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• Alistair Darling warns on EU finance crackdown (AFP)
• Report: Breast-feeding mother smothers baby on jet (AP)
• AP Exclusive: Letters tell of Moscow prison ordeal (AP)
• Iran warns of serious action against UK yachtsmen (Reuters)
• Villa prove too much for Pompey (AFP)
• Gibson double sees United into League Cup semis (AFP)
• Ireland's Aer Lingus to cut jobs, routes (AFP)
• Fellow Iraqi turns tables on Bush shoe-thrower (Reuters)
• Knox flirtation changed course of probe: defence (AFP)
• Gibson double delights United as Villa push past Pompey (AFP)
• LatAm leaders: Return ousted Honduran president (AP)
• Main points of the EU's 'Lisbon Treaty' (AP)
• With glitz, EU marks start of Lisbon Treaty rules (AP)
• Italy may accept more Gitmo detainees (AP)
• Iraqi shoe-thrower finds out what it was like (AP)
• Knox's defense in Italy: Not enough evidence (AP)
• UK climate scientist to temporarily step down (AP)
• Nazi victims' families testify at Demjanjuk trial (AP)
• Officials: Obama asks up to 10,000 European troops (AP)
• Italian police say they broke up major mob clan (AP)

Alistair Darling warns on EU finance crackdown (AFP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 05:56 PM PST AFP - Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has warned the EU's new financial overseer against meddling with London's banking hub, saying mis-calculated reforms could drive financial services out of Europe.

Report: Breast-feeding mother smothers baby on jet (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 03:59 PM PST AP - A breast-feeding mother accidentally smothered her four-week old child aboard a United Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., to Kuwait, a British tabloid reported Tuesday.

AP Exclusive: Letters tell of Moscow prison ordeal (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 03:19 PM PST AP - The letters are neatly folded and written on soft white paper in a confident, elegant hand. They tell a story of horror in the bowels of the Russian prison system, a saga set against the backdrop of the world of multibillion-dollar investment funds in Vladimir Putin's Russia.

Iran warns of serious action against UK yachtsmen (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:51 PM PST Reuters - Iran will take serious measures against five British yachtsmen detained in the Gulf if it proves they had "evil intentions", a close aide to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.

Villa prove too much for Pompey (AFP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:28 PM PST AFP - Aston Villa booked their place in the semi-finals of this season's English League Cup with a 4-2 win away to Premier League strugglers Portsmouth at Fratton Park here on Tuesday.

Gibson double sees United into League Cup semis (AFP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:23 PM PST AFP - Darron Gibson scored both goals as holders Manchester United defeated Tottenham 2-0 to book their place in the semi-finals of the League Cup at Old Trafford on Tuesday.

Ireland's Aer Lingus to cut jobs, routes (AFP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:17 PM PST AFP - Irish airline Aer Lingus will slash jobs and loss-making routes after failing to reach an agreement with unions in cost-cutting talks, it said on Tuesday.

Fellow Iraqi turns tables on Bush shoe-thrower (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:10 PM PST Reuters - An Iraqi reporter imprisoned for throwing his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush found himself on the receiving end of a similar footwear attack in Paris on Tuesday.

Knox flirtation changed course of probe: defence (AFP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:03 PM PST AFP - A flirtatious gesture by US student Amanda Knox caught an investigator's eye and changed the course of the probe into the 2007 sex murder of her housemate, a defence lawyer said Tuesday.

Gibson double delights United as Villa push past Pompey (AFP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 01:59 PM PST AFP - Darron Gibson scored twice as reigning champions Manchester United beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 at Old Trafford on Tuesday to secure their place in the semi-finals of the English League Cup.

LatAm leaders: Return ousted Honduran president (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 01:52 PM PST AP - Honduras should return ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power, leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal said at a summit Tuesday.

Main points of the EU's 'Lisbon Treaty' (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 01:49 PM PST AP - The main points of the Lisbon Treaty which aims to simplify how the 27-nation bloc will be run in the decades ahead. The treaty came into force Tuesday.

With glitz, EU marks start of Lisbon Treaty rules (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 01:39 PM PST AP - Top European Union officials attended a ceremony Tuesday to mark the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty, which is designed to ensure the bloc has a more influential say in world affairs.

Italy may accept more Gitmo detainees (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 11:45 AM PST AP - Italy is considering taking in other prisoners from Guantanamo to help President Barack Obama close down the prison, the country's foreign minister said Tuesday, a day after Italy accepted two former detainees.

Iraqi shoe-thrower finds out what it was like (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 11:03 AM PST AP - The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine Tuesday when he nearly got beaned by a shoe thrower at a news conference in Paris.

Knox's defense in Italy: Not enough evidence (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 10:56 AM PST AP - Amanda Knox's lawyer argued Tuesday there wasn't sufficient evidence to convict the U.S. exchange student in the 2007 slaying of her British roommate, saying Knox had been swept up by a "tsunami" of events that led to her arrest.

UK climate scientist to temporarily step down (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 10:29 AM PST AP - Britain's University of East Anglia says the director of its prestigious Climatic Research Unit is stepping down pending an investigation into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change.

Nazi victims' families testify at Demjanjuk trial (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 09:56 AM PST AP - Rudolf Salomon Cortissos sobbed as he told a Munich court about the letter his mother had written on May 17, 1943 — four days before she was gassed in the Nazis' Sobibor death camp with some 2,300 other Dutch Jews.

Officials: Obama asks up to 10,000 European troops (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 09:38 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama is asking European members of NATO to contribute up to 10,000 additional troops to the international force in Afghanistan, officials with the military alliance said Tuesday.

Italian police say they broke up major mob clan (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 08:28 AM PST AP - Italian police have broken up a major mafia clan, arresting 74 people and seizing businesses, land, race horses and a London-based online betting company, officials said Tuesday.

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