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Contractor Lawson 'Sonny' Brannan discusses his plans for the approaching storm Gustav in New Orleans, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. The third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is on Aug. 29. Area residents are keeping a close eye on Gustav in the Caribbean, which forecasters are predicting could make landfall somewhere along the Gulf Coast as early as Monday, and officials are making plans early to evacuate people, pets and hospitals in an attempt to avoid a Katrina-style chaos. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - National Guard troops stand ready, batteries and water bottles sold briskly, and one small-town mayor spent a sleepless night worrying. The New Orleans area watched as a storm marched across the Caribbean on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary.



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This image provided by NOAA taken at 3:45 a.m. EDT Thursday Aug. 28, 2008 shows Tropical Storm Gustav located about 80 miles east of Kingston Jamaica. Gustav is moving toward the southwest near 8 mph. The center of Gustav is expected to pass very close to Jamaica later today. Maximum sustained winds are near 50 mph with higher gusts.  Strengthening is forecast over the next 48 hours and Gustav could regain hurricane strength by Friday. Further out in the Atlantic is Tropical Depression Eight. The newly formed tropical depression was located about 355 miles east-northeast of the northern leeward islands and is moving toward the west-northwest near 5 mph a turn to the northwest is expected later today. On this track the depression will be passing well north of the leeward islands during the next 24 hours maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph with higher gusts.  The depression has the potential to become a tropical storm later today or Friday. (AP Photo/NOAA)AP - Tropical Storm Gustav was heading toward Jamaica early Thursday while many miles away, residents in the New Orleans area watched it with a nervous eye.



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Pakistani security officials examine the site of bomb explosion at a street cafe in Sahala outskirt of Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. An explosion on the outskirts of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, killed at least seven people, police said. The cause was under investigation early Wednesday. The damage indicated a bomb, according to police. (AP Photo)AP - Suspected militants bombed a bus carrying prisoners in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least nine people as fighting between security forces and extremists flared across the country's tribal belt.



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A graphic showing the probable path of tropical depression eight, released by the National Hurricane Center on August 28, 2008. (National Hurricane Center/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A new tropical depression formed over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday and threatened to become the eighth storm of the already busy 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.



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In this June 24, 2003 file photo, rap producer Marion 'Suge' Knight watches the 3rd annual BET Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, file)AP - Marion "Suge" Knight was jailed Wednesday on assault and drug charges after he was accused of beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife near the Las Vegas Strip, police said.



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Democratic  presidential hopeful  Barack Obama greets members of vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden's family at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008 in Denver. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - Sen. Barack Obama dropped in on his own party at the Democratic convention a day early Wednesday to praise his wife, his former rival, and former President Bill Clinton for going to bat for him.



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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, joins his running mate, Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on stage after Biden's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008.  (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Barack Obama stands before delegates and the nation Thursday — the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech — to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, the first black man to claim such a prize.



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A worker walks in the Kerem Shalom crossing, just outside the southern Gaza Strip, August 26, 2008. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)Reuters - Israel on Thursday reopened its border crossings with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, two days after they were shut in response to rocket attacks.



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Lawyers hold pictures of deposed chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry as they gather to sit-in during a protest for the restoration of deposed judges in Hyderabad August 28, 2008. (Akram Shahid/Reuters)Reuters - Thousands of lawyers blocked roads across Pakistan on Thursday to press the government to reinstate judges purged by former president Pervez Musharraf, as militants attacked police in the northwest, killing 11 people.



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AP - An Indian woman gave birth to a healthy boy aboard a jet airliner while flying to Australia to reunite with her husband.

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Thai riot police breaks through barriers to get into Bangkok's Government House August 27, 2008. (Kerek Wongsa/Reuters)Reuters - Thousands of protesters defied a court order to leave Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's official compound on Thursday as the group's leaders vowed to stay until his administration fell.



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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) meets his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao before a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Dushanbe August 27, 2008. (RIA Novosti/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev looked east on Thursday for support for Moscow's tough line over Georgia, which has inflamed relations with the West and prompted talk of a new Cold War.



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Anti-government protesters guard a chained shut gate Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, inside  Government House in Bangkok, Thailand.   Anti-government protesters Thursday defied a court order to end their occupation of the Thai prime minister's office compound in Bangkok, saying they had a right to remain and would stay until the country's leaders resign. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)AP - Thousands of demonstrators, some armed with golf clubs, batons and bamboo sticks, defied a court order to end their occupation of the prime minister's office compound on Thursday, vowing to remain until the country's leaders resign.



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Graphic explains how scientists were able to change a pancreas cell into an insulin-producing cell;AP - Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases.



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US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama takes to the stage with running mate Delaware Senator Joe Biden during the Democratic National Convention at the Pepsi Center in Denver on August 27. Obama will Thursday summon Americans to join his crusade for political change, as he claims his place in history in a dazzling finale to the Democratic convention.(AFP/Stan Honda)AFP - Barack Obama will Thursday summon Americans to join his crusade for political change, as he claims his place in history in a dazzling finale to the Democratic convention.



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Georgians wave their national and US flags to welcome the US Coast Guard cutter Dallas in the Black Sea port of Batumi, western Georgia. Russia has warned NATO against building up naval forces in the Black Sea as President Dmitry Medvedev confronted Western outrage over his recognition of two Georgian rebel regions as independent states.(AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)AFP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev turned to Asian allies Thursday for support in the Georgia crisis as the Group of Seven condemned Moscow in a standoff that is stoking fears of a new Cold War.



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Officials place the Paralympic flame into lanterns during the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games flame lighting and torch relay launching ceremony at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing August 28, 2008. (Jason Lee/Reuters)Reuters - Four days after closing the 2008 Beijing Games in triumph, China lit the 2008 Paralympics torch amid pomp and ceremony at Beijing's ancient Temple of Heaven, marking the start of a domestic relay for the September 6 Games.



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New York Mets' Carlos Delgado connects for a solo home run off Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Rudy Seanez in the eighth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, in Philadelphia. The Mets won 6-3. (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek)AP - Daniel Murphy hit a tiebreaking double after Carlos Delgado's second solo homer had tied the game in the eighth and the New York Mets beat Philadelphia 6-3 on Wednesday night to reclaim first place in the NL East.



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Joseph Duncan III is photographed on July 2, 2005 in this booking photo after being arrested in connection with the disappearance and kidnapping of eight-year-old Shasta Kay Groene, who has been missing with her brother Dylan James Groene since her family was murdered six weeks ago. A federal jury in Idaho sentenced Duncan on Wednesday to death for shooting to death a 9-year-old boy in front of his younger sister after kidnapping and sexually abusing the boy. (Kootenai County Sheriff's Department/Reuters)Reuters - A federal jury in Idaho sentenced Joseph Duncan on Wednesday to death for shooting to death a 9-year-old boy in front of his younger sister after kidnapping and sexually abusing the boy.



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California delegate Abby Travis holds sign after U.S. Senator Barack Obama was nominated at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 27, 2008. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)Reuters - To shouts of "Yes we can," Democrats nominated Barack Obama on Wednesday as their presidential candidate in a historic first for a black American, backed by his ex-rivals Bill and Hillary Clinton.



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