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• Yacht with UK nationals stopped by Iranian navy (AP)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 23:53

  AP - Britain's Foreign Office says that a racing yacht carrying five U.K. nationals has been stopped by Iranian naval vessels, and they are now in Iran....

• Jackson's `This Is It' out on DVD in January (AP)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 23:52

  AP - "Michael Jackson's This Is It," a film about the King of Pop's final rehearsals before his death, will be released on DVD on Jan. 26, 2010....

• Iraqi civilian deaths drop to lowest level of war (Reuters)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 22:39

  Reuters - The civilian death toll in Iraq fell to its lowest level in November since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion as bombings receded, defying predictions of a spike in violence before an election next year, officials said on Monday....

• Obama orders Afghan strategy into force (AFP)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 22:20

  AFP - President Barack Obama has already ordered his new Afghan strategy into force, the White House said Monday, as the US leader informed world leaders of a plan expected to include a huge troop surge....

• Obama briefs key allies on Afghan plan (Reuters)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 21:58

  Reuters - President Barack Obama briefed key allies on his new strategy for the Afghanistan war on Monday and officials said his plan is expected to include about 30,000 more U.S. troops and an exit timeframe....

• Lack of coordination leaves bin Laden at large (Reuters)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 21:30

  Reuters - Eight years after Osama bin Laden escaped from U.S. forces in Afghanistan, he remains on the run because of a lack of trust and coordination between Washington and Islamabad, experts say....

• Gov't increases pressure on mortgage industry (AP)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 21:25

  AP - The Obama administration said Monday it will crack down on mortgage companies that are failing to do enough to help borrowers at risk of foreclosure, as part of a broad effort to ramp up participation in its mortgage assistance program....

• Clinton daughter Chelsea engaged to be married (AP)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 20:48

  AP - Chelsea Clinton, the 29-year old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, has become engaged to her longtime boyfriend, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky....

• Obama's Afghan "surge" sets sights on Kandahar (Reuters)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 19:38

  Reuters - A year ago, mobile phones worked just fine in the pomegranate orchards and vineyards along the Arghandab river on the outskirts of Afghanistan's second largest city, Kandahar....

• Russian patriarch seeks "powerful reply" to train bomb (Reuters)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 19:02

  Reuters - The head of Russia's Orthodox Church Sunday called on authorities to give a "powerful reply" to the people behind a train bombing that killed 25 people, as police probed whether Islamist rebels were involved....

• Williams fined at least record $82,500 for tirade (AP)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 19:01

  AP - Serena Williams was fined at least a record $82,500 for her U.S. Open tirade and could be suspended from that tournament if she has another "major offense" at any Grand Slam in the next two years, Grand Slam administrator Bill Babcock told The Associ...

• Democrats expect healthcare overhaul to pass (Reuters)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 18:43

  Reuters - Leading Democrats on Sunday said they expect Congress to pass a major healthcare reform backed by President Barack Obama, but supporters may have to accept legislation that falls short on some issues....

• Workers plow road to Polanski's Swiss chalet (AP)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 17:44

  AP - Workers plowed snow away from Roman Polanski's Alpine chalet on Monday, as Swiss authorities worked with the director's lawyers to meet the conditions of his $4.5 million bail and house arrest....

• Geneva Big Bang machine beats Chicago lab record (AP)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 17:20

  AP - The world's largest atom smasher on Monday broke the record for proton acceleration previously held by a U.S. lab, sending beams of the particles at 1.18 trillion electron volts around the massive machine....

• "Big Bang" collider sets particle beam record (Reuters)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 16:14

  Reuters - The "Big Bang" experiment at CERN near Geneva scored a world record on Monday by accelerating beams to the highest energy ever achieved in a particle collider, the research center announced....

• Demjanjuk war crimes trial to open (AFP)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 15:28

  AFP - Germany is on Monday staging what is likely to be the last major Holocaust trial, placing 89-year-old John Demjanjuk in the dock over charges that he herded thousands of people to death at a Nazi camp....

• Somali pirates hijack oil tanker going to US (AP)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 15:23

  AP - Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, an attack that could pose a huge environmental or security threat to the region....

• Iran says UN criticism prompted new nuclear plans (AP)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 14:08

  AP - Iran had no intention of building 10 new nuclear facilities until it was strongly rebuked by the U.N. nuclear watchdog over its nuclear activities, the country's nuclear chief said Monday....

• United States, Brazil at odds over Honduras crisis (Reuters)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 13:51

  Reuters - Honduras' disputed presidential election is likely to set Washington against emerging Latin American power Brazil over whether to recognize the winner of a vote promoted by the leaders of a June coup....

• Hasselhoff ex Bach arrested in LA on DUI charge (AP)

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 13:17

  AP - David Hasselhoff's ex-wife has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Los Angeles....