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Fellow British Columbians - Stand by for a further increase in taxes. - Globe and Mail
Jim Terrets from Vancouver, writes: Oh what a great idea — grab more taxpayer money and give to the government bureaucrats and the friends of Gordon Campbell who’ll get paid $350,000 a year plus expenses for ‘administering’ these expanded Olympic
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

More Wheels - San Diego Union-Tribune
What’s not to like about small BMWs with big engines? Not much. But the coupe and convertible are like fraternal twins, female and male. One, the convertible, is attractive with alluring ways; the other is tough and blunt. Both have a full measure of
Source: www.signonsandiego.com

Latest Galleries - News.com.au
Isaac Hayes, the pioneering American singer, songwriter and musician, has been found dead at his Tennessee home aged 65. Every sport has them, their stars wouldn’t perform as well without them. They are the wives and girlfriends, or WAGs. Take a look
Source: www.news.com.au

Latest National Sport - yorkshirepost
Adlington golden double Great Britain’s Rebecca Adlington destroyed the rest of the field in the 800m freestyle to claim her second gold of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Phelps equals Spitz record Michael Phelps equalled Mark Spitz’s record haul of
Source: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

WORLD & NATION UPDATE: ABROAD - Newsday
Russia warned Poland on Friday that it is exposing itself to attack - even a nuclear one - by accepting a U.S. missile interceptor base on its soil, delivering Moscow’s strongest language yet against the plan. American and Polish officials stuck
Source: www.newsday.com

Michael Phelps’ golden touch: Did the big clock lie? - Chicago Sun-Times
BEIJING — If the touch pad wasn’t computerized, we’d be wondering about a red, white and blue conspiracy. Hell, let’s wonder anyway. Is anyone absolutely certain that Michael Phelps, trailing throughout the 100-meter butterfly race and appearing to
Source: www.suntimes.com

American Vincent Hancock wins gold - NBC Olympics
BEIJING (AP) - American Vincent Hancock has won the gold medal in skeet shooting, beating Norwegian Tore BROVOLD in a shoot-off. Brovold forced the tiebreaker with a perfect final round Saturday, hitting all 25 targets to pull even with Hancock at
Source: www.nbcolympics.com

FIVB president expects volleyball to peak in Olympics - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) — International Federation de Volleyball (FIVB) president Dr. Ruben Acosta expects volleyball and beach volleyball to be the most successful sports in the Beijing Olympic Games. “I hope beach volleyball and volleyball will
Source: news.xinhuanet.com

Phelps ties Spitz’s record with seventh gold medal just barely - CNN Sports Illustrated
Phelps beat Milorad Cavic in the 100-meter butterfly by a hundredth of a second He set an Olympic record in 50.58 but his string of world records ended at six Phelps will seek his eighth gold medal on Sunday in the 4×100 medley relay Michael Phelps
Source: money.cnn.com

Back in Utah, Martin helps Kintner in BMX - NBC Olympics
Arielle Martin decided that even though she wasn’t going to Beijing, she could help her friend Kintner train for an Olympic medal. BEIJING (AP) — For eight months, Arielle Martin and Jill Kintner were inseparable. Together, they trained on the BMX
Source: www.nbcolympics.com

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Buy evidence of my husband’s adultery on eBay - Reuters
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian woman has taken revenge on her cheating husband by putting a photograph of his lover’s underpants up for sale on the auction site eBay. In the listing the woman says she is selling a picture of a pair of lacy black
Source: www.reuters.com

eBay’s court victory over ’surprised’ L’Oreal - News.com.au
EBay wins case regarding L’Oreal counterfeits L’Oreal intends to appeal the court’s “mistake” Technology: Read more news and reviews in our tech section » ONLINE auctioneer eBay has won a Belgian court case against L’Oreal after the French cosmetics
Source: www.news.com.au

EBay Steps Up Asian Expansion - BusinessWeek
Electronic commerce giant eBay is stepping up overseas expansion efforts, making good on pledges that it would use a growing cash pile to fuel growth. San Jose-based eBay ( EBAY ) plans to acquire a minority stake in Asian e-commerce giant Gmarket
Source: www.businessweek.com

