Top Stories: Melbourne, Dec 26 : Aussie rockers AC/DC may have to cancel a sold out concert in Austria over fears that their high-voltage rock and roll may have a dramatic impact on a colony of rare birds. ANI Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:40:12 -0500Brussels (Belgium), Dec. 26 : A fight is on to save the historic Bastogne military barracks in the Belgian Ardennes from closure. ANI Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:50:04 -0500London, Dec 26(IANS) Teenage sensation Miley Cyrus, who has a crush on high school musical star Zac Efron, says she is very much like any other girl of her age. IANS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:50:05 -0500London, Dec 26(IANS) Hollywood actor Orlando Bloom has said that he will never miss Christmas for work and likes to spend time with his family. IANS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:40:03 -0500Dusseldorf, Dec 26 (DPA) German survivors and relatives of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami gathered for a memorial service in Dusseldorf Saturday, five years after the catastrophe which claimed 230,000 lives. IANS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:40:01 -0500London, Dec 26 (DPA) British police said Saturday they were helping their US colleagues in the investigations into the would-be airline bomber who tried to explode a device on a Northwest Airlines plane to Detroit the day before. IANS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:20:01 -0500London, Dec 26 (IANS) Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen was released from jail after he was arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife Brooke Mueller. IANS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:10:03 -0500London, Dec 26 (IANS) US pop star Justin Timberlake's album 'Futuresex/Lovesounds' has been named the album of the decade by a leading music website. IANS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:10:05 -0500London, Dec 26 (IANS) Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf, currently on a lecture tour of Europe, has said he will return home when the time is right. IANS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:20:02 -0500London, Dec 26 (IANS) Hollywood actor Robert Pattinson has topped the list of celebrities most women would like to kiss under a mistletoe during the Christmas holidays. IANS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:00:02 -0500London, Dec 26 : Ace Manchester United forward Michael Owen's recent Euro hat-trick has failed to boost his World Cup hopes, as England manager Fabio Capello shrugged off the striker's superb treble against Wolfsburg, raising serious concerns over Owen's fitness. ANI Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:10:22 -0500London, Dec 26 : Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez has dismissed reports that Spain is putting pressure on the club into sending their star striker Fernando Torres for surgery to ensure that he is 100 per cent fit for the 2010 World Cup. ANI Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:10:17 -0500Hamburg - At least one European city has held the status of European Capital of Culture since 1985. In 2000, there were nine. With Essen, Istanbul and Pecs - who will share the honours in 2010 - a tot... Earth Times Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:12:47 -0500Two decades after the Velvet Revolution overthrew Communist rule here in 1989, a group of Czech senators is pressing to ban the Communist Party, the only surviving one in the former Soviet bloc in Eur... International Herald Tribune Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:57:48 -0500OSLO (AP) ? A Norwegian museum official said Saturday that Knut Magne Haugland, the last of six crew members who crossed the Pacific Ocean in 1947 on board the balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki, had died.... International Herald Tribune Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:57:45 -0500One-legged Peter Stuyvesant statuette? Yes. A mirror emblazoned with the logo of New Amsterdam beer? Absolutely.These are office knickknacks that only a true connoisseur of Dutch Americana could love.... International Herald Tribune Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:57:36 -0500US President Barack Obama has received a massive boost after his health care reform bill was passed by the senate (Getty Images) Senators gave President Barack Obama a huge political boost on Thursd... SBS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:28:47 -0500Police searched a flat in central London on Saturday, among other addresses, as the investigation into a Nigerian suspected of trying to blow up a US airliner took an international dimension. SBS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:28:39 -0500Agencies ANKARA: Eight Turkish soldiers were detained on Saturday in an investigation into allegations of an assassination plot against Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc.The army general staff said i... Arab News Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:25:41 -0500The Vatican is considering taking legal action against the 25-year-old woman who attacked the Pope at Christmas Eve mass, as questions are raised about the pontiff's security. Susanna Maiolo, a Swiss... The Independent Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:51:36 -0500A little less than a century ago, Western leaders feared that Russia would export its revolution; these days, at least in Latin America, they're more concerned that it may be exporting its gambling pr... Time Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:09 -0500Bank of Scotland (Ireland)’s (BoSI) parent company in Britain stepped in as guarantor for €800 million in relation to mortgage bonds sold by the Irish operation in 2008.The move was one of seve... Irish Examiner Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:04:24 -0500Tidal energy company OpenHydro is ‘‘confident’’ that it will complete a €30 million fundraising early in the new year.There has been speculation in the market that investor and executive ... Irish Examiner Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:04:23 -0500Pope Benedict XVI