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Top Stories: Washington, Nov 27 (IANS) The gate-crashing by a couple at the White House state dinner in honour of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Nov 24 is a more serious security breach than it might apparently seem. IANS Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:02 -0500London, Nov.27 : Former British ambassador to the United Nations, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, has told an official Iraq War inquiry here that America seemed determined to go to war with Saddam Hussein. ANI Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:40:09 -0500London, Nov 27 : Robin Antin, the founder of the American pop girl group Pussycat Dolls, has rubbished rumours that the band has split up. ANI Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:40:04 -0500Thrissur (Kerala), Nov 27 : Artisans and craftsmen here are working round the clock to give finishing touches to a wooden temple to be shifted to the United States in December. ANI Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:30:14 -0500New Delhi, Nov 27 : American singer Lady GaGa has spoken about her love for 'the male sexuality'. ANI Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:30:13 -0500New York, Nov.27 : Pupils at a school in Florida have been suspended after taking part in a "Kick a Jew Day". ANI Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:00:03 -0500London, Nov 27 : Israeli/American actress Natalie Portman has revealed that she finds her Los Angeles neighbours to be more welcoming than the locals she lived with in her native New York. ANI Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:10:06 -0500Melbourne, Nov.27 : American tennis star Serena Williams faces the possibility of being fined a million dollars for her ugly US Open meltdown. ANI Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:20:09 -0500Washington, Nov.27 : Aspiring reality television stars Michael and Tareq Salahi, who gate crashed Barack Obama's White House state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, may have attended other presidential events. ANI Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:20:08 -0500London, Nov 27 : To declare war on Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein regime, former British Prime Minster Tony Blair and ex-US President George W Bush might have secretly "signed in blood" a deal to overthrow Saddam a year before going to the war, according to a former senior diplomat. ANI Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:20:04 -0500London, Nov.27 : British and American officials were desperately looking for a "smoking gun" that would justify their imminent invasion of Iraq, an official inquiry has heard. ANI Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:40:10 -0500Washington, November 27 : Rap mogul Sean Combs wants to star in hit U.S. TV series '30 Rock'. ANI Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:40:02 -0500Port of Spain, Nov.27 : External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna, who is accompanying the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on his visit to the United States and Trinidad and Tobago, has said that India would be more than willing to talk to Pakistan, but only after authorities in that country took concrete steps to bring the perpetrators of the 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai to justice and dismantle... ANI Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:00:08 -0500Washington, Nov 27 (IANS) First the dinner and now the party crashers -- stealing the spotlight from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's just ended state visit, the US media is agog with how an American couple gatecrashed US President Barack Obama's dinner at the White House and what might have happened. IANS Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:50:02 -0500Port of Spain, Nov 27 (IANS) If US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle wanted to charm their Indian guests at the first state dinner of his presidency, they appear to have succeeded hugely. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was lavish in his praise of the White House banquet Tuesday, calling it 'magnificent' and 'one of the best dinners I have attended'. IANS Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:00:03 -0500London, Nov 26 (IANS) American rapper Eminem wants to be a judge on British reality show 'The X Factor'. IANS Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:10:02 -0500By Mary Yuhas THE WASHINGTON TIMES MINNEAPOLIS | When Lisa Gross and her two daughters make their twice-annual trek to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, they have three things on their must-do list: vis... Washington Times Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:34:47 -0500Nov. 26: How did socialites Tareq and Michaele Salahi crash the White House state dinner? NBC’s Savannah Guthrie reports that Secret Service is interviewing agents, White House staff and reviewing s... MSNBC Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:24:35 -0500Statement of Charles D. Connor, American Lung Association President and CEO The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new limits on the toxic air pollutant sulfur dioxide in the outdoor... Medical News Today Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:23:41 -0500- Global gold producer Lihir Gold Limited (TSX:LGG)(ASX:LGL)(NASDAQ:LIHR) (LGL) has moved to provide greater focus on its North American investor communications through the appointment of an Investor ... Market Wire Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:23:35 -0500The American Dental Association (ADA) asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish appropriate classifications for tooth-whitening chemicals. Citing concern about the safety of whit... Medical News Today Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:23:28 -0500THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JUPITER, Fla. -- A manhunt is under way in Florida for a relative of three adults and a child shot to death during a Thanksgiving night family gathering. Police said early Fri... