AP Worldstream back issues from Wednesday, September 10:
Ike gives Cuba final kick, moves to Gulf of Mexico
Sep 10, 2008; ... Hurricane Ike moved into the warm waters of the Gulf and took aim at the U.S. and Mexican coasts Tuesday after bringing down aging buildings in Havana and tearing through western Cuba's tobacco country. Forecasters said Ike, which has already killed at least 80 people in the ...
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Sep 10, 2008 ... CYCLING: ARMSTRONG: Coming out of retirement, hoping to race in 2009 Tour de France AUSTIN, Texas _ Lance Armstrong is coming out of retirement to try and win an eighth Tour de France in 2009. The 36-year-old was inspired after finished second in a mountain bike race last ...
Ike gives Cuba final kick, moves to Gulf of Mexico
Sep 10, 2008; ... Hurricane Ike moved into the warm waters of the Gulf and took aim at the U.S. and Mexican coasts Tuesday after bringing down aging buildings in Havana and tearing through western Cuba's tobacco country. Forecasters said Ike, which has already killed at least 80 people in the ...
Obama: McCain can't put lipstick on a pig
Sep 10, 2008; ... What's the difference between the presidential campaign before and after the national political conventions? Lipstick. The colorful cosmetic has become a political buzzword, thanks to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's joke in her acceptance speech that lipstick is the ...
Lagging in polls, Obama lashes McCain
Sep 10, 2008; ... Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, suddenly trailing Republican John McCain in some polls, is trying to reverse his fortunes by lashing out at his rival, challenging him on two key campaign issues _ the Iraq war and America's troubled schools. While Obama sought to ...
Obama: McCain can't put lipstick on a pig
Sep 10, 2008; ... What's the difference between the presidential campaign before and after the national political conventions? Lipstick. The colorful cosmetic has become a political buzzword, thanks to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's joke in her acceptance speech that lipstick is the ...
Lagging in polls, Obama lashes McCain
Sep 10, 2008; ... Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, suddenly trailing Republican John McCain in some polls, is trying to reverse his fortunes by lashing out at his rival, challenging him on two key campaign issues _ the Iraq war and America's troubled schools. While Obama sought to ...
Bush touts Iraq troop reduction, not big picture
Sep 10, 2008; ... President George W. Bush boasts that he is bringing 8,000 troops home from Iraq by February. What he does not say is he will leave office with more troops there than before last year's big military buildup and few options for shoring up the force in increasingly violent Afghanistan. ...
Bush touts Iraq troop reduction, not big picture
Sep 10, 2008; ... President George W. Bush boasts that he is bringing 8,000 troops home from Iraq by February. What he does not say is he will leave office with more troops there than before last year's big military buildup and few options for shoring up the force in increasingly violent Afghanistan. ...
Last tree-sitters descend from UC Berkeley grove
Sep 10, 2008; ... The four remaining protesters living in a redwood at the University of California at Berkeley climbed down from their perch Tuesday, ending a 21-month occupation of a campus grove aimed at stopping construction of a new sports center. The tree-sitters said they agreed to come down on ...
Wednesday, September 17
Sep 10, 2008; ... Today is Wednesday, September 17, the 261st day of 2008. There are 105 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1595 - Pope Clement VII absolves Henry VI, a former Protestant, and recognizes him as King of France. 1631 - Swedish-Saxon army under ...
Last tree-sitters descend from UC Berkeley grove
Sep 10, 2008; ... The four remaining protesters living in a redwood at the University of California at Berkeley climbed down from their perch Tuesday, ending a 21-month occupation of a campus grove aimed at stopping construction of a new sports center. The tree-sitters said they agreed to come down on ...
World Golf Glance
Sep 10, 2008; ... Site: Pulheim, Germany. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: Gut Larchenhof Golf Club (7,289 yards, 6,665 meters, par 72). Purse: $2.82 million (2 million). Winner's share: $469,800 (332,000). Last year: Denmark's Soren Hansen made two late eagles en ...
