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Afghan Cabinet: Airstrike kills at least 33 (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2010 12:57 AM PST

US marines and British troops are seen in front of a Danish Leopard tank in Trikh Nawar close to the town of Marjah in southern Afghanistan on February 21. A NATO air strike has mistakenly killed 21 Afghan civilians and injured another 14, a spokesman for Afghanistan's interior ministry said on Monday.(AFP/Patrick Baz)AP - The Afghan Cabinet says at least 33 civilians are dead as the result of NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan — an incident that is inflaming already heightened sensitivities over noncombatant casualties in the war.

New Obama health proposal would limit rate hikes (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2010 12:38 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama speaks in the White House press briefing room in Washington. Obama has summoned both Democrats and Republicans to a White House summit to be cast live on C-SPAN and perhaps cable Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, gambling that he can save his embattled health care overhaul by the power of persuasion. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - Taking the fight to insurance companies, President Barack Obama is trying to revive his stalled health care overhaul.

Lufthansa nixes 100s of flights as pilots strike (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2010 12:27 AM PST

Cancelled flights are seen on a board in the terminal at the airport of Frankfurt, central Germany, Monday, Feb. 22, 2010, on the first day of a strike of more than 4000 Lufthansa pilots asking for more money and a job guarantee. The strike is supposed to last four days. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)AP - German airline Lufthansa canceled about 800 flights Monday, almost half its daily total, after more than 4,000 of its pilots began a four-day walkout.

In rare night landing, space shuttle back on Earth (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 11:33 PM PST

Space shuttle Endeavour returns to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010, after a 14-day mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts closed out the last major construction mission at the International Space Station with a smooth landing in darkness that struck many as bittersweet.

4 still missing after Madeira flooding killed 42 (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2010 12:30 AM PST

A villager crosses a damaged street near Ribeira Brava, Madeira Island. A Briton has died after flash floods on the Portuguese tourist island of Madeira, the Foreign Office said Sunday, the first confirmed death of a foreign national in the disaster.(AFP/Gregorio Cunha)AP - Emergency crews in Madeira continued their search Monday for at least four people still missing after mud and rockslides killed 42 people on the Portuguese island.

Shinseki: US will fix broken VA disability system (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2010 12:35 AM PST

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, second from left, leaves a veterans discussion panel at the Charleston Vet Center in Charleston, W. Va., Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. Shinseki said he's making it a top priority in 2010 to tackle the veterans disability claims backlog that has veterans waiting months, even years, to get financial compensation for their injuries. From left are Charleston Vet Center team leader Jesse Coulter, Shinseki, Shinseki's Chief of Staff John Gingrich, and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va. (AP Photo/Bob Bird)AP - Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said he's making it a top priority this year to tackle the backlog of disability claims that has veterans waiting months — even years — to get financial compensation for their injuries.

Pediatricians urge choking warning labels for food (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 10:59 PM PST

AP - When 4-year-old Eric Stavros Adler choked to death on a piece of hot dog, his anguished mother never dreamed that the popular kids' food could be so dangerous.

Documents: Toyota boasted saving $100M on recall (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 05:19 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2010, file photo a sign assuring customers that the car has not been affected by the recall is displayed on a 2010 Camry at Bay Ridge Toyota in New York. With Toyota waging a furious lobbying and advertising battle to protect its name following the recall of 8.5 million vehicles, many of its 1,200 dealers are taking matters into their own hands. A group in Southern California almost retained the PR firm Sitrick and Co. of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)AP - Toyota officials claimed they saved the company $100 million by successfully negotiating with the government on a limited recall of floor mats in some Toyota and Lexus vehicles, according to new documents shared with congressional investigators.

Train kills 3 teen girls crossing Florida bridge (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2010 12:30 AM PST

A police officer inspects the tracks on the bridge where three teenagers were walking when hit and killed by a train in Melbourne, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)AP - A "no trespassing" sign warned four teenagers in Florida not to walk onto the railroad trestle where they were joking around and taking pictures. A fisherman along the banks of the creek below also told them to be careful.

