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Gus McCann, Ireland's new Bob Dylan and  Eliah the amazing 12 string guitarist from California
out celebrating the 2008 Dublin Fringe Festival
Gus McCann comes back to his roots in Dublin to sing
"Dublin in My Tears"
Gus McCann in Dublin singing the old Irish Classic "Dublin In My Tears" in the streets of Dublin after receiving his USA Weekly News 100 Star Award a the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Gus McCann is riding high with an offer to play a part in a film and a recording contract..Gus however does not ever like to forget his roots on the streets of Dublin where he cut his teeth singing a mixture of the Old Irish Ballads and his own poetry all about life and the lessons life hands out, which Gus puts to his own music... Gus McCann is also about to embark on a world tour bringing his soulful voice and music to as many people around the world as he can....

Chapmans Limited part owner of a new
 BrokeBack Mountain Film called
BrokeBack Mountain -The Untold Story
see www.YahooUSANews.com and www.YahooUKNews.com
"BrokeBack Mountain - The Untold Story"

A new screen play
BrokeBack Mountain and BrokeBack Mountain Lodge
Irish Born Singer Songwriter
 Gus McCann lined up for role in
BrokeBack Mountain- The Untold Story.

 http://brokebackmountaintheuntoldstory.com/

Gus McCann in Dublin singing the old Irish Classic "Dublin In My Tears" in the streets of Dublin after receiving his USA Weekly News 100 Star Award a the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Gus McCann is riding high with an offer to play a part in a film and a recording contract..Gus however does not ever like to forget his roots on the streets of Dublin where he cut his teeth singing a mixture of the Old Irish Ballads and his own poetry all about life and the lessons life hands out, which Gus puts to his own music... Gus McCann is also about to embark on a world tour bringing his soulful voice and music to as many people around the world as he can....
Gus McCann, Ireland's new Bob Dylan and
Eliah the amazing 12 string guitarist from California
out celebrating the 2008 Dublin Fringe Festival

For more on the Dublin Fringe festival click here for
www.dublinfringefestival.com

Gus McCann received  USA Weekly News 100 Star Awards for his performances in the 2008 Dublin Fringe Festival and the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and was noticed by the INL News Team as being perfect to play a role and write a theme song for the new film being filmed in 2009 in various locations around the world including Mexico, California, Montana, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom

 BrokeBack Mountain - The Untold Story

 being produced by International News Limited
 in partnership with a Los Angelos film production  company

About Los Angeles
The old City Plaza


City of Los Angeles in 2009
Images, from top, left to right: Los Angeles Skyline in winter, Venice Beach, Griffith Observatory, Hollywood signImages, from top, left to right: Los Angeles Skyline in winter, Venice Beach, Griffith Observatory, Hollywood sign

Los Angeles City Hall, shown here in 1931, was built in 1928 and was the tallest structure in the city until 1964, when height restrictions were removed.
Downtown Los Angeles saw heavy development from the 1980s to 1990s, including the construction of some of the city's tallest skyscrapers.
Map of Los Angeles

Los Angeles

(pronounced /l?s 'ænd??l?s/ los-AN-j?-l?s; Spanish pronunciation: [los 'a?xeles]) is the largest city in the state of California and the Western United States as well as second largestUnited States.[1] Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated an alpha world city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million[2] and spans over 498.3 square miles (1,290.6 km2) in Southern California. Additionally, the Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to nearly 12.9 million residents,[3]globe and speak 224 different languages. Los Angeles is the seatLos Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most diversecounties[4] in the United States. Its inhabitants are known as "Angelenos" (/ænd??'li?no?z/). who hail from all over the of in the

Los Angeles was founded September 4, 1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de la Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola).[5] It became a part of Mexico in 1821, following its independence from Spain. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican-American War, Los Angeles and California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States; Mexico retained the territory of Baja California. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4, 1850, five months before California achieved statehood.

