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This edition was generated on Thu Sep 22 08:45:01 EDT 2011

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Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

  • US President Obama receives a standing ovation as he addresses a Joint Session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington
    House unexpectedly defeats spending bill Reuters - 16 mins ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives unexpectedly defeated a bill that would fund the federal government past September 30 on Wednesday as dozens of Republicans broke with their party to push for deeper spending … More »House unexpectedly defeats spending bill

    US President Obama receives a standing ovation as he addresses a Joint Session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives unexpectedly defeated a bill that would fund the federal government past September 30 on Wednesday as dozens of Republicans broke with their party to push for deeper spending cuts.

  • The shop of barber Amine Darhbach, a U.S. citizen from Morocco and located off Steinway Street in Astoria, N.Y., had been under scrutiny by the New York Police Department as part of a secret program to gather intelligence on the city's Moracann population, is interviewed as he cuts hair, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. The New York Police Department subjected American citizens to surveillance and scrutiny, not because of any wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity. Documents obtained by The Associated Press describe a secret program known as the Moroccan Initiative, which catalogued where people of Moroccan ancestry shopped, ate and prayed. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
    AP IMPACT: NYPD eyed US citizens in intel effort AP - 4 hrs ago

    The New York Police Department put American citizens under surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, prayed and worked, not because of charges of wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity, according to interviews and documents … More »AP IMPACT: NYPD eyed US citizens in intel effort

    The shop of barber Amine Darhbach, a U.S. citizen from Morocco and located off Steinway Street in Astoria, N.Y., had been under scrutiny by the New York Police Department as part of a secret program to gather intelligence on the city's Moracann population, is interviewed as he cuts hair, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. The New York Police Department subjected American citizens to surveillance and scrutiny, not because of any wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity. Documents obtained by The Associated Press describe a secret program known as the Moroccan Initiative, which catalogued where people of Moroccan ancestry shopped, ate and prayed. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    The New York Police Department put American citizens under surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, prayed and worked, not because of charges of wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.

  • The US has vowed to veto any request by the UN Security Council for backing Palestinian membership
    Palestinian protesters slam Obama over UN speech AP - 1 hr 55 mins ago

    Palestinian protesters have denounced President Barack Obama for his opposition to their bid to win U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state. More »Palestinian protesters slam Obama over UN speech

    The US has vowed to veto any request by the UN Security Council for backing Palestinian membership

    Palestinian protesters have denounced President Barack Obama for his opposition to their bid to win U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state.

  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, President Christian Wulff , 2nd from right, and his wife Bettina Wulff, right, welcome Pope Benedict XVI, 2nd from left, as he arrives at the airport Tegel in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day official visit to his homeland Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
    Pope begins state visit to Germany AP - 36 mins ago

    Pope Benedict XVI warned Germans of the danger of ignoring religion as he began the first state visit to his homeland Thursday, seeking to stem the tide of Catholics leaving the church while acknowledging the damage caused … More »Pope begins state visit to Germany

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, President Christian Wulff , 2nd from right, and his wife Bettina Wulff, right, welcome Pope Benedict XVI, 2nd from left, as he arrives at the airport Tegel in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day official visit to his homeland Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

    Pope Benedict XVI warned Germans of the danger of ignoring religion as he began the first state visit to his homeland Thursday, seeking to stem the tide of Catholics leaving the church while acknowledging the damage caused by the clerical sex abuse scandal.

  • Revolutionary fighters fire canons toward pro-Gadhafi forces from the western outskirts of Sirte, Libya Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2011. The U.S. ambassador to Libya returned to Tripoli Wednesday to lead a newly reopened American Embassy in a post-Moammar Gadhafi era. (AP Photo/Gaia Anderson)
    NATO says Gadhafi fighters continue to be threat AP - 1 hr 25 mins ago

    The general commanding NATO's mission in Libya said Thursday that isolated groups of forces loyal to ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi continue to be a threat to local people but are unable to coordinate their actions. More »NATO says Gadhafi fighters continue to be threat

    Revolutionary fighters fire canons toward pro-Gadhafi forces from the western outskirts of Sirte, Libya Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2011. The U.S. ambassador to Libya returned to Tripoli Wednesday to lead a newly reopened American Embassy in a post-Moammar Gadhafi era. (AP Photo/Gaia Anderson)

    The general commanding NATO's mission in Libya said Thursday that isolated groups of forces loyal to ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi continue to be a threat to local people but are unable to coordinate their actions.

