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Monday, January 18, 2010 BEVERLY HILLS: Despite being one of the more glitzy and glamorous runways in Hollywood, the red carpet at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards stayed, as A-list stars said they were more concerned about Haiti than golden statuettes. While stars like Julia Roberts, James Cameron, and Kate Hudson shined on the carpet, George Clooney said not to be fooled by the festivities - everyone was thinking about Haiti. He was using the carpet as a chance to get stars to join his Haiti relief telethon, due to air later in the week. George Clooney said, "Almost everyone you talk to is involved and I'm using this as a recruiting night, so I'll be going around getting some phone numbers." Sandra Bullock confirmed that Haiti was on the top of her list. She said, "You're here to entertain, but if it's not on your mind, you're not a human being, but I can honestly say that every single person is trying to put a smile on their face, have a g...

Monday, January 18, 2010 KIEV: Ukraine braced for a nail-biting run-off between two old rivals in presidential elections after the first round vote eliminated discredited Orange Revolution hero President Viktor Yushchenko. Exit polls and partial results showed the election was led by pro-Russia politician Viktor Yanukovich, the man accused of rigging 2004 elections which sparked the Orange Revolution uprising that swept the old order from power. Second place was set to go to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a former Orange Revolution comrade of Yushchenko who subsequently fell out with the president and adopted a more pragmatic tone on relations with Russia. As Yanukovich failed to win a majority in Sunday's first round, the election will go to a second round on February 7 with all to play for between the two old foes who have savaged each other's reputation in the campaign. The exit polls showed Yushchenko taking a miserable six percent of the vote, a reflection of Uk...

Monday, January 18, 2010 BEVERLY HILLS: James Cameron has won thebest-director Golden Globe for his science-fiction blockbuster``Avatar,'' which is following in the footsteps of his ``Titanic'' as a box-office record-breaker and awards darling. ``Avatar'' also was up for best drama Sunday night, along with the Harlem tale ``Precious,'' the recession tale ``Up in the Air' 'and the war stories ``The Hurt Locker'' and ``Inglourious Basterds.'' Among acting winners are Meryl Streep as chef Julia Child in ``Julie & Julia,'' Mo'Nique as a loathsome, abusive welfare mother in ``Precious'' and Christoph Waltz as a gleefully bloodthirsty Naziin ``Inglourious Basterds.'' Globe wins could boost recipients' prospects at the Oscars, whose nominations balloting closes Saturday.

Monday, January 18, 2010 MANILA: A Philippine official says a 5-year-old girl was killed and 4,000 people were left homeless in a fire that razed a squatters' colony near the main port in the capital. Senior Fire Officer Emmanuel Gaspar says 500 shanties were gutted by a fire that broke out late Saturday at Manila's Baseco Compound, a crowded slum along the rim of Manila Bay. Gaspar said Sunday that a 5-year-old girl died in the fire but that there were no other reports of deaths or injuries. An Associated Press photographer at the site saw people waiting to be treated for minor injuries, including wounds from glass shards. The cause of the fire, which raged for about two hours, is still under investigation.

Monday, January 18, 2010 KANO: Clashes erupted between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria's central city of Jos Sunday, killing at least 10 people and prompting the government to impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew, residents and officials said. The fighting started when Christian youths protested the building of a mosque in Christian-dominated Nassarawa Gwom district, where houses and vehicles were also set alight, residents said. "Ten bodies have so far been brought to the hospital, some with gunshot wounds," a nurse at the Jos University Teaching Hospital told media on condition of anonymity. Six wounded people were also admitted, all with deep cuts, he said. A journalist in the city, a flashpoint for inter-religious violence, said he had seen nine bodies in the hospital and several wounded, some by machetes. Several houses and vehicles were also torched, said the journalist, Musa Habibu. "I was at the Jos University hospital where I saw nine dead bodies and...

Monday, January 18, 2010 PARIS: A huge wave-generating quake capable of killing as many people as in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami could strike off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and the city of Padang is in the firing line, a team of seismologists said on Sunday. The group -- led by a prominent scientist who predicted a 2005 Sumatran quake with uncanny accuracy -- issued the warning in a letter to the journal Nature Geoscience. The peril comes from a relentless buildup of pressure over the last two centuries on a section of the Sunda Trench, one of the world's most notorious earthquake zones, which runs parallel to the western Sumatra coast, they said. This section, named after the Mentawai islands, "is near failure," the letter warned bluntly. "The threat of a great tsunamigenic earthquake with a magnitude of more than 8.5 on the Mentawai patch is unabated. (...) There is potential for loss of life on the scale of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami." ...