Future hiring will mainly benefit the high-skilled (AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:54:52 GMT
AP - Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay — or none at all.

Congo: 70 dead, 200 missing in 2 boat capsizes (AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:07:32 GMT
AP - Two boats capsized over the weekend in separate incidents on Congo's vast rivers, leaving 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead, and both vessels were heavily loaded and operating with few safety measures, officials said Sunday.

Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle (AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:52:35 GMT
AP - Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens.

9 years gone, everyone's a ground zero stakeholder (AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:27:36 GMT
AP - It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It's a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site — which is also what it is.

1 'censored' bar won't stop online prostitution (AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:41:50 GMT
AP - Craiglist's "adult services" section has been shut down in the U.S., but prostitution on the Internet is alive and well — even, quite possibly, on Craigslist.

Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface (AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:25:15 GMT
AP - Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship.

Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit (AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:31:26 GMT
AP - Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers trying to save people already buried under a wall of mud.

Want cheapskates to spend? Hawk gizmos that save (AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:13:07 GMT
AP - How do you get penny pinchers to spend these days? Pitch products that promise to save them money.

Backyard volunteers helping track firefly numbers (AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:47:01 GMT
AP - The yellow-green streaks of fireflies that bring a magical air to summer nights, inspire camp songs and often end up in jars in children's bedrooms may be flickering out in the nation's backyards as suburban sprawl encroaches on their habitats.

Querrey wins, hopes to put 'US' back in US Open (AP)
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT
AP - Sam Querrey wants to put the "U.S." back in the U.S. Open.