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Jumbo jet lands safely after piece falls off fuselage
Australian authorities opened an investigation yesterday into what caused a section of the fuselage of a Qantas airliner to burst open en route from Hong Kong to Melbourne, Australia, forcing the Boeing 747-400 to make an emergency landing in Manila.
- FIELD POLL
Record number are worse off financially than they were in '07
A record number of Californians, nearly two-thirds, report being worse off financially than they were a year ago, according to a new Field Poll. The poll shows 63 percent of registered voters questioned said they are worse off, while 14 percent said they are better off.
- 1960 RANDY PAUSCH 2008
Prof's 'last lecture' was Internet hit, best-selling book
PITTSBURGH – Randy Pausch said obstacles serve a purpose: “(They) give us a chance to show how badly we want something.”
Confronted with incurable cancer, Pausch devised a last lecture that became an Internet sensation, a best-selling book and a celebration of a life spent achieving his dreams.
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- FDA: Don't eat raw jalapeņos grown in Mexico
WASHINGTON – Only jalapeño peppers grown in Mexico are implicated in the nationwide salmonella outbreak, the government announced yesterday in clearing the U.S. crop.
- Abandoned mines in West on federal land called unsafe
WASHINGTON – The government has endangered the public's health and safety by failing to clean up abandoned mines on federal land in the West, according to a scathing audit released yesterday.
- Senate poised to pass mortgage rescue package
WASHINGTON – The Senate cleared the last hurdle yesterday to passing a housing rescue aimed at sparing hundreds of thousands of homeowners from foreclosure and bolstering troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
- NATION UPDATE
Man shoots mower, could face prison
MILWAUKEE – A 56-year-old Milwaukee man has been accused of shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn't start.
 2008 VOTE: PRESIDENT
McCain mocks Obama's policies on Iraq, argues troop surge was needed
DENVER – Republican presidential candidate John McCain, ridiculing Barack Obama for “the audacity of hopelessness” in his policies on Iraq, said yesterday that the entire Middle East could have plunged into war had U.S. troops been withdrawn as his rival advocated.
- 2008 VOTE: PRESIDENT
Obama visits Sarkozy, says they agree on Iran
PARIS – Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, nearing the end of a fast-paced international campaign trip, warned Iran yesterday, “don't wait for the next president” to take office before yielding to Western demands to dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
- FBI interrogators testify at al-Qaeda driver's trial
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – An al-Qaeda driver who gave detailed, insider knowledge of the terror network to U.S. agents is seeing his words used against him at the first Guantanamo war-crimes trial.
- Greek, Turkish Cypriot leaders set to start reunification talks
NICOSIA, Cyprus – Rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders said yesterday they will start historic reunification talks on Sept. 3, ending years of deadlock and sparking hope that the island's 34-year division could finally end.
- Protective soldiers in Mexico turning more and more violent
OJINAGA, Mexico – This hardscrabble border town welcomed 400 soldiers when they arrived four months ago to stop a wave of drug violence that brought daytime gunbattles to its main street.
- French law may shorten vacations for some
PARIS – Michel Guyot often takes a weekday off to go to the Sugiton limestone cliffs on the Mediterranean Sea in southern France to smell the thyme and listen to the cicadas. Those cherished moments may soon be history, he says.
- WORLD UPDATE
Venezuelan leader, Spain's king make up
MADRID, Spain – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Spain's King Juan Carlos shook hands and made up yesterday in their first meeting since the monarch told the president to “shut up” at a summit in November.
- Blast walls become murals amid fears of sectarianism
BAGHDAD – It's art ornamenting life: murals of soothing landscapes and historical heroes covering the blast walls that are now as much a part of Baghdad's cityscape as date palms and desert dust.
- Cost of Iraq conflict nears Vietnam War's expense, report says
WASHINGTON – The total cost of the Iraq war is approaching the Vietnam War's expense, a congressional report estimates, while spending for military operations after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks has exceeded it.
- Pope meets with Iraqi PM, cites need to help refugees
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI urged the world to help Iraqis who have fled their country and called for better protection for Christians inside Iraq during talks yesterday with Iraq's prime minister, the Vatican said.
- Daily developments
The U.S. military said yesterday that bullets fired by U.S. soldiers killed the 14-year-old son of the chief editor of a U.S.-sponsored newspaper during a gunbattle this week in Kirkuk.
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