Dutch fuming at retired US general's gays comment (AP)

Retired US General John Sheehan listens during a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, DC on Thursday. Sheehan on Thursday said Dutch UN troops defending Srebrenica in the Bosnian war failed to prevent the 1995 genocide partly because their ranks included openly gay soldiers.(AFP/Getty Images/Alex Wong)AP - The Dutch prime minister Friday denounced as "irresponsible" a claim by a retired U.S. general that gay Dutch soldiers were partly to blame for allowing Europe's worst massacre since World War II.




Rice regrets how US prioritized rebuilding in Iraq (AP)

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gives a speech during a lecture on 'Asia's Future' at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Friday, March 19, 2010.  (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she would "many times over liberate" Iraq again, but she regretted the Bush administration failed to work closer with Iraqis to rebuild the war-torn country.




Attack ad against health bill uses Democrat's young daughters (The Newsroom)

George Martin, left, and Walt Stoelting argue over health care reform during a rally outside the district office of Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Granger,  in downtown South Bend, Ind., Thursday, March 18, 2010. Groups on both sides of the debate on the federal health care overhaul are keeping up the pressure on three Indiana Democratic congressmen who say they haven't decided how they'll vote. (AP Photo/South Bend Tribune, Marcus Marter)The Newsroom - As the House gears up for this weekend’s dramatic vote on health reform legislation, Democrats are taking flak from all sides. In southern Ohio, opponents of the bill have created a blowback effect by airing an ad targeting Rep. Steve Driehaus to stand firm as a "no" vote on the legislation. The ad prominently featured the congressman’s young daughters, in violation of the unwritten law that forbids dragging lawmakers' family members – most especially their underage children – into the fray.




Obama, Democrats push hard ahead of health vote (AP)

Clinic workers hold signs and chant during a rally in support of US President Barack Obama's health care reform package in Oakland, California, on March 17. US President Barack Obama on Thursday scrapped a planned trip to Asia in favor of making an 11th-hour drive to see his historic health care overhaul through a cliffhanger Sunday vote.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP - President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders lobbied intensively for historic health care legislation Friday, striving to resolve a last-minute dispute over Medicare while gaining another precious "yes" 48 hours ahead of a climactic vote.




Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward (AP)

Gold bars are displayed to be photographed at bullion house in Mumbai December 3, 2009. REUTERS/Arko DattaAP - From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.




State of health care debate: Pundits attack 11-year-old (McClatchy Newspapers)

Gina Owens hugs her grandson, Marcelas Owens from Seattle, Wash., whose mother, Tiffany Owens died after losing her job and health care, Thursday, March 11, 2010, during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Conservative talk show hosts and columnists have ridiculed an 11-year-old Washington state boy's account of his mother's death as a "sob story" exploited by the White House and congressional Democrats like a "kiddie shield" to defend their health care legislation.




Demi Moore's Twitter account part of suicide help (AP)

FILE - In a Sunday,  March 7, 2010 file photo, Demi Moore arrives during the 82nd Academy Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)AP - Actresses Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos were linked to an online chain of Twitter posts that ultimately led to Florida authorities intervening Friday when an 18-year-old man threatened to commit suicide.




'Lawyer' for US missionaries in Haiti is arrested (AP)
AP - A fugitive who once acted as the lawyer for U.S. Baptist missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children was arrested on human-trafficking charges, authorities said Friday.

Heavy rains swamp camps holding Haiti's homeless (AP)

A man looks from inside his tent at a homeless earthquake survivors camp during heavy rains in Port-au-Prince, Friday, March 19, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving more than a million people living in makeshift camps. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - One of the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake swamped homeless camps Friday, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water, overflowing latrines and panicking thousands.




Oprah, schoolgirls to testify at defamation trial (AP)

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2009 file photo, Oprah Winfrey arrives at the  premiere of the film 'Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire,' at AFI Fest 2009 in Los Angeles. Winfrey must defend a defamation suit over remarks she made about a headmistress at her girls school in South Africa after a sex-abuse scandal erupted at the school, a U.S. judge ruled. The case is now set for trial on March 29, 2010 in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)AP - Oprah Winfrey and several schoolgirls allegedly abused at her academy in South Africa are expected to testify in a trial over a defamation lawsuit brought by the school's former headmistress, whose performance Winfrey criticized.




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