Former British prime minister Tony Blair said Friday he was "not concerned" by a ruling that details of cabinet meetings in the run-up to the Iraq war should be made public and told CNN the release of the minutes was a decision for the current government.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/30/blair.iraq.uk/index.html?eref=edition
NATO representatives and lawmakers from alliance nations will meet in Iceland Thursday to discuss security challenges that are likely to arise as the Arctic Circle thaws.
Protesters disrupted the launch of a report that focuses on dealing with the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles, according to British media reports Wednesday.
Mounting violence between rebel fighters and government troops along northern Sri Lanka has prompted U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to call for the safety of civilians as humanitarian groups try to provide aid to some 250,000 people trapped in the region.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/27/sri.lanka.fighting/index.html?eref=edition
The pilot who made a treacherous crash-landing on New York's Hudson River look like a routine maneuver got a hero's welcome Saturday in his California hometown.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/01/24/california.pilot.welcome/index.html?eref=edition
Coalition forces killed 15 armed militants and arrested another Friday in eastern Afghanistan in an operation aimed at disrupting a suspected Taliban network, according to a U.S. military statement.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/24/afghan.militants/index.html?eref=edition
Hundreds of tons of timber that fell from a Russian cargo ship in the English Channel this week has started washing up on shore prompting authorities to urge people not to take any of it home.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/23/uk.cargo/index.html?eref=edition
The Gates Foundation is pledging $255 million to help eradicate polio around the world.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/22/gates.foundation.polio/index.html?eref=edition
On President Bush's final day in office, painters and cleaning crews were still working in the West Wing press offices. Moving crews heaved boxes and delicately carried paintings bound in bubble wrap. Other moving trucks were unloading boxes and carting them into the White House.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/bush.day/index.html?eref=edition
Russia and Ukraine signed a new deal Monday to end a long, bitter dispute that has left many European countries running short of natural gas for weeks.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/19/gas.row/index.html?eref=edition
A massive manhunt involving "every guy who ever wore a badge" in northeast Montana ended late Saturday after police located the man they say shot and killed a woman and wounded two others.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/18/montana.manhunt/index.html?eref=edition
A son of Osama bin Laden, believed to be an al Qaeda operative, has left Iran and is likely in Pakistan, the chief intelligence officer of the United States said Friday.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/16/bin.laden.son/index.html?eref=edition
Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/15/panama.violence.summet/index.html?eref=edition
Actor Ricardo Montalban, star of the hit TV series "Fantasy Island," died Wednesday in Los Angeles, a family spokesman said.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/14/ricardo.montalban/index.html?eref=edition
The suspected head of an Italian mafia murder squad eluded police for a third time, and may have escaped through the sewer pipes, according to Italian media reports.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/13/mafia.escape/index.html?eref=edition
The U.S. State Department on Monday said that sanctions will be placed on 13 people and three companies "for their involvement in the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network."
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/12/us.nuclear.khan.pakistan/index.html?eref=edition
The chief financial officer of India's Satyam Computer Services Ltd. was arrested Saturday, the third person taken into custody in a scandal that began when the company's chairman admitted inflating profits with "fictitious" assets and non-existent cash.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/01/10/india.satyam/index.html?eref=edition
Separatist rebels bombed an electricity transmission tower in the southern Philippines on Saturday, according to military spokesperson Lt. Stefani Cacho.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/10/philippines.rebels/index.html?eref=edition
Fighting in northern Sri Lanka between government and rebel forces escalated on several fronts Friday, while Tamil Tiger rebels killed seven people in a roadside bombing.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/09/sri.lanka.civil.war/index.html?eref=edition
An officer involved in a New Year's Day shooting that left a passenger dead in a crowded California subway station resigned today, a Bay Area Rapid Transit spokesman said. The spokesman said the officer has received death threats after the incident, which was captured on video. A funeral was held today for the passenger, 22-year-old Oscar Grant.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/07/BART.shooting/index.html?eref=edition
When Apple vice president Philip Schiller takes the stage here Tuesday morning for the keynote address at the Macworld Conference & Expo, he'll face a good-news, bad-news scenario.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/06/macworld.keynote/index.html?eref=edition
A suicide bomber killed at least 37 people and injured 53 -- many of them women -- during a Shia pilgrimage in northwestern Baghdad Sunday, Iraqi officials told CNN.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/04/iraq.suicide.bombing/index.html?eref=edition
Colombo has been hit by a second bomb blast in only 24 hours following the fall of the Tamil Tigers' capital to government troops.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/03/sri.lanka.war.blasts/index.html?eref=edition
Tiny diamonds found in the soil are "strong evidence" a comet exploded on or above North America nearly 13,000 years ago, leading to the extinction of dozens of mammal species, according to a study.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/02/comet.diamonds/index.html?eref=edition
Cristiano Ronaldo gave Manchester United a New Year boost by again ruling out a move to Spanish giants Real Madrid.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/football/01/01/ronaldo.intvu/index.html?eref=edition
