Militants destroy 2 NATO tankers in NW Pakistan (AP)

Militants destroy 2 NATO tankers in NW Pakistan (AP)

Militants destroy 2 NATO tankers in NW Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 11:03 PM PST

President Barack Obama walks off the podium in front of Vice President Joe Biden after delivering a statement on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Annual Review in the White House Briefing Room in Washington, December 16, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueAP - A Pakistani government official says militants have fired rockets at a NATO convoy carrying supplies to Afghanistan, destroying two oil tankers and wounding two people.

Australia swaps summer for Christmas snow (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:58 PM PST

Snow and ice covering buildings and cars on December 19, 2010 at Mount Hotham,Victoria, as snow fell in Australia. The usual hot and summery December weather was replaced in parts by icy gusts sweeping up from the Southern Ocean, giving the country a taste of a white Christmas. Snow has fallen in parts of east coast states New South Wales and Victoria.(AFP/Gina Woodward)AFP - Snow fell in Australia on Monday, as the usual hot and summery December weather was replaced in parts by icy gusts sweeping up from the Southern Ocean, giving the country a taste of a white Christmas.

WikiLeaks: Yemen nuclear material was unsecured (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:52 PM PST

AP - A storage facility housing Yemen's radioactive material was unsecured for up to a week after its lone guard was removed and its surveillance camera was broken, a secret U.S. State Department cable released by WikiLeaks revealed Monday.


48 believed dead in Australia refugee boat disaster (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:27 PM PST

A TV grab from footage provided by Australia's Channel 7 shows people floating amid and hanging onto the splintered remains of the wooden boat carrying refugees travelling from Asia.(AFP/Channel 7/HO/Channel 7)AFP - Australia on Monday called off the search for bodies from last week's horrific asylum-seeker shipwreck, as the prime minister said about 48 people had died and warned the exact toll may never be known.

White Christmas snow brings Britain to a standstill (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:38 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Christmas cheer was in short supply at Britain’s largest airport Sunday, where thousands of passengers had huddled overnight after snow and ice brought Heathrow to a virtual standstill.


Yeonpyeong Islanders flee in advance of South Korea's expected live-fire drills (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:06 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - On the eve of South Korean live-fire drills that North Korea vows to answer with "merciless strikes," desperate Yeonpyeong Islanders are fleeing their homes for the second time in a month. Some stopped at a local church to make one final prayer for their hometown before boarding a boat for mainland South Korea.


S Korea conducts live-fire drills

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:02 PM PST

Seoul goes ahead with military drills despite UN worries and threats from the North.


Authorities: Up to 48 dead in Christmas Island shipwreck

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:52 PM PST

Australian authorities on Monday raised the death toll of asylum-seekers killed last week in a shipwreck on Christmas Island to 48, possibly more than half of the passengers on the boat.

South Korea starts live-fire drill

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:00 PM PST

South Korea's planned live-fire military exercises started Monday, its ministry of defense says, a move the North threatened could ignite a war. Island residents flee | What's behind Koreas tensions? |

Online Holiday Retail Spend Up 12% Through Dec. 17

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:47 PM PST

Holiday online retail spending for the 47 days of the shopping season through December 17 totaled $2


Belarus president re-elected

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:54 PM PST

Amid violent protests and cries of corruption, Alexander Lukashenko wins fourth term in office.


Taxpayers Got a Big Christmas Present Yesterday, but It Wasn't the Tax Bill

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 08:42 PM PST

There?s a lot of attention being paid to yesterday?s landslide vote in the House to prev


Pub tale highlights Britain's new community ethos (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:01 PM PST

In this Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 picture, customers laugh as they wait to post letters in the Raven Inn pub in Llanarmon-yn-Ial, Wales. Britain may be in the grip of a nasty cold snap, but it's business as usual at The Raven Inn. The workers have a strong stake in keeping the pub going come rain, shine, sleet, or snow: They're all local volunteers who bought the license to run the inn after it closed at the height of Britain's credit crunch.The 290-year-old Raven Inn is the only watering hole in this tiny Welsh village nestled in the Clwydian Hills. That makes it the heart-and-soul of the community, the place where news is shared, joys celebrated, losses commiserated. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - Bundled up against the cold, Dave Willis and wife Sue shovel snow from the pathway to The Raven Inn. Wendy Holifield carries out the sandwich board and plants it by the pub's stone wall. Inside, Jim Pilkington stokes the fire and checks the beer taps are in order.

Kate Middleton's 'commoner' status stirs up Britons' old class divide

Posted: 18 Dec 2010 09:45 PM PST

LONDON - Since the royal engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton, one word describing the bride-to-be has stood out more than any other. She may be beautiful, graceful and fabulously rich, but Middleton is still a "commoner."


N. Korea agrees to return of UN nuclear inspectors: CNN (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 08:30 PM PST

<p/>(AFP)AFP - North Korea has agreed with US troubleshooter Bill Richardson to permit the return of UN nuclear inspectors as part of a package of measures to ease tensions on the peninsula, CNN reported Monday.

Oil blast causes inferno in Mexican town, 28 dead (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 07:45 PM PST

A vehicle leaves the area of an explosion of a Pemex pipeline in the village of San Martin Texmelucan near Puebla December 19, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Fuel thieves tampering with an oil pipeline may have sparked a deadly explosion that turned streets of a Mexican town into an inferno that killed 28 people on Sunday, officials said.

Mexican city devastated by pipeline blast; 28 die (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 07:56 PM PST

Soldiers remove household gas tanks that survived the fires and explosions after an oil pipeline exploded in San Martin Texmelucan, Mexico, Sunday Dec. 19, 2010. An oil pipeline operated by Mexico's state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, exploded early Sunday when thieves were attempting to steal oil, killing at least 27 people, injuring at least 52 people and scorching more than 115 homes, authorities said. (AP Photo/Rodolfo Perez)AP - A massive oil pipeline explosion lay waste to parts of a central Mexican city Sunday, incinerating people, cars, houses and trees as gushing crude turned streets into flaming rivers. At least 28 people were killed, 13 of them children, in a disaster authorities blamed on oil thieves.

Philippines defends error-filled peso notes (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 08:10 PM PST

Philippine President Benigno Aquino (C), Governor and Monetary Board Chairman Amando Tetangco Jr (L), and National Treasurer Roberto Tan display the new 500 peso notes last week. The Philippines on Monday defended its new peso notes, mocked by critics for featuring error-strewn maps of the country and apparently inventing a new species of parrot.(AFP/Benhur Arcayan)AFP - The Philippines on Monday defended its new peso notes, mocked by critics for featuring error-strewn maps of the country and apparently inventing a new species of parrot.

Random breath test yields 43 pounds of ecstasy (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 08:03 PM PST

AP - Police discovered 43 pounds (19.5 kilograms) of the illegal drug ecstasy during a search of a van after it was stopped to give the driver a random breath test.


Ivory Coast leader in defiant mood

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 07:43 PM PST

Ivory Coast's president is refusing to accept he lost the recent election and is calling for French and UN soldiers to leave his country.


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