AP - A spokeswoman for Sen. Edward Kennedy says he is conscious and talking to family after he suffered a seizure in his Cape Cod home and was flown to a Boston hospital.
AP - Two rivers blocked by landslides threatened to flood towns shattered by China's massive earthquake, sending thousands of survivors fleeing Saturday in a region still staggering from the country's worst disaster in 30 years.
AP - President Bush said Saudi Arabia's small increase in oil production will not solve soaring U.S. fuel prices, but he defended the wealthy kingdom Saturday against American lawmakers "screaming the loudest" for Riyadh to open its spigots.
AP - Nearly 1,000 people have been detained in a sweep to break al-Qaida in Iraq's sway in Iraq's third largest city, Mosul, but many of the fighters have fled to nearby areas, where troops are hunting for them, Iraqi officials said Saturday.
AP - A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said.
AP - Six cars of a freight train derailed early Saturday, including one that began leaking hydrochloric acid, causing thousands of people to evacuate homes, businesses and two nursing homes within one mile of the wreck.
AP - The day of campaigning had barely begun and Hillary Rodham Clinton was already eyeing the whiskey.
AP - American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. boosted its wage offer and increased the payments it will give workers to take a wage cut as part of a tentative agreement that could settle an 11-week strike by the United Auto Workers union, a person briefed on the deal said Saturday.
AP - Woody Allen's latest film touches on that classic male fantasy, a romantic threesome with two women. Has Allen ever entertained the notion himself?
AP - Johan Santana gave the New York Yankees a firsthand look at the legitimate ace they turned down last winter.
Reuters - Thousands of Chinese fled their
homes on Saturday amid fears a lake could burst its banks,
hampering rescue efforts after the deadliest earthquake in more
than three decades killed about 29,000 people.
Reuters - Sen. Edward Kennedy, a leading Democrat,
suffered a seizure on Saturday but hours later was talking with
family at his side in a Boston hospital.
Reuters - Diplomats witnessed "huge" devastation
in the Irrawaddy delta on Saturday and the toll of dead and
missing from the cyclone rose above 133,000 people, making it
one of the most damaging to hit Asia.
Reuters - U.S. President George W.
Bush, responding to Arab dismay about his praise for Israel,
said on Saturday he was confident a deal on Palestinian
statehood could be reached before he leaves office.
Reuters - Iraqi forces have detained more than
1,000 suspects in an offensive aimed at crushing al Qaeda in
northern Iraq, the military commander of the operation said on
Saturday.
Reuters - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai postponed his return home on Saturday to contest an
election run-off after his party said it had discovered an
assassination plot against him.
Reuters - Authorities evacuated 3,000 people on
Saturday after a train derailment released deadly chemicals in
the southern Louisiana town of Lafayette.
Reuters - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, a key Democrat critic of President George Bush's
war policy in Iraq, landed in Baghdad on Saturday for talks
with U.S. and Iraqi officials, the U.S. embassy said.
AFP - World frustration with Myanmar boiled over on Saturday, with accusations of negligence and crimes against humanity over the regime's slow-moving response to the cyclone disaster.
AFP - China ramped up efforts on Saturday to stave off disease for millions of earthquake victims, as more miracle rescues amid the rubble offered hope in an increasingly desperate battle to save lives.
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