Parma beat Sampdoria in the fog

Parma beat Sampdoria in the fog

Parma beat Sampdoria in the fog

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:44 PM PST

Parma climb three places from the bottom of the table, while Sampdoria continue a string of non-scoring games.


Five years comatose, Israel's Sharon moves home (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:58 PM PST

Reuters - Israel's comatose former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was moved back to his desert ranch on Friday, leaving the secure hospital ward that had been his home for almost five years, officials said.


The Family Minister vs. the Feminist: German Women at War (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:50 PM PST

Time.com - A public row between Germany's minister for families and one of the country's leading feminists is proving good fun for the press -- but has women worried that it could set back the fight for gender equality


Asia stocks slip amid China worries, Europe debts (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:58 PM PST

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Asian stock markets fell Friday on concern China might further tighten credit and fears about Europe's debt crisis as global leaders meeting in South Korea struggled to soothe currency tensions.

Iranian minister in Nigeria after weapons seizure (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:48 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 file photo, a Nigerian soldier, right, gestures as he and others show journalist arms, in Lagos, Nigeria. Nigerian intelligence officials and diplomats have concluded that the Iranian government was behind a secret shipment of weapons discovered last month in shipping containers, according to internal documents seen Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)AP - Iran's foreign minister has been in Nigeria for talks over a secret shipment of military-grade weapons seized at the West African nation's busiest port.

Row over Bollywood gay kiss

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:43 PM PST

Dunno Y - a film being touted as Bollywood's answer to Brokeback Mountain - is released in Indian cinemas and is the first movie in the country to feature a male homosexual kiss.


Row over Bollywood gay kiss

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:43 PM PST

Dunno Y - a film being touted as Bollywood's answer to Brokeback Mountain - is released in Indian cinemas and is the first movie in the country to feature a male homosexual kiss.


Five years comatose, Israel's Sharon moves home

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:58 PM PST

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's comatose former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was moved back to his desert ranch on Friday, leaving the secure hospital ward that had been his home for almost five years, officials said.

Sharp rise in Haiti cholera death toll

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:30 PM PST

Cholera is spreading quickly in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, as the death toll rises across the quake-hit country.


G20 leaders seek consensus in Seoul

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:27 PM PST

Leaders of the G20 group of major economies are holding a second day of difficult talks in the South Korea capital, Seoul.


Marines 'so proud' after US 'Gumpathon'

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 07:30 PM PST

Six British and US servicemen have run across the US - from New York to California - to raise money for wounded military veterans. Former Marine Mark Ormrod, Colour Sgt Damian Todd RM, and Staff Sgt James Mazzoni-Dalton were among the men to be greeted by cheers as they crossed the finishing line.


Sharp rise in Haiti cholera death toll

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:30 PM PST

Cholera is spreading quickly in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, as the death toll rises across the quake-hit country.


G20 leaders seek consensus in Seoul

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:27 PM PST

Leaders of the G20 group of major economies are holding a second day of difficult talks in the South Korea capital, Seoul.


Comatose ex-Israeli PM moved home from hospital (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 09:56 PM PST

FILE - In This file photo taken Sunday Dec. 18, 2005, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon smiles as he talks to journalists prior to the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Sharon's former aide said on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, that the comatose ex-Israeli premier will be moved to his ranch in Israel's south. Sharon, one of Israel's most popular and controversial figures, has been in the long-term care unit of Tel Hashomer Hospital outside Tel Aviv since suffering a series of strokes in 2006. (AP Photo/ Emilio Morenatti, File)AP - A hospital official says Israel's comatose former prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has been moved home more than four-and-a-half years after he was incapacitated by a series of strokes.

Newsweek and The Daily Beast Merging After All

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:02 PM PST

Whatever concerns caused Newsweek and the Daily Beast to set aside their merger discussions three we


Myanmar rebel armies join forces

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 09:58 PM PST

Ethnic Karen armies have united as fresh fighting erupts on Thai-Myanmar border.


G-20 to Fudge Differences

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 11:15 PM PST

Leaders of the Group of 20 were set to gloss over key differences on curbing economic imbalances as the summit wraps up in Seoul.


EU ready to deal with any Irish aid request (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 09:31 PM PST

Reuters - Leaders from Britain, Germany and France held emergency talks at the Group of 20 leaders meeting after panic selling of Irish debt that has put its bond spreads out to a record over Germany, infecting Spain and Portugal.


Sri Lanka rejects disturbing new 'war pictures' as lies (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 09:46 PM PST

Screengrab taken from a video provided by Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka, verified by independent experts as being authentic, shows a Sri Lankan soldier executing a prisoner during the final phase of the island state government's battle against Tamil rebels. Sri Lanka Friday rejected as AFP - Sri Lanka Friday rejected as "lies" new photographs broadcast by Al-Jazeera of piles of dead bodies and execution-style killings allegedly taken during the final stages of the island's ethnic war.

G-20 leaders agree to broad guidelines to shape economic policy

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 09:10 PM PST

SEOUL - World leaders on Friday agreed to establish a set of broad guidelines to shape economic policy, but deferred the substance of the work amid uncertainty about how effective the effort will prove in practice.


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