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This edition was generated on Thu Jul 3 08:45:01 EDT 2008
WASHINGTON - Employers cut payrolls by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of nationwide job losses, underscoring the economy's fragile state. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent.
NEWARK, N.J. - A United Airlines jetliner was coming in for a landing at the Las Vegas airport in 2006 when the tower radioed that a smaller plane was still crossing the runway.
NEW YORK - Rush Limbaugh will make about $38 million a year to continue his radio show over the next eight years. In addition, he says will be getting a nine-figure signing bonus from Premiere Radio Networks.
LUBBOCK, Texas - A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra but don't necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks all night long.
WIMBLEDON, England - The women's semifinals at Wimbeldon are set for today, with Venus and Serena Williams favored to set up their first all-sibling final since 2003 Wimbledon.
NEW YORK - Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and his wife have split less than three months after the birth of the couple's second daughter, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers cut workers from their payrolls for the sixth straight month in June for the country's longest losing streak since 2002, while the unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent, government data on Thursday showed.
LONG BEACH, New York (Reuters) - With his wetsuit around his waist, Peter Flintoft walks wearily along the Long Beach boardwalk. While worn out by the surf, he is not yet tired of the lengthy U.S. presidential campaign.
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Three American defense contractors landed late on Wednesday in Texas, hours after they were freed from years of captivity in the jungles of Colombia.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Israel was on Thursday quoted as playing down speculation that an attack on Iranian nuclear sites by either country was imminent, saying that the allies agreed force should remain a last resort.
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Thursday inflation was becoming the top economic focus of many countries around the world as oil and food prices take their toll.
LONDON (Reuters) - An Algerian accused by Britain of links to Osama bin Laden and bomb plots in the United States and France has been freed on bail after more than seven years in prison, a spokeswoman for a British tribunal said on Thursday.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's vice president denied on Thursday media reports that President Levy Mwanawasa had died, saying he was in a stable condition in a Paris hospital.
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian troops tricked rebels into freeing politician Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans in a bold but bloodless jungle rescue that dealt a severe blow to Latin America's oldest left-wing insurgency.
BOGOTA (AFP) - French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages were rescued from Marxist FARC guerrillas Wednesday by Colombian commandos who posed as rebels and flew them out of the jungle by helicopter.
CERGY, France (AFP) - US Continental Airlines and two of its employees are to stand trial for manslaughter over the crash of an Air France Concorde airliner in 2000 that killed 113 people, officials said Thursday.
LONDON (AFP) - The price of oil set a record high above 146 dollars a barrel here on Thursday owing to falling reserves of US crude, simmering tensions over Iran and a weak dollar, traders said.
LONDON (AFP) - Two French students found stabbed to death in a burning London flat were subjected to a "frenzied, brutal and horrific attack," police said Thursday.
ULAN BATOR (AFP) - Mongolia's former communist party won a landslide victory in national polls, the country's electoral watchdog said Thursday as it dismissed vote-rigging claims that triggered deadly riots.
QUEBEC CITY (AFP) - UNESCO's World Heritage Committee began deliberations Wednesday in this oldest of Canadian cities over which of the globe's architectural and natural wonders to add to its list of protected sites.
FRANKFURT (AFP) - The European Central Bank (ECB) raised its main interest rate by a quarter of a point to a seven-year high point of 4.25 percent on Thursday to choke record inflation.
Republican strategists trying to game Sen. Barack Obama's choice for a running mate are focusing more and more on the possibility that he might pick former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, a friend of labor and blue-collar workers. "Gephardt is the one we're most afraid of," said a key GOP strategist and Bush ally.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug developed using nanotechnology and a fungus that contaminated a lab experiment may be broadly effective against a range of cancers, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Denmark, with its democracy, social equality and peaceful atmosphere, is the happiest country in the world, researchers said on Monday.
SEATTLE - Clay Bennett finally found a dollar amount that would sever his contentious relationship with the city of Seattle $75 million.
WASHINGTON - Employers cut payrolls by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of nationwide job losses, underscoring the economy's fragile state. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent.