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• Brown to testify at Iraq inquiry before poll: reports (AFP)
• UK women seek sperm abroad as donations fall (Reuters)
• Europe Gives Oracle The Long-Sought OK To Acquire Sun Micro (Investor's Business Daily)
• Follow Europe's Laggards? No Thanks (Investor's Business Daily)
• UK opposition say sharp cuts to diplomacy planned (AP)
• Eels disappearing from London's River Thames (AP)
• Couple held by Somali pirates 'fears death in days' (AFP)
• NIreland police probing scandal-hit wife of leader (AP)
• Foreigners dead and missing after Haiti quake (AP)
• Court rejects appeal from wife of murdered English aristocrat (AFP)
• Dutch airlift brings 123 Haitian kids for adoption (AP)
• WTO chief sees US-China trade friction rising (AP)
• Ex-UK foreign secretary defends Iraq war decision (AP)
• Russian happiness guru faces psychiatric ward (AP)
• Stolen Auschwitz sign returned to museum (AP)
• Pope blesses lambs in annual ceremony (AP)
• Survivor describes Nazi camp at Demjanjuk trial (AP)
• Miyake brews up coffee-steeped menswear collection (AP)
• GM's Opel to cut 8,300 jobs across Europe (AP)
• EU, US discuss airport security with body scanners (AP)

Brown to testify at Iraq inquiry before poll: reports (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:25 PM PST AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown's appearance at the Iraq war inquiry will be brought forward to before elections amid growing pressure for him to give evidence, reports said Thursday.

UK women seek sperm abroad as donations fall (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:14 PM PST Reuters - A drastic lack of sperm donors in Britain means women wanting babies are resorting to importing semen from abroad or using do-it-yourself insemination kits bought on the internet, fertility experts said on Friday.

Europe Gives Oracle The Long-Sought OK To Acquire Sun Micro (Investor's Business Daily) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:44 PM PST Investor's Business Daily - The saga of Oracle's effort to buy Sun Microsystems and join the ranks of the megatech vendors neared conclusion Thursday when European Commission regulators approved the deal after a nine-month review.

Follow Europe's Laggards? No Thanks (Investor's Business Daily) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:41 PM PST Investor's Business Daily - Competition: For the past year, Democrats have used the "European model" as their template for change in the U.S. A new report on productivity shows why that might not be such a hot idea.

UK opposition say sharp cuts to diplomacy planned (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 02:43 PM PST AP - Britain's main opposition party accused the government Thursday of drafting plans to close embassies and reduce anti-terrorism work to cope with a huge national debt and a slump in the value of the pound.

Eels disappearing from London's River Thames (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 02:20 PM PST AP - Eels that have been migrating across the Atlantic Ocean to European rivers for hundreds of years are rapidly disappearing from London's River Thames, scientists said Thursday.

Couple held by Somali pirates 'fears death in days' (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 01:42 PM PST AFP - A British man taken hostage with his wife by Somali pirates almost three months ago has said he fears the couple could be executed within days.

NIreland police probing scandal-hit wife of leader (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 01:39 PM PST AP - The wife of Northern Ireland's leader is being investigated for allegedly helping to fund the business of a young man she was having an affair with, police said Thursday.

Foreigners dead and missing after Haiti quake (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 12:48 PM PST AP - A glance at countries reporting dead and missing in Haiti:

Court rejects appeal from wife of murdered English aristocrat (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 12:48 PM PST AFP - A French court has rejected an appeal by the widow of the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, who was convicted for plotting to murder the aristocrat in 2004, making her 20-year prison sentence final.

Dutch airlift brings 123 Haitian kids for adoption (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 11:49 AM PST AP - Enveloped in his new mother's embrace, 4-year-old Jersen Silvester Eefting gazed wide-eyed around a hotel lobby at the end of an 11-hour flight that whisked him from the devastation of Haiti to his new home in the Netherlands.

WTO chief sees US-China trade friction rising (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 11:49 AM PST AP - Trade friction between the United States and China over everything from cars to chemicals will increase in the coming years as the world's biggest importer and exporter buy and sell more of each other's goods, the World Trade Organization's director general said Thursday.

Ex-UK foreign secretary defends Iraq war decision (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 10:04 AM PST AP - Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told the country's Iraq Inquiry on Thursday that he agonized over the decision to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with force, but feels officials made the best decision they could.

Russian happiness guru faces psychiatric ward (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 10:04 AM PST AP - Some time in the coming month, Russian poetess Yulia Privedyonnaya may be packed off to a psychiatric ward in a case activists described Thursday as a dangerous throwback to the Soviet-era practice of punitive psychiatry.

Stolen Auschwitz sign returned to museum (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 08:54 AM PST AP - The infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign stolen last month from Auschwitz and broken into three pieces was returned to the museum at the site of the Nazi death camp Thursday.

Pope blesses lambs in annual ceremony (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 08:23 AM PST AP - Pope Benedict XVI has blessed two lambs whose wool will be shorn to make shawls for newly appointed archbishops to wear.

Survivor describes Nazi camp at Demjanjuk trial (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 07:45 AM PST AP - Jewish prisoners had to unload decomposed corpses at the Nazi death camp at Sobibor and were forbidden to warn new prisoners that they would be gassed within the hour, a survivor testified Thursday at the trial of John Demjanjuk.

Miyake brews up coffee-steeped menswear collection (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 05:42 AM PST AP - The French capital's menswear displays started with a caffeine rush on Thursday, as Japanese label Issey Miyake sent out a coffee-soaked fall-winter 2010-2011 collection.

GM's Opel to cut 8,300 jobs across Europe (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:48 AM PST AP - General Motor Co.'s Opel unit will cut 8,300 jobs across Europe, including 4,000 in Germany, and close a plant in Antwerp, Belgium — casualties of the "tough reality" of a shrinking European auto market.

EU, US discuss airport security with body scanners (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 02:06 AM PST AP - EU interior ministers met Thursday with the U.S. homeland security chief to discuss boosting airport security with full-body scanners after the failed plot to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day.

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