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  • Turkish riot policemen stand guard in front of the Israeli Consulate during an anti-Israeli protest in Istanbul in 2010
    Blast kills 3, wounds 15 in Turkish capital AP - 30 mins ago

    A suspected car bomb went off near a high school in the Turkish capital on Tuesday, igniting other vehicles and killing three people in a nearby building, the interior minister said. The blast also wounded 15 people. More »Blast kills 3, wounds 15 in Turkish capital

    Turkish riot policemen stand guard in front of the Israeli Consulate during an anti-Israeli protest in Istanbul in 2010

    A suspected car bomb went off near a high school in the Turkish capital on Tuesday, igniting other vehicles and killing three people in a nearby building, the interior minister said. The blast also wounded 15 people.

  • An assault rifle is seen on a vehicle at a checkpoint in Wadi Dinar, Libya, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. A push to capture Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte and the mountain enclave of Bani Walid has stalled as well-armed forces loyal to the fugitive leader fight back fiercely with rockets and other heavy weaponry. Libya's new rulers have frequently claimed gains only to find their forces beaten back. Grafitti reads Libya  Feb.17, the date of their revolution. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
    Gadhafi says his regime still alive in Libya AP - 1 hr 44 mins ago

    Moammer Gadhafi says his regime is still alive in Libya and is calling his opponents' takeover of all but a few pockets of the country a charade. More »Gadhafi says his regime still alive in Libya

    An assault rifle is seen on a vehicle at a checkpoint in Wadi Dinar, Libya, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. A push to capture Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte and the mountain enclave of Bani Walid has stalled as well-armed forces loyal to the fugitive leader fight back fiercely with rockets and other heavy weaponry. Libya's new rulers have frequently claimed gains only to find their forces beaten back. Grafitti reads Libya  Feb.17, the date of their revolution. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

    Moammer Gadhafi says his regime is still alive in Libya and is calling his opponents' takeover of all but a few pockets of the country a charade.

  • Palestinians march during a rally to support the Palestinian statehood bid in the United Nations, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. The Palestinians brushed aside heated Israeli objections and a promised U.S. veto Monday, vowing to submit a letter formally requesting full U.N. membership when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the General Assembly. Number 194 represents the Palestinian hope to become 194th member of the UN. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
    China says supports Palestinians' U.N. aspirations Reuters - 2 hrs 33 mins ago

    BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it understood and supported Palestinian aspirations to seek full U.N. membership, but stopped short of saying how it would vote on the matter. More »China says supports Palestinians' U.N. aspirations

    Palestinians march during a rally to support the Palestinian statehood bid in the United Nations, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. The Palestinians brushed aside heated Israeli objections and a promised U.S. veto Monday, vowing to submit a letter formally requesting full U.N. membership when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the General Assembly. Number 194 represents the Palestinian hope to become 194th member of the UN. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

    BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it understood and supported Palestinian aspirations to seek full U.N. membership, but stopped short of saying how it would vote on the matter.

  • President Barack Obama gestures while speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
    FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries? AP - 1 hr 18 mins ago

    President Barack Obama makes it sound as if there are millionaires all over America paying taxes at lower rates than their secretaries. More »FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries?

    President Barack Obama gestures while speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    President Barack Obama makes it sound as if there are millionaires all over America paying taxes at lower rates than their secretaries.

  • Members of Army's engineering wing ascend a landslide following Sunday's 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Phengla town, around 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Gangtok, in Sikkim, India, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. Troops trying to reach survivors are pushing through landslide debris with earthmovers after the Himalayan earthquake that shook northeastern India, Nepal and China. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
    Death toll at 81 for quake in India, Nepal, China AP - 1 hr 58 mins ago

    Thousands of terrified survivors of a Himalayan earthquake that killed 81 people and rattled parts of India, Nepal and China crowded Tuesday into shelters and relatives' homes or stayed out in the open for fear of afters … More »Death toll at 81 for quake in India, Nepal, China

    Members of Army's engineering wing ascend a landslide following Sunday's 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Phengla town, around 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Gangtok, in Sikkim, India, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. Troops trying to reach survivors are pushing through landslide debris with earthmovers after the Himalayan earthquake that shook northeastern India, Nepal and China. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

    Thousands of terrified survivors of a Himalayan earthquake that killed 81 people and rattled parts of India, Nepal and China crowded Tuesday into shelters and relatives' homes or stayed out in the open for fear of aftershocks.

