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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Houston Mirror.com http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/10/id/c08dd24cec417021/ en-us Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:19:27 -0500 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:19:27 -0500 30 CAIRO - Egypt has decided to advance the election of a new president, giving in to the demands of increasingly violent protesters and raising hopes of a civilian government taking over the task of fra http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203278082/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:49:56 -0500 Houston Mirror.com http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203278082/cs/1/ MOSCOW- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stressed need for Russia to adopt new democratic mechanisms to move forward and to be able to react swiftly to the interests and desires of large groups in so http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203277461/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:41:47 -0500 Houston Mirror.com http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203277461/cs/1/ DAMASCUS - The West voiced its ire over Russia and China's veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria even as more clashes and deaths were reported in the violence-wracked country. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203276650/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:29:51 -0500 Houston Mirror.com http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203276650/cs/1/ LONDON - Heavy snowfall and intense cold this winter, one of the most severe in decades, has taken its toll across Europe, with many rural areas badly affected and several deaths reported. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203276071/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:24:41 -0500 Houston Mirror.com http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203276071/cs/1/ NEW YORK - Citigroup's Chinese subsidiary has been granted permission to offer its credit cards in China, becoming the first US based bank and the second foreign bank to receive the nod. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280818/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:59:05 -0500 Houston Mirror.com http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280818/cs/1/ BRISTOL - Hundreds of traders and business establishments have signed up for Bristol's own currency to be launched May 21, with the backing of the Bristol Credit Union, a bank run as a cooperative. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203279652/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:15:43 -0500 Houston Mirror.com http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203279652/cs/1/ NEW YORK - The IMF has warned of lower growth in China in view of the economic slump in Europe, and cut its forecast for the world's second largest economy this year to 8.25 per cent from 9 per cent http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275615/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:18:55 -0500 Houston Mirror.com http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275615/cs/1/ ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has said he would continue intense talks with his coalition partners on austerity measures for a 130 billion-euro EU bailout plan second for Greece. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275612/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:09:56 -0500 Houston Mirror.com http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275612/cs/1/ BEIJING - China's Monday asked its airlines not to pay a charge on carbon emissions imposed by the European Union (EU). http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275609/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:58:28 -0500 Houston Mirror.com http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275609/cs/1/ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and chief of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Hamas politbureau Khalid Mashaal signed here Monday the Doha Declaration of the Palestinian reconciliation. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275608/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:50:39 -0500 IANS http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275608/cs/1/ Al-Qaeda is trying to recruit women for carrying out suicide bombings in Britain, parliament members have warned in a report. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275596/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:10:04 -0500 IANS http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275596/cs/1/ UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas not to abandon talks with Israel. The appeal comes after Abbas and his Fatah movement signed a deal on ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291229/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:55:46 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291229/ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "strongly condemns" the mounting death toll, says Syrian violence "unacceptable before humanity," erodes the legitimacy of Damascus ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291232/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:45:33 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291232/ After talks ended without progress Monday night, Histadrut labor federation Chairman Ofer Eini will meet with Treasury officials at noon on Tuesday to try and avoid a strike over the status of ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291233/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:45:28 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291233/ WASHINGTON - Longtime US Mideast envoy Dennis Ross said Monday he did not believe the time was ripe for a permanent deal between Israelis and Palestinians and suggested regarding the region now ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291234/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:45:23 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291234/ Calling a series of overtly sexy Purim costumes that appear in a recently distributed catalogue for children "scandalous," World International Zionist Organization (WIZO) chairwoman Gila ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291235/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:45:17 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291235/ The ability to hear has been returned to Meir Turgeman, the most veteran resident of Sderot, who said Monday that thanks to the operation he underwent at Kaplan Medical Center, he will for the ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291236/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:45:04 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291236/ The Scottish capital appears to be the worse culprit, with much of its skyline coloured yellow in a series of images released as part of a British Gas initiative to cut power use by small and ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291239/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:36:26 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291239/ One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof and unlike anything I’d ever seen before. As well as using it for batwing tunics, trench coats, sou’westers and ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291240/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:36:16 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291240/ The right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in Norway told a court yesterday that he deserved a medal of honour for the bloodshed, and demanded to be set free. Anders Behring Breivik ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291241/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:36:07 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291241/ A new book by the exorcist of Rome tells the strange tale of how two ‘possessed’ men were brought to St Peter’s Square in May 2009 to be ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291242/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:36:00 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291242/ Dr Rowan Williams said that condoning assisted suicide would undermine the sanctity of life - and he compared its effects to the legalisation of abortion a generation ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291243/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:35:54 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291243/ Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has outlined the referendum consultation, but credit agencies have warned the country may not be granted triple A ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291244/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:35:49 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291244/ Devoted: Ruth Caven gave up her staff job as a glossy magazine journalism to go freelance and look after her nine-month-old black cocker spaniel puppy, ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291245/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:35:44 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291245/ Language lecturer Keri Opai claimed that New Zealand's native indigenous Maori were suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder following the 'holocaust' of British ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291246/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:35:37 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291246/ There are endless examples of Lottery winners who have turned their backs on their old neighbourhoods, only to descend into lonely, mink-lined ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291248/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:35:21 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291248/ This paper warmly welcomes the decision by Network Rail’s top six executives to forgo their bonuses this year and allocate the money instead to improving safety at level ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291249/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:35:15 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291249/ 7.45am BBC Radio 4 Thought For The Day. In this, the bicentenary of Dickens’ birth, the Rt Rev Peter Torkiss, Bishop of Yoxford, reflects on the role of the civil partnership in Dickens’ ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291252/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:35:12 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291252/ Mild excitement: Sir Bob Kerslake, new head of the Civil Service, was to make his first public appearance. Let us not oversell the proposition. Few turned up to see him give evidence to the Public ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291253/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:35:07 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291253/ With 172 days before the start of the tournament, financial executive David Gilliver has paid homage to the eagerly anticipated games with these incredible Olympic ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291254/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:34:58 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291254/ It will be criticised because she played on 'mad cow' disease - CJD - and also Aspergers, both very real and tragic conditions, but anyone with a brain should understand. It really was ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291251/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:34:48 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291251/ Such is the farcical state of affairs we have reached with the case of Abu Qatada – otherwise known as Osama bin Laden’s spiritual ambassador in Europe - who judges here and abroad have ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291250/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:34:38 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291250/ But back to Greece, where politicians are conscious that their electorate is getting to the end of its tether about the prospect of more austerity. At least one is openly talking about the threat of ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291255/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:34:32 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291255/ A blacksmith is flinging molten iron against a wall in Nuanquan, in the Hebei province of China, as part of the Lantern Festival which marks the end of the Lunar New ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291256/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:34:26 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291256/ Mr Ormrod said: 'I was lying naked and dying in the desert. I just thought I can’t live like this. I turned to the corporal and shouted: "Stick a bullet through my ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291257/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:34:17 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291257/ Samuel Sipepa Nkomo told a Zimbabwean parliamentary committee that terrified workers are refusing to return to the sites, near the towns of Gokwe and ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291258/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:34:08 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291258/ The woman - with shoulder-length black hair and a thick Cockney accent - then asks 'where do you come from? F****** like, f****** all over the ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291259/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:33:59 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291259/ The sculptures, which measure an incredible 30ft high, each took three weeks to build using a scaffolding spanner and a further six months to ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291261/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:33:51 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291261/ Applicants from fee-paying schools with top grades were around 25 per cent more likely to get into the world-famous seat of learning than academic candidates from ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291260/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:33:49 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291260/ However using a keen eye and a long exposure, one photographer has managed to capture the startling speed and motion of the stars as they blaze their trails across the ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291263/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:33:43 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291263/ At