Meryl Streep wins Golden Globe for 'Julie Julia' (AP)

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AP - Meryl Streep won the Golden Globe for best musical or comedy actress as chef Julia Child in Julie Julia, while Mo'Nique earned the supporting-actress honor for her role as a loathsome, abusive welfare mother in Precious.

Haitians pray, cry for help in the ruins (AP)

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AP - Prayers of thanksgiving and cries for help rose from Haiti's huddled homeless Sunday, the sixth day of an epic humanitarian crisis that was straining the world's ability to respond and igniting flare-ups of violence amid the rubble of Port-au-Prince.

Al-Qaeda wing denies leaders killed in Yemen: SITE (AFP)

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AFP - Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) denied that six of its leaders were killed in a Yemeni air strike last week, according to a statement published by the SITE monitoring group on Monday.

Netanyahu, Merkel to meet on Iran, Palestinian issues (Reuters)

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Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will spend Monday in Germany for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel that are likely to focus on efforts to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions and renew stalled Middle East peace talks.

Pakistani officials: Suspected US drone kills 20 (AP)

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AP - At least one suspected U.S. drone fired on a house in Pakistan's volatile tribal region Sunday, killing 20 people in the 11th such attack since militants in the area orchestrated a deadly suicide bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.

Haitians pray to God as quake toll soars (AFP)

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AFP - Haitians sought comfort in their faith Sunday, flocking to pray in church ruins as the government said 70,000 bodies had been buried in mass graves since the earthquake disaster.

Iraq cabinet approves draft law to protect doctors (Reuters)

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Reuters - Iraqi doctors would be allowed to carry weapons under a law approved by the cabinet on Sunday to help protect physicians subjected to kidnapping, murder and tribal demands for blood money from relatives of dead patients.

Afghan parliament to recess without confirming cabinet (Reuters)

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Reuters - The Afghan parliament prolonged months of political uncertainty on Sunday by shutting for its winter recess without waiting for President Hamid Karzai to fill nearly half of his cabinet.

Jewish leader confronts pope on Holocaust silence (Reuters)

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Reuters - An Italian Jewish leader told Pope Benedict Sunday that his wartime predecessor Pius XII should have spoken out more forcefully against the Holocaust to show solidarity with Jews being led to the ovens of Auschwitz.

At least 12 dead in clashes in Nigerian city of Jos (Reuters)

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Reuters - At least 12 Nigerians on Sunday were killed in clashes in the central city of Jos as tensions reignited between Muslims and Christian gangs, a year after similar fighting killed hundreds of its residents.

Northern Irish leaders shake hands for first time (Reuters)

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Reuters - Peter Robinson, who has temporarily stood down as Northern Ireland's first minister over a family scandal, has shaken hands with his deputy Martin McGuinness, marking a possible thaw between the former foes.

Iraq's Chemical Ali gets 4th death sentence (Reuters)

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Reuters - An Iraqi court sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majeed, the Saddam Hussein henchman widely known as Chemical Ali, to death by hanging Sunday for a 1988 gas attack that killed about 5,000 Kurds.

U.S. troops to help Haiti security, aid flows in (Reuters)

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Reuters - U.S. troops will help U.N. peacekeepers keep order on Haiti's increasingly lawless streets, the country's president said on Sunday as aid workers struggled to get food and medical assistance to desperate earthquake survivors.

Sanchez, Greene lead Jets to shocker over Chargers (AP)

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AP - Maybe Rex Ryan already knows the score of the AFC championship game, too.

Story of Newton's encounter with apple goes online (AP)

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AP - An 18th-century account of how a falling piece of fruit helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web, making scans of the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time.

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