ike hits cuba as dangerous category 3 hurricane ap ap hurricane ike's winds and massive storm surge ripped apart houses and toppled trees monday as the deadly storm roared across cuba toward havana and its historic but decaying old buildings


several explosions in pakistan's northwest kill 6 ap ap several explosions reportedly caused by missile strikes from unmanned u s drone aircraft hit a house and seminary linked to a key taliban commander in northwestern pakistan officials said


fla keys residents weigh evacuation ahead of ike ap ap as a ferocious hurricane ike ripped across cuba residents from key west to the gulf coast watched the storm's unpredictable path worrying it could hit anywhere in the u s from texas to florida


us government takes over mortgage giants ap ap the bush administration's seizure of troubled mortgage giants fannie mae and freddie mac is potentially a $200 billion bet that it will help reverse a prolonged housing and credit crisis


obama and mccain have big economic differences ap ap job no 1 for the next president? in the minds of an overwhelming number of americans it's fixing what ails the sick economy what the voters will have to sort out are very different approaches offered by barack obama and john mccain


jury selection to begin in oj simpson robbery case ap ap nearly a year after o j simpson walked into a casino hotel room intent on reclaiming some sports memorobilia lawyers in his robbery kidnapping trial are finally set to begin picking a jury


owner ride's over at coney island amusement park ap ap when reports circulated over the weekend of a last minute deal to keep coney island's historic astroland amusement park open for another year owner carol hill albert was not amused


mtv vmas find few surprises as britney steals show ap ap los angeles — no madonna kiss no michael jackson cameo no flying howard stern not even a kanye tantrum


asian stocks soar after freddie fannie bailouts ap ap asian stock markets soared monday after washington announced a bailout of mortgage giants fannie mae and freddie mac — a move that could help bolster a shaky u s housing market and renew global investor confidence


she's no 1 again serena williams wins us open ap ap on the very first point of the match serena williams hit a backhand so hard that her earring flew off turns out she was just getting warmed up williams kept pounding away her shots and shouts getting louder with every stroke and when she finished off jelena jankovic 6 4 7 5 sunday night for the u s open championship and a ninth grand slam title williams really went wild


china and japan hail u s mortgage rescue as doubts linger reuters reuters china and japan the biggest buyers of freddie mac and fannie mae bonds praised washington for its rescue of the ailing mortgage giants but investors had no illusions the bailout would end the global credit market misery


killer ike pounds cuba on way to mexico gulf reuters reuters hurricane ike pounded northeastern cuba with 120 mile per hour 195 kph winds torrential rains and massive waves that rolled through coastal towns on monday on a path toward the gulf of mexico oil fields and possibly new orleans


u s drones hit taliban commander's pakistan house reuters reuters missiles fired by u s drones killed at least six people on monday in a pakistani village near the afghan border where a religious school founded by an old friend of osama bin laden is located witnesses said


russia aims to corner energy markets u s official reuters reuters russia aims to corner energy markets a senior u s official said on monday as vice president dick cheney arrived in italy during a tour that has taken in eastern european states which are important transit routes india to sell nuclear deal to world soothe critics reuters reuters india will take its civilian nuclear deal with the united states to the world looking to secure fuel supplies and reactor technology analysts said while seeking to soothe critics with a strong non proliferation pitch georgia and russia in hague court over conflict reuters reuters georgian accusations that russia committed human rights violations against ethnic georgians in the breakaway provinces of south ossetia and abkhazia went before an international court on monday


u s to look again at civilian deaths in afghan raid reuters reuters the u s military said it planned to reopen an investigation into civilian deaths in a coalition air strike in western afghanistan last month after new evidence


serena bounces away with u s open crown reuters reuters the drama queen came face to face with the comeback queen at flushing meadows on sunday jelena jankovic provided the on court theatrics and serena williams bounced away with the u s open trophy


ike slams cuba haiti death toll passes 600 afp afp hurricane ike raged over cuba early monday pummeling the island with gale force winds and torrential rain after killing dozens in beleaguered haiti and worsening its growing humanitarian disaster


sarkozy in georgia peace mission afp afp french president nicolas sarkozy visits moscow and tbilisi on monday in a bid to ramp up the international pressure on russia to withdraw more troops from georgia and shore up a fragile peace deal


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