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Posted: 10 Feb 2011 11:00 PM PST

AP - Pakistani police say probe into shootings by American finds he did not act in self defense.


U.S. shooter in Pakistan held for 14 more days: court (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 09:59 PM PST

Reuters - A Pakistani court sent a U.S. national, accused of killing two Pakistani men during what he said was an attempted robbery, to jail for 14 more days on Friday, further dragging out a diplomatic row between the troubled allies.


Fury in Egypt as Mubarak clings to power (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 10:23 PM PST

Egyptian anti-government demonstrators wave their national flag in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Furious Egyptian demonstrators vowed to launch their most spectacular protest yet in Cairo on Friday after President Hosni Mubarak wrong-footed global expectations by refusing to quit office.(AFP/Mohammed Abed)AFP - Furious Egyptian demonstrators vowed to launch their most spectacular protest yet in Cairo on Friday after President Hosni Mubarak wrong-footed global expectations by refusing to quit office.

Pakistan remands US official in jail for 14 days (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 10:22 PM PST

Pakistani activists from the hardline Jamaat-i-Islami party scuffle with policemen as they try to march on the US embassy in Islamabad. The US government says Pakistan is holding one of its embassy employees unlawfully and demands his immediate release, saying that Davis is a AFP - Pakistan on Friday sent a US official to jail on judicial remand, pending further murder investigations and a legal tussle over diplomatic immunity in a case that has inflamed ties with Washington.

U.S. shooter in Pakistan held for 14 more days: court

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 10:36 PM PST

LAHORE (Reuters) - A Pakistani court sent a U.S. national, accused of killing two Pakistani men during what he said was an attempted robbery, to jail for 14 more days on Friday, further dragging out a diplomatic row between the troubled allies.

Online campaign spurs China kidnap crackdown (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 09:48 PM PST

Peng Wenle, who had been missing for three years after being kidnapped, is seen being held by his grandparents after arriving at home in Shenzhen, on February 10. A Chinese microblog that helps parents find missing children has become a sensation, shining a light on child abductions and the growing power of Twitter-like Internet services in the country.(AFP/File)AFP - China's government has ordered a renewed crackdown on child abductions after an online effort to reunite parents with their lost children spotlighted the festering problem.

Mexican court upholds French woman's conviction (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 09:13 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2005 file photo, French citizen Florence Cassez is shown to the press during a police reenactment for the media of her actual arrest the day before on the outskirts of Mexico City. An appeals court on Thursday Feb. 10, 2011 upheld her conviction and 60-year-sentence for kidnapping. (AP Photo, File)AP - An appeals court on Thursday upheld the conviction of a French woman imprisoned in Mexico for kidnapping, a case that has ignited passions in both Mexico and France and caused friction between the two governments.

Gunmen kill 8 in violent north Mexico border city (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 09:36 PM PST

This undated photo released on Monday Feb. 7, 2011 by the Cathedral High School in El Paso, Texas, shows Juan Carlos Echeverri, 15, a former student at Cathedral High School. Echeverri and another student from from the same school, both U.S. citizens, along with another Mexican teenager were killed by unknown gunmen on Saturday Feb. 5, 2011 outside of a car dealership across the border in the city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Cathedral High School)AP - Gunmen barged into a bar in the battered border city of Ciudad Juarez and opened fire late Thursday, killing seven women and one man, authorities said.

US man ordered held 14 more days in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 09:22 PM PST

AP - A prosecutor says a Pakistani judge has ordered that an American man detained in a pair of shooting deaths remain in custody for 14 more days.


Aussie PM tunes out call for new anthem (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 09:10 PM PST

Prime Minister Julia Gillard rejected a fresh call to ditch the national anthem, AFP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard rejected a fresh call to ditch the national anthem, "Advance Australia Fair", in favour of the more uplifting "I Am Australian".

Cairo's Tahrir reacts in anger

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 07:50 PM PST

Protesters reacted furiously to Mubarak's speech, saying they would keep up their struggle.


Duke + Progress = Big Coal, Big Nuclear

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 08:56 PM PST

As electricity use in the U.S. slows, 2 companies come together in search of efficiency.


Iranian opposition leader under house arrest (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 08:51 PM PST

AP - Authorities placed one of Iran's opposition leaders under house arrest Thursday, posting security officers at his door and detaining one of his aides, in response to his calls for a rally in support of anti-government demonstrations in Egypt, his website said.


How to Succeed With Today's Empowered Customers

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 08:33 PM PST

You can't succeed in your new startup if you can't win customers, and the new Internet-empowered cus


VIDEO: Mandela recovering well, says daughter

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 07:59 PM PST

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is recovering well from a recent health scare, according to his daughter Zindzi Mandela Hlongwane.


The Great British Corporate Tax Giveaway

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 08:24 PM PST

For five months now, ordinary British citizens have been protesting tax dodging by British multinati


Lessons From A Beauty Entrepreneur

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 07:24 PM PST

Dermalogica Founder on creating and growing a skincare empire.


VIDEO: Mandela recovering well, says daughter

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 07:59 PM PST

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is recovering well from a recent health scare, according to his daughter Zindzi Mandela Hlongwane.


Rights group says China activist beaten over video (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 07:58 PM PST

AP - A Chinese activist lawyer and his wife have been beaten by police and state security officials for making a secret video that shows their life under strict house arrest, a rights group said Friday.


Martin Freeman rejects talk of Hobbit 'curse' (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 07:18 PM PST

Actor Martin Freeman dismissed suggestions that Peter Jackson's AFP - Actor Martin Freeman dismissed suggestions that Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" project is jinxed, even as the Oscar-winning director missed its publicity launch due to ill health.
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