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BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi officials Wednesday were investigating yet another shooting of Iraqi civilians by a heavily armed security firm linked to U.S. government-financed work in Iraq.
DETROIT - Negotiators for the United Auto Workers union and Chrysler LLC bargained through the night and continued talks Wednesday morning with just hours to go before a strike deadline.
BEIJING - An international media rights group called on China on Wednesday to loosen controls on Internet news and personal expression, calling the country's system of censorship an insult to the spirit of online freedom.
LOS ANGELES - Kiefer Sutherland pleaded no contest Tuesday in his drunken driving case and will begin serving a 48-day jail sentence while his Fox TV drama "24" begins its winter production break in December.
INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana appeals court upheld a worker's compensation award Tuesday for an exotic dancer who was injured while performing on a pole at a strip club.
ATLANTA - The Atlanta Falcons are entitled to recover nearly $20 million in bonus money paid to disgraced quarterback Michael Vick, an arbitrator ruled Tuesday. The players' union vowed to appeal.
DETROIT (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers union and automaker Chrysler LLC remained locked in contract talks on Wednesday morning just hours ahead of a strike deadline set by the union that could trigger the industry's second major work stoppage in as many weeks.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi officials on Wednesday accused guards working for a foreign security company of firing randomly when they killed two women in the latest incident involving private security contractors that has outraged Iraqis.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's head arrived on Wednesday in India's capital for talks with government leaders, as concern grew a prolonged row with communists could scupper a nuclear deal with the United States or spark snap elections.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economists have chopped their forecasts for 2008 economic growth for a third straight month, saying the housing slump will be deeper and last longer than earlier expected, a survey released on Wednesday showed.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - German Gerhard Ertl won the Nobel Prize for chemistry on his 71st birthday on Wednesday for work which helped to develop cleaner car exhaust systems and explain the depletion of the ozone layer.
DEARBORN, Michigan (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson made a crisp debut in his first 2008 debate appearance on Tuesday, and rivals Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney battled over their records on taxes and spending.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official took aim at a clutch of China's industrial policies on Wednesday, saying they could give domestic firms an unfair advantage and spell a retreat from open markets.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Support among Russian voters for the United Russia party rose to a record high after President Vladimir Putin announced he would run on the party's ticket in this year's parliamentary election, an opinion poll showed.
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Outraged Iraqi authorities on Wednesday condemned the killing in Baghdad of two women by foreign security guards but the Australian-run firm which hired the contractors defended their actions.
KINSHASA (AFP) - More than 100 fighters, including 85 rebels, have been killed in clashes in the Nord-Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a top army officer said on Wednesday.
IPPI, Pakistan (AFP) - Pakistani troops and militants observed an unofficial ceasefire Wednesday after days of heavy fighting, as thousands of tribesmen buried 50 people killed in airstrikes, officials and witnesses said.
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin refused Wednesday to bend to Western pressure over Iran, saying after talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy that he did not believe the Islamic republic was trying to build a nuclear bomb.
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday, his 71st birthday, for work that has become invaluable to the modern chemical industry and helped the fight to fix the ozone hole.
LONDON (AFP) - A European consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland on Wednesday declared victory in the takeover battle for Dutch group ABN Amro, sealing the biggest takeover in banking history.
LONDON (AFP) - Cadbury Schweppes said Wednesday it would split off and list its Americas Beverages division on the New York Stock Exchange after failing to find a buyer for the unit.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan confirmed on Wednesday his government was drawing up plans to authorize a military incursion into northern Iraq to crush Kurdish rebels using the region as a base.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - France's Albert Fert and Germany's Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for a breakthrough in nanotechnology that lets huge amounts of data be squeezed into ever-smaller spaces.
NEW YORK - Coming soon to an airplane near you: broadband.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A NASA spacecraft observed lightning strikes at Jupiter's poles as it provided insights into the giant planet's dynamic atmosphere as well as volcanic activity on one of its moons, scientists said on Tuesday.
PARIS (Reuters) - It's late of a Ramadan evening in Paris, the iftar dinners are finished and Muslims from around France are calling Ahmed el Keiy to ask questions about Islam.
NEW YORK - Alex Rodriguez is ready to cash in. Again. Agent Scott Boras hinted Tuesday that A-Rod will opt out of the final three seasons of his contract with the New York Yankees and seek a new deal in the free-agent market that will lock him up through his pursuit of Barry Bonds' home-run record.
DETROIT - Negotiators for the United Auto Workers union and Chrysler LLC bargained through the night and continued talks Wednesday morning with just hours to go before a strike deadline.
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