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AP - Barack Obama will stand before delegates and the nation Thursday — the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech — to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, the first black man to claim such a prize.
AP - National Guard troops stand ready, batteries and water bottles are selling briskly, and one small-town mayor has spent a sleepless night worrying. The New Orleans area is skittishly watching as a storm marches across the Caribbean on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary.
AP - Suspected militants bombed a bus carrying prisoners in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least nine people, as fighting between security forces and extremists flared across the country's tribal belt.
AP - Sen. Barack Obama dropped in on his own party at the Democratic convention a day early Wednesday to praise his wife, his former rival, and former President Bill Clinton for going to bat for him.
AP - A blogger suspected of streaming songs from the unreleased Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" on his Web site was arrested Wednesday and appeared in court, where his bail was set at $10,000.
AP - Malaysia has blocked access to a popular news Web site that often runs afoul of authorities for its sensational political reporting, sparking complaints Thursday that the government has reneged on its pledge to keep cyberspace uncensored.
AP - This small northeastern Georgia town's population boom is frightening. In a bid to break a world record for scarecrows and scare up some fun for the fall season, thousands of straw-stuffed newcomers are creeping across town.
AP - Daniel Murphy hit a tiebreaking double after Carlos Delgado's second solo homer had tied the game in the eighth and the New York Mets beat Philadelphia 6-3 on Wednesday night to reclaim first place in the NL East.
Reuters - To shouts of "Yes we can," Democrats
nominated Barack Obama on Wednesday as their presidential
candidate in a historic first for a black American, backed by
his ex-rivals Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Reuters - Tropical Storm Gustav strengthened
Thursday morning as it headed towards Jamaica, and the system
was expected to regain hurricane status later today, the U.S.
National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory.
Reuters - Russia faced diplomatic
isolation over its military action against Georgia on Thursday,
with its Asian allies failing to offer support and France
saying EU leaders were considering imposing sanctions.
Reuters - Thousands of lawyers blocked roads
across Pakistan on Thursday to press the government to
reinstate judges purged by former president Pervez Musharraf,
as militants attacked police in the northwest, killing 11
people.
Reuters - Thousands of protesters barricaded
inside Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's official compound
defied a court order to leave on Thursday as their leaders
vowed to stay until his administration fell.
Reuters - U.S. troops will on Sept. 1 hand over
control of Iraq's Anbar province, once the heart of a bloody
Sunni Arab insurgency, reflecting a dramatic drop in violence
across the country, an Iraqi official said on Thursday.
Reuters - Four days after closing the 2008
Beijing Games in triumph, China lit the 2008 Paralympics torch
amid pomp and ceremony at Beijing's ancient Temple of Heaven,
marking the start of a domestic relay for the September 6
Games.
Reuters - Afghan and international forces killed or
wounded more than 30 militants in fighting in the south and
southeast of the country, the Defense Ministry and the U.S.
military said on Thursday.
AFP - Russia won support Thursday from China and Central Asian states in its standoff with the West over the Georgia conflict as the European Union said it was weighing sanctions against Moscow.
AFP - Barack Obama will Thursday summon Americans to join his crusade for political change as he claims his place in history in a dazzling finale to the Democratic convention.
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In a sweeping change in the appointment of national selectors, the Cricket Board has decided to empower its president to have a final say in choosing the panel of selectors.
Alarmed over the menace of the fake Indian currency notes spreading its tentacles in India, the government has issued a directive to the Reserve Bank of India to withdraw from circulation the notes of 1996 and 2000 series.
'Isn't it hypocritical that we who berate the religious minorities day after day for not 'assimilating fully' with the majority, whatever we mean by that, are loath to do the same when it comes to language?'
Homam is a desi 'amateurish' medley of the Hollywood film 'The Departed'. It's another cop-don drama with nothing much new and the main highlight is the acting of Jagapathi Babu, Mahesh Manjrekar, J D Chekravarthy.
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:37:17 GMT
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