Sept. 29 - The film director Roman Polanski has started his legal fight against extradition from Switzerland over a U.S. charge of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
Sonia Legg, Reuters.
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Sep. 24 - Three separate missions examining the moon have found clear evidence of water there.
Jon Decker reports.
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Sep. 22 - Protesters and police clash outside the embassy where ousted President Manuel Zelaya has taken refuge after sneaking back into the country in a bid to return to power.
Jon Decker reports.
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Sept. 17 - Police charge a Yale University lab technician with the murder of a graduate student whose body was found inside a wall on the Yale campus -- on what would have been her wedding day.
Jon Decker, Reuters.
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Sep. 15 - A year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers -- Wall Street reflects on the lessons learned.
Karina Huber reports.
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Sep. 11 - In a taped conversation from 2005, convicted swindler Bernie Madoff is heard advising a hedge fund manager how to handle the SEC.
SOUNDBITES:
•Bernie Madoff
•John Coffee, professor of securities law at Columbia Law School
Jon Decker reports.
(Added Sept. 12, 2009)
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Sep. 10 - The latest celebrity and entertainment headlines including Ellen DeGeneres is the new American Idol judge
Lindsay Claiborn reports.
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Sep. 8 - President Barack Obama spoke to America's school children Tuesday, the first day of school for most US schools.
SOUNDBITE: President Barack Obama
Jon Decker reports.
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Sept. 5 - The official Chinese newsagency Xinhua says a Communist Party leader and police chief in the troubled western Chinese region of Xinjiang have been axed.
Sarah Toms, Reuters.
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Sept. 3 - Fight over oil reserves in Bolivia could be brewing as some fear the government search for oil could damage the country's national park.
Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters.
SOUNDBITES:
•Patricia Molina of the Fobomade Environmental Group,
•Carlos Espinoza, of Bolivia's Hydrocarbons Ministry,
•Wilma Mendoza Miro, Simay indigenous leader,
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Aug. 29 - U.S presidents, members of Congress join family and friends to bid farewell to U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy who died of brain cancer at the age of 77.
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•U.S. President Barack Obama
•Edward Kennedy Jr.
Sreya Banerjee reports
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Aug 28 - New York's city council recently approved a redevelopment plan for Coney Island that could soon bring high-rise hotels and new entertainment to the boardwalk. Franz Strasser reports.
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Aug 27 - Taiwan, which turned away the Dalai Lama last year for fear of upsetting China, has now approved a visit by the Tibetan spiritual leader.
Joanne Nicholson reports.
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Aug. 26 - Flags have been lowered to half-staff throughout the U.S. and tributes have poured in from fellow senators and former presidents.
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•U.S. President Barack Obama
•Former President Jimmy Carter
•Julian Zelizer, history professor, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School
Jon Decker, Reuters.
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Aug 25 - South African 800-metre runner, Caster Semenya, returns home to a rapturous welcome amid an ongoing gender controversy.
Jennifer Marostica reports.
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Aug. 22 - The world economic crisis and one of the world's biggest outbreaks of the H1N1 flu in Argentina were unable to stop thousands of tango lovers from across the world descending on Buenos Aires for this year's World Tango Festival and Championship.
Sarah Toms, Reuters
SOUNDBITE:
•Los Angeles tourist,
•Gustavo Mozzi the artistic Director of this year's World Tango Festival and Championship,
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Aug. 20 - Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, returns home to Libya after being released from Scotland on compassionate grounds.
Jennifer Marostica, Reuters.
SOUNDBITE:
•Scottish justice minister Kenny MacAskill
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Aug. 18 - An Israeli student's Twitter site is offering followers the delivery of 'tweets to God' in Jerusalem's Western Wall.
Basmah Fahim, Reuters.
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Aug. 14. - Edith Shain, the nurse in the iconic VJ day photograph of Times Square, re-enacts the kiss with a sailor as part of an initiative to remember and cherish the spirit of 1945.
Sarah Toms, Reuters.
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•Edith Shain, the nurse in the iconic photo taken in Times Square of the day World War II ended,
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Aug 13 - A Muslim woman wearing a "Burkini" -- a full-length lycra suit with head-cover -- is ordered out of a pool in France after staff said it was contrary to the rules.
Neena Dhaun reports.
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