Top Stories: Guatemala City, Dec 23 (IANS/EFE) A mayor in Guatemala was shot dead while on his way to work Tuesday, the police said. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:50:02 -0500Guatemala City, Dec 23 (IANS/EFE) White corn production in Guatemala fell 10.8 percent in 2009 due to the prolonged drought in the country, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:50:02 -0500London, Dec 23 (IANS) 'Avatar' actress Sigourney Weaver is set to play an older teacher who lusts after a man almost half her age in a new comedy. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:20:01 -0500London, Dec 23 (IANS) Singer Rihanna's semi-naked photoshoot for GQ magazine has faced the wrath of her record label boss Antonio L.A. Reid. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:00:05 -0500London, Dec 23 (IANS) Pop star Jessica Simpson has stunned fans by posting a bizarre video online of her using an ear wax candle. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:00:03 -0500London, Dec 23 (IANS) 'Desperate Housewives' star Eva Longoria Parker is joining the celebrity perfume bandwagon as she has landed a deal to launch her own fragrance. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:00:03 -0500Moscow, Dec 22: Russian scientists have revealed that a monkey may be sent to Mars. ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:20:04 -0500Madrid, Dec 22 (DPA) It has been a wonderful year for Barcelona's Lionel Messi, who Monday was crowned with the FIFA World Player of the Year award, based on the votes of the managers and captains of the world's national teams. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:50:02 -0500London, Dec 22 (DPA) Roberto Mancini said Monday he believed he could repeat the success he had at Internazionale with his new club Manchester City. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:40:03 -0500London, Dec 22 : A tramp has claimed that he has befriended French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and that she regularly gives over 50 and 100 euro notes and even offered to put him up in a hotel. ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:01:44 -0500Paris, December 22 : An European Space Agency (ESA) led effort is all set to use silicon technology to enable astronomy's clearest X-ray view yet of the most violent regions of space. ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:01:09 -0500New Delhi, Dec 22 : Russian Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin has asked the Indian government to investigate and punish the rapists of his country's national in Goa. n this context, the Russian envoy visited Ministry of External Affair and met the concerned officials. ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:00:23 -0500London, Dec 22 (IANS) Britain and the US have officially protested changes to India's visa regime that bar tourists from returning to the country within two months of a visit, a report said Tuesday. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:10:01 -0500Paris, Dec 22 (DPA) The three-day shutdown of the Eurostar rail service linking Paris and London ended early Tuesday as a train once again left the French capital for the Channel Tunnel and Britain. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:00:03 -0500London, Dec 22 (IANS) British screenwriter Simon Monjack has urged officials not to hold an autopsy into the sudden death by cardiac arrest of his wife, 32-year-old Hollywood star Brittany Murphy. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:50:02 -0500London, Dec 22 (IANS) Socialite heiress Paris Hilton says that she and her boyfriend Doug Reinhardt share their bed with her pet pig Princess Pigelette. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:00:02 -0500London, Dec 22 (IANS) British singer Amy Winehouse recently attacked theatre staff at a holiday pantomime show in Buckinghamshire. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:00:01 -0500London, Dec 22 (IANS) A journalist has sued Tom Cruise over allegations that the actor hired private detective Anthony Pellicano to tap his phone. The journalist is now demanding $5 million in damages. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:00:04 -0500London, Dec 22 (IANS) Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin refused to bare his bottom for a scene in new movie 'It's Complicated' and insisted on hiring a body double to stand in for him. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:00:04 -0500London, Dec 22 (IANS) British supermodel Kate Moss says she takes fashion tips from her daughter. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:00:03 -0500London, Dec 22 (IANS) Stopping male mosquitoes from sealing their sperm inside females with a 'mating plug' could prevent them from reproducing, potentially opening a new way to combat malaria, says a new study. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:00:02 -0500Madrid, Dec 22 (EFE) The wave of cold weather in Spain and the heavy snowfall Monday in Madrid caused numerous flights to be cancelled and traffic jams on some roads in the Spanish capital. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:30:08 -0500Madrid, Dec 22 (EFE) A total of 49.5 million foreign visitors arrived in Spain between January and November, placing the drop in tourist arrivals at 8.9 percent for that period, according to government data. IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:30:04 -0500Berlin, Dec 22 (DPA) German consumers are entering the new year in a sober mood, with a key survey released Tuesday expected to show a fall in confidence among households in Europe's biggest economy. IANS Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:10:02 -0500London, Dec 22 (IANS) A 28-year-old man has been charged with the murder of an Asian radio agony aunt who specialised in reuniting broken families. IANS Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:10:02 -0500The high-speed Eurostar train has resumed operation after three days with no service between Paris and the UK through the Channel Tunnel. Big News Network.com Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:52:43 -0500The death toll from winter storms across Europe has risen to over 80. Big News Network.com Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:51:50 -0500Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, after Russia agreed to buy 30 billion cubic meters of gas annually from ... VOA Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:50:26 -0500Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, after Russia agreed to buy 30 billion cubic meters of gas annually from ... VOA Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:50:23 -0500PARIS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Tuesday it would be better for the wounded leader of Guinea's military junta to stay away from his country because his return cou... West Australian Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:48:30 -0500Bulgarian poet and writer Georgi Gospodinov is one of thirty-five European writers, featuring in the “Best European Fiction 2010”, which recently went on sale in the United States. Includ... Novinite Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:41:48 -0500Russia and the United States are planning "radical and unprecedented" reductions of their nuclear weapons arsenals. This has been announced Tuesday by Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, as quot... Novinite Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:41:45 -0500Kinross Gold Corporation (TSX:K)(NYSE:KGC) announced today that its Kupol mine in the Far East Region of the Russian Federation has been fully certified under the International Cyanide Management Code... Market Wire Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:40:08 -0500Hugo Chávez wants to join the nuclear-energy club and is looking to Russia for help. The Venezuelan leader is dismissing concerns over his nuclear ambitions, offering assurances that his aims ar... The Miami Herald Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:40:05 -0500Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that he has asked the Interior Ministry to investigate the slaying of a young relative in a possible revenge killing connected to a family feud. The October... The Miami Herald Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:39:44 -0500MOSCOW: Russia has agreed to resume gas imports from Turkmenistan after an eight-month halt over a price dispute. The deal may ruin Western hopes of breaking Russia’s monopoly on gas exports to ... The Hindu Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:36:09 -0500LE BOURGET, France - French aviation investigators said today they are optimistic about finding the black boxes of Air France Flight 447, which crashed in the Atlantic last June en route from Rio to P... New Zealand Herald Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:25:48 -0500By AOIFE WHITE AND DEBORAH SEWARDASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS BRUSSELS -- The flight plan for an aircraft seized in Thailand with a load of illicit North Korean arms and ammunition shows that the myste... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:24:50 -0500LONDON - Mass flight cancellations heaped fresh misery on European travellers Tuesday, as the freezing weather that has caused at least 90 deaths on the continent brought chaos to Christmas holiday pl... Canada.com Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:21:59 -0500LONDON - Mass flight cancellations heaped fresh misery on European travellers Tuesday, as the freezing weather that has caused at least 90 deaths on the continent brought chaos to Christmas holiday pl... Vancouver Sun Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:20:39 -0500A Polish prosecutor says the theft of the "Arbeit macht frei" sign from Auschwitz was commissioned from abroad.Police found the metal sign cut into three pieces on Sunday and arrested five m... BBC Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:18:56 -0500A brother of Gerry Adams, who is wanted in connection with allegations he abused his daughter, has turned himself into Irish police. Liam Adams went into a police station in Sligo on Monday afternoon.... BBC Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:18:54 -0500Fiat has unveiled plans to increase annual car production in Italy to one million over the next three years.But it will still go ahead with plans to shut down the smallest of its five Italian factorie... BBC Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:18:53 -0500European Union leaders on Tuesday sought to deflect criticism that they had fumbled their strategy at the Copenhagen climate summit meeting, just as a feud between the British and the Chinese over who... International Herald Tribune Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:16:02 -0500Two decades after the Velvet Revolution overthrew Communist rule in 1989, a group of Czech senators is pressing to ban the Communist Party, the only surviving one in the former East bloc and, to its m... International Herald Tribune Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:15:59 -0500BRUSSELS (AP) -- The flight plan for an aircraft seized in Thailand with a load of illicit North Korean arms and ammunition shows that the mysterious plane was headed to Iran, a new report from arms t... Associated Press Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:15:10 -0500LONDON - Mass flight cancellations heaped fresh misery on European travellers Tuesday, as the freezing weather that has caused at least 90 deaths on the continent brought chaos to Christmas holiday pl... Canada.com Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:08:22 -0500MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and the United States plan unprecedented cuts to their Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons under a new arms reduction deal, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted... Swiss Info Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:01:01 -0500ROME (Reuters) - Italy dropped plans on Tuesday to black out Internet hate sites despite a pledge for radical measures after fan pages emerged on the Internet last week praising an attack on Prime Min... Swiss Info Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:00:59 -0500France's foreign minister said Tuesday that Guinea could face civil war if the West African nation's wounded junta leader were to return home from Morocco, where he is receiving medical treatment. Gadsden Times Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:52:13 -0500Mass flight cancellations heaped fresh misery on European travellers Tuesday, as the freezing weather that has caused at least 90 deaths on the continent brought chaos to Christmas holiday plans. P... Yahoo! News Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:41:57 -0500The death toll from winter