#1 — BBC | Obama ‘not cutting’ Afghan troops
US President Barack Obama has said his review of Afghan strategy will not look at pulling out or cutting troop levels.
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#2 — BBC | UN appeal over Philippine floods
The UN has appealed for $74m (£47m) to help flood victims in the Philippines.
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#3 — CNN | Scientists discover massive ring around Saturn
(CNN) — Scientists at NASA have discovered a nearly invisible ring around Saturn — one so large that it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it.
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#4 — Fox | La. Escalates ACORN Probe After Embezzlement
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana’s attorney general said Tuesday he has stepped up an investigation into embezzlement at ACORN nearly a decade ago, but the prosecutor and community activist group clashed over how much money was taken.
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#5 — NY Times | City of 8 Million Was a Ghost Town at the Polls
In the 97th Election District of the 79th Assembly District in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, the polls opened last Tuesday at 6 a.m. They remained open until 9 p.m. Not one of the district’s 58 enrolled Democrats turned out to vote for public advocate or comptroller in two citywide primary runoff races that are considered tantamount to election.
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#6 — DM | Thugs attack two transvestites
Two thugs who attacked what they thought were a pair of transvestites picked on the wrong men – when their intended victims turned out to be cage fighters on a night out in fancy dress.
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Notes: Don’t miss the video with this article — hillarious.
#7 — Times | Annabel Shaw, 15, tells Gordon Brown: I want you to apologise
A 15-year-old girl received a rapturous response at the conference yesterday when she demanded an apology from the Prime Minister over his “mismanagement of the economy”.
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#8 — Times | Wives’ open letter to Vladimir Putin to free Arctic Sea crew
The families of four Russian sailors at the centre of an arms-smuggling mystery have appealed to Vladimir Putin to free them, more than 50 days after their ship was allegedly rescued from pirates.
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#9 — Telegraph | Webcam wife in Philippines ‘solves crime in Oklahoma’
Police say three people who robbed a man’s Oklahoma flat were caught by his wife in the Philippines, who saw them on the webcam the couple communicate with while apart.
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#10 — Telegraph | EU puts pressure on Czech Republic over Lisbon Treaty signing
In a meeting in Brussels the EU is putting pressure on the Czech Republic over the refusal by the country’s president to sign the Lisbon Treaty.
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Re City of 8 Million Was a Ghost Town at the Polls: Typical politicians….. “</i>Both runoff winners discounted the notion that the low turnout undermined their legitimacy.</i>”