- (10/07/09) Secretary loses job of 34 years over meatball snack (Deutsche Welle)
- (10-7-09): "Idea of poseur virgins rattles Egypt" (Fleishman & Hassan, LAT)
- (10/7/09): BREAKING NEWS - Earthquake in South Pacific
- (Oct 7, 2009): "Egpytian niqab row after campus ban" (Video, Al Jazeera English)
- (10/8/09) Restoring Afghanistan (WSJ)
- (10/08/09) Germany's Answer to Jobless Youth (Spiegel online)
- (10/09/09) Europe Reacts to Obama Win (Spiegel online)
- (10/09/09) A Peaceful Revolution in Leipzig (Spiegel online)
- (Oct 10, 2009): "Landmark Turkey-Armenia accord to be signed" (YouTube, Al Jazeera English)
- (Oct 9, 2009): "David Cameron promises to 'tear down big government'" (Telegraph UK) - UNITED KINGDOM
- (Oct 10, 2009): "Quake survivor cuts off his own leg" (Video, Reuters) - INDONESIA
- (Oct 10, 2009): "British brides trash their dresses" (Video, Reuters)
- (Oct 10, 2009): "Unnatural Beauties Vie for 'Miss Plastic Hungry' Title (Associated Press) - HUNGARY
- (10/10/09) Jim DeMint: What I Heard in Honduras (WSJ)
- (10/10/09) Twitter calls for help with the German tongue (The Local)
- (10/10/09) Germany beat Russia to book World Cup berth (The Local)
- (Oct 11, 2009): "Nazi and anti-nazi demonstrations in Berlin" (No Comment TV)
- (Oct 11, 2009): "Boyzone singer Stephen Gately dies" (ITN News) - IRELAND
- (October 8, 2009) "Jackson Jive Blackface Act Angers Harry Connick Jr." (Bitten & Bound)
- (Oct 12, 2009): "Hiroshima and Nagasaki consider 2020 Olympic bid" (ITN News)
- (10/12/09) Army first in line to get cutting-edge swine flu shot (The Local)
- (Oct 12, 2009): "Colombian armed groups recruiting child soldiers" (Video, Al Jazeera English)
- (10/12/09) German Ship Transporting Arms for Iran (SPIEGEL ONLINE)
- (10/13/09) Bundesbank's Sarrazin stripped of duties for xenophobic comments (The Local)
- (10/13/09) Turkish leader says kids need Islamic holiday off (The Local)
- Iraqi Poet Abbas Khidr Recounts His Experience of Torture in Iraqi Prison Under Saddam, Criticizes Arab Nationalist Poets for Supporting Tyrants
- The fourth plinth: Top 10 (UK) (BBC News/ The Guardian)
- (10-14-09): "Venezuela seizes a landmark Hilton Hotel" (Brietbart)
- (Oct 14, 2009): "Women's Rights in Afghanistan" (Video, CBS)
- (Oct 14, 2009): "Nazi gnomes on parade" (Video, ITN News)
- (10/15/09) China’s Unmanned, Knock-Off Air Force (Wired)
- (10/14/09) Afghan Lunacy (Michael Yon Online)
- (10/15/09) German Publishers Putting Kibosh on E-Books (Spiegel online)
- (10/15/09) German parties won't block Turkey's EU bid (Deutsche Welle)
- (10/16/09) German officials back 'morning-after' pill without prescription (The Local)
- (10/16/09) Bookworms are rare in the land of Goethe and Schiller (Deutsche Welle)
- (10-16-09): "Acorn's Ally at the NLRB" ( WSJ)
- (Oct 16, 2009): "Baby in pram falls onto train track and survives direct hit" (Digital State) - MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
- (Oct 17, 2009): "The cervical cancer vaccine debate" (NTV Kenya) - KENYA
- (Oct 17, 2009): "Big anti-abortion rally in Spain" (BBC) - SPAIN
- (Oct 17, 2009): "Pakistan sends 30,000 troops for all-out assault on Taliban" (Guardian UK) - PAKISTAN
- (Oct 17, 2009): "Mexican police find dismembered bodies" (Reuters) - MEXICO
