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Airliner crashes in Spain, kills 153 - Detroit Free Press
August 20th, 2008, 23:26
Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor win second consecutive gold - Los Angeles Times BEIJING -- They danced and screamed and celebrated in the raindrops, looking like two kids who didn't know enough to come inside for cover. That seemed fitting because Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor's second straight gold medal, earned Thursday morning in a driving rainstorm, could mark the end Source: www.latimes.com
Today on the presidential campaign trail - Boston Globe McCain spends $32 million, Obama $55 million in July; most of the money pays for advertising Biden's emergence as front-runner in VP race is indication of challenges facing Obama Obama sharpens tone amid tightening White House race, McCain calls him testy McCain spends $32 million, Obama $55 Source: www.boston.com
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac shares plunge - Miami Herald NEW YORK Investors are betting that time is running out for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Shares of the mortgage finance companies lost more than a fifth of their value on Wednesday as fears mounted that the companies will soon need government support and any bailout would hang stockholders out to dry Source: www.miamiherald.com
LeRoi Moore | In Matthews Band, 46 - Philadelphia Inquirer LeRoi Moore, 46, the saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, has died of complications from injuries in an all-terrain-vehicle accident, the band said. He died Tuesday at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Source: www.philly.com
Iraq and China to sign oil deal soon - International Herald Tribune BAGHDAD : Iraq and China will sign a deal next week to develop the Ahdab oil field, restoring an agreement that was canceled after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and is worth $1.2 billion, an Iraqi spokesman said Thursday. The governor of Wasit province, where the billion-barrel field is located, left Source: www.iht.com
Russia blocks Georgia's main port city - Houston Chronicle POTI, Georgia — Russian forces blocked the only land entrance to Georgia's main port city on today, a day before Russia promised to complete a troop pullout from its ex-Soviet neighbor. Armored personnel carriers and troop trucks blocked the bridge to the Black Sea port city of Poti, and Russian Source: www.chron.com
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