Obama says he'll cut taxes, end oil dependence (AP)

Tatum Reece, 8, from Denver, waves flags before Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, D-Ill., gives his speech during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed presidency of George W. Bush" Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation's first black president.



Tourists, residents flee as Gustav swamps Jamaica (AP)

A woman carries a child through flooded roads caused by Tropical Storm Gustav in Fond Parisien village, Haiti, Thursday, Aug. 28 ,2008.  Gustav moved away from the island of Hispaniola, where it killed 23 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and inched toward Jamaica's low-lying capital, 80 miles (130 kilometers) to the west. Forecasters predicted it would hug Jamaica's southern shore before making a near-direct hit on Grand Cayman. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Residents, tourists and oil workers fled as Gustav swamped Jamaica on Thursday, leaving 59 people dead in its wake. Louisiana and Texas put their national guards on standby, and New Orleans said a mandatory evacuation might be necessary.



As Gustav nears, Gulf Coast puts faith in planning (AP)

Work continues on a temporary levee in Harvey, La.,  Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. The levee will keep flood waters from the Harvey Canal from getting into homes. The work is being rushed to completion due to the possibility that Hurricane Gustav could make landfall in Louisiana. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - With Gustav approaching hurricane strength and showing no signs of veering off a track to slam into the Gulf Coast, authorities across the region began laying the groundwork Thursday to get the sick, elderly and poor away from the shoreline.



Jury acquits former Marine in killing of Iraqis (AP)

Former Marine Sgt. Jose Luis Nazario Jr., 28, from New York, speaks about his impending federal trial, at the office of one of his attorneys, Joseph M. Preis, in Irvine, Calif., on Aug. 16, 2008. Nazario faces charges of shooting detainees during the 2004 battle of Fallujah, in Iraq. The defense has rested without calling a single witness Wednesday Aug. 27, 2008, at the civilian trial  of Nazario, a former Marine charged with killing unarmed detainees in Iraq, in Riverside, Calif. (AP Photo/Sean Dufrene)AP - A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday in a first-of-its-kind federal trial that ended with some of the jurors shaking hands and hugging the defendant and his sobbing mother.



Afghans say deadly US raid based on misleading tip (AP)

Graphic shows civilian deaths in Afghanistan; 1c x 4 inches; 46.5 mm x 101.6 mmAP - Afghan officials said Thursday that a deadly U.S.-led special forces raid on a remote western village last week was based on misleading information provided by a rival clan.



Dell 2Q profit drops 17 percent and stock plunges (AP)

Boxes containing Dell computers are stacked on an upper shelf of a Best Buy store in Seekonk, Mass., Aug. 16, 2008. Computer maker Dell Inc. says its fiscal second-quarter profit fell 17 percent Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Restructuring charges were partly to blame. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - Computer maker Dell Inc. said Thursday its fiscal second-quarter profit fell 17 percent, hurt in part by PC price cuts. Both earnings and margins fell short of Wall Street estimates, and Dell shares plunged.



Automakers face conflicting safety rules worldwide (AP)

In this Aug. 2008 file photo provided by the Ford Motor Co. an assemblyman works on the Ford Fiesta in Cologne, Germany. While Ford hurries to curtail billions of dollars in losses and shift from its reliance on selling bigger vehicles with bigger profit margins, one reason why Ford says it can't get its European cars to the U.S. market before 2010 is a web of different safety regulations covering everything from the positioning of crash test dummies to the color of rear turn signals.  (AP Photo/Ford Motor Co., Friedrich Stark, file)AP - It seems like an easy solution: Americans are looking for more fuel-efficient vehicles, so Ford Motor Co. is bringing over some of the small, gas-sipping cars it's been selling to Europeans for years.



Rapper DMX pleads out Florida drug case (AP)

In this Jan. 13, 2006 file photo, rapper DMX is shown in New York.   (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, file)AP - Rapper DMX has pleaded out a Miami drug case and now awaits extradition to face more charges in Arizona.



Italy museum defies pope anger over crucified frog (AP)

In this photo taken May 24, 2008 a view of a green frog nailed to a cross outside an office, during a protest inside the 'Museion' museum in Bolzano , northern Italy.   Museum officials said Thursday Aug. 28, 2008 the sculpture that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials will continue to be on display. The board of the foundation of the 'Museion', voted to keep the work by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger, the museum said in a statement. Earlier in August the pope had written a letter to Franz Pahl, the president of the Trentino-Alto Adige region that includes Bolzano, denouncing the sculpture. '(It) has offended the religious feelings of many people who consider the cross a symbol of God's love and of our redemption,'  (AP Photo/Othmar Seehauser)AP - An art museum in northern Italy said Thursday it will continue displaying a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials.



