A 20-year-old Brazilian model who had her hands and feet amputated
due to an infection has died in hospital.

Mariana Bridi da Costa was hospitalized on January 03 with a
urinary tract infection. By the ...   more »

COVER: The Morning After. Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria writes that President Barack Obama will have to quickly start planning for a set of more extraordinary measures to pull the United States out of its ...   more »

NEWSWEEK Cover: I Got It Bad President Obama Needs To Act Quickly and on a Massive Scale To Fix the Economy

"We Have Not Turned the Corner. In Fact, We Can't Even See the Corner ...   more »

In a video posted on an Islamist website, two former Guantanamo inmates say
they have become commanders of al-Qaeda in Yemen.

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Two men released from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp on Cuba have
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Two young New Yorkers claim to have broken the Guinness world record for
spanning New York City's subway system in the the fastest amount of time.

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 23, ...   more »

The BBC has come under mounting pressure to screen a humanitarian
appeal for victims of the war in Gaza, after other UK terrestial broadcasters
announced they will show it.

The BBC said the appeal by ...   more »

Pope Benedict risks offending Jews after rehabilitating a controversial
bishop who has been accused of holocaust denial.

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Pope Benedict's rehabilitation of four traditionalist bishops
may heal one ...   more »