Somali pirates demand $25M for Saudi ship
The Liberian-flagged oil tanker MV Sirius Star is seen at anchor in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia on November 19, 2008. The large, Saudi-owned crude carrier was hijacked by Somali pirates on November 15 about 450...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:53:20 GMT

Rwandans protest official's extradition
KIGALI, Rwanda, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Rwanda's capital of Kigali was quiet as its residents turned out to protest against the extradition from Germany of a top Rwandan official to France. Tens of thousands of people gathered...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:36:03 GMT

U.N. peacekeepers needed in Somalia: African Union
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The United Nations should send peacekeepers to Somalia urgently to stop the strife that is fuelling piracy and is being aggravated by feuding politicians, the African Union's top diplomat said on Thursday.
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:40:07 GMT

Ben Affleck tours refugee camps in eastern Congo
US actor Ben Affleck walks through a camp for displaced people, Wednesday Nov. 19, 2008, near Kibati just north of Goma in eastern Congo. Affleck is currently in Congo on his fourth trip over the last year, hoping to understand...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:28:21 GMT

GCAP Acting Coordinator Off to Uganda
He said representatives from at least 16 African countries and other partners across the continent are expected to attend the retreat. Read comments. Write your own. AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:08:36 GMT

AU chief warns against rise in Somali piracy
The African Union urged the United Nations on Thursday to quickly send peacekeepers to Somalia, as piracy off the east African nation's sprawling coast spiraled out of control. An anti-piracy watchdog, meanwhile, advocated more...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:33:26 GMT

Pakistan summons U.S. ambassador to protest missile strikes
Pakistan summoned the U.S. ambassador Thursday to protest a suspected American missile strike deep inside its territory as militants threatened revenge attacks unless the cross-border raids stop. The anger came even as NATO...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:25:22 GMT

Iraq parliament engulfed in protests over US pact
Updated 6m ago BAGHDAD - As opposition lawmakers shouted and pounded their desks in protest, Iraq’s parliament on Thursday resumed deliberating on a proposed security agreement with the United States that would allow American...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:04:26 GMT

Iran reported to have enough fuel for nuclear weapon
Iran reported to have enough fuel for nuclear weapon Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:51:46 GMT

Jackson to appear for London lawsuit
US pop icon Michael Jackson waves to his fans as he leaves the Santa Barbara County Courthouse after being acquitted of all charges in his child molestation trial in Santa Maria, CA on June 13, 2005. A jury cleared Jackson of...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:43:45 GMT

Oil falls below $53 on recession fears
Oil prices fell below $53 to almost a two-year low Thursday as investors, worried by plummeting stock markets, priced in lower crude demand as the global economic downturn shapes up to be the worst in decades. Light, sweet...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:12:06 GMT

Australian police to end restrictions on ex-Gitmo detainee
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian police said Thursday they will stop restricting the movements and communications of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee after he broke his long media silence to ask them to let him "get on...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:23:00 GMT

Two Killed By Australian Storms
11:58am UK, Thursday November 20, 2008 Violent storms have killed two people and caused the worst flooding seen for decades in eastern Australia. Flooding is the worst seen for decades Troops have been sent out to help...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:21:30 GMT

Driver convicted for penis in pasta jar
Driver convicted for penis in pasta jar - A MAN caught by police with his penis inside a pasta sauce jar was still pleasuring himself while resisting arrest, a court has been told. Police drew their weapons after New South...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:57:10 GMT

MySpace Music to Globally Premiere New Guns N? Roses Album ?Chinese Democracy? Beginning November...
MySpace Music to Globally Premiere New Guns N? Roses, will be premiered worldwide exclusively through MySpace Music, the world?s premier music community. Beginning today, fans can stream Chinese Democracy in its entirety three...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:07:21 GMT

Australian police to end restrictions on ex-Gitmo detainee
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian police said Thursday they will stop restricting the movements and communications of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee after he broke his long media silence to ask them to let him "get on...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:23:00 GMT

Ninety Migrants Feared Dead After Capsize
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search for roughly 90 migrants feared dead after their makeshift boat apparently sank in an often-stormy stretch of water between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:02:21 GMT

Conservatives Call On Bush To Free Uighurs
The 10 conservatives, including legal scholars and officials who worked for Republican presidents, said the Uighurs - a group of Muslims from China - should be freed immediately because they are no longer considered enemy...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:30:41 GMT

Democracy in Nicaragua In Peril, Ortega Critics Say
MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- The U.S. Embassy has been accused of counterrevolutionary subversion. A nervous Catholic Church is appealing for calm. The opposition party is crying electoral fraud, while roaming gangs armed with clubs...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Close Guantanamo prison? Sure. But that's the easy part
Close Guantanamo prison? Sure. But that's the easy part What to do with most dangerous detainees is minefield for Obama. President-elect Barack Obama has promised — most recently on CBS' 60 Minutes Sunday night — to close the...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:22:00 GMT

