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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Afghanistan Sun.com http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/c08dd24cec417021/ en-us Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:09:39 -0500 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:09:39 -0500 30 CAIRO - Three people were killed as thousands of angry protesters clashed with security forces in Egypt's capital Cairo and other cities for a second day Friday over the deaths of 74 football fans on http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208013/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:09:18 -0500 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208013/cs/1/ BANGKOK - Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal has rejected an appeal by a Khmer Rouge jailer Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, and increased his sentence to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208605/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:29:58 -0500 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208605/cs/1/ NAIROBI, Kenya - A good harvest and food aid inflows have improved the situation in Somalia, the United Nations said Friday declaring that the country is out of "famine" situation, while underlining n http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208431/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:24:13 -0500 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208431/cs/1/ AMSTERDAM - The International Court of Justice has ordered Italy to annul all compensation claims against Germany for Nazi war crimes, saying Rome had breached international laws when its courts allow http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208320/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:19:06 -0500 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203208320/cs/1/ TOKYO - Japan's Panasonic Friday predicted staggering annual loss of $10.2 billion, joining rivals Sony and Sharp who have also forecast combined losses of $6 billion. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203207545/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:59:12 -0500 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203207545/cs/1/ LONDON - The eurozone's service sector has shown some growth, marginal though, for the first time in four months, raising expectations that a recession could be kept at bay. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203207313/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:51:16 -0500 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203207313/cs/1/ BRUSSELS - Several countries in Europe are facing gas supply crunch with severe cold weather driving up demand and drop in Russian supplies via Kiev, raising fears of a repeat of the 2009 crisis. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203207228/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:48:08 -0500 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203207228/cs/1/ LONDON - Seven National Health Services (NHS) trusts, including three in London, have been identified for a bailout from a 1.5 billion pounds government fund to relieve major financial pressures. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203206945/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:41:32 -0500 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203206945/cs/1/ FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2005 file photo, Steve Appleton, CEO and chairman of Micron Technology Inc., looks out through the engine compartment of his stunt jet airplane inside the hanger where he ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221113/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:46:47 -0500 Chicago Sun-Times http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221113/ With the UN Security Council due to consider a resolution condemning violence in Syria, a Britain-based rights group says Syrian government forces killed more than 200 people in the city of Homs. ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221089/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:42:02 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221089/ Chemi Shalev / Don't knock the media's bias and double standards on Israel Disproportionate coverage is the flip side of disproportionate support for Israel, and thus a critical element in ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221092/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:38:19 -0500 Haaretz http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221092/ WASHINGTON - Dismissing economic sanctions that are beginning to bite, Iran's supreme leader said Friday that his country wouldn't bow to Western demands that it stop enriching uranium and ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221162/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:33:52 -0500 McClatchy http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221162/ Activists protested at embassies across the world Friday against Syrian President Bashar Assad's crackdown on citizens. Rallies in both Cairo and Berlin degraded into riots as people broke ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221102/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:30:21 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221102/ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Qatar on Sunday, AFP quoted Fatah party spokesman Azzam al-Ahmad as saying.According to Ahmad, the two ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221101/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:30:16 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221101/ Most of those killed in the Port Said football stadium on Wednesday night were crushed in a stampede and the government declared three days of mourning, but protesters hold the military-led ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221100/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:30:14 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221100/ VIENNA - Iran's apparent reluctance to let UN inspectors visit a military site near Tehran underlines the uphill task they face in getting the Islamic state to address suspicions it may be ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221099/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:30:11 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221099/ Israel's blockade of goods coming into the Gaza Strip has been the target of flotillas and a cause for concern among human rights activists and economists alike. But the difficulty of getting ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221098/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:30:09 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221098/ The pair, seen here posing with their fellow prefects, were members of the elite group known as the Eton Society, founded in 1811 as a debating ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221120/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:21:39 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221120/ In one episode, future heir Prince William, now the Duke of Cambridge, reveals that despite being one of the most famous women in the world, following her 60-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221121/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:21:34 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221121/ But the man queueing up at the checkout with a basket full of fresh fish and vegetables for a family meal had in fact just dealt with a resignation from one of his Cabinet ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221122/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:21:24 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221122/ ‘When we saw Mark and Caroline’s beautiful daughter it was so emotional, knowing that Adam had helped make it happen,’ said Mrs Rogers, 59, from Blackburn, a former assistant ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221123/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:21:14 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221123/ In news to gladden the heart of Prince Charles, who was once much mocked for having conversations with cabbages and the like, it appears science has caught up with what many gardeners have long held ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221124/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:21:05 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221124/ Samples of soil found that the surface had been starved of any moisture that might enhance the view that there are living organisms on the red ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221126/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:20:52 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221126/ A Cathedral verger who was accused of groping a woman as she waited for a service to start said yesterday that he was gay and ‘had no reason to touch ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221127/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:20:47 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221127/ The UK ranks 16th out of 27 countries in the European Union for the predicted rise in cases, according to the data published by the World Cancer Research ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221128/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:20:38 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221128/ Thousands of pet owners are preparing to pay huge veterinary bills – or face the heartbreaking prospect of having their beloved animals put down – after their insurance policies were ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221129/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:20:32 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221129/ A drink and a takeaway is a staple of a weekend evening in, but one enterprising couple have combined the two in one bottle by selling pizza flavoured ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221130/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:20:23 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221130/ He suggested that young soldiers earning a basic private’s salary of just ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221131/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:20:15 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221131/ The professional body representing GPs has demanded the Government scrap its NHS reforms, warning that they will cause ‘irreparable damage’ to patient ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221132/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:19:59 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221132/ Excluding those who only enter the National Lottery, the proportion of the female population who gamble has soared by a third to more than half for the first ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221133/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:19:50 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221133/ The head of the BBC on Friday accused Iran of intimidating staff members of its Persian service through slander, snooping and the arrest of their ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221134/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:19:42 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221134/ Etched into three brass war memorials were the names of men who had made the ultimate sacrifice for this country in the fight to defend freedom and overcome the rise of ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221135/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:19:35 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221135/ The two-day trip, which begins with a glamorous state dinner at the White House on March 13, is the first time Mrs Cameron has accompanied her husband on an official trip abroad since he became ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221136/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:19:26 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221136/ M&S did not fare much better in fourth place with 83. Their roses, priced ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221138/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:19:20 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221138/ Sacked: Charles Oloro outside the HMV store where he worked until he was fired for apprehending a shoplifter who had already made it through the front ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221139/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:19:15 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221139/ Yesterday’s hour-long service a stone's throw from the heart of the financial district proved so popular that worshippers filled the streets around the tiny community mosque. City workers ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221137/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:19:09 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221137/ The Royal Navy is sending a nuclear submarine to the South Atlantic to protect the Falkland Islands from the threat of Argentine military action (file ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221140/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:19:00 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221140/ A monthly ‘health check’ of the UK economy showed it rebounded strongly in January, easing fears of a double-dip recession after a slump at the end of last ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221141/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:18:50 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221141/ 'Apple appealed this ruling because Motorola repeatedly refuses to license this patent to Apple on reasonable terms, despite having declared it an industry standard patent seven years ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221142/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:18:40 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221142/ Yet now it has emerged that radioactive water is continuing to leak at the stricken site. These were spotted by workers at the reprocessing areas and were found to release enough beta rays that can ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221143/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:18:36 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221143/ Proudly flying the British Red Ensign, the giant cruise liner 'Star Princess' had sailed into the Argentinian port of Ushuaia before heading north to the Falkland ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221144/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:18:28 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221144/ Michael died of mesothelioma, an incurable cancer that takes hold in the lining of the lungs. Nothing could have saved him. He and his wife had decided not to tell their two young children of his ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221145/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:18:15 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221145/ Bank bosses have been 'creaming it' at the expense of their shareholders over the last decade, the chairman of troubled Royal Bank of Scotland admitted ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221146/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:18:08 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221146/ In the film, a New York police psychologist has to attempt to talk down a former policeman who has threatened to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221147/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:17:57 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221147/ But the freezing conditions didn't keep the Queen and Princess Anne from taking part in a tree-planting ceremony at the new 20-acre Jubilee Wood on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221148/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:17:38 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221148/ Burls, from Peckham, South London, thought he had evaded police as he covered most of his face with a scarf while setting fire to a Peckham store and nearby Post ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221149/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:17:28 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221149/ A legal probe was launched last year after complaints that an Austrian website was offering alcohol for sale adorned with portraits of the Nazi leader and ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221151/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:17:17 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221151/ The last picture of writer Colin Adams in a Moscow bar, taken the evening before he died after becoming involved in an altercation with a hotel ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221150/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:17:07 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221150/ He was apparently still sat on the chair with his hands stretched out in front of the keyboard as if he was still playing in the cafe in New Taipei ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221153/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:16:59 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221153/ Optical illusions have been a recognised phenomenon for many years, and one famous image - the Kanizsa Triangle - demonstrates how the brain can be