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Homs suffers 'heaviest' shelling
Syrian opposition groups say the city of Homs has come under the heaviest shelling in days, despite the president's pledge to engage in dialogue.
8 Feb 2012 at 9:20am

Greek parties 'to finalise deal'
Greek PM Lucas Papademos is meeting coalition parties in an attempt to seal an austerity deal to secure a new EU/IMF bailout.
8 Feb 2012 at 9:22am

America and Asia 'will join up'
Researchers say most of the world's continents will merge somewhere over the Pacific "ring of fire" in 50-200 million years.
8 Feb 2012 at 10:06am

Maldives president 'forced out'
Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed says he was forced to resign at gunpoint in a coup, a charge the country's new leader denies.
8 Feb 2012 at 8:59am

Russians claim Antarctic success
Russian scientists claim victory in the race to drill into Lake Vostok, a huge body of water under the Antarctic ice which may shed light on its past.
8 Feb 2012 at 6:29am

A380 wing crack checks extended
Checks are ordered on all Airbus A380 superjumbos after cracks were found in wing components, extending an earlier safety ruling covering 20 planes.
8 Feb 2012 at 9:57am

US to cut Baghdad embassy staff
The United States is looking to cut the size of its embassy in Iraq - the largest and most expensive US diplomatic mission, officials say.
8 Feb 2012 at 5:32am

Santorum hails campaign momentum
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum pledges to push for victory in March's Super Tuesday votes, after a hat-trick of wins on Tuesday night.
8 Feb 2012 at 10:05am

Sudan launches Darfur peace body
Sudan's president launches a body intended to kick-start development and end the fighting in the war-torn western region of Darfur.
8 Feb 2012 at 8:02am

Cafe in Somalia hit by car bomb
At least 10 people are killed and more than 20 injured when a car bomb planted by Islamist militants explodes near a cafe in Somalia's capital.
8 Feb 2012 at 10:09am

Egypt PM dismisses US aid threat
Egypt's prime minister says it will not be persuaded by the potential loss of US aid to end a probe into foreign-funded non-governmental organisations.
8 Feb 2012 at 6:46am

India ministers quit in porn row
Three ministers in the Indian state of Karnataka resign amid a row over watching pornography in the local assembly.
8 Feb 2012 at 3:14am

Corals inflate to escape the sand
Time-lapse footage reveals how mushroom corals inflate and deflate to free themselves from smothering sand.
7 Feb 2012 at 7:38pm

Taylor art auction fetches £14m
Three paintings from Elizabeth Taylor's personal art collection are sold for almost £14 million at an auction in London.
8 Feb 2012 at 12:31am

Canada 'can use torture material'
Canada ordered its intelligence agency to use information that may have been extracted through torture if public safety is at risk, it emerges.
8 Feb 2012 at 2:00am

AP World News


Sarkozy, chief challenger attend Jewish gala
PARIS (AP) -- President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Socialist candidate leading the race to unseat him in upcoming elections attended an annual dinner Wednesday honoring France's Jewish community in a rare joint appearance....

EU threatens new sanctions on Syria
BEIRUT (AP) -- The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and the opposition to calm violence. Activists reported at least 50 killed in the regime's siege of the restive city of Homs....

Lucian Freud exhibition opens with royal visit
LONDON (AP) -- There is a vast amount of flesh - clear and smooth or wrinkled and mottled - on display in the latest show at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, a retrospective of the work of Lucian Freud....

Lawyer: cruise ship survivors to push for change
ROME (AP) -- A U.S. lawyer for compensation-seeking survivors of the Costa Concordia capsizing said Wednesday he will push for changes in maritime laws and technology to make the cruise ship industry safer....

Mexico road project sets up fight over ruins
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- When neighbors in the hills east of Mexico City saw backhoes ripping up pre-Hispanic relics for a highway, they did something unexpected in a country where building projects often bulldoze through ruins: They launched protests to stop the digging and demanded an accounting of what is there....

City of Homs becomes focus of Syria's uprising
MAFRAQ, Jordan (AP) -- Every day, rockets and mortars fired by regime forces rattle the streets of Homs. Armed rebels ambush government military checkpoints. Hatreds brew on either side of the avenues that divide the bloodstained Syrian city....

Egypt's PM says US threats to cut aid won't work
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt refused to back down Wednesday in a dispute with the U.S. over Cairo's crackdown on nonprofit groups despite Washington's threats to cut aid, while the military deployed troops to the nation's streets after a surge in violence and protests against its rule....

In scientific coup, Russians reach Antarctic lake
MOSCOW (AP) -- After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have reached a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for some 20 million years - a pristine body of water that may hold life from the distant past and clues to the search for life on other planets....

Freezing conditions paralyze Danube River shipping
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- At least four Balkan nations suspended shipping on the Danube River because of severe frost and the vast amount of ice blocking the heavily traveled waterway....

Ex-leader's allies seize Maldives police posts
MALE, Maldives (AP) -- Supporters of the Maldives former president rioted through the streets of the capital and seized some remote police stations Wednesday to demand his reinstatement, as the country's new leader appealed for an end to the political turmoil roiling this Indian Ocean island nation....

Guardian Unlimited World


Rockets rain down on Homs as Syrian violence escalates

More than 200 rockets fall in space of three hours on opposition-controlled suburb of Baba Amr, according to residents

The Assad government escalated its military onslaught on the Syrian opposition with the most intense bombardment of rebel-held areas so far, as the west and the Arab world scrambled to find a new diplomatic strategy without Russian and Chinese help.

Tanks and heavy artillery were used on an unprecedented scale, according to witnesses. More than 200 rockets fell in the space of...


by Julian Borger, Luke Harding, Chris McGreal
8 Feb 2012 at 11:37am

Revealed: bloggers paid to back Putin

Exclusive: Nashi runs web of online trolls and bloggers paid to praise Vladimir Putin and denigrate enemies, group claims

A pro-Kremlin group runs a network of internet trolls, seeks to buy flattering coverage of Vladimir Putin and hatches plans to discredit opposition activists and media, according to private emails allegedly hacked by a group calling itself the Russian arm of Anonymous.

The group has uploaded hundreds of emails it says are to, from and between Vasily Yakemenko, the first lead...


by Miriam Elder
7 Feb 2012 at 9:14am

Rick Santorum back in the race

Santorum won political caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, along with beauty contest in Missouri securing triple victory

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has revived his flagging campaign with a trio of victories to upset frontrunner Mitt Romney's seemingly inevitable progress towards the party nomination.

Santorum achieved a clean sweep of the states being contested ? Colorado, Minnesota and the non-binding "beauty contest" primary in Missouri. It was a disastrous night for Romn...


by Ewen MacAskill
7 Feb 2012 at 10:53pm

Syria: Assad pledges reform as siege of Homs continues - live updates

? Bombardment of Homs continues for a fifth day
? US says it won't arm Free Syrian Army
? Russia calls for an Arab solution to the crisis

? Read the latest summary

8.46pm: The Associated Press has spoken to anti-Assad fighters in Homs who say they are struggling to cope with the barrage of shells raining down on the besieged city.


"We don't have the same capabilities to retaliate with the same power," one of the fighters said. Assad's forces have tanks "and we only have this rifle," he added.

In th...


by Matthew Weaver, Haroon Siddique, Paul Owen, David Batty
8 Feb 2012 at 1:12pm

Rick Santorum triumphs in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri ? live reaction

Live coverage of the aftermath of Rick Santorum's big win in the latest round of voting in the GOP presidential nomination race

4.11pm: More evidence of disquiet within the Obama camp over the contraception mandate. The Washington Post reports that former Virginia governor Tim Kaine has spoken out against the policy that requires some religous employers to provide insurance coverage for prescription contraceptives.

Kaine, who is Obama's choice to head the Democratic National Committee, said in ...


by Richard Adams
8 Feb 2012 at 1:11pm

Republicans in Congress vow to overturn Obama's contraception policy

John Boehner calls new requirement that religious schools provide free contraception 'an attack on religious freedom'

Republicans in Congress have vowed to reverse President Barack Obama's new policy on birth control, lambasting the requirement that religious schools and hospitals provide employees with free contraceptives as an "unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country."

