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At least 19 people were wounded in a car explosion in Pakistan's commercial center Karachi on Saturday, Pakistani media reported.
It is impossible to ensure 100% security for the pope without erecting a barrier between him and believers, the Vatican spokesman said after an attack at Benedict XVI on Thursday night.
Pope Benedict XVI was knocked down by a woman at St. Peter's Basilica during the Christmas Eve service but is feeling well 

Azerbaijan will double natural gas supplies to Russia to 1 billion cubic meters per year from 2010, the president of the State Oil and Gas Company said on Saturday.
RIAN News Service looks back at the main events of the outgoing year; below the month-by-month review of 2009 continues, with July
The Thai government may report its probe to the UN into the recent seizure of a cargo plane laden with illegal weaponry from North Korea later in 2009, Britain's envoy to the U.N. said on Saturday.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers killed three Palestinians in the West Bank and another three in the Gaza Strip early on Saturday, Israel's Haaretz reported.
The UN Security Council could introduce new sanctions against Iran by late February unless Tehran accepts the Iran Six's offer on its controversial nuclear dossier, Britain's UN envoy said on Saturday.
China inaugurated on Saturday a high-speed railway with the world's fastest train running at a speed of more than 380 kmh (236 mph), the Xinhua news agency said.
Ten people died and two were injured in a coach accident in Malaysia's northwest city of Ipoh in the early hours of Saturday, the Xinhua news agency said.
At least nine people died and five were injured when a fire broke out on board a Greek-flagged cargo vessel off Venezuela's coast.
A self-proclaimed terrorist detained at Detroit airport after allegedly trying to blow up a plane has appeared on a U.S. intelligence agency's "watch-list".
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has expressed his solidarity with Pope Benedict XVI who was attacked by a Swiss woman at St. Peter's Basilica during the Christmas Eve service.
U.S. intelligence officials arrested a passenger who was reportedly trying to blow up a plane after it landed at Detroit airport.
Russia's largest retail savings bank Sberbank has demanded compensation from General Motors for the failed Opel deal, threatening to sue the U.S. automaker if the demand is not met.
World's largest 20-meter long ambulance car capable of carrying up to 100 patients has started to operate in Dubai.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has slammed ex-Georgian premier and now opposition politician Zurab Nogaideli for his ties with Russia.



