Twenty children killed in Gaza fighting: official - Sydney Morning Herald
A Palestinian man carries a wounded boy who according to Palestinian medical sources was injured in an Israeli strike, into Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Salah Samouni banged his head in grief against a wall inside the hospital morgue where the bodies ...

Toyota to halt car production for 11 days - Financial Times
Toyota on Tuesday said it would halt production at most of its domestic plants over an additional 11 days in February and March, highlighting the impact of the relentless decline in global demand. Japan’s largest carmaker, which has been a ...

Philippine rebels abduct 3 - Straits Times
MANILA - COMMUNIST guerrillas said on Tuesday they took three policemen captive following an ambush on a patrol car east of Manila that killed an officer and wounded two others. About 60 New People's Army rebels hiding in foxholes detonated a land ...

HEALTH INSURANCE FOR ALL IN 2009 - Rwanda New Times
The Ministry of Health has announced that a significant 91 percent of the Rwandan population were subscribers to different health insurance schemes by the end of 2008. A very good development and almost not heard of in Sub-Saharan Africa! With more ...

Toyota cuts auto production in Japan - International Herald Tribune
TOKYO : Toyota Motor said Tuesday that it plans to halt production at all of its plants in Japan for a total of 11 days in February and March, hurt by the sharp deterioration in global demand for cars. The cuts come on top of a three-day output ...

Forecasts of stores' demise in 2009 over the top - St. Petersburg Times
Consumerist.com gets 10-million page views a month. Retailing may well skip off the track for most of 2009, but I'm not ready to buy into it becoming quite the train wreck envisioned by some industry Cassandras. Some experts are predicting another ...

Israel Vows Relentless Campaign Against Hamas - FOX News
Dec. 29: An Israeli military attack helicopter fires a missile while operating over the northern Gaza Strip. Dec. 29: An Israeli military attack helicopter fires a missile while operating over the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli aircraft kept up a ...

Suspected cop killer held - Jamaica Gleaner
Police detectives search for clues at the murder scene of one of their colleagues yesterday. Special Constable Richard Hamilton of the Island Special Constabulary Force became the first policeman to be killed in 2009. He was shot in his car on Flinch ...

Gaza hospital overwhelmed by dead, wounded - Guardian Unlimited
Associated Press Writers= GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Wailing in grief, Salah Samouni banged his head against a wall inside the hospital morgue where the bodies of his three young nephews lay on the floor Monday. After 10 days of a relentless ...

NBC’s Mitchell Recounts Hillary Clinton Kissing Arafat’s Wife - News Busters
On Friday’s NBC Nightly News, correspondent Andrea Mitchell filed a report that reminded viewers of an embarrassing political episode from Hillary Clinton’s past: the controversial hug and kiss she shared with Yasser Arafat’s wife, Suha, during ...