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Embedded video from CNN Video NESN: The Providence Bruins will see your Happy Gilmore and raise you a Tuukka Rask. The P-Bruins’ irascible goalie one-upped Gilmore — and all the other tantrum-throwing hockey legends — when he let loose after losing to Albany, 1-0, in a shootout on March 20. It appears that he won’t [...]

Times Online: The head of the Army is ready to send up to 2,000 extra troops to Afghanistan amid fears that the US-led mission will struggle without significant reinforcements. General Sir Richard Dannatt told The Times yesterday that elements of 12 Mechanised Brigade — which had been training for deployment to Iraq but were later [...]

“It was a genocide, committed by US forces.” When asked how he knew the forces were American, Rabie responded: “We don’t differentiate between the US and Israel. They are all one.” Jerusalem Post: US officials have confirmed that the IAF did bomb a convoy of trucks in Sudan in January that was believed to be [...]

NBC Los Angeles: Within an hour of downtown Los Angeles, people are seeking that one sure commodity. “I’m here to find gold,” said Kevin Brown. “I’m a studio lighting technician in Hollywood, between the writers strike that happened last year, and the Screen Actors Guild, whatever they want to call it. Lately I’ve had to [...]

Jerusalem Post: The Iron Dome anti-rocket shield passed a critical test in the past 48 hours, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday evening, in a message that will be welcomed by residents of the rocket-battered western Negev. During the test, a number of rockets were launched, “of the same type that were fired in recent [...]

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that Iran has a role to play in the region that includes neighboring Afghanistan and she hopes it will be constructive. Clinton told reporters in Monterrey, Mexico, that the United States will continue to reach out to Iran, even though earlier efforts [...]

Gordon Brown greets Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brasilia The Independent: A British minister warned leaders of the world’s biggest economies yesterday that they must produce more than empty rhetoric at the crucial G20 summit in London next week. Lord Malloch-Brown, the plain-speaking Foreign Office minister who is playing a key role [...]

NY Post: A self-described Satanist teen with a penchant for knives admitted stabbing a beloved radio newsman to death during a kinky sex romp arranged on Craigslist, cops said yesterday. John Katehis, 16, of Queens, who was arrested in upstate Middletown, allegedly admitted he’d agreed to choke and masturbate 47-year-old ABC News Radio personality George [...]

The Independent: Chessington Zoo was today celebrating the birth of a baby gorilla following the successful use of online dating. Western Lowland gorillas Buu and Damisi were introduced last summer after Damisa was identified as a breeding male for Buu. Zookeepers used the Stud Book, the equivalent of an online dating agency for gorillas, to [...]

The Hill: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has introduced legislation that would “bar the dollar from being replace by any foreign currency.” A statement from Bachmann’s website: “Yesterday, during a Financial Services Committee hearing, I asked Secretary Geithner if he would denounce efforts to move towards a global currency and he answered unequivocally that he would,” [...]

(The USS Chafee, a U.S. Navy guide missile destroyer, is at anchor for a joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises at Donghae Harbor, South Korea, Thursday, March 12, 2009. This deployment is a part of South Korea and U.S. joint exercise Foal Eagle portion of the Key Resolve/Foal Eagle 2009. North Korea put its troops on [...]

A UN panel of expert economists pressed Thursday for a new global currency reserve scheme to replace the volatile, dollar-based system and for coordinated steps by rich countries to stimulate their economies. “A new Global Reserve System — what may be viewed as a greatly expanded SDR (Special Drawing Rights), with regular or cyclically adjusted [...]