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Sen. Kennedy recovering in hospital after seizure

In this May 8, 2008, photo, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., listens during a hearing on breast cancer in Washington. Kennedy was hospitalized in Boston, Saturday, May 17, 2008 (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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BOSTON - Out of immediate danger, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy remained hospitalized as doctors worked to determine what caused one of the nation's best-known senators to suffer a seizure in his Cape Cod home.

  • A cyclone survivor salvages items from her damaged house on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar on Saturday May 17, 2008. (AP Photo)
    As cyclone refugees wait, Myanmar refuses aid AP - 30 minutes ago

    YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's junta kept a French navy ship laden with aid waiting outside its maritime border on Saturday, and showed off neatly laid out state relief camps to diplomats.

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  • In this Sept. 8, 2007 file photo, Ashlee Simpson and her boyfriend Pete Wentz, of the band Fall Out Boy, arrive together at the Rolling Stone 40th anniversary party in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)
    Simpson-Wentz have 'Alice in Wonderland' wedding AP - 41 minutes ago

    LOS ANGELES - Don't be surprised to find Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz grinning Cheshire cats — they're newlyweds.

  • Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., greets supporters after speaking at the National Rifle Association of America annual meeting Friday, May 16, 2008, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
    McCain makes age jokes on 'Saturday Night Live' AP - 20 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - John McCain is 71 years old, and his age has provided late-night comics with some easy punch lines. On "Saturday Night Live," he joined in.

  • A Los Angeles police officer places the handcuffed suspect into a police cruiser in the Granada Hills area of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley Saturday, May 17, 2008. Gunfire rang out on a grassy field where a festival was being set up at St. John Baptist de la Salle Roman Catholic parish shortly before 11 a.m., said police Capt. Steven Ruiz. (AP Photo/Gene Blevins)
    Police: Gunman wounds 3 outside California church AP - 17 minutes ago

    LOS ANGELES - A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said.

  • Soldiers carry the body of a victim from the rubble of a collapsed building in Shifang, Sichuan province May 17, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)
    China searches for survivors as quake toll nears 30,000 Reuters - Sat May 17, 11:15 PM ET

    BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - Thousands of soldiers and families looking for missing kin streamed into one of the worst affected areas of China's massive earthquake on Sunday, as a strong new aftershock hit and the death toll neared 30,000.

  • A boy watches as a man builds a shelter in a village hit by Cyclone Nargis, near the Myanmar capital Yangon, May 16, 2008. REUTERS/Stringer
    Pressure mounts on Myanmar to accept help Reuters - 22 minutes ago

    YANGON (Reuters) - Aid was trickling in on Sunday to an estimated 2.5 million people left destitute by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta as more foreign envoys tried to get the junta to admit large-scale international relief.

  • Senator Ted Kennedy is taken from a Hyannis Ambulance to a waiting Medflight helicopter at Barnstable Municipal Airport for transport to Mass General Hospital May 17, 2008. (Steve Heaslip/The Cape Cod Times/Reuters)
    Sen. Kennedy hospitalized after seizure Reuters - Sat May 17, 8:18 PM ET

    BOSTON (Reuters) - Sen. Edward Kennedy, a leading Democrat, suffered a seizure on Saturday but hours later was talking with family at his side in a Boston hospital.

  • President George W. Bush (R) meets with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani (L) in Sharm El Sheikh, May 18, 2008. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
    Bush and Pakistan's Gilani pledge to fight terror Reuters - 38 minutes ago

    SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday pledged to fight terrorism with strong relations between the two nations in the aftermath of elections that seated new leaders in Islamabad.

  • Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) waits to speak as he is introduced at a town hall campaign event at the Roseburg High School in Roseburg, Oregon May 17, 2008. (Richard Clement/Reuters)
    Obama plans Iowa trip with victory in sight Reuters - Sat May 17, 11:26 PM ET

    PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Barack Obama will make a symbolic trip to Iowa on Tuesday, revisiting the state that launched his underdog bid for the White House on a day he hopes will put him over the top in the number of delegates needed to help clinch the nomination.

  • Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee speaks during the inaugural ceremony of the two-day India-Arab investment projects conclave, organised by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), in New Delhi April 18, 2008. (Vijay Mathur/Reuters)
    India to resume Pakistan peace talks Reuters - 2 hours, 17 minutes ago

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - India's foreign minister travels to Pakistan this week for his first meeting with leaders of a new civilian government and to review a peace process that has been in the doldrums for more than a year.

