The UN Security Council draws up a draft resolution would send 300 monitors to Syria, after divisions remain among member states over the details.

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The lab-engineered H5N1 bird flu virus whose recipe the U.S. government doesn’t want published may be less lethal than originally reported. But that fact, revealed at a scientific conference in Washington in the past week, isn’t likely to change many people’s minds about whether details about the bug should be kept secret or made public. Read full article > >

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Apparently much of Hollywood didn’t get the memo about the fit and the details when it comes to men’s evening wear.

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On the Runway Blog: Oscars Tuxedo Report Card

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced the details of 4,000 job losses on Wednesday at plants in Hungary, Mexico and Finland.

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LISBON, Portugal — Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy in 2003 after she took her African islands music to stages across the world, died Saturday. She was 70. Evora, known as the “Barefoot Diva” because she always performed without shoes, died in the Baptista de Sousa Hospital in Mindelo, on her native island of Sao Vicente in Cape Verde, her label Lusafrica said in a statement on its website. It gave no further details. Read full article > >

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BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel was on her way to Paris Monday morning to plan a critical week for the future of the euro currency with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Over lunch, the two leaders are expected to hammer out the details of the treaty changes that will push European countries to run their economies more like Germany does. Merkel has hinted that such changes are Germany’s condition for any stepped-up effort to save the euro. Read full article > >

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Merkel opposed to speedy fixes; critics say Europe needs a breakthrough

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders are ironing out the details of a plan that could bring the Legislature back to the capital next week.

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The Hermanator is now the hunted. Herman Cain, the long-shot Republican presidential candidate turned frontrunner, has done just about everything wrong since news broke Sunday night that his former employer had paid two women to settle sexual harassment complaints against him. Cain denied it. He said the women didn’t understand his humor . He said his accusers fabricated the charges. He said he couldn’t remember the details, then suddenly he could . He said he had no knowledge of the settlement, then suddenly recalled some details, which turned out to be vastly understated. He publicly predicted more allegations would surface. He blamed his opponents, he howled about racism, and he accused the media and the entire city of Washington of trying to do him in. Read full article > >

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Leaders hope to announce on Sunday the details of a bank recapitalization package and the outline of a plan to strengthen the overall euro rescue fund.

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European Finance Ministers Near Deal on Aid to Banks

SHANGHAI — A staff member slashed children with a knife at a daycare center for migrant workers in eastern China on Monday, wounding eight children, one seriously. The attack took place at noon at an informal daycare center in Shanghai’s suburban Minhang district, home to many migrant workers. The female attacker was taken into custody and police were investigating, said Zhuang Liqiang, an officer in the information services department of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau. He did not provide further details. Read full article > >

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NEW DELHI — A prominent anti-corruption activist who had announced plans to go on an indefinite hunger strike to demand tougher anti-corruption laws was detained early Tuesday morning, police said. Anna Hazare had said that he would start fasting Tuesday and would gather along with supporters in a public park in New Delhi despite police denying him permission to do so. Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said Hazare was detained early Tuesday. He gave no other details. Read full article > >

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Indian police detain activist ahead of hunger strike to demand tough anti-graft laws

MILFORD, N.H. — Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty said Thursday that, as president, he would sign a highly contentious Republican plan to overhaul Medicare — but only if no other proposals made it out of Congress. Pawlenty, who officially kicked off his presidential campaign on Monday and has been touring the nation with stops in Iowa, Florida, Washington and New Hampshire, went further than he has in previous appearances in which he has praised the “courage” and “leadership” of U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the author of the Medicare proposal. But he stopped short of supporting the details of the plan. Read full article > >

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Google said Tuesday that the Justice Department is investigating its advertising practices and that Google may have to pay $500 million, but did not disclose further details.

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It looks like not everybody has been relishing the details from the Situation Room. The Fort Sill Apache Tribe asked for an apology Thursday from President Obama for using “Geronimo” as a code name for Osama bin Laden. “Right now Native American…

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