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Chess boxers compete to see who is king of the ring
BERLIN – Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match.
- PUBLIC EYE
Brawl caught on video
Police say they have video of a bar brawl in which members of a crew filming an Oliver Stone movie – including actors Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright – were arrested.
- THE LIST
Designers' names after and before
The names of famous fashion designers, living or deceased, after and before their stardom.
- Insurers will pay $13 million total to settle claims
LOS ANGELES – Two of California's biggest health insurers agreed yesterday to collectively pay $13 million and reinstate more than 2,000 insurance policies to settle claims with the state that they illegally dropped policyholders from coverage.
- Bush pledges aid to firefighting crews
REDDING – President Bush offered federal help and encouragement yesterday to some of the 25,000 firefighters working under a blazing sun to contain wildfires that make up the largest fire event ever recorded in California.
- Parents of blinded girl lose Motrin case
MALIBU – A jury refused to award damages yesterday to a couple who sued drug maker Johnson & Johnson for $1 billion, claiming its Children's Motrin nearly killed their daughter and left her legally blind.
- Priest accused of sexual abuse may be in Mexico
SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. and Mexican authorities are searching for a Catholic priest believed to have fled the country after learning he was accused of sexually abusing several minors in San Diego two decades ago, church officials said.
- Photo: Freeway sinkhole
- REGION UPDATE
Body in canal may be 7th victim of crash
WESTLEY – Authorities yesterday said they found what they believe is the seventh and final victim of a crash that sent two vehicles plunging into an irrigation canal in the San Joaquin Valley.
- Study looks at longer sleep, stroke risk
WASHINGTON – Regularly getting nine hours or more of sleep per night could increase the risk of stroke in post-menopausal women, according to a study published yesterday.
- NATION UPDATE
Number of births at an all-time high
WASHINGTON – More babies were born in the United States last year than ever before, but it's not another baby boom just yet.
- Obama a victim of his own success
WASHINGTON – Although he's raking in the cash so far, Barack Obama's decision to forgo public funds for the fall campaign means he must keep up his torrid pace – a tall order that will tax his time, test his Internet support and require the help of Democratic donors who once wished for his defeat.
- Bush leads mourners at press aide's funeral
WASHINGTON – President Bush led a poignant tribute yesterday to his former spokesman Tony Snow, who lost his public fight with cancer but never surrendered the spirit that defined his life.
- Trial of bin Laden's driver gets judge's OK to proceed
WASHINGTON – A war-crimes trial targeting Osama bin Laden's former driver is set to start Monday at a remote site in Cuba, following a federal judge's ruling yesterday.
- Taliban militants killed; villagers say civilians also died in air attack
KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S. special forces troops and Afghan commandos killed two influential tribal leaders and a number of their followers in western Afghanistan in a joint airborne operation Wednesday night amid more accusations about civilian casualties, military officials said yesterday.
- Israel buries 2 soldiers, part of Hezbollah swap
JERUSALEM – Two Israeli soldiers whose bodies were returned in a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah were buried yesterday in emotional funerals broadcast live on national television.
- WORLD UPDATE
Alzheimer's vaccine can't stop dementia
LONDON – Some doctors have long suspected that if the plaque that builds up in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease could be removed, they could be saved. But a vaccine that did just that suggests the theory is wrong.
- Four men cleared in Spain bombings
MADRID, Spain – A court absolved four men and upheld the acquittal of a fifth yesterday in the convoluted legal proceedings relating to the 2004 Madrid commuter train bombings that killed 191 people in the deadliest attack by Islamic militants on European soil.
- Bush officials mull return of diplomatic post in Iran
PARIS – The Bush administration is considering establishing a U.S. diplomatic presence in Iran for the first time since relations were severed during the 444-day occupation of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran nearly three decades ago, European and U.S. officials said yesterday.
- Battle vs. unemployment requires enormous effort
BAGHDAD – They fan out across Baghdad in summer's scorching heat – men in blue overalls picking up trash, mowing the sparse grass in parks, and standing on ladders to paint highway underpasses and prune palm trees.
- Report: Electric work putting troops at risk
WASHINGTON – Shoddy electrical work by private contractors on U.S. military bases in Iraq is widespread and dangerous, causing more deaths and injuries from fires and shocks than the Pentagon has acknowledged, according to internal Army documents.
- Kuwait names ambassador to Iraq
BAGHDAD – Kuwait named its first ambassador to Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War yesterday, a major step toward healing the two countries' painful past.
- Daily developments
Marine death: Lance Cpl. Jeffery S. Stevenson, 20, of Newton, N.J., died Sunday of injuries from a nonhostile incident in Anbar province. He was assigned to the 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton.
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