  • In this photo released by the Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, US hikers Shane Bauer, right, and Josh Fattal, smile, at the Tehran's Mehrabad airport before leaving Iran. Two Americans jailed in Iran as spies left Tehran on Wednesday, closing a high-profile drama with archfoe Washington that brought more than two years of hope then heartbreak for the families as the Islamic Republic's hard-line rulers rejected international calls for their release. (AP Photo/IRNA, Ehsan Nederipour)

    The brother-in-law of one of the Americans released from an Iranian prison says his wife is relieved to finally be with her brother again, and they are just enjoying catching up.

  • Yemeni anti-government protestors carry an injured protestor from the site of clashes with security forces, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. Rapidly escalating street battles between opponents of Yemen's regime and forces loyal to its embattled president spread to the home districts of senior government figures and other highly sensitive areas of the capital on Tuesday. A third day of fighting, including a mortar attack on unarmed protesters, killed nine people, medical officials said.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

    Renewed violence in the Yemeni capital killed at least nine people on Thursday as street battles broke out between forces loyal to the regime and its opponents, medical and security officials said.

  • A  bypasser walks by a poster of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani during a rally  in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday Sept. 21, 2011 after he was killed by a blast the previous day. The suicide bomber who assassinated  Rabbani insisted on meeting face-to-face with the ex-president and waited in Kabul for days to talk with him about brokering peace with the Taliban, an associate of Rabbani's said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

    The suicide bomber who killed Afghanistan's former president, Burhanuddin Rabbani, gained access to him by presenting officials beforehand with an audio recording of a purported peace message from the Taliban, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday.

  • Members of Indian National Disaster Response Force evaluate the damage of a school building before starting their operation to remove a body, believed to be under its rubble, in Chungthang, India, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. Rescuers in helicopters on Thursday reached some of the villages in India's remote northeast that were cut off by a powerful earthquake that rattled the Himalayan region last weekend. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

    Rescuers on Thursday finally reached some of the villages in India's remote northeast that were cut off by a powerful earthquake in the Himalayan region last weekend, as the death toll in the disaster climbed past 100.

  • These days, Jon Huntsman finds praise in unexpected places. On a recent September evening, the struggling Republican presidential candidate spoke to a modest crowd at New England College. His pitch was sober. He appealed in gentle tones for political unity, less "yelling and screaming," more "real solutions" for the country. …

  • BOSTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's 'Operation Twist' to bring down bond yields and stimulate the economy is likely to cause pain for the nation's largest pension funds, already struggling with funding shortfalls from the recent stock market decline.

  • SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea wants to hold a second round of dialogue with the United States, possibly next month, as part of renewed efforts to restart talks on disabling the North's nuclear weapons program, a South Korean official said on Thursday.

  • Pedestrians walk outside a closed gate of a metro station during a 24-hour strike in Athens, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. Austerity-weary Greeks lashed out against more tax hikes and pension cuts with a new round of strikes, with public transport workers, taxi drivers and teachers walking off the job Thursday. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

    Austerity-weary Greeks lashed out against more tax hikes and pension cuts with a new round of strikes Thursday, with public transport workers, taxi drivers, teachers and air traffic controllers walking off the job.

  • City trader Kweku Adoboli, arrivies at City of London Magistrates' Court in London Thursday Sept. 22, 2011, where he is accused of fraud and two charges of false accounting over three years at Swiss banking giant UBS.  (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

    A trader accused of losing Swiss banking giant UBS about $2.3 billion is "sorry beyond words," his lawyer said Thursday, as a judge ordered him to be held in jail until a hearing next month.

  • Florida Republicans currently prefer Texas Gov. Rick Perry by a slight margin over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in their party's battle to find a nominee to face President Barack Obama next year, a new poll released Thursday shows.

  • A French writer who says Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her wants to confront the former International Monetary Fund chief face to face.

  • Call it the recession's lost generation.

  • The top tier of luxury consumers curbed their spending on high-end clothes, accessories and jewelry in the first half of 2011, while regular consumers picked up the slack for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis, a study by American Express' consulting unit said Thursday.

  • Britons are reacting with a mix of condemnation and cheers to footage that shows an organized cage fight between two boys, one 8 years old and the other 9.

  • Belief in God boils down to a gut feeling LiveScience.com - 1 hr 59 mins ago

    For many people, believing in God comes down to a gut feeling that a benevolent deity is out there. A study now finds that gut feelings may be very important in determining who goes to church every Sunday and who avoids the pews.

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