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French Guiana says no to more autonomy: results (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 05:51 PM PST

People vote iin Cayenne on the French South American territory of Guiana, on January 10. Seventy percent voters in French Guiana voted against more autonomy for the French department in South America, according to definitive results released Monday by the French government.(AFP/Jody Amiet)AFP - Seventy percent voters in French Guiana voted against more autonomy for the French department in South America, according to definitive results released Monday by the French government.

N.Ireland leader's wife having psychiatric treatment (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 05:25 PM PST

File picture of Democratic Unionist Party party leader Peter Robinson (C) and his wife Iris Robinson (R) in Belfast. Iris Robinson is undergoing intensive psychiatric treatment as her husband's future hangs in the balance, after revelations she had an affair with a lover 40 years her junior(AFP/File/Peter Muhley)AFP - The disgraced politician wife of Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson is undergoing intensive psychiatric treatment as her husband's future hangs in the balance, he said.

Law and music on hold: Josipovic now heads Croatia (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 05:18 PM PST

Croatian presidential candidate Ivo Josipovic of Social Democrats smiles after receiving the first election results at his campaign headquarters in Zagreb, Croatia, Monday Jan. 11, 2010. Election officials say legal scholar and leftist opposition candidate Josipovic has won Croatia's presidency in an election runoff Sunday. (AP Photo/Filip Horvat)AP - For years, Ivo Josipovic was immersed in legal clauses and notes. He will have to put that world on hold now and get onto political pursuits, becoming Croatia's new president.

Croatia: Opposition member wins presidential vote (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 05:09 PM PST

Croatian presidential candidate Ivo Josipovic of Social Democrats gestures, after receiving exit polls results at his campaign headquarters in Zagreb, Croatia, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. An exit poll indicates a legal scholar is leading comfortably in Croatia's presidential election over Zagreb's mayor. (AP Photo/Filip Horvat)AP - Legal scholar and leftist opposition candidate Ivo Josipovic won Croatia's presidential elections, upsetting the capital's popular mayor and confirming the country's pro-Western course.

Social Democrat Josipovic wins Croatian presidency (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 05:07 PM PST

Main Social Democratic Party's presidential candidate Ivo Josipovic addresses journalists and his party members after hearing first preliminary results of the Croatian presidential elections in his headquarters, in capital Zagreb. Josipovic was elected by a wide margin Croatia's third president since the country's independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991, official results showed.(AFP/Hrvoje Polan)AFP - Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic, who pledged to lead Croatia into the European Union and crack down on corruption, was elected president with over 60 percent of the vote, official results showed.

Jurist Josipovic wins Croatia presidential election (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 04:18 PM PST

Ivo Josipovic, presidential candidate of Croatia's Social Democrats, who leads in the exit polls in the second round of presidential elections, greets his supporters at his campaign headquarters in Zagreb January 10, 2010. REUTERS/Nikola SolicReuters - Opposition Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic convincingly won Sunday's Croatian presidential election, promising to help the government's efforts to complete European Union membership talks and join the bloc in 2012.

Families of disappeared accuse Moscow of dirty war (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 03:57 PM PST

This Nov. 12, 2009 photo shows Leila Pliyeva holding photos of her son Aliskhan Pliyev in the city of Nazran in Russia's Ingushetia region. Pliyev was talking on his cell phone with his girlfriend one autumn afternoon when two dozen masked men in uniforms stormed into his family's house, grabbed him and began to hustle him away. He hasn't been seen since. Officials in Ingushetia say they don't know anything about Pliyev's abduction, one of scores in recent months that have caused fresh outrage and grief in a region already scoured by years more than 15 years of armed conflict. (AP Photo/Douglas Birch)AP - Aliskhan Pliyev was talking on his cell phone with his girlfriend one autumn afternoon when two dozen masked men in uniforms stormed into his family's house, grabbed him and began to hustle him away.

Josipovic wins Croatian presidential election (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 03:09 PM PST

Reuters - Opposition Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic scored a resounding victory in Croatia's presidential election on Sunday, pledging to help the government's efforts to complete European Union membership talks this year.

Ding and Fu beaten at Masters (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 02:45 PM PST

China's Ding Junhui and Hong Kong's Marco Fu both suffered crushing first round defeats in the Masters snooker tournament at Wembley here on Sunday. Ding lost 6-1 to Mark Selby, pictured in 2009, and Fu went down 6-2 to former world champion Peter Ebdon.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - China's Ding Junhui and Hong Kong's Marco Fu both suffered crushing first round defeats in the Masters snooker tournament at the Wembley Arena here on Sunday.