EBay in talks to buy minority stake in Gmarket - FOX News
The talks are with Interpark Corp. and its chairman, Ki Hyung Lee, who own a combined 37 percent of Gmarket. Yahoo Inc. also owns a stake in Gmarket. A purchase would mark eBay’s latest move to capture the online auction market outside the United
Source: www.foxnews.com

eBay condo deal takes man’s life savings - KHOU
HOUSTON — Real estate is supposed to be one of the best investments money can buy. However, when a condominium buyer tried to purchase some property using e-Bay, the investment cost him his life savings. Roosevelt Roberts came across a condo at the
Source: www.khou.com

Scorned wife auction’s mistress’ knickers on eBay - News.com.au
A SCORNED woman has literally aired her husband’s dirty laundry on a global scale by auctioning his mistress’s knickers on eBay. In a spiteful listing on eBay Australia, the jilted Queensland woman is auctioning off a pair of lacy black underpants
Source: www.news.com.au

Buy Evidence of My Husband’s Adultery on eBay - FOX News
A scorned Australian woman is literally airing her husband’s dirty laundry on a global scale by auctioning his mistress’s knickers on eBay. In a spiteful listing on eBay Australia, the jilted woman is auctioning off a pair of lacy black underpants
Source: www.foxnews.com

Criticised toilets sold for a song - MSN UK News
City officials have finally offloaded five high-tech, self-cleaning toilets that cost Seattle five million US dollars — but sold online for just 12,549 dollars. The city installed the modernistic stand-alone toilets four years ago, hoping they would
Source: news.uk.msn.com

Seattle’s $5 million automated public toilets sold for $12,000 - Seattle Times
Seattle has officially washed its hands of the five self-cleaning toilets. The toilets cost the city $5 million. They sold on eBay Thursday evening for $12,549. All five were sold to Racecar Supply, of Rochester, in Thurston County, with winning bids
Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com

EBay eyes minority stake in Gmarket - Financial Times
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 13 – EBay Inc is seeking to buy a minority stake in Gmarket Inc , the US online auctioneer said on Wednesday, lifting shares of the South Korean online retailer by as much as 16 percent. Some on Wall Street saw the move as the
Source: www.ft.com

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Iraqis blame US for increasing Iran influence - Middle East Online
Haider returned from Iran recently, with enough money to pay for his wedding and a new car. He was trained to join Badr, the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Many more come where he recently came from

Egypt: Iran should reassure West on nuclear issue - San Francisco Gate
Iran should not give Western nations the justification to “drag the region down a dangerous slope” by its lack of transparency and flexibility in the conflict over its nuclear program, Egypt’s presidential spokesman said Saturday. Speaking after a

Iran kills 3 Kurdish separatists in clash - San Diego Union-Tribune
TEHRAN,Iran – Iranian state radio says three Kurdish separatists and one Iranian soldier were killed in a shootout in the northwest of the country. The report says the shootout happened Wednesday night in a mountainous region near the Iraqi border

US: Quds, Hezbollah training hit squads in Iran - Boston Globe
WASHINGTON— Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four locations in Iran by Tehran’s elite Quds force and Lebanese Hezbollah and are planning to return to Iraq in the next few months to kill specific Iraqi officials as well

IRAN TRAINING IRAQI SHIITE HIT MEN: US - New York Post
Iraqi Shiite death squads are receiving sophisticated training in Iran, then returning with hit lists of Iraqi officials and US troops marked for assassination, officials said yesterday. The number of killers-in-waiting may exceed 1,000, and a senior

Egypt: Iran should reassure West on nuclear issue - Seattle Times
Iran should not give Western nations the justification to “drag the region down a dangerous slope” by its lack of transparency and flexibility in the conflict over its nuclear program, Egypt’s presidential spokesman said Saturday. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt

Iran: regional countries should help Iraq - San Diego Union-Tribune
With the Byzance-era Hagia Sophia Church in the background, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to cheering supporters after attending Friday prayers at the Ottoman-era Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday. ISTANBUL, Turkey – Iran’s

Iran denies US allegations against banks - Presstv
Iran has rejected allegations by France, Britain and the US that the country’s banking system is trying to bypass UN sanctions against it. In a letter to the UN Security Council this month, the US, Britain and France accused certain Iranian banks and

