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Labor Chairman Amir Peretz is preparing resignation letters with the signatures of Labor party ministers, to be used as a bargaining chip during his scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Thursday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...3169196,00.html

Christian groups say more than 30 churches have been forced to close in Indonesia over the past year. Most reportedly were intimidated by a group called the Anti-Apostasy Alliance. Their tactic is to accuse Christians of breaking the law by praying in unlicensed churches, and claiming that local Muslims object to the churches. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...enderforprint=1

The work of the world's foremost human cloning researcher, Hwang Woo-suk, has been thrown under an ethical cloud, jeopardizing the international cloning project that he and several prominent U.S. researchers announced last month. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...15-121634-2499r

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said he is less worried that U.S. policies in Iraq will bring on a civil war there and pledged anew to contribute billion for rebuilding that war-ravaged country's shattered infrastructure. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...,175424,00.html

The Rev. Murtala Marti Dangora began his Christian life 25 years ago with a baptism of fire. While many people in Nigeria become Christians without difficulties, Rev. DangoraThey rarely have problems with drunks or rowdy animals, but residents of a retirement home in southern Sweden had to deal with both: A pair of intoxicated moose invaded the premises. http://www.worthynews.com/christian-persec...D8DR0K2O5-html/

A sparrow knocked over 23,000 dominoes in the Netherlands, nearly ruining a world record attempt before it was shot to death Monday, the state news agency reported. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/ap...D8DSGIIO0-html/

In a sign of increasing unease among Congressional Republicans over the war in Iraq, the Senate is to consider on Tuesday a Republican proposal that calls for Iraqi forces to take the lead next year in securing the nation and for the Bush administration to lay out its strategy for ending the war. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...age&pagewanted=

Israel and the Palestinian Authority reached a deal on the Gaza border crossings Tuesday, after negotiations overseen by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ticle%2FPrinter

Islamic terrorists were planning to inflict "maximum damage" with a devastating attack on Australia's only nuclear reactor, police claimed yesterday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...l=/news/2005/11

MK Omri Sharon, the prime ministers' son, pled guilty to the charges against him at the Tel Aviv Magistrates court, and was convicted. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...3169230,00.html

MK Omri Sharon, the prime ministers' son, pled guilty to the charges against him at the Tel Aviv Magistrates court, and was convicted. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...3169230,00.html

The European Union is building its own network of spy satellites allowing Brussels to ensure nations and private individuals are obeying its policies, it was announced yesterday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...=/news/2005/11/

To revitalise stalled world trade talks, the EU and the US must make further concessions, Tony Blair has urged ahead of an important world trade summit in Hong Kong next month. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ver.com/9/20324

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 jolted extensive areas on the Pacific side of the Hokkaido, Tohoku and Kanto areas Tuesday morning, with small tsunamis observed in several parts of Tohoku, northeastern Japan. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...cat=1&id=355354

Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" in a 1985 document obtained by The Washington Times. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...14-015136-2101r

Foreign investors will likely tire of bankrolling the bloated U.S. trade deficit but the economy's flexibility should help temper any fallout, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Monday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...,175508,00.html

Mexico said it will withdraw its ambassador and sever diplomatic ties with Venezuela if that country's president doesn't apologize Monday for warning Mexican leader Vicente Fox: "Don't mess with me." http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...,175488,00.html

When it comes to bad manners, today's society is pretty much a hopeless case, author Lynn Truss says. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...ANNERS-DC-html/

Motorist Robert Brooks thought he hit a deer. That is, until he got out of his car and the deer hit him http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re..._Hits_Man-html/

A tiny parcel of land in southwest Indiana is some of the priciest real estate in the world. Owen County officials are trying to sell a 1-square-inch plot of land for ,500. At that rate, an acre of land would cost nearly billion. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/ne...orld-headlines/

When it comes to bad manners, today's society is pretty much a hopeless case, author Lynn Truss says. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...ANNERS-DC-html/

rocter & Gamble Co. is looking into a report that an Iowa woman found a dead turtle in a package of its Folgers coffee, the company said on Friday. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...RTLE-1-DC-html/

nuppy, the first cloned dog, is the most amazing invention of 2005, Time magazine said on Sunday. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...CE-DOG-DC-html/

A stunned Italian actor had to stub out the cigarette he had lit up on stage after a spectator complained, forcing the theater to change the script of an Arthur Miller play to make it smoke-free. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...-SMOKE-DC-html/

The teen who grabbed the national spotlight this week by becoming mayor-elect of Hillsdale, Michigan, after a write-in campaign didn't win by much. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/ar...00010000000001/