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  Hole apparently finds no sign of miners AP - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

  HUNTINGTON, Utah - What next? That was the question remaining after a drill punched a sixth hole through a mine shaft and found no sign of six miners last seen before a massive collapse nearly three weeks ago.

• $100 bill to get high-tech face lift AP - 1 hour, 18 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - After six decades in which the venerable greenback never changed its look, the U.S. currency has undergone a slew of makeovers. The most amazing is yet to come.

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  Bird flu found at German poultry farm AP - 1 hour, 26 minutes ago

  BERLIN - Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.

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  Argentines win World Tango Championships AP - Sun Aug 26, 5:35 AM ET

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - An Argentine couple captured the stage category at the World Tango Championships on Saturday, followed by Chilean and Japanese pairs.

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  Wang and Damon carry Yankees past Tigers AP - 1 hour, 50 minutes ago

  DETROIT - The Yankees sure didn't look like a team suffering from a lack of sleep. Johnny Damon homered and tripled, Melky Cabrera added a three-run triple and Chien-Ming Wang delivered eight effective innings, leading New York to a 7-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night.

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  Greek fires kill 51 and threaten Olympia Reuters - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

  ZACHARO, Greece (Reuters) - EU firefighters and planes joined the battle on Sunday against the fires raging in Greece for three days, killing 51 people and threatening areas near ancient Olympia, historic site of the first Olympic games.

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  Bush pleads for more patience for Iraq war Reuters - Sat Aug 25, 11:59 PM ET

  CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, faced with growing calls to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, pleaded with Americans on Saturday for patience and cited progress in the past two months.

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  Foreign raid kills dozens of Afghans: residents Reuters - Sun Aug 26, 3:16 AM ET

  LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Residents of a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan said on Sunday dozens of civilians including women and children had been killed in aerial bombing.

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  Toll rises in South Asia floods Reuters - 2 hours, 5 minutes ago

  PATNA, India (Reuters) - Flood victims in eastern India were eating raw wheat flour to survive as devastating monsoon flooding in South Asia continued to spread misery among millions.

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  "Momentum building" for new climate deal: U.N. Reuters - Sun Aug 26, 4:53 AM ET

  VIENNA (Reuters) - The United Nations says momentum is building for tougher long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial part of the process.

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  Security forces sent to India state Reuters - Sun Aug 26, 1:06 AM ET

  HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Officials sent extra police and special bomb detection equipment to an Indian state after bombs packed with metal pellets killed 43 people at a packed street food-stall and an amusement park.

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  Iraq war looms over Venice Film Festival Reuters - 2 hours, 59 minutes ago

  LONDON (Reuters) - Two movies about the Iraq war and its impact on Americans back home are among 22 competition entries at the Venice Film Festival this year, lending political weight to a cinema showcase laden with Hollywood productions.

• Two school children die in Mogadishu bomb blast Reuters - 1 hour, 30 minutes ago

  MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A roadside bomb apparently targeting Somali government soldiers killed two children outside a school in Mogadishu on Sunday, a witness said.

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  Fires engulf southern Greece, at least 51 dead AFP - 18 minutes ago

  ATHENS (AFP) - Forest fires raged unabated Sunday on the Peloponnese peninsula of southern Greece, killing at least 51 people in an inferno that officials called an unprecedented disaster not yet under control.

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  India blames 'terrorists' as blasts kill 42 AFP - 1 hour, 42 minutes ago

  HYDERABAD, India (AFP) - Indian security forces launched a manhunt Sunday for those behind twin bombings in the southern city of Hyderabad that killed 42 people, with officials pinning the blame on Islamic militants.

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  Militants killed along Afghan-Pakistan border AFP - Sun Aug 26, 4:12 AM ET

  KABUL (AFP) - US and Afghan troops killed more than a dozen militants who were attacking from positions in eastern Afghanistan and across the border in Pakistan, the US-led coalition said in a statement Sunday.

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  Bangladesh army chief sees politicians behind riots AFP - Sun Aug 26, 3:11 AM ET

  DHAKA, Aug 26, 2007 (AFP) - Bangladesh's army chief has accused politicians ousted by the military-backed government of instigating riots that prompted a curfew, official media said on Sunday.

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  Children killed in explosions threatening Mogadishu peace push AFP - 40 minutes ago

  MOGADISHU (AFP) - A series of explosions rocked Mogadishu on Sunday, killing two children and wounding five other people as relentless violence cast a pall over peace efforts in the shattered Horn of Africa nation.

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  Investors trickle back to shares AFP - Sun Aug 26, 2:06 AM ET

  PARIS (AFP) - After fleeing over the past few weeks to the bond markets due to the crisis in the subprime sector in the United States, investors last week cautiously started returning to shares.

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  Analysts mull contagion from US property market woes AFP - Sun Aug 26, 2:39 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - An increasingly fragile US economy is facing growing risks from the meltdown in the property market, which threatens to spill over into other sectors as credit markets freeze, analysts say.

Most Popular Top Stories

• Morning-after pill sales jump as U.S. access eases Reuters - Fri Aug 24, 2:24 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of the Plan B "morning-after pill" nearly doubled in the past year, exceeding expectations after the U.S. government allowed adults to buy the emergency contraceptive without a prescription.

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  In Nigeria, victims spearhead polio vaccination campaign AFP - Fri Aug 24, 10:41 AM ET

  KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Resting his withered legs on his four-wheeler motorbike, polio victim Aminu Ahmed spoke persuasively to a woman breastfeeding her one-year-old daughter in front of the family's mud house.

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  Greece declares emergency after fires kill 47 Reuters - Sat Aug 25, 5:52 PM ET

  ZACHARO, Greece (Reuters) - Greece declared a nationwide state of emergency on Saturday after the country's worst forest fires in decades killed at least 47 people and trapped many more in villages surrounded by flames.