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• Toyota car recall may cost $2bn

  Created: 2010-02-02 17:04:48 Author: Administrator

  Toyota Motors says its massive vehicle recall could cost it up to $2bn (£1.25bn) in lost output and sales. It is in the process of recalling millions of vehicles which are potentially prone to uncontrolled acceleration, according to BBC News....

• Pope faces protests on British visit over attack on equality laws

  Created: 2010-02-02 16:55:42 Author: Administrator

  The National Secular Society (NSS) has said it would mount a protest campaign against the Pope's visit to Britain following the Pontiff's attack on equality laws, the Telegraph said. The campaign would be made up of gay groups, victims of cler...

• Clare Short: Tony Blair lied and misled parliament in build-up to Iraq war

  Created: 2010-02-02 16:40:28 Author: Administrator

  Clare Short, the former international development secretary, on Tuesday accused Tony Blair of lying to her and misleading parliament in the build-up to the Iraq invasion, the Guardian reported. Short, giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry int...

• Tainted milk fears resurface in China

  Created: 2010-02-02 16:35:53 Author: Administrator

  China has launched a nationwide check for melamine-tainted milk products after the industrial compound, which killed at least six children in 2008, reappeared on shop shelves, an official newspaper reported, according to the Telegraph.

• Silvio Berlusconi assailant Massimo Tartaglia released from psychiatric unit

  Created: 2010-02-02 16:35:51 Author: Administrator

  Massimo Tartaglia, the mentally disturbed man who attacked Silvio Berlusconi in December last year, is to be released from the psychiatric hospital where he has been under police guard and placed under house arrest in a "care community", Times...

• China threatens Obama over Dalai Lama meeting

  Created: 2010-02-02 16:30:51 Author: Administrator

  Strained ties between the US and China could deteriorate further if President Obama goes ahead with a meeting with the Dalai Lama, Beijing warned on Tuesday, according to Times Online.
  
  China’s anger at the Tibetan sp...

• Iran's Mousavi says he will continue fight for reform

  Created: 2010-02-02 15:30:31 Author: Administrator

  Iran's opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has said he will continue his struggle against the government. In a statement posted on his website, Mr Mousavi said the 1979 Islamic revolution had failed to achieve most of its goals, according to...

• Berlusconi ‘planning to nominate showgirls as poll candidates’

  Created: 2010-02-01 18:30:04 Author: Administrator

  Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi is in trouble again - and this time it's within his own party, over reported plans to give tickets to inexperienced showgirls in the regional elections slated for March, Times Online reports.
  

• Japan deflation hits a record pace to threaten recovery

  Created: 2010-02-01 17:12:41 Author: Administrator

  Japanese consumer prices fell at a record pace in December, according to the latest official figures. Prices fell by 1.2% in the month, the biggest drop since the current consumer price index began in 1970, BBC News said.
  

• President Obama to force Nasa to scrap manned flights to Moon

  Created: 2010-02-01 16:45:27 Author: Administrator

  President Obama is to force Nasa to ditch plans to send astronauts back to the Moon launched under the Bush Administration. New US Budget proposals presented on Monday were to kill off Nasa’s Constellation manned spaceflight programme, which...

• Pope Benedict XVI confirms first state visit to UK

  Created: 2010-02-01 16:30:14 Author: Administrator

  The Pope has on Monday confirmed that he will be visiting Britain later this year, the first state visit to this country by the worldwide head of the Roman Catholic Church. At the same time, Pope Benedict XVI has for the first time attacked Br...

• Mexican gangsters shoot dead 14 students

  Created: 2010-02-01 16:10:07 Author: Administrator

  Suspected drug cartel gunmen have shot dead 14 teenage students at a party in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The victims were all high school students aged between 15 and 20 years old, according to Sky News.
  
  Another 17 were wounded in the shoo...

• Karzai invites Taleban to join peace talks with Government

  Created: 2010-02-01 16:05:42 Author: Administrator

  President Karzai announced a timetable for the first round of peace talks with the Taleban on Sunday as US troops admitted that they may have bombed an Afghan army base by mistake, Times Online reported.
  
  The Afghan Pre...

• Israel disciplines officers over Gaza shelling

  Created: 2010-02-01 15:30:17 Author: Administrator

  The Israeli military has disciplined two officers for permitting the firing of artillery shells into a "populated" area of Gaza during Israel's three week operation against Hamas last year, CNN reports.
  
  Israel noted th...

• Female suicide bomber kills 41 people and wounds 106 in Baghdad attack

  Created: 2010-02-01 15:03:43 Author: Administrator

  A female suicide bomber laden with explosives blew herself up in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 41 people and wounding 106. The woman detonated her bomb among a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, security off...

• Virginia journalism student wins Miss America crown

  Created: 2010-01-31 19:30:45 Author: Administrator

  Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron won the 2010 Miss America title Saturday night after belting Beyoncé's "Listen" from "Dreamgirls" and telling kids they should get outside more often. Cameron, a 22-year-old from Fredericksburg, Va., won a $50...

• Silvio Berlusconi meets wife to hammer out divorce deal

  Created: 2010-01-31 17:37:22 Author: Administrator

  Silvio Berlusconi has met his estranged wife for the first time face to face since she demanded a divorce nine months ago over his relationships with showgirls and "escorts". The meeting between the Italian Prime MInister and Veronica Lario, a...

• Princess Diana 'regretted marrying into German family'

  Created: 2010-01-31 16:41:45 Author: Administrator

  Diana, Princess of Wales regretted marrying into a “German family”, according to Anthony Julius, her divorce lawyer. Mr Julius said the Princess made the comment to express her empathy with him as a Jew. The claim is made in the lawyer'...

• Hilary Clinton: Moldova disputes with Romania and Russia, NATO wants to assist the country in improving the lives of its people

  Created: 2010-01-31 16:32:25 Author: Administrator

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an interview with a correspondent of Voice of America discussed the developments in Afghanistan, Russia, Ukraine, R. Moldova, Burma and China. Below there is a selection of the opinions Hilary Clinto...

• China: U.S. arms sales to Taiwan harm national interest

  Created: 2010-01-31 16:20:47 Author: Administrator

  China's foreign minister warned that U.S. plans to sell $6.4 billion of arms to Taiwan will harm Chinese efforts to unify peacefully with the island, the ministry said Sunday, after China suspended U.S. military exchanges and threatened unprec...