Iraqi assassination teams reportedly training in Iran - Philadelphia Inquirer
WASHINGTON - Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in Iran by Tehran’s elite Quds force and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group and are planning to return to Iraq to kill Iraqi officials as well as U.S. and Iraqi troops, a senior U.S. military

Iran rejects Western charges of bank illegalities - Reuters UK
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran rejected on Friday Western allegations that its central bank and other financial institutions were trying to skirt U.N. sanctions by covering their tracks, and threatened to seek compensation. In an August 1 letter to

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American Vincent Hancock wins gold - NBC Olympics
BEIJING (AP) - American Vincent Hancock has won the gold medal in skeet shooting, beating Norwegian Tore BROVOLD in a shoot-off. Brovold forced the tiebreaker with a perfect final round Saturday, hitting all 25 targets to pull even with Hancock at
Source: www.nbcolympics.com

Phelps ties Spitz’s record with seventh gold medal just barely - CNN Sports Illustrated
Phelps beat Milorad Cavic in the 100-meter butterfly by a hundredth of a second He set an Olympic record in 50.58 but his string of world records ended at six Phelps will seek his eighth gold medal on Sunday in the 4×100 medley relay Michael Phelps
Source: money.cnn.com

Latest National Sport - yorkshirepost
Adlington golden double Great Britain’s Rebecca Adlington destroyed the rest of the field in the 800m freestyle to claim her second gold of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Phelps equals Spitz record Michael Phelps equalled Mark Spitz’s record haul of
Source: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

FIVB president expects volleyball to peak in Olympics - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) — International Federation de Volleyball (FIVB) president Dr. Ruben Acosta expects volleyball and beach volleyball to be the most successful sports in the Beijing Olympic Games. “I hope beach volleyball and volleyball will
Source: news.xinhuanet.com

More Wheels - San Diego Union-Tribune
What’s not to like about small BMWs with big engines? Not much. But the coupe and convertible are like fraternal twins, female and male. One, the convertible, is attractive with alluring ways; the other is tough and blunt. Both have a full measure of
Source: www.signonsandiego.com

Michael Phelps’ golden touch: Did the big clock lie? - Chicago Sun-Times
BEIJING — If the touch pad wasn’t computerized, we’d be wondering about a red, white and blue conspiracy. Hell, let’s wonder anyway. Is anyone absolutely certain that Michael Phelps, trailing throughout the 100-meter butterfly race and appearing to
Source: www.suntimes.com

WORLD & NATION UPDATE: ABROAD - Newsday
Russia warned Poland on Friday that it is exposing itself to attack - even a nuclear one - by accepting a U.S. missile interceptor base on its soil, delivering Moscow’s strongest language yet against the plan. American and Polish officials stuck
Source: www.newsday.com

Latest Galleries - News.com.au
Isaac Hayes, the pioneering American singer, songwriter and musician, has been found dead at his Tennessee home aged 65. Every sport has them, their stars wouldn’t perform as well without them. They are the wives and girlfriends, or WAGs. Take a look
Source: www.news.com.au

Fellow British Columbians - Stand by for a further increase in taxes. - Globe and Mail
Jim Terrets from Vancouver, writes: Oh what a great idea — grab more taxpayer money and give to the government bureaucrats and the friends of Gordon Campbell who’ll get paid $350,000 a year plus expenses for ‘administering’ these expanded Olympic
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

Back in Utah, Martin helps Kintner in BMX - NBC Olympics
Arielle Martin decided that even though she wasn’t going to Beijing, she could help her friend Kintner train for an Olympic medal. BEIJING (AP) — For eight months, Arielle Martin and Jill Kintner were inseparable. Together, they trained on the BMX
Source: www.nbcolympics.com

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Help With RSS - EETimes.com
Help With Adding An RSS Feed Where To Get A News Aggregator (or RSS Reader) What Exactly Is RSS? Help With Adding An RSS Feed RSS is an Internet format that gives you a new way to quickly and easily access Web-based headlines, blurbs, and article
Source: eetimes.com

Eyes inside your computer - Chicago Tribune
How would you like to have some guy follow you around and take notes while you shop, bank, look for a doctor or hang with your friends? When you ask him what he’s doing, he tells you he’s there to help. He wants to see what you like to see and do and
Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Yahoo Nears Clearing Biondi And Chapple to Join Board - Wall Street Journal
Yahoo Inc. is in the final stages of vetting former Viacom Inc. Chief Executive Frank Biondi and John Chapple, the former CEO of Nextel Partners, to join its board, according to a person familiar with the matter, as it moves toward completing its
Source: online.wsj.com

New Yahoo service helps users share their location - FOX News
Yahoo made Fire Eagle available to the public this week. Previously, the service had been available in a private “beta” test since March. After signing up with a Yahoo ID, users can update their physical locations through Fire Eagle’s Web site or
Source: www.foxnews.com

Rain delays Belleair Causeway closing - St. Petersburg Times
Another closure is planned for the Belleair Causeway Bridge this week with overnight shutdowns scheduled from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday to allow for work to be done above the existing drawbridge. The recommended detour route from the
Source: www.tampabay.com

Yahoo! posts directors to appease Icahn - Daily Telegraph
Yahoo! has appointed two new non-executive directors as part of its agreement with activist investor Carl Icahn to expand its board. Yahoo! has resisted Microsoft’s advances The board of the internet search and display advertising company, chaired by
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

New location technologies worry privacy guardians - Eflux Media
San Francisco - Location, location, location - that’s been the time-honoured mantra for property buyers for centuries. But now it’s getting personal. In case you haven’t noticed, hundreds of millions of people around the planet now carry personal
Source: www.efluxmedia.com

Yahoo makes board decision as deadline looms - ZDNet UK
Yahoo is close to appointing John Chapple and Frank Biondi Jr as its two additional board members, as it nears its Friday deadline to expand its board as part of a settlement agreement with activist investor Carl Icahn, according to sources. The
Source: news.zdnet.co.uk

Yahoo appoints two new directors - Xinhua News Agency
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — Internet giant Yahoo has appointed two new directors from a dissident slate put together by shareholder Carl Icahn, the San Jose Mercury News reported on Friday. The two directors are Frank Biondi Jr., 63, former
Source: news.xinhuanet.com

Olympics: ‘Affectionate gesture’ that sparked a global storm - Guardian Unlimited
In basketball terms, the story written this week by the Guardian’s Madrid-based sports writer, Sid Lowe, looked like a slam dunk. Spain’s Olympic basketball teams had posed for a pre-Olympics advertisement making “slit-eyed” gestures on a court
Source: www.guardian.co.uk

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WORLD & NATION UPDATE: ABROAD - Newsday
Russia warned Poland on Friday that it is exposing itself to attack - even a nuclear one - by accepting a U.S. missile interceptor base on its soil, delivering Moscow’s strongest language yet against the plan. American and Polish officials stuck

Michael Phelps’ golden touch: Did the big clock lie? - Chicago Sun-Times
BEIJING — If the touch pad wasn’t computerized, we’d be wondering about a red, white and blue conspiracy. Hell, let’s wonder anyway. Is anyone absolutely certain that Michael Phelps, trailing throughout the 100-meter butterfly race and appearing to

Latest Galleries - News.com.au
Isaac Hayes, the pioneering American singer, songwriter and musician, has been found dead at his Tennessee home aged 65. Every sport has them, their stars wouldn’t perform as well without them. They are the wives and girlfriends, or WAGs. Take a look

More Wheels - San Diego Union-Tribune
What’s not to like about small BMWs with big engines? Not much. But the coupe and convertible are like fraternal twins, female and male. One, the convertible, is attractive with alluring ways; the other is tough and blunt. Both have a full measure of

Fellow British Columbians - Stand by for a further increase in taxes. - Globe and Mail
Jim Terrets from Vancouver, writes: Oh what a great idea — grab more taxpayer money and give to the government bureaucrats and the friends of Gordon Campbell who’ll get paid $350,000 a year plus expenses for ‘administering’ these expanded Olympic

Phelps ties Spitz’s record with seventh gold medal just barely - CNN Sports Illustrated
Phelps beat Milorad Cavic in the 100-meter butterfly by a hundredth of a second He set an Olympic record in 50.58 but his string of world records ended at six Phelps will seek his eighth gold medal on Sunday in the 4×100 medley relay Michael Phelps

