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England national soccer team striker Michael Owen arrives for a squad training session for the World Cup at Mittelbergstadion in Buehlertal, Germany, Saturday June 17, 2006. England face Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago and Sweden in their Group B games at the World Cup
Football   Owen   Photos   Soccer   Sport  
 Sky Sports 
Pearce - Door open for Owen
| England U21 boss Stuart Pearce insists it is wrong to suggest Michael Owen's international career is over. | Owen's slim hopes of making this summer's World Cup finals appear to be over after he was... (photo: AP / Matt Dunham)
An Iraqi family returns to their village in Burah, Diyala Province, after being displaced for months by insurgents
Baghdad   Iraq   Mideast   People   Photos  
 IRINnews 
IRAQ: IDPs returning to Diyala Province in increasing numbers
web | Photo: jamesdale10/Flickr BAGHDAD, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - The security situation in Iraq's northeastern province of Diyala is slowly improving and thousands of displaced families have returned to... (photo: IRIN News / jamesdale10)
Mosquito: Aedes sp.  The Examiner 
Mosquitoes love beer drinkers
| Original Honey Brown PRNewsFoto/Dundee Brewing Co | Scientists from France, Canada, and Africa have determined that the primary malaria insect carrier in Africa is more likely to bite people who dri... (photo: Creative Commons / Danny Steaven)
Beer   Diseases   Health   Mosquitoes   Photos  
Barren dried up land - lack of monsoon - drought - India  IRINnews 
SYRIA: Severe food shortages in parched eastern region
web | Photo: UN DAMASCUS, 3 March 2010 (IRIN) - Thousands of people have fled drought-affected eastern Syria and those that remain are struggling to survive on limited food stocks, according to a UN r... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Climate   Drought   Food   Photo   Syria  
Top Stories
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (podium) opens the UN's World Summit on Food Security in Rome, Italy. Mr. Ban discussed various measures to combat the hunger which afflicts one billion people worldwide, from providing food aid to investing in agricultural development. The Daily Telegraph Australia
UN chief Ban Ki-moon calls for calm as 500 Christians slaughtered in Nigeria
| UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Washington led calls for restraint today after the slaughter of more than 500 Christians in Nigeria, as survivors told how the killers chopped ... (photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe)
Christians   Nigeria   Photos   Politics   UN  
Unidentified women react to the sight of dead bodies in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010. Al Jazeera
Nigeria cracks down after attacks
| Nigerian authorities have arrested nearly a hundred people in connection with attacks near the central city of Jos that killed more than 500 people. | Police and soldie... (photo: AP / Jon Gambrell)
Crime   Human Rights   Nigeria   Photos   Violence  
Togo riot police face off supporters of opposition leader Jean-Pierre Fabre protested in Lome, Togo. Tuesday March 9, 2010. The New York Times
Togo Police Seal Off Opposition Headquarters
| LOMÉ, Togo (AP) — Anti-riot police officers on Monday sealed off the alleyways leading to the headquarters of Togo’s largest opposition party, strand... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Election   Fraud   Photos   Police   Togo  
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton China Daily
Clinton calls for restraint in Nigeria
| WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged all the parties in Nigeria to show restraint in response to the killings of some 500 people in... (photo: Creative Commons / US Mission Canada)
Nigeria   People   Photos   Politics   US  
In this image taken from TV showing the bodies of victims of inter-faith violence as a crowd gathers around, in the town of Dogo Nahawa, Nigeria, about three miles (five kilometers) south of the city of Jos, Sunday March 7, 2010. The New York Times
Ethnic Violence in Nigeria Kills 500, Officials Say
| DAKAR, Senegal — Officials and human rights groups in Nigeria said Monday that about 500 people had died in weekend ethnic violence near the central city of Jos, ... (photo: AP / NTA TV)
Nigeria   Photos   Police   Religion   Violence  
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to the media after briefing the General Assembly with Special Envoy for Haiti, William Jefferson Clinton on the current situation in Haiti m&c
Ban calls for restraint in Nigeria's ethnic conflict
| New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on Nigerian factions to exercise 'maximum restraint' as fighting between Muslims and Christians over the we... (photo: UN)
