DTN News: World Top Stories / Headlines - News Dated December 18, 2010
Berlin: Heavy overnight snowfall disrupted air travel across westernEurope Friday, forcing more than 800 flight cancellations and leading to major delays in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Germany appeared the hardest hit by the snow, with...
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Before his death, Jeffrey Picower had benefited more than anyone from Bernard Madoff's fraud. A longtime investor with the disgraced financier, he had withdrawn more than $7 billion in other people's money before the Ponzi scheme was revealed in...
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Archive - Beckham's redemption in 2002 Former England captain David Beckham is to receive the BBC Sports Personality Lifetime Achievement award on Sunday. The 35-year-old midfielder is England's most capped outfield player and won six Premier League...
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DAKAR, Senegal — Security forces loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo ofIvory Coast opened fire on demonstrators in the economic capital, Abidjan, on Thursday, beating and killing marchers who had planned to disrupt state television, one of the...
photo: AP / Emanuel Ekra
New Delhi, December 17: US diplomats were concerned that Indiacould be the target of a biological terror attack, with fatal diseasessuch as anthrax being...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
BERLIN -- In the latest salvo of a protracted legal battle, Nokia sued Apple on Thursday in Britain, Germany and the Netherlands, alleging that the U.S. technology company used 13 of its patents, including a basic touch-screen maneuver, without its...
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- Snowfall wreaks havoc Khaleej Times
- 2 sides of Haiti detainee Boston Herald
- Newly Built Ghost Towns Haunt Banks in Spain The New York Times
- Assange begins mansion arrest, but his 'source' feels the heat The Independent
- CIA man in Islamabad leaves as 'ISI exposes his identity' The Times of India
- Leaders bring up issue of aligning EU tax regimes Irish Times
- EU leaders agree on rescue fund Al Jazeera
- Heavy snow and ice to continue disruption across the UK BBC News
- Nitrogen generator arrives at Pike River NZ Herald
- Snow grounds 450 flights, halts traffic in Germany Gulf News
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CARACAS - Venezuelan lawmakers on Friday granted President Hugo Chavez extraordinary legislative powers to govern the country by decree for the next 18 months. Applause broke out as the heavily pro-government national assembly approved the measure just three weeks after the opposition made landmark gains to take 40 percent of seats -- 67 out of 165
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