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Berlin's star polar bear Knut turns 2
BERLIN -- Celebrity polar bear Knut turned two on Friday, serenaded by fans at the Berlin zoo as he demolished a birthday treat of fish and vegetables. (Updated 7:57 a.m. PT)
Denmark's Kabul embassy moved for security reasons
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- The Danish Embassy in Afghanistan's capital has temporarily been relocated to an undisclosed location in Kabul for security reasons. (Updated 7:34 a.m. PT)
Georgian defense, foreign ministers fired
TBILISI, Georgia -- Georgia's prime minister has announced the dismissal of the defense minister and foreign affairs minister. (Updated 7:17 a.m. PT)
Danish navy sinks suspected pirate boat
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- The Danish navy says it has intercepted and sunk a suspected pirate vessel drifting off Somalia. (Updated 7:03 a.m. PT)
Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Alexy II dies
MOSCOW -- Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II, who presided over a vast post-Soviet revival of faith but struggled against the influence of other churches, died Friday at age 79 (Updated 6:49 a.m. PT)
Afghan, Pakistani leaders meet in Turkey
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- The leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan met Friday for Turkish-sponsored talks aimed at reducing tensions over militant attacks along the countries' lawless border. (Updated 6:44 a.m. PT)
Robbers in drag get euro80M in Paris jewelry theft
PARIS -- Armed robbers - some dressed in drag - made off with euro80 million ($100 million) in loot from a lightning-fast jewelry store theft in central Paris, in what police Friday called one of France's costliest jewel heists. (Updated 6:17 a.m. PT)
American jailed for crash, drove on right
LONDON -- An American who killed three people in a head-on collision after driving on the wrong side of the road in Britain was jailed for 20 months Friday. (Updated 5:57 a.m. PT)
Top Romanian anti-communist dissident dies
BUCHAREST, Romania -- Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, once jailed as a Romanian communist-era "enemy of the state," died Friday after years of fighting to reveal details of the country's troubled past, the prime minister said. He was 80. (Updated 5:30 a.m. PT)
Red stars on Russian combat planes turn multicolor
MOSCOW -- After more than 90 years, the Russian stars will no longer be all red. They'll be red, white and blue. (Updated 5:21 a.m. PT)
Additional headlines:
- Amsterdam fights marijuana crackdown
- Russian warships head to Atlantic, Mediterranean
- Russian reporter's suspected killer linked to FSB
- US: Russia must allow monitors into South Ossetia
 | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2008 |
- New JK Rowling book goes on sale around the world
- European court makes landmark ruling on DNA rights
- Putin makes crude outburst about Georgian leader
- UN says poor nations need $130B for climate change
- Flood washes away some qualms over barrier project
- Testimony doesn't link US soldier to 4 dead Iraqis
- OSCE gives cool response on Russian security pact
- Germany: Anti-Hitler plotter land claim rejected
- European court makes landmark ruling on DNA rights
- Putin: no need for Cuban, Venezuelan bases
- Serb police search home of Mladic's son
- 93 countries sign cluster bomb ban
- British mother found guilty in kidnap of daughter
- Murder case dropped in Dutch woman's late abortion
- Russia's leaders optimistic about ties with US
- Court rules EU illegally froze Iran group's funds
- Putin hosts live Q&A broadcast
| WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008 |
- Russia to send warship through Panama Canal
- Doctors' panel won't rule on 'miracles' at Lourdes
- Human noise drowns out song of whales
- French aid worker freed in Afghanistan
- German priest finds live baby laid in manger
- Obama's election brings hope to climate talks
- Spain: Businessman is shot, killed in ETA attack
- Brown's brief agenda stokes 2009 election talk
- Police had no warrant in lawmaker search
- Killer of medalists' wife convicted
- No sign of hard times as Queen opens Parliament
- NATO backs US missile shield over Russian protest
- Gas explosion leaves 28 injured in Spain
- Italian judge suspends trial of CIA agents
- Italian suspects discussed making firecracker bomb
- Pope says banks should support weakest
- NATO: Albania and Croatia to join by April
- Conjoined twin dies after separation surgery
- Deadline for global climate treaty in question
| TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2008 |
- Talks to form coalition government in Romania
- Medvedev calls for transparency in Russian courts
- Italian police arrest 9 in jewelry robbery
- US army deserter applies for asylum in Germany
- Muslim cleric ordered back to jail in Britain
- High tide wallops Venice for 2nd straight day
- EU official warns of 'slave-like' labor market
- US official: India attack may have Pakistani roots
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