Los Angeles is one of the world's centers of business, international trade, entertainment, culture, media, fashion, science, technology, and education. It is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. Los Angeles leads the world in producing popular entertainment — such as motion picture, video games, television, and recorded music — which forms the base of its international fame and global status.

History of Loas Angelos

The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva (or Gabrieleños) and Chumash Native American tribes hundreds of years ago. The first Europeans arrived in 1542 under Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese-born explorer who claimed the area as the City of God for the Spanish Empire. However, he continued with his voyage and did not establish a settlement.[6]Gaspar de Portola, along with Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2, 1769. Crespí noted that the site had the potential to be developed into a large settlement.[7]

In 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra built the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel near Whittier Narrows, in what is now called San Gabriel Valley.[8] In 1777, the new governor of California, Felipe de Neve, recommended to Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa, viceroy of New Spain that the site noted by Juan Crespí be developed into a pueblo. The town was officially founded on September 4, 1781, by a group of forty-four settlers known as "Los Pobladores." Tradition has it that on this day they were escorted by four Spanish colonial soldiers, two priests from the Mission and Governor de Neve. The town was named El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula (The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels on the Porciúncula River).[9]Hispanic culture that had emerged in northern Mexico among a racially mixed society. Two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto, and therefore, had African and Indian ancestry. More importantly, they were intermarrying.[10] The settlement remained a small ranch town for decades, but by 1820 the population had increased to about 650 residents.[11] Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the historic district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street, the oldest part of Los Angeles.[12]

New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, and the pueblo continued as a part of Mexico. During Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico, made Los Angeles Alta California's regional capital. Mexican rule ended during the Mexican–American War: Americans took control from the Californios after a series of battles, culminating with the signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga on January 13, 1847.

Railroads arrived when the Southern Pacific completed its line to Los Angeles in 1876.[13] Oil was discovered in 1892, and by 1923 Los Angeles was producing one-quarter of the world's petroleum.[14]

By 1900, the population had grown to more than 102,000 people,[15] putting pressure on the city's water supply.[16] 1913's completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, under the supervision of William Mulholland, assured the continued growth of the city.

In the 1920s, the motion picture and aviation industries flocked to Los Angeles. In 1932, with population surpassing one million,[17]Summer Olympics.

The post-war years saw an even greater boom, as urban sprawlSan Fernando Valley.[18] In 1969, Los Angeles became one of the birthplaces of the Internet, as the first ARPANET transmission was sent from UCLA to SRI in Menlo Park.[19]

Also in the 1980s, Los Angeles became the center of the heavy metal music scene, especially glam metal bands.[20] In 1984, the city hosted the Summer Olympic Games for the second time. Despite being boycotted by 14 Communist countries, the 1984 Olympics became the most financially successful in history, and only the second Olympics to turn a profit – the other being the 1932 Summer Olympics, also held in Los Angeles.

During the remaining decades of the 20th century, the city was plagued by increasing gang warfare, drug trades, and police corruption. Racial tensions erupted again in 1992 with the Rodney King controversy and the large-scale riots that followed the acquittal of his police attackers. In 1994, the 6.7 Northridge earthquake shook the city, causing $12.5 billion in damage and 72 deaths.[21]

Voters defeated efforts by the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood[22]

Gentrification and urban redevelopment have occurred in many parts of the city, most notably Hollywood, Koreatown, Silver Lake, Echo Park and Downtown.[23]

Geography

Los Angeles is irregularly shaped and covers a total area of 498.3 square miles (1,291 km2), comprising 469.1 square miles (1,214.9 km²) of land and 29.2 square miles (75.7 km²) of water. The city extends for 44 miles (71 km) longitudinally and for 29 miles (47 km) latitudinally. The perimeter of the city is 342 miles (550 km). It is the only major city in the United States bisected by a mountain range.

