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    Jankovic and Kuznetsova ousted at Wimbledon (AP)

    Jelena Jankovic of Serbia reacts during her match against Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London June 30, 2008.    REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque   (BRITAIN)AP - Second-seeded Jelena Jankovic and No. 4 Svetlana Kuznetsova were ousted in the fourth round Monday, leaving Wimbledon without any of the top four women in the quarterfinals for the first time.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:36:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    British student gets credit for expletive on exam (AP)
    AP - A British high school student received credit for writing nothing but a two-word obscenity on an exam paper because the phrase expressed meaning and was spelled correctly. -- read full article
    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:36:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Bon Jovi to play at free NYC concert (AP)

    In this May 20, 2008 file photo, the band Bon Jovi, from left, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Rico Torres and David Bryan pose in Abu Dhabi. New York City officials say Bon Jovi will play at a free concert in Central Park this summer. The concert will be held July 12th. (AP Photo/Manuel Salazar, file)AP - New York City officials say Bon Jovi will play at a free concert in Central Park this summer.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:29:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Sea turtle Dylan is released back into the wild (AP)

    Dylan, a nine-year-old the sea turtle, is examined by biologist from the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, Sunday June 29, 2008 in Jekyll Island, Ga. for her release on Monday. Dylan was rescued as a hatchling and has lived her life in captivity. She was fitted with a satellite transmitter so wildlife biologist can track her movement and collect data in the years to come. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)AP - A 150-pound sea turtle raised by humans returned to freedom on Monday after nine years of captivity, swimming away after the veterinarians who cared for her helped steer her toward the ocean.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:46:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Stocks trade mixed as oil pulls off fresh high (AP)

    Trader Steven Kaplan watches the numbers as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday June 27, 2008. Wall Street has suffered another big loss, with the Dow Jones industrials falling more than 100 points amid worries about high oil prices and further fallout from the credit crisis. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Wall Street turned mixed Monday in the final session of an arduous first half, as the price of oil pulled off its high and temporarily relieved some of the market's inflation worries.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:28:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Abu Ghraib inmates sue contractors, claim torture (AP)

    This is a file image obtained by The Associated Press which shows an unidentified detainee standing on a box with a bag on his head and wires attached to him in late 2003 at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. Years after being released by the U.S. military, former detainees held in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay Naval Base are suffering debilitating injuries and mental disorders from their interrogation and alleged torture, according to a new report by a human rights group. (AP Photo)AP - Former detainees of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are suing U.S. contractors in four states for alleged torture.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:18:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Mugabe looks for support at African summit (AP)

    Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe attends the eleventh ordinary session of the assembly of the African Union heads of State and government in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Monday, June 30, 2008. The African Union summit has opened in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh with longtime Zimbabwe ruler President Robert Mugabe in attendance. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe sought a boost of political legitimacy at a summit of African leaders Monday after his re-election was widely discredited as a sham.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:29:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Calif. firefighters battle more than 1,400 blazes (AP)

    A 450-acre wildfire caused the evacuation of 120 people from the town of about 400 scattered homes and summer cabins in the mountain community of Crown King, Ariz., and the smoke could be seen Sunday, June 29, 2008, in Black Canyon City, Ariz., in the foreground. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Two of Northern California's more than 1,400 wildfires choked parts of the Sierra Nevada foothills, darkening a 100-mile stretch between Sacramento and Reno with clouds of black smoke.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:50:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Bush signs $162 billion war spending bill (AP)

    President Bush, center, gestures during a statement after signing the wartime supplemental budget in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday, June 30, 2008 in Washington.  From left, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Bush, Secretary of Veteran Affairs James Peake, and Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy John P. Walters.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - President Bush on Monday signed legislation to pay for the war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of his presidency and beyond, hailing the $162 billion plan as a rare product of bipartisan cooperation.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:46:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Obama: I will never question others' patriotism (AP)

    Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., stands onstage as he is introduced to speak at the Truman Memorial Building in Independence, Mo., on Monday, June 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Monday he will never question others' patriotism during the race and blames his own "carelessness" for some criticism of him so far.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:09:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    US Secretary of State presses China on human rights (AFP)

    US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (L) is welcome by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao prior their meeting in Beijing on June 30. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed China's leaders Monday on sensitive human rights issues, but said she was encouraged by their decision to hold talks with the Dalai Lama's envoys.(AFP/Oded Balilty)AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed China's leaders Monday on sensitive human rights issues, but said she was encouraged by their decision to hold talks with the Dalai Lama's envoys.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:10:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Mugabe attending African summit in Egypt (AFP)

    Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is congratulated by his wife Grace Mugabe after being sworn in for a sixth term in Harare. Mugabe was attending an African Union summit in Egypt on Monday amid growing calls for African leaders to shun the Zimbabwean president over his widely discredited election win.(AFP/Alexander Joe)AFP - Robert Mugabe was attending an African Union summit in Egypt on Monday amid growing calls for African leaders to shun the Zimbabwean president over his widely discredited election win.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:00:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Fund manager pays $2.1 million to lunch with Warren Buffett (Reuters)

    Warren Buffett laughs during a news conference in Madrid May 21, 2008. (Andrea Comas/Reuters)Reuters - A Chinese fund manager has won a lunch with famed U.S. investor Warren Buffett after bidding $2.11 million for the opportunity in a charity auction, more than three times what the lunch fetched last year.


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:24:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Iran sentences man to death for spying for Israel (Reuters)

    Iranian Ali Ashtari (C) attends his trial in Tehran, June 28, 2008. (Hassan Ghaedi/FARS NEWS/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - An Iranian court on Monday sentenced to death an Iranian businessman on charges of spying for Israel after a two-day trial, media said.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:47:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    U.N. expands food aid to N.Korea; U.S. help arrives (Reuters)

    North Koreans work on a field at the propaganda village of Gijungdong, in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, northwest of Seoul, in this April 30, 2008. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)Reuters - The U.N. World Food Program, which has warned of a humanitarian crisis in North Korea due to a food shortage, said on Monday it reached a deal with Pyongyang to rapidly expand aid, and that a U.S. ship carrying wheat had arrived.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:42:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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