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In this video, Bush is walking past all the world leaders at the G20 summit. While all the other leaders shake eachother’s hands, nobody shakes Bush’s. CNN’s Rick Sanchez said that Bush looks like “the most unpopular kid in high school that nobody liked.” Watch the Video After The Jump

Somalia’s increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women — even hiring caterers to prepare Western-style food for their hostages.

From CNN.com: Pirates are believed to have anchored a hijacked supertanker carrying up to $100 million worth of crude oil off Somalia Tuesday, its operator has said, as more ships in the region have been boarded and taken over.

An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said.

In an interview with Fox News, Sarah Palin called her many detractors who revealed flaws in her candidacy, “Bloggers in their parent’s basement just talkin garbage.”

ROME (AP) Miriam Makeba, the South African singer known to fans worldwide as ”Mama Africa” who became an international symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle, died early Monday after performing a concert in southern Italy, a hospital said. She was 76. An emergency room official at the Pineta Grande Clinic, a private facility in Castel Volturno, […]

PETIONVILLE, Haiti (AP)  A hillside school where roughly 500 students crowded into several floors collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more. Rescuers used bare hands to pull bleeding students from the wreckage. More children were believed buried in the rubble of the concrete building, and the death toll […]

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) Rainstorms soaked the Cayman Islands on Friday as late-season Hurricane Paloma bore down on the chain of tiny Caribbean islands, triggering a run on stores and plans to shut the main airport. The Category 1 hurricane was expected to pass over or near Grand Cayman late Friday or early Saturday then […]

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has described U.S. President-elect Barack Obama as “young, handsome and even tanned.”

According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, Sarah Palin was unaware that Africa was a continent and not a country and believed that South Africa was part of the country of Africa. He also said in an interview on Fox News that Palin did not know any of the countries in NAFTA and […]

A new South African dissent party was born after the force-out of president Thabo Mbeki. The South African Democratic Congress will challenge the former ruling party, the African National Congress. ABC News: The split took place last month after ANC powerbrokers forced Thabo Mbeki to step down as president. The new party represents the first […]

Iraq wants to remove any possibility that U.S. troops could remain after 2011 from a proposed security agreement now under negotiation, a Shiite lawmaker close to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday.