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This edition was generated on Sun Jan 20 08:45:01 EST 2008
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton were victors in contentious nominating contests, but neither party can claim front-runners as early presidential contests give way to big-state battles.
ATLANTA - Meteorologists warned the mixture of rain and snow that fell across the South a day earlier could make for icy roads early Sunday, with overnight temperatures in the upper teens and low 20s.
LOS ANGELES - Suzanne Pleshette, the husky-voiced star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died at age 70.
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. - Sears Holdings Corp. plans to reorganize into several companies in another bid to pull the ailing 121-year-old retailer out the doldrums, according to a report published Saturday.
LEEDS, Mass. - Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran.
MELBOURNE, Australia - Even Rafael Nadal was through the fourth round in two sets at the Australian Open on Sunday, when quick results were the norm following the longest day in Grand Slam history.
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton looked on Sunday toward the next battles in a chaotic White House race after scoring tough wins in the first presidential voting in the U.S. South and West.
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney said on Saturday his $233.4 billion U.S. economic stimulus plan would rescue an economy on the "tipping point" of recession.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for greater cooperation with India on combating terrorism as he began a visit to New Delhi on Sunday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - At least three people were hacked to death with machetes in a slum in Kenya's capital on Sunday in ethnic clashes triggered by President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election last month, witnesses said.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani villagers said gunship helicopters launched strikes on Sunday in an area regarded as a stronghold of a Taliban commander linked with the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
GAZA (Reuters) - Gaza's main power plant began shutting down on Sunday due to a fuel shortage caused by Israel's closure of the Hamas-controlled territory's borders, a move taken in response to Palestinian rocket attacks.
KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - A major Shi'ite ritual ended peacefully in the southern city of Kerbala on Saturday after Iraqi forces imposed tight security around 2.5 million pilgrims, but attacks in the north killed nine worshippers.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Algeria has instructed employees in Algiers to tighten security due to a risk of terrorist attacks in the city, a message to U.S. expatriates said.
BELGRADE (AFP) - Serbians voted Sunday in a presidential election seen as crucial for the Balkan state's future in Europe with tensions rising as its breakaway province of Kosovo heads toward independence.
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AFP) - Republican White House hopeful John McCain scooped a sweet victory in South Carolina late Saturday as Democrat Hillary Clinton took Nevada handing the two front-running candidates big wins.
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived in India on Sunday hailing relations between the two countries as a "partnership of equals" as he looked to further boost links.
TBILISI (AFP) - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was sworn in Sunday to lead this strategic Black Sea nation for a second five-year term as his opponents rallied for his election win to be overturned.
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Gaza reeled from power outages on Sunday as Israel continued to seal off the Hamas-run territory in retaliation for rocket fire, despite warnings that the closure could spark a humanitarian crisis.
BANGALORE, India (AFP) - India's major software firms say a US economic slowdown may bring more customers seeking cost savings, but analysts warn that the once red-hot sector faces tough times in 2008.
FRANKFURT (AFP) - The European Central bank threatens to raise interest rates to parry inflation risks but its next move will probably be a cut owing to a global economic slowdown, analysts say.
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Bobby Fischer, the eccentric genius who became America's only world chess champion by humbling the Soviet Union's best but who spent his last years as a fugitive from U.S. authorities, has died at 64.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Republican presidential hopeful and former Baptist pastor Mike Huckabee linked gay sex to bestiality and abortion to slavery in an interview Thursday, explaining why, if elected, he would try to amend the constitution.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, making a rare public appearance, said on Saturday his guerrilla group possessed body parts of Israeli soldiers left on southern Lebanon's battlefields during the war in 2006.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security agents have arrested a youth who said he had been trained as a suicide bomber to kill opposition leader Benazir Bhutto had other militants failed to kill her, in the first arrests in the case, a security official said.
ELKO, Nevada (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton called on her chief rival Barack Obama on Friday to denounce ads being run on Spanish-language radio that accuse Clinton of not respecting Hispanic people.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The Patriots are renowned for throwing new defensive twists at opponents. Here's one they'd like to show on Sunday: stopping long drives and getting the ball back into Tom Brady's hands faster.
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. - Sears Holdings Corp. plans to reorganize into several companies in another bid to pull the ailing 121-year-old retailer out the doldrums, according to a report published Saturday.