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Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a ...

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Venus Williams , right, chats with her sister and teammate Serena during their doubles tennis match of the 2008 Wimbledon championships.

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Venus Williams won her fifth Wimbledon singles title Saturday, beating younger sister Serena Williams 7-5, 6-4 in the final.

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Firefighters got a gift of a mild, mostly windless night and a forecast for similar conditions Sunday as they attempted to protect thousands of homes from a huge wildfire with their energy and resources taxed ...

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Jul 6, 2008 12:49 AM By DEB RIECHMANN, AP 57 mins ago: Bush, Fukuda lay out goals for G-8 summit in Japan 12 hrs ago: Challenges abound for Bush at last economic summit U.S. President George W. Bush, left, ...

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Barack Obama celebrated 'active faith' as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far ...

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A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a northern Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street into a crowd of spectators and injuring 37 people, officials said Saturday.

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HEADLINES author/source:AFP published:Sat 5-Jul-2008 posted on this site:Sun 6-Jul-2008 Tsvangirai has rejected the idea of a national unity government Thabo Mbeki, the chief mediator on the crisis in Zimbabwe, ...

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The problems do not get any easier as President Bush attends his final summit with leaders of industrialized democracies.

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FedEx prides itself on reliability. But a mistaken delivery tipped off police to a 200-pound shipment of marijuana that someone tried to send from Pembroke Pines, Florida to Baltimore via the shipping company.

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