storms across Europe rose to at least 80 on Monday as transport chaos spread amid mounting anger over the three-day failure of Eurostar high-speed trains. SBS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:41:38 -0500Roger Federer. LONDON (Reuters) - Roger Federer and Serena Williams were named 2009 ITF World Champions on Tuesday after capturing four grand slam singles titles between them in 2009. SBS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:41:20 -0500Comeback queen Casey Dellacqua has pocketed a place in the Australian Open first round, along with some much-needed court time and confidence after an epic playoff final win at Melbourne Park. SBS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:41:13 -0500PARIS (AP) - France's foreign minister said Tuesday that Guinea could face civil war if the West African nation's wounded junta leader were to return home from Morocco, where he is receiving medical t... Find Law Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:40:19 -0500After all the angst and agony, the Lisbon treaty has been signed and ratified and is finally in effect. Eight years of constitutional debate and frequently stormy disagreement have produced modest imp... Financial Times Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:40:10 -0500(IDM) PARIS (AP) — France's foreign minister said Tuesday that Guinea could face civil war if the West African nation's wounded junta leader were to return home from Morocco, where he is receiving... WHP CBS 21 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:55:28 -0500LONDON (AFP) - Mass flight cancellations heaped fresh misery on European travellers Tuesday, as the freezing weather that has caused at least 90 deaths on the continent brought chaos to Christmas holi... West Australian Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:53:33 -0500PERUGIA, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian appeals court nearly halved the sentence on Tuesday for an African immigrant convicted of assisting in the murder of a British woman during a drunken sex game.Rud... West Australian Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:53:17 -0500Now they have secured the All Whites first opponent for 2010, New Zealand Football officials are turning their attention to ensuring the availability of the team's European-based players. Newstalk ZB Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:46:28 -0500FILE- In this file photo taken Friday, Oct. 2, 2009, Guinea's military leader, Capt. Moussa "Dadis" Camara, left, salutes next to presidential guard chief Abubakar "Toumba" Diakite, right, during inde... The Miami Herald Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:44:30 -0500(IDM) PARIS (AP) — France's foreign minister said Tuesday that Guinea could face civil war if the West African nation's wounded junta leader were to return home from Morocco, where he is receiving... Fox 23 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:39:35 -0500LONDON -- Moody's might have been the latest ratings agency to downgrade Greece on Tuesday, but to those who were expecting a sharper hit to the country's reputation, there were reasons to be cheerfu... Forbes Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:39:26 -0500STOCKHOLM, Sweden ? Serbia's president on Tuesday handed over his country's application to join the European Union and vowed Belgrade would continue to hunt down and capture war criminals wanted ... CTV Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:38:42 -0500Washington - The United States and Russia have ended negotations on new nuclear weapons reductions, the US State Department said Tuesday, missing a goal to reach an agreement by the end of the year. T... Earth Times Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:38:01 -0500France's foreign minister said Tuesday that Guinea could face civil war if the West African nation's wounded junta leader were to return home from Morocco, where he is receiving medical treatment. The Seattle Times Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:33:05 -0500LONDON: Mass flight cancellations heaped fresh misery on European travellers Tuesday, as the freezing weather that has caused at least 90 deaths brought chaos to Christmas holiday plans. In a re... Times of India Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:30:51 -0500VILNIUS: The US Central Intelligence Agency ran a secret prison in Lithuania and al-Qaida suspects may have been held there, a parliamentary probe in in the Baltic state has found. Talk of secre... Times of India Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:30:50 -0500German officials have ruled out returning an ancient bust of Queen Nefertiti to Egypt - saying it is too fragile to be transported.And they have insisted that the bust was acquired legally by the Prus... BBC Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:23:26 -0500German officials have ruled out returning an ancient bust of Queen Nefertiti to Egypt - saying it is too fragile to be transported.And they have insisted that the bust was acquired legally by the Prus... BBC Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:23:24 -0500PERUGIA, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian appeals court nearly halved the sentence on Tuesday for an African immigrant convicted of assisting in the murder of a British woman during a drunken sex game. Reuters Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:18:48 -0500Belgium has launched a case against Switzerland at the International Court of Justice in a dispute over the 2001 bankruptcy of the former Belgian airline Sabena. Swiss Info Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:04:47 -0500ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Turkey has briefed Gulf Cooperation Council states on arange of military assistance options. Officials said the government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has beenbriefing GCC stat... Middle East Newsline Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:00:40 -0500Tomas Abyu may have swapped the altitude and heat of Ethiopia for the lowlands and rain of Manchester but the British runner retains all the characteristics of Ethiopian runners and is counting the da... Khaleej Times Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:59:29 -0500PARIS—France's foreign minister said Tuesday that Guinea could face civil war if the West African nation's wounded junta leader were to return home from Morocco, where he is receiving medical tr... Denver Post Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:53:30 -0500— European equity strategists say earnings growth can push stocks 11 percent higher in 2010 following the steepest annual rally in a decade. