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This edition was generated on Sun Aug 26 08:45:01 EDT 2007
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Hundreds of thousands of people were without power after their homes were battered by fierce winds and flooding rainstorms that slammed the rain-soaked Midwest.
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.
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.
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.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - An Argentine couple captured the stage category at the World Tango Championships on Saturday, followed by Chilean and Japanese pairs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A roadside bomb apparently targeting Somali government soldiers killed two children outside a school in Mogadishu on Sunday, a witness said.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10. While traveling the country, I can shower with any team I choose
9. Can now advertise my garage sales as "Hall of Fame garage sales"
8. George Steinbrenner just offered me $20 million to play again
7. On Bobblehead Day, guess who gets two bobbleheads?
6. At any moment, there's a good chance Bob Costas is boring someone with stories about me
5. It's nice to be mentioned in the same breath as Arky Vaughan, Burleigh Grimes, and Gabby Hartnett
4. Free chalupa from Taco Bell if I mention them in my induction speech
3. Made all those years playing in southern California's lousy climate worth it
2. I can now admit I broke my streak in 1998 because I had tickets to "Les Mis"
1. Get to be on national television-- even if it is this show