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Chandlers speak to the BBC

BBC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Rachel and Paul Chandler have spoken to the BBC in Nairobi about their 13 months in captivity and their release on Sunday. Speaking to Andrew Harding, Rachel Chandler, 56, said they had remained "sceptical" after the gang leader told them on Friday ...
Telegraph.co.uk - AFP - Independent - Aljazeera.net

Netanyahu lobbies Israeli Cabinet on US peace talk incentives

Los Angeles Times - Edmund Sanders - ‎34 minutes ago‎
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is lobbying his Cabinet on a multibillion-dollar incentive package from the US to reopen peace talks with Palestinian leaders.
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Suu Kyi calls for talks with junta leader

The Hindu - ‎15 minutes ago‎
YANGON: Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, freed from house arrest, told thousands of wildly cheering supporters on Sunday that she would continue to fight for human rights and the rule of law in the military-controlled nation.
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Antonio Margarito suffers fractured orbital bone in loss to Manny Pacquiao

ESPN - ‎3 hours ago‎
Antonio Margarito, the Mexican super welterweight beaten badly by Manny Pacquiao on Saturday night, suffered a fractured orbital bone to his face and was expected to stay in the hospital for observation through at least Sunday night, an executive with ...

Danny Davis announces for mayor

Chicago Tribune - Kristen Mack - ‎2 hours ago‎
US Rep. Danny Davis, a veteran Chicago politician, struck populist tones as he declared his candidacy for mayor today, saying he will bridge the gap between wealthy and struggling communities.

APEC countries agree to launch massive new free-trade zone

Christian Science Monitor - Justin McCurry - ‎1 hour ago‎
The 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) agreed Sunday to 'take concrete steps toward realizing a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific' in coming years.

DreamWorks' 'Megamind' Repeats as Weekend's Top Movie

BusinessWeek - Michael White, Andrew Frye - ‎12 minutes ago‎
Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The animated comedy “Megamind” led ticket sales at theaters in the US and Canada for a second weekend, generating $30.1 million for DreamWorks Animation Inc. and distributor Paramount Pictures.

Pfizer heart-failure drug helps milder patients: study

Reuters - Ransdell Pierson, Julie Steenhuysen - ‎1 hour ago‎
CHICAGO (Reuters) - People with mild heart failure lived longer and fared better by adding Pfizer's drug Inspra to standard medications, a finding that could widely expand use of such drugs in healthier ...

Top 25: Boise State jumps back up to No. 3; Oregon remains No. 1

USA Today - ‎2 hours ago‎
Cam Newton played. Auburn won. That's all that mattered as far as poll voters were concerned. Despite being in the midst of a media firestorm during the week as reports of possible recruiting violations kept trickling out, Newton turned in another ...

Greek socialists set to gain Athens

Financial Times - Kerin Hope - ‎43 minutes ago‎
Socialist candidates appeared set to capture the Attica region - home to almost half of Greece's population - along with Athens city hall in the second round of municipal and regional elections.

Best bets: 'Harry Potter' hopes for magic

msnbc.com - Gael Fashingbauer Cooper - ‎3 hours ago‎
The magic is back as the first of two films based on "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" hits theaters. By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper The final Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," was so enormous that author JK Rowling and ...

13-Year-Old Missing Ohio Girl Found Alive

ABC News - Kevin Dolak, Russell Goldman - ‎54 minutes ago‎
The 13-year-old girl in a group of four people that went missing in Ohio last week was reportedly found safe today. Investigators search for a mother, two children and a friend.

AOL Unveils "Project Phoenix" Update to its Webmail

PC Magazine - David Murphy - ‎1 hour ago‎
It is perhaps telling that AOL has now released its Phoenix into the wild. That's "Project Phoenix," an overhaul of the company's online email service that comes in the wake of a sea of rumors regarding a new Facebook email service that's allegedly on ...

Haiti cholera toll tops 900 with six provinces affected

Reuters - Pascal Fletcher, Stacey Joyce - ‎3 hours ago‎
A Haitian resident holds his relative who is suffering from cholera at St-Catherine hospital in the slum of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince November 12, 2010.

Obama Rules Out Permanent Tax-Cut Extension for Top Earners, Axelrod Says

Bloomberg - Angela Greiling Keane - ‎47 minutes ago‎
President Barack Obama has ruled out a permanent extension of tax cuts for the richest Americans while seeking to extend breaks for the US middle class, a top administration adviser said.

China rocks Top 500 supercomputer list

Computerworld - Joab Jackson - ‎1 hour ago‎
IDG News Service - A new supercomputer installation in China has rocketed to the top of the twice-annual ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers.

Jessica Simpson Engaged To Eric Johnson

MTV.com - Mawuse Ziegbe - ‎1 hour ago‎
Former "Newlyweds" stars, Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson, are heading back down the aisle - although not with each other.

Madoff auction raises more than $2 million

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎3 hours ago‎
The sale of Bernie Madoff's personal effects raised more than $2 million (£1.2 million) over the weekend, US marshals said. A diamond engagement ring that belonged to the wife of the convicted fraudster fetched $550000 at auction while a pair of black ...

Abducted Afghan diplomat freed after two years

Reuters - ‎10 hours ago‎
KABUL Nov 14 (Reuters) - A senior Afghan diplomat in Pakistan, kidnapped two years ago by gunmen, has been freed, the Afghan government said on Sunday.

Divided Congress faces key deadlines

Boston Globe - Mark Arsenault, Matt Viser - ‎17 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON - A deeply divided Congress is being called back into session this week to deal with a host of urgent issues, setting the stage for a showdown between a wounded Democratic Party and newly empowered Republicans in which both ...

New French government expected under PM Fillon

The Associated Press - ‎40 minutes ago‎
PARIS (AP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy reappointed Francois Fillon as prime minister on Sunday despite often prickly relations between the two, asking him to create a new government - to be announced Sunday night.

Scarlett Johansson Hosts 'Saturday Night Live' For Third Time

MTV.com - Mawuse Ziegbe - ‎2 hours ago‎
Arcade Fire performs and the Kanye West and President George W. Bush drama is spoofed. By Mawuse Ziegbe (@mawuseziegbe) Back for her third time as host of "Saturday Night Live," Scarlett Johansson helmed a low-key episode of the sketch-comedy favorite.

Mecca makeover: how the hajj has become big business for Saudi Arabia

The Guardian - ‎2 hours ago‎
The arid landscape hugging the Jeddah-Mecca highway used to hold little appeal. But now travellers can marvel at the fantastical structure rearing out of the otherwise unforgiving landscape, clearly visible from 25 miles away.

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