The White House pushed back in the face of a political firestorm, arguing that Obama was sensitive to the obje...


8 Feb 2012 at 1:11pm

Letters: Intelligence test

George Monbiot's decision to hang his article on rightwing populism on a study that claims to prove "scientifically" that conservatives are less "intelligent" than liberals was, frankly, not very intelligent (Comment, 7 February). Evidently George needs to read Stephen Jay Gould's classic The Mismeasure of Man. This demonstrated that studies claiming to measure the intelligence of various groups were racist pseudoscience. Even when they're not racist, they're still pseudoscience. How will Geo...


8 Feb 2012 at 1:00pm

Letters: Renewed push for nuclear power

With one giant leap they are free! How extraordinarily convenient that, just after the nuclear power mega-disaster of Fukushima and just when it is becoming clear around the world that citizens do not want nuclear power and that no one knows how to get rid of the lethal waste, the nuclear industry and government discover we can "safely" have enough nuclear power for the next 500 years not only without creating any nuclear waste but also by consuming the nuclear waste we already have in the p...


8 Feb 2012 at 1:00pm

Westminster digested

Another bothersome Lib Dem out of the cabinet, the NHS one step closer to the abyss ? it's been another great week for Cams and Ozzy

The DPP: We are taking Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce to court.

Huhne: Mmm. I guess that half time during a World Cup game wasn't the best time to tell my wife I was having an affair and would she mind OKing my press release about our separation before the second half started.

Pryce: You could have waited until the final whistle. So what will you do now?

Huhne: I suppo...


by John Crace
8 Feb 2012 at 1:00pm

Letters: Human rights and the Abu Qatada case

Simon Jenkins is right to demand restoration of freedom from detention without trial in Britain (Deport Abu Qatada: or if not, give him the law's full protection, 8 February 2012). But he seriously damages that cause by calling on the British government to disregard the Othman [Qatada] ruling of the European court of human rights. The Strasbourg court is a crucial defender of civil liberties in Britain. Its international membership and perspective help it stand free from the hothouse atmosphe...


8 Feb 2012 at 1:00pm

Letters: Travellers' eviction came in well under budget

Your diary column (8 February) seeks to deride the nomination of Tony Ball for the title of Council Leader of the Year and also gets the facts wrong about the final cost of the operation to clear Dale Farm last October. Tony was nominated for the leadership which he demonstrated throughout 2011 and in particular for leading the council through the difficult clearance of the illegal traveller settlement at Dale Farm.

The council did not spend £18m as originally budgeted on the operation ? the f...


8 Feb 2012 at 1:00pm

'Nancy Brinker needs to resign' ? Eve Ellis's letter on Komen

Eve Ellis, an ex-board member of Komen New York City, sent a letter to friends and family calling for the Komen board to quit

Dear Friends and Family,

As you know, Komen has been a major charity for my family and me for the last decade. I served on Komen NYC's Board for 6 years. Thanks to donations from friends and family, my spouse and I have raised over $250,000 over the last 6 years for Komen NYC. For the past 4 years, Komen NYC has given an award annually in memory of our niece, Hally. Eve...


8 Feb 2012 at 12:52pm

Komen fundraiser calls for CEO Nancy Brinker to quit over funding row

Eve Ellis says Brinker should take some 'truth serum' and urges Komen's board to resign as part of 'clean house' process

? Read Eve Ellis's letter here

A major fundraiser for Susan G Komen for the Cure, the breast cancer advocacy group at the centre of a row over its funding cut to Planned Parenthood, has called for the organisation "clean house" at the top, starting with the resignation of its founder Nancy Brinker.

Eve Ellis, a former board member of affiliate group Komen New York City, said s...


by Karen McVeigh
8 Feb 2012 at 12:50pm

Greece closes in on bailout deal after three days of brinkmanship

Greek government official says the bailout agreement will be finalised because, simply, time is running out

After three days of high drama, political posturing and brinkmanship, Greece's three-party coalition was expected on Wednesday to approve draconian terms attached to a ?130bn (£109bn) rescue programme for the debt-choked country.

