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COPENHAGEN — A visibly angry Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet at China and other developing nations Friday, declaring that the time has come “not to talk but to act” on climate change.

‘ A terrible noise was coming from the children’s room. I saw my daughter’s legs were gone. I realised she was dead and I couldn’t stop crying. ’

KABUL (AP) - Four more American troops died in a bombing in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel completed most of its investigation into whether the level of fraud in the August presidential election would require a runoff.

LAHORE, Pakistan — Teams of gunmen attacked three security sites Thursday in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore while a homicide bomber hit a northwestern town, killing a total of 38 people. The strikes were part of an escalating a wave of terror aimed at scuttling a planned offensive into the militant heartland on the Afghan border.

A school has been fined £16,500 after a 16-year-old pupil lost eight fingers when her hands got stuck in a bucket of plaster of Paris during an art lesson. Jesus…

In an unannounced move, President Obama is dispatching an additional 13,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced in March, according to a published report.

The Goldstone Report wasn’t the only topic on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s agenda Monday at the opening of the Knesset’s winter session. Iran and the peace process with the Palestinian Authority formed the other half of his address to the parliament on Monday afternoon.

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea test-fired short-range missiles on Monday, South Korean media reported, sparking consternation just as the reclusive state had been signaling to the outside world it might return to nuclear talks.

Suppose this year’s Nobel Peace Prize had gone to the scores of Iranians now on trial for having protested the fraudulent re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last June. For the three defendants who were sentenced to death over the weekend, a Nobel might have made all the difference in the nick of time. At a minimum, it could have validated their struggle.

Michael Jackson, the charismatic musician who came to be known as The “King of Pop,’ has died at the age of 50.

Barack Obama, the US president, has told Iran “the world is watching” its actions
after the country’s supreme leader demanded an end to street protests over recent elections.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has backed the outcome of the country’s presidential elections and warned protests against it must stop.

As one of the most widely used applications on Facebook, We’re Related, is at the forefront of a new class of internet services that ride on the back of the popularity of social networks.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Early work on the ambitious health care overhaul the Obama administration is seeking has exposed the kinds of in-house fights that typify just how hard it will be to get meaningful legislation this year. Case in point: A proposal to help bankroll universal health coverage with a dime-a-can increase in the price of soft drinks.