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Police say suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 17 (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - A suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically vital town in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes, police said.
Future hiring will mainly benefit the high-skilled (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay — or none at all.
9 years gone, everyone's a ground zero stakeholder (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It's a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site — which is also what it is.
Congo: 70 dead, 200 missing in 2 boat capsizes (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Two boats capsized over the weekend in separate incidents on Congo's vast rivers, leaving 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead, and both vessels were heavily loaded and operating with few safety measures, officials said Sunday.
Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers trying to save people already buried under a wall of mud.
Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens.
1 'censored' bar won't stop online prostitution (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Craiglist's "adult services" section has been shut down in the U.S., but prostitution on the Internet is alive and well — even, quite possibly, on Craigslist.
Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship.
Want cheapskates to spend? Hawk gizmos that save (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - How do you get penny pinchers to spend these days? Pitch products that promise to save them money.
Backyard volunteers helping track firefly numbers (AP)
September 6, 2010AP - The yellow-green streaks of fireflies that bring a magical air to summer nights, inspire camp songs and often end up in jars in children's bedrooms may be flickering out in the nation's backyards as suburban sprawl encroaches on their habitats.
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