The highest point in Los Angeles is Mount Lukens, also called Sister Elsie Peak.[24] Located at the far reaches of the northeastern San Fernando Valley, it reaches a height of 5,080 ft (1,548 m). The major river is the Los Angeles River, which begins in the Canoga Park district of the city and is largely seasonal. The river is lined in concrete for almost its entire length as it flows through the city into nearby Vernon on its way to the Pacific Ocean.

Geology

Los Angeles is subject to earthquakes due to its location in the Pacific Ring of Fire. The geologic instability produces numerous fault lines both above and below ground, which altogether cause approximately 10,000 earthquakes every year.[25] One of the major fault lines is the San Andreas Fault. Located at the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, it is predicted to be the source of Southern California's next big earthquake.[26] Major earthquakes to have hit the Los Angeles area include the 2008 Chino Hills earthquake, 1994 Northridge earthquake, the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, the 1971 San Fernando earthquake near Sylmar, and the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. Nevertheless, all but a few quakes are of low intensity and are not felt.[25] The most recent earthquake felt was the 5.4 Chino Hills earthquake on July 29th 2008. Parts of the city are also vulnerable to Pacific Ocean tsunamis; harbor areas were damaged by waves from the Valdivia earthquake in 1960.[27] The Los Angeles basin and metropolitan area are also at risk from blind thrust earthquakes.[28]

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UK protests over Gaza air strikes


A series of demonstrations is taking place across the UK to try and stop the Israeli air strikes on Gaza.

The protests are being held at 18 locations including Portsmouth, Manchester, Hull, London and Glasgow. They come after several days of smaller demonstrations around the country, including outside the Israeli Embassy in Kensington, west London. Israel's government has said it is defending its citizens from Palestinian rocket attacks.

'No defence'

The government launched the offensive after Palestinian rockets were fired into Israel's southern regions, breaking a six-month truce. But Lyndsey German, of the Stop the War Coalition, said Israel's actions were not "a defence measure". She said there would be "tens of thousands" of people in London alone and this "is just the start of the campaign". "If there is an invasion of Gaza, as looks likely, by the Israeli army, if the blockade continues with people suffering from shortages of food and medicine, then I think this will grow. "This is Israel being aggressive, this is Israel attacking one and a half million people who already live in great poverty, in great difficulty." More than 30 organisations, including the British Muslim Initiative and the Stop the War Coalition, have worked together to organise the series of protests. The BBC's Barnie Choudhury estimated there were 7,000 to 10,000 people marching along the Embankment in central London towards Trafalgar Square. Some chanted "Free, free Palestine" and "Israel terrorists". On Whitehall, hundreds of shoes were thrown at the gates of Downing Street, echoing the protest of an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush. A firework was also reportedly thrown at police.

Elsewhere, an estimated 2,000 people marched through Manchester and in Portsmouth, nearly 500 people took to the streets. Police said there were about 500 demonstrators in Glasgow and 600 in Edinburgh.

Former model Bianca Jagger and singer Annie Lennox have supported the action, and have also called on American president-elect Barack Obama to speak up against the bombardment. Ms Lennox told the BBC that both sides were "wrong" and a total ceasefire was the only sensible solution. She said the intervention of President George W Bush, who has described Hamas's rocket attacks as an "act of terror", was not helping the situation. She said: "The problem is, from my perspective, they are pouring petrol onto the fire. "They have to sit down. This is a small window of opportunity just before things kick off. "For every one person killed in Gaza, they are creating 100 suicide bombers. It's not just about Gaza, it's about all of us. Actor Paul Kaye, whose mother-in-law was killed in a Hamas rocket attack, told the BBC he had experienced the situation from an Israeli point of view. "It's terrifying," he said. "My wife was trapped in a supermarket in a rocket attack. I was with my sons in Ashkelon station, holding them, waiting for a rocket to land and shutting my eyes thinking 'is this it?' "So I think it's important to remember that mothers fleeing rocket attacks holding their children have the same fear on both sides of the border."

