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Top Polish political, military killed in jet crash (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 11:52 PM PDT

A mourner holds a prayer in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, April 10, 2010, as news broke out about Polish President's Lech Kaczynski death. Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife died Saturday along with 130 others when their plane crashed while coming in for a landing in western Russia. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - The crash of an aging Russian airliner ravaged the top levels of Poland's military, political and church elite Saturday, killing the Polish president and dozens of other dignitaries as they traveled to a ceremony commemorating a slaughter that has divided the two nations for seven decades.

Grieving begins, but life goes on at W.Va. mines (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 11:55 PM PDT

People gather together in a memorial vigil in Naoma, W.Va. on Saturday, April 10, 2010, for 29 miners who died in the explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, W. Va. on Monday. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - Time stopped five days ago for the families of 29 coal miners killed in the devastating explosion at Upper Big Branch mine.

'Designing Women' actress Dixie Carter dies at 70 (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2006 file photo, Dixie Carter, left, Jean Smart, center left, Annie Potts, center right, and Delta Burke, cast members in the television show 'Designing Women,' pose together at a reunion of the show's cast and crew at the Museum of Television & Radio in Beverly Hills, Calif., 'Designing Women' actress Dixie Carter, who used her charm and stately beauty in a host of roles on Broadway and television, has died. She was 70. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)AP - Dixie Carter, the "Designing Women" star who used her Southern charm, quick wit and stately beauty in a host of roles on Broadway and television, died Saturday. She was 70.

Astronauts take 2nd spacewalk to replace tank (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:31 AM PDT

A partial view of the starboard wing of the space shuttle Discovery. Two astronauts from the US shuttle Discovery began a second spacewalk early Sunday as part of efforts to replace a depleted ammonia coolant tank outside the International Space Station.(AFP/NASA/File)AP - Astronauts ventured back outside the International Space Station on Sunday, making their second spacewalk in three days to replace an old storage tank.

Voting begins in Sudan's historic elections (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:42 AM PDT

Election officials post the list of eligible voters at a poling station set in a restaurant in Juba, southern Sudan, Sunday April 11, 2010. The people of southern Sudan will cast ballots in a national election for the first time in more than two decades as a three-day election begins Sunday. Despite the first-in-a-generation vote, most people are already looking past the elections to a vote next January considered far more significant: a referendum on independence that could signal the birth of a new African nation, if final negotiations with Khartoum over oil rights and the location of the border are worked out peacefully. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - Voting has kicked off in Sudan's first competitive elections in nearly a quarter century despite repeated opposition calls to delay the vote.

Protesters shun talks after deadly Bangkok clashes (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:04 AM PDT

A Red Shirt guard stands atop an abandoned Thai Army armored personnel carrier Sunday morning, April 11, 2010, in Bangkok, Thailand, near Victory Monument. Anti-government protesters said Sunday they would not negotiate an end to violence in the Thai capital after savage clashes between activists and soldiers that killed nearly 20 people and injured hundreds. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - Anti-government protesters said Sunday they would not negotiate an end to violence in the Thai capital after savage clashes between activists and soldiers that killed at least 18 people and injured hundreds.

Worries about Calif. priest came early in career (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:12 AM PDT

This May 17, 2002 law enforcement booking photo shows former priest Stephen Kiesle. A letter obtained by the Associated Press and bearing the signature of future Pope Benedict XVI shows then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger resisted defrocking Kiesle, who had a record of sexually molesting children, after his case had languished for four years at the Vatican. The 1985 letter was typed in Latin and is part of years of correspondence between the Diocese of Oakland and the Vatican about the proposed defrocking of Rev. Kiesle. (AP Photo)AP - Even in his seminary days in the early 1970s, there were questions about California priest Stephen Kiesle: Colleagues said he had trouble relating to adults, lacked spirituality and didn't seem committed to anything but youth ministry.

5 Afghan deminers killed in roadside bombing (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:11 AM PDT

Gulab Mangul, the governor of Helmand, right, addresses the media during a press conference in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 10, 2010. Two Italian doctors are among nine people detained in an alleged plot to kill an Afghan provincial governor, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)AP - A bus carrying Afghans working for a U.S.-supported demining group was struck by a roadside bomb in Kandahar province Sunday, killing five workers and wounding 13 others.

The roars start a day early at Augusta (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:22 AM PDT

Lee Westwood of England acknowledges applause on the 18th hole after his third round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga., Saturday, April 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - Lee Westwood kept his cool even as Augusta National thundered with too many cheers to count.

Newman makes late charge to NASCAR win at Phoenix (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:14 AM PDT

Ryan Newman and his wife Krissie Newman celebrate after winning the NASCAR Subway Fresh Fit 600 auto race Saturday, April 10, 2010 at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - One of the first people to greet Ryan Newman in Victory Lane was Tony Stewart.

Reuters journalist killed in Bangkok protests (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 10:48 AM PDT

Reuters - A Reuters television cameraman was shot dead on Saturday during a violent clash between Thai troops and anti-government protesters in Bangkok that killed 12 people.

Pakistan in spotlight at Washington nuclear summit (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 10:35 PM PDT

Reuters - Pakistan will confront its reputation as a proliferator head-on this week when its prime minister addresses a global summit in Washington aimed at keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists.

Westwood holds off sizzling Mickelson, Tiger Woods lurks (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 07:07 PM PDT

Reuters - Britain's Lee Westwood maintained ice-cool composure while fending off an electrifying back-nine charge by Phil Mickelson to take a one-shot lead after Saturday's third round of the Masters.

Thai "red shirts" defiant after 20 die in clashes (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 11:42 PM PDT

Anti-government Reuters - Thai "red shirt" protesters said on Sunday they would not give up their fight for early elections after clashes with security forces in Bangkok the previous day killed 20 people.

Explosive device tossed at U.S. consulate in Mexico (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 08:00 PM PDT

Reuters - Assailants hurled an explosive device at a U.S. consulate in a northern Mexico border city, damaging windows but causing no injuries, the consulate said on Saturday.

Kyrgyzstan opposition denies talks with Bakiyev (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 11:59 PM PDT

A man hugs a portrait of a victim during a funeral ceremony for those killed during the uprising in Bishkek April 10, 2010. REUTERS/Vasily FedosenkoReuters - Kygryzstan's interim government said on Sunday it was not holding talks with the Central Asian state's ousted president and would use force if he tried to undermine it, one of its leaders told Reuters.

Karzai takes steps to bury feud with Washington (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 08:00 PM PDT

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai (R) speaks with U.S. And NATO commander General Stanley McChrystal (L) and other NATO officers at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters in Kabul April 10, 2010. REUTERS/ Omar SobhaniReuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai took small but public steps on Saturday to signal he was still friends with the United States after a war of words that tested their alliance.

Thailand in turmoil after 19 die in bloody clashes (AFP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:03 AM PDT

A protestor rests on the street after overnight clashes between the army and AFP - Thailand's "Red Shirt" demonstrators defied the government and vowed to keep up their protests Sunday, after the country's worst political violence in decades left 19 people dead and over 800 injured.

Poland in shock, pilot error mooted in Kaczynski crash (AFP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 08:18 PM PDT

People gather in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw. Investigators scrambled on Sunday to determine if pilot error was to blame for the fiery crash of a Soviet-era airliner that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 96 others.(AFP/Janek Skarzynski)AFP - Investigators scrambled on Sunday to determine if pilot error was to blame for the fiery crash of a Soviet-era airliner that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 96 others.
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