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World's policeman? BBC News For the BBC World Service, Claire Bolderson looks at how the UN came up with the resolutions and asks whether it is likely to do the same elsewhere. The United Nations resolution authorising a no-fly zone over Libya and all necessary means to protect ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Police: Kenya's Olympic marathon champ jumps to death CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff Samuel Wanjiru celebrates after winning the Men's Marathon in the National Stadium during Day 16 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 24, 2008 in Beijing, China. (CNN) -- Olympic marathon gold medalist Samuel Wanjiru died ... See all stories on this topic »

Will IMF chief sex charges hit EU bailout? CNN International (blog) Brussels, Belgium (CNN) – The arrest in New York of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, raises a number of questions across the Atlantic where the organization has been a leading player in the European bailout packages. ... See all stories on this topic »

Behind the clashes BBC News By Jim Muir BBC News, Beirut The "Nakba" day incidents on Israel's borders showed that the Palestinians have undoubtedly been caught up at last in the Arab revolutionary spring fever. In a very different position from most Arab nations, ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

UN Agency Prepares to Resume Aid to Libya Even if Qaddafi Remains in Power Fox News But now, UNDP bureaucrats are planning to return with a "forward looking framework of likely recovery policies," even if the rebels are not successful, according to a planning document obtained by Fox News. The proposed price tag: $25.3 million, ... See all stories on this topic » Fox News

Should the US and Russia destroy their smallpox stocks? BBC News ... and could even stop it completely, leaving the world vulnerable." But the man who led the WHO's smallpox eradication programme from 1966 until the last case in 1977 disagrees. Dr DA Henderson told the BBC: "I think it's a very good idea to destroy. ... See all stories on this topic »

Debt ceiling drama starts today CNN It now falls to him to jump through hoops every day to keep the world's largest economy from defaulting on its legal obligations. Geithner told Congress that he estimates he has enough legal hoop-jumping tricks to cover them for another 11 weeks or so. ... See all stories on this topic »

'Fast Five' Dominates International Box Office for Second Straight Week Hollywood Reporter 4 on the weekend was 20th Century Fox's Rio, tallying $10.4 million from 7331 screens in 67 markets. Foreign gross total of the family-oriented animation about a domesticated macaw has shot past the $300 million mark ($306.3 million). ... See all stories on this topic » Hollywood Reporter

Farewell, my space shuttle CNN By Leroy Chiao, Special to CNN Editor's note: Leroy Chiao served as a NASA astronaut from 1990 to 2005 and flew four missions into space, including flights aboard the space shuttles Columbia, Endeavour and Discovery. (CNN) -- When space shuttle ... See all stories on this topic »

Huckabee leaves wide-open GOP presidential field USA Today Huckabee says any of several candidates may be beneficiaries of his decision to continue his career with his Saturday night show on Fox, the forum he used to announce he wouldn't run. "There are a number of people who probably jumped for joy" that he ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today