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Yahoo! News: World News

Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 04:31 PM PDT

People stand in front of a bus partially covered by a landslide, due to heavy rains, on the Pan-American highway at Tecpan, Guatemala, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010. At least 12 passengers were killed and around 25 injured, rescue workers said. (AP Photo)AP - Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers trying to save people already buried under a wall of mud.

Congo: 70 dead, 200 missing in 2 boat capsizes (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 04:07 PM PDT

Map locates the Ruki and Kasai Rivers where boats sank in the CongoAP - Two boats capsized over the weekend in separate incidents on Congo's vast rivers, leaving 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead, and both vessels were heavily loaded and operating with few safety measures, officials said Sunday.

3 killed in suicide attack on Russian base (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:14 PM PDT

A view of the site of suicide car-bomb attack on Russian base in the city of Buinaksk in the violence-plagued republic of Dagestan, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. A spokesman for the republic's Interior Ministry, said the driver of the explosives-laden small Zhiguli automobile smashed through a gate of the base and headed for an area where soldiers are quartered in tents. But soldiers opened fire on him before he reached the center of the base. The spokesman said, the driver rammed the car into a military truck where it exploded. (AP Photo/Abdula Magomedov, News Team)AP - A suicide car-bomber killed three soldiers and wounded 32 others in an attack on a military base in Russia's violence-plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, officials said.

Chile mine disaster exposes old family feuds (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:10 PM PDT

In this photos provided by Chile's government, trapped miner Claudio Yanez talks to his relatives during a video conference at the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Thirty-three miners have been trapped deep underground in the copper and gold mine since it collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Chile's government)AP - While a fire warms their campsite, the icy feeling between Cristina Nunez Macias and her mother-in-law is as palpable as the cold Atacama desert.

Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 01:52 PM PDT

In this image made from television, Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul-Qadir al-Ubaidi , center, inspects the site of a suicide attack accompanied by soldiers at a military headquarters in Baghdad, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Suicide bombers hit a Baghdad military headquarters on Sunday and killed dozens of people, two weeks after an attack on the same site pointed to the failure of Iraqi forces to plug even the most obvious holes in their security. (AP Photo/APTN)AP - Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens.

The Bettencourt Scandal Puts Sarkozy in Growing Peril (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 11:50 AM PDT

Time.com - As the scandal surrounding the L'OrÉal billions further entwines Eric Woerth, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's support for his labor minister could cost him the next election

Wawrinka beats Murray at US Open (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 04:36 PM PDT

Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland returns a shot to Andy Murray of Britain during a third round US Open match on September 5, 2010 in New York. Murray crashed out of the US Open on Sunday, losing 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 (7/4), 6-3, 6-3 to Wawrinka.(AFP/Stan Honda)AFP - Fourth seed Andy Murray crashed out of the US Open on Sunday, losing 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 (7/4), 6-3, 6-3 to Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland.

Iran: Israeli attack would mean its own demise (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 02:27 PM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a joint press conference with Qatar's emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, unseen, at the royal palace in Doha on Sunday Sept. 5, 2010, declaring that any attack on the Islamic republic will result in the destruction of Israel. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)AP - Iran's president said Sunday that any Israeli attack against his nation would mean the destruction of the Jewish state.

Police nab alleged smuggler of Ecuadorean migrant (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 11:23 AM PDT

AP - Authorities have detained an alleged smuggler of an Ecuadorean man who told police he survived a massacre of 72 fellow migrants in Mexico, the justice minister confirmed Sunday.

Fuel tankers, buses ablaze in Nigeria road crash (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:08 PM PDT

Fire rages at Ibafo Town on Lagos Ibadan highway. More than a dozen vehicles including three fuel tankers and two mini-buses caught fire Sunday in a pile-up on a Nigerian highway, site of a deadly multi-car crash three weeks ago, an AFP photographer reported.(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - More than a dozen vehicles including three fuel tankers and two mini-buses caught fire Sunday in a pile-up on a Nigerian highway, site of a deadly multi-car crash three weeks ago, an AFP photographer reported.

Emergency extended in New Zealand's quake-hit Christchurch (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 04:29 PM PDT

People pass a collapsed wall a day after Christchurch was rocked by a powerful 7.1 earthquake. New Zealand authorities extended a state of emergency in earthquake-hit Christchurch Monday and said the centre of the country's second largest city remained a no-go zone.(AFP/Barnaby Carter)AFP - New Zealand authorities extended a state of emergency in earthquake-hit Christchurch Monday and said the centre of the country's second largest city remained a no-go zone.

NZ cleans up after quake that tore new fault line (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:09 AM PDT

A person cycles past a damaged road near the Avon River following Saturday's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake, in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The quake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city also ripped a new 11-foot- (3.5 meter-) wide fault in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/NZPA, David Alexander) **NEW ZEALAND OUT**AP - The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city of Christchurch also ripped a new fault line in the Earth's surface, a geologist said Sunday.

How Pakistan's Floods Have Made Women Dangerously Visible (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 11:50 AM PDT

Time.com - The public mixing of the genders is leading to enormous tension and fear that violence may break out as men try to defend conservative ideas of honor

New Two-Hour TB Test (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:18 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - JOHANNESBURG, Sep 3 (PlusNews) - A new, accurate, easy-to-use test can diagnose tuberculosis (TB) - including drug-resistant strains of the disease - in less than two hours. It has the potential to save thousands of lives in developing countries, where current tests are often unreliable, take weeks to process, or are simply unavailable.

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