Lodger charged over house deaths

Lodger charged over house deaths


Lodger charged over house deaths

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:52 PM PST

A lodger is charged with the murders of his landlady and her mother at their home in Merseyside.


Climate Negotiators Try to Salvage Accord

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:07 PM PST

Climate negotiators in South Africa sought to salvage an agreement that would keep them working toward a global pact to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions as talks dragged into an extra day.


Laureates Collect Nobel Peace Prize

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:17 AM PST

Three women who fought injustice, dictatorship and sexual violence in Liberia and Yemen accepted the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, calling on repressed women world-wide to rise up against male supremacy.


Police Contact Likely Phone-Hacking Victims

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:59 PM PST

British authorities said they have contacted all of the people who are likely to have fallen victim to phone hacking by News Corp.'s News of the World tabloid.


Salafis in Egypt Have More Than Just Religious Appeal

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:43 AM PST

For many poor Egyptians, the hard-line Salafis are an answer to condescending elites of all stripes, including the moderate Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.


Hockey’s History, Woven With Violence

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:36 PM PST

It is one of sport's biggest mysteries: how did hockey come to tolerate fighting?


U.S. Troops Could Stay in Afghanistan Past 2014, Ambassador Says

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:52 PM PST

The military presence might linger if the Americans are asked to help, the U.S. ambassador told reporters.


Libya leaders send UN new appeal to unfreeze funds

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:34 PM PST

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Senior figures in Libya's new leadership have written a letter to the United Nations asking it to release funds still frozen three months after the country's civil war ended, the central bank chief said on Saturday.


Libya army chief survives bid on his life

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:41 PM PST

Recently appointed head survives ambush, as government pledges to "forgive" pro-Gaddafi soldiers.


Serbia not to abandon EU bid

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:50 AM PST

Serbian foreign minister tells Al Jazeera an integrated Europe remains the key to reconciliation and avoiding conflict.


Reports of new killings in Syria

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:15 PM PST

Twelve people are reportedly killed in the latest clashes in Syria as fears grow of an offensive by government forces against the city of Homs.


Live - Real Madrid v Barcelona

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:42 AM PST

Spain's top two sides go head-to-head at the Bernabeu in a mouth-watering match between two teams packed with some of the world's best players.


Peru's Humala asked prime minister Lerner to resign

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 01:13 PM PST

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Ollanta Humala unexpectedly asked Prime Minister Salomon Lerner to quit to allow for a broader cabinet shuffle and create more unity in a diverse cabinet, a government source said on Saturday.


This Life: Act II for the Tooth Fairy — This Life

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 12:26 PM PST

For one father, routine biological events should not be rewarded with money. So how about a book?


Euro Crisis Pits Germany and U.S. in Tactical Fight

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:56 AM PST

At the heart of the clash over how best to manage a vast financial crisis is the question of how far governments must bend or even bow to the power of the markets.


Zimbabwe's octogenarian Mugabe says wrong to step down

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 10:43 AM PST

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's 87-year-old president Robert Mugabe on Saturday brushed aside calls to step down, telling supporters who endorsed him as candidate in the next presidential election that he would not quit as long as the West maintained sanctions on his party.


Liverpool 1-0 QPR

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 08:54 AM PST

Luis Suarez scores the only goal against QPR as a dominant Liverpool end their run of four successive home draws and climb to sixth in the Premier League.


News Analysis: Bigger Toolkit Needed to Manage Climate Change

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:40 PM PST

Effectively addressing climate change will require attention to energy production, transportation, agriculture, geopolitics and macroeconomics, matters beyond the purview of environmental officials.


Questions on Who Planned Afghan Blast

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:01 AM PST

The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan said he doubted a Pakistani anti-Shiite group's claim of responsibility for Tuesday's explosion outside a Kabul Shiite shrine, but said he believed the devastating attack was indeed planned on Pakistani soil.


Argentina's Kirchner Begins Second Term

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 10:47 AM PST

Argentina President Cristina Kirchner took the oath of office for a second term, offering a full-throated defense of the populist economic policies that have generated rapid growth while often putting the country at odds with the international financial community.


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