Wednesday, September 17
Sep 10, 2008; ... Today is Wednesday, September 17, the 261st day of 2008. There are 105 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1595 - Pope Clement VII absolves Henry VI, a former Protestant, and recognizes him as King of France. 1631 - Swedish-Saxon army under ...
World Golf Glance
Sep 10, 2008; ... Site: Pulheim, Germany. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: Gut Larchenhof Golf Club (7,289 yards, 6,665 meters, par 72). Purse: $2.82 million (euro2 million). Winner's share: $469,800 (euro332,000). Last year: Denmark's Soren Hansen made two late ...
Analysis: Obama is back on defense
Sep 10, 2008; ... Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has found himself in an unfamiliar position after many long months of campaigning _ on defense against Republican rival John McCain. With just over seven weeks left in the race, the candidates are running even in most polls, money and, it ...
Analysis: Obama is back on defense
Sep 10, 2008; ... Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has found himself in an unfamiliar position after many long months of campaigning _ on defense against Republican rival John McCain. With just over seven weeks left in the race, the candidates are running even in most polls, money and, it ...
Palin's nomination adds fuel to abortion debate
Sep 10, 2008; ... The U.S. debate over abortion is gaining a higher campaign profile this year than in other recent general elections, partly because of divisive ballot measures and partly because of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Veteran leaders in the anti-abortion camp say they ...
Oxfam calls for urgent UN action on Chad
Sep 10, 2008; ... Banditry and increased insecurity are threatening U.N. and EU peacekeeping efforts in eastern Chad, an aid group said in a report released Wednesday. Oxfam International said about 400,000 refugees in the African country neighboring Sudan's Darfur region needed urgent action from the ...
Palin's nomination adds fuel to abortion debate
Sep 10, 2008; ... The U.S. debate over abortion is gaining a higher campaign profile this year than in other recent general elections, partly because of divisive ballot measures and partly because of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Veteran leaders in the anti-abortion camp say they ...
Oxfam calls for urgent UN action on Chad
Sep 10, 2008; ... Banditry and increased insecurity are threatening U.N. and EU peacekeeping efforts in eastern Chad, an aid group said in a report released Wednesday. Oxfam International said about 400,000 refugees in the African country neighboring Sudan's Darfur region needed urgent action from the ...
No sign of Kim Jong Il at NKorea's 60th birthday
Sep 10, 2008; ... North Korea's all powerful Kim Jong Il did not appear at a parade commemorating the country's founding 60 years ago amid intensifying speculation that the leader of the communist state may be seriously ill. Kim was not seen in North Korean state television footage, though other key ...
No sign of Kim Jong Il at NKorea's 60th birthday
Sep 10, 2008; ... North Korea's all powerful Kim Jong Il did not appear at a parade commemorating the country's founding 60 years ago amid intensifying speculation that the leader of the communist state may be seriously ill. Kim was not seen in North Korean state television footage, though other key ...
Merriman pulls plug on NFL season to have surgery
Sep 10, 2008; ... Star linebacker Shawne Merriman pulled the plug on his 2008 NFL season on Tuesday when he told the San Diego Chargers he'll have surgery on the two torn ligaments in his left knee. The loss of Merriman, whose hard hits earned him the nickname "Lights Out," is a big one for a ...
Merriman pulls plug on NFL season to have surgery
Sep 10, 2008; ... Star linebacker Shawne Merriman pulled the plug on his 2008 NFL season on Tuesday when he told the San Diego Chargers he'll have surgery on the two torn ligaments in his left knee. The loss of Merriman, whose hard hits earned him the nickname "Lights Out," is a big one for a ...
No fanfare planned for Guy Ritchie's 40th birthday
Sep 10, 2008 ... Guy Ritchie already celebrated a milestone birthday this year: wife Madonna's 50th. So the British filmmaker isn't thinking much about his own milestone birthday on Wednesday. "I've thought less about my 40th birthday than almost any other birthday," said Ritchie, who was in ...