- (10/18/09) Revolutionary Guard Commanders Killed in Iran Bomb (AP/Asharq Al-Awsat)
- (10/15/09) "Broadband Internet Is Your Right! If You're Finnish." (by Sam DuPont, NDN) - FINLAND
- (Oct 18, 2009): "Sixteen-year-old girl sailor begins record attempt" (ITN) - AUSTRALIA
- (10/18/09) Thai waxworks cuts saluting Hitler poster after protests (The Local)
- (10/18/09) More than 100 arrests in Leipzig neo-Nazi and anarchist clashes (The Local)
- (10/18/09) "Brazil vows safe Olympics after 14 killed in Rio" (by Flora Charner, Yahoo! News in association with the Associated Press)
- (10/19/09) Subverting Democracy (The American Spectator)
- (10/19/09) NATO: Time is not on allies' side in Afghanistan (AP)
- (Oct 19, 2009): "Gordon Brown to recommend civil partnership ceremonies in parliament" (Guardian) - UK
- (Oct 20, 2009): "'World's fattest man' Paul Mason needs surgery to live" (News.com.au) - UK
- (10/19/09) Don't worry about killing people (Chicago Boyz)
- (10/21/09) Arab Human Development Report 2009: Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries (MEMRI)
- (10/21/09) Journalist Goes Undercover to Discover Life as a Black Man in Germany (Spiegel online)
- (10/22/09) Constitutional Court rules for equal treatment of homosexual civil servants (Deutsche Welle)
- (Oct 24, 2009): "Russians flock to see 'miracle' baby" (Video, Reuters)
- (Oct 24, 2009): "China's wine market branches out" (Videos, Reuters)
- (Oct 23, 2009): "CrossTalk: The truth about climate wars" (Video, RT) - 25 minute feature
- (10/24/09) Clocks go back amid rising winter-time discontent (The Local)
- (10/24/09) German coalition deal draws praise and criticism (Deutsche Welle)
- (10/23/09) Why Al Qaeda Wants a Safe Haven (Foreign Policy)
- (10/23/09) China, India Cancel Out Copenhagen (IBD)
- (Oct 25, 2009): "Egyptian Train Crash Kills 18" (Al Jazeera English)
- (Oct 25, 2009): "Giant spider discovered by Slovenian Scientists" (Reuters)
- (Oct 25, 2009): "Clashes in Jerusalem's Old City" (Reuters)
- (Oct 25, 2009): "Baghdad blasts kill dozens" (ITN News) - footage caught on mobile phone
- (10/21/09) Al-Qa’ida and the Afghan Taliban: “Diametrically Opposed”? (Jihadica)
- (Oct 25, 2009): "From Canada to Turkey, Jackson fans shake to 'Thriller'" (AFP)
- (Oct 25, 2009): "Lebanon sets Guinness world food records" (Video, AFP)
- (10/25/09) Bombings in Baghdad (US Dept. of State - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's comments)
- (Oct 25, 2009): "Radovan Karadzic boycotts trial" (Al Jazeera English)
- (10/26/09) Radical Cleric Calls on Muslims in Germany to Reject Violence (Spiegel online)
- (10/26/09) Man Stands Trial for Killing Egyptian Woman in German Court (Spiegel online)
- (10/26/09) Holocaust denier Williamson to battle fine of up to €12,000 (The Local)
- (10/26/09) Hugo Chávez is up to no good (Foreign Policy)
- (10/27/09) Dutch journalist unsettles Merkel with questioning (The Local)
- (10/27/09) States may pull the plug on TV licence fee authority GEZ (The Local)
- (10/26/09) "NY Tax Exodus?" (Wall St. Follies)
- (Oct 27, 2009): "Man Tapes Smuggled Snakes to His Skin" (Associated Press) - NORWAY
- (Oct 27, 2009): "Gays make major strides in Latin American nations" (World Focus Online)
