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• Musharraf building comfy retirement home
Nawaz Sharif, whose government Musharraf toppled in a 1999 coup, has been baying for revenge in the form of a trial for sedition — a crime punishable with death.
• Wish-list author's death fuels Web 'bucket lists'
The accidental death of an American author who wrote the adventure travel guide "100 Things to Do Before You Die" has prompted an online rush to draw up "bucket lists" — catalogues of activities to do while alive. Dave Freeman, an advertising ...
• Gustav intensifies, threatens Caymans
Gustav ripped off roofs, downed power lines and pounded rain onto Jamaica, triggering landslides and flooding and four deaths. That raised Gustav’s overall death toll to 71 after earlier deaths in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
• Jury: Death for convicted child killer Duncan
BOISE, Idaho - Joseph Edward Duncan III has been sentenced to death for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a northern Idaho boy. A federal jury deliberated just three hours before reaching the unanimous verdict. The jurors' recommendation was ...
• Gustav pounds Jamaica, as death toll rises
    Gustav likely to hit U.S. Aug. 28: Tropical Storm Gustav is likely to become a hurricane expected to hit the U.S. late Monday or Tuesday. KINGSTON, Jamaica - Nearly a hurricane, Tropical Storm Gustav swamped Jamaica on Thursday after pounding ...