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Myanmar pro-democracy parties say lost election (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

Reuters - Myanmar’s main pro-democracy parties conceded defeat on Tuesday in the country’s first election in 20 years after the biggest military-backed party said it had won up to 80…

Mexico’s Lost Youth: Generation Narco (Time.com)

November 6th, 2010

Time.com - The country’s youth are filling all roles in the drug wars: victims, killers, even as a police chief

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Government: Mozambique lost $3M because of riots (AP)

September 3rd, 2010

A woman passes nearby burning tyres in a street in Maputo, Thursday Sept. 2, 2010 a day after police opened fire on stone-throwing crowds who were protesting rising prices in this impoverished country. (AP Photo/Nastasya Tay)AP - Mozambique’s economy has lost more than $3 million because of deadly riots over the rising prices of food and other goods, the government said Friday, as state media…

Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered (AP)

July 28th, 2010

FILE - This 1851 illustration shows the HMS Investigator on the north coast of Baring Island in the Arctic. Arctic archaeologists have found the ship that forged the final link in the Northwest Passage and was lost in the search for the Franklin expedition. The HMS Investigator, abandoned in the ice in 1853, is in shallow water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada's Western Arctic. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Public Archives of Canada)AP - Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for…

Cameron lost hope of taking power during post-poll talks (AFP)

July 28th, 2010

British Prime Minister David Cameron gives a speech at Infosys Campus in Bangalore. Cameron has revealed he lost all hope of ousting Gordon Brown in May's general election just 24 hours before taking power, in a documentary broadcast Thursday.(AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed he lost all hope of ousting Gordon Brown in May’s general election just 24 hours before taking power, in a documentary broadcast…

Canada locates British ship lost 157 years ago (AFP)

July 28th, 2010

Canada on Wednesday announced a stunning archaeological find: the wreck of a British ship lost in the Arctic 157 years ago that played a major role in 19th century exploration of the region.(Parks Canada)AFP - Canada on Wednesday announced a stunning archaeological find: the wreck of a British ship lost in the Arctic 157 years ago that played a major role in 19th…

Lost Kafka writings resurface, trapped in trial (AP)

July 21st, 2010

FILE - Undated handout file photo of author Franz Kafka. It could shed light on one of literature's darkest figures: A long-hidden trove of never-published writings by Franz Kafka retrieved from safety deposit boxes where they have sat for decades. Over the past week, the pages have been pulled out of 10 safety deposit boxes in Tel Aviv and Zurich, Switzerland, on the order of an Israeli court over the objections of two elderly women who claim to have inherited them from their mother. (AP Photo/ho, File)AP - It seems almost Kafkaesque: Ten safety deposit boxes of never-published writings by Franz Kafka, their exact contents unknown, are trapped in courts and bureaucracy, much like one of…

BP shares fall; lost market value tops $100 bln (AP)

June 25th, 2010

AP - BP shares fell more than 4 percent in New York Friday. If the decline holds, BP will have lost more than $100 billion in market value since a…

IATA: airlines lost over $1.7BN in ash chaos (AP)

April 21st, 2010

A Jet2.com Boeing 757 take off from Newcastle International Airport, England, Tuesday, April 20, 2010.The flight has been put on to rescue 229 stranded passengers from Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)AP - The International Air Transport Association says disruptions to European air travel from the volcanic ash cloud have cost the industry at least $1.7 billion.


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Anglican leader: Irish church lost all credibility (AP)

April 3rd, 2010

FILE -  In this Tuesday Oct. 20, 2009 file photo,  Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams from the Anglican church speaks during a news conference in London. The Archbishop of Canterbury says the Roman Catholic church in Ireland has lost all credibility because of its handling of abuse by priests. Rowan Williams, the spiritual leader of the Anglican community, made the comments to the BBC. Excerpts of the interview were released Saturday, April 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)AP - The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has lost all credibility because of its mishandling of abuse by priests, the leader of the Anglican church said in remarks released…