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This edition was generated on Sun Jun 29 08:45:02 EDT 2008

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Sports News Update
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General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

Mugabe inauguration scheduled in Zimbabwe
AP - 1 hour, 46 minutes ago

HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe was preparing to be sworn in for a new term Sunday and extend his nearly three decades as Zimbabwe's ruler, claiming victory in a violent and widely discredited runoff election.

  • A demonstrator waves a rainbow flag during the Gay Pride Parade in Mexico City, Saturday, June 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
    Huge crowds expected for SF gay pride parade AP - 10 minutes ago

    SAN FRANCISCO - Huge crowds are expected for San Francisco's 38th annual gay pride parade as revelers celebrate their newfound freedom to marry.

  • South Korean protesters march to the Presidential House after a candlelight rally against imported U.S. beef in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, June 28, 2008. Despite a flurry of promising steps in efforts to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice found herself next door on Saturday defending the dignity of American cattle. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Beef dispute confronts Rice on Korean visit AP - Sat Jun 28, 10:53 PM ET

    SEOUL, South Korea - Beef bested bombs.

  • In this Sept. 7, 2007 file photo, fashion model Ruslana Korshunova wears a design during a presentation of The Cynthia Rowley 2008 spring/summer collection in New York.   Korshunova, 20, fell to her death from her Manhattan apartment building Saturday, June 28, 2008 in an apparent suicide, published reports said.  Police said the fall was under investigation.   (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)
    Reports: Model dies in apparent NYC suicide dive AP - 1 hour, 44 minutes ago

    NEW YORK - A European Vogue cover model fell to her death from her Manhattan apartment building Saturday in an apparent suicide, published reports said.

  • Amy Winehouse spits out her chewing gum while performing on the Pyramid Stage during day two of the Glastonbury music Festival, near Glastonbury, England Saturday June 28, 2008. The festival, held on Worthy Farm near Glastonbury, turns more than 320 hectares of rolling countryside into a tent city and is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. (AP Photo/Yui Mok/PA Wire)
    Winehouse strikes back at Glastonbury reveler AP - 34 minutes ago

    LONDON - Amy Winehouse was packing a punch at the Glastonbury music festival. After taking the stage Saturday, the troubled singer climbed down into the pit and scuffled briefly with a reveler.

  • Los Angeles Dodgers' Matt Kemp scores past Los Angeles Angels catcher Jeff Mathis, right, on a sacrifice fly by Blake DeWitt as Jered Weaver looks on during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles, Saturday, June 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
    Dodgers beat Angels 1-0 — without getting a hit AP - 29 minutes ago

    LOS ANGELES - Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo combined to no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night — and it still wasn't good enough for the Los Angeles Angels.

  • Zimbabweans look at the presidential election results posted in Budiriro, Harare, June 28, 2008. Votes were being counted on Saturday in Zimbabwe's single candidate presidential election and state media predicted a landslide victory for President Robert Mugabe despite reports of low turnout in many areas. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)
    Mugabe to be sworn in, Tsvangirai rejects invite Reuters - 49 minutes ago

    HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe invited opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to his inauguration on Sunday after a widely condemned election which African observers said was unfair and scarred by violence and intimidation.

  • U.S. President George W. Bush arrives to deliver remarks at the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives National Conference in Washington, June 26, 2008. .S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush's funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
    U.S. escalating covert operations against Iran: report Reuters - 2 hours, 51 minutes ago

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush's funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday.

  • Trucks carrying food supplies wait to cross into the Gaza Strip through the Sufa border crossing June 19, 2008. Israel will reopen its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Sunday because there has been a halt to Palestinian cross-border attacks that had strained an Egyptian-brokered truce, officials said.. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)
    Israel reopens Gaza border, Hamas looks to truce Reuters - 22 minutes ago

    GAZA (Reuters) - Israel reopened three of its border crossings with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday following a halt to Palestinian cross-border shelling attacks that had strained an Egyptian-brokered truce, officials said.

