Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1765 Most Recommended World en-us Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:45:23 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1765 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_israel_palestinians ap/20091126/ml_israel_palestinians AP world Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:40:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_israel_palestinians"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091125/capt.93eae475958a4a42b8da37acb63d4503.mideast_israel_palestinians_jrl134.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=dKVMveU3Noo6.DDnGTRLCg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, gestures as he speaks during a press conference in his Jerusalem office, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2009. Israel will halt construction in its West Bank settlements for 10 months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday, in an effort to restart peace talks, but Palestinians rejected the freeze as insufficient because it did not include east Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)" border="0" /></a>AP - Israel on Wednesday proposed a 10-month halt to new construction in West Bank settlements as a step toward restarting Mideast peace negotiations. Washington welcomed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer, but the Palestinians swiftly rejected it because it did not include a building freeze in Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, the mainly Arab sector of the city they want as the capital of a future state.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_israel_palestinians"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091125/capt.93eae475958a4a42b8da37acb63d4503.mideast_israel_palestinians_jrl134.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=dKVMveU3Noo6.DDnGTRLCg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, gestures as he speaks during a press conference in his Jerusalem office, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2009. Israel will halt construction in its West Bank settlements for 10 months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday, in an effort to restart peace talks, but Palestinians rejected the freeze as insufficient because it did not include east Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_israel_new_weapons ap/20091125/ml_israel_new_weapons AP world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:07:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_israel_new_weapons"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091124/capt.e17ba56acfe14dcb902f393d6eddec4b.mideast_israel_evolving_military_jrl148.jpg?x=130&y=71&q=85&sig=PuWXPKLkz88teX_IKlZzDg--" align="left" height="71" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009 file photo, Israeli soldiers wear gas mask as they take part in a home front command army drill simulating a chemical missile attack at an army base near Tel Aviv. With cutting-edge anti-missile systems and two new submarines that can carry nuclear weapons, Israel is readying a new generation of armaments designed to defend itself against egression from outside its borders, according to Eyal Ron, one of the system's developers, saying that final dress rehearsals are expected in December 2009, before the system goes live next year.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - With cutting-edge anti-missile systems and two new submarines that can carry nuclear weapons, Israel is readying a new generation of armaments designed to defend itself against distant Iran as well as Tehran's proxy armies on its borders.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_israel_new_weapons"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091124/capt.e17ba56acfe14dcb902f393d6eddec4b.mideast_israel_evolving_military_jrl148.jpg?x=130&y=71&q=85&sig=PuWXPKLkz88teX_IKlZzDg--" align="left" height="71" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009 file photo, Israeli soldiers wear gas mask as they take part in a home front command army drill simulating a chemical missile attack at an army base near Tel Aviv. With cutting-edge anti-missile systems and two new submarines that can carry nuclear weapons, Israel is readying a new generation of armaments designed to defend itself against egression from outside its borders, according to Eyal Ron, one of the system's developers, saying that final dress rehearsals are expected in December 2009, before the system goes live next year.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iran_schools ap/20091125/ml_iran_schools AP world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:48:44 GMT AP - Islamic religious authorities have begun tightening their grip on Iranian public schools, a report said Wednesday, as hard-liners expand an ideological "soft war" against Western influence. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/mideastenvironmentwaterjordan afp/20091125/mideastenvironmentwaterjordan AFP world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:28:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/mideastenvironmentwaterjordan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259075611220-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=x169.9uRoMexXdbTYAJ2MQ--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="A picture shows the drying shores of the Dead Sea, south of the Jordanian capital Amman, on November 9. The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water, experts say.(AFP/File/Khalil Mazraawi)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water, experts say.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/mideastenvironmentwaterjordan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259075611220-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=x169.9uRoMexXdbTYAJ2MQ--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="photo" title="A picture shows the drying shores of the Dead Sea, south of the Jordanian capital Amman, on November 9. The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water, experts say.(AFP/File/Khalil Mazraawi)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nuclear_iran ap/20091125/nuclear_iran AP world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:24:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nuclear_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259192512525-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=C.F2dlZIq6wMIBdOFbO3IQ--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) embraces his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, upon his arrival at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. Ahmadinejad vowed Wednesday beside firebrand Chavez that Iran and Venezuela would "stand together until the end" in the face of US "imperialism."(AFP/Juan Barreto)" border="0" /></a>AP - The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency urged Iran on Wednesday to endorse a plan that would strip it of most of its enriched uranium, saying Tehran could not defuse fears about its nuclear program with proposals that included keeping the material.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nuclear_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259192512525-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=C.F2dlZIq6wMIBdOFbO3IQ--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="photo" title="Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) embraces his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, upon his arrival at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. Ahmadinejad vowed Wednesday beside firebrand Chavez that Iran and Venezuela would "stand together until the end" in the face of US "imperialism."