prayed before crowds in St Peter's Square on Saturday in a post-Christmas tradition two days after he was assaulted by a woman whom the Vatican said it would judge in days. SBS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:01:08 -0500ATHENS--Greece on Saturday announced an investigation into a fire aboard a Greek-flagged ship which killed at least nine crew members off Venezuela. "Greece, in cooperation with the authorities in Ven... Inquirer Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:14:55 -0500Eight Turkish soldiers have been detained over an alleged plot to assassinate Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, the army has said.It said the soldiers were taken to the army headquarters in Ankara a... BBC Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:07:59 -0500ROME (Reuters) – An Italian toy store opened at 4 a.m. on Christmas morning to help a frantic mother whose gifts for her children had been stolen from a basement. After putting her two toddl... Yahoo! News Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:34:49 -0500PAU, France: Specialist divers battled Saturday to rescue three cavers trapped for four days deep underground in the Pyrenees mountains of southwest France. The cavers, two French and one Greek, were ... Channel News Asia Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:53:03 -0500Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama expressed his desire Friday to make progress next year in stalled negotiations with Moscow on the bilateral territorial row over four Russia-held islands off Hokkaido. Japan Times Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:35:37 -0500Authorities are urging people in parts of NSW to stockpile enough food for a week with fears they may become trapped by severe flooding. The extreme weather's expected to hit parts of the state's c... SBS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:55:32 -0500Roberto Mancini enjoyed a winning start to life at Manchester City FC and Gianfranco Zola's West Ham United FC earned a much-needed victory. Yet there was less to celebrate for Carlo Ancelotti, the Pr... UEFA Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:29:08 -0500, organised by the Community Chest Fund, is currently underway at the Lufthansa Technik Hangar at Hal Farrug. This year no gifts are being distributed. However it managed to raise just over €1 mil... MaltaMedia Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:54:17 -0500Switzerland has joined a host of other countries in condemning the sentence which was handed down for Liu’s part in organising a petition demanding political freedoms. Swiss Info Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:45:56 -0500Airline passengers across Europe faced body searches and new limits on hand luggage. Authorities say that Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab of Nigeria flew from Lagos to Amsterdam before boarding Northwest A... Christian Science Monitor Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:35:36 -0500Azerbaijan will double gas supplies to Russia in 2010 to one billion cubic metres, the resource-rich Causasus republic's energy firm SOCAR said on Saturday. "In 2010 we will supply one billion cubic m... Breitbart Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:33:18 -0500"These (European) politicians neither know anything about politics nor about history," Fars news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in a speech at at Arak mosque in Tehran. "For example, they come an... New Kerala Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:59:12 -0500BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Airports and airlines across Europe moved rapidly to tighten security on U.S.-bound flights on Saturday after a man tried to set off explosives on a plane flying from Amsterdam to... Breitbart Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:11:41 -0500Egyptian government blocked on Saturday 16 Turkish lawmakers from ruling AK party to entry country among "Freedom convoy for Gaza", a member of Turkey's IHH organisation told World Bulletin. Turkish P... World Bulletin Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:46:53 -0500Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with cabinet members who are also members of the National Security Council, or MGK, on Saturday. Deputy prime ministers, justice, national defense, inte... World Bulletin Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:46:52 -0500France chastised China today for jailing dissident Liu Xiaobo and reminded Beijing of its commitments to dialogue on human rights with the European Union. Liu, China's most prominent dissident, was j... SABC Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:39:17 -0500Sizing Europe maintained his unbeaten record over fences in Leopardstown's Bord Na Mona Novice Chase - but benefited from the last-fence fall of Captain Cee Bee.Mark Walsh had been patient on the 2008... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:33:29 -0500U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. He is the son of current board chairman O. A. Keller III. The bank says William Keller will serve as a class I director with his position as a holding... Business Journal Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:27:16 -0500THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OSLO -- A museum official says Knut Magne Haugland, the last of six crew members who crossed the Pacific Ocean on board the balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki, has died. He was 92. Kon-... