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Molinari holds firm to stay one clear of Westwood (AFP)

November 6th, 2010

Francesco Molinari of Italy tees off during the third day of competition in the HSBC Champions golf tournament at the Sheshan International Golf Club, in Shangha. The Italian held off a relentless Lee Westwood to maintain a one-stroke lead over the new world number one to set up an enticing final-round battle.(AFP/Goh Chai Hin)AFP - Francesco Molinari held off a relentless Lee Westwood on Saturday to maintain a one-stroke lead over the new world number one to set up an enticing final-round battle…

Kandahar campaign’s fate not clear until June: NATO (Reuters)

October 28th, 2010

Reuters - A NATO offensive to secure the Taliban’s birthplace of Kandahar is putting pressure on militants, but genuine success will not be clear until next June, the region’s top…

Crews struggle to clear toxic Hungary sludge flood (AP)

October 6th, 2010

A Hungarian soldier wearing a chemical protection gear walks through a street flooded by toxic in the town of Devecser, Hungary, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Monday's flooding was caused by the rupture of a red sludge reservoir at an alumina plant in western Hungary and has affected seven towns near the Ajkai Timfoldgyar plant in the town of Ajka, 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Budapest. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - Emergency workers and construction crews are sweeping through the Hungarian town hardest hit by a flood of toxic sludge, trying to clear roads and homes of the deep…

RAND report: Haiti must clear rubble, aid business (AP)

August 13th, 2010

Residents of camps set up for people left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake demonstrate in front of the collapsed presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Aug 12, 2010. Demonstrators said the government is failing on its promises to provide housing as private landowners pressure the camp residents to leave. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)AP - A U.S.-based think tank is painting a grim picture of the earthquake recovery effort in Haiti, adding its voice to widespread accusations of ineffectual local leadership.


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Naomi Campbell tells war-crimes court: Not clear gift was diamonds (AP)

August 5th, 2010

In this image made from television Naomi Campbell is seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. Naomi Campbell appeared at a Dutch courthouse to give evidence at the war crimes trial of former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor after the supermodel lost her battle to avoid testifying. Campbell will be questioned about claims made by actress Mia Farrow that Taylor gave the British model an uncut diamond after a dinner party hosted by Nelson Mandela in South Africa in 1997. Prosecutors say if that's true, it's evidence that he received diamonds from Sierra Leone rebels in exchange for weapons during that country's 1992-2002 civil war. (AP Photo/Special Court for Sierra Leone, via APTN) ** TV OUT **AP - Naomi Campbell testified before a war crimes tribunal Thursday that she had received some “dirty-looking stones” after a 1997 dinner party with former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor. Still,…

Model tells court: Not clear gift was diamonds (AP)

August 5th, 2010

In this image made from television Naomi Campbell is seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. Naomi Campbell appeared at a Dutch courthouse to give evidence at the war crimes trial of former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor after the supermodel lost her battle to avoid testifying. Campbell will be questioned about claims made by actress Mia Farrow that Taylor gave the British model an uncut diamond after a dinner party hosted by Nelson Mandela in South Africa in 1997. Prosecutors say if that's true, it's evidence that he received diamonds from Sierra Leone rebels in exchange for weapons during that country's 1992-2002 civil war. (AP Photo/Special Court for Sierra Leone, via APTN) ** TV OUT **AP - Naomi Campbell testified before a war crimes tribunal Thursday, confirming that she had received some “dirty-looking stones” after a 1997 dinner party with former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor.…

US: Drills sent ‘clear message’ to NKorea (AP)

July 28th, 2010

South Korean protesters shout slogans during a rally against South Korea's joint military exercises with the United States near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. North Korea renewed its long-standing demand Wednesday that Washington abandon its 'hostile policy' toward Pyongyang as the U.S. and South Korea held a fourth day of joint military drills. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - For four days, U.S. and South Korean troops fired artillery into the skies and dropped anti-submarine bombs on underwater targets — dramatic exercises meant to warn North Korea…

Thai troops clear protest area vacated after clash (AP)

April 15th, 2010

Thai soldiers remove an abandoned armored personnel carrier in front of Democracy Monument in Bangkok, Thursday, April 15, 2010. Anti-government protesters began emptying one of their encampments in the historic part of Bangkok and moving to their second base in the commercial heart of the Thai capital. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)AP - Thai troops cleared the gutted remains of armored carriers Thursday after anti-government protesters vacated the site of last week’s bloody clashes and shifted to an upscale shopping district…

Vatican makes clear bishops must report sex abuse (AP)

April 12th, 2010

FILE - In this March 31, 2010 photo, Pope Benedict XVI waves as he is driven through the crowd during his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. The uproar caused by reports that, as an archbishop years ago in Germany and later as a Vatican cardinal, Benedict and his aides were slow to defrock abusive priests, cannot be explained as the church equivalent of Watergate with the pope in the role of U.S. president. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - The Vatican responded Monday to allegations that it had concealed years of clerical sex abuse by making it clear for the first time that bishops and other high-ranking…

Troops clear last pockets of resistance in Marjah (AP)

February 28th, 2010

U.S. soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, conduct a dismounted patrol in the Badula Qulp area, West of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Marines and Afghan troops cleared the last major pocket of resistance in the former Taliban-ruled town of Marjah on Saturday — part of an offensive that is the…

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