(AFP/Juan Barreto)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_pakistan_mumbai_attacks ap/20091125/as_pakistan_mumbai_attacks AP world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:13:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_pakistan_mumbai_attacks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259145113468-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=RTpwuIsMZb00rGG.XJv99g--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="A tea vendor looks for customers opposite the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai. A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has indicted seven suspects over last year's Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people and all those in the dock pleaded not guilty.(AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)" border="0" /></a>AP - Pakistan charged seven men in last year's Mumbai attacks on Wednesday, its first indictment in a case being monitored by India and the United States to see if Islamabad makes good on promises to bring those responsible to justice.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_pakistan_mumbai_attacks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259145113468-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=RTpwuIsMZb00rGG.XJv99g--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="photo" title="A tea vendor looks for customers opposite the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai. A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has indicted seven suspects over last year's Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people and all those in the dock pleaded not guilty.(AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iran_rafsanjani ap/20091125/ml_iran_rafsanjani AP world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:35:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iran_rafsanjani"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091125/capt.82a1d317d3f14393a9bd3b2646c254c2.iran_rafsanjani_silenced_vah301.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=sKzNdmKUBjnoEWAffMZP6Q--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, file photo, Iranian senior cleric Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, delivers his sermon of prayer of Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice, under a poster showing the Iranian late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran. When Iran holds state-run ceremonies this week for an important Islamic feast day, there will be one very noticeable change: former President Hashemi Rafsanjani will not be leading the prayers. It's the latest slap by authorities against the single figure they may fear most &mdash; a powerful combination of elder statesman, super-wealthy tycoon and head of the only group empowered to remove Iran's supreme leader. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi,file)" border="0" /></a>AP - When Iran holds state-run ceremonies this week for an important Islamic feast day, there will be one very noticeable change: former President Hashemi Rafsanjani will not be leading the prayers.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iran_rafsanjani"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091125/capt.82a1d317d3f14393a9bd3b2646c254c2.iran_rafsanjani_silenced_vah301.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=sKzNdmKUBjnoEWAffMZP6Q--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, file photo, Iranian senior cleric Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, delivers his sermon of prayer of Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice, under a poster showing the Iranian late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran. When Iran holds state-run ceremonies this week for an important Islamic feast day, there will be one very noticeable change: former President Hashemi Rafsanjani will not be leading the prayers. It's the latest slap by authorities against the single figure they may fear most &mdash; a powerful combination of elder statesman, super-wealthy tycoon and head of the only group empowered to remove Iran's supreme leader. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi,file)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_philippines_abduction nm/20091126/us_philippines_abduction Reuters world Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:41:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_philippines_abduction"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r2859037124.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=wR4KuL4cxZmLw3LW6b0ETg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="A backhoe lifts the wreckage of a local television network's vehicle that was unearthed from a shallow grave at the site of a massacre of a political clan that included several journalists in the outskirts of Ampatuan, Maguindanao in southern Philippines, November 25, 2009. REUTERS/Erik de Castro" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A member of a powerful political family in the southern Philippines, suspected to be behind the massacre of 57 people in an election-related feud, surrendered to police Thursday, an army official said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_philippines_abduction"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r2859037124.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=wR4KuL4cxZmLw3LW6b0ETg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="A backhoe lifts the wreckage of a local television network's vehicle that was unearthed from a shallow grave at the site of a massacre of a political clan that included several journalists in the outskirts of Ampatuan, Maguindanao in southern Philippines, November 25, 2009. REUTERS/Erik de Castro" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_russia_endangered_tiger ap/20091125/eu_russia_endangered_tiger AP world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:57:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_russia_endangered_tiger"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091125/capt.e50b765e3e514ae9abe72993ed0738a8.russia_endangered_tiger_mosb107.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=55OLkN8aYHV2spAjzpCJmQ--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="FILE -- In this Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008, file photo Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a head of the tranquilized five-year-old Ussuri tiger as a researcher puts a collar with a satellite tracker on the animal in a Russian Academy of Sciences reserve in Russia's Far East. Putin's Siberian tigress cannot be traced anymore &mdash; as other giant felines of her rare breed may approach extinction, a leading animal-protection group said. Russia's Prime Minister placed a tracking collar on a female Siberian tiger in August 2008, and Moscow pledged to hold a 'tiger summit' next September to help double the global tiger population.(AP Photo/File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A rare Siberian tiger that Vladimir Putin fitted with a radio-tracking collar is alive and well, the Russian prime minister's spokesman said Wednesday, easing concerns raised when an environmentalist said the tracking device had gone silent.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_russia_endangered_tiger"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091125/capt.e50b765e3e514ae9abe72993ed0738a8.russia_endangered_tiger_mosb107.