Watch the above AP report for details on the situation in Myanmar, where the military government flooded the main city of Yangon with troops today to keep demonstrators off the streets. A U.N. envoy also failed to meet with Myanmar's top two junta leaders, but was allowed a highly orchestrated session with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Also, for the latest developments read this story from Yangon, Myanmar.
--Paul Chavez
Caption: An Iraqi police officer, above, guards two detainees who were arrested when they were trying to launch a Katusha rocket against Kirkuk airport about 180 miles north of Baghdad this afternoon. The men belong to Naqshabandi armed group, which formed 3 months ago in Kirkuk city to fight U.S., Kirkuk police said. (AP Photo)
From Baghdad, reporter Steven R. Hurst filed a story today about intense battles in Iraq over the weekend in which U.S. and Iraqi forces killed more than 60 insurgents and militia fighters. U.S. aircraft killed more than 20 al-Qaida fighters who opened fire on an American air patrol northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. command said.
For more details on the intense weekend clashes, read this report.
--Paul Chavez
(AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou)
About 1,000 rebels from the Sudan Liberation Army attacked a small African Union base in northern Darfur and killed 10 peacekeepers. Several others were wounded and dozens were missing. The photo above shows AU peacekeepers abandoning the camp today.
The attack threatens key peace talks set for October to settle the conflict that has killed at least 200,000 people and displaced 2.5 million.
"This is the heaviest loss of life and the biggest attack on the African Union mission," said AU spokesman Noureddine Mezni. "Our troops fought a defensive battle to protect the camp, but 30 vehicles eventually stormed it. ... The camp is completely destroyed."
For the latest, read this report from Haskanita, Sudan, by Alfred de Montesquiou.
--Paul Chavez
(AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
Ummm, separation of church and state? Read on ...
GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain says he would prefer a Christian president over different faiths and called it "an important part of our qualifications to lead."
"I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles ... personally, I prefer someone who I know who has a solid grounding in my faith," McCain said. "But that doesn't mean that I'm sure that someone who is Muslim would not make a good president."
Later, McCain said, "I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the candidate best able to lead the country and defend our political values."
For more, read this story filed today out of Washington. What do you think? Do you have a religious preference for candidates?
--Paul Chavez
(AP Photo/Disney/Ron Phillips)
Disney's "The Game Plan" worked this weekend as the family film starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson opened as the No. 1 film at the box office with an estimated $22.7 million in ticket sales.
Johnson plays a football quarterback whose bachelor lifestyle is upended when a daughter he never knew he had arrives.
"The Kingdom," starring Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner as members of a U.S. team investigating a terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, made its debut at No. 2 with a solid $17.7 million.
For more details on the box office derby, read this report by AP movie writer David Germain.
--Paul Chavez
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
L-S-U is Number One. The Tigers reached the top spot in The Associated Press Top 25 poll today, pushing past the undefeated USC Trojans.
The Trojans' sloppy 27-24 win at Washington on Saturday night cost them the No. 1 ranking they've held all season.
LSU, meanwhile, beat Tulane 34-9 to move from second to first in the poll. That's LSU running back Charles Scott, above, scoring a touchdown in the game. The Tigers are No. 1 in the AP poll for the first time since Nov. 2, 1959.
For details on the Top 25 poll, read this report by AP college football writer Ralph D. Russo.
--Paul Chavez
(AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
There's a battle brewing between the National Rifle Association and United Nations members pushing for an unprecedented treaty regulating the arms trade worldwide.
Ex-congressman Bob Barr, a leading NRA voice on the subject, claims international rules at some point will encroach upon domestic laws and policies and could limit gun ownership within nations.
Pro-treaty advocacy groups claim the international controls would target weapons deals that contribute to human rights violations and worsen oppression.
The United States -- by far the world's biggest weapons dealer, with almost $13 billion in arms export agreements in 2005 - cast the lone vote in December against starting the treaty process. It has not filed a requested report to the United Nations with its views on a treaty.
WHAT'S NEXT: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected this month to name an experts' group from two dozen nations to review the submissions of 98 governments and report back to the General Assembly in the fall of 2008 on what kind of arms trade treaty might be feasible. General Assembly adoption of a pact wouldn't be expected before 2010.
For more details read this report by AP special correspondent Charles J. Hanley.
Caption: A Nigerian U.N. soldier stands guard next to a cache of weapons at the house of a former dictator in Paynesville near the Liberian capital Monrovia in this October 2003 file photo.
--Paul Chavez
(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China's communist government has been trying to remove "social pollution" from the country's airwaves and its latest attempt is a ban on television and radio ads for push-up bras, figure-enhancing underwear and sex toys.
Regulators have been tightening their grip on television and radio a few weeks ahead of a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress.
For more details on the government's media moves, read this report from Beijing.
Caption: Chinese security personnel march today in front of the Great Hall of the People across from Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Authorities have tightened security in the area ahead of a reception for National Day celebrations on Oct. 1.
--Paul Chavez
A 45-year-old New York woman who was late to her plane was placed in handcuffs after becoming extremely irate and authorities later found her dead in a holding cell. Police are investigating if Carol Ann Gotbaum choked herself while trying to get free from the handcuffs.
For more details, read this report by Bob Christie moving across The AP's wires today from Phoenix.
--Paul Chavez
(AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
U.N. envoys meets with Myanmar opposition leader
Bush administration denounces Iraq split plan
Karzai says Taliban debating peace; violence continues
Gitmo detainees on Supreme Court docket
Los Lobos show to benefit alma mater
Ethiopian sets new marathon record
Caption: A Myanmar citizen living in Japan, holding a photograph of Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, shouts a slogan along with others during a protest march against Myanmar's military junta today in downtown Tokyo. A senior Japanese official left for Myanmar today to convey international concerns over a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests, and to urge its leaders to take steps toward democracy.
--Paul Chavez
A man who faced a prison term for trying to extort more than $1 million from Tom Cruise for the actor's stolen wedding photos was found dead in his home and apparently committed suicide, officials said.
David Hans Schmidt, 47, agreed to plead guilty and was under house arrest at the time of his death.
Schmidt was arrested in July after he repeatedly made contact with Cruise representatives and threatened to release wedding photos if he didn't receive between $1.2 and $1.3 million.
For more details, read this report filed today from Phoenix.
--Paul Chavez
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Yup, that's a tiny two-headed turtle. Read this report to get the back story.
--Paul Chavez
President Bush signed a stopgap funding bill today to prevent a government shutdown and blasted Democrats who control Congress for sending the bill while they continue to work on other spending bills that fund the day-to-day operations of 15 Cabinet departments.
"Congress failed in its most basic responsibility," Bush said in his weekly radio address.
Watch the above AP video report for more or read this story for the latest developments.
--Paul Chavez
(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Looks like we won't have Newt Gingrich to kick around during the race for the White House.
The former Republican leader of the House won't run because he could not legally explore a bid and remain as head of his tax-exempt political organization, his spokesman said today.
"Newt is not running," spokesman Rick Tyler said. "It is legally impermissible for him to continue on as chairman of American Solutions (for Winning the Future) and to explore a campaign for president."
Gingrich, 64, is chairman of American Solutions, the political arm of his lucrative empire as an author, pundit and consultant.
ABOUT NEWT: Gingrich quit Congress when his party, after spotlighting President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, lost seats in the 1998 elections. The next year, Gingrich's involvement with a congressional aide, Callista Bisek, led to his divorce from his second wife, Marianne; he later married Bisek.
For more on Gingrich's decision not to run, read this report from Washington by Libby Quaid.
--Paul Chavez
(AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Hong Kong director Wayne Wang won the award for best film today at the San Sebastian International Film Festival for his movie "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" and the film's star, Henry O, won the award for best actor.
Wang, 58, is best known for his 1990s films "The Joy Luck Club" and the critically acclaimed "Smoke." Wang, shown above, based the screenplay for "Thousand Years" on Chinese short stories about the lives of Chinese in China and the United States.
For more details on the film festival and its winners, read this report from Madrid, Spain, by Harold Heckle.
--Paul Chavez
At the Men's State Prison in central Georgia, the older inmates tend to stick together.
Manson Griffin, 66, takes a laundry list of prescription medications, but says he's in fairly good health compared to some of the older inmates at the prison, where the average age is 52.
"It's heart-rending to see some of the older people in the condition they're in," Griffin said. "You have to wonder why they haven't had a little leniency on them to let them go home?
"What can an 80-year-old man in a wheelchair do? Run?"
For more details on the nation's aging prison population, read this report by Shannon McCaffrey from Hardwick, Ga.
--Paul Chavez
(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Taliban suicide blast in Kabul kills 30
UN envoy tries to end junta crackdown in Myanmar
Pakistan approves Musharraf's re-election bid
S.E. Hinton remembers 'The Outsiders'
Caption: Afghan police collect samples from a military bus destroyed in a suicide bombing attack.
--Paul Chavez
(AP Photo)
Oprah Winfrey makes more money than God.
The talk-show host earned an estimated $260 million between June 2006 and June 2007, so far in front of second-place Jerry Seinfeld, it's not even funny.
According to Forbes' list of the richest people on TV, Seinfeld made $60 million, thanks to reruns of his sitcom "Seinfeld," which he partly owns. Simon Cowell of Fox's "American Idol" places third with $45 million, David Letterman, fourth with $40 million, and Donald Trump and Jay Leno tied at fifth with $32 million in earnings.
To check out the rest of Forbes' list here.
-- Otis Hart
(AP Photo/Navarro County Sheriff's Office)
In another chilling story involving a sex offender and a young girl, Shaun Earl Arender was charged with sexual assault and capital murder in the death of a 6-year-old girl found hanging from the rafters of her family's garage.
The AP's Paul J. Weber reports that Hanna Mack was found dead on Sept. 10, naked from the waist down. Investigators took a DNA sample at the scene and Arender -- already in jail on a separate charge -- came up as a possible match.
When questioned, Arender "would not give a statement, but put his head on the table and cried."
-- Otis Hart
(AP Photo/Nye County Sheriff's Office)
"Madison" is safe and sound.
The Nye County sheriff's department found the young girl Friday afternoon. The same can't be said about the youngster's abuser.
The AP's Ken Ritter reports that a news conference announcing how officials found the girl would come later Friday night. In the meantime, authorities will continue to search for Chester Arthur Stiles, a "person of interest" who may be the man in the disturbing videotape.
-- Otis Hart
(AP Photo/Tom Hanson, The Canadian Press)
The indelible image of Woody Austin is of him banging his putter against his head.
Now there's another, even better, one.
Austin provided comic relief with a belly flop -- and earned an important halve -- on a day the International team dominated at the President's Cup in Montreal on Friday.
Austin instantly became part of President's Cup lore when he fell face-first into the water along the 14th fairway, leading to taunts of alternating chants of "Marco!" and "Polo!" across the 15th fairway and "Get in the water!" from the Canadian fans whenever he hit a putt.
At least Austin redeemed himself, getting three straight birdies after drying off to earn a halve for the Americans, who lead 7-5 after the International team won four matches.
Read more about Austin's plunge here.
-- John Marshall
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Portable People Meters are rocking the radio industry.
A rollout of new technology that uses embedded audio codes to determine what people are actually listening to has changed how stations are programmed and how advertisers spend their money. (The meter looks like a pager and is pictured above.)
The old system involves asking a group of people to keep a diary listing what stations they've been listening to.
AP Business Writer Seth Sutel has the full story on how Arbitron's new gadgets are changing the $20 billion radio business.
--Ryan Pearson
(AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Allen G. Breed, an AP national writer based in Raleigh, N.C., recently had the opportunity to interview Betty Lynn -- the actress who played Thelma Lou in "The Andy Griffith Show" -- for an AP story. (That's them in the photo above.)
After the interview, Breed shared some audio clips he gathered with Far and Wide:
Lynn talks about one of her favorite episodes.
Lynn comments on her relationship with fellow actors.
Lynn talks about her early days in radio.
During World War II, Lynn performed variety shows at field hospitals.
What was Thelma Lou's last name? And how'd she end up with that house?
See below for some of Breed's reflections on his experience meeting Thelma Lou.
(AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)
It's up to a jury now to decide whether Isiah Thomas subjected a vice president at Madison Square Garden to a hostile work environment by using vulgar language and making unwanted sexual advances toward her.
The former Detroit Pistons star and current New York Knicks coach is defending the $10 million sexual harassment lawsuit, saying that he always treated Anucha Browne Sanders with respect, and that she made his job more difficult and got in his way by trying to undermine his authority before she was fired in January 2006.
On their first full day of deliberations, the jury asked for hundreds of pages of testimony and documents, including a copy of MSG's organization chart, which wasn't given to them because it wasn't presented as evidence at trial. The panel took a weekend break this evening and returns to U.S. District Court in Manhattan to resume its work on Monday.
--Josh L. Dickey
No, this baby girl is not seven pounds -- hardly. Try 17 POUNDS, and 1 ounce. The weight scale is measuring in kilograms but with the baby girl moving too much, the decimal figures were too hard to capture on camera.
Born in Barnaul Clinical hospital, a city in the Siberian region of Altai, baby Nadezhda was delivered by Caesarean section. Her mother Tatiana Khalina, 42, already has 11 other children.
To see full AP story, click here.
-- Bernadette Tuazon
Eight days.
That's how long Tanya Rider lay seriously injured at the bottom of a steep ravine inside her crashed SUV.
Rider, 33, was found alive but dehydrated Thursday, more than a week after she failed to return home from work.
Authorities had been able to detect the general location of her cell phone that morning, then searched along the highway she traveled from work in suburban Seattle to her Maple Valley home. They noticed some matted brush, and below it they found Rider's Honda Element, smashed on its side, State Patrol spokesman Jeff Merrill said.
Friday morning, Rider was sedated in critical condition and fighting for her life at Harborview Medical Center, her husband, Tom Rider said. He said she was suffering from kidney failure and sores from lying in the same position for a week and that she could lose her leg.
For more, read this AP story.
-- Jaime Holguin
(AP Photo/Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice)
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked Texas state corrections officials Thursday night from executing a 28-year-old man convicted of killing his parents.
The order came less than two hours before the death warrant would have expired at midnight.
The case of Carlton Turner Jr. was linked with an appeal from two Kentucky inmates who argued that lethal injection is unconstitutionally cruel. The justices on Tuesday agreed to consider the Kentucky appeal, and Turner's case was viewed as a barometer of whether capital punishment in Texas could be placed on hold while the Supreme Court considers that case.
Turner would have been the 27th Texas inmate to be executed this year and the second this week.
For more, read this AP story by Michael Graczyk.
-- Jaime Holguin
William Russell Redfern, an armless artist known for drawings he does with his feet, has turned himself in to face a misdemeanor charge in a fight with a man who later died.
Police say Redfern head-butted and kicked Charles Keith Teer during a Sept. 17 fight over a woman. Teer complained of dizziness and collapsed. The AP reports a medical examiner determined last week that Teer likely died of a heart attack.
Police Chief Roy Whitehead said investigators decided against felony charges but felt Redfern should be punished for the fight.
Redfern was born with no right arm and a stump below his left shoulder. He was released Wednesday on $1,213 bond, a jail official said.
-- Jaime Holguin
(AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
Here are some of the top stories of the moment, straight from the AP wires.
Myanmar troops club activists, cut Internet access
Pakistani court says Musharraf can run for new term
Russia seeks report on Iran nuke program
Iran strengthens ties with South America
Bush seeks new image on global warming
PHOTO: Pakistani lawyers chant anti-Musharraf slogans
while holding a placard, front, that reads, "Army dictator
unacceptable," in Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Sept 27, 2007.