No fanfare planned for Guy Ritchie's 40th birthday
Sep 10, 2008 ... Guy Ritchie already celebrated a milestone birthday this year: wife Madonna's 50th. So the British filmmaker isn't thinking much about his own milestone birthday on Wednesday. "I've thought less about my 40th birthday than almost any other birthday," said Ritchie, who was in ...
US anxiety about staying warm this winter spreads
Sep 10, 2008; ... American homeowners already pinched by high food and gas prices have grown increasingly anxious about staying warm this winter. At state assistance offices and at community organizations, phones are ringing off the hook as homeowners and renters seek help with what are expected to be ...
Adding voices to relics at 9/11 memorial museum
Sep 10, 2008; ... The artifacts awaiting their place in the Sept. 11 museum sit in storage _ crushed emergency vehicles, dust-covered purses, a giant steel column covered with victims' pictures. Now, voices will bring them to life. There's John Abruzzo, a quadriplegic, telling how he was carried down 69 stories ...
Cooking show stint derails Thai prime minister
Sep 10, 2008; ... A Thai court removed the prime minister for receiving payment to host a TV cooking show, setting off wild celebrations by protesters occupying his office compound. But the rejoicing could be short-lived _ the ruling party vowed to put him back in power. The Constitutional Court's ...
US anxiety about staying warm this winter spreads
Sep 10, 2008; ... American homeowners already pinched by high food and gas prices have grown increasingly anxious about staying warm this winter. At state assistance offices and at community organizations, phones are ringing off the hook as homeowners and renters seek help with what are expected to be ...
Adding voices to relics at 9/11 memorial museum
Sep 10, 2008; ... The artifacts awaiting their place in the Sept. 11 museum sit in storage _ crushed emergency vehicles, dust-covered purses, a giant steel column covered with victims' pictures. Now, voices will bring them to life. There's John Abruzzo, a quadriplegic, telling how he was carried down 69 stories ...
Cooking show stint derails Thai prime minister
Sep 10, 2008; ... A Thai court removed the prime minister for receiving payment to host a TV cooking show, setting off wild celebrations by protesters occupying his office compound. But the rejoicing could be short-lived _ the ruling party vowed to put him back in power. The Constitutional Court's ...
FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet
Sep 10, 2008; ... Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations. The goal: To bring justice in ...
FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet
Sep 10, 2008; ... Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations. The goal: To bring justice in long-ignored murders from the civil ...
Tidal power moves forward in eastern Maine
Sep 10, 2008; ... Workers spent the past winter tinkering with high-tech turbines slung beneath a barge in the cold waters off the Maine coast before getting them to produce a modest 20 kilowatts, enough electricity to power a half-dozen homes. Far from discouraged, Ocean Renewable Power Co. are now ...
Tidal power moves forward in eastern Maine
Sep 10, 2008; ... Workers spent the past winter tinkering with high-tech turbines slung beneath a barge in the cold waters off the Maine coast before getting them to produce a modest 20 kilowatts, enough electricity to power a half-dozen homes. Far from discouraged, Ocean Renewable Power Co. are now ...
US lawmakers vote to end access for Mexican trucks
Sep 10, 2008; ... The House of Representatives ignored a White House veto threat Tuesday and voted to end a pilot program that gives Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways. The Bush administration stressed that the United States is obligated, under the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, to open ...
US lawmakers vote to end access for Mexican trucks
Sep 10, 2008; ... The House of Representatives ignored a White House veto threat Tuesday and voted to end a pilot program that gives Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways. The Bush administration stressed that the United States is obligated, under the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, to open ...
Hurricane Ike takes aim at South Texas
Sep 10, 2008; ... With Hurricane Ike heading into the Gulf of Mexico, Texas emergency officials stood ready Tuesday to order 1 million people evacuated from the impoverished Rio Grande Valley and tried to convince tens of thousands of illegal immigrants that they have less to fear from the Border Patrol than from ...