  • Iraqi army soldiers direct traffic at the check-point at the main road, leading to the Shiite dominated Baghdad's neighbourhood of Shulla, May 16, 2008. (Oleg Popov/Reuters)
    Iraqi forces detain 1,000 in al Qaeda push Reuters - Sat May 17, 10:10 AM ET

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have detained more than 1,000 suspects in an offensive aimed at crushing al Qaeda in northern Iraq, the military commander of the operation said on Saturday.

  • Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai addresses the media during a one-day visit to Maputo April 23, 2008. (Grant Lee Neuenburg/Reuters)
    Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai delays return over "plot" Reuters - Sat May 17, 12:25 PM ET

    HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai postponed his return home on Saturday to contest an election run-off after his party said it had discovered an assassination plot against him.

  • Chinese soldiers watch a bulldozer constructing a road in earthquake-ravaged Wenchuan county on May 17. A powerful aftershock has rattled China's southwest hampering frantic efforts to find earthquake survivors and help nearly five million people facing the risk of disease and flood(AFP/Liu Jin)
    Strong aftershock rattles China quake survivors AFP - 10 minutes ago

    JIANGYOU, China (AFP) - A powerful aftershock rattled China's southwest early Sunday, hampering frantic efforts to find earthquake survivors and help nearly five million people facing the risk of disease and flood.

  • A French navy ship stocked with 1,000 tonnes of food and emergency supplies is positioned off of the worst-hit region of Myanmar's coast and awaiting permission to deliver its supplies. Duration: 00:01:11, Language: en(AFPTV)
    UN's top disaster official headed to Myanmar AFP - 1 hour, 24 minutes ago

    YANGON (AFP) - The UN's top disaster official headed Sunday to Myanmar, where the government is under mounting pressure to accept a full-scale relief operation for desperate cyclone survivors in need of immediate aid.

  • US President George W. Bush (L) shakes hands with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during bilateral talks in Sharm el-Sheikh. Bush wraps up his tour of the Middle East on Sunday holding further talks with key political leaders after declaring his dream of a Palestinian state.(AFP/Awad Awad)
    US president meets Arab leaders on Mideast peace hopes AFP - 1 hour, 16 minutes ago

    SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) - US President George W.Bush wraps up his tour of the Middle East on Sunday holding further talks with key political leaders after declaring his dream of a Palestinian state.

  • A Chinese torch-bearer kisses the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch in Ruijin, Jiangxi province on May 14. The Olympic torch, which had been passing through China with little trouble after protests at several relay stops abroad, had to be put out due to an over-enthusiastic crowd, state press said Sunday.(AFP/File)
    Olympic flame put out on China relay: report AFP - 1 hour, 11 minutes ago

    BEIJING (AFP) - The Olympic torch, which had been passing through China with little trouble after protests at several relay stops abroad, had to be put out due to an over-enthusiastic crowd, state press said Sunday.

  • File photo shows Ugandan coffin salesmen standing in front of their shop. 25 years since the virus that causes AIDS was identified a vaccine against the deadly disease remains frustratingly out of reach(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)
    Researchers despondent as AIDS vaccine still out of reach AFP - 1 hour, 55 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - A quarter of a century since the virus that causes AIDS was identified, a vaccine against the deadly disease remains frustratingly out of reach despite a well-funded global effort to find a cure.

  • Canadian Auto Workers President Buzz Hargrove speaks to the news media in 2007. Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) overwhelmingly approved new labor agreements with General Motors and Chrysler, rounding out the year's contracts with North America's Big Three auto producers, the union said Saturday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Bill Pugliano)
    Canadian Auto Workers ratify new contract with GM, Chrysler AFP - 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

    MONTREAL (AFP) - Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) overwhelmingly approved new labor agreements with General Motors and Chrysler, rounding out the year's contracts with North America's Big Three auto producers, the union said Saturday.

  • President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, (EBRD) Jean Lemierre, seen in March. The bank begins its annual meeting here on Sunday to discuss the impact of global economic turmoil and soaring food prices in the former Soviet bloc.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)
    EBRD focuses on global economic woes at Kiev meeting AFP - 24 minutes ago

    KIEV (AFP) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development kicked off its annual meeting here on Sunday to discuss the impact of global economic turmoil and soaring food prices in the former Soviet bloc.

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