- (Oct 27, 2009): "Muslims face increasing prejudice in xenophobic Europe" (World Focus Online)
- (10/28/09) Court throws out plea against drone attacks (The Nation)
- (October 28, 2009) "100 killed in blast at crowded Pakistan market" (MSNBC)
- (10/28/09) Protestants pick first woman to lead church (The Local)
- (October 28, 2009) "Istanbul skyline gets woman's touch" (BBC)
- (10/28/09) Introducing Merkel's New Government (Spiegel online)
- (Oct 28, 2009): "Boy traps head between buildings" (Video, ITN News) - CHINA
- (10/29/09) Missing Votes for Merkel 'Too Many to Ignore' (Spiegel online)
- (10/29/09) US holiday Halloween casts a spell over German youth (The Local)
- (10/29/09) Police call for strict hooligan stadium ban (The Local)
- (10/27/09) U.N. Discrimination Investigator Focuses on Canada, Ignores China, Sudan, Iran (UN Watch)
- (Oct 29, 2009): "Swaziland battles twin plagues of HIV, TB" (AFP)
- (Oct 29, 2009): "Two men have been jailed for running Scotland's biggest paedophile ring" (Sky News)
- (Oct 29, 2009): "Brown backs Blair for EU president" (ITN News)
- (Oct 28, 2009): "'This Is It' Around the World for Jackson" (Associated Press)
- (10/30/09) China blocks Berlin Wall anniversary Twitter site (The Local)
- (10/30/09) Germany plans to stop foreign aid to China (The Local)
- (10/30/09) Death of leading neo-Nazi set to cripple far-right (The Local)
- (10/30/09) Kennedy Surprised by 'Such Strong American Outrage to the Wall' (Spiegel online)
- (10/30/09) 'Afghanistan Is Not a Computer Simulation' (Spiegel online)
- (10/30/09) "Thousands line up for last Big Mac in Iceland" (by Omar Valdimarsson, Reuters)
- UK Politics: Brown vs. Cameron
- (Nov 9, 2009): 20th Anniversary of Fall of the Berlin Wall
- (Oct 31, 2009): "Raw Video: UK Police Clash With Protesters" (Associated Press) - Leeds, ENGLAND
- (10/31/09) Merkel and Sarkozy bury Blair EU president idea (The Local)
- (10/31/09) Manmohan, Bush get candid over lunch (Times of India)
- (Oct 29, 2009): "German Visitor Spends 13 Days in Brazil Airport" (Video, Associated Press)
- (Oct 30, 2009): "French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality" (NYT) - FRANCE
- (11/01/09) Quelle last-ditch clearance sale founders as website crashes (The Local)
- (11/01/09) Biker gang brawl followed by a grenade attack (The Local)
- (11/01/09) Merkel kebab photo in Ukrainian restaurant promotion sparks row (The Local)
- (11/01/09) Suspect in data theft case found dead (Deutsche Welle)
- (Nov 1, 2009): "Tasmania's challenge tapping into green energy through wind & water" (Video, Al Jazeera English) - AUSTRALIA
- (11/1/09) ‘Russia’s Muslim Strategy’ (Middle East Strategy at Harvard)
- (Nov 1, 2009): "Leaking oil rig still ablaze off north-west coast of Australia" (Video, ABC Australia)
- (Nov 2, 2009): David Cameron brands drugs row 'unseemly spat' (Video, ITN News) - UK
- (Nov 2, 2009): "M1 celebrates 50 years" (Video, ITN News) - UK
- (11/02/09) New German swine flu cases double in two days (The Local)
- (11/02/09) Thirteen injured in military base accident (The Local)
- (05/20/08) Hanover's incendiary delights (Telegraph.uk)
- (Nov 2, 2009): "Michael Caine Takes A Pop At The British Government" (ITN News)