Cavendish takes second stage in Tour of Missouri
Sep 10, 2008 ... While Mark Cavendish sprinted to his second consecutive win at the Tour of Missouri on Tuesday, the British rider's continued dominance was overshadowed by the confirmation of Lance Armstrong's return to cycling. Cavendish, who won four stages of the Tour de France in July, claimed ...
No fanfare planned for Guy Ritchie's 40th birthday
Sep 10, 2008 ... Guy Ritchie already celebrated a milestone birthday this year: wife Madonna's 50th. So the British filmmaker isn't thinking much about his own milestone birthday on Wednesday. "I've thought less about my 40th birthday than almost any other birthday," said Ritchie, who was in ...
No fanfare planned for Guy Ritchie's 40th birthday
Sep 10, 2008 ... Guy Ritchie already celebrated a milestone birthday this year: wife Madonna's 50th. So the British filmmaker isn't thinking much about his own milestone birthday on Wednesday. "I've thought less about my 40th birthday than almost any other birthday," said Ritchie, who was in ...
Battered Lehman to announce 'key' initiatives
Sep 10, 2008; ... Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. will roll out plans on Wednesday to shore up the embattled investment bank's balance sheet and face down investor concern that it's running out of options to raise badly needed capital. The fourth-largest U.S. securities firm, whose shares fell by nearly ...
Battered Lehman to announce 'key' initiatives
Sep 10, 2008; ... Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. will roll out plans on Wednesday to shore up the embattled investment bank's balance sheet and face down investor concern that it's running out of options to raise badly needed capital. The fourth-largest U.S. securities firm, whose shares fell by nearly ...
Anti-Morales protests intensify in Bolivia
Sep 10, 2008; ... Protesters stormed public offices and blocked roads Tuesday as a dispute between President Evo Morales and Bolivia's energy-rich provinces over tax revenues and a new constitution intensified _ threatening natural gas exports. Opposition groups in Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando and Tarija ...
Anti-Morales protests intensify in Bolivia
Sep 10, 2008; ... Protesters stormed public offices and blocked roads Tuesday as a dispute between President Evo Morales and Bolivia's energy-rich provinces over tax revenues and a new constitution intensified _ threatening natural gas exports. Opposition groups in Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando and Tarija ...
No clear successor to Kim seen in North Korea
Sep 10, 2008; ... North Korea's Kim Jong Il _ reclusive, eccentric and mercurial _ has revealed little about who might succeed him as leader. Kim, 66, has had at least four children with three women, but none has emerged as the obvious candidate to take the world's first communist hereditary dynasty ...
A look at Kim Jong Il's possible successors
Sep 10, 2008; ... Possible successors to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il: _ Kim Jong Nam, 37: Son with actress Sung Hae Rim, who died in Moscow in 2002. Had been favorite to succeed father but reportedly fell out of favor after being caught trying to enter Japan with forged Dominican passport in bid to ...
Iran protests Israeli threat to kidnap Ahmadinejad
Sep 10, 2008; ... Iran protested Tuesday against Israeli threats to kidnap President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and use force against the Islamic Republic, declaring it would not hesitate to act in self-defense. In a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Iran's U.N. ambassador referred to comments Tuesday ...
Iran protests Israeli threat to kidnap Ahmadinejad
Sep 10, 2008; ... Iran protested Tuesday against Israeli threats to kidnap President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and use force against the Islamic Republic, declaring it would not hesitate to act in self-defense. In a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Iran's U.N. ambassador referred to comments Tuesday ...
Burma's 1990 election winners want junta's UN seat
Sep 10, 2008; ... The winners of Myanmar's 1990 elections are asking U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to have their representatives replace those of the current military junta at the United Nations. A letter from pro-democracy candidates elected to parliament in 1990 challenged the legitimacy of the ...
