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Cambodian couple saw house in half in divorce (AP)

This handout from the Phnom Penh Post shwos a house sawed cut in half by a Cambodian couple as they were hoping to avoid the country's convoluted divorce process inPrey Veng province near Phnom Penh.(AFP/PHNOM PENH POST-HO)AP - A couple in rural Cambodia has terminated their 18-year marriage with a divorce settlement that entailed sawing in two the wooden house they once shared, villagers said Friday. The husband, 42-year-old Moeun Sarim, has taken away with him all the bits and pieces of his half a house, said his 35-year-old wife, Vat Navy.


All that money you've lost — where did it go? (AP)

In this Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 file photo, artist Laura Gilbert displays her 'Zero Dollar' artwork in front of the New York Stock Exchange  in New York. If you're looking to track down your missing money — figure out who has it now, maybe ask to have it back — you might be disappointed to learn that is was never really money in the first place. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Trillions in stock market value — gone. Trillions in retirement savings — gone. A huge chunk of the money you paid for your house, the money you're saving for college, the money your boss needs to make payroll — gone, gone, gone.


As governor, Palin at times bonds church and state (AP)

This photo from the Web site of The Office of the Governor of Alaska, shows, from left,  Alaska  Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, Gov. Sarah Palin, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, being prayed over by Pastor Ed Kalnins and a congregation made up of nearly 20 different churches and denominations at One Lord Sunday in the Mat-Su Valley, Alaska on June 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Web site of The Office of the Governor of Alaska)AP - The camera closes in on Sarah Palin speaking to young missionaries, vowing from the pulpit to do her part to implement God's will from the governor's office.


Source: Chrysler, GM discuss merger, acquisition (AP)

American flags flutter in the wind in front of the General Motors Corp. headquarters in downtown Detroit, Michigan in this November 7, 2007 file photo.  General Motors is in preliminary talks about a possible merger with fellow U.S. automaker Chrysler, The New York Times reported late on October 10, 2008. The talks between GM and Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity firm that owns Chrysler, began more than a month ago and are not certain to produce a deal, the paper said.  REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/Files  (UNITED STATES)AP - General Motors Corp., Chrysler LLC and Cerberus Capital Management LP have held preliminary talks about a merger or an acquisition of Chrysler by GM, according to a person familiar with the talks.


Report stings Palin over Troopergate flap (AP)

State Sen. Kim Elton, D-Juneau, chairman of a joint Legislative Council, right, talks with vice-chair Rep. Nancy Dahlstrom, R-Anchorage, at the Legislative Information Building in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday Oct. 10, 2008 as Alaska lawmakers announce the release of the ethics report on Gov. Sarah Palin's abuse of power investigation. The chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - The politically charged investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is over, and its conclusions are stinging. But the fallout, if any, might not come until Election Day.


Obama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans (AP)

In this Wednesday, June 4, 2008 file photo, Antoin 'Tony' Rezko returns to the Federal Courthouse where a jury found him guilty on 16 counts of a 24-count indictment in his corruption trail  in Chicago. Federal prosecutors moved Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 to delay indefinitely the sentencing of convicted fundraiser Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, sending their strongest hint yet that he is ready to spill his political secrets. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.


Riding high, Obama nods to McCain, rallies fans (AP)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at a statewide training event for campaign volunteers in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - His backers feeling increasingly confident, Democrat Barack Obama made a slight nod to his Republican rival on Saturday and asked voters to have faith in him as the next president.


Scientists: Va. shark's pup a 'virgin birth' (AP)

A blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus, in an undated photo. Scientists using DNA testing have confirmed the second-known instance of 'virgin birth' in a shark -- a female Atlantic blacktip shark named Tidbit that produced a baby without a male shark. (Matthew D. Potenski/Handout/Reuters)AP - Scientists have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark.


Bush, allies pledge joint action on global crisis (AP)

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, left, listens as President Bush speaks with the G7 Finance Ministers in the Rose Garden of the White House, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - President Bush and foreign financial officials displayed joint resolve Saturday to combat the unfolding financial crisis, hoping to calm investors whose panic has spread despite bold and accelerating government action.


Larry Hagman excited about 30th `Dallas' reunion (AP)

Actor Larry Hagman poses in front of the  Southfork Ranch mansion made famous in the television show, 'Dallas',  in Parker, Texas, Thursday Oct. 9, 2008. Hagman was initially reluctant to be on a new TV show called 'Dallas' when he first read the script in the late 1970s  but is now preparing to celebrate the show's 30th anniversary. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - Larry Hagman was reluctant to be on a new TV show called "Dallas" when he first read the script in the late 1970s, figuring there wouldn't be any money in it.


