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• Girl talk ruled offside by TV chiefs (AFP)
• EU must decide new euro measures urgently: Rehn (Reuters)
• Irish parties meet to fast-forward election (Reuters)
• France's Sarkozy to lay out ambitious G20 goals (Reuters)
• Portugal picks conservative president, shuns gov't (AP)
• President of crisis-hit Portugal re-elected (Reuters)
• Paris menswear ends with dinner party from hell (AP)
• Thousands march against Belgian political impasse (AFP)
• Thousands march at Belgian unity rally (AP)
• Irish PM loses tiny but pivotal piece of coalition (AP)
• AP Enterprise: Fraud plagues global health fund (AP)
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• Albania forms commission to probe violent protest (AP)
• China's new stealth fighter may use US technology (AP)
• Russians voting on whether to bury Vladimir Lenin (AP)
• WikiLeaks: 1 percent of diplomatic docs published (AP)
• British soldiers train in mock Afghan village (AP)

Girl talk ruled offside by TV chiefs (AFP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 04:29 PM PST AFP - A pair of television football pundits were caught offside when they made "unacceptable remarks" off-air about a woman assistant referee officiating in a Premier League clash.

EU must decide new euro measures urgently: Rehn (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 04:09 PM PST Reuters - European governments must urgently decide on common measures to protect the stability of the euro zone, EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn told a German newspaper Monday.

Irish parties meet to fast-forward election (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 03:57 PM PST Reuters - Ireland's main political parties will meet on Monday to work out how to speed up parliamentary approval of key financial legislation, whose passage could bring forward an election to February.

France's Sarkozy to lay out ambitious G20 goals (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 03:15 PM PST Reuters - President Nicolas Sarkozy will spell out his plans for reforming the international monetary system and curbing volatility in food and fuel prices on Monday in a keynote speech on France's year-long G20 presidency.

Portugal picks conservative president, shuns gov't (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 03:04 PM PST AP - Portugal elected its conservative president to a second term Sunday, delivering a harsh political setback to the minority Socialist government which is struggling to contain an acute economic crisis.

President of crisis-hit Portugal re-elected (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 02:59 PM PST Reuters - Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva won a second term in an election on Sunday, promising to work for political stability as the government fights to avoid an international bailout.

Paris menswear ends with dinner party from hell (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 02:51 PM PST AP - The City of Light's five-day-long fall-winter 2011-2012 menswear displays wrapped up Sunday with hard-edged romance at Lanvin, hills alive with the sound of Austrian music at Yves Saint Laurent and the dinner party from hell, hosted by New York Based designer Thom Browne.

Thousands march against Belgian political impasse (AFP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 02:26 PM PST AFP - Thousands of Belgians staged a march of "Shame" in the capital Sunday to demand a government after a seven-month impasse between Dutch and French-speaking politicians, a European record.

Thousands march at Belgian unity rally (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 02:18 PM PST AP - Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the Belgian capital Sunday in support of national unity and to demand that the rival political groupings finally form a coalition after seven months without a government.

Irish PM loses tiny but pivotal piece of coalition (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 02:06 PM PST AP - Ireland's deeply unpopular prime minister suffered another blow Sunday as the small but pivotal Green Party withdrew from his coalition government, forcing a national election to be held next month rather than March and raising pressure on the premier to quit.

AP Enterprise: Fraud plagues global health fund (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 01:54 PM PST AP - A $21.7 billion development fund backed by celebrities and hailed as an alternative to the bureaucracy of the United Nations sees as much as two-thirds of some grants eaten up by corruption, The Associated Press has learned.

(AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 01:40 PM PST AP - Official figures show Portugal has re-elected its conservative president

Albania forms commission to probe violent protest (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 01:31 PM PST AP - Albania's parliament held a special session late Sunday to launch an investigation into an opposition protest that the governing Democratic Party has called an attempted coup.

China's new stealth fighter may use US technology (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 09:15 AM PST AP - Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself.

Russians voting on whether to bury Vladimir Lenin (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 08:25 AM PST AP - A new poll sponsored by the pro-Kremlin party is asking Russians to vote on whether it's time to bury Vladimir Lenin.

WikiLeaks: 1 percent of diplomatic docs published (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 07:52 AM PST AP - Nearly two months after WikiLeaks outraged the U.S. government by launching the release of a massive compendium of diplomatic documents, the secret-spilling website has published 2,658 U.S. State Department cables — just over 1 percent of its trove of 251,287 documents.

British soldiers train in mock Afghan village (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 03:25 AM PST AP - Deep in the countryside of eastern England, British troops train in a mock Afghan village designed to look, feel, and sound like the real thing.

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