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  • File photo of a six-pack of Fosters beer in Melbourne
    SABMiller in hostile $10 billion bid for Foster's AP - 1 hr 8 mins ago

    SABMiller PLC, one of the world's largest brewers, has launched a hostile $10 billion bid Wednesday for Australian rival Foster's Group Ltd. after its board rejected a takeover offer. More »SABMiller in hostile $10 billion bid for Foster's

    File photo of a six-pack of Fosters beer in Melbourne

    SABMiller PLC, one of the world's largest brewers, has launched a hostile $10 billion bid Wednesday for Australian rival Foster's Group Ltd. after its board rejected a takeover offer.

  • Chinese Vice-Premier Li Keqiang chats with the Secretary for Development Carrie Lam in front of the background of Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour
    China appeals to US to focus on economic recovery AP - 1 hr 13 mins ago

    Chinese commentators are marking a visit by Vice President Joseph Biden by offering a struggling United States advice: Stop flooding your economy with cheap credit. More »China appeals to US to focus on economic recovery

    Chinese Vice-Premier Li Keqiang chats with the Secretary for Development Carrie Lam in front of the background of Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour

    Chinese commentators are marking a visit by Vice President Joseph Biden by offering a struggling United States advice: Stop flooding your economy with cheap credit.

  • Supporters of Muammar Gaddafi pose with his pictures during a gathering in Green Square in Tripoli
    Rebels launch push to consolidate Tripoli siege Reuters - 9 mins ago

    ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels launched an assault on an oil refinery on Wednesday to drive the last remaining troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi out of a city on Tripoli's outskirts and consolidate a siege of the … More »Rebels launch push to consolidate Tripoli siege

    Supporters of Muammar Gaddafi pose with his pictures during a gathering in Green Square in Tripoli

    ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels launched an assault on an oil refinery on Wednesday to drive the last remaining troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi out of a city on Tripoli's outskirts and consolidate a siege of the capital.

  • FILE - In this July 19, 2011 file photo, chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, James Murdoch, arrives at the News International headquarters in London. A letter from former News of the World reporter Clive Goodman obtained by the Guardian says that phone hacking was widely discussed and expressly endorsed by senior journalists at the now-defunct tabloid. The newspaper said Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011 that the letter - written by Goodman four years ago after he was released from prison - claimed that the illegal eavesdropping was carried out with "the full knowledge and support" of the paper's leadership. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)
    New letters bring scandal closer to Rupert Murdoch AP - 2 hrs 12 mins ago

    The taint of a hacking scandal is creeping closer to media baron Rupert Murdoch. More »New letters bring scandal closer to Rupert Murdoch

    FILE - In this July 19, 2011 file photo, chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, James Murdoch, arrives at the News International headquarters in London. A letter from former News of the World reporter Clive Goodman obtained by the Guardian says that phone hacking was widely discussed and expressly endorsed by senior journalists at the now-defunct tabloid. The newspaper said Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011 that the letter - written by Goodman four years ago after he was released from prison - claimed that the illegal eavesdropping was carried out with "the full knowledge and support" of the paper's leadership. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)

    The taint of a hacking scandal is creeping closer to media baron Rupert Murdoch.

  • In this Monday, July 25, 2011 photo, Vladimir Gavriushin sits at the grave he built for his daughter Yelena in a cemetery outside Vilnius, Lithuania. Yelena was one of the nearly 3,000 people killed on Sept. 11, 2001. Gavriushin has buried rocks from ground zero under these tombstone towers, far from the place Yelena died _ a place he can no longer afford to visit. And so, as the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks approaches, he mourns for her here, at his own ground zero. He remembers frantically calling his daughter that day amid the terrified crowds in Brooklyn, where he was at the time: "She never answered." (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
    Across the globe, families of 9/11 victims mourn AP - 2 hrs 38 mins ago

    In a Lithuanian cemetery, a world away from ground zero, the twin towers still stand. Vladimir Gavriushin lays white roses near the 6-foot granite replicas of the World Trade Center's skyscrapers, a memorial he built to honor … More »Across the globe, families of 9/11 victims mourn

    In this Monday, July 25, 2011 photo, Vladimir Gavriushin sits at the grave he built for his daughter Yelena in a cemetery outside Vilnius, Lithuania. Yelena was one of the nearly 3,000 people killed on Sept. 11, 2001. Gavriushin has buried rocks from ground zero under these tombstone towers, far from the place Yelena died _ a place he can no longer afford to visit. And so, as the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks approaches, he mourns for her here, at his own ground zero. He remembers frantically calling his daughter that day amid the terrified crowds in Brooklyn, where he was at the time: "She never answered." (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

    In a Lithuanian cemetery, a world away from ground zero, the twin towers still stand. Vladimir Gavriushin lays white roses near the 6-foot granite replicas of the World Trade Center's skyscrapers, a memorial he built to honor his daughter Yelena, one of the nearly 3,000 people killed on Sept. 11.

