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AP – Pete Carroll is out running, clapping and smiling through the morning fog in his first NFL preseason since 1999.

AP – A diplomatic spat with implications for international counterterrorism escalated Saturday after Pakistan’s spy chief canceled a visit to London following comments by the British leader suggesting Pakistan exports terrorism.

AP – China is set to overtake Japan as the world’s second-largest economy in a resurgence that is changing everything from the global balance of military and financial power to how cars are designed.

AP – Cleveland Browns second-round draft pick Montario Hardesty will miss “a couple weeks” after twisting a knee during a pre-camp drill.

AP – Teen sailor Laura Dekker says she will leave the Netherlands on Wednesday in her quest to become the youngest to circumnavigate the globe alone. But it won’t yet be the first leg of the 14-year-old’s solo voyage.

Reuters – An Israeli air strike has killed a Hamas military commander and rocket-maker in the Gaza Strip, the Islamist group that rules the Palestinian territory said on Saturday.

AFP – Thousands of mourners paid their respects in Duisburg on Saturday to the 21 victims of the Love Parade disaster, forgetting their anger for a while to remember the dead.

AP – President Barack Obama is going after Senate Republicans who have stymied his proposal to create a $30 billion fund to help unfreeze lending for credit-starved small businesses.

AFP – Celtic showed the fighting spirit they will need to recover from their Champions League flop as the Scottish club battled back to earn a 2-2 draw against Lyon in the Emirates Cup on Saturday.

AP – Russia sent the army on Saturday to battle wildfires that have killed at least 28 people and were threatening dozens of towns and villages. Thick smoke and ash slowed firefighting efforts and thousands of people were being evacuated.

AP – Screenwriter Suso Cecchi D’Amico, who emerged from the male-dominated post-war Italian cinema to become a celebrated artist and contribute to such milestones as “Bicycle Thieves” and “The Leopard,” died Saturday at age 96.

AP – They’re a minority, but a vocal one, and they’re hovering like storm clouds over a brittle recovery.

AP – They were medieval warriors who spread Catholicism by the sword and seized Polish lands with great cruelty. But that’s not stopping the Polish city of Kwidzyn from capitalizing on the aura surrounding the Teutonic Knights.

PC World – Ballmer promised the world that a Windows 7 tablet is coming. Maybe it is, or maybe it’s just a pipedream, but Microsoft doesn’t need to focus on developing a Windows 7 tablet. Microsoft does need to focus on having a strategy for taking advantage of the changing mobile computing market–but it doesn’t have to include a Windows 7 tablet.

AP – Thousands of grief-stricken mourners watched in tears on Saturday as rescue workers lit one white candle for every one of the 21 people crushed to death in a tunnel at the Love Parade techno music festival.

SPACE.com – NEW
YORK ? A NASA spacecraft aimed at Mercury has already returned valuable observations
from the planet closest to our sun, despite still being months away from
entering orbit around the small, rocky world, the mission’s lead scientist said.

SPACE.com – NASA is
putting the mirrors for its ambitious new James Webb Space Telescope
through
the ultimate cold test — one that exposes them to temperatures hundreds
of
degrees below freezing to make sure they will work in space.

AP – Two strong earthquakes shook different parts of Iran in less than 24 hours, injuring more than 200 people and damaging hundreds of homes, Iranian media reported Saturday.

AFP – Qatar’s emir on Saturday made a high-profile visit to south Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold destroyed in a 2006 war with Israel and whose rebuilding the emirate is helping finance.

AP – A second House Democrat, Rep. Maxine Waters of California, could face an ethics trial this fall, further complicating the election outlook for the party as it battles to retain its majority.

LiveScience.com – A new study calls to the stand the legitimacy of expert
witnesses, those doctors and other medical specialists hired by lawyers in
medical malpractice suits to convince the jury that someone somewhere goofed.

AFP – Soham murderer Ian Huntley is suing the prison service after being attacked by another inmate, the Ministry of Justice confirmed on Saturday.

AFP – Greek authorities struggled to restore fuel supplies on Saturday after failing to break a six-day trucker strike that has disrupted travel at the peak of the busy tourism season.

AFP – The New Delhi Commonwealth Games was rocked by a scandal Saturday with a report alleging that all construction quality certificates inspected so far have turned out to be fake or “suspect.”

AFP – Flag-carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) said Saturday it had to cancel several domestic and international flights after some of its pilots quit without giving enough notice.