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Two airlines ground A380s after emergency landing (Reuters)

November 4th, 2010

Technicians look at the damaged engine of Qantas Airways A380 passenger plane QF32 after it was forced to make an emergency landing at Changi airport in Singapore November 4, 2010. REUTERS/David LohReuters - Qantas Airways and Singapore Airlines suspended flights of Airbus A380 superjumbos on Thursday after engine failure forced an emergency landing in Singapore.


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Kabul meeting to lay ground for 2014 deadline (AP)

July 19th, 2010

An Afghan National Army soldier prepares a machine gun before going on a patrol outside Combat Outpost Terra Nova, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - The strategy sits for now on a table in a locked-down Afghan capital: Hand over security in all 34 provinces to the government by the end of 2014…

Car bomb in Mexican drug war changes ground rules (AP)

July 17th, 2010

The remains of a vehicle are cordoned off in a street in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday July 16, 2010. Mexican investigators ran forensic tests to determine whether drug gangs used a car bomb in an attack on police patrol trucks that killed two officers and wounded nine people on Thursday. A car bomb would mark an unprecedented escalation of Mexico's drug war and confirm long-standing fears that the cartels are turning to explosives in their fight against security forces. (AP Photo)AP - Mexican drug traffickers’ first car-bomb attack against police has revealed a new level of cold-blooded planning that is forcing this border city and security forces to change the…

Queen addresses UN, places wreath at ground zero (AP)

July 6th, 2010

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II dedicates a memorial wreath at the site of the Sept. 11 attacks, Tuesday July 6, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - Queen Elizabeth II placed a wreath of flowers at a site of the Sept. 11 attacks Tuesday and chatted with victims’ families and first responders, minutes after using…

World leaders seek common ground on crises (AP)

June 26th, 2010

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama, right, reach out to shake hands during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Toronto, Saturday, June 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - At odds over how to strengthen the global recovery, top world leaders found common ground on foreign policy Saturday, condmening North Korea for the alleged sinking of a…

Thai protesters hold ground despite lockdown (AP)

May 13th, 2010

Maj. Gen. Khattiya Sawasdiphol, a renegade army general accused of leading a paramilitary force among Thailand's Red Shirt protesters, is treated by doctors and nurses at a hospital in Bangkok, Thailand after he was shot in the head Thursday, May 13, 2010. In an interview with The Associated Press about 90 minutes before he was shot apparently by a sniper, Khattiya said he anticipated a military crackdown soon, as security forces moved to seal an area of central Bangkok which has been occupied by thousands of the protesters for weeks. (AP Photo)AP - Protesters in the Thai capital reinforced their encampment Friday as government efforts to blockade them overnight led to sporadic violence that killed one man and saw a high-profile…

Dutch anti-immigration party gains ground in vote (AP)

March 3rd, 2010

AP - Early returns in Dutch local elections showed an anti-immigrant, anti-Islam party making big gains in a result seen as a possible foreshadowing of national elections in June.

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