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    Two fires still raging along California's central coast (AP)

    A firefighter walks along a large hill backfire on a wildfire burn in Big Sur, Calif., Friday, July 4, 2008. The raging blaze near Big Sur was one of more than 1,700 wildfires, mostly ignited by lightning, that have scorched more then 770 square miles and destroyed 64 structures across northern and central California since June 20, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.  (AP Photo/ Tony Avelar)AP - Cool, damp weather early Saturday helped crews gain ground on the huge wildfire that wiped out this coastal retreat's holiday tourist trade, allowing some personnel and gear to be shifted to a growing blaze farther south


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:04:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Protesters rally ahead of G8 summit (AFP)

    Anti-G8 activists take part in a demonstration in Sapporo, on July 5, ahead of the Hokkaido Toyako G8 Summit 2008. Leaders of the eight major industrial powers meet starting on July 7 in the northern Japanese mountain resort of Toyako, where they are reportedly set to agree on a new system of AFP - Thousands of activists and farmers from around the world gathered in northern Japan Saturday for a major protest ahead of next week's summit of the Group of Eight rich nations.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:53:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Freed Betancourt set for medical after hero's welcome in France (AFP)

    Freed Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt said Friday she owed her life to France as President Nicolas Sarkozy gave her a hero's welcome to Paris, turning the page on her six-year hostage ordeal. Language en Duration 00:01:04(AFPTV)AFP - Freed Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt faced a day of medical tests in Paris Saturday after receiving a hero's welcome following her six-year hostage ordeal, as video footage was released of her dramatic rescue.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:20:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    U.S. champion retains hot dog eating title (Reuters)

    Joey Chestnut (R) holds his arm up after defeating Takeru Kobayashi of Japan (L) in overtime at Nathan's annual hot dog eating contest in New York, July 4, 2008. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. defending champion Joey Chestnut won the annual Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Friday by downing 64 hot dogs in a competition that stretched into a first-ever overtime.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:36:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Big protest planned for Seoul against beef and Lee (Reuters)

    A riot police officer removes shields from a police van near the U.S. embassy in central Seoul July 5, 2008. South Korean police said they expect about 35,000 to gather on Saturday for a protest against a U.S. beef import deal and the polices of the new president, whose government has faced a crisis due to the weeks of street rallies. (Victor Fraile/Reuters)Reuters - South Korean police said they expect about 35,000 to gather on Saturday for a protest against a U.S. beef import deal and the polices of the new president, whose government has faced a crisis due to the weeks of street rallies.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:42:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Obama mixes politics, holiday barbecue (Reuters)

    Democratic US presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) addresses a news conference after meeting with his foreign policy advisory panel of former Democratic U.S. government officials at a hotel in Washington June 18, 2008. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama mixed presidential politics with parades and barbecue on U.S. Independence Day on Friday, celebrating his daughter's birthday with a picnic and fireworks in Montana.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:57:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Firefighters hold line on two California wildfires (Reuters)

    A firefighter works to extinguish a blaze that burned to the shoulder of Highway 1 during a wildfire in Big Sur, California July 4, 2008. California firefighters held the line overnight on two wildfires burning along the California coast that threatened more than 4,000 homes and other structures, fire officials said on Friday morning. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)Reuters - Exhausted California firefighters worked on Friday to contain two wildfires threatening homes along the coast before sundown, when shifting winds were expected to give the blazes more power.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:47:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Iran says its nuclear stance unchanged (Reuters)

    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) waves to journalists as Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili stands in the background before an official meeting in Tehran July 1, 2008. Iran said on Saturday its nuclear stance had not changed and it was ready to hold talks with world major powers over its disputed nuclear program based on international regulations. (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters)Reuters - Iran said on Saturday its nuclear stance had not changed and it was ready to hold talks with world major powers over its disputed nuclear program based on international regulations.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:04:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Former Senator Jesse Helms dies at 86 (Reuters)

    Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms is shown in this undated file image. (Robert Padgett/Reuters)Reuters - Jesse Helms, a die-hard anti-communist firebrand who championed a wide range of conservative causes in his 30 years in the U.S. Senate, died early on Friday, aged 86, his foundation said.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:23:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Colombia shows rescue video (Reuters)

    Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt (C) and other hostages wait to board a helicopter during a rescue operation in Colombia July 2, 2008 in this frame grab taken on July 4, 2008. Betancourt, 3 Americans and 11 other hostages, were rescued on Wednesday by the Colombian military after many years in the jungle as captives of leftist guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). (Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Colombia showed a video on Friday of the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages where their anger turned to ecstasy as theater-trained military agents duped and overpowered leftist rebels.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:26:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    One more time: Federer vs. Nadal at Wimbledon (AP)

    Spain's Rafael Nadal reacts after winning his semifinal match against Germany's Rainer Schuettler on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, Friday, July 4 , 2008. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - Add up all of Roger Federer's greatness on grass courts, and the numbers are striking: 40 wins in a row at Wimbledon, 65 overall on the surface.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:08:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Spitzer call girl drops 'Girls Gone Wild' lawsuit (AP)

    This undated image obtained from a MySpace Web page shows Ashley Dupre, the former call girl for ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York. Dupre dropped a $10 million lawsuit claiming 'Girls Gone Wild' founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet. (AP Photo, file)AP - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:01:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Study: Orangutan populations declining sharply (AP)

    In this Nov. 8, 2007, file photo, Moni, a 17-year-old orangutan, carries her four-day-old baby at Gembira Loka zoo in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The numbers of orangutans in Indonesia and Malaysia had declined sharply mostly due to illegal logging and the rapid expansion of palm oil plantations, a researcher said. (AP Photo/Slamet Riyadi, FILE)AP - Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn't taken, a new study says.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:39:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Rescue video shows duped rebels, elated hostages (AP)

    In this frame grab from a video released by Colombia's Army taken on July 2, 2008 and released on July 4, 2008, hostage Ingrid Betancourt, center, is seen with her hands tied together as she stands with unidentified hostages during a Colombian military mission that rescued them from captivity in an unknown location in Colombia's Guaviare state.  Betancourt is one of 15 hostages rescued by Colombia's military from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.  Betancourt was abducted by the FARC when running for president in Feb. 2002. (AP Photo/Colombian Army)AP - Colombian military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a media crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:32:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Companies begin quest for oil, gas off Florida (AP)

    In this March 28, 2006 file photo, the Discoverer Deep Seas drillship sits on station off the coast of Louisiana as Chevron drills for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.  President Bush is renewing his call to open U.S. coastal waters to oil and gas development, arguing that it's high time to battle high prices with increased domestic production. He is planning to ask Congress on Wednesday, June 18, 2008, to lift the drilling moratoria that have been in effect since 1981 in more than 80 percent of the country's Outer Continental Shelf and to let states help to decide where to allow drilling.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:47:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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