-- At least 20 people were killed and six injured Wednesday in a mine explosion in northeastern Colombia near the border with Venezuela, the government-run Colombian Institute of Geology and Mining, known by the acronym Ingeominas, reported.
"At this time, personnel from Ingeominas are at the...
The disappearance of two men — a high-profile real estate agent dealing in luxury homes and his client — is causing concern among the Greater Toronto Area's Chinese community.
Missing is Jiangou (Tony) Han — a 44-year-old real estate agent with HomeLife/Landmark Realty in North York — and Jun...
A new NASA craft is due to set sail, literally, Thursday night.
What's more, it hopes to be unfurling its sail in outer space.
What, you may ask, is NASA doing with a sail-powered vehicle?
The answer is that the bread-loaf-size satellite, built on a shoe-string budget, is designed to test a...
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/01/24/flower.lok.peace.talks.cnn
-- Palestinian negotiators agreed to give up large swaths of East Jerusalem to Israel during negotiations dating back to 2008, the Al-Jazeera network said, suggesting Palestinians have been willing to offer much larger...
-- The human rights group Amnesty International said Friday that Haitian authorities are launching a probe into alleged crimes against humanity committed during the 15-year rule of former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier.
Amnesty International researcher Gerardo Ducos gave Haitian...
-- Sonia Peres, the wife of Israeli President Shimon Peres, died at her Tel Aviv home Thursday morning, a president's spokeswoman said. She was 87.
The president was making his way to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem on Thursday, said spokeswoman Meital Jaslovitz.
The couple has lived separately since...
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/01/18/todd.tunisia.us.importance.cnn
-- Tunisia's interim president and prime minister resigned from the ousted leader's ruling party, state TV said Tuesday, a move seen as a gesture to placate angry street demonstrators and keep the unity government...
Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says there will be no HST compensation deal for Quebec in his sixth budget, expected to be tabled in February or March.
"No, I don't think we'll be there by then," he said in an interview with CBC Radio's The House, aired Saturday, when asked if his...
- Curtis Acosta's class on Latino literature opened on Monday with a poem:
"You are my other me," the high school students said in unison, reciting the words in Spanish and English. "If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. If I love and respect you, I love and respect myself."
It's a simple...
– The Anti-Defamation League, an organization that combats anti-Semitism, says Sarah Palin should have used a different phrase than "blood libel" to characterize attempts to link her discourse to the Arizona shootings, the latest in a series of criticisms leveled at the former Alaska governor...
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/01/12/exp.obama.arizona.memorial.short.cnn
-- In between consoling those touched by Saturday's Arizona shooting and warning the nation against politicizing the tragedy, President Barack Obama delivered some good news in his address at a Tucson memorial...
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/01/11/maktabi.tunisia.riots.cnn
-- The protests that have gripped Tunisia in recent weeks are, to say the least, unusual. Organized dissent in the streets is rarely tolerated in Arab states, and human rights groups say the Tunisian government has had a...
NEW YORK – David Nelson was a star of TV's original family sitcom. But as he lived with his family in front of the cameras, he was a star in what also might be seen as TV's first reality show.
Nelson, who died Tuesday at age 74, was the last surviving member of "America's Favorite Family,"...
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/health/2011/01/05/ac.autism.wakefield.intv.cnn
-- The author of a now-retracted study linking autism to childhood vaccines expected a related medical test to rack up sales of up to $43 million a year, a British medical journal reported Tuesday.
The report in the...
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/01/10/exp.ps.sheriff.clarence.dupnik.cnn
-- A little-known sheriff has stepped into the national spotlight with a back-to-basics lesson for America:
Treat people with respect; engage in civil discourse; be nice.
Those aren't the sexiest talking...
A member of the Tunisian security forces takes aim at a demonstrator on Monday in Regueb.
-- As clashes spread Tuesday, a Tunisian workers union called on President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to order an independent inquiry into the deaths of demonstrators protesting high unemployment and poor...
The Ohio homeless man whose smooth broadcaster voice made him an Internet sensation was questioned by police after he and his daughter got into a heated argument at a hotel during a trip to Hollywood to appear on "Dr. Phil" and "Entertainment Tonight."
"I don't know how loud they were," Officer...
-- Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration faced its first public oversight hearing Monday as a part of a probe into what went wrong during last month's blizzard, with administration officials saying they should have declared a snow emergency.
City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn called the...
- Two French citizens who were kidnapped in Niger's capital were killed -- apparently executed by their abductors -- during an attempted rescue mission, the French Defense Ministry said Sunday.
"During this rescue operation, the two hostages were killed, probably executed by their kidnappers...
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/01/09/mckenzie.sudan.vote.cnn
-- Tens of thousands of people across Southern Sudan went to the polls Sunday in a historic referendum that an international election observer said appeared to have been well-handled.
"There were very, very large numbers...
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