Economic Times, India: 44% turnout in J&K 2nd phase polls
Ignoring separatists' call for poll boycott and braving freezing cold, an estimated 44.62 per cent of the nearly five-lakh-strong electorate ...

Buffalo News: Clash with police puts 5 protesters in hospital
Police clashed with hundreds of protesters outside a police building Saturday, and at least five demonstrators were sent to a hospital with ...

The News-Times: Montessori stages mock election
Students at the Washington Montessori School took part Oct. 30 in a national mock election. . Students had since September been considering issues ...

Boston Globe: Mankind's new best friend?
Reviled as vermin through the ages, rats are becoming unlikely soldiers in the struggle against two scourges of the developing world: land mines ...

Daily Express, UK: MUSLIM FANATICS 'HIJACK BRITISH PRISON'
MUSLIM prisoners have launched a reign of terror inside a top security British jail.. The fanatics are forcing fellow inmates to convert to Islam ...

Houston Chronicle: Attackers fire on Guinea-Bissau president's home
Bissau - Armed men attacked the residence of Guinea-Bissau's president and engaged security forces in a three-hour gunbattle in the capital of the ...

Reuters: Abbas says may call for Palestinian elections
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he would call for presidential and parliamentary elections if a reconciliation deal is not ...

Modesto Bee, California: In Service: Claire Arnold
Age: 25. . Rank: 1st lieutenant. . Branch of service: Air Force. . Hometown: Modesto. . High school: Beyer High School, Class of 2001. . Specialty: ...

Liverpool FC - Official: BENITEZ KEEN TO REUNITE DUO
Rafael Benitez believes the understanding between Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard will be key to Liverpool's trophy hopes. The duo plundered ...

National Post, Canada: The best -and worst of George W. Bush
1 THE WAR IN IRAQ. . There are two key facts to remember about the invasion of Iraq. First, al-Qaeda feeds on the carcasses of failed states ...