NY election mix-up: 'Osama' on the ballot (AP)

A general election absentee ballot from Rensselaer County, N.Y. misspelling  the name of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is seen, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 in Sand Lake, N.Y. The absentee ballots sent to voters in Rensselaer County identified the two presidential candidates as 'Barack Osama' and 'John McCain.' In the United States, the best-known individual named Osama is Osama bin Laden, leader of the al Qaida terrorist group behind the 2001 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City. (AP Photo/The Albany Times Union, Michael P. Farrell)AP - Who is running for president? In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for "Barack Osama."


Wyo. town reflects 10 years after Shepard's murder (AP)

Students sing at a vigil against violence at Prexy's Pasture on the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie, Wyo., in this Oct. 10, 1999 file photo. The weekend marked the one-year anniversary death of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student, who was tied to a fence and beaten into a coma from which he died two days later. on Oct. 7, 1998. In the 10 years since Shepard's death, more than 30 states have passed laws addressing bias-related crimes against gays, but gay-rights advocates point to a series of frustrations including the failure of federal hate-crime legislation. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - A decade after a gay college student was beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead, many in this small college town are still struggling with the aftermath of a crime that triggered nationwide sympathy and brought a re-examination of attitudes toward gays.


McCain booed after trying to calm anti-Obama crowd (AP)

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, takes back the microphone from Gayle Quinnell who said she read about Sen. Barack Obama and 'that he was an Arab,'  during a question and answer time at a town hall meeting at Lakeville South High School Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 in Lakeville, Minn. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - The anger is getting raw at Republican rallies and John McCain is acting to tamp it down. McCain was booed by his own supporters Friday when, in an abrupt switch from raising questions about Barack Obama's character, he described the Democrat as a "decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States."


US controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears (AP)

In this June 5, 2008 file photo,  chickens look out of their pen in a downtown neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia. When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. out of fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it 'the nuttiest thing' he'd ever heard. Yet buried deep inside an 86-page supplement to U.S. export regulations is a single sentence barring U.S. exports of vaccines for avian bird flu for the same reason.   (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyiah, File)AP - When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.


New York teachers sue over ban on campaign buttons (AP)

Buttons to promote the comic book biographies of U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) 
and U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) are seen at their publisher's office in San Diego October 6, 2008. The life stories of U.S. presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama hit comic book stands on October 8 -- and the company behind the illustrated bios hopes plenty of adults will buy them. Picture taken October 6, 2008.     REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)AP - The teachers' union for the nation's largest public school system accused the city on Friday of banning political campaign buttons and sued to reverse the policy, declaring that free speech rights were violated.


Large population of endangered dolphins found off Bangladesh (AFP)

File photo shows an Irrawaddy dolphin in the Mekhong river in Cambodia. The world's largest population of the vulnerable mammals has been found in Bangladesh's waters, according to a five-year wildlife study.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)AFP - The world's largest population of vulnerable Irrawaddy dolphins -- famed as aquarium attractions -- has been found in Bangladesh's waters, according to a five-year wildlife study.


The campaign's got your number, and your bar code (AP)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at a statewide training event for campaign volunteers in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Barack Obama, a former community organizer, is spending untold millions of dollars to identify and mobilize voters, and Republicans acknowledge that John McCain's team probably will be outspent and outmanned. They hope it won't be outmaneuvered.


NKorea off US blacklist after nuke inspection deal (AP)

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation Patricia McNerney speaks at a news conference on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, in Washington. North Korea has agreed to all U.S. nuclear inspection demands and the Bush administration responded by removing the communist country from a terrorism blacklist. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - After North Korea relented on nuclear inspection demands, the U.S. on Saturday erased from a terrorism blacklist the communist country President Bush once branded part of an "axis of evil."


Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers (AP)

Kimani, a huge bull elephant, can be seen with his collar containing a sim card, Friday, Sept. 26, 2008 in the Ol Pejeta conservancy near Mt. Kenya. Save the Elephants has set up a project where they placed a mobile phone SIM card in an elephants collar, then set up a virtual 'geofence' using a global positioning system that mirrored the conservatory's boundaries. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)AP - The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.


Under Bush, US influence in Latin America wanes (AP)

This Sept. 30, 2008 file photo shows, from left to right, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, Bolivia's President Evo Morales, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, join their hands during a photo opportunity during a multilateral summit in Manaus, northern Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)AP - In a matter of weeks, a Russian naval squadron will arrive in the waters off Latin America for the first time since the Cold War. It is already getting a warm welcome from some in a region where the influence of the United States is in decline.


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