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Italian woman in right-to-die case worsens (AP)

This undated file photo released from family shows Eluana Englaro, who fell into a vegetative state following a car accident in 1992. Two years later, doctors called her condition irreversible. The condition of Englaro at the center of a right-to-die case has worsened after she suffered a massive hemorrhage, doctors said Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. Englaro has been in a vegetative state for 16 years and her father has led a protracted court battle to disconnect her feeding tube, insisting it was her wish. (AP Photo/Englaro family, HO, File)AP - The condition of an Italian woman at the center of a right-to-die case worsened after she suffered a massive hemorrhage, doctors said Saturday.


Hurricane Norbert slams into Mexico's Baja coast (AP)

A fisherman runs past ships docked during Hurricane Norbert in Puerto San Carlos, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. Scores of people fled flooded homes as Hurricane Norbert lashed Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula with torrential rains and screaming winds. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Hurricane Norbert slammed into Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula on Saturday with torrential rains and screaming winds, forcing scores of people to flee flooded homes.


Scientists sequence giant panda's genome: report (Reuters)

Young giant pandas are seen in their enclosure at Beijing Zoo July 10, 2008. Eight giant pandas are part of a special exhibit at the zoo for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. (Darren Whiteside/Reuters)Reuters - Scientists have sequenced the genome of the giant panda, an achievement which may aid efforts to protect the endangered species, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.


Peru governor says he's ready to be prime minister (AP) AP - A leftist governor says he has agreed to become the Peru's prime minister, a day after the nation's Cabinet resigned amid a brewing oil kickbacks scandal.
NKorea off US blacklist after nuke inspection deal (AP)

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation Patricia McNerney speaks at a news conference on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, in Washington. North Korea has agreed to all U.S. nuclear inspection demands and the Bush administration responded by removing the communist country from a terrorism blacklist. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - After North Korea relented on nuclear inspection demands, the U.S. on Saturday erased from a terrorism blacklist the communist country President Bush once branded part of an "axis of evil."


Zimbabwe's president claims key ministries (AP)

In this Sept, 15, 2008 file photo, Arthur Mutmbara, deputy prime minster of Zimbabwe, left, Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, new prime minster of Zimbabwe and Thabo Mbeki, South African president join hands at the signing of the power sharing deal  ceremony in Harare.  Mugabe, locked in a standoff with the opposition in power-sharing talks went ahead Saturday, Oct. 11, and laid claim to all key ministries in a bid to retain his iron grip on the struggling southern African nation. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)AP - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, locked in a standoff with the opposition in power-sharing talks, went ahead Saturday and laid claim to all key ministries as he tries to retain his iron grip on the struggling southern African nation.


African Union chief in DR Congo in bid to end army, rebel clashes (AFP)

African Union chief Jean Ping, seen here in August 2008, met Saturday in Kinshasa with officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo to try and bring an end to fighting in the country's east between the army and rebel forces.(AFP/File)AFP - African Union chief Jean Ping met Saturday in Kinshasa with officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo to try and bring an end to fighting in the country's east between the army and rebel forces.


US enemies in Mideast gloat over financial crisis (AP) AP - America's opponents in the Middle East are gloating over the financial meltdown in the United States, painting it as divine retribution for past misdeeds against Muslims and the last gasps of a dying empire.
Under Bush, US influence in Latin America wanes (AP)

This Sept. 30, 2008 file photo shows, from left to right, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, Bolivia's President Evo Morales, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, join their hands during a photo opportunity during a multilateral summit in Manaus, northern Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)AP - In a matter of weeks, a Russian naval squadron will arrive in the waters off Latin America for the first time since the Cold War. It is already getting a warm welcome from some in a region where the influence of the United States is in decline.


Austrian rightist leader Joerg Haider dead at 58 (AP)

This Aug. 9, 2008, file photo shows Joerg Haider, top candidate of the Alliance for the future of Austria, BZOE, for Sunday's national elections in Austria in Klagenfurt. Haider died in a car accident early Saturday morning Oct. 11, 2008 in the south of the country  police said. Haider, 58, was governor of Carinthia and leader of the far-right Alliance for the Future of Austria at the time of his death.  (AP Photo/Gert Eggenberger, file)AP - Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times sounded sympathetic to the Nazis and contemptuous of Jews and led to months of international isolation for the Alpine republic, died Saturday in a car accident. He was 58.