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U.S.Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. arrives at Downing Street in London, to meet with Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Saturday, July 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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Obama, in London, meets Brown, Blair

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LONDON - Presidential contender Barack Obama was meeting Saturday with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the last leg of his European and Middle Eastern tour.

  • California Gov.r Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks to U.S. Olympic athletes and local officials at the U.S. Olympic Team Processing Facility at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif., Friday, July 25, 2008. Schwarzenegger was there to greet U.S. Olympic athletes at the facility before they depart to China for the Beijing Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Darryl Bush)
    California becomes first state to ban trans fats AP - 1 hour, 26 minutes ago

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California on Friday became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food, following several cities and major fast-food chains in erasing the notorious artery-clogger from menus.

  • Hirschfield family members, from left, father Al, mother, Nicole and sister, Kristine hold portraits of shooting victim Steven, during a news conference Friday July 25, 2008 in West Hollywood, Calif. Steven Hirschfield, 37, a performer and bodybuilder, was fatally shot July 19 by a San Diego Harbor Police officer aboard a small rescue vessel, allegedly after reaching for an officer's gun. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
    Gay bias alleged in San Diego Bay shooting death AP - 1 hour, 38 minutes ago

    WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - To police, Steven Hirschfield was violent and out of control when he clambered aboard a patrol boat sent to rescue him in the San Diego Bay during a gay pride party.

  • This police booking photo released by the Los Angeles Police Department shows Dr. Kevin Antario Brown, 37. The 37-year-old doctor is in a Los Angeles jail cell, charged with molesting eight patients, one of them only 15 years old. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Police Department)
    Bermuda leader's son, a doctor, faces sex charges AP - 21 minutes ago

    LOS ANGELES - About two months ago, Dr. Kevin Antario Brown was hobnobbing with guests at a celebrity poker tournament at the Playboy Mansion, his disaster-relief medical charity the beneficiary of the lavish event.

  • This May 10, 2008 file photo shows actress Halle Berry as she poses at the 15th Annual Entertainment Industry Foundation Revlon Run/Walk For Women in Los Angeles. Halle Berry says a paparazzi photographer went too far to get a shot of the actress holding her infant daughter, trespassing onto her private property and snapping them hanging out in the backyard. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, file)
    Halle Berry pushes back against paparazzi AP - 1 hour, 25 minutes ago

    LOS ANGELES - Halle Berry said a paparazzi went too far to get a shot of her infant daughter, alleging that the shooter trespassed on her private property and snapped them hanging out in the backyard.

  • New York Yankees' Joba Chamberlain pitches against the Boston Red Sox in the seventh inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston, Friday, July 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
    Chamberlain dominates as Yankees win 7th straight AP - 1 hour, 57 minutes ago

    BOSTON - Joba Chamberlain dominated the Boston Red Sox with his best major league start and the surging New York Yankees moved two games behind their longtime rivals with a 1-0 victory Friday night.

  • Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) steps off his campaign plane as he arrives in Paris July 25, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)
    Obama wraps up foreign tour with London visit Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 8:34 PM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Barack Obama, on a tour abroad where he has got a rock star reception, will wrap up his trip on Saturday with talks in London on the Middle East conflict, Iran and Afghanistan.

  • U.S. regulators seize two more banks, engineer sale Reuters - Sat Jul 26, 12:08 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators took over two banks on Friday and sold them to Mutual of Omaha Bank, the sixth and seventh bank failures this year as financial institutions struggle with a housing bust and credit crunch.

  • President Bush on Wednesday dropped a threat to veto a housing rescue bill, clearing the way for measures meant to shore up the worst U.S. home market since the Great Depression. (Paul Szep/Reuters)
    U.S. Senate seen backing housing bill, Bush to sign Reuters - Sat Jul 26, 1:24 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate was expected to approve a massive housing market rescue bill on Saturday and President George W. Bush was ready to sign it soon, amid questions about how much it will help.

  • U.S. Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) meets with the Dalai Lama in Aspen, Colorado, July 25, 2008. (Jordan Curet/Reuters)
    McCain meets Dalai Lama, presses China on rights Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 6:18 PM ET

    ASPEN, Colo. (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain urged China on Friday to address human rights concerns and free Tibetan prisoners after he met with the Dalai Lama in Colorado.

  • European trade commissioner Peter Mandelson adjusts his glasses before the start of an informal session of the Trade Negotiation Committee at the World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva July 21, 2008. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
    Hopes of reaching world trade deal revive at WTO Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 8:46 PM ET

    GENEVA (Reuters) - Ministers hailed an emerging trade deal on Friday, as compromise proposals revitalized deadlocked talks at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

  • A sketch by a courtroom artist shows Osama bin Laden's driver Salim Hamdan (L) at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base July 24, 2008, as FBI agent Craig Donnachie (R) testifies about his interrogations of Hamdan regarding a picture of disguised U.S. agents. (Courtroom Drawing by Janet Hamlin/Reuters)
    French fries helped calm bin Laden driver: witnesses Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 6:38 PM ET

    GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Hot McDonald's french fries and a call home encouraged Salim Hamdan to cooperate under interrogation but Osama bin Laden's driver did not like cold fries and isolation upset him, witnesses said at his Guantanamo war crimes trial on Friday.

