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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden poses for a photo with US soldiers at Camp Victory on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 4, 2009.

Biden celebrates July 4 with U.S. troops in Iraq read more
Houston Chronicle

BAGHDAD - Vice President Joe Biden celebrated the Fourth of July with his son and other American troops in Iraq on Saturday, a day after warning Iraqi leaders that U.S. assistance will be jeopardized if the country reverts to ethnic and sectarian violence. Biden began Independence Day by greeting more than 200 U.S. soldiers who were becoming...

photo: AP / Khalid Mohammed, Pool

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Jack Straw's two-tier justice read more
The Guardian

It becomes clearer by the day that justice minister Jack Straw, who allowed mass murderer...

Is there pensions apartheid? Well, if you're a nurse there is read more
The Guardian

Indignation at "gold-plated" public sector pensions is the latest wave in the Conservative...

Nobel prizewinner Amartya Sen: why happiness is not just pleasure read more
The Times

On a sweltering late June day in Cambridge I first encounter Amartya Sen, as Peter O'Toole...

GM Europe head says to sell Opel to Magna soon: report read more

Yahoo Daily News

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – General Motors Europe President Carl-Peter Forster expects to sell German unit Opel to Canadian auto parts supplier Magna soon, he told a German newspaper. "I am quite confident after a top-level meeting of GM and...

photo: AP / Michael Probst, File

Tour de France starts in Monaco read more

Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong heads down the ramp at the start of the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race, an individual time trial of 15.5 kilometers (9.63 miles) with start and finish in Moncao, Saturday July 4, 2009.

Yahoo Daily News

MONACO – Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong has begun his comeback at the Tour de France in the first-stage individual time trial. The 37-year-old Texan, back after 3 1/2 years of retirement, took off 18th among the 180 cyclists Saturday who...

photo: AP / Laurent Rebours

Pakistan ships attack Taliban read more

An army helicopter overflies Pakistani soldiers in Ghar-I-Hira camp, in the upper Swat Valley, Pakistan, Saturday, June 20, 2009.

Irish Times

Pakistani helicopter gunships attacked Taliban militants today in a northwestern region where a military helicopter crashed the previous day killing 26 soldiers on board, a government official said. Fighting has intensified sharply in northwest...

photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti

Statue of Liberty crown reopens read more

In this June 2, 2009 photo, the Statue of Liberty is seen in New York harbor.

BBC News

"It's just nice to be able to reach the peak." "Peak" might sound like the wrong word - but the climb up makes it feel something like that. There are 354 steps to the crown, the last 150 or so up a tight and claustrophobic spiral...

photo: AP / Richard Drew

US soldiers killed in Afghanistan read more

U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines patrol through a village in the Nawa district in Afghanistan's Helmand province Saturday, July 4, 2009.

BBC News

The US military in Afghanistan says two of its soldiers have been killed in an explosion in eastern Paktika province. Four others were hurt in the blast, which a spokesman said was caused by a possible improvised explosive device. The local governor...

photo: AP / David Guttenfelder

Australian delegation meets H.H the Dalai lama: strong support for Tibet read more

Australian Parliamentary delegations visits Tibetan communities in India

WorldNews.com

Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Yeshe Choesang. Dharamshala: 4 July 2009 - The visiting delegation of six parliamentary members representing the Australian All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet to Dharamsala said Friday (3 July) they will be...

photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang