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Throughout the day mourners were seen carrying coffins out of the church and loading them onto vehicles for transfer to the mortuary. Most of the victims were to be buried on Tuesday.

The rescue drama on Sunday night, two months after US forces formally concluded combat operations in Iraq, ended with two priests among at least 46 slain worshippers.

Rousseff beat opposition rival Jose Serra, the former governor of Sao Paulo state, in Sunday’s runoff to succeed Lula. She won 56 percent of the votes to Serra’s 44 percent.

That victory was due almost entirely to Lula, who campaigned tirelessly to put Rousseff in his seat.

Obama, fearing a ballot-box repudiation just two years into his campaign for change, planned a wave of radio interviews and telephone calls to Democratic volunteers tasked with getting party faithful to the polls on Tuesday, aides said.

The president was notably targeting voters in the critical battlegrounds of Florida, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania — all key to his 2012 reelection bid — as well as his birth state of Hawaii, the White House said.

But the 37-year-old Englishman, who moved marginally ahead of the American despite not playing last week as he had amassed more ranking points over the last two years, insisted any talk of Woods as a waning force was wrong.

“I’ve learnt never to write Tiger off,” Westwood, the first European golfer to head the rankings since compatriot Nick Faldo in 1994, told the BBC.

Kitengela lies on a dustblown plain outside the Kenyan capital, just beyond a small village full of ramshackle bars.

A couple of kilometres further on, Croze’s glassworks compound is a world of outsize sculptures, shiny mosaic paths and psychedelic buildings with wonky balconies that would not be out of place in Barcelona’s Parc Guell.

A seven-member military panel deliberated for nearly nine hours over a two-day period before reaching their decision for Khadr, who pleaded guilty earlier this month to throwing a grenade that killed a US sergeant in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was just 15.

Judge Patrick Parrish, a US Army colonel, said that under a plea agreement with US authorities to avoid a life sentence, Khadr would serve one year at Guantanamo Bay and the rest in Canada, pending Ottawa’s approval.

Long lines of voters snaked around polling stations even before they opened in the main city Abidjan and in Bouake, the northern stronghold of former rebel forces, as people openly relished the opportunity to vote.

In some areas in Abidjan, the country’s biggest city and home to a third of the nearly six million electorate, polling stations were late in opening and voters complained about a lack of transport but the mood remained buoyant. Polls closed about 5:00 pm (1700 GMT).

Since Fed chairman Ben Bernanke first suggested the possibility in late September, and confirmed it in October, markets and most economists have penciled in another round of quantitative easing (QE) as a solid bet.

With the long drum roll heightening expectations, the central bank’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee is expected to announce the second round of bond purchases, dubbed QE2, after a meeting Wednesday.

But with only days to go before voters pick his successor as California governor, few seem to know what he will do next — and the man himself is giving nothing away.

“There are a lot of options: make movies, write books,” the 63-year-old Schwarzenegger said in off-the-cuff remarks during a visit to Moscow this month, while insisting he will not yet “take eyes off the ball” of his governorship.

The “Humanoid Dancing Crew” — standing around 30-40 cm (12-16 inches) tall — won a standing ovation for their performance at what is billed as the world’s largest robot festival.

Next door, humanoids played football. Losing robots clutched their heads in anger, while winners jumped for joy and punched the air. Their human backers did likewise.

The Bovespa index on the Sao Paulo stock exchange edged up 0.56 percent, while the currency, the real, gained 0.17 percent against the dollar.

Rousseff beat opposition rival Jose Serra, the former governor of Sao Paulo state, in Sunday’s runoff to succeed Lula. She won 56 percent of the votes to Serra’s 44 percent.

Rousseff, who served as Lula’s cabinet chief before he hand-picked her to succeed him in the run-off, choked back emotion as she expressed her gratitude in a victory speech in Brasilia.

“The happiness I feel today for my win is mixed with sadness for his departure,” she said Sunday.

The investment will expand existing coal seam gas production in Queensland state and go towards the construction of a 540 kilometre (335-mile) underground pipeline linking gas fields to a pioneering new LNG plant.

BG Group, one of several companies seeking to convert Queensland’s rich coal seam gas deposits into LNG for export to meet surging Asian demand, made the final investment decision after receiving environmental approval on October 22.

Japan summoned Russia’s ambassador to Tokyo after Medvedev flew into the island of Kunashir, on the first visit by a Russian leader to the isles which have prevented a post-World War II peace treaty between the two neighbours.

“As Japan has kept its position that the four northern islands belong to Japanese territory, the president’s visit there is very regrettable,” Prime Minister Naoto Kan told parliament.

Fifty percent of likely voters said they will choose a Republican candidate when they vote while 44 percent said they will pick a Democrat, the national survey showed.

Republicans are likely to win some 231 seats in the House and take control of the chamber, the poll projected. Ipsos pollster Cliff Young predicted Democrats would hang on to control of the Senate with either a margin of 52 seats to 48 for Republicans or 53-47.

