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Two fires still raging along California's central coast
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:04:04

A firefighter walks along a large hill backfire on a wildfire burn in Big Sur, Calif., Friday, July 4, 2008. The raging blaze near Big Sur was one of more than 1,700 wildfires, mostly ignited by lightning, that have scorched more then 770 square miles and destroyed 64 structures across northern and central California since June 20, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.  (AP Photo/ Tony Avelar)AP - Cool, damp weather early Saturday helped crews gain ground on the huge wildfire that wiped out this coastal retreat's holiday tourist trade, allowing some personnel and gear to be shifted to a growing blaze farther south



Obama: Response to Iraq remarks overblown
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:26:34

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., talks to reporters in his campaign charter en route to St. Louis, Mo., Saturday, July 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Barack Obama said Saturday that he was surprised at how the media has "finely calibrated" his recent words on Iraq, and denied that he intends to anything but end the war if he is elected.



Employers use federal law to deny benefits
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:04:43

Melissa Amschwand-Bellinger shown Wednesday, July 2, 2008  in Houston. Dying of cancer, her husband did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer.  (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer.



Rescue video shows duped rebels, elated hostages
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:21:00

In this frame grab from a video released by Colombia's Army taken on July 2, 2008 and released on July 4, 2008, hostage Ingrid Betancourt, center, is seen with her hands tied together as she stands with unidentified hostages during a Colombian military mission that rescued them from captivity in an unknown location in Colombia's Guaviare state.  Betancourt is one of 15 hostages rescued by Colombia's military from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.  Betancourt was abducted by the FARC when running for president in Feb. 2002. (AP Photo/Colombian Army)AP - Military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a film crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.



Iran indicates it has no plans to halt enrichment
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:11:05

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) waves to journalists as Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili stands in the background before an official meeting in Tehran July 1, 2008. Iran said on Saturday its nuclear stance had not changed and it was ready to hold talks with world major powers over its disputed nuclear program based on international regulations. (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters)AP - Iran indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium, a day after Tehran sent the European Union a response to an international offer of incentives for halting enrichment.



Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:08:17

Black-I Robotics founder Brian Hart, whose son was killed during an ambush in Iraq in 2003, poses in Tyngsborough, Mass., Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007 with a six-wheel cost-effective robot that his company designed to protect troops and perform certain risky missions.  (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.



Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong right now'
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:32:15

In this March 7, 2008 file photo, trader Richard Tandy Jr., center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The nation's psyche is battered and bruised, the sense of pessimism palpable. The Independence Day holiday is typically a time to honor all that we are as a nation, but the feeling is there's less to celebrate on this our 232nd birthday. Happy? It would seem not. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)AP - Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days.



Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:17:07

Kent Couch lifts off from his gas station in Bend, Ore., in his lawn chair rigged with more than 150 giant party balloons, Saturday, July 5, 2008. Couch, 48, is making his third cluster balloon flight and hopes to go more than 200 miles to Idaho before running out of daylight or helium. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)AP - Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.



Spitzer call girl drops 'Girls Gone Wild' lawsuit
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:20:43

This undated image obtained from a MySpace Web page shows Ashley Dupre, the former call girl for ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York. Dupre dropped a $10 million lawsuit claiming 'Girls Gone Wild' founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet. (AP Photo, file)AP - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.



Venus beats Serena for her 5th Wimbledon title
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:01:53

Venus Williams of USA celebrates after beating her sister Serena 7-5, 6-4, in the Women's Singles Final, during the 2008 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Tennis Club in south-west London. Williams admitted she would love to go on and match Martina Navratilova's record of nine Wimbledon titles after overcoming sister Serena to notch up title number five.(AFP/POOL/Glyn Kirk)AP - This time, big sister put little sister in her place. Advantage, Miss Venus Williams. She defeated Serena 7-5, 6-4 Saturday for her fifth Wimbledon title and second in a row.



Obama "puzzled" by Iraq comment frenzy (Reuters)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:54:52

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) addresses a news conference after meeting with his foreign policy advisory panel of former Democratic U.S. government officials at a hotel in Washington June 18, 2008. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Saturday his plan to end the Iraq war was unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his statement this week that he might "refine" his timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat troops.



