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Rally crowd in Iraq cheered by end to US troopsRally crowd in Iraq cheered by end to US troops
Tens of thousands of people have attended a mass rally in Iraq to cheer the cessation of US troop movements in the country.

The celebration rally was organized by Iraq's Hezbollah movement to...


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Amir Khan takes American fiancee for sightseeing in Bolton
British Olympic boxing medallist Amir Khan recently took his fiancee Faryal Makhdoom for a tour of his hometown Bolton, England.

Last month, Makhdoom had showed him around her native New York.

The...
Giants cruise past Patriots in final minute to win Super Bowl title
The New York Giants have won their second Super Bowl title in four years and fourth overall after beating the New England Patriots in the final.

The Giant's Eli Manning engineered a nine-play,...
French actor Gerard Depardieu to play Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Gerard Depardieu will star as Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a film by US director Abel Ferrara about the New York sex scandal that caused the former IMF chief to resign.

Ferrera met Depardieu, 63, at...
JFK took White House intern's virginity in his wife's bedroom
In a tell-all memoir, President John F Kennedy's teenage mistress describes how she lost her virginity to the former U.S. President when he seduced her in his wife's bedroom following a pool party...
Egypt to prosecute 44 NGO workers, including 19 Americans, for illegal acts in country
Egypt will prosecute 44 non-governmental organization workers, including 19 American nationals, on charges of allegedly receiving foreign funds illegally and being involved in banned activities in...
Clinton talks military cooperation with Bulgarian PM
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday paid a short visit to Bulgaria and discussed energy issues and military cooperation with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Xinhua reported.

At a...
L.A. Reid signs up for 'The X Factor'
L.A. Reid has reportedly signed up to be a judge on the second series of the American version of "The X Factor".

The 55-year-old has reportedly signed a contract to reprise his position on the panel...
Joan Rivers had over 700 surgical operations
American comedian Joan Rivers claims she has had a total of 739 surgical procedures.

