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Afghanistan offensive is key test of Obama's strategy

Washington Post - Karen DeYoung - ‎1 hour ago‎
Marines find temporary shelter in an abandoned dwelling in Marja, a Taliban stronghold. (Andrea Bruce/the Washington Post) By Karen DeYoung The largest military offensive of the eight-year war in Afghanistan, launched this weekend in southwestern ...

Biden bickers with Cheney across TV airwaves

USA Today - Peter Eisler - ‎56 minutes ago‎
AP By Peter Eisler, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Vice President Biden said his predecessor, Dick Cheney, is either "misinformed or … misinforming" as the two sparred on separate Sunday news shows about Cheney's continued criticism of the Obama ...

'We are not frightened, there is no anti-Semitism in India'

Jerusalem Post - Haviv Rettig - ‎1 hour ago‎
Terror bombing of German Bakery in Indian city of Pune has rekindled concern for safety of Israelis and Jews in subcontinent. The terror bombing of the German Bakery in the Indian city of Pune has rekindled concern for the safety of ...

Clinton Pleads for Patience at US-Islamic World Forum

New York Times - Mark Landler - ‎44 minutes ago‎
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton with Sheik Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, Qatar's prime minister, at the US-Islamic World Forum.

Opposition Chief Is Named Victor of Ukrainian Vote

New York Times - Clifford J. Levy - ‎4 hours ago‎
MOSCOW - Ukraine's Central Election Commission certified Viktor F. Yanukovich as the winner of the Feb. 7 presidential election on Sunday, even as his opponent, Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko, vowed to challenge the decision in ...

Thousands Rally in Beirut To Honor Slain Former Prime Minister Hariri

Voice of America - ‎5 hours ago‎
Photo: AP A Lebanese boy carries pictures of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, top, and his father slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri at a rally in Beirut's Martyrs' Square, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010.

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2 teens shot during church service in Richmond

San Francisco Chronicle - Demian Bulwa - ‎1 hour ago‎
(02-14) 20:05 PST RICHMOND -- Three young men with black sweatshirt hoods pulled over their heads walked into a packed church service in Richmond on Sunday, where one of them opened fire and wounded two teenagers sitting in the pews, police said.

Helicopter crash in north Phoenix kills 3

The Associated Press - Bob Christie - ‎3 hours ago‎
PHOENIX - A helicopter crash just north of Phoenix killed at least three people on Sunday afternoon, including a child, and officials couldn't rule out the possibility of more victims.

Alleged Ala. killer was suspect in attempted bombing of Harvard professor

Boston Globe - Shelley Murphy, Donovan Slack - ‎8 hours ago‎
The professor who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama on Friday was a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of a Harvard Medical School professor in 1993, ...

India's Stocks Fluctuate; Bharti Sinks as Bharat Heavy Gains

BusinessWeek - ‎34 minutes ago‎
By Rajhkumar K Shaaw Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Indian stocks fluctuated. Bharti Airtel Ltd. fell after offering to buy most of the African assets of Kuwait's Zain.

Japan economic growth exceeds expectations

BBC News - Roland Buerk - ‎20 minutes ago‎
Japan's economy grew by a better than expected 1.1% in the final quarter of last year, according to government figures. This is the equivalent of an annualised increase of 4.6%.

FOREX-Euro on defensive as worries about Greece persist

Reuters - Satomi Noguchi, Anirban Nag - ‎2 hours ago‎
TOKYO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The euro edged near 9-month lows against the dollar on Monday as doubts intensified about whether policymakers in the euro zone will help debt-laden Greece, prompting investors to add to long positions in the ...

Samsung, Sony Ericsson roll out new smartphones

Reuters - Nicola Leske, Niclas Mika - ‎7 hours ago‎
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics and Sony Ericsson unveiled their new top smartphone models on Sunday, both hoping to improve their positions in the more lucrative part of the phone market.

Anger Leads to Apology From Google About Buzz

New York Times - Miguel Helft - ‎2 hours ago‎
Google moved quickly over the weekend to try to contain mounting criticism of Buzz, its social network, apologizing to users for features that were widely seen as endangering privacy and announcing product changes to address those ...

