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Abbas gets European and Arab backing in Gaza showdown
Republican Rudy Giuliani's White House quest could be in deep trouble as he lags far behind the leaders in a Florida presidential primary he counted on winning, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday.
Wild China weather kills 25 and besieges heartland
Chaotic winter weather besieged China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday amid the country's worst power crisis, with one mountain road accident blamed on snow killing 25 people ahead of a major holiday.
U.N. graft meeting seeks new ways to chase the money
Poorer nations need more support to retrieve billions of dollars of stolen assets spirited away to global financial havens, officials at a United Nations anti-corruption conference in Bali said on Tuesday.
No word on U.S. aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan
Afghanistan's government said it had no information on Tuesday about the fate of a kidnapped U.S. female aid worker, but added a search was going on to find her.
Gang guilty of Britain's biggest heist
Five men were found guilty on Monday of kidnap and robbery in the country's biggest ever heist, a daring, 53 million pound raid on a cash depot in Kent.
Chefs and Greenpeace bid to save threatened fish
Leading chefs will join forces with environment group Greenpeace on Wednesday in a campaign to push restaurants to serve up only species of fish that have not been overexploited.
Housing takes bigger share of household budgets
Britons spend more than twice as much of their weekly budget on housing as they did 50 years ago but only half as much on food, official statistics showed on Monday.
Church of Scotland Moderator to meet Scottish politicians on poverty
The Rt Rev Sheilagh Kesting, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, will begin the traditional annual visit to the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday.
Brown's 'big 4' summit to offer little succour to markets
Sliding stock prices, another bank scandal and a worrying global outlook will give leaders of Europe's four biggest economies plenty to talk about on Tuesday but concrete measures to soothe troubled markets are unlikely.
Queen must die or abdicate for Australian republic
Queen Elizabeth must die or abdicate before Australia can become a republic, said one of the country's leading politicians and former head of the republican movement.
Government to impose higher fees for theological degrees
Controversial plans to reform university funding have indicated that people training to be priests may face a massive rise in tuition fees, according to senior clerics.
Remaining Episcopalians move on after San Joaquin split
Hundreds of Episcopalians joined over the weekend to reconstitute the Diocese of San Joaquin in California, over a month after most of the diocese left the US Episcopal Church.
Images of Hope
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Severe winter pushing Iraqi refugees to limit
Officials in the Jordanian Government have warned that the unusually severe winter affecting the Middle East has destroyed crops, and will likely lead to increases in the price of food.
Kenya's Rift Valley burns, death toll soars
Protests erupted in western Kenya and machete-wielding mobs faced off in the Rift Valley on Monday after scores died in ethnic violence, complicating mediation efforts by former U.N. boss Kofi Annan.
Bhutto murder casts pall over Pakistani campaign
Campaigning for Pakistan's general election, now three weeks away, is virtually non-existent as candidates fear militant attacks and many citizens are more concerned about rising prices and power cuts than politics.