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:23:44 -0500BLOOMBERG Sunday, Dec 27, 2009, Page 10 European stocks rose for a second week, with the benchmark Dow Jones STOXX 600 Index heading for its largest annual increase in a decade, amid signs the globa... Taipei Times Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:03:25 -0500Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called European politicians "one more stupid than the other.""These [European] politicians neither know anything about politics nor about history," Fa... Haaretz Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:05:49 -0500Hamburg - The prestigious Four Hills Tour ski-jumping competition has been held 57 times, but never in its long history has a Swiss jumper managed to take the overall victory. Olympic and world champi... Earth Times Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:03:26 -0500December 22, 2009 BEIJING - France and China on Monday hailed their reinvigorated ties, putting a spat over Tibet behind them and sealing a series of economic deals during a visit by French Prime Mini... Business Report Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:23:36 -0500Brussels - European Union officials said Saturday they would review whether any safety rule had been breached after a would-be airline bomber tried to explode a device after boarding a Detroit-bound N... Earth Times Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:37:27 -0500Abuja - Nigeria on Saturday ordered a top-level probe after a botched attempt by a young Nigerian to blow up a US plane as it was preparing to land in Detroit, a government statement said. "The Vic... IOL Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:18:58 -0500, today announced that it has received European CE mark approval for the EndoBarrier™, a non-surgical therapy to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity. The CE marking (an acronym for the French "Con... Medical News Today Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:23:21 -0500Brussels - Four Belgians living in Israel have filed a lawsuit in Belgium against representatives of the Palestinian Islamist party Hamas for war crimes, the Brussels daily Le Soir reported Saturday. ... Earth Times Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:18:14 -0500The Hague - The United States has asked airlines worldwide to tighten security after a Nigerian tried to blow up a US airliner he boarded in Amsterdam, Dutch authorities said Saturday. Officials sa... IOL Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:59:29 -0500THE Pope delivered his traditional Christmas Day blessing yesterday looking tired and unsteady but otherwise fine, hours after being knocked down by a woman who jumped over a barrier in... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:01:52 -0500Thousands of Australia Post workers stopped work on Tuesday for their second strike in a week, after 20,000 workers walked off the job on December 16, disrupting mail services nationwide. Workers are... SBS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:14:41 -0500Officials confirm that the woman who pulled Pope Benedict XVI to the floor at the start of Christmas Eve Mass also tried to attack him last year. She was taken to a clinic for psychiatric treatment. Los Angeles Times Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:24:56 -0500Scientists find that reproduction fails when they interfere with the enzyme that causes the plug to form. The team hopes the finding can be developed for use in the field. Los Angeles Times Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:24:54 -0500The annual Seville Tapas Fair could give visitors to Spain the opportunity to try new foods and sample local cuisine.MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, December 26, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A whole host of delici... Earth Times Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:22:47 -0500PowerSafe Technology Corporation (PSFT) subsidiary Amplification Technologies Inc. (www.ampti.net) (ATI), and BFi OPTiLAS (www.bfioptilas.com) today announced a mutually exclusive distribution agreeme... 24 / 7 Press Release Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:11:31 -0500FROM a practical point of view, “The Charterhouse of Parma” makes a lousy guidebook. An ardent fan of all things Italian, and a brilliant, impressionistic travel writer, Stendhal could hav... International Herald Tribune Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:09:13 -050027 Turkish doctors, all members of the Anatolia Medical Doctors Association (ANATIPDER) headquartered in central Anatolian province of Corum, are on their way to the west African country of Mali to pr... World Bulletin Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:24:13 -0500TAIPEI, Taiwan -- France has notified the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) that it will start a mutual fishing vessel inspection agreement with Taiwan, the Fisheries Administra... The China Post Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:07:42 -0500Ireland have resigned in the wake of a damning investigation into decades of church cover-up of child abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese. The bishops, Eamonn Walsh and Ray Field, offered an apology to ch... International Herald Tribune Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:34:58 -0500Russian officials say the death toll from a nightclub fire in the Urals city of Perm almost three weeks ago has risen to 152. The regional branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry said Friday that ... International Herald Tribune Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:34:52 -0500Anyone expecting a great national rebellion bringing millions of irascible Gauloise-puffing Gauls to the barricades in defiance of authority and good sense will have been disappointed: France's nearly... Time Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:22:13 -0500The billionaires were registered 'Golden Bachelors' (AP) One of the most expensive parties to be held in Beijing was a matchmaking ball aimed to help 21 'Golden' billionaire bachelors find love. SBS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:04:16 -0500BRUSSELS, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Taking strength from their political and economic ties, cultural exchanges between China and Europe were greatly enhanced in 2009, which analysts said should promote unde... SINA Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:02:27 -0500Spain will seek a string of agreements between the European Union (EU) and Latin America during Madrid's rotating EU presidency in the first half of 2010, it is reported Friday. Spain will seek close ... People's Daily Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:02:16 -0500 | 
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