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AP – Grit was not going to be enough to get Maria Sharapova through this one.

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Wozniacki wallops 2006 champ Sharapova at US Open
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AP – A small plane crashed and burst into flames on a street in a southern Nevada residential neighborhood Monday, killing one person and badly injuring three others, authorities said.

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Plane crash on NV street kills 1, injures 3
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AP – A former Army soldier seeking help for mental problems at a Georgia military hospital took three workers hostage at gunpoint Monday before authorities persuaded him to surrender.

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Army: Ex-soldier takes 3 hospital workers hostage
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Rescue officials reported Monday they had to temporarily stop one of two drilling operations to reach 33 men trapped for more than a month inside a Chilean mine.

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‘Plan B’ rescue halted at Chilean mine

Reuters – The number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year has reached at least 500, compared with 521 in all of 2009, according to an independent monitoring site on Monday and a tally compiled by Reuters.

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Afghan foreign troops death toll hits 500 for 2010
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Defending champions San Sebastian College staved off an upset as it subdued still-winless University of Perpetual Help, 72-63, while the Jose Rizal University entered the Final four for the fourth straight, Monday in the 86th NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at the Arena in San Juan.

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NCAA: San Sebastian nips Perpetual Help, Jose Rizal enters Final four

AP – This trick shot by Roger Federer was most definitely real.

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Federer, V.Williams, Roddick win at US Open
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AP – A man charged in the slayings of two police officers in a tiny Alaska village was accused of attacking the same officers last year after they responded to a call about an intruder, court records revealed.

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Records: Suspect had run-in with slain AK officers
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AP – Hurricane Earl battered tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and roof-ripping winds Monday, rapidly intensifying into a major Category 4 storm on a path projected to menace the United States.

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Earl batters Caribbean, threatens US East Coast
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday’s auction with rates on three-month bills dropping to the lowest level in two months while rates on six-month bills rose.

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Interest rates mixed at weekly Treasury auction

AP – A woman who killed her husband and later her boyfriend by poisoning them with antifreeze died Monday at a state prison where she was serving a life sentence, prison officials said.

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Ga. woman convicted in 2 antifreeze deaths dies
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Reuters – Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Monday as U.S. troops prepared to end combat operations on Tuesday.

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Biden visits Iraq as troops withdraw
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AP – A gunman killed six people and wounded at least nine in an attack in a neighborhood of Bratislava on Monday, then committed suicide, police said.

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Gunman kills 6, wounds 9 in Slovakia
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President Barack Obama’s administration asked U.S. doctors on Monday to get on board with health reform legislation passed in March, saying those who embrace change will prosper.

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Health reform: White House makes case to doctors

China said Monday it may eliminate more than a dozen crimes that currently carry the death penalty, state-run media reported.

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China may cut execution cases

Reuters – An armed former policeman has taken hostage a bus with foreign tourists in downtown Manila on Monday, demanding his reinstatement to the force.

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Ex-policeman holds bus in Manila, some hostages freed
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The repairs performed on the International Space Station’s cooling system during a seven-hour-and-20-minute spacewalk Monday appear to be working, NASA said.

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Astronauts repair ISS cooling system

Reuters – A Colombian airliner carrying 132 people crashed and broke into pieces while landing on the Caribbean resort island San Andres on Monday during a storm, but only one person died in what police called “a miracle.”

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Only one dies in Colombia airliner crash "miracle"
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Reuters – The U.S. Senate’s senior Democrat broke with President Barack Obama on Monday over the proposed Muslim cultural center and mosque in New York City, with Senator Harry Reid saying it should be built elsewhere.

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Senator Reid opposes NY Muslim center site
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AP – For generations, the Indus River was a lifeline. Now it has turned destroyer, ripping up rice, wheat and sugar cane crops and leaving behind bloated corpses of cows and goats.

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Farmers bear brunt of Pakistan’s deadly floods
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