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7.9 quake kills at least 135, injures 1,300 in Peru
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A powerful earthquake shook Peru's central coast, terrifying the
capital's residents and killing at least 135 people in cities farther
south, Health Minister Carlos Vallejos said early Thursday. More than
1,300 others were injured, he said.

Bomb kills 9 as toll of bloodiest attack hits 250
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A day after the bloodiest attack since the U.S. invasion in Iraq, a car
bomb struck a market district during rush hour in central Baghdad
Thursday, killing at least nine people and wounding 17, police said.
Rescuers used bare hands and shovels Wednesday to claw through clay
houses shattered by an onslaught of suicide bombings that killed at
least 250 and possibly as many as 500 members of an ancient religious
sect in the deadliest attack of the Iraq war.

Trauma shapes Katrina's kids
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The youngest children find it hard to bounce back two years after their
lives were disrupted by the storm that leveled New Orleans.

MONEY

Markets this morning: Asian stocks' slide follows U.S. cue
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Asian stocks fell to their lowest in months Thursday, battered by
persistent jitters over U.S. housing loan problems and their possible
damage to global financial markets.

Wall Street gives back 2007 gains; Dow below 13,000
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Stocks fell sharply Wednesday as the Dow Jones industrial average
dropped below 13,000 for the first time since April 24, after the
Federal Reserve
added more cash to the banking system but failed to quash investors'
jitters about problems in lending. The sell-off wiped out all of the S&P
500's gains for the year.

SPORTS

Former ref Donaghy pleads guilty; bets began in 2003
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Former NBA official Tim Donaghy, 40, pleaded guilty Wednesday to two
felony charges in the gambling scandal that has stunned the sports
world. Released on $250,000 bond from federal court in Brooklyn, he
faces up to 25 years in
prison when he is sentenced Nov. 9.

Hamms make event finals at gymnastic championships
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Welcome back to gymnastics, Paul and Morgan Hamm. After a three-year
layoff,
the twins from Waukesha, Wis., came flying back to the sport with a
vengeance
Wednesday night at the Visa Championships at the HP Pavilion, showing
plenty
of glimpses of the impeccable form that made them two of the best
athletes to
ever compete for the US.

# posted by John @ 8/16/2007 10:23:00 AM