AP - Conditions in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, where a brutal insurgency once ruled, have improved so dramatically that the United States is handing over responsibility for security in the Sunni stronghold to Iraq within days. Troops freed up in Iraq could shift to Afghanistan.
AP - Police say rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight is in a Las Vegas jail on drug and assault charges after he was accused of beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife.
AP - Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases.
AFP - Russia accused the West on Wednesday of ratcheting up tensions in the Black Sea with an increased NATO naval presence and warned against isolating Moscow over the conflict in Georgia.
Reuters - Corporate America is having the hardest
time getting its customers to pay their bills since the last
U.S. recession in 2001, according to a study released on
Wednesday.
Reuters - U.S. military planners have begun
pondering the thorny question of how Georgia's shattered armed
forces might be rebuilt without provoking a Russian backlash
that could risk direct confrontation with Moscow.
Reuters - The hijackers of a Sudanese airliner
surrendered to authorities in Libya on Wednesday after
releasing all the passengers, Libya's aviation authority said.
Reuters - Three U.S. soldiers killed four
handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots on
the bank of a Baghdad canal last year, the New York Times
reported on Wednesday.
AP - Democrats ripped into John McCain as indifferent to the plight of the working class and an ally of big oil on Tuesday, launching wave after wave of attacks from the podium of their national convention.
Reuters - U.S. consumer confidence recovered
more than expected in August as fears over inflation eased,
while financial markets combed through housing data on Tuesday
for reasons to hope the worst may be over.
Reuters - A Sudanese passenger plane was hijacked
on Tuesday after leaving war-torn Darfur and has been forced to
land in Libya, Sudanese and Libyan authorities said.
Reuters - Air traffic at some major U.S.
airports was returning to normal on Tuesday after many planes
were delayed due to a glitch in the computer system for filing
flight plans, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Reuters - Hillary Clinton prepared for her highly
anticipated turn in the spotlight at the Democratic convention
on Tuesday, and in advance she urged supporters to help her put
Barack Obama in the White House.
AP - Hurricane Gustav dumped torrential rains across southern Haiti on Tuesday, killing at least one man and threatening crops amid protests over high food prices. Global fuel futures soared on fears Gustav could move into the Gulf of Mexico as an "extremely dangerous" storm.
AP - An electronic communication failure Tuesday at a Federal Aviation Administration facility in Georgia that processes flight plans for the eastern half of the U.S. was causing hundreds of flight delays around the country.
AP - A federal jury awarded Mattel Inc. $40 million in damages on Tuesday in a federal copyright lawsuit that pitted the house of Barbie against MGA Entertainment Inc., the maker of the saucy Bratz dolls.
AP - Russia stunned the West on Tuesday by recognizing the independence claims of two Georgian breakaway regions, and U.S. warships plied the waters off of Georgia in a gambit the Kremlin saw as gunboat diplomacy.
Reuters - Fewer Americans went without health
insurance last year for the first time since President George
W. Bush took office as more people received government
coverage, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
AP - Major League Baseball reversed its long-standing opposition to instant replay and will allow umpires to check video on home run calls in series that start Thursday.
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AP - The number of people without health insurance fell by more than 1 million in 2007, the first annual decline since the Bush administration took office, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Incomes edged up for the middle class while poverty held steady.
Reuters - Russia recognized two rebel
regions of Georgia as independent states on Tuesday, driving up
tension in the volatile Caucasus and putting Moscow on a
collision course with the West.
AFP - Russia on Tuesday formally recognised the Georgian rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states in a new challenge to the West that drew sharp warnings of consequences.
