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AP - A team that shoots pumpkins from a giant air cannon says it achieved the holy grail of the sport - chucking a pumpkin a distance of more than one mile.

The White House honored the heroism of Salvatore A. Giunta, who took a bullet to the chest in Afghanistan.

After months of wrangling between media organizations and the Pentagon, the military has agreed to revise some of its guidelines that limited what journalists could report and document from Guantnamo Bay.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama accused Republicans on Friday of holding the middle class hostage as he defended his efforts to stimulate the sluggish economy and try to reverse Democrats' grim election prospects.

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Left-wing guerrillas have increased their attacks against police installations in cocaine-producing areas of southern Colombia, killing eight officers on Friday and bringing this month's death toll to 55.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A war crimes tribunal in The Hague Friday denied a request by Kosovo's former prime minister to be provisionally freed before a new trial, saying this could encourage his supporters to intimidate witnesses.

DHAKA (Reuters) - An earth quake shook central Bangladesh, including the capital Dhaka, around midnight on Friday but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, the fire service said.

David Beckham’s return to the Los Angeles Galaxy after a foot injury was more subdued than his initial arrival in M.L.S. in 2007.

Hundreds of thousands of people listed as aged 100 years or over are actually missing and probably dead, the Justice Ministry said.

Child sexual abuse was widespread in the Belgian Catholic Church and drove at least 13 victims to suicide, according to a report published on Friday.

With a general strike looming on September 29, Spain's prime minister said Friday the government does not plan new cutbacks to shore up the sagging economy.

President Obama today acknowledged that bouncing back from the recession has been "painfully slow," but insisted that the economy continues to grow.

A man wearing explosives strapped to his body was arrested after a small explosion at a hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark Friday, police said.

The 1.3 percent rise in wholesale inventories in July was the best performance since July 2008 and triple the increase that economists had expected.

An outbreak of dengue fever has complicated preparations for the Commonwealth Games.

PARIS (AP) -- In 514 matches for club and country, German wunder-forward Oliver Bierhoff scored 226 times. Yet only once, Bierhoff says, did he celebrate by whipping off his jersey: when his left-footed golden goal made Germany the European champion in 1996.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twelve U.S. soldiers have been charged with gruesome crimes in Afghanistan ranging from murdering civilians to keeping body parts as war trophies -- revelations that the Pentagon said on Thursday damaged America's image around the world.

Reuters - The U.S. government said it was resuming work on controversial human embryonic stem cell research on Friday after an appeals court ruled in its favor.

INSIDE LAS CUEVAS MINE, Spain (AP) -- Far, far away from a Chilean mine where 33 trapped men struggle to cope as they await rescue, 50 Spanish miners are also deep in the earth's bowels -- but by their own choice.