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  1. This official Xinhua news agency photo taken on Friday July 18, 2008 shows the stands of the Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium in Qinhuangdao, east China's Hebei province. The stadium will host 12 football matches during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Xinhua said. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yang Shiyao)
    Beijing begins massive Olympic shutdown AP - Sat Jul 19, 6:35 AM ET Sent 328 times

    BEIJING - Beijing's Olympic shutdown begins Sunday, a drastic plan to lift the Chinese capital's gray shroud of pollution just three weeks ahead of the games.

  2. A baby red kangaroo peeks from its mother's pouch at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Wednesday, July 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
    Woman attacked by kangaroo saved by pet dog AP - Sat Jul 19, 4:07 AM ET Sent 248 times

    SYDNEY, Australia - An elderly woman was attacked by a large kangaroo on a farm in Australia and was lucky to be alive after a pet dog leapt to her aid, her son said Saturday.

  3. Soldiers (left) prepare to transport the dead body of a schoolboy recovered from the rubble of a collapsed school in Yingxiu town, in China's southwestern Sichuan province in late June. Chinese dissident Huang Qi, the veteran Chinese activist who has campaigned for the parents of children killed in the earthquake, has been arrested for "illegal possession of state secrets," his wife has said(AFP/File/Liu Jin)
    China arrests quake critic on secrets charge Reuters - Sat Jul 19, 6:15 AM ET Sent 64 times

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police arrested a human rights campaigner in the country's southwest for "possession of state secrets" after he offered help to parents of children killed in the region's massive earthquake, his family said.

  4. Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili speaks at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, July 19, 2008. Iran and the European Union's chief negotiators agreed on Saturday to resume talks on suspending uranium enrichment in two weeks, after Tehran ruled out freezing its program in talks that included the United States for the first time. EU envoy Javier Solana told reporters after the Geneva talks with Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili that the two would speak either by telephone or personally. (AP Photo/Keystone/Dominic Favre)
    US calls on Iran to choose nuclear negotiation AP - 13 minutes ago Sent 59 times

    GENEVA - The United States is calling on Iran to negotiate over its nuclear program, after diplomats agreed to resume talks in two weeks on suspending uranium enrichment.

  5. Pope Benedict XVI, right, conducts a Holy Mass at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, July 19, 2008. Benedict apologized Saturday to victims of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergy, describing their acts as 'evil' and a grave betrayal of trust. (AP Photo/Will Burgess, Pool)
    Pope apologizes for clergy sex abuse in Australia AP - Sat Jul 19, 7:00 AM ET Sent 40 times

    SYDNEY, Australia - Pope Benedict XVI used some of the strongest language yet in his apology Saturday for the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Roman Catholic clergy, but his words were just more of the same for the victims.

  6. Gen. David Petraeus, left, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, speaks in his office at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Saturday, July 19, 2008. Senior leaders of al-Qaida may be diverting fighters from the war in Iraq to the Afghan frontier area, Petraeus told The Associated Press on Saturday. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)
    US general: al-Qaida may be easing effort in Iraq AP - 52 minutes ago Sent 27 times

    BAGHDAD - After intense U.S. assaults, al-Qaida may be considering shifting focus to its original home base in Afghanistan, where American casualties are running higher than in Iraq, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday.

  7. A lobster sits on a crate after being caught. Lobster-loving Canadians are trying to persuade a fish market in easternmost New Brunswick province to set free a huge crustacean believed to be more than 100 years old, its owner said Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jodi Hilton)
    Canadians bid to free 100-year-old lobster AFP - Fri Jul 18, 1:54 PM ET Sent 16 times

    OTTAWA (AFP) - Lobster-loving Canadians are trying to persuade a fish market in easternmost New Brunswick province to set free a huge crustacean believed to be more than 100 years old, its owner said Friday.

  8. Pope Benedict XVI blesses a meeting at a World Youth Day event for young disadvantaged people in Sydney July 18, 2008. Picture taken July 18, 2008. REUTERS/William West/Pool
    Pope apologizes for Church sex abuse Reuters - Sat Jul 19, 6:21 AM ET Sent 9 times

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Saturday apologized directly for the first time for sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy, but victims groups in Australia said they wanted action and not words.

  9. Police kill two in clash in southwest China: report Reuters - Sat Jul 19, 8:07 AM ET Sent 6 times

    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese police killed two people in a clash with locals residents in Menglian County, a rubber farming area in southwest China's Yunnan province with a large ethnic minority population, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

  10. File photo shows an armored vehicle passing Kurdish children in the montainous province of Karliova, southeastern of the city of Bingol. Two Kurdish rebels and a soldier were killed overnight in fighting in southeast Turkey, security sources said Friday.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)
    Ten Kurdish rebels killed in clashes in SE Turkey Reuters - Sat Jul 19, 8:08 AM ET Sent 5 times

    DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Ten members of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed in clashes with Turkish military forces in southeastern Turkey late on Friday, security sources said on Saturday.

