http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Centredaily.com en-us Copyright 2009 Centredaily.com World 60 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:33 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive Workbench support@centredaily.com http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615954.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615954.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:33 EST Swine flu has left 11 people dead in Afghanistan, where hundreds of Afghan and international troops are battling the disease and facing a rising militant insurgency. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615616.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615616.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:28 EST Kraft Foods Inc. has made a 9.8 billion pound ($16.4 billion) cash-and-stock offer for British candy maker Cadbury PLC. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615856.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615856.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:33 EST A handwritten condolence note written by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to the grieving mother of a soldier slain in Afghanistan caused the government fresh embarrassment on Monday. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615847.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615847.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:56 EST A French prosecutor says investigators have found euro9.5 million ($14.25 million) in cash believed stolen from a Lyon branch of France's central bank, a heist that prompted a nationwide search. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615824.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615824.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:41 EST A British nurse who died 30 years ago in Saudi Arabia will finally be cremated after her body was held for decades in a mortuary. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615746.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615746.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:12 EST The Vatican has confirmed that opening its door to married Anglican priests doesn't mean the Roman Catholic church's requirement for celibacy for clergy is changing. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615743.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615743.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:56 EST Nine Uighurs have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that left nearly 200 people dead in July, the first suspects put to death in the unrest, Chinese state media reported Monday. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615734.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615734.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:46 EST French President Nicolas Sarkozy's special envoy began talks Monday with North Korea on establishing diplomatic relations and the international standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear programs. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615728.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615728.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:18 EST The judge should not allow a top Zimbabwean prime minister's aide to argue that evidence against him in his weapons case was obtained through torture, prosecutors said at the start of the trial Monday. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615722.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615722.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:31 EST The Berlin Wall stood for nearly three decades, the most potent symbol of Cold War divisions. Its collapse helped herald the wider collapse of communism across eastern Europe. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615701.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615701.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:11 EST As Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday, more subdued tributes were held to mark the 71st anniversary of the Nazi's Kristallnacht anti-Semitic pogrom. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615664.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615664.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:24 EST Prosecutors on Monday demanded a life sentence for a man who admitted to fatally stabbing a pregnant Egyptian woman in a German court in a case that triggered outrage across the Muslim world. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615660.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615660.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:01 EST When soldiers tried to halt a suspicious-looking SUV that was being escorted through Monterrey by a state policeman, the officer radioed for backup. In minutes, police from 40 patrol cars surrounded the troops, drawing their guns and sending the soldiers diving for cover in an hour-long standoff. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615651.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615651.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:46 EST Iran still wants talks with world powers over fuel supplies to a Tehran nuclear reactor - despite the country's apparent rejection of a U.N. plan to curb Iran's enriched uranium stockpile. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615644.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615644.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:41 EST A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of policemen in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar, killing three people Monday, police said. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615615.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615615.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:06 EST With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's reunification. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615612.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615612.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:36 EST Indian officials clamped down Monday on journalists covering the Dalai Lama's trip to a disputed border area in an apparent effort to minimize tensions with neighboring China. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615574.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615574.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:36 EST Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said Monday. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615573.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615573.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:28 EST North Korean leader Kim Jong Il - known for shunning air travel - has six luxurious trains equipped with reception halls, conference rooms and high-tech communication facilities, a South Korean newspaper reported Monday. http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615569.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1615569.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:26 EST About 350 Taliban prisoners are on a hunger strike at a prison in Kandahar and a delegation from the Ministry of Justice is going to the lockup in southern Afghanistan to investigate their complaints.