risk: The 18th century Church of Thomas, Romney Marsh, Kent, is in one of the beauty spots campaigners say are under threat from proposed changes to the planning ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291262/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:33:40 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291262/ WASHINGTON: The United States on Monday lifted one of its many sanctions against Myanmar in recognition of recent positive moves toward political reform in the country after decades of direct ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291217/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:32:09 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291217/ GOLDEN, Colorado: Mitt Romney hopes for another big caucus win in Colorado Tuesday, as his well-oiled campaign machine works to cement his position as the Republican US presidential front ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291218/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:32:07 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291218/ MONTREAL: Eleven people were killed Monday when two vehicles collided on a highway in Canada's Ontario province, police were quoted as saying by local media.A passenger van with 13 people on ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291219/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:32:05 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291219/ LONDON: The British-born wife of Syria's president has spoken in support of her husband for the first time since the 11-month uprising against his regime began, a British newspaper reported ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291220/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:32:04 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291220/ CHICAGO: A Chicago taxi driver pleaded guilty Monday to charges linked to a scheme to funnel money to a Pakistani terror group with links to Al-Qaeda, the US Justice Department said.Raja Lahrasib ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291221/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:32:02 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291221/ Iran's semiofficial Mehr news agency reported yesterday that they had produced content and reported to the BBC. It said they facilitated training and hiring of some Iranian journalists and ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291196/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:20:41 -0500 The Independent http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291196/ Greece said the fence is expected to be finished by September, and will cost more than EUR3m. The site is the busiest crossing point for illegal immigrants entering the EU and will stretch between ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291197/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:20:36 -0500 The Independent http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291197/ Newt Gingrich, the former speaker, is not for prevarication and so his response to a direct question from The Independent last night was yes and immediately. Or at least upon his being inaugurated ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291198/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:20:32 -0500 The Independent http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291198/ Los Angeles schools Superintendent John Deasy disclosed the change in a heated evening meeting with parents of students at Miramonte Elementary School, spokesman Tom Waldman said. The school ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291200/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:18:59 -0500 USA Today http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291200/ Greece's coalition government caved in to demands to cut civil service jobs, announcing 15,000 positions would go this year, amid mounting international pressure to agree on austerity measures ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291237/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:14:50 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291237/ Monday's 6.9-magnitude earthquake also collapsed bridges and damaged roads on Negros Island, forcing soldiers and firefighters to hike mountains to reach remote villages. Most of the confirmed ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291206/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:12:00 -0500 USA Today http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291206/ SAN FRANCISCO - Venture deep inside the new skyway of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and it becomes clear that the bridge's engineers have planned for the long term. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291227/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:11:39 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291227/ Obama campaign manager Jim Messina says in an email to supporters Monday that the president's campaign "can't allow for two sets of rules" in which the Republican presidential nominee benefits from ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291205/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:05:45 -0500 USA Today http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291205/ NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. - The pilot sat strapped to a chair, held in place as if he were in the backseat of a helicopter. Beside him, on a mock wall, was a window. The window was ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291223/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:57:32 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291223/ The French and German leaders told Greece time was running out as it attempts to get a deal on a debt restructuring plan, and warned Athens it would only get its second bailout if it delivers on its ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291208/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:57:31 -0500 Reuters http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291208/ Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pauses while speaking at a packed campaign event in a high school gym in Centennial, Colorado February 6, 2012. The Colorado caucuses take place ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291209/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:57:25 -0500 Reuters http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291209/ 1 of 13. The cannon of a damaged armoured military vehicle is seen after clashes between President Bashar al-Assad forces and Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Cairo square near Khaldiyeh area in Homs ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291210/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:57:19 -0500 Reuters http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291210/ The French and German leaders told Greece time was running out as it attempts to get a deal on a debt restructuring plan, and warned Athens it would only get its second bailout if it delivers on its ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291211/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:57:13 -0500 Reuters http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291211/ Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow celebrates after his game-winning touchdown pass in overtime of an NFL wild card playoff football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012, ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291212/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:51:45 -0500 CBS News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291212/ BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - Newt Gingrich's final event of the day on Monday was interrupted by two protestors who stood up and accused the former House speaker of discriminating against gays and ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291213/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:51:42 -0500 CBS News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291213/ Actor Clint Eastwood insisted on Monday there was "no spin" in the Chrysler Super Bowl ad in which he starred -- and that the spot wasn't meant to reflect a message about the Obama ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291214/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:51:37 -0500 CBS News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291214/ (AP) TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian government-affiliated agency has banned dolls of the Simpsons cartoon characters, who join Barbie and others on a toy blacklist, an independent newspaper reported on ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291215/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:51:31 -0500 CBS News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291215/ (CBS News) At the King's Lynn, England town hall located in the east of England, a small woman in a big hat is greeted by officials in ceremonial robes, just like she's been greeted for ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291216/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:51:24 -0500 CBS News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291216/ Five killer whales have been named as plaintiffs in a court case which argues they deserve the same constitutional protection from slavery as humans. A US judge is considering People for the ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291195/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:49:36 -0500 BBC http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291195/ A new law making stalking a specific offence is needed in England and Wales to stop harassment ending in violence and murder, MPs and peers have said. Their parliamentary inquiry also proposed ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291194/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:49:33 -0500 BBC http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291194/ A Syrian military assault on Homs has killed dozens of people, as world powers scramble for a diplomatic strategy to end the violence in the country after the defeat of a UN Security Council ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291238/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:47:11 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291238/ The New York Giants on Tuesday will be showered with confetti and greeted by throngs as they are feted with the city's most storied honor: a parade through its Canyon of Heroes. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291225/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:45:15 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291225/ Occupy Maine demonstrators removed several large tents over the weekend, and the city on Monday gave them additional time to remove the rest. Demonstrators who established the encampment just two ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291207/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:39:24 -0500 USA Today http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291207/ TEHRAN - One measure of the profound anxiety now coursing through Iranian society can be seen on Manouchehri Street, a winding lane at the heart of this city where furtive crowds of men gather every ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291228/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:28:48 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291228/ Stephen Wolfram, a 52-year-old scientist, software designer and entrepreneur, tends to go his own way - often with noteworthy results. He published his first physics paper at 15, earned his Ph. D. ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291222/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:22:31 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291222/ WASHINGTON - A senior American military commander is expected to travel to Pakistan this month in what Obama administration officials say is the first step toward thawing a strategic relationship ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291226/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:11:18 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291226/ WASHINGTON - Authoritarian rulers from Caracas to Moscow and beyond have long viewed pro-democracy groups financed by the United States with deep suspicion, regularly denouncing them as meddlers or ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291224/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:10:52 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291224/ Smoke inhalation was the primary cause of death for Josh Powell and his two young sons, the Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office said. But the boys also suffered "chop injuries" that contributed ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291201/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:29:15 -0500 USA Today http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291201/ Drones, perhaps best known for their combat missions in Afghanistan, are increasingly looking to share room in US skies with passenger planes. And that's prompting safety concerns. Right now, ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291202/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:57:19 -0500 USA Today http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291202/ Washington's state Senate passed the bill 28-21 Wednesday. This week, the bill goes to the House, where it is likely pass, said Sen. Ed Murray, a Democrat and the bill's sponsor. ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291203/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:10:50 -0500 USA Today http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291203/ Highlighting how crucial it is that the eventual Republican presidential nominee be able and willing to put Obamacare front and center in the general election campaign, the ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286281/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:52:01 -0500 Weekly Standard http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286281/ "Our hope is conservatives are stepping back and looking at the race and making the same calculations that I've just made that a Romney nomination will not be in the best interest of us winning the ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291199/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:51:38 -0500 USA Today http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203291199/ Iranian blogger Mehdi Khazali has been sentenced to 13 years and 10 months in prison, followed by 10 years in exile. Khazali was arrested about a month ago and has been on a hunger strike in ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286262/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:40:29 