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  1. Beijing begins massive Olympic shutdown AP - Sat Jul 19, 6:35 AM ET

    BEIJING - Beijing's Olympic shutdown begins Sunday, a drastic plan to lift the Chinese capital's gray shroud of pollution just three weeks ahead of the games.

  2. Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili speaks at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, July 19, 2008. Iran and the European Union's chief negotiators agreed on Saturday to resume talks on suspending uranium enrichment in two weeks, after Tehran ruled out freezing its program in talks that included the United States for the first time. EU envoy Javier Solana told reporters after the Geneva talks with Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili that the two would speak either by telephone or personally. (AP Photo/Keystone/Dominic Favre)
    US calls on Iran to choose nuclear negotiation AP - 13 minutes ago

    GENEVA - The United States is calling on Iran to negotiate over its nuclear program, after diplomats agreed to resume talks in two weeks on suspending uranium enrichment.

  3. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (left) talks with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani during their meeting in Baghdad. Brown, on a visit to Iraq, said he wanted to cut the number of Britain's troop in the violence-wracked country but ruled out a timetable for their withdrawal.(AFP/Pool/Ali Abbas)
    US general: al-Qaida may be easing effort in Iraq AP - 52 minutes ago

    BAGHDAD - After intense U.S. assaults, al-Qaida may be considering shifting focus to its original home base in Afghanistan, where American casualties are running higher than in Iraq, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday.

  4. Woman attacked by kangaroo saved by pet dog AP - Sat Jul 19, 4:07 AM ET

    SYDNEY, Australia - An elderly woman was attacked by a large kangaroo on a farm in Australia and was lucky to be alive after a pet dog leapt to her aid, her son said Saturday.

  5. Protesters rally in support of sexual freedom and the use of condoms in Sydney. Pope Benedict XVI offered a historic full apology for child sex abuse by predatory Australian priests Saturday, saying he was "deeply sorry" and calling for those guilty of the "evil" to be punished.(AFP/Anoek de Groot)
    Pope apologizes for clergy sex abuse in Australia AP - Sat Jul 19, 7:00 AM ET

    SYDNEY, Australia - Pope Benedict XVI used some of the strongest language yet in his apology Saturday for the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Roman Catholic clergy, but his words were just more of the same for the victims.

  6. E.U. foreign policy chief Javier Solana is pictured before a meeting on nuclear issues with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili at the Town Hall in Geneva July 19, 2008. World powers will sound out Iran's readiness to negotiate an end to the long dispute over its nuclear programme on Saturday, and Tehran said more such meetings might be needed. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
    Iran won't discuss enrichment freeze in next talks Reuters - 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

    GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran's top nuclear negotiator ruled out on Saturday discussion of freezing uranium enrichment at any subsequent round of talks with major powers.

  7. Canadians bid to free 100-year-old lobster AFP - Fri Jul 18, 1:54 PM ET

    OTTAWA (AFP) - Lobster-loving Canadians are trying to persuade a fish market in easternmost New Brunswick province to set free a huge crustacean believed to be more than 100 years old, its owner said Friday.

  8. Iraqi children clean a bucket with water from a polluted pond inside a camp for internally displaced persons on the outskirts of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 19, 2008. The International Organization for Migration says the displacement of people in Iraq has slowed to a trickle this year and that some of the country's 2.8 million uprooted have been encouraged to go home. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)
    Iraqi Sunni bloc rejoins government AP - Sat Jul 19, 10:16 AM ET

    BAGHDAD - Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political bloc ended a nearly yearlong boycott of the Shiite-led government Saturday in another step toward healing the sectarian rifts that once brought almost daily bloodshed.

  9. Nicolas Retsinas, director of Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, left, and an unidentified man tour an earthquake-damaged building, Thursday, July 17, 2008, in Dujiangyan, China. A group of international urban planning experts have been brought in to offer their expertise as China begins planning its reconstruction. As China begins looking beyond emergency response toward long-term reconstruction, experts on post-disaster planning warn that expectations should be realistic since rebuilding will take years. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
    China arrests quake critic on secrets charge Reuters - Sat Jul 19, 6:15 AM ET

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police arrested a human rights campaigner in the country's southwest for "possession of state secrets" after he offered help to parents of children killed in the region's massive earthquake, his family said.

  10. An Afghan police officer stands guard near the site of an explosion in Maywand district in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 19, 2008. Police said the roadside blast in southern Afghanistan killed four policemen.(AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
    Afghan violence kills 14, including NATO soldier AP - 2 hours, 44 minutes ago

    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan troops clashed with Taliban insurgents attacking a supply convoy for NATO troops, killing nine militants, officials said Saturday, while roadside bombs killed a NATO soldier in a separate convoy and four policemen.