Adams takes second world darts title (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 02:40 PM PST

Martin Adams, pictured on January 4, claimed his second world darts title on Sunday as he beat fellow Englishman Dave Chisnall 7-5 in the British Darts Organisation's (BDO) version of the event - Phil Taylor had won his 15th title when he won the PDC last Sunday.(AFP/File/Max Nash)AFP - Martin Adams claimed his second world darts title on Sunday as he beat fellow Englishman Dave Chisnall 7-5 in the British Darts Organisation's (BDO) version of the event - Phil Taylor had won his 15th title when he won the PDC last Sunday.

Spain begins to flood park with peat fire (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 12:49 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2009 file photo, a boat is seen in a wetland gone dry in Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park, in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. The government has begun flooding an environmentally valuable expanse of Spanish wetland that dried up through mismanagement of water resources in a bid to save it from an underground peat fire, it was reported on Sunday Jan. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez, File)AP - Hoping to save a dried Spanish wetland from an underground peat fire, the government has unleashed floodwaters onto an expanse of the marsh now under threat due to past water mismanagement.

Italian mom gives birth to sextuplets, all are OK (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 11:57 AM PST

AP - A southern Italian woman has given birth to sextuplets in the first such case in Italy since 1997.

UK reporter, US Marine killed in Afghan blast (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 11:56 AM PST

This undated photo released Sunday Jan. 10, 2010 by the Sunday Mirror shows the newspapers defense correspondent Rupert Hamer who was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan Saturday Jan. 9, 2010. An explosion in southern Afghanistan killed a British journalist, a U.S. Marine and an Afghan soldier, Britain's military said Sunday. The Sunday Mirror's defense correspondent Rupert Hamer and photographer Philip Coburn were accompanying a U.S. Marine patrol in southern Afghanistan when the vehicle they were traveling in was hit by a makeshift bomb Saturday, the Defense Ministry said. (AP Photo/Sunday Mirror)AP - An explosion outside a village in southern Afghanistan killed a U.S. Marine and a veteran war correspondent who became the first British journalist killed in the conflict, officials said.

Finland's ex-lawmaker, boxer Tony Halme dead at 47 (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 11:35 AM PST

AP - Finnish officials say that former lawmaker and boxer Tony Halme has been found dead in his apartment. He was 47.

Pope denounces Italy immigrant clashes (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 09:47 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing during the Angelus prayer from the window of his study overlooking St. Peter square at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. Benedict XVI denounced riots between immigrants and Italians in southern Italy, saying Sunday that migrants have rights, are to be respected, and are equally loved by God. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - Pope Benedict XVI denounced the riots last week between immigrants and Italians in southern Italy, saying Sunday that migrants have rights, must be respected, and are equally loved by God.

Heavy snow halts planes, trains and cars in Europe (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 09:29 AM PST

A police officer directs a car to exit the motorway A20 to a parking area near Grimmen, northern Germany, after the highway was closed for traffic due to the heavy snowfall and snow banks piled up by gale force winds on Sunday morning, Jan. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Thomas Haentzschel)AP - Europeans were struggling to restore roads and railways Sunday after heavy snow caused hundreds of traffic accidents, halted flights from Germany and France, downed power lines in Poland and trapped more than 160 people overnight on a frozen German highway.

Thousands remember German communist party founders (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 09:11 AM PST

Socialist and communistic Germans and supporters of the former East German Communistic Party surround the 'Memorial For The Socialists' in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010, the memorial day for killed and late socialistic and communistic leaders. The letters at the memorial stone reads 'The Dead Remind Us'. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - Thousands of people held a rally in east Berlin to pay tribute to the founders of the German Communist Party.

4 Basque separatists arrested in Portugal, France (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 08:48 AM PST

Spain's Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba speaks during a news conference in Madrid Sunday Jan. 10. 2010 after four suspected members of Basque separatist group ETA were arrested in Portugal and France. Two ETA suspects were captured in northern Portugal after one was stopped while driving a van loaded with explosives through the northwestern Spanish town of Bermillo de Sayago, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) east of the border with Portugal, regional Interior Ministry spokesman Miguel Angel Vicente told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Paul White)AP - Four suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA were arrested in Portugal and France, one driving a van loaded with explosives near a police barracks, the government said Sunday.

Europe slapping rich with massive traffic fines (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 08:30 AM PST

AP - European countries are increasingly pegging speeding fines to income as a way to punish wealthy scofflaws who would otherwise ignore tickets.

5 militants killed in southern Russia (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 03:50 AM PST

AP - Five Islamic militants have been killed in two separate incidents in the violence-plagued Russian province of Dagestan, officials said Sunday.

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