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Rescued mine workers emerge from an unaffected shaft at Harmony Gold's Elandsrand Mine in Carletonville, south west of Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Themba Hadebe / AP)

All-night rescue saves 1,500 South African miners

More than 1,500 miners trapped in a collapsed South African gold mine have been rescued in a dramatic all-night rescue operation. About 1,700 workers remained stranded more than a mile underground.

Guardian

Miner rescue

Yahoo! News

Roadside bomb kills Iskandariyah mayor

The mayor of the religiously mixed town of Iskandariyah in Iraq was killed along with four of his guards in a roadside bomb attack.

Associated Press

Nearly 30 percent of flights delayed

The airline industry's dismal performance continued in August with nearly 30 percent of flights delayed, according to government data.

ABC News

Bush, Congress aim to reduce air traffic delays

Yahoo! News

North Korea to disable nuclear sites

North Korea promised to fully disclose all of its nuclear operations and disable facilities at its Yongbyon complex under U.S. supervision by Dec. 31.

Bloomberg

Korean summit shows strains

Yahoo! News

Five die in plant fire after reportedly signaling to rescuers

Five workers who died in a hydroelectric plant fire initially radioed to authorities to say they were not injured, company officials said.

CNN

Plant deaths probed

MSNBC

Sudan pledges $300 million to aid Darfur

Sudan's government has promised $300 million to "help rebuild and repair" Darfur, tripling a previous pledge, said ex-U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

BBC

Darfur attack

Yahoo! News

Clinton targeted by potential rival U.S. presidential contenders

Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani and John McCain lashed out at Hillary Clinton in attacks that underscored her status as leader of the pack in the Democratic Party's race for 2008.

Reuters

NATION

2 guards killed in armored-car heist

Robbers killed two guards and wounded a third in a brazen daylight robbery of an armored truck near a Wachovia Bank branch in Philadelphia, Penn., police said.

CNN

Dems vow to fight veto of child health-care bill

President Bush cast a quiet veto against an expansion of children's health insurance, triggering a struggle with the Democrat-controlled Congress certain to reverberate into the 2008 elections.

Indianapolis Star

Utah miners' families blame officials

Families of miners lost in a Utah accident blamed mine operator Bob Murray and the Mine Safety and Health Administration for poor treatment during the rescue effort.

Deseret News

POLITICS

Ron Paul hits new $5 million fundraising

Rep. Ron Paul disclosed more than $5 million in third-quarter fund raising for his insurgent Republican presidential bid, the only Republican in the field so far to report increased donations.

Houston Chronicle

U.S. trumps states over siting power lines

Huge transmission lines could soon skirt Civil War battlegrounds, historic districts, and the Appalachian Trail following a federal order that designates national corridors in two key regions of the United States.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

First-time jobless claims rise to 317,000

First time claims for unemployment insurance in the U.S. increased more than expected last week, the Labor Department said.

Forbes

Bank of England holds interest rates steady at 5.75 percent

The Bank of England held its benchmark interest rate steady at 5.75 percent in a widely anticipated decision after weeks of turmoil in global financial markets.

International Herald Tribune

HEALTH

New male contraceptives successful in rodents and humans

At the "Future of Male Contraception" conference, researchers from the University of Washington presented a study of a hormone regimen based on two products already available on the market.

Science Daily

New law should ensure safer drugs

A new law signed by President Bush and hailed by consumer advocates as the most significant drug safety legislation in more than 40 years substantially expands the FDA's power.

U.S. News & World Report

SPORTS

Nationwide to replace Busch as NASCAR series sponsor

NASCAR named Nationwide Insurance as the new title sponsor of its second-level touring series, known as the Busch Series from 1984 through this season.

AutoWeek

Falcons to ask Vick for return of bonus money at hearing

The Atlanta Falcons have asked their troubled quarterback Michael Vick to return more than $16 million in bonus money in a case that will be argued in a hearing, according to sources with knowledge.

ESPN

Vick state trial date will be set Nov. 27

USA Today

EDUCATION

Black student marked with 'KKK'

A weekend incident with racial overtones at a high school for deaf students could result in criminal charges with "enhanced penalties for a hate crime," Washington Metro Police Chief Cathy Lanier said.

CNN

Parents, schools face off over disability-class payments

Every day in classrooms across the country, parents of learning-disabled children fight with schools over who will pay for special education — now the fight is in the hands of the Supreme Court.

MarketWatch

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GOOD NEWS

Saved by the bottle

A Japanese sailor was rescued in the sea off northern Japanese after drifting for about 10 hours using a plastic bottle to stay afloat.

Independent Online

Ala. couple celebrate 80th anniversary

A Scottboro, Ala., couple recently celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary, one of the longest marriages among living people when compared to reports in the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records.

Associated Press

WORLD

Baghdad bombing hurts Polish ambassador, kills 3

Three bombs in Baghdad struck the convoy of the Polish ambassador to Iraq, wounding the diplomat and killing three others in the entourage, including one of his bodyguards, authorities said.

CNN

Unseen war: raw photos from Iraq and Afghanistan

ABC News

Benazir Bhutto gives Musharraf boost; court awaited

Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said she expected to seal a "reconciliation agreement" with President Pervez Musharraf that analysts believed could lead to a power sharing within months.

Reuters

N. Korea leader Kim Jong-il calls reports of his ill health 'fiction'

Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Brown wants limits on ships' emissions

California Attorney General Jerry Brown and national environmental groups demanded that the Bush administration address greenhouse-gas emissions from smoke-belching ships.

San Jose Mercury News

Climate change seen posing big risk for insurance companies

The global insurance industry faces risks from climate change due to the increased incidence of cyclones, floods, drought and bushfires, a major European reinsurer told the Greenhouse 2007 conference.

Environmental News Network

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The Boss goes back to work

The new adventure reuniting Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will take them to 16 North American cities and a further 13 in Europe on the first leg of this tour, their first for four years.

Forbes

U.S. invasion ends golden age of children's TV

The falling standard of children's television is laid bare in a wide-ranging report that shows the golden age of informative, original and high-quality shows for all ages has drawn to a close.

Telegraph.co.uk

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Verizon adds iPhone lookalike In challenge to Apple

The Voyager, exclusively offered by Verizon Wireless, has a large external touch screen that also slides open sideways for a full QWERTY keypad.

InformationWeek

Students celebrate Facebook triumph over HSBC

The National Union of Students has claimed victory over the global banking giant HSBC after mobilising protests on the social networking Web site Facebook.

Guardian

New Jersey subpoenas Facebook to reveal convicted sex offenders

AHN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Bishop: No communion for Giuliani

Roman Catholic Archbishop Raymond Burke, who made headlines last presidential season by saying he'd refuse Holy Communion to John Kerry, has his eye on Rudy Giuliani this year.

ABC News

Church splits from Episcopal diocese

Leaders of one of Georgia's oldest churches have voted to leave the Episcopal Church over its liberal-leaning interpretation of Scripture and acceptance of homosexuality.

International Herald Tribune

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