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BP lawsuits over oil spill take center stage (Reuters)
Reuters - More than 2,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico shoreline, a panel of U.S. judges heard arguments from lawyers on Thursday on how
Italy speaker refuses to resign, deepens crisis (Reuters)
Reuters - The influential speaker of Italy's lower house refused to step down on Friday after being censured by his own party, and said his ...
Afghan police fire shots to quell protest after accident (Reuters)
Reuters - Afghan police fired shots on Friday to disperse hundreds of people protesting the deaths of civilians in an accident involving a U.S. embassy ...
Haynesworth fails test again, misses practice (AP)
AP - Albert Haynesworth has failed his conditioning test for a second consecutive day and is being forced to sit out practice again at Washington ...
U.N. rights body tells Israel to end Gaza blockade (Reuters)
Reuters - Israel must lift its military blockade of the Gaza Strip and invite an independent, fact-finding mission to investigate its raid on a Gaza-bound ...
Berlusconi in crisis after revolt by key ally (AFP)
AFP - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday faced a parliamentary crisis after falling out in spectacular style with his one-time ally, lower house ...
AP source: Masoli accepts invite to visit Ole Miss (AP)
AP - Former Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli has accepted an invitation from Mississippi coach Houston Nutt to visit the school this weekend, a person familiar ...
U.S. embassy employees poisoned by mail: French police (Reuters)
Reuters - Three employees of the U.S. embassy in Paris were being treated for poisoning on Friday after opening mail, but there was no immediate ...
China overtakes Japan as No.2 economy: FX chief (Reuters)
Reuters - China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of ...
Lebanon hosts rare Arab leader summit (AFP)
AFP - Lebanon on Friday hosts a rare summit of regional leaders aimed at defusing tensions over reports of an impending indictment against Hezbollah members ...
Bangladesh garment workers riot over wage row (AFP)
AFP - Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers blocked highways, attacked factories and looted shops in Dhaka on Friday, police said, after rejecting the terms of ...
Obama to sell auto bailout good news in Michigan (AP)
AP - President Barack Obama is going to the heart of the U.S. auto industry to push an important election-year claim: his administration's unpopular auto ...
Pakistan search for black box into third day (AFP)
AFP - Investigators spent a third day searching Friday for the black box of a Pakistani jet that crashed into Islamabad's hills, killing all 152 ...
In Rhinebeck with Chelsea: Rocky Horror, cows (AP)
AP - If some of Chelsea Clinton's wedding guests want to make a weekend of it in Rhinebeck, there's a stage production of "The Rocky ...
3 US troops die, deadliest month of Afghan war (AP)
AP - Three U.S. service members were killed in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the ...
FBI access to e-mail and Web records raises fears (AP)
AP - Invasion of privacy in the Internet age. Expanding the reach of law enforcement to snoop on e-mail traffic or on Web surfing. Those ...
Economic growth seen slower in Q2 on imports (Reuters)
Reuters - Economic growth likely slowed in the second quarter as a capital investment drive by businesses was sated by imports and consumer spending tapered ...
House to take up offshore drilling reform bill (Reuters)
Reuters - Three months after the catastrophic oil rig explosion that sent millions of gallons of crude spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. ...
Economic growth likely slowed in second quarter (AP)
AP - The already fragile economic recovery may be getting weaker. ...
1,200 homes evacuated in LA Co. as fire spreads (AP)
AP - A brush fire swept over more than 7 square miles, prompted evacuations and burned structures in rural Los Angeles County Thursday as water-dropping ...