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• Summary Box: France's Sarkozy lays out G-20 aims (AP)
• Guinness Records drops elephant polo statistics (AFP)
• Bombing at Moscow airport called terrorist attack (AP)
• Ireland gears up for February poll after parties strike deal (AFP)
• Spain to allow partial takeover of troubled lenders (AFP)
• Sky Sports pundits red carded in sexism row (AFP)
• Facebook agrees German privacy-protection deal: official (AFP)
• Chelsea destroy Bolton in rare away win (AFP)
• UN chief criticized as soft on human rights (AP)
• Subtlety in the spotlight at Dior in Paris (AP)
• AP Interview: IAEA head seeks openness from Iran (AP)
• Irish lawmakers agree deal for February election (AP)
• At Davos, a litany of problems raise their head (AP)
• A timeline of major terror attacks in Russia (AP)
• Turkey president lays into Israel flotilla inquiry (AP)
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• Italy's top bishop slams Berlusconi for scandal (AP)
• London-bound flight diverted after threat (AP)
• German doctors: No sodium thiopental to US (AP)
• Rights group says democracies ignore abuses (AP)

Summary Box: France's Sarkozy lays out G-20 aims (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 03:55 PM PST AP - THE NEWS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy laid out his 2011 agenda Monday as France takes up the presidency of the Group of 20. In a wide-ranging press conference, Sarkozy spoke of terrorism, governmental upheaval in Ivory Coast, Lebanon and Tunisia, and other topics.

Guinness Records drops elephant polo statistics (AFP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 03:50 PM PST AFP - Guinness World Records said Monday it had decided to remove all references to elephant polo, following complaints from animal-rights campaigners.

Bombing at Moscow airport called terrorist attack (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 03:40 PM PST AP - Terrorists struck again in the heart of Russia, with a suicide bomber blowing himself up Monday in Moscow's busiest airport and turning its international arrivals terminal into a smoky, blood-spattered hall of dismembered bodies, screaming survivors and abandoned suitcases. At least 35 people were killed, including two British travelers.

Ireland gears up for February poll after parties strike deal (AFP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 03:40 PM PST AFP - Ireland looked set to go to the polls in late February after its crisis-hit government Monday struck a deal with the opposition to fast-track legislation needed to secure an EU-IMF bailout.

Spain to allow partial takeover of troubled lenders (AFP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:54 PM PST AFP - Spain will change regulations to allow the partial takeover of its weakest lenders and require all banks to bolster the amount of capital they hold to shore up confidence in its financial system, Economy Minister Elena Salgado said Monday.

Sky Sports pundits red carded in sexism row (AFP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:53 PM PST AFP - A pair of television football pundits caught up in a sexism row have been dropped from covering Monday's Premier League game between Bolton and Chelsea.

Facebook agrees German privacy-protection deal: official (AFP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:43 PM PST AFP - Under pressure from German privacy watchdogs, Facebook has agreed to beef up privacy protections in its Friend Finder feature, the data protection supervisor in Hamburg said Monday.

Chelsea destroy Bolton in rare away win (AFP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:15 PM PST AFP - Didier Drogba, Florent Malouda, Nicolas Anelka and Ramires were all on target as Chelsea ended their miserable run of away form with a 4-0 victory at Bolton here on Monday to keep alive their dim hopes of the Premier League title.

UN chief criticized as soft on human rights (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:14 PM PST AP - Human Rights Watch singled out U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for especially harsh criticism Monday as it took world leaders to task for what it called their failure to be tougher on rights offenders.

Subtlety in the spotlight at Dior in Paris (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:08 PM PST AP - Paris' rarified haute couture collections are a chance for fashion houses to pull out all the stops and showcase the savoir faire of the traditional craftspeople, from embroiders to seamstresses, who handcraft the wildly expensive made-to-measure garments.

AP Interview: IAEA head seeks openness from Iran (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 01:58 PM PST AP - The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday his organization cannot be sure that Iran is not secretly working on nuclear arms, in comments reflecting disappointment with the collapse of talks between Tehran and six world powers.

Irish lawmakers agree deal for February election (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 01:11 PM PST AP - Ireland's government and opposition chiefs reached an agreement Monday that will allow lawmakers to rush a critical tax-raising bill through parliament so that Ireland's government can be dissolved next week for a national election in late February.

At Davos, a litany of problems raise their head (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 12:19 PM PST AP - The annual World Economic Forum opens this week under a cloud of economic worries, concern over China's growing influence in politics and business, and simmering anxieties over Europe's debt crisis.

A timeline of major terror attacks in Russia (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 11:57 AM PST AP - Major terror attacks in Russia over the past 15 years:

Turkey president lays into Israel flotilla inquiry (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 10:44 AM PST AP - Turkey's president on Monday lambasted an Israeli inquiry that cleared its military and government of any wrongdoing in a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound international flotilla as having "no value or credibility."

(AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:19 AM PST AP - Russian investigators say suicide bomber most likely carried out attack on Moscow airport.

Italy's top bishop slams Berlusconi for scandal (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 08:48 AM PST AP - Italy's top bishop has issued scathing criticism of Premier Silvio Berlusconi over his sex scandal by insisting that public officials must control themselves and warning of the damage being done to Italians and their reputation.

London-bound flight diverted after threat (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:47 AM PST AP - British authorities say a Heathrow Airport-bound flight from Abu Dhabi was diverted and given a fighter escort after a passenger began making threats.

German doctors: No sodium thiopental to US (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:40 AM PST AP - Germany's leading medical association called Monday on the nation's pharmaceutical companies to refrain from selling a drug used in lethal injections to the United States.

Rights group says democracies ignore abuses (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:03 AM PST AP - Democracies around the world are ignoring abuses by repressive regimes and opting for improved relations rather than condemning rights violations and curtailing aid, Human Rights Watch said Monday.

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