Authorities charge 2 men in Texas church fire (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 05:39 PM PST

In this photo provided by the Smith County Sheriff Department, Jason Robert Bourque, 19, of Lindale, Texas is shown. Bourque and Daniel George McAllister were arrested in a series of east Texas church fires that authorities believe were intentionally set. (AP Photo/Smith County Sheriff Department)AP - Two men who once attended church together were charged Sunday with intentionally burning down a church in east Texas and are suspected in a string of similar blazes, authorities said.

Madeira floods kill 42, divers hunt for missing (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 01:58 PM PST

People look on as a street with vehicles is engulfed by heavy flooding in downtown Funchal, Madeira February 20, 2010. REUTERS/Duarte SaReuters - Portuguese rescuers used excavators and their bare hands on Sunday to sift through mud and debris for victims of violent floods and mudslides that killed at least 42 people on the resort island of Madeira.

Haiti death toll could reach 300,000: Preval (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:24 PM PST

A boy sleeps next to a dog at a makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince February 20, 2010. REUTERS/St-Felix EvensReuters - The death toll from last month's devastating earthquake in Haiti could jump to 300,000 people, including the bodies buried under collapsed buildings in the capital, Haitian President Rene Preval said on Sunday.

Obama has insurers in sight as he sets health plan (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 10:12 PM PST

Graphic fact file comparing health care services and costs in a range of countries.(AFP/Graphic)Reuters - President Barack Obama will pitch his bid to revamp the U.S. healthcare system as a way to control big insurance company rate increases when he releases his healthcare plan on Monday, the White House said.

North Korea seeks military talks with rival South (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 06:33 PM PST

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il (C) poses as he visits the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex in Songnim in north Hwanghae province, south of Pyongyang in this picture released by the North's KCNA news agency on February 21, 2010. REUTERS/KCNAReuters - North Korea has proposed holding military talks with the South next week after it raised tension on the troubled peninsula last week by warning it would hold live-fire drills near the border with its rival.

Israel to include West Bank shrines in heritage plan (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 12:26 PM PST

Israeli soldiers put a Jewish setter into the back of a military vehicle after the settlers barricaded themselves inside a synagogue in the West Bank city of Jericho February 21, 2009. REUTERS/Ammar AwadReuters - Israel said on Sunday it wanted to include two Jewish shrines in the occupied West Bank in a national plan to rehabilitate some 150 Jewish and Zionist heritage sites, drawing condemnation from the Palestinians.

China PLA officer urges new Internet control agency (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 10:16 PM PST

The Google logo is seen on top of Google China headquarters' building in Beijing January 22, 2010. REUTERS/Jason LeeReuters - A senior Chinese military officer has called for a new national body to enforce Internet controls, while China faced fresh claims on Monday about the source of hacking attacks that hit search giant Google.

NATO airstrike kills 21 civilians: Afghan government (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 11:24 PM PST

Reuters - A NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan has killed 21 people after an aircraft fired on civilians mistakenly thought to be insurgents, the Afghan government said on Monday.

Canada lose U.S. ice hockey crunch, Bode gold (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 11:30 PM PST

Reuters - It was indeed "Miller Time" -- as the beer slogan goes -- for the U.S. Olympic team Sunday after skier Bode Miller snatched his first Olympic gold medal and ice hockey goalkeeper Ryan Miller stopped Canada in a heartbreaking loss for the hockey-crazed host nation.

NATO strike kills 21 civilians: Afghan official (AFP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 10:58 PM PST

US marines and British troops are seen in front of a Danish Leopard tank in Trikh Nawar close to the town of Marjah in southern Afghanistan on February 21. A NATO air strike has mistakenly killed 21 Afghan civilians and injured another 14, a spokesman for Afghanistan's interior ministry said on Monday.(AFP/Patrick Baz)AFP - A NATO air strike has mistakenly killed 21 Afghan civilians and injured another 14, a spokesman for Afghanistan's interior ministry said Monday.

Clashes erupt over Israeli plan to restore West Bank sites (AFP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 11:45 PM PST

File photo shows ultra-Orthodox Jews praying at Rachel's tomb, Judaism's third holiest shrine, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Palestinians clashed Monday with Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Hebron amid outrage over an Israeli plan to restore two flashpoint Jewish holy sites in the occupied territory.(AFP/File/Menahem Kahana)AFP - Palestinians clashed Monday with Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Hebron amid outrage over an Israeli plan to restore two flashpoint Jewish holy sites in the occupied territory.
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