Winnipeg Free Press

1. November 20, 2008

2. Somalia's pirates key to a better life

   By Mohamed Olad Hassan MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women -- even hiring caterers to prepare western-style food for their hostages.

3. NASA, Google create 'interplanetary Internet'

   By Tom Spears OTTAWA -- The Internet has always reached shuttles in orbit, but they are only 400 kilometres from Earth. But now NASA and Google Inc. have successfully created an Internet connection millions of kilometres into space that just might someday portend Internet cafés on Mars.

4. November 19, 2008

5. Devils Lake outlet closes for winter

   DEVILS LAKE, N.D. -- A North Dakota official says the contentious Devils Lake outlet has been shut down for the winter, after running all summer and into the fall.

6. Bill Clinton offers concessions to help Hillary

   CHICAGO -- Democrats familiar with president-elect Barack Obama's vetting process for a new administration say former president Bill Clinton has offered several concessions to help Hillary Clinton become secretary of state.

7. November 18, 2008

8. Obama, McCain promise to unite to fix government

   By Beth Fouhy CHICAGO -- President-elect Barack Obama and former Republican rival John McCain pledged Monday to work together on ways to change Washington's "bad habits," though aides to both men said it was unlikely McCain would serve in an Obama cabinet.

9. Somali pirates plunder oil-laden supertanker

   By Barbara Surk DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Somali pirates hijacked a supertanker hundreds of kilometres off the Horn of Africa, seizing the Saudi-owned ship loaded with crude and its 25-member crew, the U.S. navy said Monday.

10. Around The World

    Shanghai trial underway

    SHANGHAI, China -- The trial of an 18-year-old man accused of murdering Canadian model Diana O'Brien in China began Monday.

11. November 17, 2008

12. DND to ask feds for new armoured vehicles

    By David Pugliese The Department of National Defence plans to ask the government to approve a multi-billion-dollar package to purchase new armoured vehicles and rebuild others that have been worn down by continued use in Afghanistan.

13. Around The World

    Iraq security deal passed

    BAGHDAD -- Iraq's cabinet Sunday approved a security pact with the United States that will allow American forces to stay in Iraq for three years after their United Nations mandate expires at the end of the year.

14. November 16, 2008

15. G20 agree on measures to ease crisis

    By Lee-Anne Goodman WASHINGTON -- Canadians can breathe a bit easier about the global economic meltdown after the world's most powerful countries agreed on a series of measures to help ease the crisis, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Saturday.

16. Racial tension grows in U.S.

    By Jesse Washington Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.

17. Obama has own ideas for cure

    WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama wants to see shifts in how some of the biggest economic problems are being handled, from helping the troubled auto industry to aiding homeowners fighting foreclosure, he said in an interview.

18. Wildfires devastate California

    By Shaya Mohajer LOS ANGELES -- Southern Californians weathered a second straight day of devastation Saturday as wind-blasted wildfires destroyed hundreds of homes, shut down major freeways and forced thousands of residents in the path of flames to flee to safety.

19. Protests target gay-marriage ban

    BOSTON -- Gay rights supporters waving rainbow colours as they marched, chanted and danced in U.S. cities coast to coast Saturday to protest the California vote that banned gay marriage there.

20. Travel guide touts New York City pet cemetery

    WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- A travel guide's list of the best places in the world to be entombed includes a cemetery for animals near New York City.

21. One more river to cross

    AUSTIN, Texas — For all the talk of glass ceil­ings, it’s the ground floor where women find themselves stymied.

22. Voters are city-dwellers with a reverence for rural life

    By Tom Hundley CHICAGO -- Not only is Barack Obama the first African-American to win the presidency, the Chicagoan is also the first winning candidate in more than a century to openly adopt a Big City ethos.

23. November 15, 2008

24. Obama’s election spurs hundreds of race threats

    By Jesse Washington Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.

25. Clinton in the running

    CHICAGO -- President-elect Barack Obama has met with his former rival for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton, and is considering her as a candidate for secretary of state, Democratic officials said.

26. Obama to do radio, YouTube addresses

    CHICAGO -- This isn't your grandfather's fireside chat.

27. Exploding inferno in Santa Barbara

    By Amy Taxin SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Firefighters struggled Friday against an out-of-control wildfire that destroyed at least 100 homes in a wealthy, celebrity-studded enclave, flaring up so fast that it caught some terrified residents behind the automatic gates of their mansions.

28. The World

    Internet affair ends marriage

    LONDON -- British newspapers say an Internet affair in the online community Second Life has shattered a real-life marriage in England.

29. November 14, 2008

30. Obama vote leaving souls at risk: priest

    By Meg Kinnard COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion and supporting him "constitutes material co-operation with intrinsic evil."
    
    Clinton being considered for secretary of state

31. Charles, now 60, still waiting to become king

    By Gregory Katz LONDON -- By the time he turns 60 on Friday, Prince Charles will have spent a lifetime in line to become king.

32. King family demands fees for election souvenirs

    By Errin Haines ATLANTA -- Zealous guardians of his words and his likeness, the family of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is demanding a share of the proceeds from the sudden wave of T-shirts, posters and other merchandise depicting the civil-rights leader alongside Barack Obama.

33. Suffer the little children lost in Congo

    By Anita Powell Kibati, Congo -- Rebecca Nyiringindi scanned the sprawling refugee camp in eastern Congo, searching for just one person among the thousands of hungry and homeless.

34. President-elect to resign from Senate on Sunday

    By Liz Sidoti CHICAGO -- President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday he will resign from the Senate effective Sunday.

35. Brown clouds over Asia darken cities, affect climate

    BEIJING -- Thick brown clouds of soot, particles and chemicals stretching from the Persian Gulf to Asia threaten health and food supplies in the world, the UN reported Thursday.

36. Murder, incest charges for Austrian

    By William J. Kole VIENNA, Austria -- Prosecutors filed a murder charge Thursday against an Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children, saying one of the youngsters who died in infancy might have survived if had been taken to a doctor.

37. Design flaw brought bridge down

    By Frederic J. Frommer WASHINGTON -- Investigators are blaming a design flaw for last year's deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis.

38. The World

    Swiss denounce Israel

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