Tropical Storm Tomas, which is heading westward across the eastern Caribbean sea, is expected to turn north toward Haiti and Dominican Republic by the end of the week, and restrengthen as a hurricane, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Jamaica also could be impacted, although the precise track of the storm remained uncertain, the forecasters said.

Church officials described the attack, which began when gunmen seized the Our Lady of Salvation Church during Sunday mass, as the bloodiest against Iraq’s Christians in the seven years of sectarian war that followed the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

The Islamic State of Iraq, the al Qaeda-affiliated group which claimed responsibility, also threatened the Christian church in Egypt over its treatment of women the group said it was holding after they had converted to Islam.

“I put down my pad,” said Girsky, a banker brought in by the United Auto Workers union to report on GM’s finances. “I turned to my wife and said, ‘Remember this night. This is the night we figured out GM’s going out of business.'”

Two weeks later, the same realization was sinking in across America as the chief executives of GM, Ford and Chrysler — and the head of the UAW — flew to Washington to ask Congress for an unprecedented bailout. By November 2008, GM was on a path to become “Government Motors,” with the U.S. Treasury its majority shareholder.

Candidates across the country launched a frantic final push for support, and Obama ended a two-day campaign swing designed to pump up Democratic turnout less than 48 hours before Americans begin to cast their ballots.

“This election is a choice between the policies that got us into this mess and the policies that are leading us out of this mess,” Obama told about 8,000 supporters in Cleveland, Ohio, in an auditorium that was about two-thirds full.

Toronto native Omar Khadr’s plea agreement capped his sentence at eight years, in addition to the eight he has already spent in detention at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba.

The deal calls for Guantanamo’s youngest prisoner to be sent home to Canada in one year to serve the rest of his sentence. Washington and Ottawa exchanged diplomatic notes that said both governments supported the transfer, and acknowledged Khadr could apply for parole in Canada after serving one third of the sentence.

Rousseff, who based her campaign on extending the legacy of outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, convincingly won her first election on Sunday as Brazilians put aside doubts over her character and voted for continued economic success.

The career civil servant must now form her transition team and cabinet as she emerges from the long shadow of Lula and prepares to govern the South American powerhouse as it faces challenges to its prosperity, including a painfully strong currency that is punishing exporters.

Medvedev’s visit to the island, one of four known as the Southern Kuriles in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan, was likely to snarl ties with Japan ahead of an Asia-Pacific leaders summit that Japan will host in mid-November.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan quickly expressed regret over the visit — the first by a Russian leader.

His Democratic counterpart, Tim Kaine, said he believes Democrats will do better than some experts have contended, arguing that Republicans have been obstructionists who “can’t see beyond the end of their no.”

Kaine, Steele and other party leaders were asked once again on a slew of network morning news shows to give fresh assessments of their prospects on the eve of balloting that will culminate a volatile – and possibly transcendent – campaign season.

Six states have polls that close at 7 p.m. EDT, and 16 more close by 8 p.m., featuring plenty of telling races in the East and Midwest. First up: Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and Vermont, offering the first hard evidence of just how big a night it’s going to be for Republicans.

Not even their mothers expect the Democrats to gain ground. It’s just a question of whether they fall back or over a cliff.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals signaled it was ready to toss out the provision of Arizona’s law that criminalizes the failure to carry immigration papers showing lawful residency in the United States.

But the three-judge panel didn’t tip its hand over which way it was leaning on other provisions of the state law that touched off a national furor when Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed it April 23. The federal government filed a lawsuit soon after to invalidate the measure.

The jury deliberated about 12 hours Friday and Monday before convicting Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, of Erie, on charges of armed bank robbery, conspiracy and using a destructive device in a crime of violence for her role in the bank robbery that killed 46-year-old Brian Wells. She faces a mandatory life sentence.

The verdict was the final piece of the puzzle in a robbery plot so complicated it seemed to spring from the pages of a Hollywood script.

But he continued to evade direct questions on cross-examination about whether he had an intimate relationship with Levy, saying “we’re all entitled to some level of privacy.”

A Salvadoran immigrant, Ingmar Guandique, is on trial for murdering and attempting to assault Levy back in 2001. Prosecutors say Guandique had a history of assaulting female joggers in Rock Creek Park, where Levy’s remains were found.

It’s the first humanoid robot ever bound for space, a $2.5 million mechanical and electrical marvel that NASA hopes one day will assist flesh-and-bone astronauts in orbit.

Imagine, its creators say, a future where Robonaut could take over space station cleaning duties; spend hours outside in the extreme heat and cold, patiently holding tools for spacewalking astronauts; and handle emergencies like toxic leaks or fires.

The attack, claimed by an al-Qaida-linked organization, was the deadliest ever recorded against Iraq’s Christians, whose numbers have plummeted since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion as the community has fled to other countries.

Outside Our Lady of Salvation church, Raed Hadi leaned against the car carrying his cousin’s coffin, waiting for the police to let him bury him on church grounds.

Spending by Americans slowed in September and their incomes fell for the first time in more than a year. At the same time, manufacturing activity grew by the most in five months and the weak construction industry showed a little life.