Conflict   Nigeria   Photos   Politics   UN  
Bayern Munich's coach Giovanni Trapattoni gestures , jsa1 Goal
Giovanni Trapattoni: Nigeria? I Prefer Ireland
The Ireland boss admits he would prefer to stay with Ireland... | By Salvatore Landolina | Ireland coach Giovanni Trapattoni has distanced himself from reports linking hi... (photo: AP / Winfried Rotherme)
Ireland   League   Nigeria   Photos   Soccer  
Togo security forces block off three roads leading to Togo's opposition party headquarters in Lome, Togo, Monday March 8, 2010. The Boston Globe
Togo security blocks opposition headquarters
| LOME, Togo-Security forces on Monday blocked off three roads leading to Togo's opposition party headquarters a day after the group had staged protests claiming presiden... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Elections   Photos   Protests   Security   Togo  
The remains of a burnt pharmacy smolder following days of clashes in Jos, Nigeria Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008. Troop reinforcements on foot and in armored personnel carriers appeared Sunday to have quelled two days of ethno-religious violence that left more than 300 people dead in Jos, apparently ending the worst violence in the West African nation since 200 Houston Chronicle
Hundreds slaughtered in Nigeria religious violence
| JOS, Nigeria - Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people including a 4-day-old infant, residents said, less than two months after sectarian violence ... (photo: AP)
Nigeria   Photos   Religion   Rioters   Violence  
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- Task Force on Niger-Delta Destroys Illegal Refineries, Arres
- 2009, Difficult Year for Brewery Industry - NB
- LCCI Advises Employers of Labour on Staff Welfare
- Seme Customs Command Records 372 Seizures in 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (podium) opens the UN's World Summit on Food Security in Rome, Italy. Mr. Ban discussed various measures to combat the hunger which afflicts one billion people worldwide, from providing food aid to investing in agricultural development.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon calls for calm as 500 Christians slaughtered in Nigeria
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A mother comforts her crying child in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010.
Religious leaders must unite to beat Nigeria's extremists
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Media & News Politics
- Religious leaders must unite to beat Nigeria's extremist
- Task Force on Niger-Delta Destroys Illegal Refineries, Arres
- Giboro-Jidda Land Case Bench Warrant Issued
- GAF Hold Training on Humanitarian Law
A mother comforts her crying child in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010.
Religious leaders must unite to beat Nigeria's extremists
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- Religious leaders must unite to beat Nigeria's extremist
- The Surprise Visits by the President Yield
- Nigeria Protesters Demand to See Ailing President
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A mother comforts her crying child in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010.
Religious leaders must unite to beat Nigeria's extremists
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Health Sport
- Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, Top Cleric, Dies at 81
- Nigeria Protesters Demand to See Ailing President
-  Mubarak leaves intensive care after operation
- CIRCB - Scientific Council Reviews Research Strategies
Governor Umaru Yar'Adua, who is a leading presidential candidate, is seen after casting his vote at the venue of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) primary elections in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006. Nigeria's ruling party was voting Saturday to choose its presidential candidate for April elections, with the governor of a northern state emerging a front-runner in a dozen-strong fie
Hundreds protest to demand Nigeria leader appears
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- Nigeria Schedule Friendlies Against North Korea & Paragu
- Mills urges CAF to lift ban on Togo
- Philippe Troussier to lead Ivory Coast at football World Cup
- Ivory Coast appoint Philippe Troussier as manager for World
England national soccer team striker Michael Owen arrives for a squad training session for the World Cup at Mittelbergstadion in Buehlertal, Germany, Saturday June 17, 2006. England face Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago and Sweden in their Group B games at the World Cup
Pearce - Door open for Owen
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