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Pakistan lawmakers to choose Musharraf replacement (AP)

In this picture released by Pakistan People's Party, ruling party leader Asif Ali Zardari, left, speaks during a party's central executive meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan in this Friday, Aug. 22, 2008 file photo. Asif Ali Zardari, head of the ruling Pakistan People's Party and widower of two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, will face off against two lightly regarded opponents when legislators meet Saturday to choose a president. (AP Photo/Pakistan People's Party/HO, FILE)AP - The real question in Pakistan's presidential election is not who the winner will be but whether the new leader will be any more successful than his predecessor in tackling extremism and economic malaise.


Rice set to make history in Libya (AP)

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice waves as she arrives to meet with Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates Thursday, Sept. 4 2008, at the Sao Bento palace in Lisbon, ahead of a trip to North Africa that will take her to Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)AP - When Condoleezza Rice spends a few hours in Libya and shakes hands with Moammar Gadhafi, she will close a nearly three-decade era of bitter animosity between the United States and the North African nation that has sometimes gotten personal.


Magazine: Russia's Putin sexy, but not that sexy (AP)

In this Aug. 13, 2007 file photo, Vladimir  Putin, then Russian President, fishes in the headwaters of the Yenisey River, Siberia, Russia. In its September 'Sexy Rating' list, Russia's Sex & the City magazine ranked now Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the second sexiest politician. Ahead of the pack is Boris Nemtsov, a former leader of opposition party Union of the Right Forces now viewed by many as a spent force. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)AP - He single-handedly saved a TV crew from the jaws of a tiger. He flexed his muscles in front of the cameras in Siberia. He cuts a dash on the ski slopes.


Aso announces bid to lead Japan's ruling party (AP)

Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Taro Aso speaks at the ruling party's general meeting in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda resigned late Monday after less than a year in office as potential successors to Fukuda began rallying their forces ahead of the ruling party's vote to formally name his replacement. Aso has indicated a strong desire to run and has been cited by analysts as the current favorite. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - Japan's brash, right-leaning former foreign minister announced Friday that he would run for ruling party president in a move that would put him on track to take over as Japan's next prime minister.


Nuclear envoys to gather over North Korea impasse (AP)

South Korea's top nuclear envoy Kim Sook speaks before leaving for Beijing at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Top nuclear envoys from South Korea, the United States and Japan were to converge in Beijing on Friday to discuss the worsening impasse over North Korea's nuclear programs as Pyongyang took steps seen as reversing its promised disarmament.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - Top nuclear envoys from South Korea, the United States and Japan were to converge in Beijing on Friday to discuss the worsening impasse over North Korea's nuclear programs as Pyongyang took steps seen as reversing its promised disarmament.


Cheney to meet deeply divided Ukrainian leaders (AFP)

US Vice President Dick Cheney walks in front of the honour guard after his landing in Kiev airport Boryspil, on September 4. Cheney arrived in Ukraine for a two-day visit aimed at demonstrating support for Ukraine's increasingly fragile pro-Western leadership.(AFP/Sergei Supinsky)AFP - Vice President Dick Cheney looks to heal wounds over Russia in Ukraine's ruling coalition on Friday as he wraps up a regional tour aimed at bolstering key US allies following the conflict in Georgia.


Australia swears in first woman governor-general (Reuters)

Australia's new Governor-General Quentin Bryce (L) with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (C) and his wife Therese Rein (R) in Parliament House after being sworn in as Governor General in Canberra September 5, 2008. (Auspic/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Australia's 25th governor-general was sworn into office as the representative of Britain's Queen Elizabeth on Friday, with republicans holding out little hope that Australia will abolish the job any time soon.


Voting begins in Angola parliamentary election (Reuters) Reuters - Angolans began voting on Friday in a parliamentary election expected to extend the ruling party's more than three-decade rule in the booming oil-rich African nation.
Hanna heading toward US after blowing past Bahamas (AP)

This image provided by NASA from the Terra satellite shows Hurricane Ike off the Lesser Antilles as it approaches the Bahamas Thursday Sept. 4, 2008 at 10:40 a.m. EDT. 'Ike looks like it's a very, very dangerous storm,' said FEMA Administrator David Paulison. FEMA's head of disaster operations, Glenn Cannon, said Ike looks like Hurricane Andrew did in 1992 before it killed 23 people and did $26.5 billion in damage in Florida. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Tropical Storm Hanna was accelerating early Friday as it made its way toward the United States' southeast coast.


Rescuers can't get aid to starving Haitian city (AP)

Residents cross a road cut off by flooding caused by Tropical Storm Hanna in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008.  The city was flooded by Hanna, that swirled over Haiti for four days, dumping massive amounts of water and leaving at least 61 dead in its wake. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - The convoy rumbled out of the U.N. base toward a flooded, starving and seething city Thursday, carrying some of the first food aid since Tropical Storm Hanna killed 137 Haitians and drowned Gonaives in muddy water three days ago.