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29 September 2010

Rain hampers rescue efforts in Mexican mudslide (AP)

Rain hampers rescue efforts in Mexican mudslide (AP)


Rain hampers rescue efforts in Mexican mudslide (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:23 PM PDT

At least seven people were killed Tuesday and 100 were missing after a landslide triggered by relentless rain buried homes in a town in southern Mexico, the Oaxaca state governor said.(AFP/Graphic)AP - A hillside collapsed on hundreds of sleeping residents in a rural Mexican community early Tuesday, adding to the deadly toll that weeks of heavy rains have exacted on parts of Latin America.


IMF chief: world recovery sluggish, jobs worrisome (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:19 PM PDT

AP - The head of the International Monetary Fund says that while the global economy is recovering at a sluggish pace, the recovery remains uncertain because of the risk that not enough jobs will be created to make the rebound secure.

Appeals court allows stem cell funds to continue (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:18 PM PDT

Reuters - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday allowed federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research to continue pending a full appeal, lifting an injunction issued by a federal judge who had said the Obama administration's policy violated the law.

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Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:12 PM PDT

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Landslide buries 20 in Colombia

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:11 PM PDT

Rescuers in Colombia say there is little chance of finding survivors after a massive landslide that buried at least 20 people.

Generals in Pakistan Push for Shakeup of Government

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:07 PM PDT

The government's handling of devastating floods and an economic crisis has laid bare deep tensions between the military and the civilian leadership.

Financial regulators to trot out reform plans (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:07 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. regulators racing to implement new financial market policing powers will appear together before a Senate committee this week to face questions likely tinged with election-season politics.

Maker of Manic Robot-Drummer Video Shares the Code

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT

Mike Winkelmann is being too modest when he explains on his website that he "makes a variety of art crap across a variety of media. Some of it is OK, but a lot of it kind of blows ass." Judging from the ingenious robotic hip-hop contraption seen in his "Instrumental Video Nine," Winkelmann's work is in fact capable of blowing minds instead.


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Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:58 PM PDT

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Karzai Names Panel for Taliban Talks

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:58 PM PDT

A decision by President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan about the 70-member panel was the government's first concrete step to open formal contacts with the Taliban.

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