Bhutto, Sharif hit campaign trail Ignoring calls to boycott general elections, former Pakistan prime ministers, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif have hit the campaign trail with a vengeance, pledging to overcome obstacles that come their way.
Love triangle at school sparks off shooting The Clark County School District increased security on Wednesday after six young people were shot at a school bus stop following a fight over a girl, authorities said.
'Al-Qaeda wing behind Algiers blasts' The North African branch of al-Qaeda has said in an Internet posting, that it was behind the bombings in the Algerian capital.
Lebanese general killed in blast A senior Lebanese army general and his bodyguard were slain Wednesday morning by bomb targeting their car in the Baabda Christian suburb of the Lebanese capital.
World's fastest human calculator Alexis Lemaire has become the world's fastest human calculator - by cracking the planet's most difficult mental arithmetic on December 11.
Three of a kind... This handout photo released in Seoul on Wednesday by the Ministry of Science and Technology shows cloned cats that have a fluorescence protein gene. The technology could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases, the developers said. AFP
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