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Secretary of State-designate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. third from left, as National Security Adviser-designate Ret. Marine Gen. James Jones, far right, and Vice President-elect Joe Biden, far left, leave the stage at the end of a news conference in Chicago, Monday, Dec. 1, 2008

From the Fog of War to the Fog of Words read more
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Iran's Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah criticized U.S. President Barack Obama's Middle East and Central Asian policies, and then urged Muslims and Arabs to forget the U.S. president's "foggy" words, he probably had good reason. Recently, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary...

photo: AP / Charles Dharapak

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The Michael Jackson Effect read more
The Daily Beast

Yes, the King of Pop has ruled iTunes since his death three weeks ago, but what about the rise...

Accidental Billionaires read more
The Daily Beast

The idea for Facebook made Mark Zuckerberg rich for life, but a new book by Ben Mezrich argues...

Tories would do more to cut carbon read more
The Guardian

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has published a white paper setting out its plans...

China's population of Web users hits 338 million, surpassing population of the United States read more

Chinese youths work at their computer stations in an Internet cafe in Beijing, China, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006.

Star Tribune

BEIJING - More people now go online in China than there are people in the United States. The country's rapid economic growth and expansion of Internet access in more areas has fueled a sharp increase in Internet users, totaling 338 million by the end...

photo: AP / Elizabeth Dalziel

Damage eyed as shuttle heads toward space station read more

Under a cloud-washed sky, spectators watch as space shuttle Endeavour rises majestically from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the STS-127 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 6:03 p.m. EDT on July 15, 2009, and was the sixth launch attempt for the mission. The launch was scrubbed on June 13 and June 17 when a hydrogen gas leak occurred during tanking due to a misaligned ground umbilical carrier plate. The mission was postponed July 11, 12 and 13 due to weather conditions near the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy that violated rules for launching, and lightning issues.

Chicago Sun-Times

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.---- Space shuttle Endeavour rocketed toward the international space station Thursday as engineers on Earth pored over launch pictures that showed debris breaking off the fuel tank and striking the craft. Mission Control told the...

photo: NASA / Jim Grossmann

Turmoil in Venezuelan Town read more

Protesters clash with National Guard soldiers in Curiepe, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 15, 2009. National Guard troops seized control of a police station controlled by an opposition governor on Wednesday, sparking clashes between troops and protesters that police said left six injured.

The New York Times

National Guard troops in Curiepe, Venezuela, seized a police station controlled by a leading opponent of President Hugo Chávez on Wednesday, setting off clashes between troops and protesters that the police said left eight injured, The Associated...

photo: AP / Ariana Cubillos

Routing Taliban 'may take time' read more

A U.S. Army soldier calls for an airstrike on the hills surrounding Barge Matal during Operation Mountain Fire in the eastern Nuristan province of Afghanistan on July 12, 2009.

BBC News

"If we get it right, the Afghan people will turn the Taliban out" The top military commander in the US, Adm Michael Mullen, says he does not know how long it will take for security to improve in Afghanistan. He warned that the Taliban were...

photo: US Army / Sgt. Matthew C. Moeller

Iran says plane crash likely caused by technical glitch read more

In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), people gather amidst smoke and debris at the scene of a plane crash near the village of Jannatabad, outside the city of Qazvin, around 75 miles northwest of Tehran in Iran, Wednesday, July 15, 2009. An Iranian passenger plane carrying 168 people crashed a quarter-hour after takeoff Wednesday, smashing into a field northwest of the capital and shattering to pieces, with State television saying all on board were killed.

The Times of India

Text: TEHRAN: Technical problems were the likely cause of the crash of an Iranian airliner that ploughed into a field...

photo: AP / ISNA, Sina Shiri

India and Pakistan discuss resuming of talks read more

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, shakes hands with Pakistan's Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani during their meeting at the 15th Non-Aligned Movement summit in Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, Thursday, July 16, 2009.

The News & Observer

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt -- The prime ministers of India and Pakistan had a rare encounter Thursday on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement summit in effort to defuse tensions between South Asia's nuclear powers following last year's terrorist...

photo: AP / Amr Nabil