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Lloyds bank poaches Santander UK head for new chief (AFP)

November 3rd, 2010

Britain's state-rescued Lloyds bank has picked Antonio Horta-Osorio, Chief Executive of Santander UK, seen here in October 2010, as its chief executive to strengthen its recovery.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Britain’s state-rescued Lloyds bank on Wednesday poached Santander UK chief Antonio Horta-Osorio to be its new chief, as the sector completed a management clearout following the global financial…

NATO head urges new start with Russia (Reuters)

November 3rd, 2010

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (3d L) speaks during a meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow November 3, 2010. REUTERS/Alexander NatruskinReuters - NATO and Russia need to embark on a new relationship, the head of the Western military alliance said on Wednesday on a trip to Moscow to lobby for…

NATO head seeks Russian cooperation in Afghanistan (Reuters)

November 3rd, 2010

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (3d L) speaks during a meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow November 3, 2010. REUTERS/Alexander NatruskinReuters - NATO’s chief will ask Russia on Wednesday to boost cooperation in Afghanistan, as the alliance gears up for a summit this month to which it has invited its…

Hungary firm head detained over toxic sludge (AP)

October 11th, 2010

Volunteers, wearing protective gears, walk across a street covered by toxic red sludge in Devecser, Hungary, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. The population of the neighboring town of Kolontar was evacuated Saturday and Devecser with a population of 5,300 is also in the likely path of a possible new sludge deluge. Hungary's prime ministers says police have taken into custody the managing director of the company which owns the metals plant where a broken reservoir flooded several towns with toxic red sludge and water.(AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - Hungarian police have detained the director of the aluminum company responsible for a flood of caustic red sludge that killed eight people when it burst from its reservoir…

Head of Hungary firm detained over toxic sludge (AP)

October 11th, 2010

Volunteers, wearing protective gears, walk across a street covered by toxic red sludge in Devecser, Hungary, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. The population of the neighboring town of Kolontar was evacuated Saturday and Devecser with a population of 5,300 is also in the likely path of a possible new sludge deluge. Hungary's prime ministers says police have taken into custody the managing director of the company which owns the metals plant where a broken reservoir flooded several towns with toxic red sludge and water.(AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - Hungarian police have detained the director of the aluminum company responsible for a flood of caustic red sludge that killed eight people when it burst from its reservoir…

AP Interview: Interpol head warns of Somali threat (AP)

September 30th, 2010

Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble listens during an Interpol - EU Symposium entitled 'The External Dimension of EU Police Co-operation  in West African Countries. Towards Global and Integrated International Policing.' held at the Solvay Library in Brussels Thursday Sept. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/ Thierry Charlier)AP - Somalia and other African nations could soon pose more of a terrorist threat than Afghanistan, Interpol’s secretary general warned Thursday.


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Afghans head to polls as Taliban threats mount (AP)

September 17th, 2010

An Afghan policeman stands guard near posters of candidates contesting in the upcoming Afghan parliamentary elections in Jalalabad, Afghanistan Thursday Sept. 16, 2010. Afghan officials and political figures sought to reassure wary Afghans on Thursday that it will be safe to vote in this weekend's parliamentary election despite an upswing in violence in recent months. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - The Taliban have written threats on leaflets passed out at mosques, whispered them in villages, proclaimed them to journalists and posted on the Internet: If you vote in…

The Last Secrets of the Forbidden City Head to the U.S. (Time.com)

September 5th, 2010

Time.com - Though Beijing’s Forbidden City has been open to the public for decades, parts of it remained off-limits. This month a new exhibition of artifacts from behind the gates…

Man shot in head felt bullet only 4 years later (AP)

August 26th, 2010

The X-ray photo released by German police in Herne Tuesday, Aug 24, 2010 shows the skull of a man with a bullet  in the back of his head. Police said a Polish man living in Germany was shot in the back of his head, but that it took him five years to realize it.  Police said Tuesday that the 35-year-old men was hit by a .22-caliber bullet in the western town of Herne as he was out in the street partying drunk on New Year's Eve five years ago. They say the man recalled receiving a blow to the head, but told them he didn't seek medical assistance at the time. (AP Photo/Polizei Herne)AP - A 35-year-old man who walked around for five years with a bullet lodged in the back of his head says he suspected for a while something was there…

Iraqi forces still frail as US troops head home (AP)

July 25th, 2010

AP - When the U.S. ends its combat mission in Iraq five weeks from now, the nation’s safety will be in the hands of its homegrown, American-trained security forces. The…