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At least 9 climbers feared dead on K-2

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:29:00 EDT

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — At least nine climbers were feared dead on K-2, the world's second highest mountain, after an avalanche cut ropes used to cross a treacherous wall of ice, officials and other climbers said yesterday.

Afghan mothers keep their kids with them in prison

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:28:00 EDT

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Three-year-old Wahid nervously clutched a dirty blue stuffed bunny, as the other children in the prison huddled around.
"Are you taking us to an orphanage?" he wanted to know.

Louisiana boy hospitalized after alligator attack

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:40:00 EDT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Doctors were unable to reattach an 11-year-old Louisiana boy's arm that was retrieved from the belly of the alligator, a family friend said yesterday.
Doctors at Ochsner Hospital worked Wednesday night to reattach Devin Funck's left arm, which had been rushed to a hospital after its recovery about 31/2 hours after the attack. But family friend Cory Dunn said the effort was unsuccessful.

Mexicans working in US sending less money home

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:21:00 EDT

ATOTONILCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexicans working in other countries are sending less money home, threatening businesses, stalling construction and choking cash flow to hamlets where as much as half the population works in the United States.

In the iconic pubs of Britain, ale sales ail

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:11:00 EDT

LONDON (AP) — Raise a pint to the old British pub: Dark-paneled, fixed on the English landscape — and, more than ever these days, empty.
Beer sales in British pubs have slumped to their lowest level since the Great Depression, including a 10 percent drop in pints drawn in just the past year, an industry group said yesterday.

Bombs strike Istanbul neighborhood, killing 16

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:24:00 EDT

STANBUL, Turkey (AP) — Two bombs exploded minutes apart in a packed Istanbul square last night, killing 16 and injuring more than 150 in the deadliest attack against civilians in Turkey in almost five years.

Londonderry budget panel cuts Red Cross request

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:54:00 EDT

LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) — The town budget committee cut a request from the Red Cross from the proposed budget when a Red Cross representative missed a committee meeting Thursday evening because he responding to the tornado that hit 11 towns.

Obama addresses huge crowd in Berlin

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:44:00 EDT

BERLIN (AP) — Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama yesterday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago.

Castro cryptic on Russian bomber report

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:47:00 EDT

HAVANA (AP) — Ailing Fidel Castro said yesterday that Cuba's president was right to adopt a "dignified silence" over a Moscow newspaper report that Russia may send nuclear bombers to the island, and said Cuba doesn't owe any explanation to Washington about the story.

Obama meets Afghan president Karzai

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:26:00 EDT

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama pledged steadfast aid to Afghanistan in talks yesterday with its Western-backed leader and vowed to pursue the war on terror "with vigor" if elected, an Afghan official said.

Poles who rescued Jews from the Holocaust honored in Warsaw

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:25:00 EDT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Wanda Bulik was only 18 when a conductor approached her on a train during the height of World War II and asked her to take care of an abandoned 3-year-old Jewish boy found traveling alone.

Singer and radio star Jo Stafford dies at 90

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:00:00 EDT

LOS ANGELES — Jo Stafford, the honey-voiced band singer who starred in radio and television and sold more than 25 million records with her ballads and folks songs, has died. She was 90.
Stafford died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at her Century City home, her son, Tim Weston of Topanga, said Friday. She had been in declining health since October, he said.

Jolie and twins slip out of hospital in Nice

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:00:00 EDT

PARIS (AP) — Angelina Jolie has left the building. Oh, and so have the twins.
Before dawn yesterday, the Hollywood superstar and her newborn twins left the French Riviera hospital where she gave birth a week ago, the hospital said in a statement.

Pope: All faiths must unite against those who use religion to justify violence

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:23:00 EDT

SYDNEY, Australia — Pope Benedict XVI told representatives of Islam and other faiths that they must unite to combat religion's role in "sinister and indiscriminate" violence.
Without mentioning terrorism directly, the pontiff said there were those in who were using religion "as a cause of division rather than a force for unity" in a 40-minute exchange with Australian Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist leaders in Sydney.

Iraq scores diplomatic win with visit by Turkish prime minister

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:36:00 EDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Turkey's prime minister visited Iraq yesterday and Kuwait promised to name its first ambassador in two decades, diplomatic victories for a fragile country that seeks fuller ties and clout with once-skeptical and suspicious neighbors.

Indonesian man executed for mass murder

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:07:00 EDT

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has executed a man for killing 42 women and girls in a series of ritual slayings.
An Attorney General Office spokesman said 57-year-old Ahmad Suradji was killed by firing squad late yesterday.

Rice says US won't back down; Iran fires back

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:06:00 EDT

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran yesterday that the United States will not back down in the face of threats against Israel.
Iran answered with another missile launch.

Japanese labor bureau rules that engineer died from overwork

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:03:00 EDT

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese labor bureau has ruled that one of Toyota Motor Corp.'s top car engineers died from working too many hours, the latest decision against overwork in Japan, where stoic acceptance of extended overtime has long been the norm.

Gunmen attack US consulate in Turkey; 6 dead

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:02:00 EDT

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — Gunmen believed inspired by al-Qaida stormed a guard post at the U.S. consulate yesterday, touching off a firefight that killed three police and three assailants in the latest sign of Turkey's difficulty in clamping down on homegrown militants.

Panda moved after China quake gives birth to twins

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:00:00 EDT

BEIJING (AP) — A panda who was relocated after China's deadly earthquake damaged her home gave birth to twin cubs yesterday, a state news agency said.
Guo Guo is the first panda to give birth since the 7.9-magnitude quake struck Sichuan province on May 12, killing nearly 70,000 people and leaving 5 million homeless, Xinhua News Agency reported.