NEWS FROM RUSSIA

• RUSSIA DIVERSIFIES INTO CANADIAN DOLLARS
• RUSSIA RESPONDS TO U.S. MISSILE PLANS FOR POLAND
• RUSSIA, US AT ODDS OVER FUTURE ASTEROID HIT

TERRORIST THREAT

• AL-QAEDA HAS TRAINED FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS TO ATTACK WEST, US OFFICIALS WARN
• ATTEMPTED TERROR ATTACK LIKELY, INTELLIGENCE CHIEFS WARN
• ‘BIN LADEN TAPE’ WARNS OBAMA OF MORE ATTACKS
• AL-QAEDA IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA URGES JIHAD

NEWS FROM ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST

• ‘WHAT HAPPENED IN HAITI WILL HAPPEN IN ISRAEL’
• ABBAS: PALESTINIANS WILL ACCEPT ONLY JERUSALEM AS OUR CAPITAL
• U.S. OFFICIAL: HEZBOLLAH ARMS FLOW MAY SIGNAL PLANS FOR WAR WITH ISRAEL
• IDF ARRESTS TWO SUSPECTS PLOTTING TO ATTACK ISRAEL FOR HAMAS
• SYRIA VOWS TO RESPOND TO ANY ISRAELI ‘AGGRESSION’

RUMBLINGS FROM IRAN

• SUPREME LEADER CLAIMS IRAN REMAINS UNITED AGAINST ‘OUTSIDE’ THREAT
• IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER WARNS THAT THE WEST CAN’T SAVE ISRAEL
• IRAN ATOMIC CHIEF: 10 ENRICHMENT PLANTS PLANNED FOR NEXT YEAR
• IRAN: U.S. IS FIGHTING A ‘PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR’ IN THE GULF

KNOWLEDGE INCREASED

• CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANT HOPES LIFTED
• PIG LUNGS IN HUMAN TRANSPLANTS MOVE STEP CLOSER

TERRORIST THREAT

• U.S. TO REVIEW SECURITY PROCEDURES AFTER DETROIT AIRLINE INCIDENT
• ATTEMPTED TERRORIST ATTACK ON AIRLINER SPARKS NEW CONCERNS ABOUT AL-QAIDA
• INVESTIGATORS: NORTHWEST BOMB PLOT PLANNED BY AL QAEDA IN YEMEN
• ‘HUNDREDS OF AL-QAEDA MILITANTS PLANNING ATTACKS FROM YEMEN’
• OBAMA LINKS CHRISTMAS DAY TERRORIST ATTEMPT TO AL-QAIDA
• REPORTS: TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBING HIT CIA NERVE CENTER
• EXPERTS CONCERNED U.S. HOMEGROWN TERRORISM ON THE RISE

NEWS FROM RUSSIA

• RUSSIA ‘PLANS TO STOP ASTEROID’
• RUSSIA TO DEVELOP NEW NUCLEAR MISSILES AND LAUNCHERS
• PUTIN: RUSSIA MUST COUNTER U.S. MISSILE DEFENCES

PLAGUES AND PESTILLENCES

• SCIENTISTS WARN OF RISE IN DISEASES SPREAD FROM ANIMALS TO HUMANS
• MORE PEOPLE COULD HAVE ‘MAD COW DISEASE’ THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT

NEWS FROM ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST

• AL-AQSA BRIGADES: ISRAEL OPENING GATES OF HELL
• IRAN: WE`LL HIT ISRAEL`S NUCLEAR SITES IF ATTACKED
• IRAN LEADER: U.S. WANTS TO STOP MANKIND’S SAVIOR
• FATAH WARNS OF INTIFADA AGAINST PA

KNOWLEDGE INCREASED

• LARGE HADRON COLLIDER TAKES STEP CLOSER TO UNLOCKING SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE
• SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCE POSSIBLE DISCOVERY OF DARK MATTER
• STEM CELL TREATMENT RESTORES SIGHT TO PARTIALLY BLIND MAN
• CRYONICS BELIEVERS AIM TO RETURN FROM DEAD

CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

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