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...Indonesia Coasting to Victory Exit polls indicated that incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono notched a decisive win in Indonesia's July 8 presidential election. More than 100 million people cast ballots in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Supporters laud Yudhoyono for fighting extremism and guiding the country through the global financial crisis...
There are a lot of those people. To date, Paul and Joe have played more than 500 shows in 49 states. (Give it up, Hawaii!) Paul (on guitar) and Joe (keyboards) dress in white shirts and orange-and-red-striped Gryffindor ties. They have a rotating cast of drummers, à la Spinal Tap, and are occasionally joined onstage by the giant squid that lives in the Hogwarts lake. Their hits include "Save Ginny Weasley," "Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock!" and "The Weapon We Have Is Love...
...Fallen - second in a possibly infinite series of testosterone-fueled toy stories - is at the three-quarters-of-a-billion mark after 26 days. Numbers like those are the main reason Hollywood's slavish adherence to remaking its biggest hits won't change anytime soon. (See pictures of the cast of Harry Potter growing up through the years...
...September (Israel accuses the international body of bias and has declined to cooperate with the probe). The latest salvo came on July 15, when Breaking the Silence - a human-rights organization of Israeli military veterans - published anonymous testimony allegedly recorded from some 30 Israeli soldiers involved in Operation Cast Lead. (See pictures of the damage suffered by Gaza after the Israeli invasion...
...abuse during the operation. While it said that mistakes led to civilian casualties in one or two isolated cases, the IDF concluded that there had been no instances of civilians deliberately killed by the defense force. Amnesty International and Palestinian sources say 1,400 Palestinians were killed during Operation Cast Lead, and that more than 900 of these were civilians, including 300 children and 115 women. The IDF in March put the Palestinian death toll at 1,166, of whom it said 295 were "uninvolved" civilians. Thirteen Israelis - three civilians and 10 soldiers, four of them felled by "friendly fire...