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Telegraph.co.uk It's All Maine's FaultWall Street JournalVice President Joe Biden blames Maine's Republican Senators for not letting the $862 billion stimulus be even larger. Vice President Joe Biden is President Obama's gift to journalism, and Sunday he was in top form on ABC's "This Week. …Analysis: Obama's recovery summer can't shake discontentReutersPoll puts blame on [...]

Reuters Profile: Tony AbbottBBC NewsTony Abbott, leader of Australia's opposition Liberal Party, is known as something of a maverick politician. A conservative Catholic – he once briefly trained as a Catholic priest, earning him the nickname "Mad Monk". He has consistently voted against …Julia Gillard's address to the nationThe AustralianAustralian PM announces Aug. 21 electionsmsnbc.comAustralian [...]

Globe and Mail Gulf well continues to holdHouston ChronicleDave Martin AP Oil cleanup workers use pressure washers Friday as they clean up the beach on Grand Isle, La., as coastal residents remained hopeful BP had its runaway well under control. BP might be able to keep its blown out Macondo …BP Well Tests Show No [...]

Kansas City Star Confront racism, don't deny itKansas City StarSince when has it become racist to point out racism in America? That's where this country finds itself, as many purporting to want a color-blind nation refuse to admit that not everyone shares their dream. Case in point, the beat-down the NAACP has …In the Spotlight: [...]

Globe and Mail Iranian man alleges US abductionAljazeera.netAn Iranian man who says he was kidnapped and interrogated for 14 months in the US over Iran's nuclear programme, has returned to his home country Iran where he was reunited with his family. Shahram Amiri says he was abducted by US and Saudi agents at …Iranian Scientist [...]

New Zealand Herald Video Shows Failed Bomber Before AttackNew York TimesAn Arabic-language television channel has broadcast excerpts of what it said was a martyrdom video by Faisal Shahzad, who pleaded guilty last month to trying to detonate a bomb in Times Square. In the excerpt — which the station, Al Arabiya, …Times Square Bomber Vows [...]

Reuters Leak Hampers BP as It Moves to Shut Off Well and Halt SpillNew York TimesDave Martin/AP By HENRY FOUNTAIN ABOARD THE RESOLUTE, 50 miles off Louisiana — BP stopped collecting oil from its runaway well on Wednesday afternoon, beginning a critical test that could halt the rush of oil into the Gulf of Mexico [...]

Telegraph.co.uk Fidel Castro's timely TV interviewBBC NewsCuba's former president Fidel Castro made a rare television appearance on Monday night just hours before the first wave of political prisoners were set free and flown to Spain. He made no mention of the prisoner issue in his 90-minute …First of 52 Cuban political prisoners leave CubaReutersCuba's Fidel [...]

CBC.ca BP oil spill: new cap 'successfully installed' on leaking wellThe GuardianBP has fitted a larger, tighter-fitting containment cap on the ruptured Gulf of Mexico wellhead that has been gushing with oil since the Deepwater Horizon explosion on 20 April.Crude oil continues to spill into the sea, but the company wants to begin …Critical Test [...]

New York Daily News David Ortiz wins home run derbyLos Angeles TimesBoston Red Sox veteran hits 11 home runs in the final round to outlast Florida Marlins shortstop Hanley Ramirez, who hits five. Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz hits a home run during the Home Run Derby at Angel Stadium on Monday. …After another [...]