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• Ike blasts Turks and Caicos, floods Haiti again
Ike's eye hit the Bahamas' Great Inagua island, where screaming winds threatened to peel plywood from the windows of a church sheltering about 50 people, shelter manager Janice McKinney said.
• Iraqi police: Bombs wound 14 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD - A series of roadside bombs wounded at least 14 people Sunday in eastern Baghdad, police said, in a sign of the ongoing security threats despite a sharp reduction of violence in the Iraqi capital.
• Philadelphia museum seeks chemical attraction
The overhaul, a decade in the making, also includes a modern conference center and meeting spaces for up to 200 people. But the nucleus of the project is the soaring 8,000-square-foot exhibition hall's permanent exhibit "Making Modernity," using ...
• Germany marks Berlin Airlift 60th anniversary
Most of the people in my squadron and the people I knew felt the same way — that they were putting up a gutsy fight to keep out of the hands of the Russians.
• Official: Egypt rock slide death toll rises to 31
CAIRO - Massive boulders crashed down on a shantytown on the outskirts of Cairo Saturday, killing at least 31 people and burying many more under tons of rubble, Egyptian authorities said. An Egyptian security official said on Sunday hospitals have ...