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Nation’s top two teams to battle it out at Superdome 

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EW ORLEANS — A
helicopter hovered over the the three LSU team buses Tuesday night, charting their progress as they made the journey up I-10 from Baton Rouge
for M
onday
’s matchup against SEC rival Alabama in the BCS national championship game at the Superdome.

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All EU nations but UK open to joining new treaty (AP)

British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. European leaders are wrestling over how much of their sovereignty they are willing to give up in a desperate attempt to save the ambitious project of continental unity that grew from the ashes of World War II. At stake at the summit in Brussels, which began Thursday evening, is not only the future of the euro, but also the stability of the global financial system and the balance of power in Europe. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP – The European Union’s president said Friday that 26 of its 27 member countries are open to joining a new treaty tying their finances together to solve the euro crisis. Only Britain remains opposed, creating a deep rift in the union.


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Most EU nations agree to new treaty to save euro (AP)

British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. European leaders are wrestling over how much of their sovereignty they are willing to give up in a desperate attempt to save the ambitious project of continental unity that grew from the ashes of World War II. At stake at the summit in Brussels, which began Thursday evening, is not only the future of the euro, but also the stability of the global financial system and the balance of power in Europe. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP – The 17 countries that use the euro, plus nearly all of their European Union partners, agreed Friday to an ambitious treaty tying their finances together in the hopes of solving Europe’s debt crisis. Yet opposition led by Britain created a deep rift in the union.


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Obama in Bali for summit of East Asian nations (AP)

President Barack Obama waves to the troops after speaking at the Royal Army Air Force Base in Darwin, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP – Aiming to knit Asian allies ever closer as China’s might rises, President Barack Obama is completing a nine-day Asia-Pacific trip with a visit to his boyhood home of Indonesia, where he’ll become the first U.S. president to take part in a summit of East Asian nations.


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Nation’s biggest subway system to stop for Irene (AP)

People at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York experience sunny weather while Hurricane Irene bears down on the eastern seaboard further south, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. The low number of visitors at the typically crowded beach reflects the wind, rain, and flooding dangers the storm poses to the already saturated New York state. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)AP – The nation’s largest subway system and arriving flights at the five main New York City-area airports were preparing to shut down Saturday as Hurricane Irene spun its way up the Eastern Seaboard, forcing more than 300,000 evacuations and dimming lights at Citi Field and on Broadway.


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Car bomb blows up outside United Nations office in Nigeria

A car laden with explosives detonated outside the United Nations’ main office in Nigeria’s capital Friday, blowing part of the concrete structure into shards and killing an undetermined number of people.

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Asian nations move to calm tensions, US commends (AP)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, walks with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, front left, after their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of an ASEAN foreign ministerial meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Friday, July 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)AP – Asian nations moved on Friday to defuse two critical points of tension in the Pacific, in preliminary steps welcomed by the Obama administration, which is moving to reassert U.S. influence in the region.


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