Back in Utah, Martin helps Kintner in BMX - NBC Olympics
Arielle Martin decided that even though she wasn’t going to Beijing, she could help her friend Kintner train for an Olympic medal. BEIJING (AP) — For eight months, Arielle Martin and Jill Kintner were inseparable. Together, they trained on the BMX

Latest National Sport - yorkshirepost
Adlington golden double Great Britain’s Rebecca Adlington destroyed the rest of the field in the 800m freestyle to claim her second gold of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Phelps equals Spitz record Michael Phelps equalled Mark Spitz’s record haul of

American Vincent Hancock wins gold - NBC Olympics
BEIJING (AP) - American Vincent Hancock has won the gold medal in skeet shooting, beating Norwegian Tore BROVOLD in a shoot-off. Brovold forced the tiebreaker with a perfect final round Saturday, hitting all 25 targets to pull even with Hancock at

FIVB president expects volleyball to peak in Olympics - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) — International Federation de Volleyball (FIVB) president Dr. Ruben Acosta expects volleyball and beach volleyball to be the most successful sports in the Beijing Olympic Games. “I hope beach volleyball and volleyball will

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IRAN TRAINING IRAQI SHIITE HIT MEN: US - New York Post
Iraqi Shiite death squads are receiving sophisticated training in Iran, then returning with hit lists of Iraqi officials and US troops marked for assassination, officials said yesterday. The number of killers-in-waiting may exceed 1,000, and a senior

Iraqis blame US for increasing Iran influence - Middle East Online
Haider returned from Iran recently, with enough money to pay for his wedding and a new car. He was trained to join Badr, the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Many more come where he recently came from

Iran rejects Western charges of bank illegalities - Reuters UK
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran rejected on Friday Western allegations that its central bank and other financial institutions were trying to skirt U.N. sanctions by covering their tracks, and threatened to seek compensation. In an August 1 letter to

Iran: regional countries should help Iraq - San Diego Union-Tribune
With the Byzance-era Hagia Sophia Church in the background, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to cheering supporters after attending Friday prayers at the Ottoman-era Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday. ISTANBUL, Turkey – Iran’s

Egypt: Iran should reassure West on nuclear issue - San Francisco Gate
Iran should not give Western nations the justification to “drag the region down a dangerous slope” by its lack of transparency and flexibility in the conflict over its nuclear program, Egypt’s presidential spokesman said Saturday. Speaking after a

Iraqi assassination teams reportedly training in Iran - Philadelphia Inquirer
WASHINGTON - Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in Iran by Tehran’s elite Quds force and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group and are planning to return to Iraq to kill Iraqi officials as well as U.S. and Iraqi troops, a senior U.S. military

US: Quds, Hezbollah training hit squads in Iran - Boston Globe
WASHINGTON— Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four locations in Iran by Tehran’s elite Quds force and Lebanese Hezbollah and are planning to return to Iraq in the next few months to kill specific Iraqi officials as well

Iran kills 3 Kurdish separatists in clash - San Diego Union-Tribune
TEHRAN,Iran – Iranian state radio says three Kurdish separatists and one Iranian soldier were killed in a shootout in the northwest of the country. The report says the shootout happened Wednesday night in a mountainous region near the Iraqi border

Egypt: Iran should reassure West on nuclear issue - Seattle Times
Iran should not give Western nations the justification to “drag the region down a dangerous slope” by its lack of transparency and flexibility in the conflict over its nuclear program, Egypt’s presidential spokesman said Saturday. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt

Iran denies US allegations against banks - Presstv
Iran has rejected allegations by France, Britain and the US that the country’s banking system is trying to bypass UN sanctions against it. In a letter to the UN Security Council this month, the US, Britain and France accused certain Iranian banks and

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Eyes inside your computer - Chicago Tribune
How would you like to have some guy follow you around and take notes while you shop, bank, look for a doctor or hang with your friends? When you ask him what he’s doing, he tells you he’s there to help. He wants to see what you like to see and do and
Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Yahoo Nears Clearing Biondi And Chapple to Join Board - Wall Street Journal
Yahoo Inc. is in the final stages of vetting former Viacom Inc. Chief Executive Frank Biondi and John Chapple, the former CEO of Nextel Partners, to join its board, according to a person familiar with the matter, as it moves toward completing its
Source: online.wsj.com

