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• World

  • Post-Olympic Clamp on Xinjiang Likely
  • Pirates seize Malaysian tanker off Somalia's coast
  • Sarkozy visits Kabul after French soldiers killed

• Business

  • U.S. economy hit by surging inflation
  • Some eBay sellers frustrated with rule changes
  • Bailout Fears Stall Fannie, Freddie

• Celebrity

  • Glam Rocker Gary Glitter Out of Prison
  • "Grey's Anatomy," "ER" draw objections in Italy
  • Dave Matthews Band Sax Player LeRoi Moore Dies

• Politics

  • Veep short-listers mix positives and negatives
  • U.S. Rep. Tubbs Jones hospitalized
  • Obama likely to name running mate this week

• Science

  • Tag for aggressive bowel cancer
  • Stem cell advance may help transfusion supplies
  • Shock absorbers to quell NASA rocket's vibrations

• Tech

  • Microsoft to pay Novell $100 mln more for Linux support
  • Intel new chip design saves power, boosts graphics
  • IBM invests $300 mln in disaster recovery centers

• Sports

  • Mets 7, Braves 3: Wagner Needs Rest; The Mets Need Relief
  • U.S. men to play for beach volleyball gold medal
  • Even the clothes on their backs have rules

Selected and fresh photos from around the web.

• Editor's pick

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    Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.

    1 week ago

    from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS

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    CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.

    2 weeks ago

    from Getty Images

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    A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.

    3 weeks ago

    from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS

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    LONDON - JULY 25: Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England.

    3 weeks ago

    from Getty Images

• Hot off the wire

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    China's windsurfer Yin Jian, center, reacts after the medal race of the RS:X women class sailing competition of the 2008 Beijing Olympics in Qingdao, about 720 kilometers southeast of Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. She won the gold medal.

    27 mins ago

    from AP Photo by Herbert Knosowski

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    France's President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace in Kabul August 20, 2008. President Sarkozy said on Wednesday he had no regrets about sending 700 more troops to Afghanistan, after insurgents killed 10 French soldiers, the biggest single loss for foreign forces in combat since 2001.

    1 hour ago

    from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS

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    In a handout picture released by the Iraqi Prime Minister's Office, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora (L) meets with his Iraqi counterpart Nuri al-Maliki upon his arrival to Baghdad on August 20, 2008. Siniora was in Baghdad today for trade and policy talks, the first Lebanese leader to visit Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

    29 mins ago

    from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

• Recently starred

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    Local residents fish in the Black Sea, 50 km south of Sukhumi in the town Ochavchara on August 19, 2008 in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region. Russia and Georgia have agreed to allow 20 Organisation for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) unarmed military observers into Georgia, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, the organisation's chairman said.

    20 hours ago

    from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

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    In this image provided Kellogg Co., a prototype of a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes with U.S. swimming star Michael Phelps is seen. The record-setting swimmer will soon be appearing on boxes of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes. The winner of eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics will be featured cereal boxes expected to be in stores by mid-September.

    16 hours ago

    from AP Photo by AP

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    Supporters of Pakistani Islamist party celebrate President Pervez Musharraf's resignation in Multan August 19, 2008. Leaders of Pakistan's coalition government set about tackling pressing economic and security problems on Tuesday as a bomb at a hospital in a northwestern town killed 20 people. Coalition leaders were also due to discuss a replacement for Musharraf, the former army chief and key ally of the United States in its campaign against terrorism, who resigned as president on Monday to avoid impeachment.

    22 hours ago

    from Reuters Pictures by REUTERS

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    Pakistani citizens congratulate each others after the announcement of President Pervez Musharraf's resignation in Karachi, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 87, 2008. Musharraf said he was handing in his resignation to avoid an impeachment battle that would harm the nation's interests.

    2 days ago

    from AP Photo by Shakil Adil

Our editor's pick, and topics with the most buzz in the last ten minutes.

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  2008 Summer Olympics
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  John McCain
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  Henry Cejudo
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  Levy Mwanawasa

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