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  • Assange awarded Sydney peace medal
    Melbourne, February 2 (PTI): Hounded worldwide, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been honoured back home by Sydney Peace foundation with a gold medal for showing "exceptional courage" and initiati
    World / 2nd February 2011
  • Study to predict when cancer will spread
    WASHINGTON, February 2 (Reuters): Researchers have found a compound that tumors make when they are likely to spread, and said they hope to use to it predict which patients are most at risk of dying from their c
    World / 2nd February 2011
  • Egyptian army sides with Mubarak; tensions rise
    Thousands of Egyptians wave Egyptians flags and posters supporting President Mubarak during a march in Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday, February 2. (AP Photo) CAIRO, February 2 (AP): The Egyptian military called
    World / 2nd February 2011
  • Australians flee ahead of “catastrophic” cyclone
    Cairns, February 2 (Reuters): Thousands of people fled their homes and crammed into shelters in northeastern Australia on Wednesday as the most powerful cyclone in the country's history barreled toward a string
    World / 2nd February 2011
  • Jubilant crowds flood Cairo, escalating protests
    People gather in Tahrir, or Liberation, Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. Security officials say authorities have shut down all roads and public transportation to Cairo, where tens of thousands of
    World / 1st February 2011
  • Storms, floods kill 6 in southern Brazil
    SAO PAULO (AP) - Severe floods triggered by torrential downpours have killed at least six people in southern Brazil and driven thousands from their homes. The Civil Defense department in Santa Catarina s
    World / 1st February 2011
  • Pakistani arrested for 'blasphemous' exam answer
    KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Police have arrested a 17-year old Pakistani boy for writing an allegedly blasphemous remark in an examination paper, an officer said Tuesday. Pakistan's blasphemy laws have come
    World / 1st February 2011
  • US Senate Democrats reject call to cut Israel aid
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Six Senate Democrats are rejecting a deficit-driven proposal by a new Republican senator to cut U.S. aid to Israel. In a letter Tuesday to the top House Republicans on the Appropriations an
    World / 1st February 2011
  • Huckabee says no Palestinian state in West Bank
    JERUSALEM (AP) - Potential 2012 U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Tuesday that if Palestinians want an independent state, they should seek it from Arabs - not Israel. The evangelical m
    World / 1st February 2011
  • Myanmar’s parliament opens under tight security
    Myanmar security police officers check a car carrying a representative towards the parliament building on Monday, January 31 in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo) NAYPYITAW, January 31 (AP): Myanmar opened its
    World / 31st January 2011
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