Floods cover vast area of Australia's northeast (Reuters)

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• Floods cover vast area of Australia's northeast (Reuters)
• Turkish police detain 10 al Qaeda suspects: report (Reuters)
• Russia's Khodorkovsky sentenced, West concerned (Reuters)
• UK cable in 1980 said Israel ready to use bomb (Reuters)
• Queensland Faces the New Year, Under Water (Time.com)
• UK would back troop deployment to Ivory Coast (AP)
• Palestinian leader wants US backing in UN proposal (AP)
• Scientists aim to map and save endangered habitats (AP)
• Nigeria police arrest 92 over northern sect attack (AFP)
• 'Taliban shadow governor killed' in Afghanistan (AFP)
• Australia floods larger than France strand 200,000 (AP)
• 'Genocide' in Ivory Coast: A real threat, or just politics? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Is Pakistan Losing Ground in Its Taliban War? (Time.com)
• Why there's still no death toll for the Christmas Eve bombings in Nigeria (The Christian Science Monitor)

Floods cover vast area of Australia's northeast (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:37 AM PST Reuters - Floodwater rose across a vast area in Australia's northeast on Friday, inundating 22 towns, forcing 200,000 residents out of their homes, and closing a major sugar export port.

Turkish police detain 10 al Qaeda suspects: report (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:20 AM PST Reuters - Turkish police have detained 10 suspected al Qaeda militants who they believe were planning an attack ahead of New Year, state-run Anatolian news agency reported.

Russia's Khodorkovsky sentenced, West concerned (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 10:47 AM PST Reuters - Former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's jail term was extended until 2017 on Thursday when he was convicted of theft and money-laundering in a trial condemned in the West as politically motivated.

UK cable in 1980 said Israel ready to use bomb (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 09:59 AM PST Reuters - A British ambassador to Israel warned as early as 1980 that Israel would detonate a nuclear bomb in case of a new war with the Arabs, according to previously secret state documents released on Thursday.

Queensland Faces the New Year, Under Water (Time.com) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST Time.com - After a decade of drought, the eastern Australian state of Queensland is being hit by its worst floods in 50 years

UK would back troop deployment to Ivory Coast (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:22 AM PST AP - Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague says the U.K. would support a United Nations-sanctioned military intervention by Ivory Coast's neighbors if negotiations fail to persuade president Laurent Gbagbo to hand over power.

Palestinian leader wants US backing in UN proposal (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:58 AM PST AP - The Palestinian president said a new attempt by the Palestinians to get the United Nations to condemn Israeli settlements was specifically designed to win U.S. support.

Scientists aim to map and save endangered habitats (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 09:16 PM PST AP - From mangrove swamps in Venezuela to lowland forests in Indonesia, entire communities of plants and animals are under threat. Now scientists are figuring out how to catalog and map the world's most threatened ecosystems — just like their familiar list of endangered species.

Nigeria police arrest 92 over northern sect attack (AFP) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 05:27 PM PST AFP - Police have arrested 92 suspected members of a radical Islamist sect in raids after a series of attacks that killed eight people in northern Maiduguri city, a police chief said Thursday.

'Taliban shadow governor killed' in Afghanistan (AFP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:02 AM PST AFP - A top Taliban commander and a bodyguard were killed during an overnight operation by Afghan and NATO forces in northern Afghanistan, police said on Friday.

Australia floods larger than France strand 200,000 (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 11:56 PM PST AP - Military aircraft dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods in northeastern Australia as the prime minister promised new assistance Friday to the 200,000 people affected by waters covering an area larger than France and Germany combined.

'Genocide' in Ivory Coast: A real threat, or just politics? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 11:47 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Could incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to cede power to President-elect Alassane Ouattara after apparently losing the Nov. 28 Ivory Coast run-off really lead to genocide?

Is Pakistan Losing Ground in Its Taliban War? (Time.com) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST Time.com - Islamabad crowed that it had pacified crucial sectors of the tribal areas but, into a third winter since the military's offensive, the Taliban continues to strike

Why there's still no death toll for the Christmas Eve bombings in Nigeria (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 11:18 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Almost a week after four deadly blasts marred Christmas Eve preparations and sparked violent riots across the hilly Nigerian city of Jos, people are still waiting for the Nigerian police to tell the world how many people died.

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