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The Bush administration is pressing for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip that would include 3 main elements, including a halt to Hamas’ rocket attacks on Israel, the U.S. State Department said Monday.

Apple Inc. founder and Chief Executive Steve Jobs, looking to quell rumours about his health, said Monday his doctors have discovered a hormonal imbalance that has been causing his weight loss.

Israeli forces consolidated their hold on parts of Gaza’s north Monday, pounding the territory from the air, land and sea and killing at least 7 children and 6 other civilians in a bruising campaign against Hamas militants.

Thousands of Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships surrounded Gaza's largest city and fought militants at close range Sunday, the first complete day of an overwhelming ground offensive in the coastal territory.

A series of powerful earthquakes killed at least 4 people and injured dozens in remote eastern Indonesia Sunday and briefly triggered fears of another tsunami in a country still recovering from 2004′s deadly waves.

Israeli warplanes and gunboats blasted more than 2 dozen Hamas targets Saturday, including weapons storage facilities, training centres and leaders’ homes as Israel’s offensive against Gaza’s Islamic militant rulers entered a second week.

The Canadian military is under scrutiny today after taking more than 2 months to charge 1 of its own with the murder of an unarmed Afghan male, stirring memories of the darkest days in the force’s history.

It was the equivalent of finding an old Picasso or an unknown Beatles tape hidden in your uncle’s attic.

Israel allowed several hundred Palestinians with foreign passports to flee Gaza today, even as its warplanes bombed a mosque it said was used to store weapons and destroyed homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives.

Israel assassinated a Hamas strongman Thursday in its first assault on the top leadership of Gaza’s rulers, escalating a crushing aerial offensive even as it declared it was prepared to launch a ground invasion.