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Biden: Palestinians deserve ‘viable’ state

Vice President Joe Biden walks with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, right, during a tour of the Nassar Stone Factory in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Wednesday.Vice President Joe Biden voices displeasure over an Israeli plan to enlarge an east Jerusalem settlement and reassures his Palestinian hosts that they deserve an independent state.




6 dead in attack on U.S. aid group in Pakistan

Policemen inspect the destroyed offices of aid group World Vision in Oghi, a village in Mansehra district about 125 miles north by road of Islamabad.Suspected militants attacked the offices of a U.S.-based Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan, killing six Pakistani employees.




German Catholics to investigate abuse charges

In this 2006 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI, right, walks with his brother, priest Georg Ratzinger, in Regensburg, southern Germany. Catholic authorities in Germany announced two major abuse investigations Wednesday.




Taliban claim suicide attack on NATO base
The Taliban claims responsibility for a suicide bombing inside a U.S.-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan that killed two NATO service members.

New death threats for Swedish cartoonist

Swedish artist Lars Vilks walks in the streets of Stockholm Wednesday without protection despite death threats against him.The Swedish cartoonist whose sketch of the Prophet Muhammad has angered Muslims says he's received more death threats since arrests were made this week over an alleged plot to kill him.




Israeli TV ad spoofs Hamas killing

Israeli actors mimic scenes in the surveillance footage from the Hamas assassination in Dubai for a supermarket commercial in Petah Tikva, Israel.An Israeli supermarket chain looks to cash in on the publicity over the assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai with a series of new TV ads offering "killer prices."




Obama hosts Haitian President Preval for talks

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) speaks in the Rose Garden with Haitian President Rene Preval at the White House March 10, 2010 in Washington, DC.President Barack Obama is renewing America's commitment to the recovery and reconstruction of earthquake-devastated Haiti, telling visiting President Rene Preval he understands the situation there "remains dire."




China space program selects first women astronauts
A Chinese proverb says women hold up half the sky. In the future, they'll be doing it from space.

NYT: Michelangelo bumped from art chart by ...

A man takes a picture of Caravaggio's "Annunciation" during a presentation at the Scuderie del Quirinale palace in Rome on the 400th anniversary of the painter's death, on Friday, Feb. 19.By one new metric, Michelangelo has been bumped from his perch atop the Italian art charts by Caravaggio.




Pirates target tropical tourist hot spot


Families: 3 Americans detained in Iran call home
Cindy Hickey had rehearsed what she would say to her son when she finally got to talk to him months after he was detained in Iran. When the time came, the conversation lasted only about a minute, she said, "so it was hard to say a lot."

Pa. woman charged with recruiting jihadists

March 9: A woman from suburban Philadelphia has been indicted for using the internet to recruit fighters to support terrorists overseas. NBC's Brian Williams reports.  (Nightly News)A federal indictment accuses a Pennsylvania woman of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and promote terrorism overseas, NBC News reports.




Dalai Lama: China aims to annihilate Buddhism
The Dalai Lama lashed out at China on Wednesday, accusing it of trying to "annihilate Buddhism" in Tibet and rebuffing all his efforts to reach a compromise over the disputed Himalayan region.

NYT: Flu shots in kids provide ‘herd immunity’
Although previous studies have demonstrated what scientists call “herd immunity,” none have been so incontrovertible as a study of farming colonies in Canada.