AP - Did creation need a creator?
Source:Author Hawking says God not needed for creation
(AP)
Reuters - Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to a series of direct talks on Thursday, seeking to forge the framework for a U.S.-backed peace deal within a year and end a conflict that has boiled for six decades.
Source:Israel and Palestinians agree to more peace meetings
(Reuters)
AP - Fresh off his divorce, Tiger Woods has taken out a $54.5 million mortgage on his Florida waterfront estate.
Source:Woods takes out $54M mortgage on Fla. estate
(AP)
AP - This year’s back-to-school season isn’t as big a bust for retailers as they feared — or as last year’s — but it’s not great either.
Source:Discounts spur surprising Aug. retail sales gains
(AP)
Reuters - The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid, providing some relief for a government overwhelmed by the disaster and facing renewed militant violence.
Source:Pakistan gets IMF relief, tightens security
(Reuters)
AP - American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and another Muslim inmate have asked a judge to order a federal prison to allow them and other Muslims in their highly restricted cell block to pray as a group, in accordance with their beliefs.
Source:John Walker Lindh seeks Ind. prison prayer ruling
(AP)
Reuters - Looming Hurricane Earl strengthened and churned up dangerous swells on Wednesday, forcing evacuations on some of North Carolina’s barrier islands and prompting storm alerts along much of the U.S. east coast.
Source:Stronger Hurricane Earl nears East Coast
(Reuters)
AFP - Vice President Joe Biden launched a new American military mission in Iraq on Wednesday, opening up a fresh phase in a seven-year deployment that has cost the lives of more than 4,400 US troops.
Source:Biden launches new US mission in Iraq
(AFP)
AP - Hurricane Earl steamed toward the Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday as communities from North Carolina to New England kept a close eye on the forecast, worried that even a slight shift in the storm’s predicted offshore track could put millions of people in the most densely populated part of the country in harm’s way.
Source:Island [...]
AFP - President Barack Obama Wednesday opened long-odds Middle East talks, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to defy skeptics by forging a “once and for all” peace with the Palestinians.
Source:Obama opens talks as Netanyahu vows peace
(AFP)
