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thedailybeast — We imagine she'll have a pretty good case: Shirley Sherrod is going to sue Andrew Breitbart for the supposedly racist, heavily edited video he posted of her on his website Big Government. Sherrod announced her intentions at annual convention of the...

guardian.co.uk — The persecution of children accused of witchcraft is a reaction to the insecurity of modern Africa. We must protect themBeliefs in witchcraft and other occult forces are widespread in Africa, as they are in many other parts of the world. Animist beliefs consider death, disease, crop failure and other disasters...

guardian.co.uk — Following the ICJ's ruling on Kosovo's declaration of independence, a failure to heed the country's Serbs will fuel tensions on the groundThe ruling by the international court of justice (ICJ), that "general international law contains no applicable prohibition of declarations of independence", has returned the issue of Kosovo's status back...

guardian.co.uk — This Details magazine profile of Rand Paul is getting some play, and for good reason: reporter Jonathan Miles plums new depths of Paulian ignorance or at least insouciance about how the world as we know it came to be.The piece opens with this little vignette of gobsmackery:Rand Paul and I...

cbc.ca — A hacker has discovered a way to force ATMs to disgorge their cash by hijacking the computers inside them.

msnbc.msn — Investigators said they have found evidence linking an Army intelligence analyst with the leak of secret war documents, a defense official told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

guardian.co.uk — On his travels, Cameron made relations with Israel, Pakistan and Europe just that little bit harder. But he made a friend of ObamaIf you're determined to tell it how it is, it's important to know it how it is – and on the evidence of his travels in foreign parts...

thedailybeast — It's looking like Bradley Manning may want to prepare himself for a long prison sentence: The Wall Street Journal reports that investigators have found concrete evidence linking Pfc. Manning to the 92,000 classified documents obtained by WikiLeaks....

thedailybeast — Well, Elisabeth Hasselbeck couldn't crack him: President Obama's appearance on The View was mostly a friendly affair, but he did take the opportunity to blame the media for last week's Shirley Sherrod affair. He said that the "24/7 media cycle doesn't...

online.wsj — Investigators have found concrete evidence linking Pfc. Bradley Manning with the leak of classified Afghanistan war reports, a defense official said.

online.wsj — A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday.

guardian.co.uk — Former foreign secretary criticises PM for warning that Pakistan 'should not be allowed to promote the export of terror'David Cameron was today accused of being a "loudmouth" by David Miliband, the former foreign secretary and Labour leadership contender, over his claims that elements of the Pakistani state are responsible for...

guardian.co.uk — Few people know as many explosive geopolitical secrets as Fidel Castro – but don't expect to find them in his memoirsAt the end of the 1980s, when the Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega had emerged as an international figure, he cast around for someone to ghost-write his autobiography.One of his aides...

guardian.co.uk — A bitter legal row over royalties has stopped live performances by the Lebanese singer beloved all over the Arab worldFans of Fairouz, the Arab world's most famous singer, are up in arms about a bitter legal row that has stopped her performing live. From Beirut to the Gulf – and...

online.wsj — The chief official at the port where a Japanese tanker was docked a day after it was damaged at the mouth of the Persian Gulf said investigators now believe the ship was involved in a collision.

cbsnews — Woman Reportedly Admits Burying Her Newborn Children in Small Village for Years, Husband Faces Lesser Charges

guardian.co.uk — Barack Obama becomes the first sitting US president to appear on a daytime television chat show, The ViewPreamble: If you've got an American history book, throw it away, it's useless. Future chronicles of American history will just say "Barack Obama appeared on The View" – everything else will be a...

cbc.ca — A partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill - described as the teeth that saved the world - sold at auction Thursday for $24,550.

guardian.co.uk — It looks as though Rupert Murdoch has finally found a way to make the White House pay — literally.The Wall Street Journal has raised the rate it charges the administration's news clipping service by a jaw-dropping $600,000 (£384,000) per year."Obviously, we're not paying", said an administration official. "We have no...

online.wsj — Qatar's prime minister said the Arab nations have endorsed direct Palestinian talks with Israel but left the timing to the Palestinians themselves.

guardian.co.uk — From Goya to Picasso, artists have painted pictures that depend on the gore and passion of the bullfight for their greatness – so will the bloodsport's demise mean the end of tragic art?Spanish bulls are breathing more easily after Catalonia became the first region to abolish bullfighting. Humanitarians are happy,...

cbc.ca — Arizona is preparing to ask an appeals court to lift a judge's ruling that put on hold most of the state's controversial new immigration law, which goes into effect Thursday.

cbc.ca — The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell for the third time in four weeks last week, dropping by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 457,000.

guardian.co.uk — Modern generations are now realising that the immediacy and intimacy of live storytelling cannot be captured by technologyAre oral traditions still relevant? Are they slowly being replaced with technology? In 1992 my son Jesse, the anthropologist Robert Bruce and I drove 400 miles in Robert's beat-up VW van across the...

cbsnews — Troops Were Attacked by Taliban in Militant-Plagued Area South of Kabul, Remains of Both Back in U.S. Hands