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Beat the blues by going to bed early: study - 01/03/2010

NEW YORK - It seems parents have long been right. Going to bed early is key to getting enough sleep and helping adolescents feel on top of the world, a new study reported. A lack of sleep among...

Obama blames Al-Qaeda affiliate for airliner attack - 01/03/2010

HONOLULU, Stephen Collinson - US President Barack Obama Saturday for the first time accused an Al-Qaeda affiliate of arming and training a young Nigerian man for a failed suicide mission to blow up a...

French TV exec heads to Afghanistan after kidnapping - 01/03/2010

PARIS- A senior executive with France Television said Saturday he was flying to Kabul as efforts continued to free two of the station's journalists abducted in Afghanistan this week. "I am going...

Pope urges respect for humans and nature in New Year's mass - 01/02/2010

VATICAN CITY- Pope Benedict XVI called for respect and tolerance in his traditional New Year's Day mass Friday, stressing the values were necessary to ensure world peace and ecological...

Briton freed after Iraq kidnap ordeal arrives home - 01/02/2010

LONDON, Katherine Haddon - A Briton freed this week after being kidnapped in Iraq in 2007 flew home Friday for a reunion with his family, officials said, as controversy over his ordeal refused to die...

Israeli air force hits Gaza after rocket attack, 2 wounded - 01/02/2010

GAZA CITY - Israeli aircraft attacked at least four targets in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip early Saturday, wounding two people in an apparent retaliation for a rocket strike on Israel, officials said....

Iraq 'regrets' US judge dropping Blackwater case - 01/01/2010

BAGHDAD - Iraq said on Friday it regretted the decision of a US judge to dismiss criminal charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of fatally shooting 14 people in Baghdad in September...

US mulls new sanctions on Iran as year ends - 01/01/2010

WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael- The Obama administration seemed more firmly set on pushing for fresh UN sanctions against Iran as Iranian leaders balk at a year-end deadline to engage world powers on...

Degas painting stolen from French museum - 01/01/2010

MARSEILLE- Thieves stole a valuable painting by 19th century artist Edgar Degas overnight from a French museum, police said Thursday. The colourful image of singers performing on a theatre stage...

World rings in new decade with fireworks and parties - 01/01/2010

LONDON - Revellers rang in the New Year across the globe with spectacular fireworks displays and massive parties hosted by world capitals against a backdrop of tightened security. More than...
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