  • U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks to journalists during her visit to quake-hit Dujiangyan, Sichuan province June 29, 2008. Rice paid respect to victims of the massive May 12 earthquake in Sichuan before heading to Beijing to meet Chinese officials. Rice viewed a site of collapsed buildings, talked with survivors at a refugee camp and visited a water filter system donated by U.S. NGO Samaritan's Purse during her visit. (Claro Cortes IV/Reuters)
    Rice emphasizes friendship during China visit Reuters - Sun Jun 29, 2:50 AM ET

    DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, under pressure to raise human rights and Tibet with Chinese officials, emphasized friendship over friction during a visit to China on Sunday.

  • Iraqi police patrol an intersection in the southern city of Amara on June 14. A car bomb in the central Iraqi town of Dhuluiya has killed at least seven policemen and wounded two more, the town's police chief told AFP.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)
    Suicide bomber kills 7 policemen in northern Iraq Reuters - 1 hour, 32 minutes ago

    TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed seven policemen and wounded three in an attack on a patrol in northern Iraq's Salahuddin province on Sunday, police said.

  • Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem June 15, 2008. (Sebastian Scheiner/Pool/Reuters)
    Israeli cabinet debates Hezbollah prisoner swap Reuters - 1 hour, 18 minutes ago

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recommended to his cabinet on Sunday that it approve a prisoner swap with Hezbollah to recover two soldiers whose seizure by the guerrillas triggered the 2006 Lebanon war.

  • Paramilitary soldiers patrol near Bara, a town in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border June 28, 2008. Pakistani security forces on Saturday began an offensive against Taliban militants in Khyber tribal region who were threatening the main northwestern city of Peshawar. (PAKISTAN) (Reuters)
    Pakistani secure militant area in Khyber region Reuters - Sun Jun 29, 2:02 AM ET

    LANDIKOTAL, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces have secured an area in the Khyber region, where a key supply route passes into Afghanistan, a day after launching an offensive to push back militants threatening Peshawar.

  • Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi of Kenya attends a news conference during the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in Jerusalem June 26, 2008. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)
    Conservatives say not quitting Anglican Communion Reuters - 28 minutes ago

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Conservative Anglican leaders pledged on Sunday to stay in the worldwide Anglican Communion but form a council of bishops to provide an alternative to churches they say are preaching a "false gospel" of sexual immorality.

  • Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai speaks to the media in Harare, June 27. Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is expected to be inaugurated Sunday for a new term as Zimbabwe's president following a one-man election that has led to international condemnation and the United States planning new sanctions.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)
    Mugabe set for inauguration after Zimbabwe's one-man poll AFP - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

    HARARE (AFP) - Robert Mugabe's inauguration for a new term as Zimbabwe's president was fixed for Sunday after a one-man run-off election that drew international calls for fellow African leaders to reject his legitimacy.

  • A Pakistani paramilitary soldier stands guard in a bunker at the Hayatabad area near the Khyber tribal agency, on June 28. Pakistan's government has claimed that it has saved the northwestern city of Peshawar from militants as troops pushed forward on the second day of a major offensive against the rebels.(AFP/Tariq Mahmood)
    Pakistan claims success in anti-militant offensive AFP - 1 hour, 45 minutes ago

    BARA, Pakistan (AFP) - Pakistan's government claimed Sunday that it had saved the northwestern city of Peshawar from militants as troops pushed forward on the second day of a major offensive against the rebels.

  • A Hezbollah militant plants his group's flag on a billboard bearing the images of captured Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser (right) and Eldad Regev on the outskirts of Aita al-Shaab village near the Lebanon-Israel border in 2007. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has urged his cabinet to approve a prisoner swap with Hezbollah even though Israel now knew that the two captured soldiers were dead.(AFP/File/Joseph Barrak)
    Israel weighs Hezbollah prisoner swap for 'dead' troops AFP - 31 minutes ago

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged his cabinet to approve a prisoner swap with Hezbollah even though Israel now knew that two soldiers captured by Lebanon's Shiite militia in 2006 were dead.

  • Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair launches a report titled Breaking the Climate Deadlock in Tokyo, on June 27, days ahead of the Japan-hosted Group of Eight (G8) wealthy nations meeting. G8 will jointly invest more than 10 billion dollars a year on research and development of technology to combat global warming, a report said Sunday.(AFP/Toru Yamanaka)
    Major G8 tech investment to fight global warming, report says AFP - Sun Jun 29, 1:11 AM ET

    TOKYO (AFP) - The Group-of-Eight industrialised nations will jointly invest more than 10 billion dollars a year on research and development of technology to combat global warming, a report said Sunday.

  • File photo shows leatherback turtle hatchlings make their way into the sea after being released from a sanctuary in the eastern Malaysian state of Terengganu. The endangered leatherback turtle has made a surprise return to nest in Malaysia where they were feared to have been wiped out, but experts are still worried their precious eggs will not hatch(AFP/File/Jimin Lai)
    Rare leatherback turtles return to Malaysia AFP - Sun Jun 29, 1:24 AM ET

    KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - The endangered leatherback turtle has made a surprise return to nest in Malaysia where they were feared to have been wiped out, but experts are worried the precious eggs will not hatch.

  • File photo shows boxes of tomatoes at a supermarket in France. Industrialised countries should seize the opportunity of high world food prices to cut subsidies for farm production, the OECD advises in a review of agriculture policies.(AFP/File/Mychele Daniau)
    Ride high food prices to cut subsidies, boost production: OECD AFP - Sun Jun 29, 12:08 AM ET

    PARIS (AFP) - Industrialised countries should seize the opportunity of high world food prices to cut subsidies for farm production, the OECD advises in a review of agriculture policies.

  • File photo shows the logo of internet auction house Ebay. A Paris court is to decide Monday whether to make eBay pay 51 million euros (80 million dollars) in damages to Louis Vuitton and other French luxury groups for letting fake copies of their goods be auctioned on its website.(DDP/AFP/File/Michael Gottschalk)
    French court to rule in luxury group case against eBay AFP - Sat Jun 28, 11:37 PM ET

    PARIS (AFP) - A Paris court is to decide Monday whether to make eBay pay 51 million euros (80 million dollars) in damages to Louis Vuitton and other French luxury groups for letting fake copies of their goods be auctioned on its website.

Most Popular Top Stories

  • 8 Ways to Spot Skin Cancer Before It Kills U.S. News & World Report - Fri Jun 27, 2:58 PM ET

    When skin cancer is spotted early, it's almost always curable. For melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, the 5-year survival rate is 99 percent--if the tumor is spotted when it's nothing more than a spot on the skin, according to the American Cancer Society. But that survival rate plunges to 15 percent once the fast growing cancer has spread. I spoke with the president of the American Academy of Dermatology, William Hanke, about how to spot skin cancer before it spreads. Some of his advice:

  • A United Airlines Boeing 747 jet flies past an American Airlines jet upon take-off at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, June 4. United Airlines, the second-largest US carrier, said it will lay off 950 pilots amid plans to reduce domestic flights in the face of skyrocketing fuel prices.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)
    Major turbulence ahead for airlines The Christian Science Monitor - Thu Jun 26, 4:00 AM ET

    New York - America's aviation system could be at risk of collapsing by the beginning of next year.

  • Doses of a flu vaccine lie on a table in San Luis Obispo, California October 31, 2006. (Phil Klein/Reuters)
    Fake virus could make safe new vaccines Reuters - Fri Jun 27, 4:48 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A "wimpy" artificial virus protected mice against polio, and the approach might be used to make a range of safer new vaccines against viruses, U.S. researchers reported on Friday.

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Dodgers beat Angels 1-0 — without getting a hit

AP - 29 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES - Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo combined to no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night — and it still wasn't good enough for the Los Angeles Angels.

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Chinese investor pays $2.1M to eat with Buffett

AP - Sat Jun 28, 9:59 PM ET

OMAHA, Neb. - A Chinese investment fund manager won the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay.

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Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 29, 2008
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
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Segal's Law
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
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Robert W. Sarnoff
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
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