Thousands of homes and businesses in England are without electricity after gales and ice brought down power lines.

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TEHRAN — Iran displayed an aircraft Thursday that it said was a U.S. spy drone brought down last week by an “electronic ambush,” a feat that prompted boasts of Iranian technological prowess in the face of increased hostility from the West. Iranian state television used its main newscast to unveil the drone , identified as a stealth RQ-170 Sentinel made by Lockheed Martin. The drone was shown in a video at an undisclosed location where two men in military fatigues could be seen walking around it. The belly of the plane was covered with banners saying, “We’ll trample America underfoot” and “The U.S. cannot do a damn thing.” Read full article > >

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Iran displays plane identified as downed U.S. spy drone

The hacker group Lulz Security claims it temporarily brought down the public-facing website of the US Central Intelligence Agency.

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LulzSec ‘takes down’ CIA website

French warplanes shot down a Libyan plane on Thursday, the first one to be brought down since the no-fly zone began. A U.S. official says it was a Libyan G-2/Galeb, a trainer aircraft, and that it may have been attempting to land when it was shot by a…

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French Jets Hit Libyan Plane

A suicide bomber blew up his booby-tapped car early Monday outside an Iraqi army battalion headquarters in the country’s east, killing 10 soldiers and wounding 29 people in a bombing that brought down the building.

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Suicide Bomber Kills 10 Soldiers at Iraq Army Post

The foreign secretary will use his trip to Tunisia – where protests brought down the previous government – to pledge UK support for change.

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Hague on ‘reform tour’ in Tunisia

The online group Anonymous said it brought down the sites of the Ministry of Information and President Hosni Mubarak’s National Democratic Party in support of the antigovernment protests.

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Hackers Shut Down Government Sites

Out-going California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told Jay Leno Monday night that it was the wording that brought down Prop 19, not the idea. The Tonight Show crowd cheered when Leno then mentioned a new California law that reduces the punishment for…

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A freak hailstorm in Reda in north-western Poland brought down fist-sized hailstones which damaged property and cars.

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Freak hailstorm hits Poland