According to showbizspy.com, the 78-year-old TV personality has gone under the knife more than 700 times, and...
President Kennedy 'took virginity of intern'
Then US president John F. Kenendy took the virginity of a White House intern in a side room a few feet away from where staffers were drinking at an after-work party, the Daily Mail Sunday quoted a...
US congressmen want US citizenship for Pak doc who aided CIA to track Osama
A group of congressmen has sought the US citizenship for jailed Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi, who helped the CIA track down and kill former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden last year in his...
Building the next generation of South Asian American leaders
Sam Arora is a Maryland state Delegate, Aaron "Ronnie" Chatterji served on President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) and Hari Kondabalu is a rising comedy star just back from an...
In Nevada Romney romps inIn Nevada Romney romps in
Former Massachusetts governor and the 2012 White House contender Mitt Romney secured his third victory of the GOP primary season, as television networks declared him the winner of Nevada's...
Despite ceremony, NY fort's skeletons not buried
A stone memorial from the 1950s marks where the remains of an unknown soldier from the French and Indian War lie near the Fort William Henry Memorial Cemetery at Fort William Henry in Lake George,...
Hillary Clinton's Bulgaria Visit Was Routine - Foreign Minister
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Sunday visit to Bulgaria was not urgent but routine, according to Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov. "The visit was planned a long...
LA school to close for 2 days over teacher arrests
A bizarre case at an inner-city elementary school where a teacher was charged with taking bondage-style photographs of children has expanded with the arrest of a second teacher suspected of fondling...
Egypt to try 19 Americans in case straining ties
CAIRO: Ignoring a US threat to cut off aid, Egypt has referred 19 Americans and 24 other employees of nonprofit groups to trial before a criminal court on accusations they illegally used foreign...
NFL: New York Giants 21, New England 17
Confetti rains down on New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning after beating the New England Patriots at Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium on February 5, 2012 in Indianapolis. New York beat New...
Indian Americans Take Up Guns in Wake of Robberies
After a spate of violent home invasions and robberies in recent months, Indian Americans living in Roswell, a suburb of northern Atlanta, Georgia, are taking up guns and being helped by the local...
New York protesters rally against Yemen president
Protesters rallied in New York City on Sunday outside the hotel of the embattled president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is visiting the United States for medical treatment. When Saleh was seen...
Egypt Will Try 19 Americans on Criminal Charges
Egypt ’s military-led government said Sunday that it would put 19 Americans and two dozen others on trial in a politically charged criminal investigation into the foreign financing of nonprofit...
Charles Murray’s ‘Coming Apart: The State of White America’
WASHINGTON - When Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein’s book "The Bell Curve" appeared in 1994, it was denounced by social scientists, liberal pundits and a little-known Chicago...
India Ink: American Universities Woo High-Paying Foreign Students
a recent article in The New York Times says.With state financing cut by more than half in the last three years, officials at University of Washington have ';decided to pull back on admissions...
Police clear DC Occupy site, protesters look to a new day
1 of 5. A worker clears a tent and the belongings of Occupy DC demonstrators from McPherson Square in Washington February 5, 2012. Police removed protesters as they confiscated bedding and most tents...
We need Madonna’s super show for America’s Super Bowl
';Bad girl'; Madonna, 53, danced her way back toward worldwide visibility Sunday as the halftime attraction for the Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the American National...
Egypt to Try 19 Americans in Case Straining Ties
Ignoring a U.S. threat to cut off aid, Egypt has referred 19 Americans and 24 other employees of nonprofit groups to trial before a criminal court on accusations they illegally used foreign funds to...
US White House hopeful Romney aims to take Nevada
Mitt Romney looks set to romp to victory in the Nevada caucus Saturday, cementing his position as Republican presidential frontrunner four days after his crushing Florida win. Despite a wobble...
New York Wins Close Super Bowl Over New England
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Obama honors Martin Luther King at Washington church
The first family worshipped for the first time this morning at the historic Zion Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON -U.S. President Barack Obama celebrated the legacy of slain civil rights...
Some Say New York City Health Ads Should Inspire, Not Scare
The city's health department uses no sugar-coating in its latest ads, which feature images of overweight people whose mobility is impaired to warn of the dangers of ever-growing portions of unhealthy...
Egypt to try 19 American citizens
CAIRO -- Ignoring a U.S. threat to cut off aid, Egypt on Sunday referred 19 Americans and 24 other employees of nonprofit groups to trial before a criminal court on accusations they illegally used...
New York lets loose after Giants' victory
New York Giants fans celebrate the last touch down of New York Giants during the fourth quarter at Times Square in New York January 5, 2012. REUTERS/Eduardo...
Great American Home Show wraps up
PARKERSBURG - The Great American Home Show had another successful year, with around 3,500 people in attendance throughout the weekend.The annual show wrapped up Sunday afternoon with around 750 in...
Some blacks now say, 'I'm not African American'
The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name from...
Egypt says it'll put 19 Americans on trial in pro-democracy probe
CAIRO — Nineteen Americans will face criminal charges as part of a probe of the funding of pro-democracy groups, Egyptian officials announced Sunday, a provocative move that could deprive Egypt...
Anglo American Seen Takeover Bait by Glencore-Xstrata: Real M&A
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Already one of the cheapest major mining companies, Anglo American Plc is becoming an even more likely takeover target with Xstrata Plc and Glencore International Plc’s...
Goldman's Blankfein campaigns for gay marriage
Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, listens during testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Investigations Subcommittee hearing on ''Wall Street and the...
Book: JFK took White House intern's virginity
John F. Kennedy took her virginity in the White House 50 years ago when she was an intern, the New York Post reports. Mimi Alford, a retired New York City church administrator, writes in her book,...
New York Giants Beat New England Patriots to Win Super Bowl
The New York Giants used a last-minute touchdown to beat the New England Patriots, 21-17, and win the championship of the U.S. National Football League - the Super Bowl - the county's biggest...
New York Giants win Super Bowl, 21-17
New York Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw (44) rushes for a touchdown in front of New England Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo (51) during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game,...
New York Giants Win Super Bowl XLVI
put their website on a championship footing Saturday : in spite of a strong effort by the Patriots in the 4th quarter including a failed Tom Brady Hail Mary pass, the Giants won their Super Bowl...
Sac Bee fires photographer over altered pictures
The 2001 anthrax attacks, which triggered a panic over the safety of the U.S. mails, claimed their first victim at tabloid giant American Media...
New York Giants v New England Patriots: how Super Bowl XLVI unfolded - in pictures
Super Bowl 2012: Eli Manning inspired the Giants to victory over the Patriots at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, with a late Ahmad Bradshaw touchdown giving them a 21-17...
Diversified Americans resisting census race labels
When the 2010 census asked people to classify themselves by race, more than 21.7 million — at least 1 in 14 — went beyond the standard labels and wrote in such terms as "Arab,"...