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  • A Syrian man cleans while attached to his shop is a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad with Arabic words reading: We love you, Welders homes peace on you," in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday Sept. 15, 2011. A group of Syrian opposition activists announced Thursday the creation of a council designed to present a united front against President Bashar Assad's regime, which has waged a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters during the past six months. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
    Activists: Syrian troops kill 15 in raids, rallies AP - 27 mins ago

    Activists say the Syrian regime has killed 15 people during the latest raids and opposition protests across the nation. More »Activists: Syrian troops kill 15 in raids, rallies

    A Syrian man cleans while attached to his shop is a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad with Arabic words reading: We love you, Welders homes peace on you," in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday Sept. 15, 2011. A group of Syrian opposition activists announced Thursday the creation of a council designed to present a united front against President Bashar Assad's regime, which has waged a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters during the past six months. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

    Activists say the Syrian regime has killed 15 people during the latest raids and opposition protests across the nation.

  • An Afghan security personnel holds his weapon as he leaves the area after a battle with Taliban insurgents who took over a building in Kabul
    After militant siege, questions hang over Kabul security Reuters - 2 hrs 23 mins ago

    KABUL (Reuters) - Two days after a 20-hour siege in Afghanistan's fortified capital, security appeared to have lapsed back to normal, with just three policemen guarding the building from where insurgents showered the city's … More »After militant siege, questions hang over Kabul security

    An Afghan security personnel holds his weapon as he leaves the area after a battle with Taliban insurgents who took over a building in Kabul

    KABUL (Reuters) - Two days after a 20-hour siege in Afghanistan's fortified capital, security appeared to have lapsed back to normal, with just three policemen guarding the building from where insurgents showered the city's diplomatic enclave with rockets and gunfire.

  • The leader of the Social Democrats, Helle Thorning-Schmidt and husband Stephen Kinnock, son of former Chairman of the British Labour Party, Neil Kinnock, are cheered by partymembers, in Copenhagen, Denmark Thursday evening Sept. 15, 2011. Denmark has elected its first female prime minister, ousting the right-wing government from power after 10 years of pro-market reforms and ever-stricter controls on immigration. (AP Photo/Jens Dresling/POLFOTO) DENMARK OUT
    Denmark's 'red bloc' topples government AP - 1 hr 30 mins ago

    Denmark's prime minister-designate started work Friday on molding a united government from a scattered "red bloc" of ex-communists and pro-market liberals that ousted a right-wing coalition in a parliamentary election. More »Denmark's 'red bloc' topples government

    The leader of the Social Democrats, Helle Thorning-Schmidt and husband Stephen Kinnock, son of former Chairman of the British Labour Party, Neil Kinnock, are cheered by partymembers, in Copenhagen, Denmark Thursday evening Sept. 15, 2011. Denmark has elected its first female prime minister, ousting the right-wing government from power after 10 years of pro-market reforms and ever-stricter controls on immigration. (AP Photo/Jens Dresling/POLFOTO) DENMARK OUT

    Denmark's prime minister-designate started work Friday on molding a united government from a scattered "red bloc" of ex-communists and pro-market liberals that ousted a right-wing coalition in a parliamentary election.

  • This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, Sept. 16, 2011 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows Hurricane Maria about 640 miles southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland. The system has increased to Category 1 strength with maximum sustained winds up to 80 mph. The system continues moving northeastward at 44 mph. For more information on Hurricane Maria, please visit http://www.wunderground.com/tropical. Meanwhile, a trough of low pressure moves through the Plains, kicking up scattered showers and thunderstorms. High pressure over the Great Lakes and Northeast creates another chilly night with overnight lows dipping into the 30s. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)
    Hurricane warning issued for coast of Newfoundland AP - 35 mins ago

    A hurricane warning has been issued for the coast of Newfoundland in Canada as Hurricane Maria races northeastward in the Atlantic. More »Hurricane warning issued for coast of Newfoundland

    This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, Sept. 16, 2011 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows Hurricane Maria about 640 miles southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland. The system has increased to Category 1 strength with maximum sustained winds up to 80 mph. The system continues moving northeastward at 44 mph. For more information on Hurricane Maria, please visit http://www.wunderground.com/tropical. Meanwhile, a trough of low pressure moves through the Plains, kicking up scattered showers and thunderstorms. High pressure over the Great Lakes and Northeast creates another chilly night with overnight lows dipping into the 30s. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)

    A hurricane warning has been issued for the coast of Newfoundland in Canada as Hurricane Maria races northeastward in the Atlantic.

  • This undated handout photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Duane Buck. Defense attorneys are calling on Texas Gov. Rick Perry to halt the execution of Buck who is scheduled to be put to death Thursday because jurors heard testimony during sentencing in his 1997 trial that blacks are more likely to pose future dangers to the public. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)
    Texas execution halted amid Supreme Court review AP - 5 hrs ago

    A black man convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago was at least temporarily spared from lethal injection when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review his lawyers' claims that race played an improper role in his … More »Texas execution halted amid Supreme Court review

    This undated handout photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Duane Buck. Defense attorneys are calling on Texas Gov. Rick Perry to halt the execution of Buck who is scheduled to be put to death Thursday because jurors heard testimony during sentencing in his 1997 trial that blacks are more likely to pose future dangers to the public. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

    A black man convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago was at least temporarily spared from lethal injection when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review his lawyers' claims that race played an improper role in his sentencing.

  • A member of the Kosovo Police stands next to piles of gravel used to block off a bridge linking the Serbian and the Albanian part of the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011. Fearful of Kosovo police forces rushing into the Serb-run north, Serbs unloaded truckloads of earth and rocks on the northern part of the bridge that splits the town of Mitrovica into the Serb and Albanian parts, just a day before Kosovo authorities set up customs on two disputed border crossings with Serbia as part of an EU-brokered deal to resume trade between the former foes. (AP Photo)
    EU forced to fly forces to Kosovo border crossings AP - 1 hr 20 mins ago

    Helicopters are being used to ferry staff and supplies to border crossings after minority Serbs blocked main roads in anger over Kosovo's efforts to take over customs posts, the European Union said Friday. More »EU forced to fly forces to Kosovo border crossings

    A member of the Kosovo Police stands next to piles of gravel used to block off a bridge linking the Serbian and the Albanian part of the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011. Fearful of Kosovo police forces rushing into the Serb-run north, Serbs unloaded truckloads of earth and rocks on the northern part of the bridge that splits the town of Mitrovica into the Serb and Albanian parts, just a day before Kosovo authorities set up customs on two disputed border crossings with Serbia as part of an EU-brokered deal to resume trade between the former foes. (AP Photo)

    Helicopters are being used to ferry staff and supplies to border crossings after minority Serbs blocked main roads in anger over Kosovo's efforts to take over customs posts, the European Union said Friday.

  • EU proposes rules for curbs on passport-free travel Reuters - 2 hrs 6 mins ago
    A truck drives through the border crossing to Ukraine in the eastern Polish village of Dorohusk

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union states could see border checks with their neighbors restored in the future if they persistently fail to protect the EU's external frontier, legislative proposals by the EU executive showed on Friday.

  • Officials say Yemen president will not return home AP - 3 hrs ago
    Protestors shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011. Security officials say government troops shelled a district overnight in the capital Sanaa that is home to the chief of the main tribe opposing Yemen's president, killing three and wounding five people. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

    Officials in Saudi Arabia and Yemen say that President Ali Abdullah Saleh will not return to Sanaa and will, instead, remain in Riyadh, where he has been since June recuperating from serious wounds after an attack on his compound in June.

  • Authorities: $7M of pot seized in Mississippi AP - 3 hrs ago

    Mississippi Department of Transportation law enforcement officers say a tractor-trailer they stopped this week was hauling about $7 million worth of marijuana.

  • Calif. bill aimed at breast cancer worries docs AP - 13 mins ago
    ln this photo taken Wednesday Sept. 14, 2011, Dr. Karen Lindsfor, a professor of radiology and chief of breast imaging at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, examines the mammogram of a patient with heterogeneously dense breast tissue, in Sacramento, Calif. Lindfors opposes a measure approved by the state Legislature earlier this month, that would require health facilities performing mammograms to notify patients with dense tissue that they may want to receive additional screenings. Lindfors is among those doctors who say there was insufficient evidence to support the idea that additional screenings would detect cancers earlier. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

    It took seven years of annual mammograms and a cancer diagnosis for Amy Colton to learn something her doctors had realized from the beginning: Her breast tissue is so dense that it could have masked tumors on earlier exams.

  • Italy: Berlusconi scandal deepens AP - 44 mins ago
    Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi reacts prior to the start of a voting session in Parliament on the Government's austerity package in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011. Demonstrators, some armed with smoke bombs, clashed with police in Rome near Parliament on Wednesday night as Italian lawmakers prepared to cast a final vote on a package of new taxes and spending cuts designed to fend off a financial crisis threatening much of Europe. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

    Prosecutors say an Italian businessman recruited about 30 girls to attend parties at Premier Silvio Berlusconi's homes, selecting them for their looks and age and paying some of them to have sex with the Italian leader.

  • Hospital births saving babies in China, study says AP - 1 hr 34 mins ago

    New data show that encouraging Chinese women to give birth in the hospital has contributed to a sharp drop in infant deaths over a 12-year period.

  • Is college a scam? Christian Science Monitor - 16 hrs ago

    Is a college education the biggest scam in US history?

  • Hand-drawn St. John's Bible completed, on display AP - 1 hr 35 mins ago
    The illumination by Donald Jackson of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, based on a passage from the Book of Revelation is displayed during an exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011. The Benedictine monks at St. John's Abbey and St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn., commissioned the Bible in 1998 to celebrate the beginning of a new millennium. The first words were written on Ash Wednesday 2000 and finished on May 9, 2011. (AP Photo/The Star-Tribune, Jeff Wheeler)

    It was a task of biblical proportions — drawing every letter and illustration in a Bible painstakingly by hand. Now, 13 years after its inception, the brightly colored and massive St. John's Bible is complete, and pages from the finished work are about to go on display.

  • Ultrasecret satellite spy shop NRO turns 50 AP - 5 hrs ago

    As it turns 50, the ultra-secretive National Reconnaissance Office is putting a multibillion-dollar misstep behind it and casting its spy satellites on new enemies, from al-Qaida bomb planters to North Korean nuclear engineers, according to its chief.

  • Serb cousins share same strange attraction AP - 42 mins ago
    In this photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, David Petrovic, 4, stands in his garden as silverware sticks on his chest in Gornji Milanovac, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Belgrade, Serbia. Serb cousins David and Luka are poles apart from other kids, for when it comes to metalwear, everything sticks. The two boys from the central Serbian town of Gornji Milanovac have a rare ability to attract metal objects, acting much like human magnets. (AP Photo/ Marko Drobnjakovic)

    Serb cousins David and Luka are poles apart from other kids, for when it comes to metalwear everything sticks.

  • Paul McCartney, Nancy Shuvell to wed in London AP - 21 mins ago

    Paul McCartney is set to tie the knot at the venue where he first married more than 40 years ago.

  • Hawaii sailor finds message in a bottle from Japan AP - 3 hrs ago
    In this Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Petty Officer Jon Moore stands on the beach at Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii while removing a message from a bottle sent from Kagoshima, Japan more than five years ago. Moore found the bottle while personnel at the Kauai military base and local school students picked up trash from the beach as part of International Coastal Cleanup Day. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Jay C. Pugh)

    A Japanese school girl's note in a bottle dropped into the ocean five years ago has been found washed up on Hawaii's shores.

  • Libyan fighters press attacks on Gadhafi hometown AP - 27 mins ago
    A former rebel fighter sits in his vehicle moments before heading to the frontline in Bani Walid, at a checkpoint in Wadi Dinar, Libya, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. Libyan fighters are signing up for a final assault on one of the last remaining bastions of Moammar Gadhafi. The volunteers are pouring in by the dozens, coming in pickup trucks from cities as far as Tripoli and Tobruk, as a deadline expired on Saturday for the pro-Gadhafi loyalists holed up inside the town of Bani Walid to surrender. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

    Revolutionary fighters are trying to fight their way into the center of Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, but facing sustained resistance from loyalist snipers and rocket barrages.

  • Decision on Greek loan payout delayed to October AP - 4 mins 8 secs ago
    Eurogroup president Jean-Claude Juncker, left, and European Central Bank governor Jean-Claude Trichet speak at a press conference during an informal meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) in in Wroclaw , Poland on Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. Rescue partners will decide in October on a crucial payout of bailout loan money to bankruptcy-threatened Greece. Juncker and other eurozone finance ministers were discussing Europe's financial crisis at an informal meeting in Wroclaw.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

    Greece's international rescue partners will delay until October their decision on paying out a batch of bailout loans needed to keep Athens from a disastrous bankruptcy, the head of the eurozone finance ministers' group said Friday.

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