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With a five star hotel in the background, a man walks by restored Roman pillar tombs of the ancient city of Leukaspis  a well known Greco-Roman port overlooking the Mediterranean Sea at the costal resorts of Marina,  Egypt Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade.  (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade.


The Upshot - Al Gore can't seem to catch a break these days. Between a high-profile public divorce, accusations of sexual assault, and a crazed gunman citing his work as the inspiration for his "awakening," the former vice president's image has been in a bit of a PR freefall of late. Now this bit of cruel irony: The [...]
AP - Car booster seats have made strides in ensuring a proper fit for children in the back seat, according to a review by the insurance industry, though just over 10 percent of those evaluated weren't recommended.

Rev. Terry Jones at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Jones plans to burn copies of the Quran on church grounds to mark the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States that provoked the Afghan war.   (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said Wednesday he was determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, despite pressure from the White House, religious leaders and others to call it off.


A British Petroleum (BP) logo is seen  at a petrol station in south London April 27, 2010. BP deflected much of the blame for a rig blast that led to the United States' worst-ever oil spill, releasing an internal report on Wednesday which said that drilling contractor Transocean had missed danger signs. REUTERS/Toby Melville/FilesAP - In an internal report released Wednesday, BP blames itself, other companies' workers and a complex series of failures for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the drilling rig explosion that preceded it.


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