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Residents in Yangon, Myanmar on Thursday collect water into tanks as they seek safe drinking water following the devastating cyclone.
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Who will be on the ticket with Obama?
By Steven Thomma WASHINGTON -- With the Democratic nomination almost within his grasp, Senator Barack Obama soon will start the next great guessing game in American politics: Who will be his running mate? <Continued> -
Commandos nab al-Quaida leader: Iraq
By Patrick Quinn BAGHDAD -- Iraqi police commandos captured the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said Thursday, in what could mark a significant blow to the Sunni insurgency in its last urban stronghold. <Continued> -
Myanmar's rulers let aid in but spurn U.S. offer of help
YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's military government allowed in the first major international aid shipment Thursday, but it snubbed a U.S. offer to help cyclone victims struggling to recover from a tragedy of unimaginable scale. <Continued> -
Platypus DNA fills in gaps on mammals' evolution
SYDNEY, Australia -- With a bill like a duck, a tail like a beaver and snake-like venom hidden in heel spurs, the platypus could be the result of some strange genetic experiment. <Continued> -
Nazi papers offer Holocaust details
BAD AROLSEN, Germany -- A mother and child separated. A father's war wound. An uncle's name on a list. <Continued>
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