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Book makes new claims about Anne Frank; Bergen Belsen survivor Berthe Meijer says Frank distracted younger children from horrors of Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairy tales

Picasso's "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto," once center of dispute, for sale

Women and girls (as young as 2 years old) are often rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath

Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims

Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal

Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care: "And I think now, isn't that ironic?"

Gendercide in Asia: Massive rise in abortion of female fetuses

Painting: "Witch Hill," or "The Salem Martyr" -- Oil painting by New York artist Thomas Slatterwhite Noble, 1869

Important: Report on Marines' water at Camp Lejeune omitted cancer causing chemical benzene. The environmental contamination is extreme!

Disillusioned Sen. Bayh advocates electoral “shock” to broken system, encourages voters to remove Congressional incumbents in mass

US refuses to cancel Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama

Dramatic images of World Trade Center collapse on 9/11 released for first time

Human Trafficking Report: American children, immigrants forced into slavery, sex trade in Ohio

Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons at each other in latest clash over whale hunting

Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77

Saudi Arabia's human rights lawyers called in to try to force divorce of girl, 12, married to 80-year-old man

Photo: Anti-whaling ship Bob Barker collides with Japanese harpoon ship Yushin Maru No. 3 in Antarctic waters

Photo: a US army helicopter flies over the stepped Ziggurat temple, which dates back to 2113 BC, in the ancient city of Ur

14-year-old Reginald Earnshaw confirmed as UK's youngest WWII death

Shoshana Johnson, the nation's first female black POW (captured along with Jessica Lynch), speaks out

'Dogs of war' saving lives in Afghanistan

Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100

TIME article -- Bicentennial Anxiety: Why Mexicans Are Wary of 2010

Incredible photos from Iran as reform protesters clash with police, who are accused of firing on the demonstrators

Skin whitening cream finds new popularity among Palestinian women

Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who denounced Juarez border killings and founded Casa Amiga, has died

Slaying of drug war hero's family shocks Mexico

Photo: a U.S. Marine from Camp Lejeune lights up a cigarette during an operation at dusk in Helmand Province

Fear of violence grows in mountaintop strip mining fight

Photos: Afghan children, refugees in Pakistan, play in their neighborhood of Rawalpindi

Poem: "The Healers" by Laurence Binyon

Harassment across Arab world drives women inside

Diplomatic furore from Israel as British court issues arrest warrant for former foreign minister Tzipi Livni over Gaza War

Uganda parliament outlaws female genital mutilation

968 detained at climate rally urging bold pact

Protesters damage UC Berkeley chancellor Birgeneau's home; demonstrations at many schools against state funding cuts

Under one Danish roof, humanity talks climate

Nobel-winning Obama defends war in call for peace

Photo: a dog survives the Baghdad bomb blast while chained to the Finance Ministry, but its owner is killed

WWII vet returns art book he stole from Hitler's home

Iran says will show no mercy to opposition protesters

Pearl Harbor attack remembered 68 years later

Swedish store pulls plug on N. Korean jeans

Iran bans foreign media cover as student rally nears

Germany still paying off reparations following WWI -- more than 90 years on

Iran whistleblower, 26-year-old Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani, died from drug-laced salad

10,000 East African albinos in hiding after killings; folk belief holds that "albino body parts have magical powers"

Swiss ban mosque minarets in surprise vote

Iranian authorities confiscate Nobel Peace laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi's medal; clerics start taking control of schools

Photo: skeletons of Japanese World War II casualties dug up in northern Phillippines; they will be cremated and the ashes flown back to Japan

AP reporter caught up in Stalin family's agony; George Krimsky tried to help Stalin's grandson Josef Alliluyev contact his mother in the U.S. (and possibly defect)

Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence

Afghans say poverty, not Taliban, main cause of war

New literary star Marie NDiaye takes on France's old guard; she is the author of "Trois femmes puissantes" ("Three Powerful Women")

Report: Chinese who complain to government risk being kidnapped

MIA bomb-sniffing dog found in Afghanistan after 14 months

Happy Veteran's Day... Photo: President Obama at Arlington National Cemetery

Pakistan's fashionistas defy Taliban

Student Mahmoud Vahidnia hailed a hero as he takes on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei -- but some ask "was it all a set up?"

To defang Taliban, some look to private schools: "the quality of public education is deteriorating day by day... when there's a vacuum of quality, someone will fill it"

International human rights group says Iran covered up rape of detainees

Genetic tests for UK asylum seekers draw criticism

Our thoughts and best wishes are with the families at Fort Hood

Clinton: US wants Israel settlement halt 'forever'

Human trafficking for the "flesh trade" targets Natives: young Aboriginal women used as a sex commodity in cities across Canada (average age of girls trafficked is 7-12 years old)

Photo: Cpl Casey Liffrig leaps for cover as Taliban fighters ambush U.S. soldiers during a patrol in the Pech Valley in Afghanistan

Battle over face veil brewing in Egypt

"Which hand do you want to lose first?" The inspiring story of Mariatu Kamara, who survived Sierra Leone's war

Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall -- how Germany has healed the scars

Ending the silence on 'honour killing' -- those who have escaped violence are speaking out to break the code of silence

Women Marines want a chance outside the Afghan wire

"Miracle" baby Ali Yakubov, on whose body "verses from the Koran appear and fade every few days," gives hope in Russian Muslim south

100,000 women sign petition saying they're offended by Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi's sexist behavior

Supreme Court agrees to hear plea from Uighur inmates in Guantanamo Bay prison to be freed in the United States

Churches denounce African children as "witches" -- one child pleads, "Please stop the pastors who hurt us... I believe in God and God knows I am not a witch"

Movie: Natasha Arthy's film "Fighter" (2007, Denmark). I really liked this film! I think the descriptions do not reveal the depth of the rich character/culture relations in this movie. Great action as well.

U.N. rights body considers condemning Israel on Gaza

Diné (Navajo) Nation mourns passing of Code Talker Willard Varnell Oliver

Experts warn glaciers in Indian Kashmir are melting

Court rules against Stalin's grandson in libel suit

Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership

Big Bang scientist working at the Large Hadron Collider "admits plotting Al Qaeda atrocity"

Stalin's grandson sues newspaper for libel; claims the Novaya Gazeta "falsely claimed he was a mass murderer"

Nobel Peace Prize may return to activist roots. UPDATE: In a surprise, Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Israeli foreign minister: "No chance for peace deal anytime soon"

Iran closes three newspapers

"Olympian dreams and favela realities collide in Rio de Janeiro -- the documentary Dancing With the Devil depicts what's at stake if the city fails to get its act together"

One of my favorite articles ever: Love between German and Pole survives Iron Curtain -- for five decades, Elvira Profe kept Fortunat Mackiewicz's picture in her wallet

Military may lift ban on women in submarines

Buckingham University vice-chancellor Terence Kealey calls female students "a perk of the job" and "encourages lecturers to enjoy gazing at, even fantasising about, attractive female students"

Archaeologists find suspected Trojan war-era couple

DNC launches website to debunk "the outrageous lies and misinformation about health reform"

Thousands march in Iran opposition protests

TIME article -- Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? ("Is he stirring the fears of Americans who feel left out?")

Israel rejects independent inquiry into Gaza war

Group of American Indians who find the Washington Redskins' name offensive want the Supreme Court to take up the matter

Child-bride, 12, dies in Yemen after struggling to give birth for three days

Anti-Islamic protest fears as 2,000 Palestinian supporters gather for London rally

Medvedev laments Russia's democracy, economy

Gazans improvise to honor Ramadan traditions