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BENGHAZI, Libya — NATO ships began patrolling off Libya’s coast Wednesday as airstrikes, missiles and energized rebels forced Moammar Gaddafi’s tanks to roll back from two key western cities, including one that was the hometown of army officers who tried to overthrow him in 1993.

UNOSUMAI, Japan – The towering waves that splintered thousands of Japanese homes and lives has forced the country to rethink one of its most sacred Buddhist practices: how it treats the dead. PARTNER LINK: Juliette Lewis Photos Desperate municipalities are digging mass graves, unthinkable in a nation where the deceased are usually cremated and their […]

New York — Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday. PARTNER LINK: Juliette Lewis Photos “I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived […]

LONDON —Thousands of endangered penguins have been coated with oil after a cargo ship ran aground and broke up on a remote British South Atlantic territory, officials and conservationists said Tuesday. PARTNER LINK: Shortest Celebrity Marriages The shipwreck also threatens the lobster fishery that provides a livelihood to one of the world’s most isolated communities. […]

It seems like everyday there’s a new website creating a racist image of President Obama. RELATED: Nene Leakes blasts Star Jones Now, we present to you Brazilian website Paraná Online, which has decided to become one of the many sites to post racist imagery of the president. In the picture, a hairy monkey ponders: “Obama […]

TRIPOLI — Muammar Gaddafi made his first public appearance since air strikes on his forces began, pledging that he will not surrender and calling the international coalition against him a “bunch of fascists”. ALSO READ: Nene Leakes BLASTS Star Jones ‘Manipulative, Conniving’

JERUSALEM – A bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop Wednesday in central Jerusalem, wounding at least 25 people in what appeared to be the first militant attack in the city in several years. RELATED: Shortest Celebrity Marriages The blast could be heard throughout Jerusalem and blew out the windows of two crowded buses. Rescuers […]

BRAZIL – In Brazil millions of residents are swooning over President Barack Obama, partially because his racial background and story makes him easy to relate to. RELATED: Kendra Wilkinson’s great debut on Dancing with the Stars The Washington Post reports: “In Brazil, we have all kinds of culture, people, and our inner identity comes from […]

RENCA, Chile — Studying hard as a young woman is what prepared Michelle Obama to face the world’s challenges, the United States’ first lady told students Monday at a public school that Chile’s government hopes will become a model for educational excellence in the country. Students in red uniforms cheered enthusiastically and waved Chilean and […]

FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Gray smoke rose from two reactor units Monday, temporarily stalling critical work to reconnect power lines and restore cooling systems to stabilize Japan’s radiation-leaking nuclear complex.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti— Haitians scarred by decades of poverty, political corruption and natural disasters cast ballots Sunday for president in hopes a new leader could do what others have not: Replace homes and schools in the earthquake-devastated capital, improve education and create some optimism for the future. Voters chose between Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly, a popular […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A spokesman for Wyclef Jean says the hip-hop star has been released from a hospital after being treated for a gunshot wound to his hand. Joe Mignon, senior program director for Jean’s Yele Foundation, says Jean was shot in the hand after 11 p.m. local time Saturday in the city of Delmas, […]