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Former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin dies
Former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin, who led Argentina from military to civilian rule, has died, his doctor said Tuesday. He was 82. Dr
Obama in Europe: His Four Biggest Challenges
A European vacation it is not. Over the next week, President Barack Obama will board his plane anew nearly every day so that he can attend individual meetings with at least 17 political leaders from 11 nations, and appear at summits and forums in five countries to discuss international economic recovery, national security, cyber threats and global warming. He will have tea with a Queen , a private chat with a King , and convene a round table with students
Reports: Cyberspy network targets governments
Nearly 1,300 computers in more than 100 countries have been attacked and have become part of an computer espionage network apparently based in China, security experts alleged in two reports Sunday. Computers — including machines at NATO, governments and embassies — are infected with software that lets attackers gain complete control of them, according to the reports
Facebook users wage condom campaign against Pope
Critics took to the social networking site Facebook to voice their fury over Pope Benedict’s remark that condoms do not prevent HIV. Thousands have pledged to send the pontiff millions of condoms to protest the controversial comment he made to journalists as he flew to Cameroon last week. “You can’t resolve it with the distribution of condoms,” the pope told reporters
IOC scraps global torch relay for 2012 Games
The Olympic torch relay for the 2012 London Games will be confined to Britain, organizers confirmed on Friday. The past two summer Olympics have seen the torch taken on a world tour, but the experiment, started for the Athens Games in 2004, has now been scrapped. It follows the widespread political protests which disrupted the passage of the torch ahead of last year’s Games in Beijing.
UK’s prisons go to the mattress for recycling
What to do with 50,000 used, possibly smelly and dirty prison mattresses that need to be disposed of every year?
Reality TV star Jade Goody loses cancer fight
British reality TV celebrity Jade Goody died early Sunday morning following a public battle with cervical cancer, her publicist has announced. Goody, 27, died in her sleep at home in Essex, east of London, just before 4 a.m. (midnight Eastern Daylight Time), a spokeswoman for Max Clifford Associates said
Suspected moonshine kills seven in India
Seven people have died in a week after drinking suspected illicitly brewed liquor in the Indian capital, police said Sunday. Citing Goody’s publicist Max Clifford, both the Press Association and the BBC reported that Goody died at her home in Upshire, Essex. Goody’s death from cervical cancer at the age of 27 is a tragic end to a very modern tale.
Reports: UK reality TV star Jade Goody dies
British reality TV celebrity Jade Goody died in her sleep this weekend following a public battle with cancer, British media reported. Citing Goody’s publicist Max Clifford, both the Press Association and the BBC reported that Goody died at her home in Upshire, Essex