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•	Claim: Obese people cause global warming
•	Spears: Bloating not due to pregnancy
•	Allen talks of Spain and threesomes at Cannes
	CANNES, France (AP) - Woody Allen's latest film touches on that classic male fantasy, a romantic threesome with two women. Has Allen ever entertained the notion himself? "You know, it's hard enough to get one person," Allen told reporters Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, hours before the premier of his romantic comedy "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," starring Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem.

•	Sen Edward Kennedy rushed to hospital: CNN
•	Drought, high food prices slam Somalia
•	Democrats call upon GOP to support new GI Bill
	Democrats call upon GOP to support new GI BillWASHINGTON (AP) - A Democratic congressman on Saturday urged Republicans to "step up to the plate" to help veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., pointed to the updated GI Bill, which the House passed Thursday, as one way "a grateful nation can repay its heroes."

•	Judge keeping R. Kelly documents sealed
•	D.C. cops getting semiautomatic rifles
•	Riverside, Calif., tops gas prices list
•	Source: Romo to escort Simpson to wedding
•	Analysis: Saudis protect own interests in oil production
	WASHINGTON (AP) - When President Bush, once a Texas oilman, asked Saudi Arabia to pump more crude, he may have forgotten that the Saudis have a long memory. And that made it a good bet his mission this past week would produce a dry hole.

•	Clinton's female fans wonder what if — and when
	NEW YORK (AP) - Philipina Heintzman, 81, drove 80 miles across the South Dakota prairie to experience history in the making: a woman running for president, something she never dreamed as a child that she would live to see.

•	Thousands flee on China lake bank fears
	BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - Thousands of Chinese fled their homes on Saturday amid fears a lake could burst its banks, hampering rescue efforts after the deadliest earthquake in more than three decades killed about 29,000 people.

•	Thousands flee on China lake bank fears
•	2 rail cars overturned, residents evacuated
	LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - Two rail cars have jumped the track and overturned in southern Louisiana, leaking hydrochloric acid and forcing police to evacuate thousands of residents within a 1-mile of the accident.

•	2 rail cars overturned, residents evacuated
	LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - Two rail cars have jumped the track and overturned in southern Louisiana, leaking hydrochloric acid and forcing police to evacuate thousands of residents within a 1-mile of the accident. Lafayette Corporal Paul Mouton says a total of six cars derailed around 2:20 a.m. Saturday, and two of them began to leak. Authorities are asking residents to leave.

•	Thousands flee on China lake bank fears
•	Portsmouth 1 Cardiff City 0 - FA Cup final
•	Queen's grandson weds as tabloids fume
•	Oil sets record near $128; pump price at high, too
	NEW YORK(AP) - News that Saudi Arabia had boosted its oil output by 300,000 barrels a day was greeted as a non-event on oil markets - the move wasn't anywhere near the kind of production increase needed to bring prices down on Friday. And traders were equally unimpressed by the U.S. government's plan to stop adding to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

•	Queen Elizabeth's grandson weds, tabloids fume
•	Bush says committed to Middle East peace efforts
•	Report: United balking at merger deal
•	Spanish police arrest 5 suspected of hacking US agency sites
	MADRID, Spain (AP) - Spanish police have arrested five people suspected of hacking into or outright disabling thousands of Internet pages, some of them run by government agencies in the U.S., Latin America and Asia, authorities said Saturday.

•	Pirates hijack Jordanian ship off Somali coast
	Pirates hijack Jordanian ship off Somali coastNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Somali pirates hijacked a Jordanian ship Saturday in the latest in a string of attacks off the lawless coast of Somalia, the head of a seafarer's association said. Andrew Mwangura of the East Africa Seafarers Assistance Program said the attack occurred early Saturday morning. He could not say how many crew were abroad, but said Kenyans, Tanzanians and some Asians were among them.

•	Lebanese leaders tackle core issues at Qatar talks
•	Cathay Pacific mulls route cuts on high fuel: paper
•	GE considers appliance division sale
•	Man City trounced by Thai all-stars
•	Federer stops Seppi to reach Hamburg final
•	Memorial service held for murdered teen
•	Bush to push freedom in Mideast
•	PM condemns Myanmar's cyclone response
•	FAO Schwarz to open Macy's outlets
•	Man with 9 DUI convictions given 20 years
•	Federer breezes into Hamburg tennis final
	HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) - Defending champion Roger Federer will contest the final of the Hamburg Masters Series here for the fifth time in his career after seeing off Italy's Andreas Seppi in Saturday's semi-final.

•	Pirates hijack Jordanian ship off Somali coast
	NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Somali pirates hijacked a Jordanian ship Saturday in the latest in a string of attacks off the lawless coast of Somalia, the head of a seafarer's association said.

•	Ex-MOF Watanabe says dollar to fall more in mid-term
•	Tough times hit food show exhibitors
•	Saudi oil output hike would not solve US problems: Bush
	SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) - US President George W. Bush said on Saturday that a hike in oil output by Saudi Arabia would not solve American energy problems.

•	US House speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Iraq
	BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a top Democratic critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, expressed confidence during a visit to Iraq on Saturday that expected provincial elections will promote national reconciliation. Pelosi, who led a bipartisan congressional delegation to Baghdad, spoke after the group met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus, the top American commander in Iraq.

•	Medical marijuana dealers found guilty
•	Apple lines up overseas iPhone partners
•	Assassination fears paralyse Zimbabwe opposition
	HARARE (AFP) - Fears of an assassination plot against Zimbabwe's opposition leader delayed his long-awaited homecoming on Saturday ahead of an election showdown with veteran President Robert Mugabe on June 27.

•	Fed's Lockhart says world will feel U.S. slowdown
•	Soccer fans warned of tick danger at Euro 2008
•	Kuwaitis seek fresh start as they choose new parliament
	KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Kuwaitis are voting Saturday to elect a new parliament in this oil-rich Gulf state which has been rocked by political turmoil, with many saying they want change and an end to political feuding.

•	Sharapova pulls out of Italian Open semi-final
•	Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai delays return over plot-party
	HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday postponed his expected return home to contest an election run-off after his party said it had discovered an assassination plot against him.

•	Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai delays return over plot-party

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