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02/16/12--14:00: Bringing 'normal' to sick, lonely kids (chan 1661740)

Battling a life-threatening disease is tough at any age, but it can be especially difficult for young children who have to be kept in isolation.






02/22/12--02:24: A parent's nightmare in shelled Homs (chan 1661740)

The shrapnel wound is in the toddler's left side. The boy needs "a proper hospital," the doctor says, not the makeshift clinic in the Syrian city of Homs where he's being treated.






02/22/12--14:57: Chavez says he will go to Cuba for surgery (chan 1661740)

Speculation and messages of support surged in Venezuela Wednesday, a day after President Hugo Chavez announced he would travel to Cuba for surgery.






02/22/12--21:13: Argentina train crash kills 50 (chan 1661740)

Argentina's president declared a two-day mourning period after a commuter train plowed into a barrier at a Buenos Aires station, killing 50 people and injuring hundreds more.






02/23/12--02:41: Inside Australia's political 'soap opera' (chan 1661740)

In announcing his resignation as Foreign Minister Wednesday, Kevin Rudd referred to the "soap opera" underway in Australian politics.






02/23/12--08:05: Somali militants target addicts (chan 1661740)

Turn down any rundown street in any one of the "mini-Mogadishus" that now pepper Britain's cities, and you'll see young men congregating outside what look like shuttered shop fronts. But look closer. There are no signs and no distinguishing features to help those who don't know what lies on the other side of these battered doorways.






02/23/12--09:43: Germany asked to stop castrating sex criminals (chan 1661740)

Europe's top human rights watchdog has urged Germany to stop offering sexual offenders the option of surgical castration.






02/23/12--10:19: Dozens killed in wave of attacks across Iraq (chan 1661740)

A series of explosions and shootings killed 44 people and injured more than 200 in Baghdad and elsewhere Thursday morning, Iraqi police said.






02/23/12--10:59: Taliban: Kill NATO troops over Quran burning (chan 1661740)

President Barack Obama apologized to Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the burning of Qurans by NATO troops, calling the act an inadvertent error, Karzai's office and National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said Thursday.






02/23/12--12:06: Why isn't the world intervening in Syria? (chan 1661740)

As the death toll grows in Syria, so do the desperate pleas for help. So why isn't the world responding? Here are some of the reasons why.