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  ASTRONOMY

  'Extreme supermoon' coming Saturday, could raise tides

  It's called an "extreme supermoon" and when it rises in the eastern sky on Saturday, it won't just be full, it also will be making its closest approach to Earth in 18 years.

• Egypt's revolution will remake the Middle East, but how?

  Egypt's revolution, a secular popular revolt that used nonviolent means to humble an entrenched autocrat, will remake the Middle East — and could mark the end of the era that began on Sept. 11, 2001, according to U.S. officials, former officials and analysts here and in the Middle East.

• A HISTORIC DAY

  Egypt celebrates: Protests bring down Mubarak

  Egypt exploded with joy, tears, and relief after pro-democracy protesters brought down President Hosni Mubarak with a momentous march on his palaces and state TV. Mubarak, who until the end seemed unable to grasp the depth of resentment over his three decades of authoritarian rule, finally resigned Friday and handed power to the military.

• CRISIS IN EGYPT

  Former University of Miami student describes the scene in Cairo in a recent interview

  Omar Hussein Shoeb graduated in 2007 from the University of Miami with a Masters in Broadcast Journalism and has been working as a journalist in Cairo ever since. The son of Egyptians, Shoeb has engaged in online political activism for the past three years, along with many other young Egyptians. He never expected to witness a civil uprising of this magnitude. Shoeb said that on Wednesday, February 2nd, thousands of police officers dressed in civilian clothing went to Tahrir Square and took a violent approach at quelling the protests. He reports that over 700 people have been injured -- including his friend. who got shot in the elbow. Omar is quick to say that he’s not a political activist but rather an “interactive activist.” He produces a live daily political show in Cairo called: Baladna Bel Masry, which translates roughly to: Our Home, Egypt. In this slideshow, he describes what the scene is like on the ground.

• WORLD

  Cairo airport a scene of chaos as foreigners flee

  Cairo's international airport was a scene of chaos and confusion Monday as thousands of foreigners sought to flee the unrest in Egypt and countries around the world scrambled to send in planes to fly their citizens out.

• LIVE COVERAGE

  Track Santa Claus' journey across the globe

  Santa Cams are ultra-cool, high-tech, high-speed digital cameras pre-positioned at many locations around the world only on December 24th. The cameras capture images and videos of Santa and his reindeer as they make their journey around the world.

• LONDON

  WikiLeaks' Assange fights extradition to Sweden

  A British judge on Tuesday denied bail for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after he told a London court he intends to fight his extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations.

• Military documents on WikiLeaks show a testy U.S.-Pakistan bond

  The U.S. and Pakistani governments moved swiftly Monday to say that a trove of leaked U.S. military documents paints a dated and incomplete portrait of Pakistan as an untrustworthy partner against militants who use the country as a safe zone.

• WORLD

  Death toll in Samoas tsunami reaches 150

  APIA, Samoa -- Samoans searched flattened homes and debris-filled swamps, while dazed survivors told of being trapped underwater or flung inland by a tsunami that ravaged towns and killed at least 150 people in the South Pacific.

• WORLD

  Earthquake toll rises to 777 dead

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• G-20 | ECONOMIC SUMMIT

  Obama, Sarkozy and Brown say Iran has secret nuclear facility

  President Barack Obama and the leaders of France and Britain on Friday accused Iran of building a secret uranium enrichment facility that could have military uses and warned that the Islamic republic would face tougher U.N. sanctions unless it suspended its nuclear program by December.

• Watch online videos of protests in Iran

  Watch on the web videos -- some with very graphic content -- as protesters share their dissent from Tehran, Iran, on Saturday. The graphic content includes a bystander fatally shot.

• Bhutto is buried as unrest kills at least 23

  Hundreds of thousands of mourners, weeping and chanting for justice, thronged the mausoleum of Pakistan's most famous political dynasty in a raw outpouring of grief for Benazir Bhutto.

• Iraq tally: Bombs up, fewer dead

  Two weeks into the newest Baghdad security plan, the daily count of murder victims dumped on the city's streets has declined significantly, a likely sign that Shiite Muslim militia groups aligned with the Iraqi government have reined in their members or sent them out of the capital.

• Defenders take detainee's plea to cyberspace

  With legal challenges by Guantanamo detainees now frozen in the federal courts, what's a creative civil liberties lawyer to do?

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