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Police arrest man who scaled San Francisco tower (AP)

AP - San Francisco police have arrested a man who scaled the exterior of a 58-story downtown skyscraper and unfurled an American flag at the top.

Posted on 6 September 2010 | 10:02 pm

Death toll rises to 45 in Guatemala mudslides (AP)

Rescue workers look for survivors at a mudslide area in Nahuala, western Guatemala, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. At least 38 people were killed after torrential rains caused mudslides in different areas of the country, injuring 20 others and leaving over 60 people missing. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)AP - Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as torrential rains pounded the country.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 9:47 pm

Tropical Storm Hermine makes landfall in Mexico (AP)

Tropical storm Hermine is seen in this satellite image courtesy of the National Hurricane Center. REUTERS/National Hurricane Center/HandoutAP - Tropical Storm Hermine slammed into Mexico's northern Gulf coast near the U.S. border late Monday with winds of 65 mph (100 kph), threatening heavy rains that could cause flash flooding in Mexico and Texas.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 9:35 pm

Colorado fire destroys homes, triggers evacuations (AP)

Kurt Rieder, in white hat, with his 9 year old daughter Lily watch the smoke plume from a wildland fire burning in the Four Mile Canyon area just west of Boulder Colo. on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. High winds pushed the smoke and ash eastward over the Colorado plains. (AP Photo/Peter M. Fredin)AP - A wind-driven wildfire broke out in the rugged Colorado foothills and quickly spread across 4 square miles Monday, destroying some homes and triggering evacuations of hundreds of others.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 9:35 pm

China and U.S. seek to ease tensions; Hu visit on agenda (Reuters)

Picture taken in 2005 shows caged battery hens in a chicken farm outside Minsk. The Dalai Lama has condemned battery hen farming and is urging consumers to switch to buying eggs from chickens kept outside of cages, a statement said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Viktor Drachev)Reuters - China has told the United States it wants to narrow differences that have developed over a range of issues, state media said on Tuesday, aiming to lay the ground for a visit by President Hu Jintao early next year.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 9:35 pm

Imam behind NYC mosque back in US after Gulf trip (AP)

VIDEO: The proposed construction of a 100-million-dollar, 13-story mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York City, has stirred raw emotions in the United States as the country prepares to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Duration: 01:00(afp.com)AP - An imam who has become the public face of a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero has returned to the United States following a taxpayer-funded tour of the Middle East, his wife said Monday.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 9:25 pm

Australia's political deadlock set to end Tuesday (Reuters)

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks at a news conference in Melbourne August 22, 2010. REUTERS/Mick TsikasReuters - Australia's agonizing wait for a new government is expected to end on Tuesday when independent lawmakers reveal who they will back, but there is still no clear favorite for who will head the minority government.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 9:22 pm

Indonesian volcano erupts again; strongest one yet (AP)

Mount Sinabung spews volcanic smoke as seen from Tanah Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. The eruption of the volcano that has been dormant for 400 years this week caught many scientists off guard and left the region on high alert. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)AP - An Indonesian volcano shot black ash three miles (5,000 meters) into the air early Tuesday — its most powerful eruption since springing back to life after four centuries of dormancy.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 9:18 pm

Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at the Milwaukee Laborfest in Milwaukee, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 9:14 pm

Storm Hermine slams into far northeastern Mexico (Reuters)

Reuters - Tropical Storm Hermine slammed into northeastern Mexico near the Texas border on Monday, dumping heavy rain on a region still recovering from Hurricane Alex's visit in June.

Posted on 6 September 2010 | 9:01 pm

Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio (AP)

FILE - Jefferson Thomas in 1957, one of  nine African American who integrated Little Rock Central High School while federal troops patrolled the campus, is seen in an 1957 file photo. Jefferson Thomas died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio, said fellow Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Trickey Brown. He was 68. (AP Photo, File)AP - Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 8:21 pm

Vegas police defend Hilton's quick jail release (AP)

FILE - This file photo released Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010 by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Paris Hilton in a police booking photo in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)AP - Las Vegas police are defending Paris Hilton's quick release from jail after her Aug. 27 arrest on suspicion of cocaine possession, saying they wanted to avoid disruptions in the jail's operations.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 7:38 pm

Wozniacki wallops 2006 champ Sharapova at US Open (AP)

Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark returns the ball to Maria Sharapova of Russia in the fourth round of play at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Justin Berl)AP - Grit was not going to be enough to get Maria Sharapova through this one.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 7:37 pm

U.S. Afghanistan commanders condemn Koran-burning plan (Reuters)

Afghan protesters shout slogans during a protest in Kabul September 6, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammad IshaqReuters - U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan warned on Monday that a small Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks could endanger the lives of American troops.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 6:51 pm

U.N. watchdog says Iran boosts nuclear work (Reuters)

A general view of Bushehr nuclear power plant, 1,200 km (746 miles) south of Tehran in this August 21, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Raheb HomavandiReuters - Iran is pushing ahead with its nuclear program in defiance of tougher sanctions and is hampering the U.N. atom watchdog's work by barring some inspectors, the IAEA says in a new report.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 5:08 pm

Iran stoning woman's son fears execution after Ramadan (AFP)

A demonstrator holds an image of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's portrait during a support rally in front of the Iranian Embassy in Rome on September 2. The son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery said Monday that he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.(AFP/File/Filippo Monteforte)AFP - The son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery said Monday that he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 2:31 pm

U.S. commander seeks 2,000 new troops for Afghanistan (Reuters)

People are reflected in the mirrors at a roadside shop in Kabul September 6, 2010. Afghanistan will hold parliamentary elections on September 18. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION ELECTIONS POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)Reuters - The U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan has requested another 2,000 troops for the foreign force fighting the Taliban insurgency, despite waning support for the war in troop-contributing nations, NATO officials said.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 2:26 pm

Spain rejects ETA truce, demands permanent disarming (AFP)

A screen grab taken from the website of pro-independence Basque newspaper Gara shows an image of ETA members declaring a ceasefire in the northern Spanish town of Guernica. Spain's government has rejected a ceasefire by Basque fighters ETA as totally inadequate and demanded it renounce guns and bombs forever in its battle for an independent homeland.(AFP/BBC/GARA)AFP - Spain's government Monday rejected a ceasefire by Basque fighters ETA as totally inadequate and demanded it renounce guns and bombs forever in its battle for an independent homeland.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 2:17 pm

Israel PM sees deal possible in year: spokesman (Reuters)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks on at the State Department in Washington September 2, 2010. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told visiting U.S. congressmen he thinks it could be possible to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians in a year despite huge differences, his spokesman said.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 1:16 pm

Guatemala resumes rescue work after landslide (Reuters)

Rescue workers carry a landslide victim on a stretcher in La Cumbre de Alaska September 5, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Emergency services in Guatemala on Monday resumed their search for victims of landslides that killed and buried dozens of people, as further rain was predicted for the Central American country.


Posted on 6 September 2010 | 10:00 am

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