Ceasefire calls

The UN has reported that some 2,000 Palestinians have been wounded since the airstrikes began last Saturday. More than 400 people have been killed including 60 civilians - 34 of them children. Four Israelis - three civilians and one soldier - have been killed by rockets fired into Israel from Gaza, which have hit towns up to 25 miles (40km) from the narrow coastal strip. Both sides have so far resisted international calls for a ceasefire.

'Self-defeating'

Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell said the British government was "forcefully and strongly arguing" for an immediate end to the violence. "Israel has a right to respond proportionately, but we've been very, very clear that there has been a massive loss of innocent life... and that is unacceptable." Mr Rammell said Hamas rocket attacks on Israel were also "unacceptable", but stressed that "a reinvigorated political process" was the only route to a long-term solution. Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg branded Israel's strategy of bombing Gaza "self-defeating". "One of the great victims of the Israeli action is... moderate public opinion in the Arab world, upon whom Israeli long-term security interests depend," he said. He said the reaction of the EU had been "weak" and said member states should have threatened to sever trade links with Israel if the bombardment continued. Chairwoman of the Jewish Labour Movement, MP Louise Ellman, defended Israel's actions. She told the BBC: "The scale of human suffering of the people in Gaza is deeply distressing but the responsibility lies with Hamas." She described the militant group as an "organisation that does not accept the existence of Israel" and one that "refuses to be involved in negotiations" that would result in a two-state solution in the region.

For every one person killed in Gaza, they are creating 100 suicide bombers. It's not just about Gaza, it's about all of us

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Israeli troops meet

Hamas resistance deep in Gaza

AP - 1 hour, 13 minutes ago

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops made their deepest advance into the Gaza Strip's most heavily populated area on Sunday, encountering increasingly fierce resistance from Hamas fighters as they warned civilians to stay clear of the battle zone.

Middle East News

  • An Israeli girl wipes tears as her school is evacuated after a rocket, fired from the Gaza Strip, hit a house next to a school in the Israeli southern city of Sderot, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City Sunday in one of the fiercest ground battles so far as Israel's military inched toward Gaza's population centers and residents braced for an expansion of the offensive. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
    School resumes in Israel despite rocket threat AP - 40 minutes ago

    SDEROT, Israel - Thousands of children in southern Israel returned to school Sunday for the first time in two weeks, braving the threat of Palestinian rocket attacks while the army pushed ahead with its offensive in the neighboring Gaza Strip.

  • Samuel Wurzelbacher, known as Joe the Plumber, who is in the region to report for US the conservative pjtv.com Web site  and back dropped by smoke billowing from fires caused by Israeli military attacks from inside the Gaza Strip, poses for pictures, near the southern Israeli  city of Sderot, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Wurzelbacher became famous after campaigning for US republican presidential candidate John McCain during the US Presidential elections in 2008. (AP Photo/Moshe Milner, Government Press Office, handout)
    Joe trades wrench for reporter's notepad in Israel AP - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

    SDEROT, Israel - Joe the Plumber has set aside his wrenches to become a rookie war correspondent, covering Israel's side of its two-week-old military offensive in Gaza.

  • An explosion is seen during an Israeli army operation in Gaza City, Sunday, Jan.11, 2009.  Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City Sunday in one of the fiercest ground battles so far as Israel's military inched toward Gaza's population centers and residents braced for an expansion of the offensive. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
    Israeli troops meet Hamas resistance deep in Gaza AP - 1 hour, 13 minutes ago

    GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops made their deepest advance into the Gaza Strip's most heavily populated area on Sunday, encountering increasingly fierce resistance from Hamas fighters as they warned civilians to stay clear of the battle zone.

