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  1. A handout photograph released in London November 24, 2009, shows the damage sustained by Bridgewater House in London during World War Two German air raids in 1941. Paul Delaroche's "Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers", was hanging in the dining room at the time and sustained extensive shrapnel damage. REUTERS/The Times/Handout
    Delaroche work "ruined" in war rescued for show Reuters - Tue Nov 24, 10:58 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A major work by French painter Paul Delaroche thought to have been virtually destroyed during a World War Two German air raid on London in 1941 has been unrolled and found to be in good condition.

  2. New York rally planned to protest 9/11 trial Reuters - Tue Nov 24, 6:18 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group against bringing the self-professed mastermind of the September 11 attacks to trial in a U.S. civilian court will hold a rally in New York demanding Washington reconsider its decision, the group said on Tuesday.

  3. No longer Top Secret: RAF wartime aerial photos Reuters - Mon Nov 23, 9:55 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Aerial photographs of prisoners in high security Colditz and POWs who worked on the infamous bridge over the River Kwai are among images now available to view online for the first time.

  4. A couple local residents sip coconut water at Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio's mayor Eduardo Paes evaluates to ban the sale of coconuts in Rio's beaches because of the large amounts of garbage left by the consumers.(AFP/Antonio Scorza)
    Rio does away with coconuts on beaches AFP - Tue Nov 24, 3:42 PM ET

    RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - One of the enduring images of Rio's beaches -- coconuts opened to yield their sweet water -- is about to be a thing of the past under a new clean-up campaign by authorities.

  5. A nurse gives a shot of the H1N1 vaccine to a girl at the Utah County Health Department in October 2009 in Provo, Utah. Young children need two shots, US clinical trials have shown.(AFP/Getty Images/File/George Frey)
    No Luck Finding an H1N1 Flu Shot? You're Not Alone U.S. News & World Report - Mon Nov 9, 8:56 AM ET

    If you've been frustrated in trying to get your kids vaccinated against H1N1 flu, you're not alone: Two thirds of parents who have sought vaccine for their children have failed to find it, according to a Harvard School of Public Health survey out today. That's no small deal, because 41 percent of the parents polled said they have tried to get their children vaccinated against swine flu. Hearing that big Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs and Citigroup got H1N1 vaccine doesn't do much to reassure worried parents that the system is directing vaccine to the kids who need it the most. ...

  6. Netanyahu says Hamas prisoner deal may not happen Reuters - Tue Nov 24, 12:45 PM ET

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli prisoner exchange with Hamas has not yet been agreed and may not happen, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, after a senior cabinet colleague predicted a breakthrough within weeks.

  7. Big powers draft resolution to press Iran at IAEA Reuters - Tue Nov 24, 1:48 PM ET

    VIENNA (Reuters) - Six world powers have drafted a resolution at the UN nuclear watchdog urging Iran to clarify the purpose of its previously secret uranium enrichment site and confirm it has no more hidden atomic work, diplomats said.

  8. Pedestrians carry shopping bags in San Francisco, California in October. US economic growth in the third quarter has been revised down to 2.8 percent, the Commerce Department said, cutting its earlier estimate of a 3.5 percent pace of expansion.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)
    US third quarter growth revised down to 2.8 percent AFP - Tue Nov 24, 3:19 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US economic rebound in the third quarter was weaker than initially estimated, the Commerce Department said Tuesday in cutting its estimate to a 2.8 percent annual pace of expansion.

  9. A protestor wearing a Tony Blair mask covers his hands with fake blood as he demonstrates outside the venue for the public inquiry into the Iraq war. The first full-scale inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war opened Tuesday with testimony suggesting Washington was gearing up for possible conflict two years before Blair led London to war.(AFP/Shaun Curry)
    Probe reveals lead-up to Iraq war AFP - 2 hours, 52 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - The first full-scale inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war opened with testimony suggesting Washington was gearing up for possible conflict two years before Tony Blair led London to war.

  10. Thai transsexual Punlop Tongchai smiles as she lies on a bed, recovering from a sex change operation performed at the Pratunam Polyclinic in Bangkok. From Wednesday, anyone wanting to swap gender in Thailand must live as a woman for at least a year, take a course of female hormones, and obtain the approval of two psychiatrists.(AFP/File/Christophe Archambault)
    Thailand tightens sex change laws AFP - 41 minutes ago

    BANGKOK (AFP) - Punlop Tongchai is awake for the entire two hours it takes to be turned into a woman on the operating table of a Bangkok sex change clinic, realising a childhood dream.

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