Summary: Another scary week with oil rising 6% in dollars, briefly passing the $90 mark, gold rising 2%, the dollar falling to more record lows and, this time, even U.S. stocks began to falter, with the Dow falling 4.2%, more than half of that on Friday. Much of this can be attributed to the housing crash in the U.S. and the Bush administration in its death throes threatening to unleash World War III.
Beyond financial markets, worse storm clouds are appearing on the horizon: famine and pestilence.
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Pelosi Rebukes Stark for Iraq Comments (AP)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rebuked a fellow San Francisco Bay-area liberal Friday for what she said were "inappropriate" comments about Iraq during a congressional debate. During a debate on children's health care Thursday, Rep. Pete Stark accused Republicans of sending troops to Iraq to "get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."
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The parents of a girl who was molested in elementary school by her band teacher hold a portrait of their daughter. |
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Turkish army armoured vehicles move on a road near Kumcati in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak, October 17, 2007. |
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South African reggae star Lucky Dube. |
Delhi has long struggled to cope with the marauding monkeys |
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This photograph from space shows smoke rising from the wildfires in Southern California. |
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Fireball October 20th |
two long, silver, bullet-shaped objects flying side-by-side across the sky. Neither object had lights or made a sound, Raye said, and they soon split up: One headed east, the other toward the northeast.
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How not to be seen. |