Life Magazine captures 100 of the most iconic moments of our time.

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of our time.

Tracing the cultural history of this ...   more »

Celebrated Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa says Venezuelan leader Hugo
Chavez wants to "eternalize" his power and could fast-track the
country into a dictatorship.

CARACAS, VENEZUELA (DECEMBER 08, 2008) REUTERS -
Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas ...   more »

Athens turns into ghost town as rioters and police battle it out on the
streets and the city's Law school is set alight.

ATHENS, GREECE (DECEMBER 8 2008) REUTERS-
Athens University's Law School was in ...   more »

A military jet crashes in a California neighbourhood igniting at least one
home.

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (DECEMBER 8, 2008) NBC -
A military F-18 jet crashed on Monday (December 8) into a California
...   more »

The accused architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United
States wants to plead guilty.

GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA (DECEMBER 08, 2008)
The accused architect of the September 11 attacks and four
co-defendants advised ...   more »

UK's Stansted airport reopens after environmental activists briefly stop
flights. Police say they have arrested 39 protesters, many of whom had chained
themselves to fencing they carried on to the runway.

STANSTED, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM ...   more »

Relatives and supporters lay flowers and cry over Saddam Hussein's tomb in
his home village on the second anniversary of his execution and the first day
of Eid al-Adha.

AWJA VILLAGE, IRAQ (DECEMBER 8, 2008) ...   more »

Hundreds of Muslim graves are defaced at a World War I cemetery in northern
France.


NOTRE-DAME-DE-LORETTE, FRANCE (DECEMBER 8, 2008) i-TELEVISION -
Hundreds of tombstones in the Muslim part of a French military
cemetery were ...   more »

Interview with Ange-Felix Patasse, former President of the Central African
Republic who was overthrown in a 2003 coup and who now lives in Togo.

LOME, TOGO (RECENT) REUTERS -

It has been five years since ...   more »

One of the suspected planners of last month's attack by gunmen in Mumbai is
arrested by Pakistani security forces in a raid on a militant camp near
Muzaffarabad, sources in the capital of Pakistani Kashmir ...   more »

Some 30 demonstrators occupy Greek consulate in Germany's capital Berlin to
protest against the fatal shooting of a teenage boy by police in Athens at the
weekend.

BERLIN, GERMANY (DECEMBER 08, 2008) REUTERS -
Around ...   more »

Iran will never halt its nuclear work and expects the United States to
change its "failed" carrot and stick approach to solving the atomic
row with Tehran, Iran's Foreign Ministry says.

TEHRAN, IRAN (DECEMBER 08, ...   more »

Thousands of Muslim worshippers gather after dawn at Egypt's oldest mosque
for morning prayers on Eid al-Adha.

CAIRO, EGYPT (DECEMBER 8, 2008) REUTERS -
Egyptians held morning prayers at Egypt's oldest mosque on Monday
(December ...   more »

Peruvians set new world record for world's largest ceviche, a seafood
appetizer.

CALLAO, PERU (DECEMBER 7, 2008) REUTERS -
Peruvian chefs, elbow deep in almost seven tonnes of diced fish,
onions and lime, on Sunday ...   more »

Some of the families of those killed on September 11, 2001 arrive in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to see the man accused of masterminding the attacks.

GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA (DECEMBER 7, 2008)
Some of the family ...   more »

As Greece braces itself for another wave of protests, residents in Athens
say they are outraged but also afraid, as the clean up operation continues
across the city.

ATHENS, GREECE (DECEMBER 8, 2008) REUTERS -
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