- (11/3/09) Exposing the Farce of Chavez — and His Western Admirers (Pajamas Media)
- (11/3/09) Merkel's Dream of a Place in the History Books (Spiegel online)
- (11/03/09) General Motors decides to keep Opel (Deutsche Welle)
- (11/3/09) Axeghanistan ‘09: Parachute Day-Laborers (War Is Boring)
- (11/3/09) Failed States vs. Criminal States (Counter Terrorism Blog)
- (11/04/09) U2's Free Berlin Concert to Take Place Behind a Wall (Spiegel online)
- (11/04/09) Countries Ask How Germany Avoided Mass Unemployment (Spiegel online)
- (11/04/09) Man suffers life-threatening reaction to swine flu vaccine (The Local)
- (11/02/09) New minister sparks row with call for health-care system changes (Deutsche Welle)
- (11.04.09); "Pakistan Army Battles Into Taliban Stronghold" (Fox/AP)
- (11/4/09) Hezbollah Denies Link to Arms Ship (AP/Asharq Al-Awsat)
- (11/05/09) Our Bad: Germany Still Looking for Freedom from David Hasselhoff (Spiegel online, by Hannah Pilarczyk)
- (11/05/09) Germans Poke Fun at Their New Foreign Minister (Spiegel online)
- (11/05/09) 'GM Has Done Serious Damage to the Trans-Atlantic Relationship' (by Cathrin Schaer, Spiegel online)
- (11/05/09) Westerwelle arrives in US for talks with Clinton (The Local)
- (11/05/09) New transport minister ignites debate over car toll for autobahn (The Local)
- (Nov 5, 2009): "Squatters make most of empty London homes" (AFP)
- (11/07/09) One in six German voters regrets voting decision (The Local)
- (Nov 7, 2009): "Mass bikini parade in South Africa" (Video, Reuters)
- (11/8/09) Swiss open probe of al-Qaida nuke physicist case (AP)
- (11/8/09) Pakistan bomb kills anti-Taliban mayor, 11 others (AP)
- (Nov 8, 2009): "Remembrance Sunday: Queen Leads Tributes" (Sky News)
- (Nov 8, 2009): "Iranian women tackle rugby" (Al Jazeera English)
- (Nov 8, 2009): "The Blair Rich Project" (Sky News)
- (Nov 8, 2009): "China pledges 10 billion to Africa at summit" (AFP)
- (11-09-09) "East Germans lost much in 1989" (Guardian.co.uk)
- (11/8/09) Pakistan Dispatch: Hearts and Minds (Abu Muqawama)
- (November 9th, 2009) "West Bank rabbi: Jews can kill Gentiles who threaten Israel" (Haaretz)
- (11/10/09) National goalkeeper hit by train in likely suicide (The Local)
- (Nov 10, 2009): "Violence and venom force gay Jamaicans to hide" (World Focus Online)
- (11/10/09) Blackouts darken Brazil’s 2 largest cities (AP/MSNBC)
- (Nov 10, 2009) R.I.P. Robert Enke (Tribute Video)
- (11/10/09) New jihad code threatens al Qaeda (CNN)
- (11/11/09) "CNN's Ivan Watson profiles a Christian man who died saving hundreds of Muslim girls from a suicide bomber." (CNN) - PAKISTAN
- (11/11/09) Al Qaeda names Fazul Mohammed East African commander (Long War Journal)
- (11/9/09) PC brigade ban police from saying 'gang rape' as it is 'too emotive' (UK Daily Mail)
- (10/20/09) The Iran problem with Hanson and Baer (Hoover Institution)
- (Nov 14, 2009): "Venice stages funeral to mourn population loss"
- (Nov 14, 2009): "APEC nations call for free trade" (Video, Reuters)
- (Nov 14, 2009): "Putin joins hip-hop Battle for Respect" (RT)
- (Nov 14, 2009): "Severe storms hit the UK" (Video, ITN)
- (Nov 14, 2009): "Amazing pictures of world record domino-toppling in the Netherlands" (ITN) - amazing!