Burma's 1990 election winners want junta's UN seat
Sep 10, 2008; ... The winners of Myanmar's 1990 elections are asking U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to have their representatives replace those of the current military junta at the United Nations. A letter from pro-democracy candidates elected to parliament in 1990 challenged the legitimacy of the ...
Obama: McCain can't put lipstick on a pig
Sep 10, 2008; ... What's the difference between the presidential campaign before and after the national political conventions? Lipstick. The colorful cosmetic has become a political buzzword, thanks to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's joke in her acceptance speech that lipstick is the ...
Obama: McCain can't put lipstick on a pig
Sep 10, 2008; ... What's the difference between the presidential campaign before and after the national political conventions? Lipstick. The colorful cosmetic has become a political buzzword, thanks to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's joke in her acceptance speech that lipstick is the ...
Azerbaijan leads business reformers, report says
Sep 10, 2008; ... Eastern Europe and Central Asia, led by Azerbaijan, made more changes than any other region to make doing business easier over the past year, according to annual rankings of 181 countries by the World Bank. The bank heralded the 28 countries in the two regions for streamlining ...
Azerbaijan leads business reformers, report says
Sep 10, 2008; ... Eastern Europe and Central Asia, led by Azerbaijan, made more changes than any other region to make doing business easier over the past year, according to annual rankings of 181 countries by the World Bank. The bank heralded the 28 countries in the two regions for streamlining ...
Former Nation of Islam leader W.D. Mohammed dies
Sep 10, 2008; ... Imam W.D. Mohammed, who succeeded his father as leader of the Nation of Islam but abandoned its teachings of black supremacy and moved thousands of its followers into mainstream Islam, has died. He was 74. Sultan Muhammad confirmed his uncle's death Tuesday but did not immediately ...
Former Nation of Islam leader W.D. Mohammed dies
Sep 10, 2008; ... Imam W.D. Mohammed, who succeeded his father as leader of the Nation of Islam but abandoned its teachings of black supremacy and moved thousands of its followers into mainstream Islam, has died. He was 74. Sultan Muhammad confirmed his uncle's death Tuesday but did not immediately ...
Bush touts Iraq troop reduction, not big picture
Sep 10, 2008; ... President George W. Bush boasts that he is bringing 8,000 troops home from Iraq by February. What he does not say is he will leave office with more troops there than before last year's big military buildup and few options for shoring up the force in increasingly violent Afghanistan. ...
Bush touts Iraq troop reduction, not big picture
Sep 10, 2008; ... President George W. Bush boasts that he is bringing 8,000 troops home from Iraq by February. What he does not say is he will leave office with more troops there than before last year's big military buildup and few options for shoring up the force in increasingly violent Afghanistan. ...
Texas court stops execution set for Wednesday
Sep 10, 2008; ... A convicted killer won a reprieve Tuesday, one day before his scheduled execution, after a Texas appeals court said it would reconsider its earlier dismissal of a challenge over jury instructions at his murder trial. In granting the reprieve to Charles Dean Hood, the Texas Court of ...
Texas court stops execution set for Wednesday
Sep 10, 2008; ... A convicted killer won a reprieve Tuesday, one day before his scheduled execution, after a Texas appeals court said it would reconsider its earlier dismissal of a challenge over jury instructions at his murder trial. In granting the reprieve to Charles Dean Hood, the Texas Court of ...
Serevi to coach Fiji sevens, playing days finished
Sep 10, 2008 ... Fiji rugby sevens great Waisale Serevi has signed on a for a new term as Fiji's national coach but at the expense of his own playing career, the Fiji Times reported Wednesday. Serevi will guide the Fiji team on the IRB sevens circuit from November and in the 2009 Sevens World Cup but ...
Serevi to coach Fiji sevens, playing days finished
Sep 10, 2008 ... Fiji rugby sevens great Waisale Serevi has signed on a for a new term as Fiji's national coach but at the expense of his own playing career, the Fiji Times reported Wednesday. Serevi will guide the Fiji team on the IRB sevens circuit from November and in the 2009 Sevens World Cup but ...