Brightcove Mobile Experience For Adobe Flash Player Unveiled

Broadcasting & Cable - David Tanklefsky - ‎19 minutes ago‎
By David Tanklefsky -- Broadcasting & Cable, 2/15/2010 12:06:00 AM Online video platform Brightcove unveiled the Brightcove Mobile Experience for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Monday (Feb. 15) at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Kevin Smith Too Fat to Fly

ABC News - Suzanne Yeo - ‎4 hours ago‎
Actor-director Kevin Smith has made a career by saying nothing as the character Silent Bob in hit movies such as "Clerks" and "Mallrats.

"Valentine's Day" woos weekend moviegoers

Reuters - Lisa Baertlein, Sandra Maler - ‎9 hours ago‎
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The star-studded comedy "Valentine's Day" shot to the top of North American box office charts during the long US President's day weekend, which is poised to land in the record books for ticket sales.

'The Amazing Race' recap: Chile Reception

Entertainment Weekly - Jessica Shaw - ‎19 minutes ago‎
Welcome back for another season, Amazing Race fans! After last year's less-than-stellar Race, Bertram van Munster and his gang of less-awesomely-named producers are finally back in the groove with plenty of great ...

Bosh's free throws lift East to All-Star win

Dallas Morning News - Eddie Sefko - ‎37 minutes ago‎
From Usher rapping his way through the pre-game introductions to scantily clad Shakira shaking it at halftime, Cowboys Stadium was brim-full with talented dancers and exotic grinders.

McMurray leads when it counts at Daytona

Kansas City Star - Randy Covitz - ‎9 minutes ago‎
Jamie McMurray celebrated his victory while the confetti rained down in victory lane. His lead was short but sweet. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.

Gold comes home

CTV.ca - ‎25 minutes ago‎
He smashed a jinx that spanned Canada's two previous Olympic Games and began 12 years before he was even born, but as historic and huge as Alexandre Bilodeau's story here was last night, so was it also small, personal and utterly lovely.

Still haven't got your swine flu shot? There's plenty left

San Jose Mercury News - Marissa Cevallos - ‎38 minutes ago‎
Three months ago, families hauled sleeping bags and pillows to the Santa Clara County fairgrounds and camped out for hours in lines that snaked half a mile to be among the first to be immunized against the feared H1N1 virus.

Higher insurance costs affect more than rich

Winston-Salem Journal - ‎18 minutes ago‎
AP Interactive: American Health Care AP To critics, a 39 percent increase in health insurance for some Californians foretells skyrocketing rates for the rest of us.

Individual mandate: A sticking point in the healthcare debate

Los Angeles Times - ‎Feb 13, 2010‎
Is forcing people to have insurance a useful strategy to spread the costs, or an ill-conceived notion that would only exacerbate the problem?
Health care reform needs foundation Dubuque Telegraph Herald

Fire Your Relatives. Scare Your Employees. And Stop Whining.

New York Times - Kermit Pattison - ‎Feb 10, 2010‎
George Cloutier, founder of American Management Services, specializes in offering tough advice to small and midsize businesses. By KERMIT PATTISON IT'S not the economy, stupid, it's you.

The death of Alaska fisherman Phil Harris, of 'Deadliest Catch,' is met with ...

Los Angeles Times - T.L. Stanley - ‎Feb 11, 2010‎
Fans of the late Phil Harris, the salty, tattooed captain who starred in the Discovery Channel's “Deadliest Catch," will still be able to see him doing the work he loved when the show launches its new season in April.

Running debate: Bare or in shoes?

CNN - Ashley Fantz - ‎Feb 12, 2010‎
A new study shows that barefoot running causes less impact to the body than wearing shoes. (CNN) -- Terry Chiplin didn't need a Harvard study to tell him what he's known for years.

Palin's Cunning Sleight of Hand

New York Times - Frank Rich - ‎Feb 13, 2010‎
Yet the laughter rang hollow. You had to wonder if Palin, who is nothing if not cunning, had sprung a trap. She knows all too well that the more the so-called elites lampoon her, the more she cements her cred with the third of the country ...

A lethal business model targets Middle America

Los Angeles Times - ‎21 hours ago‎
Sugar cane farmers from a tiny Mexican county use savvy marketing and low prices to push black-tar heroin in the United States. By Sam Quinones First Of Three Parts Immigrants from an obscure corner of Mexico are changing heroin use in many parts of ...
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