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    Looting Breaks Out in Wake of Deadly Quake (AP)

AP - Shopkeepers clashed with looters Monday, and hungry families
 huddled under tents while waiting for relief supplies after Pakistan's
 worst earthquake razed entire villages and buried roads in rubble.
 Death toll estimates ranged from 20,000 to 30,000.

    New Orleans Cops Charged in Taped Beating (AP)

AP - Three New Orleans police officers are facing battery charges after
 investigators reviewed a videotape showing two patrolmen repeatedly
 punching a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication and a third
 officer assaulting an Associated Press Television News producer who
 helped capture the arrest on tape.

    Guatemalan Towns Abandoned As Mass Graves (AP)

AP - Guatemalan officials said they would abandon communities buried by
 landslides and declare them mass graveyards as reports of devastation
 trickled in from some of the more than 100 communities cut off from the
 outside world after killer mudslides.

    Germany Getting First Female Chancellor (AP)

AP - Conservative leader Angela Merkel was set to become Germany's first
 female chancellor under a power-sharing agreement that would end
 Gerhard Schroeder's seven years in office, party officials said Monday.

    Cyprus grounds Helios plane after flight scares (Reuters)

Reuters - Aviation authorities in Cyprus said on Monday they had
 grounded a Boeing aircraft run by budget carrier Helios Airways after
 the plane carrying British tourists had to turn back twice with
 technical problems.

    Israeli, American Win Nobel for Economics (AP)

AP - Israeli and U.S. citizen Robert J. Aumann and American Thomas C.
 Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on
 Monday for their work on game theories that help explain economic
 conflicts, including trade and price wars.

    Yahoo to Introduce Tools for Podcasts (AP)

AP - Hoping to tune into the latest craze in digital media, Yahoo Inc.
 is introducing tools for finding, organizing and rating "podcasts" --
 the audio programs designed to be played on Apple Inc.'s iPod and many
 other portable music players.

    Some Rabbis Criticize New Madonna Song (AP)

AP - A song on Madonna's upcoming album dedicated to a Kabbalist rabbi
 is drawing criticism from other rabbis, the Israeli Maariv daily
 reported Sunday.

    Mistake Leads to 29-Cent Gas Price (AP)

AP - One gas station manager's mistake paid off for Lincoln drivers who
 were in the right place at the right time Friday.

    Yanks Force Game 5; Astros Win in 18 (AP)

AP - The New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim will
 play a decisive game 5 tonight with the winner advancing to meet the
 Chicago White Sox in the American League Championship Series starting
 Tuesday.

    Frantic search as Pakistani quake toll tops 20,000 (Reuters)

Reuters - Rescuers searched frantically for survivors of Pakistan's
 massive earthquake on Monday as the death toll climbed over 20,000 and
 officials said thousands more bodies could be in the rubble.

    U.S. to try to break deadlock in WTO trade talks (Reuters)

Reuters - The United States proposed on Monday deep cuts in farm
 subsidies and the future elimination of agricultural tariffs in a bid
 to unblock world trade talks and meet an end-year deadline for a deal.

    German parties in deal to make Merkel chancellor (Reuters)

Reuters - Conservative leader Angela Merkel will become Germany's first
 woman chancellor under a deal that sees Gerhard Schroeder step aside
 but gives his Social Democrats top posts in a new government, sources
 said on Monday.

    Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians at Gaza border (Reuters)

Reuters - Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinians near the Gaza
 border on Monday in violence that added to speculation that Israeli and
 Palestinian leaders would be forced to postpone a summit planned for
 Tuesday.

    New Orleans police vow crackdown as crime picks up (Reuters)

Reuters - With many New Orleans residents returning to clean up after
 Hurricane Katrina, the police department said on Sunday burglaries of
 abandoned homes and businesses have picked up.

    Lobbyists Advise Katrina Relief (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON -- Lobbyists representing transportation,
 energy and other special interests dominated panels that advised
 Louisiana's U.S. senators crafting legislation to rebuild the
 storm-damaged Gulf Coast, records and interviews show.

    GOP Feels Sting of Candidates' Rejection (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON -- For months, North Dakota Gov. John
 Hoeven had received the red carpet treatment in the nation's capital:
 President Bush invited the popular Republican to spend the night at the
 White House, gave him a ride on Air Force One, arranged prime seats at
 the inauguration and dispatched his political guru, Karl Rove, to meet
 with him.

    SUV Drivers in Paris Get Wind Knocked Out of Them (Los Angeles
     Times)

Los Angeles Times - PARIS -- If the French marauders known as The
 Deflated waged their brand of urban subversion in Southern California,
 the mecca of the sport utility vehicle, by now they would probably have
 been jailed, beaten, shot or at least sued.

    Hot Housing Market Crosses the Border (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times - SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico -- Lured by 300-plus days
 of sunshine and "good, fun waves," Greg Leach is tapping the equity
 from his three-bedroom Mountain View home to build a vacation getaway
 near this small Mexican resort town.

    Quake Rescue Anxiety Grows (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times - BALAKOT, Pakistan -- President Pervez Musharraf
 pleaded for international help Sunday to hurry rescue equipment and
 relief supplies to tens of thousands of earthquake victims in Pakistan,
 while desperate survivors begged for government aid that still had not
 arrived in large areas of the quake zone.

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