Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1761 Most Recommended Top Stories en-us Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:10:49 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1761 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/australiachinaanimalpanda afp/20091125/australiachinaanimalpanda AFP topstories Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/australiachinaanimalpanda"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259161403721-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=Mjpk0bKRuFqCe0CoJrU3_g--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="This undated photo from the Adelaide Zoo shows Wang Wang, a two-year-old male panda in China. Two giant pandas due to begin a 10-year stay at an Australian zoo could give the local economy a bigger boost than recent visits by Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong, officials said Wednesday.(AFP/HO/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Two giant pandas due to begin a 10-year stay at an Australian zoo could give the local economy a bigger boost than recent visits by Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong, officials said Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/australiachinaanimalpanda"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259161403721-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=Mjpk0bKRuFqCe0CoJrU3_g--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="This undated photo from the Adelaide Zoo shows Wang Wang, a two-year-old male panda in China. Two giant pandas due to begin a 10-year stay at an Australian zoo could give the local economy a bigger boost than recent visits by Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong, officials said Wednesday.(AFP/HO/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/unclimatewarmingworld afp/20091126/unclimatewarmingworld AFP politics Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:10:49 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/unclimatewarmingworld"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091126/capt.photo_1259172853870-3-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=e_S8TmPpxl0Ircz8dVR9.g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A coral reef is pictured off Bunaken Island marine protected national park in Manado in May 2009. President Barack Obama will head to next month's Copenhagen climate summit armed with the first concrete US offer to cut carbon emissions, officials said Wednesday, reviving hopes the closely watched meeting will succeed.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)" border="0" /></a>AFP - President Barack Obama will head to next month's Copenhagen climate summit to offer the first US plan to cut carbon emissions, officials said, reviving hopes the closely watched meeting will succeed.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/unclimatewarmingworld"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091126/capt.photo_1259172853870-3-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=e_S8TmPpxl0Ircz8dVR9.g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A coral reef is pictured off Bunaken Island marine protected national park in Manado in May 2009. President Barack Obama will head to next month's Copenhagen climate summit armed with the first concrete US offer to cut carbon emissions, officials said Wednesday, reviving hopes the closely watched meeting will succeed.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_nuclear_elbaradei nm/20091125/us_nuclear_elbaradei Reuters topstories Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:21:29 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_nuclear_elbaradei"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r1672274636.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=bBkG84iCFa5E35.xmXo7yg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei addresses a news conference in Berlin, November 20, 2009. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Iran's demand for changes to a nuclear fuel deal is unacceptable because it could mean Tehran keeping enough enriched uranium for possible use in an atom bomb, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said in an interview.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_nuclear_elbaradei"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r1672274636.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=bBkG84iCFa5E35.xmXo7yg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei addresses a news conference in Berlin, November 20, 2009. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_afghanistan_obama_announcement nm/20091125/us_afghanistan_obama_announcement Reuters politics Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:50:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_afghanistan_obama_announcement"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r3382457852.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=WDXJ7zzEfrtRWJV5lgLmPQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A U.S. Army soldier of 3/509 infantry Task Force Geronimo walks past donkeys at a checkpoint near of Forward Operating Base (FOB) Tillman, November 25, 2009. REUTERS/Bruno Domingos" border="0" /></a>Reuters - President Barack Obama will unveil his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan in an address to Americans on December 1, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_afghanistan_obama_announcement"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r3382457852.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=WDXJ7zzEfrtRWJV5lgLmPQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A U.S. Army soldier of 3/509 infantry Task Force Geronimo walks past donkeys at a checkpoint near of Forward Operating Base (FOB) Tillman, November 25, 2009. REUTERS/Bruno Domingos" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_flu_china nm/20091125/us_flu_china Reuters topstories Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:16:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_flu_china"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r4269064285.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=04pjCe1eY4xrCgZqglaRPA--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Men enter the Arlington Convention Center to receive their H1N1 flu vaccinations in Arlington, Texas, November 24, 2009. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi" border="0" /></a>Reuters - China must be alert to any mutation or changes in the behavior of the H1N1 swine flu virus because the far deadlier H5N1 bird flu virus is endemic in the country, a leading Chinese disease expert said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_flu_china"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r4269064285.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=04pjCe1eY4xrCgZqglaRPA--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="Men enter the Arlington Convention Center to receive their H1N1 flu vaccinations in Arlington, Texas, November 24, 2009. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_palestinians_israel nm/20091125/us_palestinians_israel Reuters topstories Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:53:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_palestinians_israel"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r391343245.