- (Nov 17, 2009): "Frontline Presents - A Death In Tehran" (PBS) - 11/17/09, 9pm EST
- (Nov 14, 2009): "Shoppers rush for a pair of Jimmy Choos at H&M" (ITN) - UK
- (Nov 14, 2009): "Drought Threatens Australian Wine" (Video, Sky News)
- (11.14.09): "No public probe into Iraq 'abuse'" (BBC News)
- (11/12/09) The Brotherhood vs. Al-Qaeda: A Moment Of Truth? (Hudson Institute)
- (Nov 15, 2009): "Shootout at Mexican hospital" (Video, Reuters)
- (Nov 15, 2009): "Film Offers Glimpse of Troubled Women in Iran" (Video, Associated Press)
- The Forces of Fortune The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class
- (November 15, 2009) "Body parts sold to kebab stand, police say" (MSNBC) - RUSSIA
- (Nov 15, 2009): "Australia's Rudd says sorry to orphans, child migrants" (Reuters) - AUSTRALIA
- (Nov 17, 2009): "Ukraine black lungs: fears unknown flu strain to spread" (RT)
- (11/14/09) No Parade for Hans (NY Times)
- (11/18/09) Constitutional Court OKs Curtailing of Free Speech (Spiegel online)
- (11/19/09) Terrorism in Asia: still a threat (INSEAD)
- (11-19-09): "Man unable to enter China languishes in Tokyo airport" (L.A. Times) Is this Chinese activist crazy or brave? You decide...
- (Nov 19, 2009): "Israelis settle in occupied West Bank for economic reasons" (World Focus Online)
- (Nov 19, 2009): "Kate Moss Skinny Motto Sparks Outrage" (Video, World News)
- (11/16/09) The Cardinal and the Constitution (WSJ)
- (9/19/09) NEFA Foundation: Interview with Spokesman for Pakistani Al-Qaida (Counter Terrorism Blog)
- (11/20/09) Sport Turns into Ultimate Political Football (Spiegel online)
- (11/20/09) Disabled woman fired for eating pâté meant for patients (The Local)
- (Nov 20, 2009): "Suicides At France Telecom" (CBS) - job layoffs lead to spate of suicides...
- (Nov 20, 2009): "Nude shopping: Market allows naked buyers food for free" (Video, RT)
- (Nov 21, 2009): "India Commonwealth games workers' plight" (Video, AJE)
- (Nov 21, 2009): "Zimbabwean migrant workers face South African locals' wrath" (Video, AJE)
- (Nov 20, 2009): "Severe Rain Causes Flood Chaos In Northern England" (Video, Sky News)
- (11/21/09) British troops to leave Germany under Tories (The Local)
- (11.21.09): "Russian President Criticizes Ruling Party Over Election Fraud" (WSJ/AP)
- (Nov 21, 2009): "Rome's new contemporary art museum" (AFP)
- (10/29/09) Q&A - Colombia's displacement crisis (ReliefWeb - Anastasia Moloney)
- (Nov 22, 2009): "Family escape collapsing house in Turkish floods" (Video, ITN News)
- (Nov 21, 2009): "India's shame: 5,000 child deaths a day" (Video, NDTV)
- (Nov 21, 2009): "Bushfire threat 'catastrophic'" (Video, ITN News) - AUSTRALIA
- (Nov 22, 2009): "Climate change report urges rethinking" (Video, AJE)
- (Oct 21, 2009): "Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China" (China Hush) - these really are amazing pictures...