Ending weeks of economic deadlock, Athens' bickering party chiefs were poised to agree yet more belt-tightening ? the price of further aid from the EU, European ...


by Helena Smith
8 Feb 2012 at 12:36pm

Whale shark dies after becoming entangled in fishing nets off Pakistan - video

Large crowds gather in Karachi harbour, Pakistan, to see a 11-metre long whale shark discovered by local fishermen in local waters




8 Feb 2012 at 12:32pm

CBC World News


Santorum's hat trick stirs up Republican race

U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has shaken up what was largely thought to be a settled race by scoring three wins over Mitt Romney, but might find it hard to compete with the well-funded front-runner in coming primaries.


8 Feb 2012 at 11:57am

Harper's 'strategic partner' China yields investment deal

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his ministers have signed a series of agreements in Beijing on investment, education, research, energy and natural resources, further binding Canada's future to fast-growing China.


8 Feb 2012 at 11:49am

Some Mexico Gadhafi plot charges dropped

Some of the charges against two men accused of attempting to sneak members of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's family into Mexico have been dismissed, according to the family of Cynthia Vanier, a Canadian also arrested in the alleged smuggling plot.


8 Feb 2012 at 5:11am

U.S. CAMPAIGN BLOG | How 'Rick Who?' Santorum came back

CBC correspondents and producers bring you the latest, telling bits from the nomination battles and the U.S. presidential race of 2012.


8 Feb 2012 at 10:07am

EU will force harsher sanctions against Syria

The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and the opposition to calm violence. Activists reported at least 50 killed in the regime's siege of the restive city of Homs.


8 Feb 2012 at 11:06am

Greek leaders meet to discuss cutbacks to avoid default

Greece's coalition leaders met Wednesday for crucial austerity talks with the country's prime minister, to review a draft deal on steep cutbacks demanded by creditors in return for a 130 billion euro ($170 billion) bailout.


8 Feb 2012 at 12:19pm

Speculation surrounds fate of China?s police chief

The former top cop of a major Chinese city has dropped from sight amid unconfirmed reports he is seeking U.S. asylum following a quarrel with one of China's most powerful local politicians.


8 Feb 2012 at 11:52am

Nokia to cut 4,000 jobs worldwide

Nokia Corp. plans to end the assembly of cellphones in Europe by year-end as it shifts production to Asia and cuts another 4,000 jobs, its latest attempt to cushion its finances from stiff competition in the smartphone sector.


8 Feb 2012 at 8:50am

China's minimum wages to increase

The Chinese cabinet is promising to raise minimum wages by 13 per cent a year until 2015, as the country's leaders face growing pressure to spread the country's prosperity more widely.


8 Feb 2012 at 9:44am

Shark attack deaths worldwide at 20-year high

The number of shark attack deaths is at a 20-year high worldwide, killing one in four people who are injured this way, according to a new report.


8 Feb 2012 at 12:00pm

News International settles most phone hacking cases

Rupert Murdoch's News International has succeeded in settling nearly all the cases in the first wave of phone hacking lawsuits brought against his British newspaper company, lawyers said Wednesday.


8 Feb 2012 at 10:27am

Russia reaches lake buried deep in Antarctic

After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for some 20 million years -- a lake that may hold life from the distant past and clues to the search for life on other planets.


8 Feb 2012 at 10:26am

Supporters of former Maldives president riot

Supporters of the Maldives former president rioted through the streets of the capital and seized some remote police stations Wednesday to demand his reinstatement.


8 Feb 2012 at 11:46am

California same-sex marriage ban deemed unconstitutional

A U.S. federal appeals court has declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for a likely appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.


7 Feb 2012 at 1:24pm

6,300 astronaut hopefuls apply to NASA

NASA has received 6,300 applications from people wanting to be astronauts, the second-highest number in the space agency's history.


7 Feb 2012 at 10:44am


 

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