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286262/ WASHINGTON - The Obama administration announced tough new targeted sanctions Monday against the Central Bank of Iran, ratcheting up economic pain on Tehran in a move intended to drive it into new ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286314/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:32:49 -0500 McClatchy http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286314/ Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) is the Knesset member who works hardest to separate religion and state, according to a study by the Open Knesset website and the Reform Movement's Center for Religion ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286268/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:30:06 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286268/ BERLIN - Hungary's Foreign Ministry on Sunday criticized anti-Semitic and pro-Iranian regime statements of Jobbik party lawmaker Marton Gyongyosi.Hungary rejects the statements of ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286266/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:30:01 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286266/ Will the IDF soon be able to better identify enemy targets hidden by camouflage? On Monday, Elbit Systems unveiled a hyper-spectral payload with revolutionary intelligence capabilities that can be ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286267/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:29:56 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286267/ Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu rejected on Monday all calls to reverse last week's cabinet decision that barred 70 West Bank settlements on the "national priority" list from ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286269/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:29:51 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286269/ The Yemeni agreement was followed by two similar reconciliation pacts that were reached under the auspices of the Egyptians. Needless to say, the Egyptian-brokered accords remained ink on ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286270/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:29:37 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286270/ An archeological find at the Hill of Jonah near Ashdod may prove that the area had been occupied during the time when archeologists believe Jonah the prophet walked the Earth. Archeologists have ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286272/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:29:23 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286272/ In honor of Tu Bishvat, the city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa's Beautification Division has supplied 30,000 seedlings of various shapes and sizes to community gardens, schools and other institutions ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286273/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:29:17 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286273/ WASHINGTON, Feb 6, 2012 (IPS) - Following a failed bid to pass a U.N. Security Council Resolution calling for regime change in Syria, Washington is considering other means to influence events on ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286265/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:28:31 -0500 IPS http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286265/ Thousands of Australians have been forced to abandon their homes as a record deluge sweeps through areas still reeling from devastating flooding last year that left 35 people ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286264/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:27:56 -0500 IOL http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286264/ It raises the prospect of parents at the school gates bumping into the radical cleric, who was known as Osama Bin Laden’s ambassador in ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286287/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:56 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286287/ Judges have quashed a notorious ruling which allowed a Nepalese killer with no wife or children to stay in the UK to protect his right to a family ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286288/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:50 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286288/ A new study has found that babies who use their fingers to eat during the weaning process are less likely to become obese than those who are spoon-fed pureed ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286289/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:42 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286289/ Yesterday a spokesman for Ugandan-born Dr Sentamu said the Archbishop received a ‘large quantity’ of correspondence following the interview, adding: ‘Amongst many positive ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286290/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:36 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286290/ Tough new rules to ban unsustainable mortgages and prevent another housing bubble are to be handed to the Bank of England, the Chancellor signalled last ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286292/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:31 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286292/ Government sources said the change would apply to married and unmarried couples, whether disputes were over the division of assets or over access to ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286291/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:19 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286291/ Staff say they are increasingly forced to disrupt classes to change pupils or clear up ‘accidents’ because parents believe toilet training is a school’s ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286293/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:14 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286293/ Police hunting a gang of Asian youths who battered a Caucasian teenager and left him for dead were treating the savage beating as a ‘hate crime’ last ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286294/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:08 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286294/ Although nationally one in seven stores is empty the situation is much worse in places such as Margate in Kent and Leigh Park, Hampshire, which have a 36 per cent vacancy ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286295/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:02 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286295/ There’s that famous song ‘There’ll always be an England . . . if England means as much to you as England means to me.’ That’s how many of us think about teapots. ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286296/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:18:55 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286296/ A statement on behalf of his wife, Baroness Paisley, said: ‘She requests the family’s privacy be respected at this difficult ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286297/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:18:45 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203286297/