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    Chinese cheer as astronauts makes first spacewalk (AP)

    In this video grab taken at the Beijing Space Command and Control Center released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang walks out of the orbit module of the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft for a spacewalk. (AP Photo/Xinhua)AP - Chinese celebrated their nation's first spacewalk Saturday, gathering at outdoor TV screens to cheer live video of the milestone for a program that has ambitions of building a space station and challenging the U.S. and Russia in offworld exploration.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:59:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    US destroyer watching hijacked ship off Somalia (AP)

    In this May 28, 2008 file photo, the U.S. Navy destroyer, USS Howard, sails off the coast of Hawaii during sonar exercises, on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The Howard, off the coast of Somalia closed in Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, on a hijacked Ukrainian ship loaded with tanks and ammunition, watching it to ensure the pirates who seized it do not try to remove any cargo or crew.  (AP Photo/Hugh E. Gentry, File)AP - A U.S. destroyer off the coast of Somalia closed in Saturday on a hijacked Ukrainian ship loaded with tanks and ammunition, watching it to ensure the pirates who seized it do not try to remove any cargo or crew.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:52:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Illicit drug trade in Australia put at $10 billion: study (Reuters)
    Reuters - Up to A$12 billion ($10 billion) in illicit drug money could be flowing out of Australia every year, according to an estimate by the Australian Crime Commission (ACC). -- read full article
    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:08:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    China waits with bated breath for first space walk (AFP)

    Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng (L) Zhai Zhigang (C) and Liu Boming wave at a press event at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on September 24, 2008. China's three astronauts spent their first day in orbit Friday preparing for a much-anticipated walk outside their craft, as Japan voiced hopes its giant neighbour had peaceful aims in space.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - China's three astronauts prepared Saturday for the nation's first ever space walk as the country waited with bated breath to see if the manoeuvre, deemed highly risky, would be successful.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:06:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Libya says no hostages on its territory (Reuters)
    Reuters - The Libyan government rejected a Sudanese statement on Friday that kidnappers holding 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians had taken them from Sudan into Libya. -- read full article
    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:40:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Ecuador's voters expected to back new constitution (AP)

    Ecuador's President Rafael Correa speaks at his closing campaign rally in support of proposed changes to the constitution in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008.  Ecuadoreans will decide on Sept. 28, 2008 whether to approve proposed changes to the constitution which would grant Correa the power to dissolve Congress and run for office through 2017. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)AP - Voters are expected to easily approve this chronically unstable nation's 20th constitution on Sunday, expanding President Rafael Correa's powers and letting the pugnacious leftist run for two more consecutive terms.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:07:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Militants release 150 kidnapped Afghan laborers (AP)

    Afghan policemen stand guard in Kabul in July 2008. A suicide bomber blew himself up Friday in a bazaar in Afghanistan close to the border with Pakistan and killed three people, police said.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - Taliban militants on Saturday released the last of approximately 150 Afghan laborers they had abducted for almost a week after suspecting the workers of being Afghan soldiers, officials said.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:52:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Bradford & Bingley may be nationalised: reports (AFP)

    British mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley, which has been hit by a housing downturn and weakness in the wider economy, may be nationalised, according to newspaper reports.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - British mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley, which has been hit by a housing downturn and weakness in the wider economy, may be nationalised, according to newspaper reports.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:20:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    28 die in latest northwest Pakistan offensive (AP)

    Pakistani troops assemble artillery in the troubled Bajour agency, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 26, 2008. Pakistan will bring stability to a restive tribal region bordering Afghanistan within two months, a top general said during an assessment of a major ongoing offensive there against al-Qaida and Taliban militants. Maj. Gen. Tariq Khan told reporters on an army-organized trip to the northwestern Bajur region that troops had killed more than 1,000 militants and wounded 2,000 others since the offensive began in early August. (AP Photo/Aamir Qureshi, Pool)AP - Pakistan's security forces pounded militant positions near strategic areas in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, killing 25 suspected insurgents in a new round of a military offensive that also left three troops dead, officials said.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:01:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Hospital deaths of 40 newborns shocks Turkey (AP)
    AP - Outside the Zekai Tahir Burak maternity hospital stands a bronze statue of a mother nursing a baby with an inscription from the Prophet Mohammed: "Paradise lies at the feet of the mother." -- read full article
    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:15:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Iraq hopes economic crisis won't affect US troops (AP)

    Iranian technicians work at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities, 420 kms south of Tehran in 2007. Russia is against a planned meeting of the six powers negotiating on Iran's nuclear programme, the foreign ministry said in a statement that referred to US attempts to AP - Iraq's foreign minister says "there is a new world now" because of the global financial crisis and he hopes it won't lead to an immediate withdrawal of the 146,000 American troops in his country.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:06:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Chinese astronauts in final spacewalk countdown (AP)

    In this video grab taken on Friday, Sept. 26, 2008 by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese taikonaut Zhai Zhigang, who is is expected to carry out the spacewalk on Saturday, prepares a bite on his food in the orbit module of the Shenzhou 7 spacecraft. The spacecraft, which blasted off at 9:10 p.m. Thursday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province, has functioned well as planned, Xinhua said. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zha Chunming)AP - Astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft were making final preparations for the country's first-ever spacewalk planned for Saturday afternoon.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:18:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    TV: Car bomb kills 17 in Syrian capital (AP)
    AP - A car packed with explosives detonated on a crowded residential street Saturday, killing 17 people and wounding more than a dozen others, state-run television reported. -- read full article
    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:32:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    New nuclear commission set to meet in Sydney (AP)
    AP - India and Pakistan will attend an international nuclear disarmament conference for the first time in Sydney next month, Australia's government said Friday, even though the nuclear-armed foes have consistently shunned a nonproliferation treaty. -- read full article
    Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:52:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Time for calm cooperation in Pakistan, US says (AFP)

    Chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff Admiral Michael Mullen, seen here in Istanbul on September 14, 2008, Friday sought to ease tensions with Pakistan after an incident on the Afghan-Pakistan border, saying AFP - Chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff Admiral Michael Mullen Friday sought to ease tensions with Pakistan after an incident on the Afghan-Pakistan border, urging calm cooperation.


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    Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:50:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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