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- Democrat says abolish Freddie, Fannie: report (Reuters)
- Hip-hop stars diversifyin' to stay rich: report (Reuters)
- Most US students think Beethoven is a dog (AFP)
- Obama seeks new design for housing, Fannie/Freddie (Reuters)
- Autopsy conducted on man accused of Craigslist murder (Reuters)
- NY Governor Paterson to discuss relocating Muslim center (Reuters)
- U.S. neighborhood bookstores thrive in digital age (Reuters)
- Drug hitmen kidnap Mexican mayor near U.S. border (Reuters)
- Antigay church can protest military funerals, judge rules (The Christian Science Monitor)
- 59 die in suicide attack on Iraq army recruitment centre (AFP)
- Mom faked river crash after killing sons: police (Reuters)
- U.N. battles donor fatigue for funds for Pakistan (Reuters)
- Michelangelo's 'David' in tug-of-war between Florence, Rome (AFP)
Democrat says abolish Freddie, Fannie: report (Reuters) | Top |
Reuters - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be abolished, Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services panel, said on Tuesday. | |
Hip-hop stars diversifyin' to stay rich: report (Reuters) | Top |
Reuters - Rap star Jay-Z came first in a list of the richest rappers in 2010, earning more than double that of runner-up Sean "Diddy" Combs. | |
Most US students think Beethoven is a dog (AFP) | Top |
AFP - Most young Americans entering university this year can't write in cursive, think email is too slow, that Beethoven's a dog and Michelangelo a computer virus, according to an annual list compiled by two academics at a US college. | |
Obama seeks new design for housing, Fannie/Freddie (Reuters) | Top |
Reuters - The U.S. government's role in housing finance should undergo "fundamental change," but it should still provide some guarantees in the mortgage market, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday. | |
Autopsy conducted on man accused of Craigslist murder (Reuters) | Top |
Reuters - U.S. authorities conducted an autopsy on Monday on a man found dead in his Boston prison cell more than a year after being charged with murdering a masseuse he met on Craigslist, a law enforcement official said. | |
NY Governor Paterson to discuss relocating Muslim center (Reuters) | Top |
Reuters - New York Governor David Paterson plans to discuss relocating a proposed Muslim cultural center and mosque to a less emotionally charged location farther from New York City's "Ground Zero" site of the September 11 attacks. | |
U.S. neighborhood bookstores thrive in digital age (Reuters) | Top |
Reuters - U.S. independent bookstores are discovering how to flourish despite the growth of electronic books with some even looking to form an alliance with a formidable competitor -- Google. | |
Drug hitmen kidnap Mexican mayor near U.S. border (Reuters) | Top |
Reuters - Suspected drug hitmen have abducted the mayor of a tourist town near Mexico's northern city of Monterrey in the latest surge in drug violence threatening to undermine industry and scare off investors. | |
Antigay church can protest military funerals, judge rules (The Christian Science Monitor) | Top |
The Christian Science Monitor - A federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional a Missouri law aimed at preventing members of a Kansas-based religious group from conducting inflammatory protests outside the funerals of fallen US service members. | |
59 die in suicide attack on Iraq army recruitment centre (AFP) | Top |
AFP - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded army recruitment centre in Baghdad killing 59 people Tuesday, officials said, as violence coinciding with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan raged across Iraq. | |
Mom faked river crash after killing sons: police (Reuters) | Top |
Reuters - A South Carolina mother was charged with murder on Tuesday after admitting she suffocated her two toddler sons before strapping them into her car and pushing it into a river to pretend they had died in an accident, a local sheriff said. | |
U.N. battles donor fatigue for funds for Pakistan (Reuters) | Top |
Reuters - Only a small fraction of the six million Pakistanis desperate for food and clean water have received any help as the United Nations battled donor fatigue and appealed urgently on Tuesday for more funds. | |
Michelangelo's 'David' in tug-of-war between Florence, Rome (AFP) | Top |
AFP - A longstanding dispute over who owns Michelangelo's statue "David" -- a lucrative tourist magnet -- has reopened between the Italian government and the city of Florence, reports said Monday. | |
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