Top-seeded Ivanovic loses in huge upset at US Open (AP)

Julie Coin, of France, celebrates her 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 victory over top-seeded Ana Ivanovic, of Serbia, in a U.S. Open tennis tournament match in New York, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - Even for the mathematics major from Clemson, it just didn't add up: How could someone who recently struggled so badly she wanted to quit tennis stay on the court with the No. 1 player in the world?



Obama promises to restore U.S. legacy (Reuters)

Attendee Shannon Patterson holds a fan depicting US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 28, 2008. (Larry Downing/Reuters)Reuters - Barack Obama, about to take a historic step as the Democratic presidential nominee, promised on Thursday to reverse the economic failures of the last eight years, end the war in Iraq and restore America's reputation.



Gustav kills 60 in Caribbean, aims at U.S. (Reuters)

Rev. L.M. Pierce looks on as workers install plywood over windows on her house in New Orleans, Louisiana, in preparation for Hurricane Gustav, August 28, 2008. (Lee Celano/Reuters)Reuters - Tropical Storm Gustav, which has killed at least 60 people in the Caribbean, struck Jamaica with near hurricane-force winds on Thursday and was on a path to reach New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico oil fields as a potentially powerful hurricane.



Russia faces diplomatic isolation on Georgia (Reuters)

People attend a funeral of soldiers killed in the South Ossetia conflict at a cemetery in Tbilisi August 28, 2008. (David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)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 sanctions.



Lehman looking at cutting some 1,200 jobs: source (Reuters)

Pedestrians walk past a Lehman Brothers sign in New York, June 19, 2008. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is looking at cutting some 1,200 jobs in its latest round of cost cutting, a person familiar with the matter said, as weak financial markets spur layoffs across Wall Street.



Salmonella outbreak over: CDC (Reuters)

Jalapeno peppers are shown for sale at a Los Angeles market in Los Angeles, California July 22, 2008. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - An outbreak of an unusual strain of Salmonella that sickened more than 1,400 people and put 286 in the hospital appears to be over in the United States, federal health officials said on Thursday.



Top U.S. and Pakistan military officials talk strategy (Reuters)

Relatives gather around a man injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan's tribal town of Bannu near the border with Afghanistan, in Peshawar August 28, 2008. A car bomb blew up as a Pakistani police bus travelled across a bridge in the country's northwest on Thursday, killing 11 people, police said. (Ali Imam/Reuters)Reuters - Top U.S. and Pakistani military officials met this week on a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean to discuss the presence of militant safe havens in Pakistan and their role in Afghan violence, officials said on Thursday.



Court upholds dismissal of charges in KPMG case (Reuters)

Jeffrey Eischeid, former head of the Innovative Strategies group from accounting firm KPMG exits federal court in New York, September 6, 2005. (Chip East/Reuters)Reuters - A U.S. appeals court has upheld the dismissal of criminal charges against 13 former executives at KPMG, saying prosecutors violated the defendants' rights by pressuring the accounting firm not to pay their legal bills.



Karadzic due for plea hearing at Hague tribunal (Reuters)

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stands in the court room of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the start of his initial appearance in The Hague July 31, 2008. Karadzic is being asked for a second time on Friday to enter a plea at a U.N. tribunal for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. (Jerry Lampen/Reuters)Reuters - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is being asked for a second time on Friday to enter a plea at a U.N. tribunal for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.



America stands at 'defining moment' : Obama (AFP)

Democrat Barack Obama Wednesday made history as Democrats formally nominated him by acclamation as the first black presidential nominee of a major political party. Duration : 00:57(AFPTV/POOL)AFP - Barack Obama will Thursday tell Americans their country faces a "defining moment" at home and vow to keep them safe from foreign threats in a dazzling finale to the Democratic convention.



Putin assails US over Georgia conflict (AFP)

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks with an unidentified journalist (not pictured) during his interviev for CNN TV company in Sochi. Putin on Thursday accused the United States of manufacturing the Georgia conflict as tensions mounted with the United States threatening to scrap a nuclear deal to protest Moscow's actions.(AFP/RIA/Alexey Druzhinin)AFP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused Washington on Thursday of manufacturing the Georgia conflict as tensions mounted with the United States threatening to scrap a nuclear deal in protest at Moscow's actions.




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