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By 2010-09-07T16:58:09Z MEXICO CITY (AP) -- State-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos says an explosion has occurred at its Cadereyta refinery outside the northern city of Monterrey....

By COLLEEN LONG 2010-09-07T16:20:46Z NEW YORK (AP) -- The flight attendant accused of onboard antics that captured the nation's attention when he told off a passenger and slid down the plane's emergency chute with a beer will undergo a mental health evaluation with the aim of avoiding jail time in a possible plea deal....

By RIAZ KHAN 2010-09-07T16:13:49Z PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing 11 women and children and one officer, the latest in a string of attacks proving that Islamist militants remain a potent force in the country....

By 2010-09-07T14:59:29Z BALTIMORE (AP) -- Call it Zombies 101....

By EMANUEL CAMILLO 2010-09-07T14:41:50Z MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- Mozambique's government is reversing bread and water price increases that had touched off deadly riots, the planning minister said Tuesday....

By KIMBERLY DOZIER 2010-09-07T14:05:52Z KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned Tuesday an American church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book could endanger U.S. troops in the country and Americans worldwide....

By BINSAR BAKKARA 2010-09-07T12:26:45Z TANAH KARO, Indonesia (AP) -- An Indonesian volcano shot a towering cloud of black ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 15 miles (25 kilometers) away in its most powerful eruption since awakening last week from four centuries of dormancy....

By 2010-09-07T11:37:15Z NEW YORK (AP) -- AOL is adding talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres to its family of Web properties as it looks for ways to draw more people to its sites....

By DAVID BAUDER 2010-09-07T10:40:23Z NEW YORK (AP) -- ABC News President David Westin, the longest-reigning network news division chief, with more than 13 tumultuous years on the job, told his staff Monday that he is resigning and will leave by the end of the year....

By JIM KUHNHENN 2010-09-07T10:28:29Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Turns out politics, for all its focus on the gloomy economy, is a recession-proof industry....

By ROD McGUIRK 2010-09-07T10:28:17Z CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Prime Minister Julia Gillard will lead Australia's first minority government in 67 years after two independent lawmakers threw their support behind her center-left Labor Party on Tuesday, ending two weeks of uncertainty left by national elections that ended on a knife-edge....

By JORDAN ROBERTSON 2010-09-07T10:27:58Z SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Oracle Corp. has hired former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd to help lead the database software maker in a pivotal moment in Oracle's 33-year history as it tries to muscle in on more of HP's turf....

By CHRIS BRUMMITT 2010-09-07T10:23:23Z ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The influx of foreign aid after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake significantly increased survivors' trust in the West, according to new research that also suggests hard-line Islamist charities did little to help despite the publicity they generated....

By DESMOND BUTLER 2010-09-07T07:28:38Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government's financial commitment to Afghanistan is likely to linger and reach into the billions long after it pulls combat troops from the country, newly disclosed spending estimates show....

By CRISTIAN SALAZAR 2010-09-07T04:33:45Z NEW YORK (AP) -- An imam who has become the public face of a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero has returned to the United States following a taxpayer-funded tour of the Middle East, his wife said Monday....

By 2010-09-07T03:02:35Z SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Francisco police have arrested a man who scaled the exterior of a 58-story downtown skyscraper and unfurled an American flag at the top....

By LUIS ANGEL SAS 2010-09-07T02:47:26Z GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as torrential rains pounded the country....

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE 2010-09-07T02:14:39Z MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times....

By TOM PARSONS 2010-09-07T01:21:50Z LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s....

By 2010-09-07T00:38:53Z LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Las Vegas police are defending Paris Hilton's quick release from jail after her Aug. 27 arrest on suspicion of cocaine possession, saying they wanted to avoid disruptions in the jail's operations....