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- Obama: Half of my letters brand me an idiot
- March 11, 2010 8:29 AM
US President Barack Obama has joked that half of the 40,000 letters that pour into the White House each day brand him an "idiot." Tongue-in-cheek, the president remarked that his staff did not spare him the wrath of his correspondents – selecting a representative portion of 10 letters for him to read when he returns to the White House residence at night.
 - UN launches independent review of climate panel
- March 11, 2010 8:01 AM
The United Nations has launched an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has come under much criticism in recent months.
 - 5 Americans arrested for terror ask for special trial
- March 10, 2010 4:58 PM
A Pakistani court on Wednesday directed police to produce the confessional statements of five American Muslims arrested for alleged terror links and accepted a request from the accused to hold their trial within a jail due to security reasons.
 - Indian toddler’s death an accident: Oz accused
- March 10, 2010 2:17 PM
Indian national Gursewak Dhillon, accused in the death of three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa, has reportedly told Australian police that he accidentally knocked the toddler down when he opened the house door. 23-year-old Dhillon admitted disposing of the toddler's body but denied deliberately injuring the child, the Age reported.
 - Sarkozy and Bruni 'cheating on each other'
- March 10, 2010 1:13 PM
More than two years after their hallowed marriage, rumours are doing the rounds in France that President Nicolas Sarkozy and First Lady Carla Bruni are both cheating on each other.
 - Bali bombing suspect confirmed dead in raid
- March 10, 2010 2:26 PM
A top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the deadliest terrorist attack in Indonesia's history that tore through two Bali nightclubs killing 202 people, has been killed in a shootout with police at an Internet cafe, the president confirmed on Wednesday.
 - Decaf coffee: New respect and new offerings
- March 10, 2010 11:19 AM
At coffee drinkers’ high school, the decaf crowd always sits at the losers’ table. They know coffee geeks call their double-shot decaffeinated cappuccinos “why bothers.” They lie awake deep into the night, pondering whether the waiter was spiteful or just lazy when he poured what was evidently a cup of regular.
 - Body scanners cause US-Pak diplomatic row
- March 10, 2010 10:59 AM
A tour of the United States arranged by the State Department to improve ties to Pakistani legislators ended in a public relations fiasco when the members of the group refused to submit to extra airport screening in Washington, and they are now being hailed as heroes on their return home.
 - Obama has not received Nobel prize money
- March 10, 2010 10:45 AM
Three months after receiving the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, US President Barack Obama is yet to receive the $1.4 million cash award, the White House said on Wednesday.
 - US blasts Israeli settlement plans in East Jerusalem
- March 10, 2010 10:02 AM
The Obama Administration strongly condemned the Israeli decision on new settlements in East Jerusalem on Tuesday, saying that this would sharply undermine confidence building measures between Israel and Palestine on finding a lasting solution to conflict in the region.
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