The discovery was as shocking as it was horrific: a camera with explicit photos of a child who attended Washington National Cathedral’s exclusive Beauvoir elementary school, which caters to some of the area’s most powerful families. Read full article > >

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HMS Dauntless, one of the UK’s largest and most powerful air defence destroyers, has set sail for the Falkland Islands.

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I t’s easy to frame the fight over SOPA and PIPA as Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley — two huge industries clashing over whose voice should dictate the future of Internet policy — but it’s absolutely wrong. The bills are dead , thanks to widespread protest. But the real architects of the bills’ defeat don’t have a catchy label or a recognized lobbying group. They don’t have the glamour or the deep pockets of the studios. Yet they are the largest, most powerful and most important voice in the debate — and, until recently, they’ve been all but invisible to Congress. Read full article > >

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We are the media, and so are you

BEIJING — In the days after Kim Jong Il’s death, China’s most powerful leaders hurried to the North Korean Embassy in Beijing, where they fanned across the embassy’s parquet floor and bowed three times to Kim’s portrait. One Chinese state councilor was “hardly” able to keep back tears , North Korea’s state-run news agency later said. Read full article > >

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Prosecutors, says Angela Davis, former head of the D.C. public defenders office, “are the most powerful officials in our criminal justice system.” Davis, a professor at American University’s Washington College of Law, explains: “They decide whether a person’s going to be charged, what to charge them with, whether there’s going to be a plea bargain and what the plea bargain will be. As they make those decisions, they exercise almost boundless discretion.” Read full article > >

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Supreme Court to take another look at prosecutorial misconduct

Prince Sultan was the heir apparent to the Saudi throne and one of the kingdom’s most powerful princes.

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Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz of Saudi Arabia Dies

Astronomers in Chile have been building the world’s most powerful telescope high up in the Atacama desert.

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One of the world’s most powerful “atom smashers”, at the leading edge of scientific discovery for two decades, is about to shut down.

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Key US particle machine to shut

The structure of the enzyme which breaks down some of medicine’s most powerful antibiotics has been determined by UK researchers.

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Superbug enzyme ‘photofit’ taken

WILMINGTON, N.C. — People stocked up on food, boarded windows and gassed up their cars Tuesday as Hurricane Irene threatened to become the most powerful storm to hit the East Coast in seven years. Water, bread and batteries disappeared from store shelves. Lines formed at the pump. From Florida to Maine, residents were told to brace for flash flooding and power outages. Hundreds of miles south, Irene swirled through the Caribbean, giving a glimpse of what was to come. Homes were inundated with water, residents took refuge in schools and churches, and more than a million people were without electricity. One woman was killed in Puerto Rico. Read full article > >

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Yemen’s president and the country’s most powerful tribal leader have agreed a ceasefire after five days of fighting in the capital Sanaa, a mediator says.

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Yemen forces agree on ceasefire

Security forces battled in the streets of the Yemeni capital with fighters from the country’s most powerful tribe, which has joined the opposition.

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President Obama and Europe were bound together during his first two years in office by the global economic downturn and the collective effort to resolve it. But the dominant themes of the president’s European tour, set to begin Monday, highlight how much the world has changed over that time. As he enters the second half of his term, security issues, in South Asia and the broader Middle East, have replaced the economy as the chief shared interests of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful allies. Read full article > >

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A House panel plans Wednesday to prohibit any increase in health-care premiums for working-age military retirees, thwarting — again — a push by the Pentagon to hold down costs by raising fees as soon as Oct. 1. But the long debate over the military health program known as Tricare is likely to continue for months as Congress wrangles over whether to risk offending one of Washington’s most powerful constituencies to address the military’s exploding health costs. The personnel panel of the Armed Services Committee also plans to approve a 1.6 percent raise for service members that would take effect Jan. 1, the same increase in the Obama administration’s defense budget for next year. Read full article > >

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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh clung to power by a thread after country’s most powerful military commander threw his support behind protesters and opposition groups seeking Saleh’s ouster and defections mounted.

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Yemen’s leader battens down the hatches as defections mount