Dubai Financial MarketTop Dubai Financial Market Stories Israel's top leaders mulling cease-fire offer - Boston Globe JERUSALEM? Israel's top leaders are meeting to discuss whether to accept a cease-fire plan or expand their military offensive in Gaza. The meeting of Israel's security Cabinet comes a day after France and Egypt sketched a proposal to stop the fighting. The initiative was spurred on by an Israeli ... Ohio State Buckeyes fall on touchdown pass with 16 seconds left - Toledo Blade GLENDALE, Ariz. - A third straight season ended in bitter disappointment for the Ohio State Buckeyes last night in the Fiesta Bowl, and this one had to hurt more than any other. Texas won 24-21, scoring the game-winning touchdown with just 16 seconds left in the game. That spoiled an Ohio State ... End to Minn. Senate race pushed even further out - Yahoo News ST. PAUL, Minn. ? Minnesota 's grueling U.S. Senate race , already dragging on two months past Election Day , has now moved even further from the voters ? and into the hands of lawyers. Republican Norm Coleman filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Democrat Al Franken 's apparent recount victory ... Egypt floats Gaza truce plan - Globe and Mail GAZA ? Israel and Hamas studied an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 42 Palestinians at a UN school. However, Israeli officials also said ministers would discuss a major ... Jay-Z To Play 'Concert Of Change' For Barack Obama - Sound-Check Music US rapper Jay-Z will perform a one off show in Washington DC a day before the inauguration of president elect Barack Obama. "The Concert on the Eve of Change? will take place in the intimate Warner Theater on January 19th. The rapper will perform in the company of his full backing band. A number ... Increase of sick brown pelicans baffles experts - Las Vegas Sun A mystery is plaguing wildlife experts: Sick, disoriented and bruised California brown pelicans are being found in record numbers from San Francisco to Baja California, Mexico. The ailing birds, some of them dead, started appearing late last month north of San Pedro in Southern California, then ... Bank of America Sells China Construction Bank Stock (Update3) - Bloomberg Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. sold $2.8 billion of China Construction Bank Corp. shares to replenish capital after completing the biggest financial-services acquisition announced in 2008. China Construction fell 8.8 percent in Hong Kong, the biggest drop in more than two months. Bank ... Russian gas supply to Europe halted - ITN Keywords: Russia , Ukraine , gas , row , supply , Gazprom , energy , Austria , Bulgaria , Croatia , the Czech Republic , Greece , Hungary , Poland , Romania , Slovakia and Turkey Russia's gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine appear to have been halted as a row between the two countries intensifies ... Boy, 6, Misses Bus, Steals Family Pontiac - San Diego Channel WICOMICO CHURCH, Va. -- The parents of a 6-year-old Virginia boy who tried to drive to school in his family's sedan after missing the bus are facing charges of child endangerment. State police said the boy suffered a bump on his head after crashing the family's 2005 Ford Taurus Monday morning. The ... Democratic opposition to seating Burris cracks - Seattle Times Senate Democrats are looking for ways to defuse the standoff that has denied Roland Burris the vacated Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama of Illinois, but maybe not much longer. While Burris' paperwork was rejected at the opening of the 111th Congress, he was scheduled to meet Wednesday ...
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