddhist monk has been jailed after secretly filming hundreds of women as they bathed naked with holy water at a temple, a judge said Saturday.

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Remand for murder suspects extended to Sept 25

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 12:22 AM PDT

Police have obtained a court order to remand for another week until Sept 25 three of the eight suspects in the murder of a cosmetics queen and three other people in Ladang Gadong near Banting, Selangor.

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Taib break silence to dismiss allegations

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 12:22 AM PDT

Former Umno Information Chief Tan Sri Muhammad Muhamad Taib has broken more than a year's silence to dismiss allegations that he was sulking or disappointed for not holding any important position in Umno or the government.

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Sanctions have no effect on Iran: Ahmadinejad

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 12:21 AM PDT

TEHRAN, Saturday 18 September 2010 (Bernama) -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Friday night that he is not worried about economic sanctions, stressing that Iran's economic position will still rise despite the sanctions, Iran's IRNA news agency reported Saturday.

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Work for food

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 09:36 PM PDT

Norma Lopez pushes a cart full of groceries out of the World Harvest food bank in Los Angeles, California.

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Principles and concepts drawn from Dr James Dobson's books and statements through the years

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 09:30 PM PDT

Listed below are the quotations from the writings of Dr James Dobson that best reflect his perspective on various aspects of family like.

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Rockets, attacks strike as Afghan poll opens

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 11:21 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - A string of attacks hit Afghanistan's parliamentary election on Saturday, after the Taliban vowed to disrupt a poll that is a crucial test for the credibility of the government and security forces.


Palin in Iowa - testing 2012 presidential waters?

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 11:21 PM PDT

DES MOINES (Reuters) - Sarah Palin fed speculation that she might run for president in 2012 on Friday with a high-profile visit to Iowa and a call for unity between battling factions of Republicans ahead of Nov. 2 congressional elections.


Security, rain dampen Chinese protests against Japan

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 10:01 PM PDT

BEIJING, Sept 18 — About 100 Chinese protesters today demanded Japan free a Chinese boat captain, but tight security and rain deterred a bigger show of anger over an issue that has ratcheted up territorial tensions between the Asian powers. Under a steady downpour, the protesters, mostly in their 20s gathered in front of the Japanese embassy in ...


First rescue drill reaches trapped Chile miners

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 10:00 PM PDT

COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) - The first of three rescue drills on Friday reached 33 Chilean miners trapped for six weeks half a mile (0.70 kilometre) underground, but it will still take weeks to widen the shaft enough to extract the men.


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