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Jan-26-2008
Miss Michigan Kirsten Haglund, a 19-year-old aspiring Broadway star, was crowned Miss America 2008 in a live show billed as the unveiling of the 87-year-old pageant's new, hipper look.
Jan-26-2008
It was reported that some 15,000 birds had died over the last month around Utah’s Great Salt Lake due to avian cholera, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella multocida. The disease was introduced into the wild during the 1940s from US domestic poultry.
Jan-26-2008
In Afghanistan gunmen kidnapped Cyd Mizell (49), a burqa-clad American aid worker, and her driver, Abdul Hadi, while they were driving through a residential section of Kandahar. She worked for the aid agency Asian Rural Life Development Foundation.
Jan-26-2008
Egyptian riot police and armored vehicles restricted Gaza motorists to a small border area of Egypt, in the second attempt in two days to restore control over the chaotic frontier breached by Hamas militants. At least 36 Egyptian security personnel have been hospitalized, including some in critical condition, due to border incidents with Palestinians.
Jan-26-2008
In Guyana gunmen stormed into Lusignan, a coastal village, and shot dead 11 people with 5 children among the dead. Police and government officials suspected a gang led by Rondell Rawlins, a former Guyanese soldier, is behind the violence. Rawlins has accused security forces of kidnapping his pregnant 18-year-old girlfriend days ago and police say he threatened to carry out attacks until she is found.
Jan-26-2008
A security chief for Sunni tribesmen who rose up against al-Qaida in Iraq said the Jan 23 explosion in northern Iraq was spearheaded by foreign fighters under the sponsorship of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of the Libyan leader. A former city official was stabbed to death along with his wife and daughter in their home in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad. An American soldier was killed by a bomb while on foot patrol in Baghdad.
Jan-26-2008
In Iraq a former city official was stabbed to death along with his wife and daughter in their home in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad. Elsewhere in the capital, an American soldiers was killed by a bomb while on foot patrol.
Jan-26-2008
In northern Jordan a tour bus collided with a water tanker, killing at least 21 people with 33 Injured.
Jan-26-2008
George Habash (81), former PLO leader, died in Jordan. His radical PLO faction gained notoriety after the simultaneous hijackings of four Western airliners in 1970 and the seizure of an Air France flight to Entebbe, Uganda.
Jan-26-2008
In Kenya sporadic gunshots rang in Nakuru as those forced from their homes by postelection violence threatened revenge. Police took 16 charred bodies to a mortuary, where onlookers sobbed.

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