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Shocking New Theory! The Titanic was sunk by a German submarine, not an iceberg, stunning new evidence reveals. "The one thing people think they know about the Titanic is that she struck an iceberg," says David Roberts, an historian with the Merseyside Maritime Museum in England. "However, based on survivor testimony, we can't necessarily make that assumption. In fact, when we look at the evidence, the only thing we can take for granted is that the Titanic skimmed past the iceberg, barely making contact with it. "Subprofiler images of the Titanic's hull have now proven that the damage she sustained...

BRUSSELS - NATO is flatly dismissing a claim by Russia that its actions and expansion constitute a menace for Russia's security. Alliance spokesperson Oana Lungescu said Tuesday that NATO is still studying Russia's new security doctrine, approved last week. "That said," Lungescu added, "we categorically reject totally unfounded claims that NATO and its policies constitute a security threat" for Moscow.

Global economic growth will be disappointing next year and the outlook for the medium-term has also deteriorated, the head of the International Monetary Fund said in a guest article for German newspaper Handelsblatt published on Wednesday. IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the prospect of rising interest rates in the United States and an economic slowdown in China were contributing to uncertainty and a higher risk of economic vulnerability worldwide. Added to that, growth in global trade has slowed considerably and a decline in raw material prices is posing problems for economies based on these, while the financial sector in...

​You can't keep a sad cat down. Henri the existential French cat is back and as glum as ever after his star turn in April. This time, he's going to the vet. "The 'doctor' cures nothing, but they keep sending me," purrs our héro. "The indignity is too much to bear." So is Internet celebrity, which Henri tackles head on, responding to criticism of his mother tongue. "Are my caretakers torturing me for their own amusement?" he finally asks. Oui, Henri, and they're doing a great job.

Washington D.C. 8/27/2007 5:20 PM GMT (FINDITT - Top Story) USAElectionPolls.com has an audience of about 67,000 visitors per month according to the latest statistics by Quantcast -- making it the most visited polling website with the exception of RealClearPolitics. The web site has been having an online straw poll for three days on voters' preference for the 2008 election; both Democrats and Republicans are listed. Ron Paul is leading the group of almost 20 candidates with 51%. Even more impressive is that he currently has 1744 votes while the second place candidate Dennis Kucinich has 613 votes -- 18%....

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said the United States should pull out of Iraq within one year and work with Iraq's neighbors and Europe to resolve the crisis. Villepin, in a speech Friday at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government on Friday, said the United States' true strength "isn't its army." The United States in the 20th century constructed an economic and cultural model "and forged an ideal of modernity that inspired the admiration of the rest of the world," he said. "For us you represented the camp of freedom. You were the guarantors of...

Washington, D.C. (CNSNews.com) - U.S. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts on Tuesday told an audience at the liberal Take Back America conference that he was sorry for voting to authorize the war in Iraq, calling the entire mission "a mistake." "We were misled, we were given evidence that was not true," Kerry said. "It was wrong, and I was wrong to vote [for it]." Kerry, who led an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 2004, said it was necessary to admit mistakes because "you cannot change the future if you''re not honest about the past." He criticized supporters of the...

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., will this week introduce legislation to pull the majority of U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of 2006, his office announced. Kerry will offer an amendment to the 2007 defense authorization bill. The recent trend in Iraq has been to increase rather than decrease American troops. Earlier this month the U.S. military announced that 3,500 troops -- two battalions of a brigade that was being held in Kuwait as a back up force -- had been deployed to Anbar province, the heart of the insurgency. Those battalions joined another that had already been called...

Dans son premier discours après l'élection présidentielle américaine, prononcé mercredi devant des partisans et les membres de son équipe de campagne à Washington, George W. Bush s'est félicité de sa "victoire historique" et a lancé un appel à l'unité. "Je vais avoir besoin de votre soutien et je vais agir pour l'obtenir", a-t-il déclaré. Le président républicain, George W. Bush, a remporté un second mandat de quatre ans à la Maison Blanche, son rival démocrate, John Kerry, lui ayant concédé la victoire, mercredi 3 novembre, sans même attendre le décompte final de l'Etat contesté de l'Ohio.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide has demanded $21 billion from France for "colonial crimes," the Miami Herald reported Thursday. The campaign is growing in popularity on the impoverished island as its Jan. 1 bicentennial approaches, the newspaper said. The exact amount Aristide wants is $21,685,135,571.48, which he claims is modern-day equivalent of the ransom, 90 million gold francs Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer agreed to pay France as insurance against re-colonization. The European power refused to recognize Haiti's independence and threatened to re-enslave the Haitian people if the indemnity wasn't paid. Aristide has said restitution will...

Minister Faults Length of U.S. Timetable PARIS, Nov. 13 -- The foreign minister of France, which led opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq at the United Nations, said Thursday that the latest violence in Iraq showed that ending the U.S. occupation and transferring power to Iraqis quickly would be the best way to stem guerrilla attacks. With the Bush administration now promoting an accelerated transfer of power, the American and French positions appear to be converging. But Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said the suggested timetable for a transfer was still too long and that more intensive consultations were...

CANNES - The sea is as blue as ever, the weather as fine, and, in this Provençal restaurant in a narrow alley in Cannes, the food tastier than ever. So why is Stéphane, le patron, despondent? "We have had a bad season," Stéphane says, "the worst in memory." The reason? "The Americans didn't come this year," he explains. "That means a 30% fall in our revenue." The tourist office for the region of which Cannes is part estimates the loss of revenue due to an undeclared American "boycott" at around 18%, enough to make the difference between a good season...