  • 5 key moments to watch atthe U.N. General Assembly The Daily Beast - Sun, Sep 18, 2011
    5 Key Moments to Watch

    As the U.N. General Assembly opens for debate, The Daily Beast has the people—and issues—to watch.

  • TOKYO (Reuters) - More than 1.3 million people were advised to evacuate on Tuesday as typhoon Roke approached Japan, threatening the industrial city of Nagoya with heavy rain and landslides.

  • WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday proposed to end a "direct payment" subsidy that gives $5 billion a year to farmers regardless of need, as part of his larger effort to reduce the federal budget deficit.

  • Germany's tabloid Bild Zeitung has covered their publishers building with a giant reprint of their front page from April 20, 2005 when Pope Benedict XVI was elected and the headline 'We Are Pope'  in Berlin, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. The 45 x 64 meters poster will welcome the pope to his Germany visit from Thursday Sept. 22 until Sunday 25, 2011. (Photo/Markus Schreiber)

    When Benedict XVI arrives in Berlin this week, he will be greeted in his homeland by a Lutheran chancellor, a gay mayor and a divorced, remarried Roman Catholic president.

  • A former White House economics adviser is backing the administration's denial of an assertion that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ignored President Barack Obama's order to consider dissolving Citibank.

  • FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Bombers hit municipal government offices in Ramadi in Iraq's mainly Sunni Muslim Anbar province on Tuesday, killing at least two people and wounding 15 others, a provincial official said.

  • Authorities in Blaine County say an oil rig that exploded near Watonga and forced the evacuation of several homes caused no injuries.

  • This Sept. 13, 2011 photo shows Anthony Guarino Jr., a seismic analyst at the California Institute of Technology, demonstrating an early earthquake warning system in Pasadena, Calif. The U.S. government has been testing an alert system in California that may someday warn residents and businesses that an earthquake has hit. It's still in the test phase and only about 30 scientists have been hand-picked to receive the warnings. The project is headed by the U.S. Geological Survey based on computer code developed by the California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

    Elizabeth Cochran was sitting in her office when her computer suddenly sounded an alarm.

  • Thousands of public school teachers went on strike Tuesday in Madrid to protest staff cuts as anger over government austerity measures spread to Spain's education system.

  • New bird flu outbreak reported in India Reuters - 1 hr 11 mins ago

    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Authorities in eastern India will start culling chickens and destroying eggs to contain a new outbreak of H5 bird flu, the government said in a statement on Tuesday, as a mutant strain of the virus is spreading elsewhere in Asia.

  • This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Die Welt.

  • Venetians in historical dress row down the Grand Canal during a race for youths in Venice

    VENICE (Reuters) - Lidia Fersuoch remembers as a child growing up in Venice's San Samuele neighborhood, there were two butchers, several grocery stores, two bakeries, a sewing goods store and even a cobbler.

  • Is it ever OK to tweet that a girl's a "slut"? How about using an offensive name for gays on Facebook? Or texting a racial slur? Most young people think it's all right when friends are joking around with each other, according to a new poll.

  • In this Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011 research assistant Miao Wang, left, and project manager Tinosh Ganjineh, right, of the Autonomos Labs are pictured inside a car in Berlin, Germany. The car is driven by a computer that steers, starts and stops itself. A 360 degrees laser scanner on top of the car, a GPS system and other sensors monitor the surrounding traffic. A driver sits for security reasons only behind the steering wheel. The Autonomos team is part of the Artificial Intelligence Group of the Free University Berlin. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

    It can talk, see, drive and no longer needs a human being to control it by remote. The car of the future — completely computer-controlled — is on the streets of Berlin.

  • Coffins are stored in a warehouse in Talmaciu, central Romania, on Sept. 16, 2011. Times are so hard in Romania that people joke they cannot afford to die, but in a dark workshop in the mountains of Transylvania, carpenters are churning out cut-price coffins, in a bid to beat the rising costs of death.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

    Times are so hard in Romania that people joke they cannot afford to die. Yet in the mountains of Transylvania, carpenters are churning out cut-price coffins in a bid to beat the rising costs of death.

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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
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Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960), Nods and Becks, 1944
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
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