CNN.com Monday, February 25, 2008

Pakistan has become the latest country to block access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube on the grounds that one or more videos on the site offends Islam, authorities said today. The Pakistani government is also asking YouTube to remove "objectionable content."

The Coen brothers' brutal tale "No Country for Old Men" won best picture at the 80th Academy Awards. The Coens also won best directing and adapted screenplay for "No Country," while the four acting Oscars went to Europeans.

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The New York Philharmonic Orchestra arrived in North Korea Monday to perform a historic concert in the secretive communist nation's capital.

A disabled, wheelchair-bound man blew himself up on Monday in a northern Iraqi police station, killing a top police official and wounding six police officers, police told CNN.

A powerful earthquake hit off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island Monday afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey's Web site reported.

Barack Obama defended himself Sunday against critics who point out that he once did not put his hand over his heart while singing the national anthem, that he does not wear an American flag lapel pin, and that he has met with former members of the violent, Vietnam-era organization Weather Underground.

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