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Japan and Qatar highlight threat to Aussies at football WC qualifiers (AFP)

Japan's Daisuke Matsui (2ndR) challenges Bahrain's Mahmud Abdul Rahman (2ndL) during their group one Asian qualifier for the 2010 World Cup at Bahrain's national staduim in Manama. Japan beat Bahrain 3-2 in a pulsating opening match of the fourth and final Asian qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup here on Saturday.(AFP/Adam Jan)AFP - Japan and Qatar clinched crucial World Cup wins in the crushing humidity of the Gulf on Saturday to hammer home a double warning to Australia of the dangers ahead on the road to the World Cup finals.


Haitians flee Gonaives before Ike reaches island (AP)

A man walks through flood waters as he pulls a wheelbarrow loaded with a coffin containing the body of a man who died from hypertension triggered during flooding after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area in Gonaives, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008.  Hanna has killed 166 people in Haiti. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Hundreds of people fled this waterlogged city Saturday for higher ground as powerful Hurricane Ike threatened to unleash heavy rain and compound a disaster caused by a previous storm. Food was distributed to famished residents, including to emaciated inmates at the local jail.


Growing Ike nears Turks and Caicos, south Bahamas (AP)

In this satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hurricane Ike is seen moving across the Atlantic Ocean as Tropical Storm Hanna bears down on the US on September 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna barreled across the southeastern United States, battering the coast with waves, rain and wind and prompting thousands of people to seek refuge inland.(AFP/NOAA/File)AP - Hurricane Ike lashed homes with howling winds Saturday as it neared this low-lying island chain as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, prompting thousands of people to evacuate or scramble for shelter.


Burley remains upbeat despite defeat (AFP)

Macedonia's Ilco Naumoski (left) and Poland's Adam Kokoszka during the Euro 2008 friendly Poland against Macedonia in Reutlingen, southern Germany, May 2008. Scotland crashed to a 1-0 defeat in their opening World Cup Group Nine qualifying game against Macedonia in Skopje Saturday, with Naumoski scoring the winning goal.(AFP/File/Thomas Lohnes)AFP - George Burley does not believe Scotland's midweek trip to Iceland is a must-win game despite losing their opening World Cup qualifying game.


Fierce Hurricane Ike approaches Turks and Caicos (AP)

A diner at the Antojitos Mexicanos restaurant watches the progress of Hurricane Ike on the Weather Channel Saturday Sept. 6, 2008 in Homestead, Fla.  (AP Photo/David Adame)AP - The National Hurricane Center in Miami says an "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Ike is roaring toward the Turks and Caicos islands as a fierce Category 4 storm.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,155 (AP)

An Iraqi Army soldier stands guard during a ceremony as U.S. Army soldiers from 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division hand the security control of Radwaniyah area to the Iraqi Army's 17th Division in the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. (AP Photo/ Loay Hameed)AP - As of Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008, at least 4,155 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


Bhutto widower elected Pakistani president (AP)

Pakistani President elect Asif Ali Zardari, center, head of the ruling Pakistan People's Party and widower of two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, is congratulated by party members during a celebration dinner at the Prime Minister residence in Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. The widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto became Pakistan's new president Saturday after winning a landslide election victory that makes him a critical partner of the West against international terrorism. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - Benazir Bhutto's widower swept Pakistan's presidential election on Saturday, offering hope for stability to a nuclear-armed country feeling intense U.S. pressure to crack down on Islamic militants.


Rice in Morocco on last leg of north Africa tour (AFP)

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi (R) poses with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Tripoli, September 5, 2008. Rice became the first US secretary of state to visit Tripoli for 55 years and held a landmark meeting with Kadhafi to seal a US-Libya rapprochement.(AFP/File/Mahmud Turkia)AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Morocco Saturday on the last leg of a North Africa visit after holding talks on terrorism in Algeria with President Abedelaziz Bouteflika.


Rock slide in Cairo shantytown kills 24 (AP)

Egyptians search for victims at site where a massive rock slide buried many dwellings at an Egyptian shanty town south of the capital Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. The massive boulders smashed down onto the shantytown killing at least 18 people and injured 22. (AP Photo)AP - Massive boulders crashed down on a shantytown on the outskirts of Cairo Saturday, killing at least 24 people and burying many more under tons of rubble, Egyptian authorities said.


Swazis hold 40th birthday of king, independence (AP)

Swaziland King Mswati III reacts, during his birth day celebration on the outskirts of the city of  Mbabane, Swaziland, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. The Swazi king entered a stadium in an open-topped BMW to cheers and flag-waving Saturday, marking his 40th birthday and his country's 40th independence anniversary. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)AP - The Swazi king, bare-chested and wearing a traditional leopard skin loin cloth, celebrated his 40th birthday and his nation's 40th independence day in lavish style Saturday — hosting an extravaganza that contrasted sharply with the biting poverty of his subjects.