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Home foreclosures reach record high (Reuters)

A foreclosed home up for sale in Burbank, California, July 20, 2008. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - Home foreclosures and the rate of homes entering foreclosure rose to record highs in the second quarter, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Friday.


Official: Egyptian ship hijacked near Somalia (AP)
AP - An Egyptian cargo ship with 25 crew members has been hijacked by pirates off Somalia's coast, the 10th vessel to be seized in less than two months, a global maritime watchdog said Friday.

People convicted in the Abramoff investigation (AP)

In this Jan. 3, 2006 file photo,  lobbyist Jack Abramoff  leaves Federal Court in Washington. From the time Jack Abramoff began cooperating with the FBI, the once powerful lobbyist knew the day would come when he would have to answer for a lifestyle of trading expensive gifts for political favors. 'I have been thinking about this moment literally for years,' the disgraced power broker wrote a federal judge Wednesday about his sentencing. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - Lawmakers, lobbyists, Bush administration officials, congressional staffers and businessmen caught up in the Jack Abramoff public corruption probe:


Intruders shot after Texas couple wrests shotgun (AP)
AP - When two gunmen smashed through the glass front door of her suburban Fort Worth home, Kellie Hoehn didn't think twice.

Jobless rate at 5-year high (Reuters)

The U.S. unemployment rate unexpectedly shot up to 6.1 percent in August, its highest in more than 4-1/2 years, as employers cut payrolls for an eighth straight month and labor markets showed signs of accelerating decline. (Graphic/Reuters)Reuters - An unexpectedly steep 84,000 U.S. jobs were lost in August and the unemployment rate hit a five-year high of 6.1 percent, fanning worry ahead of November's presidential vote that the economy was near recession.


Southeast braces for Hanna as Ike strengthens (AP)

This image provided by NOAA was taken at 12:01 a.m. EDT Friday Sept. 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna can be seen chugging just east of the Bahamas headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it could bring high winds and rain from South Carolina to Maine. At 11 p.m. EDT, its center was 540 miles south of Wilmington, N.C., and was moving northwest at 14 mph with maximum sustained winds near 65 mph. Rain and wind from Hanna could start as early as Friday night in the South, where some residents shuttered houses and stocked up on food and sandbags, coastal parks closed, and schools canceled events and changed sports schedules. Tropical storm watches and warnings were issued from Georgia to near Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/NOAA) .AP - Some Southeastern states declared emergencies and officials urged residents to head inland Thursday as Tropical Storm Hanna headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it could bring high winds and rain from South Carolina to Maine.


Philly school rekindles same-sex education debate (AP)

Richard Cherry Jr., right, 15, departs Boys' Latin of Philadelphia with his father, Richard Cherry Sr, in Philadelphia Tuesday July 15, 2008.  Boys' Latin of Philadelphia, one of the city's newer charter schools, aims to be an educational beacon in the financially and academically troubled district. But because it is single sex public school — one of four in Philadelphia — it faced huge opposition and almost didn't exist.  (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)AP - Calling all ninth-grade boys! Raise your hand if this school sounds like fun: wearing jackets and ties every day, staying until 5 p.m., learning Latin and — to top it all off — no girls.


Pakistani officials report missile strike (AP)

A suicide bomber named on screen as Kamaal Saleem Atiyyah al-Fudli al-Hadhli, also known as Abu Ghareebal-Makki, speaks in this image taken from internet video footage. Al Qaeda issued new threats against Denmark in an Internet video released on Friday, saying an attack on the Danish Embassy in Pakistan is just the start of its retaliation for perceived insults to the Prophet Mohammad. (Intelcentre/Handout/Reuters)AP - An explosion possibly caused by a missile strike killed five suspected foreign militants near the Afghan border on Friday, Pakistani officials said.


Texas UPS driver goes 1 million miles, no crashes (AP)

UPS driver Brent Boyd poses with his truck on Friday, Aug. 29, 2008 in Palestine, Texas. Brent Boyd on Thursday surpassed one million miles on his UPS delivery van, the same vehicle he's driven for 22 years with the company. (AP Photo/Palestine Herald, Cheril Vernon)AP - A routine package delivery turned into a milestone for a UPS driver in East Texas.