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=55OLkN8aYHV2spAjzpCJmQ--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="photo" title="FILE -- In this Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008, file photo Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a head of the tranquilized five-year-old Ussuri tiger as a researcher puts a collar with a satellite tracker on the animal in a Russian Academy of Sciences reserve in Russia's Far East. Putin's Siberian tigress cannot be traced anymore &mdash; as other giant felines of her rare breed may approach extinction, a leading animal-protection group said. Russia's Prime Minister placed a tracking collar on a female Siberian tiger in August 2008, and Moscow pledged to hold a 'tiger summit' next September to help double the global tiger population.(AP Photo/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/mideastdiplomacysettler afp/20091125/mideastdiplomacysettler AFP world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:20:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/mideastdiplomacysettler"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259171365564-4-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=EiVsTZdlhRA.83sPpT5srQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A Palestinian laborer clears the debris from a construction site of a new housing project in the Israeli West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumin located between Jerusalem and Jericho. Israel on Wednesday offered a temporary ease in settlement building in a move hailed by Washington as helping move forward the stalled peace process but rejected by the Palestinians as insufficient.(AFP/Gali Tibbon)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Israel on Wednesday offered a temporary ease in settlement building in a move hailed by Washington as helping move forward the stalled peace process but rejected by the Palestinians as insufficient.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/mideastdiplomacysettler"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259171365564-4-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=EiVsTZdlhRA.83sPpT5srQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Palestinian laborer clears the debris from a construction site of a new housing project in the Israeli West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumin located between Jerusalem and Jericho. Israel on Wednesday offered a temporary ease in settlement building in a move hailed by Washington as helping move forward the stalled peace process but rejected by the Palestinians as insufficient.(AFP/Gali Tibbon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_iran_students_arrests nm/20091125/us_iran_students_arrests Reuters world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:51:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_iran_students_arrests"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r652862443.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=bdMQP4B678WvZaCb0TzvEg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves as he arrives at Simon Bolivar airport in Caracas, November 24, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Iran has detained scores of students in an apparent bid to prevent new opposition protests during annual Student Day events next month, a Western-based human rights group said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_iran_students_arrests"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r652862443.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=bdMQP4B678WvZaCb0TzvEg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves as he arrives at Simon Bolivar airport in Caracas, November 24, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_afghanistan ap/20091126/as_afghanistan AP world Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:12:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_afghanistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091126/capt.photo_1259176154829-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=3TAh7pMQir6dI9SerS8JMw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="US Marines come under fire as they return to base following a search operation in Mian Poshteh in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. US President Barack Obama will announce his new Afghan strategy in an address to the nation Tuesday from the prestigious West Point military academy, the White House said.(AFP/Manpreet Romana)" border="0" /></a>AP - A helicopter belonging to an international military contractor has gone missing in Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_afghanistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091126/capt.photo_1259176154829-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=3TAh7pMQir6dI9SerS8JMw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="US Marines come under fire as they return to base following a search operation in Mian Poshteh in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. US President Barack Obama will announce his new Afghan strategy in an address to the nation Tuesday from the prestigious West Point military academy, the White House said.(AFP/Manpreet Romana)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_britain_afghanistan ap/20091125/eu_britain_afghanistan AP world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:30:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_britain_afghanistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091126/capt.photo_1259176154829-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=3TAh7pMQir6dI9SerS8JMw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="US Marines come under fire as they return to base following a search operation in Mian Poshteh in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. US President Barack Obama will announce his new Afghan strategy in an address to the nation Tuesday from the prestigious West Point military academy, the White House said.(AFP/Manpreet Romana)" border="0" /></a>AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that several NATO nations will jointly offer 5,000 more troops for Afghanistan, as London and Washington push allies to take on a greater share of the war burden.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_britain_afghanistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091126/capt.photo_1259176154829-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=3TAh7pMQir6dI9SerS8JMw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="US Marines come under fire as they return to base following a search operation in Mian Poshteh in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. US President Barack Obama will announce his new Afghan strategy in an address to the nation Tuesday from the prestigious West Point military academy, the White House said.(AFP/Manpreet Romana)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_latam_iran ap/20091126/lt_latam_iran AP world Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:34:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_latam_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091125/capt.cdf467f2ddb444ce9aa1f0e4016f28b0.aptopix_venezuela_iran_xac101.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=RNYkXAD6j41IVTYwGDo_RQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, react during an official welcoming ceremony at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)" border="0" /></a>AP - Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sought to expand Tehran's influence in Latin America and deepen his alliance with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez on Wednesday in a visit that gave him a platform to defend his country's nuclear program.