Reuters - In “The Duchess,”
actress Keira Knightley’s latest period picture, a lavish
melodrama of aristocratic foolishness and betrayal is designed
around the colorful though not always happy life of an 18th
century socialite.
AP - As if trying to remind himself and everyone else where he’s been and where he’s quite certain he’ll return, Roger Federer thrust his right fist overhead and pointed skyward with his index finger.
AFP - Killer Hurricane Gustav plowed toward the US Gulf coast, as nearly two million residents fled to safety and officials shut down the area’s vital oil production facilities.
AP - With a historic evacuation of nearly 2 million people from the Louisiana coast complete, gun-toting police and National Guardsmen stood watch as rain started to fall on this city’s empty streets Sunday night and even presidential politics took a back seat as the nation waited to see if Hurricane Gustav would be another Katrina.
Reuters - Republican John McCain on
Sunday ordered political speeches canceled for his Republican
nominating convention on Monday to avoid a festive atmosphere
while Americans cope with Hurricane Gustav.
Reuters - U.S. energy companies shut nearly all
offshore oil production and were racing to bring down
flood-prone Louisiana refineries on Sunday ahead of Hurricane
Gustav’s landfall, which could rival the wrath of 2005’s
Hurricane Katrina.
AP - Chinese rescue teams carrying tents, quilts and sacks of rice rushed to reach survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 32 people, turned tens of thousands of homes into rubble and cracked reservoirs.
AP - Barack Obama seems to have only one problem with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice president: She holds the same positions as John McCain, the GOP presidential candidate who tapped her.
AP - Moving quickly to address mounting anger over crime, President Felipe Calderon promised Sunday to adopt several proposals from civic groups who led more than 100,000 Mexicans in marches against daily kidnappings and killings.
AP - John McCain tore up the script for his Republican National Convention on Sunday, casting himself as above politics as Hurricane Gustav churned toward New Orleans. “We will act as Americans,” not partisans, he declared.