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Hurricane Norbert becomes Category 3 storm off Mexico

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:45:37 +0000

MIAMI - The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Norbert has strengthened to a Category 3 storm in the Pacific Ocean. The hurricane is forecast to hit Mexico's Baja California peninsula by the ...

McCain linked to group in Iran-Contra affair

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:35:11 +0000

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain served on the advisory board to the U.S. chapter of an international group linked to ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America in the 1980s. The U.S....

British government to partially nationalize banks

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:35:21 +0000

LONDON - The British government has announced plans to partially nationalize major banks, with taxpayers taking a share stake in a bid to restore stability. The Treasury made the announcement Wedne...

Hurricane Norbert strengthens off Mexico's coast

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:35:00 +0000

MEXICO CITY - The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Norbert has strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane off Mexico's Pacific coast and could threaten land. Forecasters say the storm is moving we...

Official says plane crash in Nepal kills 17

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:35:02 +0000

KATHMANDU, Nepal - An airport official says a Yeti Airlines plane has crashed in Nepal, killing 17 people, including 14 tourists from Germany and Switzerland and two Nepalese crew members. Mohan Ad...

Obama, McCain debate U.S. economic crisis in televised 'town hall' face-off

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:35:14 +0000

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama and John McCain clashed on the issues most worrisome to Americans on Tuesday - how to hold onto their homes, their jobs and to afford health insurance for their families amid...

Russia complies with peace deal by beginning final pullout from Georgia

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:35:01 +0000

KARALETI, Georgia - Russian forces appear to have begun the final stage of a pullback from positions inside Georgia near the breakaway South Ossetia region. A main Russian checkpoint on a road lead...

No jail for Washington state man who posted he'd shoot up mall

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:34:50 +0000

SEATTLE - A man pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct Tuesday for writing on a newspaper website that he was going to shoot up a shopping mall one day after a shooting spree in another Washington state...

Qantas plane had glitch before altitude plunge

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:34:52 +0000

SYDNEY, Australia - Instruments aboard a Qantas airliner warned of a glitch in its stabilization system when it suddenly rose and plunged, tossing unbelted passengers to the ceiling and injuring more ...

Palin speaks with group of reporters

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:08:48 +0000

GREENVILLE, N.C. - After weeks of limited contact with the news media, Republican vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin ventured to the back of her campaign plane Tuesday and answered several question...

Qantas flyers injured in sudden altitude plunge

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:08:53 +0000

SYDNEY, Australia - Australia's air safety bureau is investigating the sudden altitude plunge of a Qantas airplane that left as many as 40 people injured, 20 of them seriously, during a flight from Si...

Nobel physics prize goes to 2 Japanese scientists, 1 American

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:36:44 +0000

Two Japanese scientists and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for theoretical advances that help explain the behaviour of the smallest particles of matter. The American, Yo...

Mexican man dies after pleading for help with obesity problem

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:05:58 +0000

JUAREZ, Mexico - A 990-pound, bedridden man who had appealed on Mexican television for help tackling his weight problem died Tuesday of heart failure, his family said. Emergency officials had to kn...

Obama wishes he had more time for staying fit, admits he sometimes smokes

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:05:56 +0000

NEW YORK - Barack Obama says he wishes he had more time for staying fit. And the Democratic presidential candidate admits that he still occasionally smokes a cigarette. His wife, Michelle, pressure...

UN chief sees obstacles to helping in violence-racked Darfur, Somalia

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:06:01 +0000

UNITED NATIONS - The UN chief says he is greatly concerned about the security of food aid that three million Somalis depend on in light of increasing piracy in waters around the Horn of Africa. Sec...