  • Rising hunger in south Ethiopia despite lush green AP - 56 mins ago
    Relatives of Hassan Abdulkadir Adan,3rd left rear, from southern Somalia help to lower the body of his 7-year-old son into a grave in a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia. Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011. The World Food Program said Saturday that it is expanding food distribution efforts in famine-ravaged Somalia, where the U.N. has estimated that only 20 percent of people needing aid are able to receive it because an al-Qaida-linked group controls large portions of the country.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

    Malnourished children are flocking into feeding centers in this forested corner of southern Ethiopia after a drought in East Africa extended into this normally fertile region.

  • Syrian troops detain dozens, 3 dead in north AP - 53 mins ago
    In this photo taken on a government-organized tour, Syrian soldiers salute residents as they sit atop their armored personnel carrier on their way out of the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, Syria, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011. State-run news agency SANA said army units began withdrawing from Deir el-Zour Tuesday after ridding the city of "armed terrorist gangs" in an operation that lasted several days. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

    Syrian troops detained dozens of people in a Damascus neighborhood and the coastal city of Latakia in overnight raids as President Bashar Assad's regime tried to forcefully end a five-month uprising, activists said Wednesday.

  • Tribunal publishes indictment in Hariri murder AP - 27 mins ago

    Prosecutors analyzed a vast network of telephone records to link four Hezbollah members to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, but there is no clear smoking gun in the case, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday.

  • Witness: A failed coup and a difficult start for Russia Reuters - 2 hrs 50 mins ago
    - FILE PHOTO 19AUG91 - Boris Yeltsin (C) speaks to a crowd from atop an APC surrounded by security m..

    The following Witness piece recalls how the hardline communist coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev unfolded in August 1991. Steve Gutterman is currently based in Moscow for Reuters and was working as an assistant for a U.S. newspaper in the Russian capital at the time of the coup.

  • Iranian FM: Tehran ready to resume nuclear talks AP - 53 mins ago
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, gestures as he welcomes Russia's Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev for their meeting at the presidency office, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011. Iran's state news agency said Patrushev arrived Monday in Tehran to discuss a proposal to bring Iran back to negotiations over its disputed nuclear program.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

    Iran is ready to resume negotiations on its nuclear program and a Russian proposal will aid the process, Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday.

  • Pope arrives in Spain in time of economic turmoil AP - 39 mins ago
    Pilgrims pray in the street during a mass at the Cibeles square, Madrid, Tuesday Aug. 16, 2011, ahead of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI next Aug. 18-21. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

    When the pope arrives in Spain this week, it's not just sweltering heat he'll be stepping into. The economy's in a shambles. Jobless youths are filled with rage and frustration. Politicians are gearing up for early elections that will be dominated by these hard times.

  • Tobacco companies file lawsuit over warning labels AP - 1 hr 11 mins ago
    In this combo made from file images provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows two of nine new warning labels cigarette makers will have to use by the fall of 2012. Four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies sued the federal government Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011, over the new graphic cigarette labels, saying the warnings violate their free speech rights and will cost millions of dollars to print. (AP Photo/U.S. Food and Drug Administration, File)

    Tobacco companies want a judge to put a stop to new graphic cigarette labels that include the sewn-up corpse of a smoker and pictures of diseased lungs, saying they unfairly urge adults to shun their legal products and will cost millions to produce.

  • New Noah's Ark in Ky. aims to prove truth of Bible AP - 3 hrs ago
    In this photo taken July 7, 2011, Mike Zovath, co-founder of Answers in Genesis ministries, poses for photos at the Ark Encounter headquarters in Hebron, Ky. The ark will be the centerpiece of a proposed $170 million religious theme park that has been approved for $40 million in taxpayer-funded incentives, upsetting activists who think public tax dollars should not be used to fund a religious theme park. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)

    Tucked away in a nondescript office park in northern Kentucky, Noah's followers are rebuilding his ark.

  • Drinks on the House? Ohio Statehouse considers bar AP - 5 mins ago
    Patrons eat lunch in the dining room of the Statehouse cafe where a new counter top was installed Monday, Aug. 1, 2011, in Columbus, Ohio. State officials are debating a proposal to establish what would apparently be the nation's first statehouse bar. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)

    After spending their days serving the public, Ohio lawmakers soon might be able to head to the basement and get served at the pub.

  • Best fishing hole? Check downtown Anchorage AP - 2 hrs 47 mins ago
    This Aug. 16, 2011, photo shows Ship Creek, one of Alaska's most popular fishing spots, located in the heart of downtown Anchorage, Alaska. Residents, and tourists, line up along Ship Creek to catch a variety of salmon species all summer long. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

    Alaska has some of the most beautiful, remote and prolific fishing spots in the world, but some would be surprised to learn that one of the most popular is in the heart of downtown Anchorage.

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