Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/world world World News en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:46:40 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/world http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_mystery_patient ap/20100210/cb_haiti_mystery_patient AP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:42:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_mystery_patient"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.c3ad129a311449288d5d9f5e9004e2fa.haiti_earthquake_mystery_patient_pap144.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=f4A47g4pQ6w01D3_VbrbEg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo provided by michaelthemaven.com, a man who identified himself as Evans Monsigrace, 28, is attended at the Salvation Army medical center after being brought in by two men in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. University of Miami doctors working in Haiti are treating Monsigrace, who, according to two Haitian men who brought him, had been trapped in rubble since the Jan. 12 earthquake, and he may have been provided food and water during his reported ordeal. The men's account could not be confirmed by doctors at a university field hospital or at a Salvation Army medical center where Monsigrace, emaciated and suffering from dehydration, was first brought. (AP Photo/Michael Andrew, michaelthemaven.com)" border="0" /></a>AP - University of Miami doctors working in Haiti are treating a man who, according to two other Haitians, had been trapped by debris since the Jan. 12 earthquake &mdash; but he may have been provided food and water during his reported ordeal.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_mystery_patient"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.c3ad129a311449288d5d9f5e9004e2fa.haiti_earthquake_mystery_patient_pap144.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=f4A47g4pQ6w01D3_VbrbEg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo provided by michaelthemaven.com, a man who identified himself as Evans Monsigrace, 28, is attended at the Salvation Army medical center after being brought in by two men in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. University of Miami doctors working in Haiti are treating Monsigrace, who, according to two Haitian men who brought him, had been trapped in rubble since the Jan. 12 earthquake, and he may have been provided food and water during his reported ordeal. The men's account could not be confirmed by doctors at a university field hospital or at a Salvation Army medical center where Monsigrace, emaciated and suffering from dehydration, was first brought. (AP Photo/Michael Andrew, michaelthemaven.com)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake ap/20100209/cb_haiti_earthquake AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:05:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.9512770501c048909dbeef991f7f429c.haiti_earthquake_pap121.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CS0rEAPqeoApxsiT8cBk8Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Fristmer Alexi, 40, carries his daughter Rosemita, 10, to the General Hospital after she fell ill over night in downtown Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Thousands were killed and many displaced by the Jan. 12 earthquake that left the city in ruins. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)" border="0" /></a>AP - Fourteen-month-old Abigail Charlot survived Haiti's cataclysmic earthquake but not its miserable aftermath. Brought into the capital's General Hospital with fever and diarrhea, little Abigail literally dried up.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.9512770501c048909dbeef991f7f429c.haiti_earthquake_pap121.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CS0rEAPqeoApxsiT8cBk8Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Fristmer Alexi, 40, carries his daughter Rosemita, 10, to the General Hospital after she fell ill over night in downtown Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Thousands were killed and many displaced by the Jan. 12 earthquake that left the city in ruins. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained ap/20100210/cb_haiti_americans_detained AP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:23:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.664fb82ec10741fca7020d83b49eaad7.haiti_americans_detained_pap101.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=6qhbRtw1L.a9Tfw.mrzehQ--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Three of ten Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without proper documents or government permission, Drew Culberth, 34, of Topeka, Kansas, far right, Jimmy Allen, 47, of Amarillo, Texas, behind left of Culberth, and Paul Thompson, 43, of Twin Falls, Idaho, third from left, are escorted by Haitian police as they arrive to court in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Nine of the ten Americans were brought to court for a fourth time for questioning. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)" border="0" /></a>AP - Parents of some of the children who 10 U.S. missionaries tried to take out of Haiti after its catastrophic earthquake told a judge Tuesday that they freely handed over their kids, the Americans' lawyer said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.664fb82ec10741fca7020d83b49eaad7.haiti_americans_detained_pap101.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=6qhbRtw1L.a9Tfw.mrzehQ--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="Three of ten Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without proper documents or government permission, Drew Culberth, 34, of Topeka, Kansas, far right, Jimmy Allen, 47, of Amarillo, Texas, behind left of Culberth, and Paul Thompson, 43, of Twin Falls, Idaho, third from left, are escorted by Haitian police as they arrive to court in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Nine of the ten Americans were brought to court for a fourth time for questioning. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear ap/20100210/as_koreas_nuclear AP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:08:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.ed7c8b35ae814534a81338ef69868016.north_korea_koreas_nuclear_tok801.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=Deddbt702UV93NWZkQsJYg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, meets with senior Chinese Communist Party envoy Wang Jiarui, unseen, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Wang was in North Korea on a mission to persuade the reclusive state to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks, reports said. Sitting at left is Kim Yong Il, international department director of the Workers' Party of Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)" border="0" /></a>AP - A senior U.N. envoy pressed ahead Wednesday with international efforts to get North Korea back into nuclear disarmament talks, during the world body's first high-level visit to the reclusive state in nearly six years.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.ed7c8b35ae814534a81338ef69868016.north_korea_koreas_nuclear_tok801.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=Deddbt702UV93NWZkQsJYg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, meets with senior Chinese Communist Party envoy Wang Jiarui, unseen, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Wang was in North Korea on a mission to persuade the reclusive state to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks, reports said. Sitting at left is Kim Yong Il, international department director of the Workers' Party of Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_president ap/20100209/af_nigeria_president AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:17:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_president"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.522628ef730a4d8a97bd5ca883a5ce13.nigeria_president_nin101.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=zL.PMN_sUXwZAuZNUoSnvA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="FILE - In this May 29, 2007 file photo, Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua, right, stands with Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo, left, and Nigeria's vice President Goodluck Jonathan, center, after they were sworn in at Abuja, Nigeria. Parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 to take over for the ill president of oil-rich Nigeria, whose absence has stoked unrest in Africa's most populous country. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed measures calling on Jonathan to act as president and commander in chief until President Umaru Yar'Adua returns from Saudi Arabia, where he has been receiving medical treatment for a heart condition since November. (AP Photo/George Osodi, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Nigeria's parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa's most populous nation Tuesday in place of an ill and absent president, striving for a political end to a crisis that ground the government to a virtual halt and triggered the resumption of an insurgency in the vital oil sector.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_president"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.522628ef730a4d8a97bd5ca883a5ce13.nigeria_president_nin101.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=zL.PMN_sUXwZAuZNUoSnvA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this May 29, 2007 file photo, Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua, right, stands with Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo, left, and Nigeria's vice President Goodluck Jonathan, center, after they were sworn in at Abuja, Nigeria. Parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 to take over for the ill president of oil-rich Nigeria, whose absence has stoked unrest in Africa's most populous country. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed measures calling on Jonathan to act as president and commander in chief until President Umaru Yar'Adua returns from Saudi Arabia, where he has been receiving medical treatment for a heart condition since November. (AP Photo/George Osodi, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100209/wl_time/08599196083000 time/20100209/08599196083000 Time.com world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:05:00 GMT Time.com - Matchmaking services connecting North Korean women and South Korean men are helping ease the transition to a new life for some defectors http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/sp_wl_afp/rugbyu6nationsscowalrobinson afp/20100210/rugbyu6nationsscowalrobinson AFP sports Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:09:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/sp_wl_afp/rugbyu6nationsscowalrobinson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265767703237-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=xnz36WuWfuaaonfP_ZRAfg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Scotland coach Andy Robinson (pictured last November) has urged his team to get more of a grip on their game after recalling Australia-born fly-half Dan Parks for Saturday's Six Nations clash away to Wales.(AFP/File/Derek Blair)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Andy Robinson has urged Scotland to get more of a grip on their game after recalling Australia-born fly-half Dan Parks for Saturday's Six Nations clash away to Wales.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/sp_wl_afp/rugbyu6nationsscowalrobinson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265767703237-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=xnz36WuWfuaaonfP_ZRAfg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Scotland coach Andy Robinson (pictured last November) has urged his team to get more of a grip on their game after recalling Australia-born fly-half Dan Parks for Saturday's Six Nations clash away to Wales.(AFP/File/Derek Blair)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran ap/20100209/ml_iran AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:51:29 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r2402206939.