Mississippi River reopens as flooding wanes (Reuters)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:49:52

Houses sit in flood waters from the Mississippi River in La Grange, Missouri June 18, 2008. (Frank Polich/Reuters)Reuters - The Mississippi River, the most important U.S. commercial waterway, reopened to water navigation on Saturday after much of it was closed for nearly a month due to the worst flooding in 15 years.



Colombia foils bomb plot after rescue (Reuters)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:52:07

A Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla watches hostages being moved towards a helicopter during a rescue operation in Colombia July 2, 2008 in this frame grab taken on July 4, 2008. (Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Colombia found explosives set to be used in bombs across the capital in reprisal for this week's rescue of leftist rebels' highest-profile hostages, including Ingrid Betancourt, military officials said on Saturday.



Film shows Zimbabwe vote rigged: report (Reuters)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:44:12

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe (R) talks to Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) Director General Happyton Bonyongwe (L) and Army Commander General Constantine Chiwenga (C) on his arrival at Harare International airport, July 4, 2008. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)Reuters - A film secretly taken by a Zimbabwe prison guard and smuggled out of the country shows the extent of the rigging that took place for the June 27 presidential run-off vote, the Guardian said on Saturday.



Williams sisters storm to Wimbledon doubles title (Reuters)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:52:06

Venus Williams (R) embraces her sister Serena after defeating her in their finals match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London July 5, 2008. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)Reuters - Venus and Serena Williams returned to Center Court three hours after doing battle in the singles final to secure the Wimbledon doubles title with a 6-2 6-2 thumping of American Lisa Raymond and Australian Samantha Stosur on Saturday.



Iran vows to pursue nuclear work (Reuters)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:13:22

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) waves to journalists as Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili stands in the background before an official meeting in Tehran July 1, 2008. Iran said on Saturday its nuclear stance had not changed and it was ready to hold talks with world major powers over its disputed nuclear program based on international regulations. (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters)Reuters - Iran vowed on Saturday to pursue its uranium enrichment program, a day after delivering its response to an incentives package by world powers trying to curb its nuclear ambitions.



Protests as G8 gathers for diplomacy (Reuters)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:25:48

An anti-G8 activist is detained by police officers during a march in Sapporo on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido July 5, 2008 ahead of next week's G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit. (Issei Kato/Reuters)Reuters - Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations meet this week in northern Japan to grapple with a raft of problems from soaring food and fuel prices to African poverty and global warming amid doubts about how much the annual diplomatic pageant can achieve.



Lebanese leaders close to government deal (Reuters)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:29:36

A Lebanese soldier sits on an armoured personnel carrier in front of a giant poster of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora in Beirut May 28, 2008. Lebanese leaders are close to a deal on the formation of a national unity government as stipulated in an agreement that ended the country's political crisis, political sources said on Saturday. (Jamal Saidi/Reuters)Reuters - Lebanese leaders are finalizing a deal on the formation of a national unity government as stipulated in an agreement that ended the country's political crisis, political sources said on Saturday.



Iran offers talks but without nuclear freeze (AFP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:51:46

Two workers at Iran's nuclear facilities in Isfahan. Iran on Saturday offered to negotiate on its nuclear drive but without a freeze on uranium enrichment, in its first comments since responding to an international package aimed at ending the standoff.(AFP/File/Henghameh Fahimi)AFP - Iran on Saturday offered to negotiate on its nuclear drive but without a freeze on uranium enrichment, in its first comments since responding to an international package aimed at ending the standoff.



Mbeki meets Mugabe and in Zimbabwe (AFP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:35:55

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe (L) jokes with Arthur Mutambara, head of the dissident MDC faction in Harare. South African President Thabo Mbeki, chief regional negotiator on the Zimbabwe crisis, has met with Mugabe and leaders of a breakaway faction of the main opposition party.(AFP/Alexander Joe)AFP - South African President Thabo Mbeki, chief regional negotiator on the Zimbabwe crisis, met here Saturday with President Robert Mugabe and leaders of a breakaway faction of the main opposition party.



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