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  1. A lobster sits on a crate after being caught. Lobster-loving Canadians are trying to persuade a fish market in easternmost New Brunswick province to set free a huge crustacean believed to be more than 100 years old, its owner said Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jodi Hilton)
    Canadians bid to free 100-year-old lobster AFP - Fri Jul 18, 1:54 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    OTTAWA (AFP) - Lobster-loving Canadians are trying to persuade a fish market in easternmost New Brunswick province to set free a huge crustacean believed to be more than 100 years old, its owner said Friday.

  2. Cambodian Buddhist monks sit alongside Cambodian soldiers on a road leading to Preah Vihear temple near Cambodia-Thai border on July 18. Cambodia has asked the United Nations to intervene in its border dispute with Thailand, a Thai official said, the fifth day of a tense stand-off between the neighbours.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)
    Cambodia asks for UN help in Thai border stand-off: Thailand AFP - Sat Jul 19, 9:44 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia(AFP) - Cambodia has asked the United Nations to intervene in its border dispute with Thailand, a Thai official said on Saturday, the fifth day of a tense stand-off between the neighbours.

  3. Former hostage John Fredy Diaz talks to The Associated Press during an interview in Bogota, Tuesday, July 15, 2008. Diaz, who was captured in 1998 by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) when it overran a military base in the southern jungle town of Miraflores, killing his younger brother, Diego, among others, was held for three years before being released in 2001. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
    Colombian freed hostages: Trauma remains with them AP - Sat Jul 19, 3:58 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    BOGOTA, Colombia - Former Colombian rebel captive John Freddy Diaz knows something that recently freed hostages may just be discovering: The pain of a kidnapping doesn't end with liberation.

  4. Graphic on NATO troops in Afghanistan. A Canadian soldier was among two dozen people killed in new Taliban-linked violence in Afghanistan, authorities said Saturday, as US presidential hopeful Barack Obama visited.(AFP Graphic/Martin Megino/Gal/Js)
    Afghan violence kills 14, including NATO soldier AP - 2 hours, 44 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.5

    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan troops clashed with Taliban insurgents attacking a supply convoy for NATO troops, killing nine militants, officials said Saturday, while roadside bombs killed a NATO soldier in a separate convoy and four policemen.

  5. Woman attacked by kangaroo saved by pet dog AP - Sat Jul 19, 4:13 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    SYDNEY, Australia - An elderly woman was attacked by a large kangaroo on a farm in Australia and was lucky to be alive after a pet dog leapt to her aid, her son said Saturday.

  6. Lawrence Vale, professor of urban planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, views the earthquake damage at the Erwang Temple Thursday, July 17, 2008, in Dujiangyan, China. A group of international urban planning experts have been brought in to offer their expertise as China begins planning its reconstruction. As China begins looking beyond emergency response toward long-term reconstruction, experts on post-disaster planning warn that expectations should be realistic since rebuilding will take years. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
    China arrests quake critic on secrets charge Reuters - Sat Jul 19, 6:19 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police arrested a human rights campaigner in the country's southwest for "possession of state secrets" after he offered help to parents of children killed in the region's massive earthquake, his family said.

  7. A handout photograph from provided by the Iraqi Prime Minister's Office shows British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (rear left) talking with his Iraqi counterpart Nuri al-Maliki with other delegates during a meeting in Baghdad. Brown, on a visit to Iraq, said he wanted to cut the number of Britain's troop in the violence-wracked country but ruled out a timetable for their withdrawal.(AFP/Ho)
    Iraq's Sunni Arab bloc rejoins government Reuters - Sat Jul 19, 5:48 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc rejoined the Shi'ite-led government on Saturday in a breakthrough for national reconciliation after parliament approved its candidates for several vacant ministerial posts.

  8. Graphic shows location of Hurricane Fausto and its projected path as of 11 a.m. EDT; 1c x 3 1/4 inches; 46.5 mm x 82.6 mm
    Tropical storms Fausto, Bertha become hurricanes AP - Sat Jul 19, 1:43 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    MEXICO CITY - Tropical Storm Fausto became a hurricane Friday far off Mexico's Pacific coast, while Bertha strengthened back into a hurricane in the open Atlantic.

  9. Afghan soldiers stand over the dead bodies of Taliban militants after they were killed in a failed ambush on Afghan forces in Qara Bagh district of Ghazni province, south west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, July 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)
    Afghans free journalist who took execution pics AP - Sat Jul 19, 1:49 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan journalist who contributes to The Associated Press was freed Friday after his pictures and video footage of two women brazenly executed by the Taliban led intelligence officials to hold him for questioning for two days.

  10. A police officer in London. A 21-year-old British man who could face a life sentence for child sex and pornography offences in his homeland has been caught in a Prague suburb where he hid for two years.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)
    Czech police swoop on British child sex abuse suspect AFP - Sat Jul 19, 7:17 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    PRAGUE (AFP) - A 21-year-old British man wanted for child sex and pornography offences in Britain has been detained in a Prague suburb where he had been in hiding for two years, Czech police said on Saturday.

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