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Taylor departs for war crimes trial
Swissinfo - 16 hours agoBy Christo Johnson. FREETOWN (Reuters) - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor left Sierra Leone on a chartered jet on Tuesday to face war crimes charges in the Netherlands, the special court organising his trial said. ...

Advancing missile defense
Washington Times - 25 minutes agoAmid evidence indicating that the Stalinist North Korean regime may have completed the fueling of its most advanced long-range missile, the Taepodong-2, an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) whose range could place our West Coast in jeopardy, the ...

Wealth of Australia's richest hits $628b
The Age - 30 minutes agoThe ranks of Australia's richest people has swelled to almost 150,000, with the millionaires club's total fortunes soaring to $US463.24 billion ($A628.76 billion), according to a new study. The number of "high ...

IBM, Georgia Tech Deep Freeze for Gigahertz
TechNewsWorld - 8 hours agoBy Jay Lyman. The IBM and Georgia Tech researchers -- supported by Big Blue, NASA and Georgia Tech -- said the frozen SiGe chips may be able to support "near TeraHertz," or 1,000 GHz frequencies at some point. ...

Ex-Aide To Bush Found Guilty
Washington Post - 1 hour agoA federal jury found former White House aide David H. Safavian guilty yesterday of lying and obstructing justice, making him the highest-ranking government official to be convicted in the spreading scandal involving disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff ...

House Derails Bush Immigration Overhaul
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour agoBy Nicole Gaouette, Times Staff Writer. Washington -- President Bush's push for a sweeping overhaul of immigration laws was dealt a major blow Tuesday when House Republican leaders announced they would hold ...

Indonesia, World Health Discuss Bird Flu Control Plan (Update1)
Bloomberg - 1 hour agoJune 21 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesian officials began a meeting with world health authorities today to help fight bird flu, which has killed a person every six days in the nation this year. Keiji Fukuda, the coordinator ...

Hey, you! We're third most-polite
Toronto Star - 4 hours agoIt's the city many Canadians love to hate, so detractors may be surprised to learn Toronto ranks as the third most-polite city in an international survey. Canada's biggest city places behind New York and Zurich ...

Iraq Official: US Soldiers' Bodies Found
Houston Chronicle - 16 hours agoBAGHDAD, Iraq The bodies of two US soldiers have been found, and a senior Iraqi military official said Tuesday they belong to men who went missing last week after a deadly insurgent attack on a traffic checkpoint. At a news briefing, US Maj. Gen. ...

As Rather Departs, Collateral Damage at CBS
NPR - 6 hours agoDan Rather, speaking here at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government on March 9, 2006, is leaving CBS after 44 years. AP. My departure before the term of my contract represents CBS's final acknowledgement ...