Iceland secures $2.1 billion IMF loan
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The International Monetary Fund has agreed to loan Iceland $2.1 billion, bringing Iceland's borrowing total to more than $5 billion, the government said. Iceland has secured the additional...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:05:29 GMT

Pilot Mental Breakdown Mid-Flight
9:08am UK, Thursday November 20, 2008 An airliner co-pilot who suffered a mental breakdown mid-flight had to be wrestled out of the cockpit before a stewardess helped make an emergency landing. An Air Canada passenger plane in...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:59:27 GMT

Russian Navy to bolster anti-pirate force
Russia will send additional ships to the Horn of Africa to support international efforts to crack down on the recent wave of hijackings by Somalia-based pirates, its navy chief says. The announcement comes a day after an Indian...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:16:44 GMT

Paris-Benj love story now over
Nine months after confirming they are seeing each other in a romantic way; after all the gushing and the declaration of ‘true love’, reports have it that Paris Hilton and Benji Madden have called it quits. A source of Star...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:32:28 GMT

Ford shuffles manufacturing executive lineup
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Ford has pulled an executive back from Europe to run its North American factories. It's part of an effort to free the current manufacturing chief to focus on standardizing the automaker's operations...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Somali Pirates Demand $25m Ransom
Breaking News 9:03am UK, Thursday November 20, 2008 Somali pirates who hijacked the Sirius Star supertanker are demanding $25m in ransom from the vessel's Saudi owners. US navy warns that a military approach will not "solve the...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:15:17 GMT

Iraq parliament engulfed in protests over US pact
Updated 6m ago BAGHDAD - As opposition lawmakers shouted and pounded their desks in protest, Iraq’s parliament on Thursday resumed deliberating on a proposed security agreement with the United States that would allow American...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:04:26 GMT

Iran reported to have enough fuel for nuclear weapon
Iran reported to have enough fuel for nuclear weapon Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:51:46 GMT

Jordan asks Israel to avoid Gaza incursion: radio
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak made a secret visit to Amman on Tuesday and met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Israeli public radio reported on Thursday. During the meeting the king urged the...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:27:36 GMT

Jackson to appear for London lawsuit
US pop icon Michael Jackson waves to his fans as he leaves the Santa Barbara County Courthouse after being acquitted of all charges in his child molestation trial in Santa Maria, CA on June 13, 2005. A jury cleared Jackson of...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:43:45 GMT

Auto industry executives leave Washington empty-handed
The chief executives of the Big Three Detroit automakers left Washington empty-handed after two days of pleading for a financial lifeline on Capitol Hill. As the public hearings and intense behind-the-scenes negotiations...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:15:52 GMT

Stevens concedes Senate re-election bid - USATODAY.com
Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is pursued by members of the media on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday after attending a Republican Caucus. WASHINGTON (AP) — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has conceded defeat in his re-election bid...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:31:12 GMT

California high court to hear challenges to voter-approved gay marriage ban
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules.
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:17:00 GMT

Texas court to arraign Cheney, Gonzales
RAYMONDVILLE, Texas A Texas judge has set an arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and other officials accused of involvement in prisoner abuse. Presiding Judge Manuel Banales...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Minnesota Senate recount gets tedious, pretty fast
By PATRICK CONDON and MARTIGA LOHN The Associated Press Thursday, November 20, 2008; 5:32 AM MINNEAPOLIS -- As the manual recount in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race began, one volunteer judge asked the city election director what...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:32:44 GMT

China, Peru sign free-trade pact
Chinese, Peruvian presidents meet ahead of Asian-Pacific summit in Lima, Peru Pact will eliminate tariffs on 90 percent of goods traded between the two nations China signing such pacts with many developing countries to get raw...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:12:13 GMT

Brazil cops: 10 to blame for deadly air crash
Prosecutors consider charges in 2007 disaster which killed 199 people One of TAM airline’s planes crashed and burst into flames at Congonhas airport in São Paulo on July 17, 2007. July 18, 2007: NBC's Tom Costello reports on...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:18:21 GMT

New Zealand PM departs for Peru for APEC meeting
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key left on Thursday for Lima, Peru, to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum leaders meeting. The annual meeting will focus on international economic crisis and the...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:46:18 GMT

MySpace Music to Globally Premiere New Guns N? Roses Album ?Chinese Democracy? Beginning November...
MySpace Music to Globally Premiere New Guns N? Roses, will be premiered worldwide exclusively through MySpace Music, the world?s premier music community. Beginning today, fans can stream Chinese Democracy in its entirety three...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:07:21 GMT

Google-owned Orkut Dominates Social Networking in Brazil
comScore recently released study results of Internet usage in Brazil. The study revealed that 85% of Internet users use social networking sites. In fact, Google-owned Orkut topped the list beating out other social networking...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:19:14 GMT