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Donor organ delivered despite plane crash (AFP)

November 20th, 2010

A plane carrying a donor organ crashed and caught fire on landing at Birmingham Airport, injuring two men on board although the body part was safely retrieved, police said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - A plane carrying a donor organ crashed and caught fire on landing at Birmingham Airport, injuring two men on board although the body part was safely retrieved, police…

NATO to endorse Afghan strategy despite Karzai row (Reuters)

November 17th, 2010

Sgt. Ysidro Gonzalez, of Alice, Texas, from 1st Battalion, 8th Marines Alpha Company storms through the door of a compound after the door was blown open to search for bomb-making materials during a patrol that came under fire from Taliban insurgents in the town of Nabuk in Helmand province, in this October 26, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly/FilesReuters - NATO leaders will endorse a plan this week to bring troops home from Afghanistan gradually despite a dispute between President Hamid Karzai and the alliance’s commander that highlights…

NATO to stress global role despite Afghan bruising (Reuters)

November 15th, 2010

Reuters - NATO leaders will recommit the alliance to playing a global military role when they meet to agree a new mission statement this week, despite the bruising and demoralizing…

Japan says PM to meet Russian president despite row (Reuters)

November 1st, 2010

An aerial view shows Kunashiri Island, one of four islands known as the Southern Kuriles in Russia and Northern Territories in Japan, is seen in this photo taken 2005. REUTERS/KyodoReuters - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is likely to hold bilateral talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in mid-November on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific leaders summit, Japan said…

Rare Korean reunions go ahead despite gunfire exchange (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

North Korean soldiers march during a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. This year's celebration comes less than two weeks after Kim Jong Il's re-election to the party's top post and the news that his 20-something son would succeed his father and grandfather as leader. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)Reuters - One hundred aging South Koreans drove across a tensely guarded armed border Saturday to be reunited with relatives they had been separated from since the 1950-53 Korean War…

Pension-reform opposition continues in France despite riot police (Time.com)

October 26th, 2010

A man walks past piles of garbage in Marseille, southern France, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. France's massive strikes are costing the national economy up to euro400 million ($562 million) each day, the French finance minister said Monday, as workers continued to block ports, oil refineries and trash incineration plants to protest a plan to raise the retirement age to 62. Nearly 10,000 tons of garbage have been piling up in southern Marseille and its suburbs. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)Time.com - Last week, the French President sent police in to break up strikes at oil refineries in the hopes of taming protests against his new pension plans. But this…

Afghans vote despite attacks, turnout appears low (AP)

September 18th, 2010

An Afghan woman shows her inked finger at a polling station in Kabul, Afghanistan, after casting her ballot in parliamentary elections on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Ahmad Massoud)AP - Despite Taliban rocket strikes and bombings, Afghans voted for a new parliament Saturday, the first election since a fraud-marred presidential ballot last year cast doubt on the legitimacy…

Pope continues UK tour despite alleged threat (AP)

September 18th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI, right, prays next to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, in the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey, London, Friday Sept. 17, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI held joint prayers with the leader of the world's Anglicans on Friday in a symbolic act of unity on day two of the first-ever state visit by a Pope to Britain. (AP Photo / Lewis Whyld, Pool)AP - Pope Benedict XVI has met with British Prime Minister David Cameron as six men arrested in an alleged terror attempt against the pontiff remain in police custody.


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Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle (AP)

September 5th, 2010

In this image made from television, Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul-Qadir al-Ubaidi , center, inspects the site of a suicide attack accompanied by soldiers at a military headquarters in Baghdad, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Suicide bombers hit a Baghdad military headquarters on Sunday and killed dozens of people, two weeks after an attack on the same site pointed to the failure of Iraqi forces to plug even the most obvious holes in their security. (AP Photo/APTN)AP - Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq’s ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters…

Pakistan militants kill 35 despite floods (AP)

September 2nd, 2010

Volunteers carry an injured man to an ambulance following explosions during Shiite Muslims procession in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Pakistani police say many people have been killed after three bombs were detonated during a a Shiite Muslim religious procession in the eastern city of Lahore.(AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)AP - The triple bombing of a religious procession in Pakistan adds to the strains on a government already struggling with devastating floods and shows that Islamist militants are back…

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