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    Some Canada Anglicans may reject same-sex moratorium (Reuters)

    The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams speaks during a seminar entitled 'Faith in the Future' at Great St Mary's Church in Cambridge, central England February 20, 2008. (Darren Staples/Reuters)Reuters - There seems little chance that all Canadian Anglican clergy will honor the moratorium on blessing same-sex unions requested by the worldwide Anglican communion.


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    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:44:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Obama takes aim at McCain's maverick image (Reuters)

    Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain smiles during a campaign stop at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan July 18, 2008. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took aim at Republican John McCain's maverick image on Wednesday as the campaign trail took another negative turn.


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    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:42:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Karadzic demands Holbrooke, Albright appear in court (Reuters)

    Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stands in the court room of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the start of his initial appearance in The Hague, July 31, 2008. (Jerry Lampen/Reuters)Reuters - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic demanded on Wednesday that former U.S. peace mediator Richard Holbrooke and ex-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appear at the U.N. war crimes tribunal to back his claims of an immunity offer from the United States.


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    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:11:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    FBI lays out evidence to victims in anthrax case (Reuters)

    Bruce Ivins is seen in this photograph taken during an award ceremony at a Pentagon ceremony March 14, 2003 where Ivins was awarded the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service, which is equivalent to the Distinguished Service Medal for military service. (USAMRIID/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - The FBI began to unveil on Wednesday its case against a U.S. Army scientist it considers responsible for the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people and sickened 17 in the worst biological weapon attack in the United States.


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    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:54:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    U.S. says major powers mull new U.N. Iran sanctions (Reuters)

    A technician works inside a nuclear power plant in Bushehr, about 755 miles south of Tehran, April 3, 2007. (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters)Reuters - The United States and Britain said major powers had agreed on Wednesday to consider more U.N. sanctions against Iran after Tehran gave no concrete reply to their demand that it freeze its nuclear activities.


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    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:47:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    U.S. convicts bin Laden's driver at Guantanamo (Reuters)

    Salim Hamdan, who has spent nearly four years at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is seen in this file photograph taken in Yemen in 2000. (Neal Katyal/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A military court on Wednesday convicted Osama bin Laden's driver of supporting terrorism but acquitted him on the more serious charge of conspiring with al Qaeda in the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War Two.


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    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:16:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Favre trade talk heating up as Packers move on (AP)

    Quarterback Brett Favre walks to his vehicle after attending meetings with the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Matt Ludtke)AP - Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson was not seen at practice Wednesday morning, and his scheduled early afternoon media availability was postponed — one of several signs a trade involving Brett Favre might be brewing.


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    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:22:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    At Doggyspace, social networking goes to the dogs (AP)

    This undated screen shot provided by Doggyspace.com shows the web site's homepage. Social networking has apparently gone to the dogs. Doggyspace.com, a crossbreed between MySpace and YouTube, brings together dog owners from all over the world, allowing them to create profiles, and share photos and videos of their pups. (AP Photo/Doggyspace.com)AP - Cici confesses on her Web page that she likes to greet everyone by licking their feet. Dolce admits to being a mamma's boy. And Jake and Tycho posted a video that chronicles their adventures of rolling around on their backs. It's not on Facebook or MySpace, but the canine equivalent — Doggyspace.com.


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    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:11:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Giant online security hole getting fixed, slowly (AP)

    In this undated photo provided by IOActive Inc., Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing for Seattle-based computer security consultant IOActive Inc., is shown. (AP Photo/IOActive Inc.)AP - A giant vulnerability in the Internet's design is allowing criminals to silently redirect traffic to Web sites under their control. The problem is being fixed, but its extent remains unknown and many people are still at risk.


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    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:12:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    AP IMPACT: Harsh justice under resurgent Taliban (AP)

    FILE ** In this July 12, 2008 file photo, face covered Taliban militants exercise before they executed two Afghan women in Ghazni province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad, File)AP - As the two women hunkered down in the dark, enveloped in blue burqas, they thought the gun-toting Taliban might free them despite accusations they had run a prostitution ring for a U.S. base.


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    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:22:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Wall Street trade mixed after oil declines (AP)

    The New York Times and The Wall Street Jounal are displayed at a newsstand on Monday, July 28, 2008 in New York.  News Corp. says fiscal fourth-quarter earnings jumped 27 percent, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2008, on profit from the sale of assets and higher operating earnings in its film, cable networks and newspaper units. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Stocks traded narrowly mixed Wednesday as a drop in oil prices helped corral the market's fresh worries about the financial sector.


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    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:46:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Average ER waiting time nears 1 hour, CDC says (AP)
    AP - The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday. -- read full article
    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:49:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Obama pokes at McCain over tire-pressure issue (AP)

    Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama answers a question from the audience during a town hall meeting at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)AP - Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday taunted Republican presidential rival John McCain for first mocking the idea of keeping tires inflated for energy conservation and then agreeing the practice works.


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    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:39:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Bush says US firmly opposed to China's repression (AP)

    President Bush arrives for a joint news statement with Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008, at the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - With all eyes on Beijing, President Bush bluntly told China that America stands in "firm opposition" to the way the communist government represses its own people, a rebuke delivered from the heart of Asia on the cusp of the Olympic Games.


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    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:28:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Documents: Ivins had custody of purified anthrax (AP)

    This 2003 photo provided by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases shows Dr. Bruce E. Ivins, a bio-defense researcher at Fort Detrick, Md., participating in an awards ceremony.  Ivins, the scientist who was developing a vaccine to combat anthrax, died Tuesday July 29, 2008, in an apparent suicide in a hospital in Frederick, Md.  U.S. prosecutors investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks were planning to indict and seek the death penalty for Ivins in connection with mailings of the deadly anthrax toxin that killed five people. (AP Photo/U.S.Army)AP - Army scientist Bruce Ivins had custody of highly purified anthrax spores with "certain genetic mutations identical" to the poison that killed five people and rattled the nation in 2001, according to documents unsealed Wednesday in the government's investigation.


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    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:56:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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