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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page St Louis Star.com http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/10/id/2411cd3571b4f088/ en-us Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:57:11 -0500 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:57:11 -0500 30 Israel has agreed in principle to a joint Egyptian-French plan for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450931/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:29:31 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450931/cs/1/ Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been warned to take cover against Israeli air strikes. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450930/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:28:21 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450930/cs/1/ The Prime Minister of Pakistan has sacked his National Security Advisor Mahmood Durrani. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450929/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:26:46 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450929/cs/1/ US Senate Democratic leaders have met Roland Burris, the man nominated to fill the Illinois Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450928/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:25:24 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450928/cs/1/ The top US security specialist has said Iran will be the biggest challenge in the Middle East for the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450927/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:24:02 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450927/cs/1/ Barack Obama has joined President George W Bush and three of his predecessors, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter for lunch at the White House. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450926/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:21:56 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450926/cs/1/ Two female police constables in the UK have issued writs against Scotland Yard over sexual harassment allegations against three male officers. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450925/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:20:49 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450925/cs/1/ The Leader of the Liberal Democrats in Britain has slammed world leaders for allowing the violence currently taking place in the Middle East. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450798/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:00:11 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450798/cs/1/ President-elect Barack Obama has underscored the urgency of finalizing economic legislation with reporters in Washington. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450700/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:03:42 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450700/cs/1/ Israel says it has decided to open a humanitarian corridor into the Gaza Strip. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450699/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:01:35 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450699/cs/1/ US and other coalition forces have killed 32 armed Taliban insurgents east of the Afghan capital, Kabul. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450661/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:58:01 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450661/cs/1/ French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there will soon be changes to the French judiciary, to take it away from the magisterial system. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450660/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:56:39 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450660/cs/1/ Israeli ground troops have been withdrawing from the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450670/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:00:28 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450670/cs/1/ India's I-League champions Dempo have been provisionally placed with Al Sharjah football club of United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Group B of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450911/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:03:19 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450911/cs/1/ South African captain Graeme Smith had no plans to bat with a broken hand but changed his mind after seeing the resolute display by tail-enders on the last day of the third final Test against Australia here Wednesday. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450905/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:03:00 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450905/cs/1/ Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga recovered from a horror start to impose his game on fighting Finn Jarkko Nieminen for a 0-6, 7-6 (7-1), 7-6 (7-5) win into the quarter-finals of the Brisbane International Wednesday. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450904/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:02:54 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450904/cs/1/ A spokesman for Hamas Wednesday rejected the three-hour humanitarian lull in the fighting in the Gaza Strip, set up to allow residents of the salient to stock up on vital necessities. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450902/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:02:47 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450902/cs/1/ A coalition of major human rights and development organisations Wednesday called on the European Union (EU) to immediately suspend its latest pacts with Israel until the violence in Gaza ends, IRNA reported. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450896/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:02:16 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450896/cs/1/ Iraq's Prime Minister Wednesday called on all Arab and Muslim countries to cut their ties with Israel, calling the Israeli military attacks on Gaza 'a dreadful crime', according to a press statement. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450892/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:00:44 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450892/cs/1/ After a mounting row for nearly two weeks over Nepal's revered Pashupatinath temple that saw the Maoist government facing condemnation both at home and abroad, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' Wednesday bowed to the pressure. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450885/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:03:34 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450885/cs/1/ Australian Open tennis tournament director Craig Tiley is confident that defending champion Maria Sharapova of Russia will play this year. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450873/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:02:15 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450873/cs/1/ Islamabad/New Delhi/After being in denial mode for weeks, Pakistan finally admitted Wednesday that Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist captured during the Mumbai carnage, was indeed a Pakistani national but was unsure whether it would provide him consular access as he has asked for to defend himself. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450872/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:01:37 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450872/cs/1/ British retailers Marks & Spencer (M&S) said Wednesday it is axing up to 1,230 jobs and closing down 27 stores after a fall in Christmas sales. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450854/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:03:13 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450854/cs/1/ Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful and wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim were Wednesday fined for breaching the International Cricket Council (ICC) code of Conduct during the third day's play in the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450848/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:02:55 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450848/cs/1/ South African captain Graeme Smith peeled off the cast on his broken left hand to come out to join Makhaya Ntini in a gutsy bid to save the third cricket Test , but their resistance came to an end with ten balls still to be bowled and Australia snatched victory in a pulsating finish here Wednesday. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450833/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:01:33 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450833/cs/1/ Unbeaten Germany moved into a Thursday showdown with the equally spotless Slovak Republic for a place in the Hopman Cup tennis final after defeating the US 2-1 Wednesday. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450817/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:06:13 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450817/cs/1/ Scoreboard on the fifth day of the third and final cricket Test between Australia and South Africa at the Sydney Cricket Ground here Wednesday: http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450813/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:05:19 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450813/cs/1/ The price for oil produced by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) continued to rise Tuesday, climbing to $46.27, the Vienna-based cartel announced Wednesday. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450812/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:04:58 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450812/cs/1/ An Indian man has been arrested for killing his daughter-in-law in Mississauga near here. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450802/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:03:01 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450802/cs/1/ Australia retained their No.1 ranking by winning the Sydney Test but South Africa will go top if they win the return series starting next month. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450801/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:02:49 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450801/cs/1/ Bangkok, Jan 7 (Xinhua) Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Wednesday announced that the 14th Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will be held in Hua Hin town and not in the Thai capital as planned earlier. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450795/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:06:18 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450795/cs/1/ Just spending two to three hours outdoors daily is a great way of halting short sightedness or myopia, which is fast spreading among urban children worldwide. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450794/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:06:06 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450794/cs/1/ Danny Boyle, who directed critically acclaimed 'Slumdog Millionaire', is helping the poor children who starred in his movie. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450793/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:06:00 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450793/cs/1/ As adolescents grow into young adults, time constraints imposed by school or work can begin to affect their eating habits in an unhealthy way. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450791/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:05:47 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450791/cs/1/ 'Harry Potter' star Emma Watson has slammed skinny stars as she finds their shape ugly. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450790/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:05:42 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450790/cs/1/ Supermodel Cindy Crawford, who was famous in the 1990s, revealed she was bullied by her classmates who were jealous of her modelling career. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450788/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:05:36 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450788/cs/1/ Hollywood actor Will Smith believes his son Jaden might have Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) and can see into the future. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450784/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:05:12 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450784/cs/1/ Ban on slapping cuts down child homicides dramatically as borne out by the case of Sweden. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450782/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:04:59 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450782/cs/1/ An international research team has identified a new line of bacteria that flavours some of the world's most exclusive cheese. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450780/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:04:50 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450780/cs/1/ American pop singer Madonna has stripped down to her knickers for an advertisement of the international brand Louis Vuitton. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450778/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:04:42 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450778/cs/1/ A key protein in cells plays a critical role in not one but dual processes affecting the development of cancer, according to a new discovery. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450776/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:04:32 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450776/cs/1/ Researchers have isolated a protein that protects against Alzhemier's disease. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450773/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:04:11 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450773/cs/1/ Bangladesh's first democratically elected government in over two years got to work Wednesday, as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attended office after a landslide victory in the Dec 29 poll. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450769/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:02:44 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450769/cs/1/ Recovering from ankle surgery, Brett Lee feels that he can't take the workload he took last year but he is confident of crossing the 400-wicket milestone in Tests. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450767/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:02:26 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450767/cs/1/ Cambodia Wednesday marked 30 years since the downfall of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime with a carefully choreographed stadium ceremony organised and dominated by the country's powerful ruling party. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450762/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:01:33 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450762/cs/1/ British singer Amy Winehouse is all over aspiring British actor Joshua Bowman as they have been seen snuggling up on a holiday at the Caribbean island of St Lucia. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450747/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:00:37 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450747/cs/1/ Hollywood actor John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston were preparing for a Scientology funeral for their 16-year-old son Jett, who died Friday after suffering a seizure while on a holiday in the Bahamas. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450745/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:00:27 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450745/cs/1/ American rapper-turned-designer Puff Daddy said he does not like people dropping in at his home without prior information. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450740/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:00:09 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450740/cs/1/ Fading vision is forcing senior drivers off the roads, since they feel they can no longer navigate safely. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450738/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:00:03 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450738/cs/1/ Scientists have identified a new way whereby bacteria transmit toxic genes to other unrelated bacterial species and gain greater virulence. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450697/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:01:13 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450697/cs/1/ A Taiwan man, fearing deportation of his Indonesian wife, hid her and their three children at home for seven years, an immigration official and a local news report said Wednesday. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450696/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:01:10 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450696/cs/1/ British premier Gordon Brown Wednesday began a three-day tour of British recession hotspots in a bid to boost morale that has been hit by growing joblessness. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450694/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:01:06 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450694/cs/1/ British pop singer Lily Allen was upset as she lost her luggage on a flight back to London from the Caribbean. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450688/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:00:56 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450688/cs/1/ The Tokyo stock market extended its winning streak Wednesday on optimism based on the US economic stimulus package. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450674/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:00:35 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450674/cs/1/ Asked to arbitrate in the growing row over Nepal's revered Pashupatinath temple, the Himalayan republic's apex court said it would hear the dispute Monday. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450672/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:00:30 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450672/cs/1/ An Arab Sheikh and India-born steel tycoon Laxmi Mittal have emerged as the two wealthiest British football club owners in 2009, relegating Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich to third spot. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450646/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:01:15 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450646/cs/1/ Communist North Korea plans to hold elections for its parliament, the Supreme People's Assembly, March 8, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450643/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:01:09 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450643/cs/1/ The government has lifted the ban on use of mobile phones in hospitals in England, though they will continue to be restricted in intensive care units, the chemotherapy and children's wards. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450631/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:00:49 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450631/cs/1/ Lionel Messi gave one of the best performances of his promising career in Madrid, scoring a handsome hat-trick as Barcelona beat Atletico Madrid 3-1 in a one-sided fifth round, first leg clash in the Spanish Cup. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450627/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:00:33 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450627/cs/1/ David Beckham made a quiet debut for AC Milan as the Italians defeated German Bundesliga side SV Hamburg 4-3 via penalties in a friendly match here. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450625/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:00:20 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450625/cs/1/ Some 1,500 police were called to Ankara's Ataturk Arena late Tuesday after fans and demonstrators forced a European Cup basketball match between a local and an Israeli team to be called off. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450620/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:00:04 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450620/cs/1/ Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has made her personal physician the foreign minister in her 32-member team in which as many as 25 are newcomers. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450574/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:01:16 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450574/cs/1/ Britain's biggest workers' union and key regional newspapers have launched a massive campaign to save beleaguered Indian-owned marques Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) from collapsing in the credit crunch. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450568/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:01:03 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450568/cs/1/ With the global meltdown gripping developed and developing economies, 2008 proved to be the worst year for initial public offerings (IPOs) in Canadian markets, says a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450566/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:00:56 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450566/cs/1/ Tata-owned Jaguar has given the XF luxury saloon a more powerful diesel engine which is said to save fuel at the same time. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450558/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:00:36 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450558/cs/1/ A day after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the Mumbai attack had the support of Pakistani 'official agencies', several leading newspapers Wednesday responded with anger. India should give Pakistan 'space' to act against terrorism, one editorial said while another contended that New Delhi seemed interested more in 'maligning Pakistan internationally'. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450555/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:00:26 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450555/cs/1/ Harmful algal blooms are increasingly poisoning seafood, causing respiratory and skin irritations, while killing off fish and mammals in coastal waters. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450549/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:00:02 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450549/cs/1/ Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia launched a broadside against her political rival and now prime minister Sheikh Hasina even as the swearing-in ceremony was being conducted, accusing her of 'killing, snatching and criminal activities'. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450545/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:00:35 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450545/cs/1/ Japanese emperor Akihito Wednesday marked the 20th anniversary of ascension to Japan's throne by visiting his father's grave in Tokyo. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450536/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:00:15 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450536/cs/1/ President-elect Barack Obama has warned Americans about the unparalleled prospect of 'trillion-dollar deficits for years to come', saying the exploding budget gap underscores the need for long-term reform of US finances. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450525/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:04 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450525/cs/1/ Sydney, Jan.7 : Australian captain Ricky Ponting has described opener Matthew Hayden's experience as a valuable asset, and does not visualise him hanging up his gloves any time soon, especially when the team is passing through a transitional phase. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450708/cs/1/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:00:35 -0500 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/450708/cs/1/ BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Infineon, STMicro and NXP said Wednesday they were among several chip makers raided by EU antitrust investigators seeking evidence of a cartel that fixed the prices of chips for ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944959/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:52:12 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944959/ BERLIN - A German court ruled Wednesday that an elderly former Nazi hit squad member is medically unfit to stand trial for the World War II reprisal killings of three Dutch civilians. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944803/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:31:59 -0500 MSNBC http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944803/ CARSON, Calif. -- The Los Angeles Galaxy signed veteran midfielder Leonard Griffin on Wednesday and released defender Eduardo Dominguez.The Galaxy also re-signed goalkeeper Steve Cronin and forward J... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944951/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:52:19 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944951/ OTTAWA -- Canada has its first mile-high baby: Ottawa has granted citizenship to Sasha, the child born to a Ugandan woman on an international flight over Canada.The 2.2-kilogram baby was delivered on ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944987/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:26:17 -0500 National Post http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944987/ President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is planning to get rid of the position of examining magistrate, one of the great symbolic figures of the French justice system, in a major overhaul. Sarkozy's... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20943273/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:21:39 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20943273/ Policemen stand guard outside the House of Commons as anti-terrorism legislation is debated in parliament. MI5 director-general Jonathan Evans has said that homegrown terror attack threat in Britain h... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944925/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:09:47 -0500 Gulf News http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944925/ ST. LOUIS -- Monsanto Co., the world's biggest seed maker, said Wednesday its fiscal first-quarter profit more than doubled on higher sales to Latin America, and raised its expectations for the year.... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944958/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:52:14 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944958/ Capsule reviews of films opening this week:"Bride Wars" - This cliched comedy tosses out stereotypes about female materialism and cattiness with all the giddy gusto of a newly married woman flinging t... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944263/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:51:32 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944263/ General Motors Corp. has enough government loans to cover the worst-case scenario it described last month and says it won't need more if the economy holds up.The U.S. Treasury has pledged as much as $... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944986/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:26:20 -0500 National Post http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944986/ The Food and Drug Administration says the industrial chemical melamine and a byproduct cyanuric acid have now been detected in four of 89 containers of infant formula made in the United States, doubli... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20943277/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:31:57 -0500 MSNBC http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20943277/ Manila: The Philippines Government on Wednesday said it is ready to resume stalled peace talks with Moro rebels "without preconditions". Ambassador Rafael Seguis, newly appointed chair of th... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944926/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:09:45 -0500 Gulf News http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944926/ Presidents age twice as fast, says a theory by expert on aging at Cleveland Clinic Analysis determined by looking at medical records of previous presidents Tolls of stress can be reversed with healthy... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20943314/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:30:20 -0500 CNN http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20943314/ UNITED NATIONS -- Egypt's U.N. ambassador said Wednesday that representatives of Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas agreed to meet separately with Egyptian officials Thursday for talks on th... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944967/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:51:55 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944967/ Best known as a health and medicine correspondent for CNN and CBS, Gupta, 39, is a practising neurosurgeon in Atlanta and a member of the faculty at the Emory University School of Medicine. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944938/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:09:14 -0500 Gulf News http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944938/ Washington: Blocked from claiming a Senate seat, a man who once said his success in politics was the result of "divine intervention" stood outside the Capitol Tuesday and declared: "Mem... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944941/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:09:07 -0500 Gulf News http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944941/ London: Scotland Yard is set to launch a new squad to tackle an explosion in the number of dangerous dogs being used in gang-related crime and anti-social behaviour. New figures show that in eight mon... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944948/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:08:50 -0500 Gulf News http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944948/ NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against two protesters who were arrested after they refused to leave a Catholic church closed by the archdiocese.Poppy Z. Brite an... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944965/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:51:59 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944965/ Governments across Europe declared states of emergency and ordered factories to close as Russia cut all gas supplies through Ukraine yesterday in their worsening dispute over unpaid bills. Jos&ea... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944901/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:06:13 -0500 Times Online http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944901/ TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Embattled Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom may now be facing a grand jury.Veteran State Attorney Willie Meggs in Tallahassee told the St. Petersburg Times on Wednesday that he wi... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944179/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:52:09 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944179/ Colombo: Sri Lankan soldiers pressured the Tamil Tigers' last stronghold on the Jaffna Peninsula yesterday, while the separatist rebels vowed to overcome the latest in a series of battlefield losses. ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944933/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:09:26 -0500 Gulf News http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944933/ New Delhi: India's adultery laws could soon be changed to make cheating wives punishable in an attempt by the government to make both sexes equal in the eyes of the law. A government committee on lega... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944930/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:09:39 -0500 Gulf News http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944930/ Fairuz Shahin is less than 2 days old, but she already embodies both the humanity and inhumanity of the war in Gaza, as well as its ironies and complexities.She and her Palestinian mother were saved b... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20945009/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:06:12 -0500 Times Online http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20945009/ You are shopping when you receive a text message on your mobile phone. It is from the parking meter to tell you that you have been given a fine. A science-fiction nightmare? No, this could soon be... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20945006/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:06:17 -0500 Times Online http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20945006/ Manila: Foreign security services are trying to illegally recruit active police and military men for deployment in the security services in Iraq. Their offer is an initial payment of 20,000 pesos (Dh1... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944848/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:09:28 -0500 Gulf News http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944848/ THE US Army has apologised for mistakenly sending letters to 7000 families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan with the salutation "Dear John Doe". http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20943301/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:01:59 -0500 The Australian http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20943301/ COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The Sri Lankan government officially outlawed the Tamil Tiger rebel group Wednesday, ruling out the possibility of restarting peace talks any time soon to end a quarter-century ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944972/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:51:42 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944972/ MIAMI -- The sister of a U.S. anti-kidnapping expert who was abducted last month in Mexico appealed for his return on Wednesday.Felix Batista disappeared from a restaurant in the northern state of Co... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944961/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:52:05 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20944961/ President-elect Barack Obama confirmed to CNBC Thursday that he plans to lay out a roughly $775 billion economic stimulus plan but indicated that the amount could grow once it gets taken up by Congres... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20943275/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:32:03 -0500 MSNBC http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20943275/ NEW: Prosecutor: Office investigating "mental state" of officer accused in killing Spokesman says Johannes Mehserle has been moved twice because of threats Video shows officer shoot Grant in... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20943309/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:30:25 -0500 CNN http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/20943309/