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Gadhafi blamed for Tripoli water crisis

TRIPOLI (AP) ― Attacks by Moammar Gadhafi’s forces on engineers deep in the Libyan desert caused the massive water shortage that has left the capital without running water for a week, a rebel official said Tuesday.Regime forces fired on repair crews a week ago as they tried to restart pumps bringing

Aug. 31, 2011

Perry overtakes Romney as Republican leader

On anti-government sentiment, brash Texan becomes favorite less than 3 weeks into raceWASHINGTON (AP) ― Gov. Rick Perry has ridden a wave of anti-government sentiment to the top of a crowded field of Republicans who want to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012, with some polls showing the brash

Aug. 31, 2011

Perry overtakes Romney as Republican leader

Ark. man in plane spots his home being burglarized

BAY, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas man who wanted to capture aerial photos of his home during his first plane ride instead helped catch two men burglarizing it.Steven Lynn said he could see the two taking items from his house."I looked down, and sure enough, there was a truck hooked onto a trailer,

Aug. 31, 2011

U.K. biz confidence plunges to lowest

U.K. business confidence in the economic outlook plunged this month to its lowest level since the depths of the recession in 2009, Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets said. An index of British companies’ optimism about the economy compared with three months earlier dropped to minus 3 from 19 in July, when

Aug. 30, 2011

22 Chinese miners rescued after 7 days

BEIJING (AP) ― Twenty-two coal miners were rescued Tuesday from their flooded pit in northeastern China after being trapped underground for a week.State broadcaster CCTV showed the men being brought slowly to the surface, with all apparently in good condition. Rescuers carry a miner in China on Tues

Aug. 30, 2011

‘Space station may be temporarily unmanned’

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― Astronauts may need to take the unprecedented step of temporarily abandoning the International Space Station if last week’s Russian launch accident prevents new crews from flying there this fall.Until officials figure out what went wrong with Russia’s essential Soyuz r

Aug. 30, 2011

‘Space station may be temporarily unmanned’

Irene’s death toll reaches 44 amid floods

MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) ― The full measure of Hurricane Irene’s fury came into focus Monday as the death toll passed 44, while towns in the northern U.S. region of New England battled epic floods and millions were still without electricity.From North Carolina to Maine, communities cleaned up and to

Aug. 30, 2011

Irene’s death toll reaches 44 amid floods

Libya troops held civilians as human shields

NEW YORK (AP) -- Libyan troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi forced civilians to act as human shields, perching children on tanks to deter NATO attacks, human rights investigators said. It was part of a pattern of rapes, slayings, ``disappearances'' and other war crimes that they said they found.Libyan r

Aug. 30, 2011

Libya troops held civilians as human shields

Ariz. man impaled by pruning shears

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Hospital officials say an 86-year-old Arizona man is lucky to be alive after he accidentally impaled himself with pruning shears.University Medical Center said Monday that Leroy Luetscher of Green Valley was working in his yard on July 30 when he dropped a pair of pruning

Aug. 30, 2011

Steve Job’s biological father yearning to meet his son

Steve Jobs’ biological father has expressed his desire to meet his son before he dies, the Daily Mail has reported.A Syrian immigrant, Abdulfattah John Jandali said that he did not realize until a few years ago that former CEO of Apple was the son he gave up 50 years ago.Jandali and his ex-wife Joan

Aug. 30, 2011

Panel reveals new details of 1940s experiment

ATLANTA (AP) _ A presidential panel on Monday disclosed shocking new details of U.S. medical experiments done in Guatemala in the 1940s, including a decision to re-infect a dying woman in a syphilis study. (MCT)The Guatemala experiments are already considered one of the darker episodes of medical re

Aug. 30, 2011

Panel reveals new details of 1940s experiment

Obama rounds out econ team ahead of jobs speech

(AP)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama tapped labor economist Alan Krueger for a top administration post Monday as the White House scrambles for solutions to repair an ailing economy ahead of the 2012 election.Obama announced Krueger's nomination to chair the White House Council of Econo

Aug. 30, 2011

Obama rounds out econ team ahead of jobs speech

Indonesian Muslim youths keep faith amid reform

JAKARTA (AFP) ― As a pious young Muslim in Indonesia, Didit Sukmana prays five times a day, recites the Koran daily and fasts during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.That’s not all. The 23-year-old student and Jakarta resident refuses to shake hands with women, will not marry a non-Muslim and appro

Aug. 29, 2011

Indonesian Muslim youths keep faith amid reform

Typhoon departs Taiwan, heads for China

TAIPEI (AP) -- Typhoon Nanmadol headed to southeastern China on Monday after dumping more than half a meter of rain in southern Taiwan, where wide swaths of agricultural land were flooded and some 8,000 people evacuated.The storm skirted Taiwan’s southwestern quadrant, remaining over the island for

Aug. 29, 2011

New Nepal P.M. elected

KATMANDU (AP) ― Nepal’s parliament elected the deputy leader of the former Maoist rebels as the new prime minister on Sunday, halting the Himalayan nation’s latest political crisis.Baburam Bhattarai of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) received 340 votes in the 601-seat parliament with the backi

Aug. 29, 2011

Flood worries, some relief in Irene’s wake

21 lives claimed and $7 billion lost, but N.Y. largely unscathedNEW YORK (AP) ― Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, inflicting relatively little damage to New York but leaving a trail of treacherous flooding and millions without power along America’s E

Aug. 29, 2011

Flood worries, some relief in Irene’s wake

Knife attack at Chinese daycare center wounds 8

SHANGHAI (AP) _ A staff member slashed children with a knife at a daycare center for migrant workers in eastern China on Monday, wounding eight children, one seriously.The attack took place at noon at an informal daycare center in Shanghai's suburban Minhang district, home to many migrant workers.Th

Aug. 29, 2011

Taiwan hospital transplants 5 HIV-infected organs

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- One of Taiwan's best regarded hospitals transplanted organs from an HIV carrier into five patients, a hospital official said Monday, in what appears to be one of the most egregious examples of medical negligence in the island's modern history.(AP)The five are now be

Aug. 29, 2011

Taiwan hospital transplants 5 HIV-infected organs

Finance minister wins Japan party vote, to be P.M.

Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks shortly after he was elected as the new leader of the Democratic Party of Japan at a voting by the party lawmakers in Tokyo Monday, Aug 29, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News)TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's ruling party has elected Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda as its new chief, me

Aug. 29, 2011

Finance minister wins Japan party vote, to be P.M.

Boy dies after parents refuse to let him drink water for 5 days

A couple in the U.S. has been arrested for killing the husband’s son by refusing him water for five days, Daily Mail reported.Jonathan James was being punished for wetting his bed and taking guitar strings from his twin brother. Jonathan’s father and his stepmother, have been arrested and charged fo

Aug. 29, 2011

Boy dies after parents refuse to let him drink water for 5 days