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NATO agrees on Afghan drug role for military
(AP)
 AP - NATO defense ministers Friday authorized their troops in Afghanistan to attack drug barons blamed for pumping up to US$100 million (euro74 million) a year into the coffers of resurgent Taliban fighters.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:11:14 GMT
| Threat to blow up hijacked ship off Somalia
(AP)
 AP - A spokesman for the group of pirates holding an arms-laden tanker off the coast of Somalia has threatened to blow up the ship in three days if no ransom is paid.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:06:30 GMT
| Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
(AP)
 AP - Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Middle East.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:53:28 GMT
| Israeli town struggles to move on after clashes
(AP)
 AP - Police dispersed hundreds of Jewish protesters with water canons Friday in this northern Israel city, trying to ease tensions after two days of rioting that shook a mixed Jewish-Arab community.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:32:33 GMT
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Manuel's mom dies before Game 2 of NLCS (AP)
Charlie Manuel plans to manage the Philadelphia Phillies against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 2 of the NLCS despite the death of his mother. The Phillies said that June Manuel died Friday morning. No other information was immediately available. Manuel watched batting practice from his customary spot behind the cage, but did not talk to the media and his usual pregame press conference was...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:53:55 PDT
| Rays, Red Sox to resume rivalry in ALCS (AP)
The Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays insist they plan to take each other on with bats, not fists. "Bad blood?" smiling Boston slugger David Ortiz said. "There's no bad blood. This is not the WWF. It's a baseball game, bro. "I mean, come on. I walk out there and they're hugging me, and I hug them back. It's a game.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:11:08 PDT
| Browns TE Winslow ill, hospitalized (AP)
Cleveland Browns tight end Kellen Winslow was hospitalized with an undisclosed illness and could miss Monday night's game against the New York Giants. Coach Romeo Crennel said Friday that Winslow was kept overnight at the Cleveland Clinic. Winslow practiced Monday but had been feeling ill for several days.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:15:12 PDT
| NFL fines 3 Dolphins for celebrating (AP)
Ronnie Brown and two Miami Dolphins teammates have been fined $10,000 each by the NFL for excessive celebrating. The league said Friday that choreographed celebrations by two or more players aren't permitted. After Brown scored a touchdown Sunday against San Diego, he performed a dance shuffle in the end zone with offensive linemen Vernon Carey and Ikechuku Ndukwe.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:00:31 PDT
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Stocks extend losses after G7 official's comment
(Reuters)
 Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. stocks extended losses in afternoon trading on Friday, after a G-7 official said the Group of Seven major nations is unlikely to adopt Britain's proposal to guarantee lending between banks when it meets on Friday.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:02:38 GMT
| Wall St. giants buried in global stock market panic
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Wall Street titans buckled under the weight of a global stock market panic on Friday as the finance chiefs of the world's major economies gathered in Washington to confront the inescapable financial crisis.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:15:47 GMT
| G7 unlikely to adopt UK backstop plan: official
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Group of Seven major nations is unlikely to adopt Britain's proposal to guarantee lending between banks when it meets today, a G-7 official said on Friday.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:56:28 GMT
| Oil drops 10 percent on demand, risk concerns
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Oil prices dropped 10 percent on Friday and touched 13-month lows in a flight from risk amid concerns of a worldwide recession and further signs of slumping energy demand.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:23:44 GMT
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"I Love You, but I'm Not in Love with You." Aaarrrrrgggh.
(Dear Margo)
Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: I am a 23-year-old woman who is dating a 47-year-old man.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:00:00 GMT
| Stocks extend huge losses to 8th straight day
(AP)
 AP - Wall Street extended its devastating decline Friday as investors, still seeing no resolution to the credit crisis, sold frantically and propelled the Dow Jones industrials to their eighth straight day of losses and worst week ever. Stocks gyrated in the opening minutes as a burst of buying in financial stocks spread to other sectors, but all the major indexes were down more than 5 percent by midafternoon.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:28:03 GMT
| McCain proposes suspending mandatory stock sales
(AP)
 AP - John McCain proposed Friday that the elderly be allowed to hang on to the stocks in their retirement funds and not be forced to sell them in a bad market.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:28:25 GMT
| Bush poised to talk about economic crisis
(AP)
 AP - President Bush is ready to make a statement to the nation about the crisis in the credit markets that has caused substantial sell-offs on Wall Street.
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:26:31 GMT
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