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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (L) sits next to Deputy ...
Feb 24th, 2012
(Reuters) - Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (L) sits next to Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard at Parliament House in Canberra in this May 11 2010 file photo. Australia's former foreign minister Rudd on February 24, 2012 confirmed he would challenge Prime Minister Gillard for her job by contesting a leadership ballot set for Monday. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz/Files (AUSTRALIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS PROFILE) -
By Nick Mulvenney SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia batsman David Warner has been fined A$5,750 for his Twitter outburst against two journalists, the maximum financial penalty for a first offence, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Wednesday. The 26-year-old, who was playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) when he tweeted the insults, faced a disciplinar... [Full Article]
By Maria Golovnina and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting of his intelligence chiefs on Thursday after two Islamists hacked a soldier to death with meat cleavers on a south London street. A dramatic clip filmed by an onlooker just minutes after Wednesday's killing showed a man with h... [Full Article]
By Greg Gilman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Kevin Smith is criticizing an article published in the LA Times on Thursday for reporting opinions about his career and internet activity as fact. Through a series of tweets, the "Clerks" director offered corrections to Matthew Fleischer's article titled "Can Hollywood's star machi... [Full Article]
ISLAMABAD (AP) - China's premier began a two-day visit to Pakistan on Wednesday by praising the relationship between the two Asian powers in glowing terms. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece's deep, six-year recession is likely to end in 2014, but growth will be weak and unemployment will remain above 20 percent for another three years, the country's international debt inspectors said. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Gunmen on Saturday abducted the elderly father of Syria's deputy foreign minister, his office and a Lebanese TV station said. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]