China overtakes Germany as biggest exporter (AP)

China overtakes Germany as biggest exporter (AP)

China overtakes Germany as biggest exporter (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 09:31 PM PST

AP - China has overtaken Germany as the world's biggest exporter after December exports rose 17.7 percent despite weak global demand.


Foreign actresses move centre-stage in Bollywood (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 09:30 PM PST

File photo of Mexican actress and model Barbara Mori, who is making her Bollywood debut in the upcoming film AFP - For years they performed as backstage dancers or had minor roles, but foreign actresses are moving centre-stage in India's Hindi-language film industry -- and becoming big names in their own right.

US promoting census participation

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 08:43 PM PST

The US is to hold a census which ill determine how much federal money should go to each state.


Venezuela to devalue currency

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 08:42 PM PST

Venezuela will devalue its currency, the bolivar, by at least 17% against the US dollar to boost oil revenues.


Convent school, fifth church attacked in Malaysia

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 08:57 PM PST

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Arsonists in Malaysia struck at a convent school and a fifth church on Sunday amid rising tensions between majority Muslims and Christians over the use of the word "Allah" to describe the Christian God.

US promoting census participation

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 08:43 PM PST

The US is to hold a census which ill determine how much federal money should go to each state.


Venezuela to devalue currency

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 08:42 PM PST

Venezuela will devalue its currency, the bolivar, by at least 17% against the US dollar to boost oil revenues.


Philippines enforces gun ban

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 08:57 PM PST

Security boosted ahead of elections in May after election related massacre of 57 people.


Autonomy vote in French exclaves

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 08:54 PM PST

Martinique and French Guiana vote on whether to seek more autonomy from France.


Afghans agree Bagram jail takeover

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 08:52 PM PST

Controversial US military prison could be handed over within months, officials say.


Families of disappeared accuse Moscow of dirty war (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 09:01 PM PST

AP - Aliskhan Pliyev was talking on his cell phone with his girlfriend one autumn afternoon when two dozen masked men in uniforms stormed into his family's house, grabbed him and began to hustle him away.


GIs return to their war zone and find it peaceful (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 09:01 PM PST

In this photo taken Dec. 18, 2009, U.S. Army Sgt. Benjamin Weber is seen at a Joint Security Station in Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, Iraq. Three years ago he was among soldiers fighting off a fierce insurgent attack on the post as the U.S. troop surge got under way. Now he is back at the old battleground, finishing up another tour of duty and finding Tarmiyah a much more peaceful place. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - Popcorn popping, thought Army Staff Sgt. Jason Fisher. That's the sound the bullets made as they hit the wall of the American outpost.

Salvaging corpses at a bend in the river (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 09:01 PM PST

In this photo taken Oct. 27, 2009, Maria Ines Mejia points to the Cauca River bank where she recovered several hundred bodies over more than a decade in Marsella, Colombia. Mejia's story highlights a daunting challenge for Colombia at a historic juncture: locating and identifying victims of a three-decade war that ripped the country apart. With murders sharply down and fears of retribution subsiding, thousands have come forward to chronicle killings and disappearances and lead authorities to common graves. Colombia's chief prosecutor's office has compiled a list of 26,564 Colombians murdered since in the mid-1980s by 714 confessed killers from illegal armed groups. (AP Photo/Frank Bajak)AP - At this bend in the Cauca River, an eddy urges debris ashore. The rocky bank is scattered with sticks, reeds and plastic bottles, and vultures pick at the sodden, shiny white carcass of a small dog.

Afghans losing hope after 8 years of war (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 09:01 PM PST

This Nov. 9, 2009 photo shows an Afghan man pushing a cart stacked with bags of flour through the Timor Shah market in Kabul, Afghanistan. Many in Afghanistan believe that the Islamic nation is at its bleakest since the U.S. invaded to topple the Taliban in 2001. It's a striking sentiment when you consider it comes after eight years of international intervention, $60 billion in foreign aid and the lives of thousands of foreign troops and Afghan civilians. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - The man on the motorcycle was going the wrong way down a one-way street, gesturing indignantly for the phalanx of traffic-clogged cars in front of him to move.

China urges US to halt arms sales to Taiwan (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 08:33 PM PST

AP - China has reiterated its opposition to American arms sales to Taiwan, calling them an interference in Beijing's internal affairs that could undermine relations with the United States.


Nicaraguan election tribunal stands for now: Ortega

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 07:50 PM PST

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega issued a decree on Saturday that could extend the terms of electoral officials supporting his controversial bid for re-election in 2011, a move the opposition says oversteps his powers.

Xe Services aiming for Afghan police training deal (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 07:59 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2004 file photo, signs welcome visitors to the private North Carolina-based security company Blackwater USA's headquartered near Moyock, N.C. Blackwater Worldwide's legal woes haven't dimmed the company's prospects in Afghanistan, where the firm is a contender to be a key part of President Barack Obama's strategy for stabilizing the country. (AP Photo/Karen Tam, File)AP - Blackwater Worldwide's legal woes haven't dimmed the company's prospects in Afghanistan, where it's a contender for an important role in the U.S. strategy for stabilizing the country.

Petraeus: U.S. won't put troops in Yemen

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 05:33 PM PST

The U.S. military does not intend to put ground troops in Yemen, a country where al Qaeda operatives have become an increasing threat, Gen. David Petraeus told CNN in an interview to be aired Sunday.

Winter of discontent for Berlin commuters (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 07:27 PM PST

People take part in a snowball fight in Berlin. Berliners kicking their heels in the snow after months of rail breakdowns have been told the city has decided to end rail operator Deutsche Bahn's monopoly over its urban train network.(DDP/AFP/Timur Emek)AFP - Berliners kicking their heels in the snow after months of rail breakdowns have been told the city has decided to end rail operator Deutsche Bahn's monopoly over its urban train network.

CIA boss defends agency after Afghan suicide blast (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 07:31 PM PST

CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed that a Jordanian doctor who killed seven agency operatives was about to be searched before he blew himself up at a US military base in Afghanistan.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Kevork Djansezian)AFP - CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed that a Jordanian doctor who killed seven agency operatives was about to be searched before he blew himself up at a US military base in Afghanistan.
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