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  • Weapons, dug up from a hidden cache during an investigation into an alleged coup plot, are displayed at the local police headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009.  A Turkish court formally arrested nine people on charges of being part of an alleged secularist plot to bring down the Islamic-rooted government and police detained 33 more suspects while displaying weapons, dug up from a hidden cache. Prosecutors say the alleged plot aimed to destabilize Turkey through a series of attacks and trigger a coup in 2009. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
    Turkey coup plot arrests now at more than 100 AP - 27 minutes ago

    ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish court formally arrested 14 more people Sunday for ties to an alleged secularist plot by ultranationalists to bring down the Islamic-rooted government, bringing the total of people involved in the case to more than 100.

  • Sellers warm themselves as temperatures fall below minus 8 degrees at an open-air market in Sofia, Bulgaria. Russia on Sunday said a deal to resume gas supplies to the European Union through pipelines in Ukraine had been delayed as swathes of central Europe and the Balkans remained without heating.(AFP/Boryana Katsarova)
    Russia says Europe gas supply deal delayed AFP - 35 minutes ago

    MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia on Sunday said a deal to resume gas supplies to the European Union through pipelines in Ukraine had been delayed as swathes of central Europe and the Balkans remained without heating.

  • Pipelines are seen at a gas compressor station in Sudzha in Russia's Kursk region January 11, 2009. International monitors arrived on Sunday at a gas compressor station near the Ukrainian-Russian border to observe gas flows to Europe, a Reuters photographer said. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
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    LIMA, Peru - A bus ran off a slick mountain road into a ravine in northern Peru on Saturday, killing at least 33 people, police said.

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  • Clashes between Somali Islamists kill 29, wound 50 AP - Sun Jan 11, 10:44 AM ET

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  • A parachute dropped by a small aircraft drops over the MV  Sirius Star at anchor, in this U.S. Navy photo, Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, following an apparent payment via a parachuted container to pirates holding the ship.  Somali pirates released the oil-laden Saudi supertanker after receiving a $3 million ransom, a negotiator for the bandits said Friday. The ship owner did not confirm it. The brand new tanker, with a 25-member crew, was seized in the Indian Ocean Nov. 15 in a dramatic escalation of high seas crime.(AP Photo/U.S. Navy,Air Crewman 2nd Class David B. Hudson)
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Asia News

  • U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden left, speaks with an ISAF soldier at a military base in  Grishak area of Helmand, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan 11, 2009.The commander of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan told U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday that thousands of new American troops expected in the country's south will need more helicopters and other support to beat back surging Taliban violence, an official said.(AP Photo/Abdul Khaleeq)
    Biden: US will help fight terror in Afghanistan AP - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

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  • Children of activists in the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) group perform as Palestinian children during an anti-Israeli protest in Karachi, Pakistan. Israel indicated for the first time on Sunday an end was in sight to its war on Hamas, amid some of the heaviest clashes of an offensive that has killed nearly 900 people in the Gaza Strip.(AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)
    6 troops, 40 militants killed in Pakistan attack AP - 2 hours, 33 minutes ago

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Hundreds of militants, many from Afghanistan, attacked a Pakistani paramilitary camp in a lawless northwestern tribal region early Sunday, sparking a major clash that left six security troops and 40 insurgents dead.

  • Map of Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia showing the location near the coastal town of Majene where a ferry carrying more than 260 people sank leaving scores feared dead.(AFP/Graphic)
    Storm sinks Indonesian ferry, 250 feared dead AP - 2 hours, 47 minutes ago

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - A ferry capsized in a severe storm and crashing waves in central Indonesia on Sunday and officials said around 250 people were feared dead.

Canada

  • Conservatives plan C$40 bln budget: CTV Reuters - Sat Jan 10, 2:03 PM ET

    TORONTO (Reuters) - The Conservative Party plans to present a $40 billion (US$34 billion) deficit, the highest since 1993, in the federal budget to be unveiled this month, CTV television reported.

  • Obama coming to Canada for first official foreign trip Reuters - Sat Jan 10, 5:12 PM ET

    TORONTO (Reuters) - Barack Obama will visit Canada in his first international trip as U.S. president, the office of Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Saturday.

