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The Pakistani army launched an offensive Sunday to rout out militants from the Lower Dir district that neighbors the violence-plagued northwestern Swat region. Army Col. Attiq Ahmed told CNN of the operation, and a Taliban spokesman in the area confirmed it
Mortar rounds slammed into Somali parliament on Saturday, killing at least six people and injuring 15, sources in Mogadishu told CNN.
How does President Obama compare with his predecessors after nearly 100 days in office? On his job rating, Obama comes out just a little better. But he really stands out on personal qualities.
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Stop, speed racers, stop. So said Oregon State Senior Trooper David Petersen after he was able to catch up with six exotic sports cars on a stretch of Highway 18 near Grand Ronde on Thursday, according to a news release. Perhaps a more amazing feat was that he stopped all the cars simultaneously
Anoop Desai says he was comfortable with his "geeky" image on "American Idol." Lil Rounds says her soulful singing is what made her unique — that and her name, of course. Desai and Rounds were eliminated from “Idol” on Wednesday. The judges used the save option last week to keep Matt Giraud in the competition, so the contestants with the two lowest vote totals this week were sent packing.
Britain’s Prince Charles will follow in the footsteps of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore with an upcoming book and film documentary on the environment, the prince’s publisher said. The book and film project, titled “Harmony,” will be released in 2010, publisher HarperCollins said this week.
Spain’s jobless rate rose sharply, to 17.36 percent in the first quarter, with more than 4 million people out of work, the government said Friday. Nearly half of the 4 million lost their jobs in the past year, the National Statistics Institute said. It’s the first time that Spain’s jobless total has exceeded 4 million, economist Carlos Maravall told CNN.
Comedian Dane Cook took a somber tone and described a sense of "terrible betrayal" in discussing the recent arrest of his half brother, who is accused of embezzling millions from him. Cook spoke about the ordeal Thursday on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” “It’s a terrible betrayal. But hopefully justice will be served and I can move on with my life,” Cook said
The Defense Department will release "a substantial number" of photographs showing abuse of prisoners at prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. The release will be in response to an open-records lawsuit filed by the ACLU, the group said in a written statement. The statement released late Thursday said the photos were taken at facilities other than Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.