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What’s next for Rebekah Brooks?

Rebekah Brooks
Rebekah Brooks has finally resigned as chief executive of News International, following weeks of dyer scandal involving phone hacking.
Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachman and Obama both affected by “ex gay” clinics scandal ?

Recent reports that the therapy clinic co-owned by Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann offers "ex-gay" therapy are raising questions about the Tea Party darling's chances of winning the Republican presidential electoral bid, but could also surprisingly tarnish President Obama's image.
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Earthquake rocks English Channel

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 struck in the middle of the English Channel yesterday, the British Geological Survey said.
South Sudan, newest nation

Mystery Nodding Syndrome Strikes South Sudan

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, sent an emergency response team to rural southern Sudan in May to try and assess a mysterious illness seen in children in the region. But despite their preparation, most of the doctors and scientists said they were deeply affected by their first encounter with 'nodding syndrome'. "Actually seeing it out in the community was overwhelming and distressing," Bunga, a member of the U.S team told reporters. "The ...
Former British Prime Minister Blair

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Could Become “Dangerous”: Blair

The Arab League will submit to the United Nations a request for recognition of a Palestinian state, Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi said on Thursday in Doha.The Arab peace initiative committee "has decided to submit a call to the member states of the United Nations to recognise a Palestinian state," Arabi told a news conference after a meeting of the committee in the Qatari capital, the AFP reported.It would "move to present a request for full membership of a Palestinian state ...
Yoweri Museveni

Uganda: “Even Dead Bodies Must Work”

Inmates in Ugandan prisons are subject to brutal compulsory labour, frequent violence, miserable overcrowding, and disease, Human Rights Watch said today in a report examining conditions in 16 prisons throughout the country.
U.S. President Barack Obama

Obama’s Cash Machine Campaign to Trash Republicans' White House Hopes?

Despite criticism and a rise in domestic public discontent, President Barack Obama is proving he's still a force to be reckoned with by raising a record-shattering $86 million for his re-election campaign from April to June, exceeding a $60 million quarterly target and easily eclipsing all Republican challengers.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

Is Sarah Palin Ready to Announce Nomination Decision?

After Sarah Palin's interview with Newsweek last weekend, speculation has intensified that she's ready to throw her hat into the ring for the Republican nomination for the right to challenge President Obama for the White House.
Talibanguerillas

Taliban Kill 5 French Soldiers in Afghanistan

Five French soldiers and an Afghan civilian were killed on Wednesday in a suicide bomb attack, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said, one day after he returned from a visit to Afghanistan.
Relatives of Sarhan mourn at the hospital morgue in Nablus

Israeli soldiers kill 21 year old Palestinian

Israeli soldiers Wednesday killed a young Palestinian man while looking for an activist of the Islamic Jihad Movement at a refugee camp in the West Bank's north, Palestinian security sources told the Associated Press.