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=zPJkEdJxzyGPBYZ4ornocQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="A Palestinian labourer works at a construction site in Gilo, a Jewish settlement on land Israel captured in 1967 and annexed to its Jerusalem municipality, November 17, 2009. REUTERS/Baz Ratner" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a 10-month freeze on some building in West Bank settlements on Wednesday, pleasing the United States but Palestinians said it was not enough to restart peace talks.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_palestinians_israel"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r391343245.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=zPJkEdJxzyGPBYZ4ornocQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Palestinian labourer works at a construction site in Gilo, a Jewish settlement on land Israel captured in 1967 and annexed to its Jerusalem municipality, November 17, 2009. REUTERS/Baz Ratner" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_economy_politics nm/20091125/us_usa_economy_politics Reuters politics Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:01:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_economy_politics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r1559058931.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=cF0iSqfgFmylgTDXCwdm7g--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="U.S. President Barack Obama speaks alongside his daughters Sasha (L) and Malia, during a turkey pardoning ceremony for "Courage", the National Thanksgiving Turkey, on the North Portico of the White House in Washington, November 25, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Reed" border="0" /></a>Reuters - President Barack Obama is paying a price for a recession that began before he took office, and fellow Democrats have started to balk at his legislative agenda and demand greater efforts to create jobs.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_economy_politics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r1559058931.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=cF0iSqfgFmylgTDXCwdm7g--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.S. President Barack Obama speaks alongside his daughters Sasha (L) and Malia, during a turkey pardoning ceremony for "Courage", the National Thanksgiving Turkey, on the North Portico of the White House in Washington, November 25, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Reed" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_guantanamo_newyork_trial nm/20091125/us_guantanamo_newyork_trial Reuters us Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:05:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_guantanamo_newyork_trial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091124/i/r1946027678.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=BHoDsGH1Rx.XDiTyYxO50g--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is shown in this file photograph during his arrest on March 1, 2003. REUTERS/Courtesy U.S.News & World Report/Files" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A group against bringing the self-professed mastermind of the September 11 attacks to trial in a U.S. civilian court will hold a rally in New York demanding Washington reconsider its decision, the group said on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_guantanamo_newyork_trial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091124/i/r1946027678.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=BHoDsGH1Rx.XDiTyYxO50g--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is shown in this file photograph during his arrest on March 1, 2003. REUTERS/Courtesy U.S.News & World Report/Files" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_obama_dinner_security nm/20091126/us_obama_dinner_security Reuters topstories Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:02:20 GMT Reuters - The Secret Service is investigating how an uninvited couple was admitted to U.S. President Barack Obama's White House state dinner, penetrating layers of security, a spokesman said on Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/moroccospainswitzerlandaviationscience afp/20091125/moroccospainswitzerlandaviationscience AFP world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:54:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/moroccospainswitzerlandaviationscience"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259169446985-4-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=Av4Bg1H2UNgu83RGSzS1tQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Picture taken in Zahara de los Atunes, southern Spain, of people reflected on a television screen broadcasting the image of Swiss pilot Yves Rossy being rescued at sea between Tangiers and Atlanterra. Rossy ditched in the sea in a failed bid to fly across the Strait of Gibraltar, from Africa to Europe, using a jet-powered wing attached to his back, live television images showed.(AFP/Jorge Guerrero)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy ditched in the sea Wednesday due to turbulence, foiling his bid to make aviation history by flying from Africa to Europe using a jet-powered wing attached to his back.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/moroccospainswitzerlandaviationscience"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259169446985-4-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=Av4Bg1H2UNgu83RGSzS1tQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Picture taken in Zahara de los Atunes, southern Spain, of people reflected on a television screen broadcasting the image of Swiss pilot Yves Rossy being rescued at sea between Tangiers and Atlanterra. Rossy ditched in the sea in a failed bid to fly across the Strait of Gibraltar, from Africa to Europe, using a jet-powered wing attached to his back, live television images showed.(AFP/Jorge Guerrero)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britaineconomyfinancegrowthrecession afp/20091125/britaineconomyfinancegrowthrecession AFP business Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:51:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britaineconomyfinancegrowthrecession"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259142492883-4-0.jpg?x=80&y=130&q=85&sig=75fjWrDZMK78kXC9bkYbUw--" align="left" height="130" width="80" alt="A woman walks past a shop in London in October. Britain is the last major world power mired in recession, official data showed, but economists forecast a return to growth before the end of 2009 and ahead of next year's general election.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Britain is the last major world power mired in recession, official data showed on Wednesday, but economists forecast a return to growth before the end of 2009 and ahead of next year's general election.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britaineconomyfinancegrowthrecession"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259142492883-4-0.jpg?x=80&y=130&q=85&sig=75fjWrDZMK78kXC9bkYbUw--" align="left" height="130" width="80" alt="photo" title="A woman walks past a shop in London in October. Britain is the last major world power mired in recession, official data showed, but economists forecast a return to growth before the end of 2009 and ahead of next year's general election.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)