Dublin needs aid, minister admits

Dublin needs aid, minister admits


Dublin needs aid, minister admits

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:52 PM PST

The Irish Republic's Finance Minister says the country has nothing to be ashamed of on policy - but it now needs help.


GM automaker makes market return

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:36 PM PST

US government's role as majority shareholder ends as car manufacturer raises $20.1bn from markets.


Russia wonders why U.S. would stop START

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:42 PM PST

MOSCOW - Russians are mystified. They can't quite believe the U.S. Senate might fail to ratify the nuclear arms treaty, and they see no good from such an outcome.


Man shot in legs in city attack

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:40 PM PST

Police are appealing for information after a 25-year-old man has been shot in both legs in a suspected paramilitary style attack.


NY congressman 'must be censured'

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:32 PM PST

New York congressman Charles Rangel should be censured for ethics violations, the top lawyer for the US House ethics panel says.


Hariri murder indictments "in months": U.N. envoy

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:34 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior U.N. official said on Thursday he expected a court probing the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri to issue indictments "in the coming months."


Madagascar plot stokes pressure on Rajoelin

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:35 PM PST

ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - An attempt by a handful of dissident troops to take over the government of Madagascar appeared to be foundering on Thursday but their rebellion increased pressure on President Andry Rajoelina to step down.


Anti-UN protests erupt in Haitian capital

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:10 PM PST

Like cholera itself, Haiti's protests against the United Nations spread to the capital, Port-au-Prince, as angry people took to the streets on Thursday, demanding the global body get out of their country.


Donald Trump eyes US presidency

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:58 AM PST

Property tycoon Donald Trump says he is considering running for US president as a Republican in 2012, in an interview with ABC News.


Probe flew by 'snow globe comet'

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:44 AM PST

Analysis of the data gathered by the Deep Impact probe at Comet Hartley reveals the object was surrounded by a cloud of ice chunks and fluffy snow particles.


Target, Afghani Hero Dog, Is Euthanized by Mistake in U.S.

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:20 PM PST

Target survived a suicide bombing, but after escaping from his adoptive family in Arizona, a shelter mistakenly administered a lethal injection.


Despite friendly rhetoric, suspicion abounds between Afghan and U.S. troops

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:25 AM PST

MAQUR, AFGHANISTAN- They stood at attention in the gravel lot under a bright autumn sun, 22 Afghan police officers in matching bulletproof vests. All wore helmets, chin straps fastened, as they clutched their rifles to their chests with both hands.



On Baseball: Hernandez Captures Cy Young With 13 Wins

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:58 AM PST

Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners had the fewest victories ever by a Cy Young Award-winning starter in a full season.


Cholera unrest hits Haiti capital

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:44 PM PST

Police fire tear gas into a camp for displaced people as riots accusing UN troops of bringing cholera turn violent.


Holyrood 'loses tax varing power'

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:06 PM PST

The Scottish Government has lost its tax varying powers for the next three years, it is announced.


First planet found from outside Milky Way

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:03 AM PST

Astronomers claim to have discovered the first planet originating from outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way.


Cholera 'set to spread' in Haiti

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:11 AM PST

Haiti's cholera epidemic is unpredictable and the quake-devastated country is vulnerable to further outbreaks, warn US health experts.


Afghan Soviet-era helicopters fly again

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 09:27 AM PST

Newsnight's Diplomatic editor Mark Urban has been to Afghanistan to see troop development first hand, including a return to the helicopters, and pilots, of the Soviet-era.


Cholera protesters in Haiti capital stone U.N. patrol

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:04 AM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Several hundred protesters stoned a U.N. patrol and yelled anti-U.N. slogans in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince on Thursday as anger spread over a cholera epidemic that is killing dozens of people every day.


G.O.P. Senators Seem Unlikely to Support Treaty Vote

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:50 AM PST

President Obama escalated the pressure on the Senate to approve a new arms control treaty with Russia before the end of the year.


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