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8 dead, 5 missing in canoe dam accident (AP)

Rescuers search for survivors near Sevnica, southern Slovenia, Thursday, July 3, 2008.  Thirteen people are feared dead after their kayaks hit a dam under construction on the Sava River. The mayor of the local town was reportedly among the victims. (AP Photo)AP - Divers pulled six bodies out of the Sava River and fought strong currents Friday to search for five other people still missing after two canoes were crushed running over a dam in southeastern Slovenia.


Joy in video of Colombia hostage rescue (AP)

Gerardo Aguilar, right, a rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC,  who was arrested by army officers during the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, three U.S. military contractors and 11 other hostages stands at a military base in Bogota, Thursday, July,3, 2008. Aguilar,alias Cesar,  was the local commander of the rebel group in charge of guarding the hostages. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)AP - Video recorded during the rescue of 15 hostages shows them filing grim-faced toward the helicopter that would fly them to safety, then hugging one another and crying tears of joy after they are aloft and realize they are free.


Smith will come good says Prince (AFP)

Hashim Amla's fine start to South Africa's tour of England continued with another big century on Friday while Ashwell Prince also weighed in with a hundred on the first day against Middlesex at Uxbridge.(AFP/File/Dibyangshu Sarkar)AFP - Ashwell Prince told South Africa cricket fans not to worry about the form of Graeme Smith after the Proteas captain's first, and possibly only, innings before next week's first Test against England saw him make just 35 against Middlesex here Friday.


Betancourt arrives in France with tears of joy (AP)

Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt's son, Lorenzo Delloye, kisses his mother at Paris City Hall, Friday, July 4, 2008. After six years as a hostage in the Colombian jungle, the former Colombian presidential candidate and French citizen flew back to her beloved France to be embraced Friday as an icon by the country that raised her. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - Arriving to a hero's welcome in France, Ingrid Betancourt said Friday that she cried a lot during her six years as a prisoner in the Colombian jungle. Today, she said, "I cry with joy."


Autopsy: Drowning cause of Chinese girl's death (AP)

An elderly woman and her grandchild walk past paramilitary police officers standing guard following a June 28 riot over the handling of a teenage student's death in Weng'an county of Guizhou province, China Tuesday, July 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - A third autopsy on a teenage girl whose death sparked a riot last weekend in southwest China confirmed she died of drowning, while two more top local officials have been fired, state media reported Friday.


Scientist says Pakistan knew of Korea nuke deal (AP)

The founder of Pakistan's nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, is seen in this undated file photo in Islamabad, Pakistan. Disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan said Friday, July 4, 2008, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that North Korea received centrifuges from Pakistan in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army during the rule of President Pervez Musharraf. His claims contradict his 2004 confession that he was solely responsible for spreading nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya. (AP Photo/File)AP - Pakistan's army under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan's atomic weapons program said Friday.


Colombians mull Betancourt presidency (AP)

Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt  reacts after arriving at Villacoublay air base, outside Paris, Friday July 4, 2008. The dual French-Colombian citizen was freed Wednesday in a daring military rescue operation that also liberated three U.S. military contractors and 11 others held captive by Colombian rebels. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)AP - Could Ingrid Betancourt become Colombia's next president?


Correction: Colombia Hostages story (AP) AP - In a July 2 story about the rescue of kidnapped presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages from Colombian rebels, The Associated Press erroneously translated Betancourt as saying she still aspires "to serve Colombia as president." Here is the correct translation: "Do I still hope to serve Colombia as president? ... only God knows.
Jerusalem attacker once had Jewish girlfriend (AP)

In this file photo from Thursday, July 3, 2008, Palestinian Sarah Dwayat, right, reacts as she holds a portrait of her son Hussam Dwayat, 30, who carried out an attack in Jerusalem Wednesday, at the family house in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Tsur Baher, Thursday, July 3, 2008. The Palestinian who went on a deadly rampage on a Jerusalem street this week spent years in a romantic relationship with a Jewish Israeli woman, relatives said, a rarity in a city where such ties between Arabs and Jews are nearly nonexistent. In an interview with an Israeli paper Friday, the woman, identified only as 'S,' said the attacker, Hussam Dwayat, fathered her child, now seven years old. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen,File)AP - The Palestinian who went on a deadly rampage on a Jerusalem street this week had spent years in a romantic relationship with a Jewish Israeli woman, relatives said, a rarity in a city where such ties between Arabs and Jews are nearly nonexistent.


West condemns Mugabe, ignores other Africa despots (AP)

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, addresses supporters, at the Harare airport Friday July 4, 2008, on his return to Harare from Egypt, where he attended the African Union summit. (AP Photo)AP - Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe has plenty of competitors for the title of "least democratic in Africa."