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Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., speaks during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast / AP)

Hurricane Gustav evacuees ready for mass return

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin announced that residents would be able to return to the city to look at the damage caused by Hurricane Gustav.

CBS News

Tense St. Paul march ends in arrests

A group of rioters among a largely peaceful march against poverty rushed through security fences at the Republican National Convention, prompting police to use tear gas and flash-bang grenades.

USA Today

Riot cops gas RNC protesters

ABC News

Abu Dhabi invests in Hollywood

Abu Dhabi Media is starting a new subsidiary that will spend about $1 billion more over the next five years making feature-length films in partnership with three American producers.

International Herald Tribune

GOP points to McCain's character, derides Obama

Republicans launched their first night of full-scale conventioneering by praising party standard-bearer John McCain's experience and attacking Democratic rival Barack Obama.

CNN

Thompson rips Obama, praises McCain’s service to the country

USA Today

Lieberman lauds GOP ticket

CBS News

View President Bush's speech

MSNBC

Rice to make historic Libya visit

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to make a "historic" first visit to Libya, the state department has announced.

BBC

Google sees new browser displacing desktop software

Google is challenging Microsoft with its own Web browser that lets users run many applications that once worked only when installed on local PCs, executives said.

Reuters

Chrome's key features explained

BBC

Shots fired at Pakistan PM's convoy

Yousuf Gilani, Pakistan's prime minister, has escaped an apparent assassination attempt after shots were fired at his motorcade in Rawalpindi, officials said.

Al Jazeera

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UCLA defensive back Rahim Moore smiles after UCLA defeats Tennessee at a game in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Jeff Lewis / AP)	Georgians hold national flags at an anti-Russia rally at Freedom Square in Tbilisi. (Photo by Shakh Aivazov / AP)	A honey bee approaches a sunflower on a field near Stuttgart, Germany. (Photo by Thomas Kienzle / AP)

NATION

Hanna may regain hurricane strength, head toward US

Tropical storm Hanna, the first of three tropical storms lined up across the Atlantic, is expected to make landfall somewhere from Florida to North Carolina soon.

Bloomberg

Washington state shooting spree leaves 6 people dead

The Washington State Patrol says six people are dead and two are wounded after a shooting rampage.

CBS News

POLITICS

Gonzales won't face charges for mishandling information

The Justice Department refused to prosecute Alberto Gonzales for improperly, and possibly illegally, storing in his office classified information about the administration's counterterrorism efforts.

Kansas City Star

Paul offers no GOP support at Minn. rally

Still on a mission to remake the GOP, former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul offered no support for his party's presidential nominee, calling Sen. McCain "the lesser of two evils."

ABC News

Blog:

Barr near — not at — RNC

Real Clear Politics

BUSINESS

Coca-Cola bids $2.4 billion for China Huiyuan Juice

Coca-Cola Co. said it is offering up to $2.4 billion to buy China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd. The deal would mark the U.S. beverage maker's largest acquisition in China by value to date.

MarketWatch

Wall Street rallies as oil prices tumble

Wall Street stocks rallied strongly as hurricane Gustav lost strength and oil prices tumbled, cheering traders returning from the Labor Day holiday.

Financial Times

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Rising costs erode oil industry’s profits

Oil companies’ profitability fell as rising costs eroded gains from the rise in oil prices, an industry study has found.

Financial Times

Marriage woes? Husband's genes may be at fault

Men who are lacking in the romance department may have a new excuse to offer their wives or significant others: They can blame it on their DNA.

NPR

Come September: iPods

To absolutely no one’s surprise, Apple has announced a special event for September. Like past special events, this one will surely focus on the iPod.

Macworld

HEALTH

Cholesterol drug cancer warning

Patients have been urged to keep taking a cholesterol-lowering treatment despite a study linking it to higher cancer risk.

BBC

Teen suicide increase may not be blip

Suicides decreased in 2005, but not enough to erase the increase recorded in 2004. The rate for 2005, the most recent year for which data is available, was 4.49 per 100,000 people in the age group.

Columbus Dispatch

Bipolar risk for kids born to older dads

A new study suggests that children born of older fathers are at increased risk of developing bipolar disorder.

WebMD

ENVIRONMENT

Major ice-shelf loss for Canada

The ice shelves in Canada's High Arctic have lost a colossal area this year, scientists report.

BBC

Want better mileage? It will cost you

Mileage-minded Americans will have plenty of small cars from which to choose the next few years, but they'll be expensive.

USA Today

Chinese eco-detective treads lightly

In China, the enforcement of environmental priorities falls to lower levels of government. But obstacles at the local level often means a gap between official goals and the facts on the ground.

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Walking boosts brainpower

Regular, moderate exercise may help improve memory in older people and delay the onset of dementia, a study shows.

Reuters

'Rare' mammoth skull discovered

The "extremely rare" fossilized skull of a steppe mammoth has been unearthed in southern France.

BBC

WORLD

Thai leader faces challenges in streets and courts

Bangkok braced for another day of confrontation in the face of a threat of widespread labor strikes.

International Herald Tribune

Clashes continue In Thailand