International Headline News

Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:01:08 -0500
TOP STORIES as of 1000 GMT -- 24 January, 2010

> BULLOCK, BRIDGES STEAL THE SHOW AT SAG AWARDS
Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges look odds on to scoop an Oscar
after picking up the top prizes at the Screen Actors Guild
Awards in Los Angeles.

> BROTHER: MAN SURVIVED 11 DAYS ON SODA
Hours after Haiti announced it was ending rescue operations, a
24-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed hotel
in Port-au-Prince.

> 'HOPE FOR HAITI': $58M -- AND COUNTING
Friday night's star-studded "Hope for Haiti" telethon has raised
a record-breaking $58 million, with more donations continuing to
pour in from around the world, the benefit's organizers
announced Saturday.

> PLANE CATCHES FIRE TRYING TO LAND IN IRAN
At least 20 passengers were injured Sunday when an Iranian plane
caught fire while landing in the northeastern city of Mashhad,
state media reported.

> GUNMEN ATTACK CONVOY IN INDONESIA
Seven people, including one American, were wounded Sunday when a
convoy of buses came under fire near a U.S. mining company in the
province of Papua, police said.

> 150 REPORTED KILLED IN NIGERIA VIOLENCE
Reports of at least 150 Muslims killed in recent religious
clashes in Nigeria should be investigated, a human rights group
urged Saturday.

> ANTI-CHAVEZ TV CHANNEL DROPPED
Venezuelan cable television providers dropped a channel Sunday
that has been critical of President Hugo Chavez, citing
violation of broadcast laws.

> SCANNER DETECTS TRAUMA IN COMBAT VETS
Post-traumatic stress is estimated to afflict more than 300,000
veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, but until now, it's been
labeled a "soft disorder" -- one without an objective biological
path to diagnosis.

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> CHINA'S WEB TITANS LEAVE WEST BEHIND
They may not be household names in the West like Google, eBay
and Facebook, but in China -- which has more Internet users than
the entire population of the United States -- they are the
champions of the world's largest Internet market.

> CHINA: U.S. DAMAGING RELATIONS
China fired back Friday, saying the United States is damaging
ties between the countries by highlighting cyber attacks alleged
by Google.