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US diplomat meets Libyan rebels

BENGHAZI: The highest-ranking US diplomat in the Middle East was in this de facto rebel capital Monday to meet rebels fighting Muammar Gaddafi. A State Department statement called the visit by Jeffrey Feltman,Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs,another signal of USs support for the rebels.

Former Palin aide pens tell-all

JUNEAU: A former member of Sarah Palins inner circle Frank Bailey has written a scathing tell-all Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years to be released Tuesday. In 2009,I had the sense if she made it to the White House and I had stayed silent,I could never forgive myself, Bailey said.

Allendes body exhumed for autopsy

SANTIAGO: The remains of deposed Chilean president Salvador Allende were removed from his tomb Monday for an autopsy to determine if he committed suicide or was assassinated during the 1973 military coup that ousted him. Forensic pathologists will study his remains at request of his family.

UK woman gets 10 mn for failed facelift

LONDON: A British woman who claims a botched facelift left her with a monster eye was awarded nearly 6.2 million by the High Court Monday. Penny Johnson,49,sued her surgeon,Dr Le Roux Fourie after receiving a facelift she described as experimental in 2003.