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2008-09-04 21:03:52 - Billion-dollar European probe set for asteroid encounter (AFP) (world)
AFP - Far from Earth, a robot spacecraft has been prodded from deep slumber to make a rare encounter with an asteroid, the intriguing orbital debris that could offer clues into the making of the Solar System.

2008-09-04 21:03:52 - US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,154 (AP) (world)
AP - As of Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, at least 4,154 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

2008-09-04 19:04:19 - Angola holds 1st vote in 16 years, MPLA confident (Reuters) (world)
Reuters - Angolans head to the polls on Friday for the first time in 16 years in an election widely expected to extend the ruling party's more than three-decade control over the oil-rich African nation.

2008-09-04 19:04:18 - Football club may get rebuilt 2012 Games stadium (AFP) (world)
AFP - A top football club could end up with a rebuilt version of the London 2012 Games Olympic stadium, media reports said on Thursday.

2008-09-04 19:04:17 - Rescuers can't get aid to starving Haitian city (AP) (world)
AP - The convoy rumbled out of the U.N. base toward a flooded, starving and seething city Thursday, carrying some of the first food aid since Tropical Storm Hanna drowned Gonaives in muddy water three days ago.

2008-09-04 17:04:19 - Iraq to open Saddam abuse museum at Abu Ghraib (AP) (world)
AP - The notorious Abu Ghraib prison is getting a facelift: work to reopen the facility and construct a museum documenting Saddam Hussein's crimes — but not the abuses committed there by U.S. guards.

2008-09-04 17:04:18 - Don't let them eat cake, Saudi cleric says (AP) (world)
AP - When Hala al-Masaad invited her girlfriends over to celebrate her 18th birthday with cake and juice, the high school student was stepping into an unusual public debate. Is celebrating birthdays un-Islamic?

2008-09-04 15:05:01 - South Africa gold production falls 10 percent (AP) (world)
AP - Gold production in the world leading supplier South Africa fell more than 10 percent in the second quarter compared to the same period last year, the industry said Thursday, blaming electricity shortages since the beginning of the year.

2008-09-04 15:05:01 - China says flaws may have led to school collapses (AP) (world)
AP - Nearly four months after China's devastating earthquake, a government scientist acknowledged Thursday that a rush to build schools in recent years likely led to construction flaws causing so many of them to collapse.

2008-09-04 15:05:00 - Swaziland's 40th anniversary bash hits sour note (AP) (world)
AP - Swaziland and its king are throwing a joint 40th birthday bash this weekend, but the mood is far from celebratory in this small southern African land of paupers and princes, mud huts and palaces.

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