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UK considers body scanners after airline attack

Britain is considering introducing new technology such as full body scanners to improve airport security after the attempted Christmas Day airline attack, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday.

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Ex-leader of Irish Catholic Church Daly dies at 92

Roman Catholic Cardinal Cahal Daly, a philosopher who led the church in Ireland during some of the worst years of IRA violence, has died at the age of 92, the church announced Thursday night.

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Tags: eu nireland obit cahal daly
Degas drawing stolen from Marseille museum

A drawing by Impressionist Edgar Degas worth euro800,000 ($1.15 million) has been stolen from an exhibit in southeast France, officials said Thursday.

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French journalists, guides missing in Afghanistan

Two French journalists and their local guides have gone missing in Afghanistan, the French government said Thursday in what one Afghan official called a kidnapping.

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Tags: eu france afghanistan journalists
Moscow police detain prominent rights activist

Police detained dozens of people at an anti-Kremlin protest on Thursday, including 82-year-old Lyudmila Alexeyeva, one of Russia's most respected rights activists.

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Tags: eu russia opposition
Spain: policeman who stole credit car loses appeal

Spain's Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a highway patrolman who confessed to stealing a dead man's credit card and using it to buy gasoline, go shopping and eat at restaurants.

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Lithuania shuts Soviet-era nuclear reactor

Officials at Lithuania's Soviet-era nuclear plant say they have shut down the facility's last reactor.

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Tags: eu lithuania reactor closure
Police: Gunman kills 5 in Finland, then self

A gunman clad in black went on a shooting rampage Thursday, killing his ex-girlfriend then slaying four workers at a suburban shopping mall near Helsinki before turning his gun on himself, police...

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Tags: eu finland shooting
Sello shopping center is evacuated in Espoo, Finland on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009 after a gunman opened fire at a shopping mall in a suburb of the capital Helsinki, killing four. The gunman, identified as 43-year-old Ibrahim Shkupolli, apparently killed his ex-wife in a nearby apartment before going on a rampage at the mall, Denmark's TV2 reported. Police told the STT agency that the shooter was heavily armed and still on the loose hours after the mall shooting.     (AP Photo/Lehtikuva/Vesa Moilanen)
Airline hero says failed bombing mirrors script

The Dutch traveler who has been hailed as a hero for stopping a suspected bomber on a U.S.-bound flight says the whole thing felt like a movie script _ his own.

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Tags: eu netherlands airline hero
Police: 4 people shot dead in Finnish mall

A gunman clad in black went on a shooting rampage Thursday at a suburban shopping mall near the Finnish capital of Helsinki, killing four people, police and witnesses said.

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