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Yogi Harper watches from the deck of an ocean-front house at high-tide as tropical storm Gabrielle lurks offshore in Nags Head, N.C. Tropical storm warnings are in effect along the coast of North Carolina. (Photo by Gerry Broome / AP)

Tropical storm makes landfall on North Carolina coast

With winds in excess of 50 mph, Tropical Storm Gabrielle made landfall near Cape Lookout, N.C., just before noon, the National Hurricane Center said.

MarketWatch

Tropical storms and hurricanes

Yahoo! News

McCanns return to U.K. after grilling

Kate and Gerry McCann returned to the U.K. following hours of police questioning and being named as suspects in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine.

The Australian

Madeleine's parents' return to U.K. 'heartbreaking'

CNN

Democrats say they will press for withdrawal

Bloomberg

General Petraeus says Iraq progress 'uneven'

Telegraph.co.uk

Where is bin Laden?

Yahoo! News

Anti-terror rallies in Algeria after suicide blasts kill 57

Algerians have gathered to protest against violence after two suicide attacks killed at least 57 people.

EuroNews

Al-Qaida claims Algeria suicide bombings

BBC

Police bust Israeli neo-Nazi ring

Police said they have broken up a cell of young Israeli neo-Nazis accused of a string of brutal racist and anti-Semitic attacks, videos of which were played on television to a stunned national audience.

ABC News

Israeli 'neo-Nazi' arrests

BBC

NATION

FBI's record requests cast wide net

The FBI cast a much wider net in its terrorism investigations than it has previously acknowledged by relying on telecommunications companies to analyze phone calls.

San Francisco Chronicle

Crews narrow Fossett search area

Crews in Western Nevada are narrowing their search for missing adventurer Steve Fossett to a 50-mile radius around the runway from where he last took off.

Reno Gazette-Journal

Nevada Governor speaks

Yahoo! News

No trace of missing Mount Hood climbers

Searchers looking for the remains of two mountaineers who vanished on Mount Hood last winter found no trace of the climbers when a search resumed.

Google News

Treacherous mountain

CNN

POLITICS

Republicans 'gamble' on Iraq issue

As John McCain prepares for his latest "No Surrender" campaign tour, the Arizona senator and decorated war hero has been firing on all cylinders.

BBC

Oprah hosts star-studded event for candidate Barack Obama

Oprah Winfrey rolled out the red carpet for Barack Obama at a gala fundraiser attended by high-wattage stars that was expected to raise $3 million for the Democratic presidential candidate.

Associated Press

BUSINESS

Huge layoff at Countrywide

Countrywide, the nation’s largest and recently most-embattled mortgage lender, announced it was laying off as many as 12,000 people, roughly one-fifth of its 61,000-strong workforce.

BusinessWeek

Lawmakers take aim at patent speculators

The House has passed a version of the Patent Reform Act, while the Senate is expected to take up the issue soon.

MarketWatch

Consumers 'still in the game,' spend more

Consumer spending picked up in August even as job losses and record home foreclosures threatened the U.S. economic expansion, economists said ahead of a government report this week.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

Oregon hands Michigan biggest loss since 1968

A week after getting stunned by Appalachian State, the Wolverines were handed their worst beating since before Bo Schembechler worked the sideline at the Big House.

Sports Illustrated

Ducks roll Wolverines

ESPN

Henin wears U.S. Open crown

Capping a dominant run, the top-seeded Justin Henin overwhelmed No. 4 Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-1, 6-3 to win her second U.S. Open title and seventh major championship overall.

Sports Illustrated

EDUCATION

Male teachers rank at 40-year low

Male teachers are increasingly difficult to find in American classrooms. According to the National Education Association, the number of male schoolteachers is hovering at a 40-year low.

Newsweek

Gay Studies 101 at a college near you

More than two dozen American universities are now offering full-fledged minors in gay studies and expanding the field to include disciplines across the college curriculum.

Beliefnet

Catholic school teacher accused of 2-year affair with student

A former Catholic school teacher has been arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a teenage student that went on for more than two years.

CBS2 Chicago

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GOOD NEWS

New kidney enables an athlete to raise the bar

Four years after Emily Biondi received her father's donated kidney in a life-saving transplant, she participated in the World Transplant Games.

Baltimore Sun

Harbor fall man saved by teens

Four teenagers have been praised for rescuing a man who tumbled off a harbor wall in Dorset.

BBC

WORLD

Gunfire scare for Afghanistan's Karzai

Afghan President Hamid Karzai broke off from a speech and was hustled safely away from a ceremony at Kabul’s sports stadium after what sounded like gunshots in the vicinity, witnesses said.

MSNBC

Pakistan braces for Sharif return

Nawaz Sharif said he would return to Pakistan, following the Pakistani Supreme Court's decision to lift the exile order imposed on him following the 1999 coup.

CNN

Pakistan

Yahoo! News

Refugees: save us from hell of Darfur

Women who have fled the violence of Sudan are facing discrimination in a culture which fails to distinguish between adultery and rape.

Observer

ENVIRONMENT

Whale dies after shooting off Vancouver

A whale has died after being harpooned and shot with a machine-gun by aboriginal hunters near Vancouver Island, a U.S. coast guard official said.

CBC

Pacific Rim climate deal is no laughing matter for green activists

The first day of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit ended in Sydney with 21 Pacific Rim leaders agreeing to curb global warming, but green campaigners dismissed it as too timid.

Guardian

Public hearings held on smog standards

Activists and asthma patients urged federal environmental officials to go further in tightening smog standards to protect children and others from ailments caused by dirty air.

Associated Press

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Lee's 'Lust,' Pitt's 'Jesse' top Venice

There's nothing like a healthy dose of "Lust" to win the hearts of Italians. And we're not talking just about Brad Pitt.

E! Online

Thousands give musical send-off to famous tenor Pavarotti

Thousands of mourners led by top political figures and stars of the entertainment world attended the funeral of opera legend Luciano Pavarotti.

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Toddlers trump apes on social skills

In the first study to compare social skills of different species performing the same tasks, a team of German researchers found that 2-year-old toddlers are more socially mature than adult apes.

Scientific American

Grand Cherokee gets diesel option

The days of the "dirty diesel" are numbered. Ultra-low sulphur diesel fuel is now available and its introduction has been closely followed by a new wave of super-clean diesel engines.

canada.com

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Fringe rabbis thrive on mixed marriages

Interfaith couples whose rabbis won't marry them are going to the fringes of American Judaism to find someone who will.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pope demands respect for Sundays

Pope Benedict XVI has appealed for renewed respect for Sundays as he celebrated Mass at St. Stephen's cathedral in the heart of Vienna.

BBC

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