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Hamas asked the international community on Monday not to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority, pledging that the funding would be used for social relief and not for violence. http://www.worthynews.com/news/haaretzdail...es-676173-html/

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has ordered all main branches of the security forces to report to him personally, in a bid to forestall their takeover by Hamas, the Islamic militant movement. http://www.worthynews.com/news/washtimes-c...0-123153-5753r/

A Hamas leader has asked the global community not to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority. Even before the militant Islamic group embarks on its first effort at governing, it faces serious problems — international isolation because of its extremist policies and an inherited money crunch. http://www.worthynews.com/news/usatoday-co...d_x-htm-csp-34/

India carried out its third test in three days of its surface-to-air Akash missile at an eastern coastal testing range, a defence official. http://www.worthynews.com/news/news-yahoo-...sile-printer-1/

Masked gunmen on Monday took over an office used by the European Union to protest the publication of cartoons deemed insulting to Islam. http://www.worthynews.com/news/abcnews-go-...int-id-1556048/

As if hurricanes, roaches, sea lice and insurance bills weren't bad enough, Floridians can add a new menace to their list of worries. Killer bees are here. http://www.worthynews.com/news/sun-sentine...ball-headlines/

The European Union will not fund the Palestinian Authority under Hamas if it does not renounce violence against Israel, Germany's chancellor has said. http://www.worthynews.com/news/newsvote-bb...st-4660648-stm/

The most potent threats to life on earth - global warming, health pandemics, poverty and armed conflict - could be ended by moves that would unlock trillion - ,000,000,000,000 (The European Union will not fund the Palestinian Authority under Hamas if it does not renounce violence against Israel, Germany's chancellor has said. http://www.worthynews.com/news/news-indepe...st-4660648-stm/

Top Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar told CNN that a "long-term hudna or long-term truce" is possible. He would not commit to negotiating with Israel and would not say whether recognizing Israel's existence is a long-term possibility. http://www.worthynews.com/news/ynetnews-co...207845,00-html/

Car bombs exploded in quick succession Sunday near four Christian churches and the office of the Vatican envoy, killing three people and raising new concerns about sectarian tensions. At least 17 other people were killed in other violence around the country. http://www.worthynews.com/news/abcnews-go-...int-id-1555033/

European Union foreign ministers could threaten to freeze much needed financial aid to a Hamas-led Palestinian government at talks Monday if the Islamic militant group fails to give up violence and its pursuit of Israel's destruction. http://www.worthynews.com/news/jpost-com-s...icle%2FPrinter/

Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief Saturday warned the United States and Britain that Iran would respond with its missiles if attacked, a clear threat to Israel, which lies within easy range of such a launch. http://www.worthynews.com/news/jpost-com-s...icle%2FPrinter/

Google, the giant internet search company, is to lead industry opposition to new proposals from the European Commission to regulate online content. http://www.worthynews.com/news/money-teleg...g29-xml-site-1/

A leading U.S. nuclear proliferation expert said Teheran obtained an atomic bomb about a decade ago from the nuclear black market. The expert said Iran sought to produce additional nuclear weapons through technology from Pakistan and other countries. http://www.worthynews.com/news/menewsline-...y-01_30_2-html/

Just to make sure there's no confusion about which team they are supporting in the Super Bowl XL, the mayor and council voted unanimously to change this city's name. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/ap...D8FDM2C80-html/

Days after Hamas's victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections, the group's exiled political leader vowed Saturday to continue its confrontation with Israel and suggested that the radical Islamic movement would turn its military wing into a national army for defensive reasons "like any other country." http://www.worthynews.com/news/washingtonp...800263_pf-html/

The United States warned on Friday it may cut back its USD 234 million aid earmarked for Palestinians this year because the terror group Hamas was expected to form a new Palestinian government. http://www.worthynews.com/news/ynetnews-co...207301,00-html/

The scientists stood waiting for a read-out from a hand-held Geiger counter-type machine placed next to a large corrugated metal shipping container. During the test at the Radiological-Nuclear Countermeasures Test and Evaluation Complex in the Nevada desert, the equipment failed to identify the plutonium in the container. On a second try, it worked. http://www.worthynews.com/news/abcnews-go-...int-id-1551587/

Cars were set alight and buildings vandalised in Gaza yesterday as thousands of mainly young members of Fatah angrily denounced the party's leadership for this week's spectacular electoral defeat by Hamas. http://www.worthynews.com/news/news-telegr...d28-xml-site-5/

President George W. Bush says the United States would cut off aid to the next Palestinian government unless election winner Hamas abolishes the militant arm of its party and stops demanding the destruction of Israel. http://www.worthynews.com/news/jpost-com-s...icle%2FPrinter/

A magnitude-7.7 undersea earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia early Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There was no danger of a tsunami, and no injuries were reported. http://www.worthynews.com/news/abcnews-go-...int-id-1549240/

A US-based religious rights group said Friday, January 27, that violence against the tiny Christian minority in India's north-central state of Madhya Pradesh increased by 45 percent during the last two years. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/major-...e-survey-shows/

Below are extracts from the Hamas charter of 1988, the founding document of the Islamist group that yesterday won an outright majority in the Palestinian parliamentary elections: http://www.worthynews.com/news/timesonline...880-23,00-html/

Kazakhstan is on a nationwide hunt for dozens of "radioactive dollars" circulating in the country's financial system. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...OLLARS-DC-html/

An Australian couple could reap a fragrant fortune after what they thought was an odd-looking tree stump turned out to be a rare lump of ambergris, a whale excretion used in perfumes and known as "floating gold." http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...-WHALE-DC-html/