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Special Report: The two lives of Angela Merkel (Reuters)

November 12th, 2010

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the opening plenary session of the G20 Summit in Seoul November 12, 2010. REUTERS/Michel Euler/PoolReuters - German conservative party headquarters is rocking. To the heavy thud of AC/DC, hundreds of young party members throng the foyer of Konrad Adenauer House in Berlin waving posters…

Victims pleaded for lives before being murdered (AP)

October 20th, 2010

Col. Russell Williams, left, who was the commander of CFB Trenton, Canada's largest military airbase, arrives at court in Belleville, Ontario, Canada on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. The Canadian Air Force officer has pleaded guilty to murdering two women, sexually assaulting two others and committing dozens of break-ins in which he stole underwear from the bedrooms of girls as young as 11. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)AP - The commander of Canada’s largest air force base stalked, repeatedly raped and killed two women as they pleaded for their lives, prosecutors said Tuesday at the colonel’s sentencing…

Chile miners start new lives, adjust to freedom (AP)

October 14th, 2010

Elizabeth Segovia, sister of rescued miner Dario Segovia, collects a religious figure as she dismantles a site that was set up in honor of the trapped miners at the San Jose mine, near Copiapo, Chile Thursday Oct. 14, 2010. The 69-day underground ordeal reached its end Wednesday night after 33 trapped miners were hauled up in a cage through a narrow hole drilled through 2,000 feet (700 meters) of rock. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - The Chilean miners began their unfamiliar new lives as national heroes Thursday and got a taste of what awaits them outside the hospital doors — a deluge of…

Into the cold: Swapped spies face uncertain lives (AP)

July 9th, 2010

Russian plane believed to be carrying candidates for a 14-person spy swap, is seen at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, on Friday, July 9, 2010. The plane carrying the colours of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations is thought to have flown from Austria on Friday, following an exchange of spies between Moscow and Washington. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - They are abruptly entering radically different lives — 10 spies for Russia who hid in suburban America bartered for four agents imprisoned by Moscow in the biggest spy…

Flash floods claim seven lives in southern France (AFP)

June 16th, 2010

People walk through floodwaters in the French city of Draguignan. Heavy rains have triggered flash floods in the mountains above France's southern Cote d'Azur region, killing seven people, while at least another eight were missing, officials have said.(AFP/Christian Daures)AFP - Heavy rains triggered flash floods in the mountains above France’s southern Cote d’Azur region on Tuesday, killing seven people, while at least another eight were missing, a local…

Grisly Afghan attack claims 40 lives, raises fear (AP)

June 10th, 2010

An Afghan walks in front of a house damaged in a blast during a wedding in Kandahar's Argandab district Thursday, June 10, 2010. Scores were killed when a blast ripped through a wedding party in Kandahar province's Argandab district late Wednesday, killing 40 people and wounding dozens more, officials said. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman said the explosion was a suicide attack. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - Body parts in trees. Mud walls flattened. Corpses riddled with ball bearings.


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Rescuers struggle to save lives after Chile quake (AP)

February 28th, 2010

Firemen work on a destroyed building in Concepcion, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010, after a devastating earthquake struck Chile early Saturday Feb. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/ Natacha Pisarenko)AP - Rescuers edged their way toward residents trapped in a toppled apartment block early Sunday and survivors huddled around bonfires in the rubble of their homes as the death…