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_latam_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091125/capt.cdf467f2ddb444ce9aa1f0e4016f28b0.aptopix_venezuela_iran_xac101.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=RNYkXAD6j41IVTYwGDo_RQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, react during an official welcoming ceremony at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/031542194260400 time/20091125/031542194260400 Time.com world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:25:00 GMT Time.com - One unlucky traveler got hit with an excess-baggage charge so outrageous, he may as well have bought his luggage its own seats on the flight http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/world3681871259178583 oneworld/20091125/world3681871259178583 OneWorld.net world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:47:27 GMT OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (OneWorld.net) - The Obama administration announced yesterday that it would not be joining a treaty signed by 158 other countries to ban landmines. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the decision "lacks vision, compassion, and basic common sense." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_china_black_jails ap/20091126/as_china_black_jails AP world Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:44:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_china_black_jails"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091125/capt.0f32117dc29b45c899c8ccb938552851.china_black_jails_xaw106.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=h0jmMJ.u1AyyPhHtm_vsVQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2009 file photo, a man walks through a former black jail where a young woman says she was raped while being illegally detained in Beijing, China. A large-scale system of secret detention centers set up in Beijing where Chinese citizens are held, forcibly restrained and sometimes beaten to prevent them from lodging formal complaints with the central government. Two articles, published Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, are prominently displayed on the opening page of Xinhua's Web site. Calling the extensive network of secret jails a 'gray industrial chain,' the articles say their existence 'damages the legitimate rights of petitioners and seriously damages the government's image.', but the Chinese government has repeatedly insisted that the unofficial jails don't exist. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - It read like a muckraking expose: A magazine revealed a system of secret detention centers in Beijing where Chinese citizens are forcibly held and sometimes beaten to prevent them from lodging formal complaints with the central government.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_china_black_jails"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091125/capt.0f32117dc29b45c899c8ccb938552851.china_black_jails_xaw106.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=h0jmMJ.u1AyyPhHtm_vsVQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2009 file photo, a man walks through a former black jail where a young woman says she was raped while being illegally detained in Beijing, China. A large-scale system of secret detention centers set up in Beijing where Chinese citizens are held, forcibly restrained and sometimes beaten to prevent them from lodging formal complaints with the central government. Two articles, published Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, are prominently displayed on the opening page of Xinhua's Web site. Calling the extensive network of secret jails a 'gray industrial chain,' the articles say their existence 'damages the legitimate rights of petitioners and seriously damages the government's image.', but the Chinese government has repeatedly insisted that the unofficial jails don't exist. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/3365161 mcclatchy/20091125/3365161 McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:50:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; Abraham Lincoln levied the country's first income tax to help pay soldiers and buy rifles for the Civil War. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_britain_bully_beefeaters ap/20091125/eu_britain_bully_beefeaters AP world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_britain_bully_beefeaters"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091102/capt.photo_1257170008617-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=VauehW11EIZXEAJ_USO7jQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Moira Cameron, the first female Beefeater who was appointed in 2007. Two Beefeaters at the Tower of London have been suspended and a third is under investigation over allegations they bullied the first woman ever to join their ranks, an official has said.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)" border="0" /></a>AP - Two ceremonial guards known as Beefeaters at the historic Tower of London were fired Wednesday after an internal investigation found that they harassed their first and only female colleague.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_britain_bully_beefeaters"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091102/capt.photo_1257170008617-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=VauehW11EIZXEAJ_USO7jQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Moira Cameron, the first female Beefeater who was appointed in 2007. Two Beefeaters at the Tower of London have been suspended and a third is under investigation over allegations they bullied the first woman ever to join their ranks, an official has said.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_spain_rocket_man ap/20091125/eu_spain_rocket_man AP world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:10:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_spain_rocket_man"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091125/capt.298f0cbf1a69487fae4df2de94cdd8ac.spain_rocket_man_lon806.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=vTfDSS.Fsgq9Q4KyYuzCrw--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="In this image from video released by organizers Webtel.mobi, Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy gestures from the doorway of a rescue helicopter after ditching in the sea Wednesday Nov 25 2009 while trying to fly from Morocco to Spain on jet-powered wings. Rossy took off Wednesday from Tangiers but halfway through an expected 15-minute flight he went down into wind-swept waters. (AP Photo/ Webtel. mobi)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Swiss adventurer trying to soar from Morocco to Spain on jet-powered wings ditched safely into the Atlantic on Wednesday after hitting turbulence and clouds so thick he could not tell if he was flying up or down.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_spain_rocket_man"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091125/capt.298f0cbf1a69487fae4df2de94cdd8ac.spain_rocket_man_lon806.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=vTfDSS.Fsgq9Q4KyYuzCrw--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this image from video released by organizers Webtel.mobi, Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy gestures from the doorway of a rescue helicopter after ditching in the sea Wednesday Nov 25 2009 while trying to fly from Morocco to Spain on jet-powered wings. Rossy took off Wednesday from Tangiers but halfway through an expected 15-minute flight he went down into wind-swept waters. (AP Photo/ Webtel. mobi)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)