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<description><![CDATA[A bus driver in India allegedly mowed down 17 passengers Wednesday, leaving seven of them dead, after a disagreement about fares, media reports said.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/05/8168951-report-india-bus-runs-over-17-after-dispute</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/05/8168951-report-india-bus-runs-over-17-after-dispute</guid><category>media</category><category>india</category><category>temple</category><category>driver</category><category>passengers</category><category>hindustan-times</category><category>allegedly</category><category>south-and-central-asia</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Wed, 5 Oct 2011 15:32:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Girl, 12, kills self to donate organs to family</title>
<description><![CDATA[A 12-year-old girl killed herself in order to donate her organs to family members, but was cremated before her wishes became known, according to a report.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/07/08/7042435-girl-12-kills-self-to-donate-organs-to-family</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/07/08/7042435-girl-12-kills-self-to-donate-organs-to-family</guid><category>life</category><category>her</category><category>wishes</category><category>father</category><category>organs</category><category>daily-mail</category><category>cremated</category><category>south-and-central-asia</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>mumpy</category><pubDate>Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:12:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Treasure worth billions reported in Hindu temple</title>
<description><![CDATA[THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India - A huge treasure has been found in a Hindu temple in southern India — gold and silver jewelry, coins and precious stones worth billions of dollars, Indian officials said Saturday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/07/03/7002650-treasure-worth-billions-reported-in-hindu-temple</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/07/03/7002650-treasure-worth-billions-reported-in-hindu-temple</guid><category>temple</category><category>news</category><category>found</category><category>discovery</category><category>afp</category><category>find</category><category>treasure</category><category>kerala</category><category>south-and-central-asia</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Sun, 3 Jul 2011 05:06:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110702-temple-vmed-10p.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="400" width="247" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110702-temple-vmed-10p.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="74" height="120" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;epa02807313 Senior police officials arrive to check the security measurements at Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. The inventory of the temple, maintained by the erstwhile royal family of Travancore, is being made by a seven-member Supreme Court of India, appointed panel. Precious stones, jewellery, gold and silver estimated to be worth several billion dollars have been found in the secret underground vaults of an ancient temple in southern India, a temple official said. The temple has six underground chambers, of which two are opened daily, and two twice a year. The two chambers opened on 30 June and&lt;br /&gt;
01 July were last looked at about 130 years ago, the temple‘s executive officer VK Harikumar said. The treasure recovered so far could be worth 500 billion rupees (11 billion dollars), the Hindustan Times quoted sources as saying.  EPA/STRINGER&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>For 9/11 families, 'Bogeyman can't come out of the closet'</title>
<description><![CDATA[The death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of American forces might bring a measure of justice, the families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks said, but as one noted: "There's no such thing as closure."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[JoNel Aleccia,  Senior Writer, NBC News]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[JoNel Aleccia,  Senior Writer, NBC News]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/02/6568061-for-911-families-bogeyman-cant-come-out-of-the-closet</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/02/6568061-for-911-families-bogeyman-cant-come-out-of-the-closet</guid><category>news</category><category>lynch</category><category>osama-bin-laden</category><category>bin</category><category>laden's</category><category>laden</category><category>osama</category><category>hanson</category><category>south-and-central-asia</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2011 18:10:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110501-monica-lawson-ugc-1a.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="400" width="312" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110501-monica-lawson-ugc-1a.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="94" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>2,060 diamonds swallowed in smuggling attempt</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHENNAI, INDIA - A Sri Lankan man swallowed more than 2,000 diamonds packed in several condoms but was arrested while attempting to smuggle them through an Indian airport, according to local media reports.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/28/5368393-2060-diamonds-swallowed-in-smuggling-attempt</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/28/5368393-2060-diamonds-swallowed-in-smuggling-attempt</guid><category>sri</category><category>news</category><category>diamonds</category><category>sri-lankan</category><category>chennai</category><category>smuggle</category><category>south-and-central-asia</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>suburban-police</category><category>bno-news-service</category><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:35:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>U.S. cautions citizens on India travel</title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. State Department is asking Americans traveling to India or living there to be alert and cautious during the 2010 Commonwealth Games Oct. 3-14 in New Delhi.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/02/5030024-us-cautions-citizens-on-india-travel</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/02/5030024-us-cautions-citizens-on-india-travel</guid><category>travel</category><category>india</category><category>crime</category><category>mission</category><category>state-department</category><category>new-delhi</category><category>alert</category><category>commonwealth-games</category><category>south-and-central-asia</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>new-delhi<p><p>an</category><pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 06:04:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Review of WikiLeaks docs sees no smoking gun</title>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. - An ongoing Pentagon review of the massive flood of secret documents made public by the WikiLeaks website has so far found no evidence that the disclosure harmed U.S. national security or endangered American troops in the field, a Pentagon official told NBC News on Monday. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Isikoff]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Michael Isikoff]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/26/4756830-review-of-wikileaks-docs-sees-no-smoking-gun</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/26/4756830-review-of-wikileaks-docs-sees-no-smoking-gun</guid><category>afghanistan</category><category>pentagon</category><category>news</category><category>obama</category><category>nbc-news</category><category>classified</category><category>documents</category><category>der-spiegel</category><category>wikileaks</category><category>south-and-central-asia</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>lapan</category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:27:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/100726-wikileaks-hmed-1p.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="266" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/100726-wikileaks-hmed-1p.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 26:  Julian Assange of the WikiLeaks website holds up a copy of The Guardian newspaper as he speaks to reporters in front of a Don McCullin Vietnam war photograph at The Front Line Club on July 26, 2010 in London, England. The WikiLeaks website has published 90,000 secret US Military records. The Guardian and The New York Times newspapers and the German Magazine Der Spiegel have also published details today.  (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) *** BEST PIX ***&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Details sketchy on bin Laden's whereabouts</title>
<description><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaida, has evaded capture by the United States for more than a decade. And although his public utterances are few, his capture or death remains a top U.S. priority.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Windrem ]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Robert Windrem ]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/09/3610062-details-sketchy-on-bin-ladens-whereabouts</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/09/3610062-details-sketchy-on-bin-ladens-whereabouts</guid><category>al-qaida</category><category>united-states</category><category>new-england</category><category>bin</category><category>laden</category><category>senate-armed-services-committee</category><category>capture</category><category>stanley-mcchrystal</category><category>south-and-central-asia</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:16:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>