The new data reported by the government and a private trade group Monday suggest the economy is growing, albeit at an anemic pace. Some analysts worry that conditions could worsen after the election when government programs that have been propping up the economy end.

More like a World Series mismatch.

Madison Bumgarner and the San Francisco Giants completely outplayed Texas once again, beating the Rangers 4-0 Sunday night to move within one win of the championship that has eluded them for so long.

With a record 37 seats on the line Tuesday, the same antiestablishment wave expected to engulf congressional Democrats is roaring toward Democratic-held statehouses as well.

The damage may not be as devastating as the party of President Barack Obama had once feared. Democrats have a good shot at claiming governor’s mansions now occupied by Republicans in California, Hawaii, Vermont and Minnesota and holding onto ones in New York, Maryland, Colorado, New Hampshire and Arkansas.

With maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph), Tomas slipped under the threshold for a hurricane Sunday evening. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami predicted more weakening before it begins to strengthen again around midweek.

At that point, Tomas is expected to veer northward in the general direction of Haiti, where some 1.3 million people are living under tarps and in tents that are vulnerable to heavy rains and wind.

She is a career civil servant who has never held elected office, but Rousseff easily won Sunday’s presidential runoff election. That was thanks to the wholehearted backing of outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who for decades has been a presence on Brazil’s political scene and will leave office as its most popular leader.

Now, the difficult part begins. Rousseff must make good on her campaign promises to continue Silva’s programs that have led Brazil to new international economic and political heights. She acknowledged the challenge in her victory speech late Sunday after overcoming centrist rival Jose Serra by winning 56 percent of the vote against his 44 percent.

DeLay’s attorneys countered that no corporate money was given to Texas candidates and that the only thing the once-powerful but polarizing ex-lawmaker is guilty of is being a good politician.

Travis County prosecutor Beverly Mathews said DeLay and two associates – Jim Ellis and John Colyandro – illegally funneled $190,000 in corporate money, which had been collected by a group DeLay started, through the Washington-based Republican National Committee to help elect GOP state legislative candidates in 2002. Under Texas law, corporate money cannot be directly used for political campaigns.

She also said the U.S. will reopen talks with Cambodia on another historical hangover: about $445 million in Vietnam War-era debt that it owes to the United States but maintains it cannot afford to repay. And, as Cambodia develops, she cautioned against overreliance on any one country, notably China, for investment.

In the capital, Clinton visited a former school that served as the main Khmer Rouge prison and torture center and appealed for the Cambodian people and government to overcome a legacy of impunity for abuses. The government has refused to allow a U.N.-backed court trying top Khmer Rouge leaders to prosecute lower-ranking members.

The sentence was handed down Sunday under a plea bargain in which the young Canadian admitted to five war crimes charges, including killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. Under the deal, the judge was limited to the eight-year sentence and had to ignore the recommendation of a military jury that Khadr serve 40 years.

The case attracted intense scrutiny and criticism because Khadr was 15 when he was captured after suffering serious wounds during a four-hour battle at an al-Qaida compound in Afghanistan in 2002.

An obscure federal document called the I-9 form has emerged as a contentious element in the national immigration debate since the Obama administration vowed to go after employers who hire undocumented workers. Employers must fill out and sign the form, which requires them to acknowledge, under penalty of perjury, that they examined documents that allow an employee to work.

The Obama administration a year ago announced plans to ramp up I-9 audits – a shift from the notorious work site raids common under the Bush administration.

Some 20,000 people have been told they have no right to emergency compensation, compared to about 125 denials at the end of September. This is in addition to many others who say they are getting mere fractions of what they’ve lost, while others are receiving large checks and full payments.

In an interview with The Associated Press, claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg denied allegations the process is beset by chaos. He said the claims facility has sent about 30 potentially fraudulent claims to the Justice Department for investigation, and hundreds more are under review.

More than 25 countries let gays serve openly, including Israel’s battle-tested forces and nearly every NATO military except Turkey and the U.S. In each case, there have been too few problems to prompt any high-level talk of abandoning the policy.

Is that track record evidence that the U.S. could and should follow suit? Or is America’s military so different, in terms of its size, culture and global mission, that foreign examples are beside the point?

They are practicing a lucrative and thriving specialty, becoming the linchpins of a billion-dollar industry. And yet they do not have to report to whom they recommend the drug to, how many referrals they give or for what ailments.

“There is something inappropriate about doctors being the gatekeepers,” said Timmen Cermak, president of the California Society of Addiction Medicine. “They are secretaries here … All they are doing is telling the police to keep their hands off.”

Tying the vote to nostalgia and obligation, black pastors invoked the civil rights movement and Obama’s historic 2008 victory. At Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta – the spiritual home of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. – the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock warned attendees that not voting would be nothing short of a sin.

“Go to the polls Tuesday in the name of our ancestors,” Warnock said to cheering listeners who rose to their feet. “Know that your ballot is a blood-stained ballot. This is a sacred obligation.”