  • Liberals bounce back with new leader Reuters - Fri Jan 9, 6:05 PM ET

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - New leadership has helped Canada's opposition Liberals recover the public support they had lost following threats to topple the minority Conservative government, a poll released on Friday showed.


Australia/Antarctica News

  • Taliban commander killed in offensive: Australia Reuters - Sun Jan 11, 6:46 AM ET

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian special forces have killed a Taliban commander involved in recruiting suicide bombers and foreign fighters in Afghanistan, Australia's Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

  • Canadian arrested smuggling drugs in forklift AFP - Sat Jan 10, 12:48 PM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - A Canadian man has been charged with trying to smuggle more than two million dollars (1.4 million US) worth of cocaine into Australia inside a forklift from Mexico, police said Saturday.

  • Chinese-speaking Australian PM sparks Asian studies boom AFP - Thu Jan 8, 11:43 PM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's Mandarin-speaking leader Kevin Rudd has helped spark an increase in the study of Asian languages, with record numbers of students signing up for Chinese, a major university said Friday.

Most Popular World News

  • Israeli troops meet Hamas resistance deep in Gaza AP - 2 minutes ago

    GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops made their deepest advance into the Gaza Strip's most heavily populated area on Sunday, encountering increasingly fierce resistance from Hamas fighters as they warned civilians to stay clear of the battle zone.

  • Storm sinks Indonesian ferry, 250 feared dead AP - 2 hours, 52 minutes ago

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - A ferry capsized in a severe storm and crashing waves in central Indonesia on Sunday and officials said around 250 people were feared dead.

  • Lawmakers, Muslims criticize prince over comments AP - Sun Jan 11, 12:14 PM ET

    LONDON - Lawmakers, Muslim groups and the Pakistani public criticized Prince Harry Sunday after a British newspaper published video footage of him using offensive and racist language.


Photos of Israeli troops invade Gaza
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Relatives of a Palestinian killed during Israel's offensive ...Reuters Sun Jan 11, 3:22 PM ET Relatives of a Palestinian killed during Israel's offensive react at Shifa hospital in Gaza January 11, 2009. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)

An Israeli tank moves towards the border with the northern Gaza ...Reuters Sun Jan 11, ' An Israeli tank moves towards the border with the northern Gaza Strip January 11, 2009. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)
Israeli soldiers stand together at a military staging area before ...Reuters Sun Jan 11,  Israeli soldiers stand together at a military staging area before moving towards the northern Gaza Strip January 11, 2009. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)
A Palestinian collects pages of the Koran from the ruins of ...Reiters Sun Jan 11,A Palestinian collects pages of the Koran from the ruins of the al-Fadilah mosque destroyed after an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip January 11, 2009. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

A member of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) stands among ...Reiters Sun Jan 11,  A member of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) stands among Indonesian and Palestine flags during a rally in Jakarta January 11, 2009 against the Israeli attacks on Gaza. (Supri/Reuters)
A member of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) holds a poster ...Reuters Sun Jan 11,  ETA member of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) holds a poster during a rally in Jakarta January 11, 2009 against the Israeli attacks on Gaza. (Supri/Reuters)
Protesters break down a mock Israel camp during a street rally ...Reuters Sun Jan 11, Protesters break down a mock Israel camp during a street rally against the Israeli military attacks in the Gaza Strip, in Jakarta January 11, 2008. (Dadang Tri/Reuters)
A relative of a Palestinian killed during Israel's offensive ...Reuters Sun Jan 11, A relative of a Palestinian killed during Israel's offensive reacts at Shifa hospital in Gaza January 11, 2009. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)
An Israeli tank returns to Israel from the northern Gaza Strip, ...Reuters Sun Jan 11, An Israeli tank returns to Israel from the northern Gaza Strip, seen in background, January 11, 2009. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)
Israeli soldiers stand atop a tank before moving towards the ...ReutersSun Jan 11,  Israeli soldiers stand atop a tank before moving towards the northern Gaza Strip January 11, 2009. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