  • Housing developments lie unfinished on the outskirts of Sacramento July 22, 2008. (Max Whittaker/Reuters)
    U.S. house prices overvalued by up to 20 percent: IMF paper Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 5:52 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The downward spiral of U.S. housing prices still has a way to go and homes were overvalued by between 8 percent to 20 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to research by an International Monetary Fund economist published on Friday.

  • The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view in Washington in this June 15, 2005 file photo. (Jason Reed/Files/Reuters)
    Pentagon auditors request probe after criticism Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 6:26 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The agency that audits Pentagon contracts said on Friday it had asked for an investigation into allegations that its supervisors pressured employees to alter audits in favor of contractors.

  • War crime suspect Radovan Karadzic is seen here in 1995 (L) and more recently with a beard to disguise his identity. Karadzic lodged a last-minute appeal against his transfer to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague where he is to be tried for his role in Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, a daily reported Saturday.(AFP/File)
    Lawyers post off appeal to keep Karadzic from trial AFP - 5 minutes ago

    BELGRADE (AFP) - Radovan Karadzic's bid to dodge trial for war crimes was literally in the post on Saturday after his lawyers sent off an appeal at the last-possible minute against his transfer to a UN tribunal.

  • US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (left) meets with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (right) for a breakfast meeting inside the Hyatt Regency Churchill hotel in London on July 26. Obama will meet British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London with the focus on key foreign policy issues facing both countries, particularly Iraq and Afghanistan.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)
    Obama to meet British PM on final stop of world tour AFP - 42 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - US presidential hopeful Barack Obama was set to meet British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London Saturday, with the focus on key foreign policy issues facing both countries, particularly Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Workers clean up at the scene of an explosion and fire on a bus in Shanghai on May 5. A Uighur separatist group has taken credit for a deadly bus bombing in Shanghai in May and warned of new attacks in China during the Olympics, a group monitoring terror threats on the Internet said(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)
    Uighur group claims China bus attacks, threatens Olympics AFP - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - A Uighur separatist group has taken credit for a deadly bus bombing in Shanghai in May and warned of new attacks in China during the Olympics, a group monitoring threats by extremists on the Internet said.

  • The scheduled route of a Qantas flight from London to Melbourne, forced to make an emergency landing in Manila after a dramatic mid-air rupture that left a "gaping hole" in its fuselage.(AFP Graphic)
    Investigators probe stricken Qantas jet for clues AFP - 51 minutes ago

    MANILA (AFP) - Air safety investigators were Saturday searching for clues as to what caused a dramatic mid-air rupture which left a gaping hole in the fuselage of a Qantas plane carrying more than 300 passengers.

  • Somali children line up to receive food at an aid distribution center in the outskirts of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu on July 21. Some 14.6 million people in the Horn of Africa region are facing a humanitarian disaster unless donors urgently release funds to deliver supplies, aid agencies warned.(AFP/Mustafa Abdi)
    Famine, soaring food prices threaten millions in east Africa AFP - Fri Jul 25, 11:17 PM ET

    NAIROBI (AFP) - More than 14 million people across east Africa are facing a humanitarian disaster because of a "lethal mix" of soaring food prices, drought and conflict, aid agencies say.

  • EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson answers to journalists as he arrives for World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks at the WTO headquarters in Geneva. World trade powers strode forward towards a new global pact on Friday amid real hopes of a breakthrough after seven years of deadlock, but several emerging nations threatened to torpedo a deal.(AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
    WTO ministers look to capitalise on new optimism AFP - Fri Jul 25, 11:13 PM ET

    GENEVA (AFP) - A new sense of optimism surrounded WTO negotiations on a new global trade pact Saturday amid hopes of a breakthrough after seven years of deadlock.

  • The chief executive of the British-Russian oil firm TNK-BP Robert Dudley (pictured) has been summoned to appear before Russian prosecutors Monday to explain "violations" of labour laws by his company, Interfax news agency reported Saturday.(AFP/File/Alexey Sazonov)
    Chief executive of TNK-BP summoned: report AFP - 1 hour, 11 minutes ago

    MOSCOW (AFP) - The chief executive of the troubled British-Russian joint venture oil group TNK-BP, Robert Dudley, has been summoned to appear before Russian prosecutors Monday to explain alleged violations of labour laws, Interfax news agency reported Saturday.

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