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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the media as he leaves the parliament in Tehran, Iran. Ahmadinejad shrugged off a French warning of war if Iran develops a nuclear weapon. (Photo by Vahid Salemi / AP)

Russian Foreign Minister 'worried' by Iran war risk

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has expressed fears over the threat of war in Iran after talks with his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner.

BBC

Total caught in France-Iran war of words

Forbes

Iran anger over French war warning

CNN

1.6 million are evacuated as typhoon heads for China

Shanghai closed schools and 1.6 million people were evacuated from coastal areas as Typhoon Wipha, forecast to be the most powerful storm to hit the region, thrashed toward the Chinese mainland.

International Herald Tribune

Typhoon Wipha heads for China

Reuters

Iraqis to review all security companies

The Iraqi government will review the status of private security companies as anger over the alleged involvement of Blackwater USA in a fatal shooting of civilians threatened to spread.

Yahoo! News

Iraq orders Blackwater USA contractors out

CBS News

Federal Reserve cuts key rate by a half point to buffer economy

International Herald Tribune

Maryland's high court upholds ban on same-sex marriage

Maryland's highest court ruled that the state's ban on gay marriage is constitutional. The decision states that the state has a legitimate interest in promoting heterosexual marriages.

USA Today

Confirmation of U.S. AG could become game of quid pro quo

Two Senate Democrats warned they might delay confirming President George W. Bush's attorney general nominee unless the White House turns over documents relating to several investigations.

International Herald Tribune

NATION

State Department under scrutiny

A congressional committee has opened an investigation of the State Department's inspector general, alleging he blocked fraud investigations in Afghanistan and Iraq, including potential security lapses.

Guardian

Study: Traffic congestion getting worse for metro areas

Traffic congestion is a $78 billion-a-year drain that threatens the nation's economic viability, causes Americans to spend an extra 4.2 billion hours a year in their cars and costs commuters $710 yearly.

USA Today

Home foreclosures doubled in August on loan rates

The number of Americans who may lose their homes to foreclosure more than doubled from a year earlier as subprime borrowers with adjustable-rate mortgages saw their monthly payments rise.

Bloomberg

POLITICS

Criminally rich: all the money in the world

The rich should be a law-abiding lot if the theory that crime has its roots in poverty has any credence. And on the whole it appears they are -- or at least can afford the lawyers to keep it looking that way.

International Herald Tribune

Guns, not roses, for Iraq

The U.S. is selling billions in weapons to Iraq. Is the Pentagon's plan making the country secure or arming it to the teeth for civil war?

Salon.com

Elder Bush backs McCain war push

Former President George H.W. Bush backs John McCain's efforts to increase support for the Iraq war in a new video, a telecast that aides say shouldn't be taken as an endorsement of McCain's White House bid.

Associated Press

2008 presidential hopefuls

WCBS

BUSINESS

Fed cuts interest rate to 4.75%

US interest rate-setters have decided to cut rates for the first time since mid-2006, from 5.25% to 4.75%, more than had been expected.

BBC

London moves to safeguard U.K. savings

The British government stepped in to guarantee the savings of customers of the beleaguered Northern Rock bank as it moved to prevent panic from gripping the entire U.K. banking sector.

Financial Times

British lender Northern Rock under pressure

EuroNews

HEALTH

Firms launch import food safety effort

Top U.S. food companies, worried recent import scares may turn away customers, launched a plan to add teeth to existing safety guidelines and increase funding for bare-bones federal regulators.

Environmental News Network

Investigation of gene therapy death focuses on fungal infection

A virus used in a gene therapy experiment likely didn't cause the death of an Illinois woman suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, although it can't be completely ruled out, health advisers said.

Canadian Press

NIH reviews death in gene therapy study

NPR

SPORTS

McNabb drops sixth of last seven starts as Eagles fall to Skins

The surprising Redskins, coming off a 5-11 season, are 2-0 and tied with Dallas atop the NFC East, which Philadelphia was expected to dominate.

ESPN

Bills' Everett moves hands, shows greater leg strength

Kevin Everett is showing some movement in both hands and greater strength in his leg muscles, further positive signs for the Bills tight end following a life-threatening spinal-cord injury.

Sports Illustrated

Buffalo player improves after cutting edge surgery

KCNC

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GOOD NEWS

Indian paraplegic a stock market winner

Twenty-eight-year-old Indian paraplegic Burla Sujata is totally dependent on her two helpers — except when she sits behind her computer screen and plays the stock market.

Yahoo! News

Digital 'Smiley Face' turns 25

Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman says, he was the first to use a colon, a hyphen and a parenthesis as a ''smiley face'' in a computer message.

HappyNews.com

WORLD

Iraq to review foreign security firms

The Iraqi government said it would review the status of foreign security firms after a fatal shooting of civilians involving Blackwater USA.

Guardian

What happens to private contractors who kill Iraqis? Maybe nothing

Salon.com

Britons' penchant for pints leads to health, safety issues

Britons' fondness for alcohol is causing health and safety problems, including a wave of liver disease and violent crime. In response, doctors and politicians are calling for measures to reverse the trend.

USA Today

Musharraf to 'give up army post'

The chief lawyer for Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf says that if he is re-elected, he will give up his post of army chief soon afterwards.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Alerts for severe weather get a make-over

The National Weather Service is revamping the way it has issued severe weather warnings for decades with a new system designed to mark a geographic bull's eye where a storm will hit.

MSNBC

Report: Europe's shipping lanes causing air pollution over land

They may be far over the horizon, but the cargo and passenger ships crowding North Sea lanes are fouling the air above land, according to a new Dutch environmental study.

International Herald Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

I sound like what in Japanese?

In spoken Japanese, there is "men's Japanese" and "women's Japanese." By the end of my 2-1/2-year stay in Japan, I had unwittingly become conversant in the latter form.

Christian Science Monitor

Friend taped meetings with Simpson

A friend of O.J. Simpson's says he helped Simpson plan the confrontation that led to the alleged armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in Las Vegas this weekend.

ABC News

Alleged robbery audio

TMZ

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

MySpace mines data to tailor advertising

MySpace, the Web's largest social network, says that after experimenting with technology over the last six months, it can tailor ads to personal profile information.

International Herald Tribune

The search begins now for a few good NASA astronauts

NASA announced that it is accepting applications for its 2009 Astronaut Candidate Class. Those selected will train for space missions to possible destinations such as the Moon, Mars, and asteroids.

iTWire

Rivals make run at Microsoft Office

After years of watching Microsoft rake in billions of dollars from its desktop software franchise, its competitors are pouncing.

CNET News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

'Tear gas used' on Burma monks

Military officials in Burma have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of monks holding a rally in the northwest city of Sittwe, reports from the area say.

BBC

Nebraska state senator sues God in protest of another lawsuit

Nebraska State Sen. Ernie Chambers wants a judge to order God to desist in doing things that harm people. Chambers said he wanted to show that a lawsuit may be filed over anything.

StatePaper.com

EDUCATION

NYC wins top urban education award

New York City has won the nation's most prestigious prize for urban education, known as the Broad Prize. The prize honors school systems that narrow racial gaps and boost poor performance.

New York Sun

Snubbed scholar named dean of U.C. Irvine law school

After sacking him last week, UC Irvine officials announced they had rehired liberal, constitutional law expert Erwin Chemerinsky as the dean of the university's new law school.

CBS News

Photo of the Day

Sweden's captain Victoria Svensson, left, sits on the field with team mates Therese Sjogran, center, and Karolina Westberg after the team's 2-1 win over North Korea in a Group B match at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup soccer tournament in Tianjin, China. (Photo by Greg Baker / AP)

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