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=p24M_Eip_G_4LE2tghNKSw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Student supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi hold red roses during protests in central Tehran in this December 7, 2009 file photo. Internet messages have been circulating about possible rallies on February 11, 2010, when Iran marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. But the climate in the Islamic Republic is much harder than before last year's post-election protests. Picture taken December 7, 2009. REUTERS/via Your View" border="0" /></a>AP - Iran has convicted another opposition activist on charges related to the country's post-election turmoil and sentenced him to death, the judiciary said Tuesday, bringing to at least 10 the number of those facing the death penalty for the unrest following June's disputed presidential election.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r2402206939.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=p24M_Eip_G_4LE2tghNKSw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Student supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi hold red roses during protests in central Tehran in this December 7, 2009 file photo. Internet messages have been circulating about possible rallies on February 11, 2010, when Iran marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. But the climate in the Islamic Republic is much harder than before last year's post-election protests. Picture taken December 7, 2009. REUTERS/via Your View" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_oldest_woman ap/20100210/cb_cuba_oldest_woman AP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:23:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_oldest_woman"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.5d69e03e0c3c49659f1100a3b5d9aeb5.cuba_oldest_person_xpl103.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=cnf9SQxknQYB2Sev6ZSpRg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="In this Feb. 4, 2010 photo, Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez sits in her home near the village of Campechuela, where she was born in the Granma region of eastern Cuba. Bautista, who is also known as Candulia, was born in 1885 according to the civil registry and celebrated her 125th birthday on Feb. 2, making her possibly the oldest person in the world. A spokesperson for Guinness World Records told the AP they were not aware of Bautista. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Prensa Latina)" border="0" /></a>AP - Relatives in eastern Cuba claim to have held a 125th birthday party for a woman named Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez, but it is not clear if she is really that old.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_oldest_woman"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.5d69e03e0c3c49659f1100a3b5d9aeb5.cuba_oldest_person_xpl103.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=cnf9SQxknQYB2Sev6ZSpRg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="In this Feb. 4, 2010 photo, Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez sits in her home near the village of Campechuela, where she was born in the Granma region of eastern Cuba. Bautista, who is also known as Candulia, was born in 1885 according to the civil registry and celebrated her 125th birthday on Feb. 2, making her possibly the oldest person in the world. A spokesperson for Guinness World Records told the AP they were not aware of Bautista. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Prensa Latina)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/wl_nm/us_nigeria_president nm/20100209/us_nigeria_president Reuters world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:33:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/wl_nm/us_nigeria_president"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r116723937.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=ikXwZScYNbpTAoIYnHloKQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Nigeria's Vice President Jonathan Goodluck attends the plenary session of the Africa-South America Summit in Margarita Island September 27, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan assumed office as acting president on Tuesday to fill a power vacuum more than two months after President Umaru Yar'Adua left for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/wl_nm/us_nigeria_president"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r116723937.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=ikXwZScYNbpTAoIYnHloKQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Nigeria's Vice President Jonathan Goodluck attends the plenary session of the Africa-South America Summit in Margarita Island September 27, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/bs_afp/japanautorecallcompanyhondaglobal afp/20100210/japanautorecallcompanyhondaglobal AFP business Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:31:51 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/bs_afp/japanautorecallcompanyhondaglobal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265769100174-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=DtrkQAWzsIctFc7jE4xImQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Japanese automaker Honda on Wednesday recalled 437,763 vehicles worldwide, mostly in North America, to fix defective airbags.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Japanese automaker Honda on Wednesday recalled 437,763 vehicles worldwide, mostly in North America, to fix defective airbags.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/bs_afp/japanautorecallcompanyhondaglobal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265769100174-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=DtrkQAWzsIctFc7jE4xImQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Japanese automaker Honda on Wednesday recalled 437,763 vehicles worldwide, mostly in North America, to fix defective airbags.