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:10:56 -0500Nov. 26: How did socialites Tareq and Michaele Salahi crash the White House state dinner? NBC’s Savannah Guthrie reports that Secret Service is interviewing agents, White House staff and reviewing s... MSNBC Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:09:25 -0500TOKYO, Nov. 27 (AP) - (Kyodo)?A foreign ministerial meeting of a forum aimed at promoting cooperation between East Asia and Latin America will be held in Tokyo on Jan. 16 and 17, Japanese Foreign... Breitbart Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:32:16 -0500MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) ? Pilgrims are casting stones at walls representing the devil on the third day of the annual hajj as Muslims begin Eid al-Adha, one of the most important holidays of the... WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:29:51 -0500VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Pope Benedict XVI says immigrant children must be fully integrated into their new societies and protected from the risks of exploitation. WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:29:50 -0500KABUL (AP) ? The governor of the volatile southern Afghan province of Kandahar survived an assassination attempt when a bomb targeting his convoy exploded as he headed for Friday prayers to mar... WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:29:49 -0500Diplomats inside the meeting said Friday that 25 of the 34 IAEA board nations present voted for a resolution backed by the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. The resolution criticize... WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:29:47 -0500Chris McGreal's Guardian article about Raquel Rolnik , the UN's special rapporteur whom the Bush administration prevented from doing her job?Not Bachmann's kind of woman is Rolnik. We'll come back to ... The Guardian Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:04:23 -0500New York's apple orchards are being carpeted with red as unpicked apples drop to the ground.With the best of the crop off to market, growers say this year it's cheaper to leave leftovers on the trees ... The Examiner Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:03:18 -0500Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry t... The Examiner Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:03:17 -0500Space shuttle Atlantis is headed for a landing, weather permitting.The shuttle's seven astronauts hope to wrap up their 11-day flight Friday. Good weather is forecast for the 9:44 a.m. landing.Atlanti... The Examiner Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:03:17 -0500(AP Photo/Courtesy of Utah County Sheriff's Office)This Wednesday Nov. 25, 2009 photo provided by the Utah County Sheriff's Office shows an unidentified volunteer rescuer during a rescue effort in Nut... The Examiner Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:03:15 -0500Providence Cicero reviews the Capitol Hill New American/Asian restaurant Huiyona, where the husband-and-wife owners' Korean and Filipino origins influence a menu of small plates and large. The Seattle Times Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:55:19 -0500THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO -- More than 50 dogs rescued from puppy mills in Missouri are flying to Long Island in the hope of finding loving homes. The dogs were taken by bus Thursday to Chicago... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:55:01 -0500ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss authorities will not release Roman Polanski into house arrest at his luxury Alpine chalet until Monday at the earliest as bail conditions still have to be met. Reuters Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:40:32 -05004Q09 Latin America Mobile Operator Forecast, 2009 - 2013 " to their offering. IEMR's Mobile Operator Forecast on Latin America provides over 50 operational and financial metrics for the Latin American... Earth Times Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:39:35 -0500Sentiment among investors has been hit hard by Wednesday's news that Dubai World, a government investment company with debts totaling around $60 billion, has asked creditors if it can postpone its for... WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:15:50 -0500ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ? The chief physician for Nigeria's president says the leader is undergoing treatment for a heart condition at a hospital in Saudi Arabia. WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:15:47 -0500JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ? Indonesia has rejected a push by the resort island of Bali for rare turtles to be legally slain in Hindu ceremonies, siding with conservationists of the protected rept... WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:15:44 -0500Australian boys are more violent than American boys, new research revealed on Friday. A joint study conducted by Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia and the University of Washington in ... People's Daily Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:11:06 -0500WASHINGTON -- The Secret Service is investigating how an uninvited couple was admitted to President Barack Obama's White House state dinner, penetrating layers of security, a spokesman said Wednesday.... National Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:31:41 -0500Filberto Cervantes turns in for the night in the cab of his rig, where he's been sleeping for the last three months. He is one of thousands of truckers who starting Jan. 1 will have to comply with cle... Los Angeles Times Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:24:17 -0500Reporting from Washington - The Secret Service has launched a "comprehensive investigation" of its security measures after two aspiring reality-TV stars crashed President Obama's state dinner at the ... Los Angeles Times Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:24:14 -0500A federal survey of households says 'food insecurity' was up in 2008, but that's not the same thing as the plight of malnutrition and a persistent lack of food, some experts say. Los Angeles Times Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:24:12 -0500Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff at the United States White House with Michaele and Tareq Salahi at the State Dinner at the White House. Photo: Facebook... IOL Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:23:49 -0500Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff at the United States White House with Michaele and Tareq Salahi at the State Dinner at the White House. Photo: Facebook... IOL Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:23:29 -0500BEIJING - China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman yesterday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula - severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassu... