Awesome day yesterday! We were planning to have lunch out with another family in the church;once we got to the diner, we ran into more and more people... eventually wound up with 15 of us! Being social wears me out, though.

So here's yesterday's links, since I fell asleep early last night.


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G-20 Calls for Action on Growth, Overhaul of Financial Rules

The call for an overhaul of the world financial industry indicates leaders want future expansions to be smoother than the boom and bust of this decade. A lack of any specific pledges to stimulate growth may disappoint some investors, analysts said.



Welcome to the new Sunday 'World of the Global Citizen'

G20 summit a step toward a new financial system - Medvedev

Single Global Currency Assn. Urges G20 To Initiate Research And Planning For Single Global Currency.

G-20 Leaders Share Need to Regulate All Financial Markets, Products

Calif. justices hear Prop 8 speakers
BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Six of the seven members of the California Supreme Court attending a conference Friday listened to arguments about same-sex marriage, observers said.

Gay-marriage supporters march to White House

'Israel Liberation Week' Ends Violently at Berkeley

Rabbi mugged in Russia’s far east

Policeman Killed Near Abkhazia

Policeman killed in Russia's Ingushetia

Russia Will Not Deploy Missiles in Kaliningrad Until U.S. Makes First Step - Medvedev

Russia's crumbling economy provides stiffest test yet for autocratic leader

Hate Crimes in Russia Up More than 60 Percent This Year

Medvedev says he forgot US election day
[yeah, I'm sure. ]

Russia's Medvedev to visit Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba on Nov. 24-27

New Kremlin-friendly party formed in Russia

Russia: Severstal closes deal to buy U.S. WCI Steel

6 killed in Somalia blasts, assassinations

Dancers flogged by Somalia fighters

Islamists Taking Over Somalia

Russian Ship Thwarts Pirate Attack

Serbian Abortionist Who Aborted 48,000 Babies Becomes Pro-Life Activist

Woman to be forced to have abortion under China’s child-limit rule

Americans feel religious values attacked

50,000 flee homes as fires rage in California

California fires destroy 1,000 homes, winds ease

Local gun stores see a sharp increase in sales after election

Shifting political landscape drives up gun sales in Houston

Locust swarms move west

The world has never seen such freezing heat
A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.

A Missile Race in Southeast Asia?

'Israel, Germany develop nuclear warning system'

Russia calls on Barack Obama to improve US relations



Obama and McCain set to meet in Chicago

"It's well-known that they share an important belief that Americans want and deserve a more effective and efficient government, and will discuss ways to work together to make that a reality," Obama transition spokesman Nick Shapiro said in a statement Sunday.

[No! I don't want a more effective government! Especially not with the Obamination at the helm! ]



Obama says aiding economy trumps budget deficit

S.Korea likely to provide nuclear deal aid to N.Korea - source

Assad urges Arab League to take action to break Gaza siege

Report: New Radical Left Party to Include Ayalon, Meimad party

Saudis main concern is Israel’s N-program: ambassador




Babylon: A tower of strength
Babylon gets a bad rap, but our correspondent sees it in a new light at the British Museum

[Babylon has a bad rap? I cant imagine why. It's not like there's anything written about it anywhere.]


Iraq's damaged Babylon hopes for revival

Can ancient Babylon be restored?
U.S. plans to help rebuild the storied city in Iraq that has been damaged by war and looters

Has War Damage Hidden Babylon’s Ancient Secrets?



'Iran attackers will eat humble pie'

Iran: Political Prisoners must attend Friday Prayers in return for visitors

Report: Iranians train Syrians to fight Sunnis

Lebanon, Iran boost cultural ties

Olmert calls for world to stop Iran nuclear bomb

Turkey advocates Iranian nuclear programme

Turkish-Russian popular diplomacy now reflected at administrative level

Suicide bomber kills 7 at police checkpoint northeast of Baghdad

Astana, Baku Set Up Oil Shipping Links

EU and US back Caspian call

Why the British may decide to love the euro

Report: Turkey to cooperate on development of Iran's gas fields

Saudi bank credit growth poised for slowdown

Truck ban hampers supply line to US in Afghanistan

Iran favours OPEC cut of 1.0 to 1.5 million bpd