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  • Suicide blast rips through Pakistan city, 43 dead (Reuters)

    Fri, 09/03/2010 - 16:18 by admin   Tags:

    Volunteers help injured men to an ambulance from the site of a suicide attack during a Shi'ite procession in Quetta September 3, 2010. REUTERS/Rizwan SaeedReuters - A suicide bomber struck a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing up to 43 people in the second major attack this week, piling pressure on a government struggling with a flood crisis.

  • Earl blows past Outer Banks on path to Northeast (AP)

    Fri, 09/03/2010 - 16:07 by admin   Tags:

    Taj Johnson does tai chi exercises on Rehoboth Beach as weather from Hurricane Earl begins to move in to Deleware on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - A weakened Hurricane Earl howled past North Carolina's Outer Banks before daybreak Friday on its way up the East Coast, flooding parts of the narrow vacation islands and knocking out power but staying farther offshore than feared. There were no immediate reports of any injuries.

  • Police say attacks on Pakistani minorities kill 23 (AP)

    Fri, 09/03/2010 - 16:06 by admin   Tags:

    People who were injured by an explosion lie down on road during a Shiite procession in Quetta, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Police say a blast at a Shiite procession has killed a score of people in southwestern Pakistan in the third deadly attack this week on the country's religious minorities.(AP Photo/Arshad Butt)AP - Suicide bombings targeting religious minorities killed at least 23 people in Pakistan on Friday, driving up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country already battered by massive flooding.

  • Police question scientist in Miami airport scare (AP)

    Fri, 09/03/2010 - 16:05 by admin   Tags:

    Passengers sleep and sit on the curbside at concourse J after being evacuated from the terminal at Miami International Airport in Miami, early Friday morning, Sept. 3, 2010. A spokesman for Miami International Airport says four of its six concourses have been evacuated as a police bomb squad investigates a report of a suspicious item. Several flights were diverted to other parts of the terminal.(AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - A scientist has been detained at the Miami International Airport after screeners spotted a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, prompting an evacuation, a government official said.

  • Unemployment rate rises as labor force expands (AP)

    Fri, 09/03/2010 - 16:05 by admin   Tags:

    30 a.m. EDT, the Labor Department issues the August unemployment report. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - The unemployment rate rose in August for the first time in four months as weak hiring by private employers wasn't enough to keep pace with a large increase in the number of people looking for work.

  • Former egg farm workers say complaints ignored (AP)

    Fri, 09/03/2010 - 16:04 by admin   Tags:

    Robert Arnold looks on as his wife Deanna holds a rooster on their farm, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, in Garrison, Iowa. The two former workers at Wright County Egg facilities said they reported problems such as leaking manure and dead chickens to USDA employees, but were ignored. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about conditions at one site.