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:11:24 -0500TOKYO (AP) ? Japanese flocked to a large gymnasium in central Tokyo in recent weeks to see what for them was an unusual sight: senior bureaucrats being grilled over their budget requests for ne... WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:56:38 -0500WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) ? Namibia's President Hifikepunye Pohamba was among the first to vote in an election expected to return him and his party to power, despite a challenge from a new breakaw... WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:56:37 -0500As the holiday season approaches in the midst of the current economic downturn, Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney Gregory Caplan is providing hope by resolving warrants and expunging criminal reco... PR Web Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:33:08 -0500Amazing Christmas Village and North Pole by Joe DiMartino will welcome guests for the first time this year on November 27th at 5:00 PM. Great fun for the whole family. Come and celebrate Grand Opening... PR Web Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:32:52 -0500As having one of the higher foreclosure rates in the country, Kentuckians throughout the state happily welcome American Business Direct to offer its assistance... 24 / 7 Press Release Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:11:42 -0500CHICAGO, IL, November 27, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dream Town Realty, a pioneer in online real estate technology in Chicago, has announced the release of a brand new website feature that displays up... 24 / 7 Press Release Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:11:19 -0500In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court took a huge step toward joining nearly all nations on the globe when it banned teen executions. But it was only a step. The United States still locks up more juveniles ... New America Media Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:10:07 -0500Thanks to her school's "Standing Tall" program for American Indian students, Cheyenne Winters is sitting pretty with a four-year full-ride scholarship to the University of Utah. "I want to succeed an... Deseret News Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:56:47 -0500In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 photo, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, right, arrive at a state dinner hosted by President Barack Obama for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House in Washing... Boston Globe Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:37:08 -0500KABUL (AP) ? President Hamid Karzai has renewed his call to the Taliban to lay down its weapons and participate in rebuilding Afghanistan. WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:35:21 -0500BANGKOK (AP) ? Oil prices sank to near $74 a barrel Friday in Asia as investors curtailed their risky bets on commodities amid uncertainty about the global fallout from Dubai's financial troubl... WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:35:20 -0500NAGHLU, Afghanistan (AP) ? By day, French soldiers fight side by side with Afghans during Taliban attacks. By night, their officers share meals, the French trying to muster haute cuisine from m... WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:35:19 -0500WASHINGTON (AP) -- The couple who crashed a White House state dinner were being filmed that day by a camera crew connected with a reality television program, although none of the filming took place on... New York Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:30:08 -0500By Sarah EckersleyWEBSTER, New York, November 26. THE New York Public Girls High School State Championships took place this weekend at Webster-Schroeder High School.Brewster's Ali Polhill, Alexis ... Swimming World Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:14:29 -0500Before you leave home in the predawn hours of this big shopping day, with visions of deals on TV sets and leather jackets, Droids and Dance Around Doras in your trunk, make sure you're equipped with m... Miami Herald Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:08:55 -0500CHICAGO (Reuters) - By 2034, nearly twice as many Americans will have diabetes and spending on the disease will triple, further straining the U.S. health system and testing the viability of Medicare a... Reuters Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:42:48 -0500SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO — Police are looking for a man who used what appeared to be a gun to rob another man in an isolated area of a parking lot on Tuesday morning.The 62-year-old man was getting o... Oakland Tribune Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:39:50 -0500People have low expectations of cats. Sam Connelly tells of the time she and her cat Storm observed a Canine Good Citizen test while they were waiting for their feline agility class to start. "... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:32:40 -0500? For Tyson Ritter, singer/bassist of the All-American Rejects, feeling doubt about the songs he was writing for the group’s CD, “When the World Comes Down,” was not an unfamil... Corpus Christi Caller-Times Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:21:21 -0500PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) ? The Khmer Rouge prison chief blamed for thousands of deaths at an infamous torture center has asked Cambodia's genocide tribunal to release him, citing the decade he... WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:18:24 -0500BARAKI-BARAK, Afghanistan (AP) ? As daylight faded and the winter cold set in, soldiers huddled inside a crude wooden hut to tuck into Thanksgiving turkeys the unit itself had fattened and to g... WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:18:22 -0500In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 photo, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, right, arrive at a state dinner hosted by President Barack Obama for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House in Washing... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:16:46 -0500The Ibero-American countries on Thursday formed an alliance against cross-border organized crime with the help of an anti-crime work plan. The alliance was formed between district attorneys from the S... People's Daily Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:14:09 -0500WASHINGTON (AP) -- The couple who crashed a White House state dinner were being filmed that day by a camera crew connected with a reality television program, although none of the filming took place on... New York Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:13:07 -0500This screen image made from Michaele Salahi's Facebook page shows a photo of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, left, with Michaele Salahi and Tareq Salahi, right, at the White House state dinne... The Ledger Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:57:44 -0500WASHINGTON ? The congressional debate over health care has produced an unexpected recession windfall: a television advertising boom in the home states of pivotal lawmakers. USA Today Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:38:31 -0500Elena Kagan asked for an unprecedented reconsideration of an appeals court ruling that government agents illegally seized drug-testing samples and records of baseball players who allegedly tested posi... USA Today Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:38:15 -0500Elena Kagan asked for an unprecedented reconsideration of an appeals court ruling that government agents illegally seized drug-testing samples and records of baseball players who allegedly tested posi... USA Today Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:38:14 -0500In Washington today, politicians too often just stand their ground. Liberal strategist Bob Beckel and conservative columnist Cal Thomas provide a better model. USA Today Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:38:13 -0500She's quitting while she's still ahead. Oprah Winfrey, 55, shocked many by announcing that 2011 will end the 25-year-long run of her top-rated syndicated TV show. It still has about 6 million... USA Today Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:38:10 -0500Bureau of Labor Statistics says that when discouraged workers and those who work part time and want full-time work are considered, 17.5% are unemployed or underemployed. That's... USA Today Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:38:08 -0500The Dallas Morning News , in an editorial: "The health care bill that 60 senators voted (last) Saturday to move to the full Senate for debate contains several reforms that Americans should like. ... USA Today Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:38:07 -0500WASHINGTON (AP) -- The couple who crashed a White House state dinner were being filmed that day by a camera crew connected with a reality television program, although none of the filming took place on... Tampa Bay Online Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:29:44 -0500In what could be the final football game North Catholic ever plays, the Falcons Thursday appropriately won their 80th annual Thanksgiving game with city-rival Frankford, 28-22, in dramatic, come-from-... Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:14:57 -0500The brother of a man who died early Thursday trapped 700-feet inside a Utah cave said his family is remarkably strong but struggles to make sense of what happened. (File)... WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:01:18 -0500BANGKOK (AP) ? Oil prices sank below $76 a barrel Friday in Asia as investors curtailed their risky bets on commodities amid uncertainty about the global fallout from Dubai's financial troubles... WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:01:17 -0500BEIJING (AP) ? China is set to launch its second lunar probe next October in preparation for an unmanned moon landing by the end of 2012, space program officials were quoted Friday as saying. WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:01:16 -0500BEIJING (AP) ? China promised to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade — a major move by the world's largest emitter, whos... WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:01:14 -0500HONG KONG (AP) ? Asian stock markets tumbled Friday as the dollar continued its slide against the Japanese yen and worries over losses from Dubai's debt problems unnerved investors worldwide. WBZ4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:01:12 -0500-- When Jack Scramaglia's extended family was living along 11th Avenue in San Francisco, they knew exactly what to do on Thanksgiving mornings. Brothers, cousins, friends who were like brothers - eig... San Francisco Chronicle Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:36:15 -0500A Chicago police spokesman says two high-ranking officers have been reprimanded after an investigation into an Internet video of police behavior at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh in September. Chicago ... Officer Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:33:50 -0500The couple who gatecrashed a White House state dinner were being filmed by a reality TV show camera crew, the network said.A spokeswoman for Bravo Media insisted, however, that none of the filming too... Independent.ie Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:29:09 -0500Eugene Peterson , 35, an unemployed construction worker from Detroit, said he had plenty to be thankful for."I'm thankful we have a president who understands we're going through a hard time," Peterson... The Examiner Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:27:23 -0500WASHINGTON ? Fundraising for Democratic campaign committees is surging, helping the party to extend a winning streak in competitive special elections and giving House Democrats a more than 3-to-1... USA Today Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:19:24 -0500Tareq Salahi and Michaele Salahi arrive for the state dinner at the White House on Tuesday. The Secret Service is checking into it's own security procedures after the Virginia couple managed to slip i... USA Today Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:19:23 -0500Fall River police say Michael Monahan put his kids, ages 3 and 6, in the trunk of his Pontiac Trans Am for several minutes Tuesday morning while he went inside a sailing shop. MSNBC Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:18:22 -0500Basil D. Nutter Jr., 75, the father of Philadelphia Mayor Nutter, died Wednesday at a Hopewell Township assisted-living facility, New Jersey State police said today. The mayor's father was found dead... Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:54:56 -0500WASHINGTON: The couple who crashed a White House state dinner were being filmed that day by a camera crew connected with a reality television program, although none of the filming took place on White ... 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