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NAGS HEAD, N.C. Aug 28, 2011 (AP) — Weaker but still menacing, Hurricane Irene knocked out power and piers in North Carolina, clobbered Virginia with wind and churned up the coast Saturday to confront cities more accustomed to snowstorms than tropical storms. New York City emptied its streets and subways and waited with an eerie quiet.

The US congress passed a debt ceiling bill, signed by Barack Obama on Tuesday, that will permit the US government to borrow more money, preventing a default on bond payments. The bill passed the House of Representatives by 269-161, and the Senate by 74-26, with opposition from Tea Party Republicans and liberal Democrats.

The bill calls for $2.1 trillion in spending cuts over the next ten years, and stipulates that a 12-member committee that will identify ways to reduce spending by November. No new revenues will be raised.

ROME, JULY 3, 2011.- Sexual discrimination isn't limited to the workplace. In many countries around the world unborn baby girls are being singled out for elimination.

Journalist Mara Hvistendahl chronicles the origins and extent of this in "Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, And the Consequences of a World Full of Men," (Public Affairs).

WASHINGTON – Ahead of Father's Day, President Barack Obama took time out from heavy rhetorics and devoted his regular Saturday radio and Internet adress to a universally domestic concern - fatherhood.

But for Obama, fatherhood is not simple or trivial calling it being sometimes his hardest job - but the most rewarding.

Manila, Philippines (June 12 2011) - The Philippines celebrates today its 113th Independence Day, the first under President Benigno C. Aquino III.

The president's independence day speech is expected to be a preview of his upcoming upcoming State of the Nation Address (SONA) in July, Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said yesterday.

Today's celebration kicks off with simultaneous flag raising in various historic sites.

MANILA, Philippines – Leaving no room for complacency despite the death of the world’s most-wanted  terrorist, President Aquino ordered yesterday the military and police to be on full alert for possible reprisal attacks from Osama Bin Laden’s sympathizers in the country.

“The death of Osama bin Laden marks a signal defeat for the forces of extremism and terrorism,” Aquino said in a statement.

MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) - The seemingly innocuous visit of two American senators to a former US naval base in Central Luzon in the Philippines has stirred a hornets' nest that could revive strong anti-American protests in the country.

What sparked the entire hullabaloo was a highly speculative story in one of Manila's leading dailies that said the visit of US Senators Daniel Inouye and Thad Cochran to the Subic Bay Freeport on Tuesday could be related to Washington's interest to revive its huge naval facility in Subic, now an economic zone.

The "war on terror" policy pursued by the past Macapagal-Arroyo administration should be declared as good as dead and should be abandoned by the incumbent President. That policy was based hook, line, and sinker on former U.S. President George W. Bush, Jr.'s neo-conservative theory linking Iraq to the 9/11 bombings. In retaliation to 9/11, Bush unleashed a borderless and pre-emptive "war on terror" to destroy Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction" (WMD) and for regime change.

IRIGA CITY (5 February 2011)—THE ASSOCIATION of overseas Irigueños from the U.S., Europe and the Middle East have arrived in this locality for the annual “Tinagba Festival”, considered the most celebrated harvest festival in the Bikol region in February.

Iriga City Mayor Madelaine Alfelor-Gazmen bared that among the highlights of the festival this year is “Tinagba Magbinaydan 2011” a grand home-coming of overseas Irigueños chaired by Melchor N. Margallo.

Gambling, whether done online or in brick and mortar casinos is always a touchy issue everywhere. This is proven once again when the  French government banned residents of France from playing money poker games at PokerStars.com , the world's largest poker online site. 

The 8th of December in the Catholic calendar is Immaculate Conception, a mystery of infinite density that non-Catholics would find allure in. Years and years ago, in 1941, this tremendous mystery, however, vanished with the skies filled by what were called then enemy planes.

That day was the beginning of the Second World War in our country.