The most important news for Tuesday, February 9th, 2010....

A 28 year old man has been pulled alive from the rubble of a marketplace in Port-au-Prince nearly a month after the devastating earthquake in Haiti.  The man said he survived because somebody in a white coat had occasionally brought him water while he was pinned down.

As tensions rise in the Middle East, Iran is rapidly arming to the teeth.

Iran yesterday raised fears that it is speeding up its efforts to make a nuclear bomb by unveiling plans to build ten more uranium enrichment plants.

Is a devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah on the horizon?

On Monday, the Saudi government called for a firm stance by the international community regarding what it called threats by Israel against Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinians.

A Kremlin-friendly candidate has claimed victory in Ukraine’s recently concluded presidential election.

Russia’s top general said on Tuesday that plans for a new U.S. missile shield are directed against his country.

Chinese authorities have shut down a training website for hackers and have arrested three of its organizers.

The daughter of former presidential candidate John McCain is accusing the Tea Party movement of "innate racism".

Sarah Palin sure sounds like someone who has decided to run for president in 2012.

According to a new Rasmussen Reports survey that was released on Monday, 75 percent of the nation’s voters are “angry” at the federal government’s policies.

Another new poll has come out that shows that Barack Obama's approval rating has gone down again.

Traders and hedge funds are making record bets against the Euro, underlining the mounting alarm over the Eurozone’s debt crisis.

It is being alleged that Goldman Sachs helped the Greek government mask the true extent of its debt with the help of a derivatives deal that legally circumvented EU rules.

A global sugar shortage, which drove prices to the highest level in three decades, may peak in the third quarter of this year.

Representatives from 24 central banks and monetary authorities, including the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, have arrived in Sydney, Australia and are meeting at an undisclosed location.

Are Baby Boomers going to bankrupt the Social Security system?

Has the current economic collapse been deliberately orchestrated?

According to the National Association of State Workforce Agencies, companies in at least 35 states will have to fork over more in unemployment insurance taxes this year.

The U.S. Director of National Intelligence has stated rather bluntly that the U.S. intelligence community has the authority to target American citizens for elimination if they present a direct threat to the United States.

It has been revealed that naked images of Indian film star Shahrukh Khan taken by the controversial new full body scanners were printed out and circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.

On Tuesday, Toyota announced another global recall.  This time it is for more than 400,000 Prius and other hybrid cars with braking problems.

A British man who had never before had an allergic reaction in his life almost died after using a popular deodorant spray called Lynx.

A new study claims that drinking two or more soft drinks a week can double the risk of developing pancreatic cancer.

According to Michael Mautner, Research Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University, we have a "moral obligation" to seed the universe with life.

A magnitude 5.7-earthquake shook southern Mexico near the Oaxaca coast on Monday.

Newcomers to France will soon be made to sign a declaration of values as part of a new campaign to define national identity.

A campaign has been launched in Montgomery County, Maryland to classify the speech of those who urge homosexuals to leave the gay lifestyle as "hate speech" which then could be banned under a new law signed last year by Barack Obama.

A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan has sentenced a young Christian to life in prison for having insulted and desecrated the Koran.

A shocking new report by the International Planned Parenthood Federation is advocating that American children as young as 10 be given extensive sex education.

Lastly, it has come out that the federal judge who will be ruling on California’s landmark gay marriage case that could have implications for the entire nation is actually gay.

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