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Gates, Buffett to sell giving to China’s richest (AP)

September 7th, 2010

In this file photo taken March 15, 2010, Wang Chuanfu, Chairman and President of BYD Company Limited attends a news conference of the company annual results announcement 2009 in Hong Kong. State media reported that Wang who is one of the richest person in China has been invited to a dinner hosted by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett who plan to sell the art of giving to China's super rich in a visit later this month that's already sparked some soul searching among the world's second-largest number of billionaires. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)AP - Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett plan to sell the art of giving to China’s super rich in a visit later this month that’s…

Gunmen burst into factory in Honduras, kill 15 (AP)

September 7th, 2010

AP - Men armed with assault rifles burst into a shoe factory and opened fire Tuesday, killing at least 15 workers and wounding eight, Honduran authorities said.

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Iraq displays hundreds of recovered artifacts (AP)

September 7th, 2010

An AK-47, with Saddam Hussein's image on it, is displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq displayed hundreds of recovered artifacts Tuesday that were among the country’s looted heritage and span the ages from a 4,400-year-old statue of a Sumerian king to a…

EU decries ‘barbaric’ plans to stone Iranian woman (AP)

September 7th, 2010

FILE - This undated file image made available by Amnesty International in London on Thursday, July 8, 2010, shows Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a mother of two who was sentenced to death by stoning in Iran on charges of adultery. Ashtiani is now facing a new punishment of 99 lashes because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, the woman's son said Monday. (AP Photo/Amnesty International, File)** EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES**AP - The international crossfire over Iran’s stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery intensified Tuesday with a top European Union official calling it “barbaric” and an Iranian spokesman saying…

Iraqi soldier fires on US troops, kills 2 (AP)

September 7th, 2010

US soldiers secure an area after dark in Baghdad, in January 2008. Two American soldiers were killed and nine wounded on Tuesday when an Iraqi soldier opened fire after an argument over a sports match they had been playing, US and Iraqi military officials said.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AP - An Iraqi soldier sprayed gunfire at American troops guarding one of their commanders as he visited an Iraqi military base on Tuesday and killed two of them, the…

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