Japanese public backs PM Kan vs Ozawa by wide margin (Reuters) 5 Sep 2010, 6:56 pm

Reuters - Nearly two-thirds of Japanese voters prefer Prime Minister Naoto Kan to powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa as premier, media polls showed Monday ahead of a September 14 ruling party leadership race that appears too close to call.

Diverse water sources key to food security: report (Reuters) 5 Sep 2010, 6:02 pm

Querrey wins, hopes to put 'US' back in US Open (AP) 5 Sep 2010, 6:00 pm

AP - Sam Querrey wants to put the "U.S." back in the U.S. Open.

Backyard volunteers helping track firefly numbers (AP) 5 Sep 2010, 5:47 pm

1 'censored' bar won't stop online prostitution (AP) 5 Sep 2010, 5:41 pm

AP - Craiglist's "adult services" section has been shut down in the U.S., but prostitution on the Internet is alive and well — even, quite possibly, on Craigslist.

Quake-hit New Zealand city remains shut (Reuters) 5 Sep 2010, 5:36 pm

Reuters - A state of emergency after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake is keeping much of New Zealand's second-biggest city shut on Monday but financial markets have mostly shrugged off the quake as the long-term economic impact is seen limited.

Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit (AP) 5 Sep 2010, 5:31 pm

AP - Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers trying to save people already buried under a wall of mud.

Want cheapskates to spend? Hawk gizmos that save (AP) 5 Sep 2010, 5:13 pm

AP - How do you get penny pinchers to spend these days? Pitch products that promise to save them money.

Congo: 70 dead, 200 missing in 2 boat capsizes (AP) 5 Sep 2010, 5:07 pm

AP - Two boats capsized over the weekend in separate incidents on Congo's vast rivers, leaving 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead, and both vessels were heavily loaded and operating with few safety measures, officials said Sunday.

Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle (AP) 5 Sep 2010, 2:52 pm

AP - Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens.

Basque ETA call to halt attacks met with caution (Reuters) 5 Sep 2010, 2:35 pm

Twelve killed in suicide assault on Iraq army base (Reuters) 5 Sep 2010, 2:31 pm

Reuters - Up to six suicide bombers, some armed with rifles, tried to storm an army base in Baghdad on Sunday, killing 12 people and wounding 36 less than a week after Washington declared U.S. combat operations in Iraq over.

ETA declares ceasefire in Basque independence battle (AFP) 5 Sep 2010, 1:56 pm

AFP - Basque separatist fighters ETA declared a ceasefire Sunday in their flagging, decades-long campaign of bombing and shooting for a homeland independent of Spain.

US troops fire back as suicide bombers kill 12 in Baghdad (AFP) 5 Sep 2010, 1:22 pm

AFP - American troops were among those who fired back to repel a coordinated suicide attack on an Iraqi army complex that killed 12 people on Sunday, days after US forces officially ended combat operations in the country.

Obama to propose permanent research tax credit (Reuters) 5 Sep 2010, 12:31 pm

Reuters - President Barack Obama will ask the Congress on Wednesday to increase and permanently extend a tax credit for business research as a way of boosting job growth, an administration officials said on Sunday.

Future hiring will mainly benefit the high-skilled (AP) 5 Sep 2010, 11:54 am

AP - Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay — or none at all.

Oracle offered job to ex-HP CEO Hurd says source (Reuters) 5 Sep 2010, 11:27 am

Reuters - Oracle Corp has offered a job to Mark Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co who resigned amid a scandal involving inaccurate expense receipts related to a female contractor, according to a source familiar with the situation.

Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface (AP) 5 Sep 2010, 11:25 am

AP - Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship.

9 years gone, everyone's a ground zero stakeholder (AP) 5 Sep 2010, 10:27 am

AP - It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It's a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site — which is also what it is.

Taxpayers may face initial loss on GM IPO: sources (Reuters) 5 Sep 2010, 9:00 am

Reuters - The U.S. government is likely to take a loss on General Motors Co in the first offering of the automaker's stock, six people familiar with preparations for the landmark IPO said.