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/wl_canada_nm/canada_us_drugs nm/20100209/canada_us_drugs Reuters world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:57:08 GMT Reuters - Canada will ask the Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court decision that allowed North America's only sanctioned drug-injection site to remain open in Vancouver despite the federal government's objections. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/ts_afp/australiabritainminingcompanybhp afp/20100210/australiabritainminingcompanybhp AFP topstories Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:46:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/ts_afp/australiabritainminingcompanybhp"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265759770746-1-0.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=u0WTltRGaZr8YNEbuURFVA--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="Workers inspect a BHP Billiton iron ore facility in West Australia. Mining giant BHP Billiton on Wednesday said first-half profits had more than doubled to 6.14 billion US dollars, but it remained cautious about the economic outlook.(AFP/BHP Billiton/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The world's biggest miner BHP Billiton fired a warning over the economic recovery on Wednesday despite smashing forecasts with half-year profits of 6.14 billion US dollars.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/ts_afp/australiabritainminingcompanybhp"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265759770746-1-0.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=u0WTltRGaZr8YNEbuURFVA--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="photo" title="Workers inspect a BHP Billiton iron ore facility in West Australia. Mining giant BHP Billiton on Wednesday said first-half profits had more than doubled to 6.14 billion US dollars, but it remained cautious about the economic outlook.(AFP/BHP Billiton/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100210/wl_mcclatchy/3422683 mcclatchy/20100210/3422683 McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100210/wl_mcclatchy/3422683"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r2402206939.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=p24M_Eip_G_4LE2tghNKSw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Student supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi hold red roses during protests in central Tehran in this December 7, 2009 file photo. Internet messages have been circulating about possible rallies on February 11, 2010, when Iran marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. But the climate in the Islamic Republic is much harder than before last year's post-election protests. Picture taken December 7, 2009. REUTERS/via Your View" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; At first blush, it seems like a godsend for U.S. foreign policy: a tenacious Iranian opposition, democratic in name at least, is challenging a regime that has caused the U.S. no end of headaches over the last 30 years.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100210/wl_mcclatchy/3422683"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r2402206939.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=p24M_Eip_G_4LE2tghNKSw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Student supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi hold red roses during protests in central Tehran in this December 7, 2009 file photo. Internet messages have been circulating about possible rallies on February 11, 2010, when Iran marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. But the climate in the Islamic Republic is much harder than before last year's post-election protests. Picture taken December 7, 2009. REUTERS/via Your View" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100208/wl_csm/277095 csm/20100208/277095 The Christian Science Monitor world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:31:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100208/wl_csm/277095"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265693462398-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=1PUev_r9385FWX7r3hoMIw--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge gives a press briefing on the 2010 Winter Olympics at the Main Press Center in downtown Vancouver, on February 8. Rogge will oversee his last Winter Olympics as president at the Vancouver games.(AFP/Mark Ralston)" border="0" /></a>The Christian Science Monitor - If you want to know why the Olympics still matter, meet a guy named Tony Benshoof. He's 34, an Olympic Everyman who slides feet first down mountains made of ice, seeking perfection during every lonely day of training.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100208/wl_csm/277095"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265693462398-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=1PUev_r9385FWX7r3hoMIw--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge gives a press briefing on the 2010 Winter Olympics at the Main Press Center in downtown Vancouver, on February 8. Rogge will oversee his last Winter Olympics as president at the Vancouver games.(AFP/Mark Ralston)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (The Christian Science Monitor) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100209/wl_time/08599196214200 time/20100209/08599196214200 Time.com world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:05:00 GMT Time.com - Spain's in trouble. It's the only major world economy still in recession andits rising deficit is sparking concerns that it could bring down the entireeurozone http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20100209/wl_oneworld/world3686911265747186 oneworld/20100209/world3686911265747186 OneWorld.net world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:25:22 GMT OneWorld.net - for over 50 years leading and embodying a mass movement rooted in peace, mutual respect, and village development, and for promoting reconciliation and recovery in the face of this year's ferocious end to Sri Lanka's nearly-30-year-long violent conflict