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (... Business Week Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:50:15 -0500Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the government should throw more support behind innovative alternative energy than the emissions trading scheme. SBS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:45:40 -0500The Bosnian court said on Tuesday ex-soldier Ratko Bundalo was sentenced to 19 years in prison and former policeman Nedjo Zeljaja received a 15-year sentence.Both men were found guilty of crimes again... SBS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:45:34 -0500The office of Serbia's war crimes prosecutor says he has presented a European envoy with new findings about the alleged removal of organs from Serbs kidnapped during the Kosovo war. SBS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:45:20 -0500Eurostar is scrambling to get tens of thousands of passengers home for the holidays after it resumed service of high-speed trains under the English Channel on Tuesday. SBS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:45:10 -0500Brussels extends duties on imported footwear By Joshua Chaffin in Brussels Published: December 22 2009 18:42 | Last updated: December 22 2009 18:42... Financial Times Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:44:18 -0500(RTTNews) - The European markets rose on Tuesday after a report showed that existing home sales in the U.S. increased by more than expected last month. The National Association of Realtors in the U.S... Quote.com Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:43:05 -0500Serbian President Boris Tadic (l) hands over the application to join the European Union to Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (r) current holder of the EU Presidency, in Stockholm, Sweden, 22 De... VOA Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:25:35 -0500LONDON (Reuters) - Cross-Channel Eurostar trains resumed running between London and continental Europe on Tuesday, starting to move thousands of passengers left stranded by train breakdowns just befor... West Australian Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:24:15 -0500TransAtlantic Petroleum's wholly-owned subsidiaries, Petroleum Exploration Mediterranean Pty. Ltd., DMLP, Ltd., Talon Exploration, Ltd. and TransAtlantic Turkey, Ltd., have secured a three-year senior... Rigzone Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:18:56 -0500INDUSTRIAL METALS JavaScript Tag // Tag for network 658: United Stations // Website: Mineweb.com // Page: Mineweb - ROS Industrial Metals & Minerals // Placement: Industrial Metals & Minerals 160x35... Mine Web Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:15:31 -0500Austria's government said Tuesday it would pay 20 million ($28.5 million) for the restoration of the country's Jewish cemeteries, many of them in a sad state more than six decades after the end of the... Haaretz Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:11:11 -0500BRUSSELS -- The European Union called on the United States on Tuesday to play a bigger role in combating climate change, after Sweden described the Copenhagen summit last week as a "great failure". F... National Post Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:55:12 -0500Mass flight cancellations heaped fresh misery on European travellers, as the freezing weather that has caused at least 90 deaths brought chaos to Christmas holiday plans. Passengers stranded by snow-b... Calgary Herald Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:54:55 -0500Bosnia's constitution discriminates against Jews and Roma, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.The constitution had prevented two Bosnian men - one Jewish and one Roma - from running for elec... BBC Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:53:10 -0500European Union nations voted Tuesday to extend trade charges on Chinese and Vietnamese leather shoes by 15 months to protect European shoemakers ? a move likely to anger China as well as European... International Herald Tribune Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:50:25 -0500ROME: Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne told government and unions on Tuesday that Fiat plans 8 billion euros of investments in Italy between 2010 and 2011, according to a source who was present at the me... Times of India Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:41:17 -0500Police say 14-year-old sailor Laura Dekker has arrived back in the Netherlands after disappearing from home and flying to the Caribbean.Police spokesman Bernhard Jens says Dekker is being interviewed ... Daily Star Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:35:01 -0500Mass flight cancellations heaped fresh misery on European travellers Tuesday, as the freezing weather that has caused at least 90 deaths on the continent brought chaos to Christmas holiday plans. P... Yahoo! News Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:15:31 -0500The German-ordered air strike that led to civilian casualties in Afghanistan in early September was more than an aberration by a Bundeswehr officer. The German government and the military leadership h... Spiegal Online Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:28:27 -050022/12/2009ANKARA, Turkey -- The country's Journalists Association on Monday (December 21st) condemned last week's murder of a newspaper editor, saying it demonstrates the risks Turkish journalists sti... Southeast European Times Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:27:27 -0500According to reports, Russia's Cosmonautics Academy is in preliminary talks with the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy in Georgia, which supplied apes for a similar programme in the 1980... New Kerala Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:24:53 -0500George Clooney all have one thing in common. Their attractiveness is said to be based on the "golden ratio", which is supposed to be the most aesthetically pleasing shape to the human eye. The golden... Independent.ie Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:20:09 -0500 | 
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