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Today's World News: North Korea calls for end to hostility with South Car bomb hits church in Egypt, 21 killed Bomb kills at least four in Nigerian capital U.N. official warns Gbagbo on rights violations Now coastal Queensland braces for 30-foot flood waters How Marine Le Pen is Changing the Face of France's Far-Right Anglican leader focuses on 'big picture' in New Year Bomb hits Egypt church at New Year's Mass, 21 dead Brazil prepares to inaugurate first female leader 21 killed in Egypt church attack Japanese diva Hamasaki to marry Austrian actor Liberals pressure government on corporate tax Activists, Japan whalers clash in Southern Ocean Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon becoming less of a hotbed for militancy Can Sudan Split Without Falling Apart? 'Digital Confucius' introduces Chinese students to liberal arts at Yale and beyond Cote d'Ivoire: Back to square one? North Korea calls for end to hostility with South Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:46 pm PST Reuters - North Korea on Saturday called for an end to confrontation with the South, urging dialogue after one of the most violent years on the divided peninsula since the 1950-53 Korean War. Full Story Top Car bomb hits church in Egypt, 21 killed Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:14 pm PST Reuters - A car bombing outside a church killed 21 people in Egypt's northern city of Alexandria as worshippers gathered to mark the New Year, security and medical sources said on Saturday. Full Story Top Bomb kills at least four in Nigerian capital Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:48 pm PST Reuters - A bomb at a crowded market in Nigeria's capital Abuja killed at least four people and injured more than a dozen during New Year's Eve celebrations late on Friday. Full Story Top U.N. official warns Gbagbo on rights violations Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:02 pm PST Reuters - A senior United Nations official warned incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and other senior officials on Friday they may be held criminally accountable for human rights violations. Full Story Top Now coastal Queensland braces for 30-foot flood waters Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:43 pm PST Reuters - Floods that have inundated 22 Australian towns and forced more than 200,000 from their homes headed toward the northeast coast on New Year's Day, forcing further evacuations and warnings of 30-ft flood waters. Full Story Top How Marine Le Pen is Changing the Face of France's Far-Right Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:40 pm PST Time.com - Championing the same extreme-right policies, but using more moderate language, Marine Le Pen is running to succeed her father Jean-Marie as leader of France's National Front Party -- and gaining the kind of support that makes the mainstream nervous Full Story Top Anglican leader focuses on 'big picture' in New Year Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:10 pm PST AFP - The leader of the world's Anglicans said people needed to reflect on the "big picture" in 2011, however remote it might seem as they battle personally with the global financial downturn's repercussions. Full Story Top Bomb hits Egypt church at New Year's Mass, 21 dead Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:27 pm PST AP - A car exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as worshippers emerged from a New Year's Mass in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early Saturday, killing at least 21 people, officials said. Full Story Top Brazil prepares to inaugurate first female leader Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:44 pm PST AP - A one-time Marxist guerrilla who was tortured under Brazil's long dictatorship will become the first female president of Latin America's largest nation when she is sworn in Saturday. Full Story Top 21 killed in Egypt church attack Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:06 pm PST AFP - At least 21 people were killed early Saturday in a New Year's day car bomb attack on a church in Alexandria, hitting Egypt's Christian community, the biggest in the Middle East, a health ministry official told AFP. Full Story Top Japanese diva Hamasaki to marry Austrian actor Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:47 pm PST AFP - Japanese pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki will marry Austrian actor Manuel Schwarz this month, reports said Saturday. Full Story Top Liberals pressure government on corporate tax Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:41 am PST Reuters - Opposition parties should unite to fight corporate tax cuts planned by the Conservative government, the Liberal Party said on Thursday amid expectations it may seek to trigger an election next year. Full Story Top Activists, Japan whalers clash in Southern Ocean Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:43 pm PST AFP - Militant anti-whalers Saturday said they had clashed with Japanese harpoonists in the Southern Ocean, chasing them through ice packs, throwing stink bombs at them and being hit with water cannon. Full Story Top Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon becoming less of a hotbed for militancy Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:30 am PST The Christian Science Monitor - The murder of a senior Al-Qaeda-inspired jihadi and the exodus of other militants from here in recent months may herald some welcome stability for this impoverished Palestinian refugee camp. Full Story Top Can Sudan Split Without Falling Apart? Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:35 am PST Time.com - Can Sudan Split Without Falling Apart? Full Story Top 'Digital Confucius' introduces Chinese students to liberal arts at Yale and beyond Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:14 am PST The Christian Science Monitor - When Prof. Shelly Kagan sat cross-legged on his desk in front of a class of Yale University students in the spring of 2007, introducing his course “Philosophy 176 – Death,” he could hardly have expected that he would one day gather an enormous and avid fan base in China. Full Story Top Cote d'Ivoire: Back to square one? Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:24 am PST OneWorld.net - LOGUATU, Dec 30 (IRIN) - NGOs working in northeastern Liberia say many of the 30,000 refugees arriving from neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire are reporting widespread violence and intimidation from both Ivoirian government troops and soldiers from the former rebel Forces Nouvelles operating in the west. Full Story Top

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