Oldest gorilla in captivity dies in Dallas at 55 (AP)

Jenny, a Western Lowland Gorilla and the world's oldest captive gorilla, celebrates her 55th birthday at the Dallas Zoo in a Thursday, May 8, 2008 file photo. Jenny has died at her home in the Dallas Zoo, a spokesman said Friday, Sept. 5, 2008.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)AP - The oldest gorilla in captivity, a 55-year-old female named Jenny, has died at the Dallas Zoo — her home for more than half a century, a spokesman said Friday.


Gene domino effect behind brain, pancreatic tumors (AP)
AP - Scientists have mapped the cascade of genetic changes that turn normal cells in the brain and pancreas into two of the most lethal cancers. The result points to a new approach for fighting tumors and maybe even catching them sooner. Genes blamed for one person's brain tumor were different from the culprits for the next patient, making the puzzle of cancer genetics even more complicated.

Voters say economy overshadows political hoopla (Reuters)

Shoppers walk along Broadway in New York's Soho shopping district August 13, 2008. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)Reuters - Trudy Tucker doesn't know if the back-to-back U.S. political conventions addressed the financial worries she has raising four children -- she was too busy to watch.


Remains of 3 sailors from Pearl Harbor identified (AP)
AP - Two-thirds of a century ago, Kathleen Wyman drove her brother to California to join the Navy. From there, he shipped out to the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor.

Melting Swiss glacier yields Neolithic trove, climate secrets (AFP)

A quiver dated from Neolithic and found at the 2,756 metre-high Schnidejoch alpine pass, western Swiss Alps. So far, 300 objects dating as far back as the Neolithic or New Stone Age -- about 4,000 BC in Europe -- to the later Bronze and Iron Ages and the Medieval era have been found in the site's former icefields.(AFP/HO)AFP - Some 5,000 years ago, on a day with weather much like today's, a prehistoric person tread high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a bow and arrows.


New fingerprint method could unlock cold cases (Reuters)

A woman gives her fingerprints to join a petition in a file photo. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)Reuters - It's a discovery that would make even Sherlock Holmes proud. British scientists have developed a new crime-fighting technique that allows police to lift fingerprints from bullets even if a criminal has wiped down a shell casing.


Home loan troubles break records again (AP)

In this July 2, 2008 file photo, a foreclosed home is seen for sale in Sacramento, Calif.  A record 9 percent of American homeowners with a mortgage were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of June, as damage from the housing crisis continues to mount, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)AP - The source of trouble in the mortgage market has shifted from subprime loans made to borrowers with bad credit to homeowners who had solid credit but took out exotic loans with ballooning monthly payments.


Iraq eyes Lockheed F-16 fighter aircraft purchase (Reuters)

The F-16, made by Lockheed Martin Corp, in an undated photo. The Iraqi government is seeking to buy 36 advanced F-16 fighters from the U.S., American military officials familiar with the request told the Wall Street Journal. (Lockheed Martin Corp/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - The Iraqi government has asked for information about buying 36 F-16 fighter aircraft built by Lockheed Martin Corp , the U.S. Defense Department said on Friday.


NJ cops kick in door over bird's cries for help (AP)
AP - Cries for help inside a Trenton, N.J., home turned out to be for the birds. Neighbors called police Wednesday morning after hearing a woman's persistent cry of "Help me! Help me!" coming from a house. Officers arrived and when no one answered the door, they kicked it in to make a rescue.

Hurricane Ike threatens Gulf (Reuters)

Tropical Storm Hanna is seen south-southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina in this satellite image taken September 4, 2008. (NOAA/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Hurricane Ike may be on course toward a potentially dangerous route into the oil-producing Gulf of Mexico, a U.S. emergency official said on Friday.


Oil prices drop as jobs data add to demand worries (AP)

The oil market is starting to suffer from oversupply, the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman Shukri Ghanem said on Friday, days before a key OPEC meeting on crude output levels.(AFP/File/Filippo Monteforte)AP - Oil prices sank to a five-month low Friday as a jump in the U.S. unemployment rate signaled to traders that Americans might keep paring back their energy use to save money.


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