fooled into seeing things that aren't really ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221152/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:16:51 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221152/ War heroes betrayed because of their colour: A new film shows the heroism of black U.S. pilots who fought the Nazis. What it doesn't show is how they were treated upon their ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221154/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:16:40 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221154/ The United Nations says Somalia's famine is over, but has warned that continued assistance is needed to make sure the country doesn't slip back into ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221155/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:16:29 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221155/ Judge Richard Griffith-Jones told them: ‘You have both been convicted of murder and there is only one sentence that can be passed in this ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221157/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:16:13 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221157/ The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told police they had agreed between them that they would set up home together when she reached ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221158/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:16:04 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221158/ The lenses sit directly on the eyeball, and have been engineered using nanoscale techniques to work as a focusing device that pairs with a pair of hi-tech ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221159/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:15:54 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221159/ Children who were given two or more doses of anaesthetic before they turned three years old had more than double the incidence of ADHD than children who had no exposure, the Mayo Clinic research ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221160/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:15:48 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221160/ LONDON: Five people were arrested Saturday after gaining entry to the Syrian embassy in London as protesters demonstrated at the building, police said.Around 150 protesters gathered outside the ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221074/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:13:45 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221074/ WASHINGTON: Hacker group Anonymous, in an embarrassment for law enforcement, released a recording of a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard discussing operations against the hacking ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221075/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:13:43 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221075/ LAS VEGAS, Nevada: Mitt Romney looks set to romp to victory in the Nevada caucus Saturday, cementing his position as Republican presidential frontrunner four days after his crushing Florida ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221076/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:13:40 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221076/ DAMASCUS: Syrian forces killed at least 217 civilians, including women and children, in a "massacre" in the central city of Homs, a rights group said Saturday, ahead of a UN vote on the ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221078/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:13:34 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221078/ The confirmation came after the UN announced the meeting to news correspondents, then sent out another email asking reporters to "please disregard until further notice" the earlier ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221028/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:59:33 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221028/ The 30-year-old man was seen falling over the railings by another passenger on the Allure of the Seas, the Royal Caribbean International cruise line said.He could also be seen falling over in ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221029/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:59:27 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221029/ Comrade Duch, the head of a notorious Khmer Rouge prison, was ordered to spend the rest of his life in jail after a tribunal ruled yesterday that he had overseen a "factory of ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221030/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:59:22 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221030/ Ah yes, "that game". It too was a Super Bowl, no. XLII in the Roman numerals the league employs to add even more gladiatorial spice to the occasion. It was also one of the most memorable, ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221031/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:59:19 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221031/ An extraordinary letter written by an emancipated slave to his former owner ridiculing his request for him to return to work on a Tennessee plantation after the Civil War has become an internet ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221033/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:59:08 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221033/ The French President has yet to officially enter this spring's election race, but the visit was a campaign event in all but name. The building site's 67 workers had been ordered home ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221034/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:59:02 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221034/ Already Australia's richest woman, Gina Rinehart has been tipped to overtake Carlos Slim and Bill Gates as the world's wealthiest person in years to come. But her billions - the proceeds ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221035/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:56 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221035/ His announcement came on the eve of another large-scale protest in Moscow, planned for this afternoon.Insurgents from the Caucasus have been behind some horrific attacks within Russia over the past ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221036/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:50 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221036/ Margarita Mbywangy's tribe was nearly wiped out when the modern world came calling. Now she has come to Europe to talk about their stolen land and struggle for ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221037/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:44 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221037/ More than 11,000 people in Queensland state have been isolated by the flooding and thousands have been forced to leave their homes. The town of Moree in New South Wales, meanwhile, has been cut in ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221038/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:37 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221038/ An exceptional harvest after good rains and food deliveries by aid agencies have ended famine in Somalia for now but food stocks could run out again in May, the United Nations said ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221039/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:31 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221039/ Berlin's biggest opera house, the Deutsche Oper, has been forced to backtrack on plans to stage a re-launched version of Adolf Hitler's favourite Wagner opera on the Nazi leader's ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221040/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:24 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221040/ A charity co-founder who claimed he travelled the world as a "Jewish Indiana Jones" to rescue Torahs has pleaded guilty to fraud charges, admitting that he lied about his ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221041/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:18 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221041/ There, in a dimly-lit world of red satin and inexpensive perfume, a cigar-chomping entrepreneur with a bald head and a smile as wide as the desert sky politely informs visitors that he and his ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221042/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:06 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221042/ Further evidence of the extent