10 12575812560000005306Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:07:36 -0500NATO and Afghan authorities are investigating an unconfirmed friendly fire NATO air strike that killed at least seven people on Friday, including four Afghan soldiers and three police officers in Western Afghanistan, defence ministry officials said Saturday. More than 25 international forces were wounded, including five United States soldiers.12575799310000005305Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:45:31 -0500Two Britons won the largest lottery jackpot in the U.K. when their EuroMillion tickets matched the winning number for the £90 million ($149 million) prize drawn on Friday.12575775770000005304Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:06:17 -0500Residents of a port town in the Dominican Republic have filed a lawsuit against a U.S. firm before a Delaware court seeking compensation for the ill-effects of toxic coal ash it dumped near their community six years ago.12575477420000005303Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:49:02 -0500General Walter Natynczyck, the chief of the Canadian Defense Staff, has ordered the country's military contingent in Afghanistan to prepare for the pullout of the troops by 2011. The pullout is the deadline set by the Parliament for the withdrawal of Canada's military presence in Afghanistan.12575268620000005302Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:01:02 -0500A report released Thursday by the Cooperative Housing Federation of Canada said about four million Canadians live in homes that are in a state of disrepair, too small for the number of family members or costs the dwellers almost one-third of their pre-tax income.12575244240000005301Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:20:24 -0500Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya refused to form a unity government with interim leader Roberto Micheletti Friday causing the agreed solution to the country's leadership crisis to fail.12575164580000005300Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:07:38 -0500Saudi air force jets continued bombing locations where Shiite rebels were hiding on Friday. The attacks have the potential to pull the world's largest oil exporter into a neighboring state's civil conflict.12575104720000005299Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:27:52 -0500A Japanese gangster turned the tables and a weapon on three would-be debt collectors. After he wounded the men, he killed himself.12575002720000005298Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:37:52 -0500Cases of mouth cancer or oral cancer have risen in the UK by 41 percent over the last 10 years. According to researchers nearly 5,325 people get cancer of the mouth each year and the disease kills one person every five hours. Treated in its early stages, mouth cancer is curable but if not detected early, it kills around one in two sufferers.12574969060000005297Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:41:46 -0500Foreign correspondents in India are upset over India's refusal to allow them to cover Dalai Lama's visit to the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. The government informed foreign correspondents, who had applied for a special permission to travel to Arunachal Pradesh, that they will not be allowed to enter the state while the Dalai Lama is visiting.