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Lost manatee rescued in Massachusetts dies on trip to Florida

BOSTON - An animal welfare official says a wayward manatee that was rescued from cold Cape Cod waters died on the way home to Florida. Chris Cutter of the International Fund for Animal Welfare says...

Biden decries McCain campaign's 'ugly inferences' about Obama

SCRANTON, Pa. - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden on Sunday accused the McCain campaign of trying to distract Americans from their economic woes by launching "unbecoming personal attack...

George Soros slams U.S., European leaders for their 'slow' response

WASHINGTON - Outspoken billionaire investor George Soros on Sunday criticized U.S. and European officials for taking too long to effectively address the financial crisis. U.S. Treasury Secretary He...

New York grave of 1st Ellis Island immigrant gets a Celtic cross

NEW YORK - The New York grave of an Irish woman who was the first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island has been marked with a Celtic cross. Clergy members joined Annie Moore's descendants and adm...

Saudi prince to build world's tallest building in Jidda, competing with Dubai

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi billionaire Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal says he will build the world's tallest building in Jidda. Sunday's statement by his firm, Kingdom Holding Co., says the building ...

U.S. says no to protectionism; Congress pushes partial bank nationalization

WASHINGTON - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told international leaders Sunday that isolationism and protectionism could worsen the spreading financial crisis. With a new trading week dawning...

Billions and billions boggle the brain

NEW YORK - There's an old saying attributed to Everett Dirksen, the Illinois senator who dotted his speeches with colourful rants against government borrowing: A billion here, a billion there, and pre...

Forecasters say tropical storm Nana has formed in the Atlantic

MIAMI - Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say tropical storm Nana has formed in the eastern Atlantic, but predict it will weaken to a tropical depression by Monday. The storm is...

Top U.S. general says NATO is not losing Afghan war to Taliban

KABUL, Afghanistan - The top NATO general in Afghanistan on Sunday rejected the idea that NATO is losing the Afghan war to an increasingly bloody Taliban insurgency. But U.S. Gen. David McKiernan a...

British authors pick up their pens to protest proposed new detentions law

LONDON - Dozens of renowned British writers have joined the latest protest against that country's proposed new anti-terrorism legislation. The writers published a collection of satire, essays, fict...