Iraqis held their most peaceful election since the fall of Saddam Hussein on Saturday, and voting for provincial councils ended without a single major attack reported anywhere in the country.
Source:Iraq election hailed as 'great success'
Game is premier advertising event with an U.S. audience of 100 million
Source:NBC sells out Super Bowl ads for record $206M
A sculpture honoring an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush has been removed, the director of an Iraqi orphanage said Saturday.
Source:Monument honoring shoe-thrower is removed
Shumpert schools Teague before sinking winning basket for 10-10 Jackets
Source:Georgia Tech shocks No. 6 Wake Forest at 0:01
A tour bus carrying Chinese nationals overturned on a highway near the Hoover Dam on Friday, killing seven people and injuring at least 10 others, authorities said.
Source:Tour bus crash near Hoover Dam kills 7
AFP - Thousands of supporters of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra rallied outside Thailand’s main government offices in Bangkok Saturday, vowing to fight on until the new administration left office.
Source:Thousands march to Gov't House in fresh Thai protests
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AP - Gov. Steve Beshear called up his entire Army National Guard on Saturday, tripling his troops with his state still reeling from a deadly ice storm that knocked out power from the Midwest to the East Coast.
Source:Storm-struck KY calls up entire Army Nat'l Guard
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AP - The Holocaust has a landscape engraved in the mind’s eye: barbed-wire fences, gas chambers, furnaces.
Source:Priest uncovering beginnings of Final Solution
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Reuters - Some 24,000 workers at U.S. refineries, chemical plants and oil pipelines were poised on Saturday to start a strike that could affect half the nation’s oil refining capacity and boost pump prices.
Source:Refinery workers set for strike, talks continue
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Reuters - Key trade ministers agreed on Saturday to step up efforts to reach a new global trade deal and guard against protectionism to help pull the world out of economic crisis.
Source:Trade ministers to strive for Doha deal this year
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