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Supporters await Suu Kyi’s release in Myanmar (AP)

Supporters of Myanmar's pro democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, media people, and diplomats, wait outside a police barricade on the road leading to Suu Kyi's house anticipating her release in Yangon, Mayanmar, Friday, Nov 12, 2010.(AP Photo)AP – Supporters of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi gathered near her home and at her party’s headquarters Saturday, hoping to see the Nobel Peace Prize laureate taste freedom after seven years of detention by Myanmar’s ruling generals.


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Passengers await help on crippled cruise ship (AP)

This photo released by the U.S. Navy shows the Carnival Splendor, a cruise ship stranded about 250 miles off the coast of California  on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010.   The ship, which left from Long Beach, Calif.  on Sunday, was 200 miles south of San Diego when an engine room fire cut its power early Monday, according to a statement from Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines. The ship began drifting off the coast of northern Baja California.   Navy helicopters shuttled in supplies Tuesday to 4,500 passengers and crew members expected to remain stranded on the disabled cruise ship through Wednesday night.  (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Petty Officer 3rd Class Dylan McChord)AP – The nearly 4,500 passengers and crew of the Carnival Splendor have no air conditioning or hot water. Running low on food, they have to eat canned crab meat and Spam dropped in by helicopters. And for at least another 24 hours, they have no way out.


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Banks seize 288K homes in Q3, but challenges await (AP)

FILE - In this  March 24, 2009 file photo, a sign lies on the ground in front of a foreclosed home in Homestead, Fla. Officials in 49 states have launched a joint investigation into allegations that mortgage companies mishandled documents and broke laws in foreclosing on hundreds of thousands of homeowners. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)AP – Lenders seized more U.S. homes this summer than in any three-month stretch since the housing market began to bust in 2006. But many of the foreclosures may be challenged in court later because of allegations that banks evicted people without reading the documents.


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Yanks rest assured, await next opponent

Alex Rodriguez will be a spectator, Curtis Granderson has an interest and Jorge Posada might even take notes. Sunday when the Texas Rangers try to eliminate the Tampa Bay Rays in the other AL division series, the Yankees will be watching – and resting.

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NY, Mass., Va. bail hearings await 9 in spy case (AP)

This undated image taken from the Russian social networking website 'Odnoklassniki', or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing Monday, June 28, 2010 in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. The caption on Odnoklassniki reads 'Russia, Moscow. London, Stone age.' (AP Photo)AP – Bail hearings for nine people charged in a Russian spy case were scheduled Thursday as a U.S. prosecutor said the evidence against them was growing stronger by the day.


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‘Flotels’ await oil spill cleanup workers on Gulf (AP)

A supply vessel passes through an oil sheen near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana, Monday, May 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP – The 40-foot-long corrugated steel boxes, resembling oversized white shipping containers, are stacked two high and three wide atop a barge at Port Fourchon, the oil industry’s hub on the Gulf of Mexico. The words “Martin Quarters” painted in black offer the only clue that they’re not stuffed with cargo.


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Anxious relatives await word on W.Va. mine rescue (AP)

Pastor Brian Kelly puts up a message showing support for miners on the First Baptist Church sign in Whitesville, W. Va. Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Twenty-five miners are known to be dead following an explosion at the nearby Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine Monday. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)AP – Anxious family members clung to what the governor called a “sliver of hope” Wednesday as rescuers drilled into the coal mine where 25 people died in an explosion, hoping to vent enough poisonous gas to safely get inside and look for possible survivors.


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