Olympics: ‘Affectionate gesture’ that sparked a global storm - Guardian Unlimited
In basketball terms, the story written this week by the Guardian’s Madrid-based sports writer, Sid Lowe, looked like a slam dunk. Spain’s Olympic basketball teams had posed for a pre-Olympics advertisement making “slit-eyed” gestures on a court
Source: www.guardian.co.uk

New location technologies worry privacy guardians - Eflux Media
San Francisco - Location, location, location - that’s been the time-honoured mantra for property buyers for centuries. But now it’s getting personal. In case you haven’t noticed, hundreds of millions of people around the planet now carry personal
Source: www.efluxmedia.com

Yahoo appoints two new directors - Xinhua News Agency
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — Internet giant Yahoo has appointed two new directors from a dissident slate put together by shareholder Carl Icahn, the San Jose Mercury News reported on Friday. The two directors are Frank Biondi Jr., 63, former
Source: news.xinhuanet.com

Help With RSS - EETimes.com
Help With Adding An RSS Feed Where To Get A News Aggregator (or RSS Reader) What Exactly Is RSS? Help With Adding An RSS Feed RSS is an Internet format that gives you a new way to quickly and easily access Web-based headlines, blurbs, and article
Source: eetimes.com

New Yahoo service helps users share their location - FOX News
Yahoo made Fire Eagle available to the public this week. Previously, the service had been available in a private “beta” test since March. After signing up with a Yahoo ID, users can update their physical locations through Fire Eagle’s Web site or
Source: www.foxnews.com

Yahoo! posts directors to appease Icahn - Daily Telegraph
Yahoo! has appointed two new non-executive directors as part of its agreement with activist investor Carl Icahn to expand its board. Yahoo! has resisted Microsoft’s advances The board of the internet search and display advertising company, chaired by
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Yahoo makes board decision as deadline looms - ZDNet UK
Yahoo is close to appointing John Chapple and Frank Biondi Jr as its two additional board members, as it nears its Friday deadline to expand its board as part of a settlement agreement with activist investor Carl Icahn, according to sources. The
Source: news.zdnet.co.uk

Rain delays Belleair Causeway closing - St. Petersburg Times
Another closure is planned for the Belleair Causeway Bridge this week with overnight shutdowns scheduled from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday to allow for work to be done above the existing drawbridge. The recommended detour route from the
Source: www.tampabay.com

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Iraqis blame US for increasing Iran influence - Middle East Online
Haider returned from Iran recently, with enough money to pay for his wedding and a new car. He was trained to join Badr, the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Many more come where he recently came from

Iran: regional countries should help Iraq - San Diego Union-Tribune
With the Byzance-era Hagia Sophia Church in the background, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to cheering supporters after attending Friday prayers at the Ottoman-era Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday. ISTANBUL, Turkey – Iran’s

Iran denies US allegations against banks - Presstv
Iran has rejected allegations by France, Britain and the US that the country’s banking system is trying to bypass UN sanctions against it. In a letter to the UN Security Council this month, the US, Britain and France accused certain Iranian banks and

Iraqi assassination teams reportedly training in Iran - Philadelphia Inquirer
WASHINGTON - Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in Iran by Tehran’s elite Quds force and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group and are planning to return to Iraq to kill Iraqi officials as well as U.S. and Iraqi troops, a senior U.S. military

Iran kills 3 Kurdish separatists in clash - San Diego Union-Tribune
TEHRAN,Iran – Iranian state radio says three Kurdish separatists and one Iranian soldier were killed in a shootout in the northwest of the country. The report says the shootout happened Wednesday night in a mountainous region near the Iraqi border

Egypt: Iran should reassure West on nuclear issue - Seattle Times
Iran should not give Western nations the justification to “drag the region down a dangerous slope” by its lack of transparency and flexibility in the conflict over its nuclear program, Egypt’s presidential spokesman said Saturday. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt

Egypt: Iran should reassure West on nuclear issue - San Francisco Gate
Iran should not give Western nations the justification to “drag the region down a dangerous slope” by its lack of transparency and flexibility in the conflict over its nuclear program, Egypt’s presidential spokesman said Saturday. Speaking after a

Iran rejects Western charges of bank illegalities - Reuters UK
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran rejected on Friday Western allegations that its central bank and other financial institutions were trying to skirt U.N. sanctions by covering their tracks, and threatened to seek compensation. In an August 1 letter to

US: Quds, Hezbollah training hit squads in Iran - Boston Globe
WASHINGTON— Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four locations in Iran by Tehran’s elite Quds force and Lebanese Hezbollah and are planning to return to Iraq in the next few months to kill specific Iraqi officials as well

IRAN TRAINING IRAQI SHIITE HIT MEN: US - New York Post
Iraqi Shiite death squads are receiving sophisticated training in Iran, then returning with hit lists of Iraqi officials and US troops marked for assassination, officials said yesterday. The number of killers-in-waiting may exceed 1,000, and a senior

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Phelps ties Spitz’s record with seventh gold medal just barely - CNN Sports Illustrated
Phelps beat Milorad Cavic in the 100-meter butterfly by a hundredth of a second He set an Olympic record in 50.58 but his string of world records ended at six Phelps will seek his eighth gold medal on Sunday in the 4×100 medley relay Michael Phelps
Source: money.cnn.com

Back in Utah, Martin helps Kintner in BMX - NBC Olympics
Arielle Martin decided that even though she wasn’t going to Beijing, she could help her friend Kintner train for an Olympic medal. BEIJING (AP) — For eight months, Arielle Martin and Jill Kintner were inseparable. Together, they trained on the BMX
Source: www.nbcolympics.com

Michael Phelps’ golden touch: Did the big clock lie? - Chicago Sun-Times
BEIJING — If the touch pad wasn’t computerized, we’d be wondering about a red, white and blue conspiracy. Hell, let’s wonder anyway. Is anyone absolutely certain that Michael Phelps, trailing throughout the 100-meter butterfly race and appearing to
Source: www.suntimes.com

Fellow British Columbians - Stand by for a further increase in taxes. - Globe and Mail
Jim Terrets from Vancouver, writes: Oh what a great idea — grab more taxpayer money and give to the government bureaucrats and the friends of Gordon Campbell who’ll get paid $350,000 a year plus expenses for ‘administering’ these expanded Olympic
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

Latest National Sport - yorkshirepost
Adlington golden double Great Britain’s Rebecca Adlington destroyed the rest of the field in the 800m freestyle to claim her second gold of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Phelps equals Spitz record Michael Phelps equalled Mark Spitz’s record haul of
Source: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

American Vincent Hancock wins gold - NBC Olympics
BEIJING (AP) - American Vincent Hancock has won the gold medal in skeet shooting, beating Norwegian Tore BROVOLD in a shoot-off. Brovold forced the tiebreaker with a perfect final round Saturday, hitting all 25 targets to pull even with Hancock at
Source: www.nbcolympics.com

Latest Galleries - News.com.au
Isaac Hayes, the pioneering American singer, songwriter and musician, has been found dead at his Tennessee home aged 65. Every sport has them, their stars wouldn’t perform as well without them. They are the wives and girlfriends, or WAGs. Take a look
Source: www.news.com.au

WORLD & NATION UPDATE: ABROAD - Newsday
Russia warned Poland on Friday that it is exposing itself to attack - even a nuclear one - by accepting a U.S. missile interceptor base on its soil, delivering Moscow’s strongest language yet against the plan. American and Polish officials stuck
Source: www.newsday.com

More Wheels - San Diego Union-Tribune
What’s not to like about small BMWs with big engines? Not much. But the coupe and convertible are like fraternal twins, female and male. One, the convertible, is attractive with alluring ways; the other is tough and blunt. Both have a full measure of
Source: www.signonsandiego.com

FIVB president expects volleyball to peak in Olympics - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) — International Federation de Volleyball (FIVB) president Dr. Ruben Acosta expects volleyball and beach volleyball to be the most successful sports in the Beijing Olympic Games. “I hope beach volleyball and volleyball will
Source: news.xinhuanet.com