of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's wide-reaching financial empire has been revealed after police reportedly seized dozens of luxury items and company shares belonging ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221044/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:57:59 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221044/ So, she has gone and done it. Several months after announcing on a late-night talk show that she wanted to run for the highest office in the land - the presidency of the United States - Roseanne ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221045/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:57:52 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221045/ Envoys at the UN Security Council awaited a decision by Moscow yesterday on the latest version of a European-Arab draft resolution endorsing an Arab League plan for Syria, and some diplomats said ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221046/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:57:46 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221046/ Kuwait's Islamist-led opposition took control of the Gulf state's parliament yesterday, making sweeping gains in a snap election on the back of a wave of public anger over corruption and ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221047/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:57:39 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221047/ Iran's supreme leader threatened to attack Israel yesterday in retaliation for Western sanctions against the Islamic Republic, warning that "threatening Iran and attacking Iran will harm ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221048/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:57:32 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221048/ Specialist Michael Wagnon is seen in this undated handout. The U.S. Army dismissed all charges against the last of five soldiers to face court-martial in the murder of unarmed Afghan civilians, ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221109/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:56:32 -0500 C News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221109/ Competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi from Japan eats chicken wings on his way to winning "Wingbowl 20", the annual chicken wing eating contest in Philadelphia, Pa., February 3, 2012. ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221110/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:56:27 -0500 C News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221110/ A judge has found a widow cannot collect the full value of her husband's $1-million life insurance policy after he died in a plane crash on Vancouver Island more than three years ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221112/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:54:17 -0500 Vancouver Sun http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221112/ The US Army has confirmed that Bradley Manning, the US soldier charged with passing thousands of secret documents to WikiLeaks, will face court martial and the risk of life ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221116/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:49:05 -0500 Sky News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221116/ mass protests . Establishing a white ribbon as their symbol, they voiced anger at what they say were rigged elections which Mr Putin's party United Russia won with just under 50% of the vote. ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221115/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:49:03 -0500 Sky News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221115/ Cycling star Lance Armstrong will not be charged over allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs after federal prosecutors dropped a criminal investigation against ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221117/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:49:01 -0500 Sky News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221117/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to a near three-year low, giving a boost to ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221055/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:29:27 -0500 Reuters http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221055/ (CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors closed their investigation of Lance Armstrong without charging him over allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs Friday, ending a nearly two-year ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221061/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:22:48 -0500 CBS News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221061/ (CBS News) There has been a big improvement in the employment picture. The Labor Department reported Friday that the jobless rate in January fell 2/10 of a point to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221064/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:22:38 -0500 CBS News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221064/ This photo provided by the Anaheim Police Dept. shows Itzcoatl Ocampo. Investigators are "extremely confident" that Ocampo a man in their custody is responsible for all four recent ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221068/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:22:24 -0500 CBS News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221068/ Egyptian protestors stand in front of riot police to stop others from throwing stones during clashes near the Interior Ministry in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Khalil ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221067/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:22:20 -0500 CBS News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221067/ (Credit: istockphoto) (CBS) The HPV vaccine should be given to all males between the ages of 11 and 21, says the Centers for Disease Control and ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221069/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:22:15 -0500 CBS News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221069/ (AP) COLUMBUS, Ohio - Proposed legislation in Ohio would ban the purchase of lions, bears and other exotic animals, but current owners of the dangerous wildlife would be allowed to keep them as pets ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221071/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:22:12 -0500 CBS News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221071/ admitted to at one time being "reliant" on alcohol, but now the actor says he used to show up to the "Harry Potter" film set drunk. In a new interview with British celebrity ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221070/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:22:08 -0500 CBS News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221070/ (Credit: AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said the latest unemployment numbers don't tell the whole story. In an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221072/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:22:03 -0500 CBS News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221072/ As part of our continuing series "On the Road," Steve Hartman tells the story of Jim O'Hara and his iron-willed campaign for the governorship of ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221073/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:21:58 -0500 CBS News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221073/ The population of the planet reached seven billion in October, according to the United Nations. But what's the figure for all those who have lived before us? It is often said that there are ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221027/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:19:40 -0500 BBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221027/ Thousands are set to protest in Moscow against fraud in Russia's recent parliamentary election. With a month to go before a presidential poll in which Vladimir Putin tries to return to his old ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221026/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:19:36 -0500 BBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221026/ Hundreds of people have been killed or injured in a major army offensive in the central Syrian city of Homs, activists say. Activists talking to Al Jazeera in the early hours of Saturday said the ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221118/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:17:05 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203221118/