- (11/23/09) McDonald's to turn logo green in Germany for environment (The Local)
- (11/23/09) “Man trapped in 23-year 'coma'” (dailymail.co.uk) - BELGIUM
- (Nov 23, 2009): "Targeting the global growth of AIDS amongst women" (Video, World Focus Online)
- (Nov 23, 2009): "Germany to require immigrants to sign integration contracts" (Video, World Focus Online)
- (Nov 24, 2009): "Philippines Imposes Emergency Rule After Massacre" (Reuters/NYT)
- (11/23/09) More talk of Taliban talks (Threat Matrix)
- 11/24/09) Teen girl gets five years for failed firebomb attack on school (The Local)
- (11/24/09) ZDF TV director gets honorary Emmy, as German miniseries wins (Deutsche Welle)
- (Nov 24, 2009): "Thousands gather for mass animal sacrifice in Nepal" (ABC News Australia)
- (Nov 24, 2009): "UK Iraq inquiry: Secret war talks began in 2001" (ABC News Australia)
- (Nov 24, 2009): "Mecca undergoes expansion project" (Video, AJE) - Hajj Pilgrimage 2009
- (Nov 25, 2009): "India's Mumbai attacks remembered" (Video, AJE)
- (11/24/09) Eastern Syria becoming a new al Qaeda haven (Long War Journal)
- (11/25/09) Gay German soldier tells of army discrimination (Deutsche Welle)
- (Nov 26, 2009): "2009 ARIA Award highlights" (ABC Australia) - the Oz version of the Grammys
- (Nov 26, 2009): "Damning report into abusive priests in Dublin archdiocese" (ITN News) - IRELAND
- (Nov 26, 2009): "Parisian monuments turned into ice sculptures" (AFP)
- (Nov 26, 2009): "Violence against women in Pakistan" (Video, France 24 English)
- (11/26/09) Religious couple fined for home schooling their children (The Local)
- (11/26/09) Hugely popular Bundesliga proving soccer still has a soul (Deutsche Welle)
- (Nov 26, 2009): "Raw Video: Camels Besiege Australian Town" (Associated Press)
- (Nov 26, 2009): "Stigma, the cross for Russians living with HIV" (AFP)
- (Nov 26, 2009): "Susan Boyle Dreaming The Dream" (Video, World News) [update - album debuts at #1 on UK charts]
- (Apr 7, 2009): "The dark side of Dubai - as hard times arrive in the city state that rose from the desert sands, an ugly story is emerging" (The Independent)
- (11/27/09) No winter weather in sight as Christmas markets open (The Local)
- (11/27/09) German minister resigns over Afghanistan airstrike (Deutsche Welle)
- (Nov 28, 2009): "Train bombing in Russia: Dozens killed as explosives found at crash site" (RT)
- (Nov 28, 2009): "Raw Video: Australia Welcomes Two Giant Pandas" (Associated Press)
- (11.28.09): "12 Prisoners Break Out of Afghanistan Jail After Digging Tunnel Through Cell" (Fox/AP)
- (11.28.09): "Anti-WTO protesters smash windows, burn cars in Geneva" (Reuters via LAT)
- (11.28.09): "Iran responds: No more voluntary cooperation with IAEA" (by Laura Rozen, Politico)
- (Nov 28, 2009): "No hope left: Catholic Church attacks IVF in Poland" (RT)
- (10/17/09) Understanding 300 Million Arabs: Attitudes vs. Actions (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
- (11/28/09) East Anglia to Make Climate Data Public (Power Line)
- (11/28/09) Marine Colonel: Stop Afghan Army Expansion! (War Is Boring)
- (11/22/09) Fighting Terrorism With Schools (Parade)
- (Nov 29, 2009): "Iran's Nuke Plans" (CBS)
- (11/30/09) John Demjanjuk war crimes trial to start in Munich (BBC)
- (Nov 29, 2009): "Swiss Vote to Ban Islamic Minarets - Measure to amend constitution stuns experts" (VOA News)
- (11/29/09) The Dubai Effect (Michael J Totten Online)
- (11/30/09) Rocker Offends Germans with Nazi-Era Anthem (Spiegel online)
- (11/30/09) Police narrowly miss Aachen fugitive (The Local)
- (11.30.09): "Iran detains five British soldiers" (by James Meikle, The Guardian)
- (11.30.09): "Argentine judge stops gay wedding" (BBC News)
- (Nov 30, 2009): "HIV-infected Chinese children struggle with stigma" (Retuers)
- (12/01/09) US ambassador calls Germany Washington's most important ally (The Local)
- (12/1/09) German court tightens Sunday shopping rules (Deutsche Welle)
- (Dec 1, 2009): "Miss Argentina Dies After Butt Injections" (TYT) - shocking!
- (Dec 1, 2009): "Would-be Groom Attacked As He Tries to Marry 2nd Wife" (Associated Press) - wedding from hell in Peru!!
- (Nov 30, 2009): "Australians have the world's biggest homes: study" (Reuters)
- (12/02/09) Germany still paying off WWI reparations (The Local)