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Pope Denounces NI Deaths Amid Mass ProtestsSkyNews - 

The Pope has denounced the "abominable" murders of a policeman and two soldiers in Northern Ireland - as thousands in the region protested against the deaths. More »

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Pope Denounces NI Deaths Amid Mass ProtestsSkyNews - 17 mins agoThe Pope has denounced the "abominable" murders of a policeman and two soldiers in Northern Ireland - as thousands in the region protested against the deaths. More »

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Public face of Saddam regime jailedPublic face of Saddam regime jailedITN -Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz has been jailed for 15 years for his role in the killings of dozens of traders in 1992. More »

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Top Health News 11th March 2009

Cancer-hit Jade leaves hospital

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TOP Entertainment News 11th March 2009

Mayer to propose to Aniston?Mayer to propose to Aniston?world entertainment news -Jennifer Aniston is reportedly set to receive a marriage proposal from her boyfriend John Mayer - the rocker has approached a top U.S. jewellery store to buy an engagement ring. More »
  • Johnny Vaughan and Loose Women celebrate wins at TV bashJohnny Vaughan and Loose Women celebrate wins at TV bashhellomagazine.com -Spirits were high at a London TV and radio awards this week as famous faces from the industry feted outstanding colleagues. The Loose Women team, including Chris Evans' former wife Coleen Nolan, were in a particularly jubilant mood as they scooped the best daytime programme trophy. More »

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Top Oddly Enough News 11th March 2009

China police hot-wire sleepy drivers with chilliChina police hot-wire sleepy drivers with chilliReuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - Police in southwest China are spicing up drivers with raw chilli in a bid to stop them falling asleep at the wheel, a newspaper said Wednesday. More »

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Brown and Cameron show of unity on Northern ...Latest UK VideosBrown and Cameron show of unity on Northern ...ITN - Gordon Brown says "out of tragedy we are seeing unity" following the latest wave of violence in Northern Ireland. Play Video

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TOP Technology News 11th March 2009

Kingston Technology pairs with Staples

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Memory giant Kingston Technology Europe has signed a retail deal with office supply firm Staples. More »

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Top Science News 11th March 2009

Discovery on track for liftoff: NASADiscovery on track for liftoff: NASAWASHINGTON (AFP) - The US space shuttle Discovery is set to launch as scheduled late Wednesday on its voyage to the International Space Station, NASA mission managers said. More »
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  • CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - U.S. space shuttle Discovery was prepared for launch on Wednesday on a mission to finish installing the International Space Station's power system and deliver Japan's first live-aboard crew member. More »

  • Primatologist Goodall: China plundering Africa resourcesPrimatologist Goodall: China plundering Africa resourcesWASHINGTON (AFP) - China's thirst for natural resources including wood and minerals is leading to massive deforestation in Africa and the destruction of crucial wildlife habitat, world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has said. More »
  • Tax Hike Warning Over UK Climate ChangeTax Hike Warning Over UK Climate Change Climate change may spark huge hikes in tax and insurance bills as unpredictable weather plays havoc with public facilities and private property, a UK climate expert has warned. More »
  • US, Russian spacemen take spacewalk: mission controlUS, Russian spacemen take spacewalk: mission controlMOSCOW (AFP) - A Russian cosmonaut and a US colleague ventured out of the International Space Station Tuesday on a spacewalk to install an experiment, make repairs and take pictures, a mission official said. More »

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TOP Sports News 11th March 2009

Press praise England cricketers for fighting spiritPress praise England cricketers for fighting spiritAFP -  agoLONDON (AFP) - Newspapers praised the England cricketers after they went down fighting in the fifth and final Test in Port of Spain. More »

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TOP Politics News 11th March 2009

'Bring EU into Olympic preparations'

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The EU must be put on standby to assist in the events of a terrorist strike during the Olympics, peers have said. More »

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