--Jaime Holguin
(AP Photo/Francis Latreille/Nova Productions)
OK, so this isn't really breaking news. In fact, it's thousands of years in the making.
AP science writer Randolph E. Schmid wrote a story today about scientists extracting DNA from mammoths. Sure, there are more important things going on the world, but ... c'mon, how often do you see a story about mammoths move on the wire?
Check it out here.
-- Otis Hart
(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Congress went and did it again. They approved legislation that President Bush has promised to veto.
This time, the bill seeks to provide health care to an additional 4 million children who might otherwise go without. The AP's Kevin Freking reports that both houses voted to boost the budget for the State Children's Health Insurance
Program, or SCHIP, from about $5 billion to $12 billion annually for
the next five years.
However: Bush doesn't like it. He thinks it "directs scarce funding to higher incomes at the expense of poor families." And the buck looks like it will stop in the Oval Office. While the Senate has enough votes to override the veto, the House is about two dozen Republicans short.
Freking's got all the juicy details here.
-- Otis Hart
(AP Photo/Kita Wright)
Mychal Bell, you are free to go.
The AP's Doug Simpson reports that the 17-year-old "Jena 6" high school student was released on $45,000 bail Thursday. It was an all around good day for Bell, who learned that prosecutors would not seek to try him as an adult again. Instead, he'll appear in juvenile court in the near future.
Read Simpson's entire report here.
-- Otis Hart
Protests in Myanmar, a swastika-shaped military base and a police code wiki are getting attention today from contributors to NowPublic, the "crowd-powered media" site The Associated Press is working with to selectively incorporate citizen journalism -– especially photos and video -– into its news report.
Listen to this audio clip
to learn more from NowPublic's Brian Kennedy.
-- Eric Carvin
The following are some of the top international photos from The Associated Press today.
(AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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From top to bottom:
-- Bernadette Tuazon
Despite what people may think, there have been issues being discussed at the U.N. General Assembly other than Iran and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 
For example, there have been talks on greenhouse gas emissions, human rights and globalization.
Lindsay Holmwood, who works on the AP's International Desk in New York, covered one such discussion: a speech by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who was emphasizing his country's efforts to become a global power player. Harper spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations, which is several blocks away from the United Nations.
asap talked to Holmwood about what it was like to cover a U.N. event that's been perhaps overshadowed by the attention given to the Iranian president.
-- Jaime Holguin
(AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
The numbers are in from August, and things look grim. Not since the summer of 2000 -- at the beginning of the housing boom -- have so few people purchased new homes.
And the credit crunch is slamming home prices: The median sales price in August fell by 7.5 percent from a year earlier to $225,700 -- the biggest drop in percentage terms in nearly 37 years.
Read Jeannine Aversa's AP report for more details on how the housing bust is affecting the rest of the economy.
--Ryan Pearson
(AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Here's one thing the leading Democratic presidential candidates can agree on: If elected president they cannot guarantee a pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the first term.
The Democratic hopefuls met for a debate at Dartmouth College last night. Read more about the full debate in AP Writer Beth Fouhy's story. Here's what the candidates said about Iraq when asked if the troops would be out by 2013:
Two candidates sounded more optimistic:
-- Howie Rumberg
The videotape, turned in to Nevada police by a man who said he found it in the desert, contains some heinous footage.
It shows a man performing sex acts on a girl around 4 or 5 years old, and shows a girl believed to be 10 to 12 years old appearing in "some kind of peep show," said Nye County sheriff's detective David Boruchowitz.
Now, police are releasing images of the younger girl in hopes that someone recognizes her. Authorities hope identifying the girls will help them locate the abuser and rescue them. Authorities have so far identified the older girl.
Read more in this AP story.
-- Jaime Holguin
There was more chaos in Myanmar.
Soldiers fired automatic weapons into a crowd of anti-government protesters as tens of thousands defied the ruling military junta's crackdown with a 10th straight day of demonstrations.
The AP reports several people, including a Japanese national, were found dead following Thursday's protests.
This comes a day after the government launched a crackdown in Yangon that it said killed at least one man. Dissidents outside Myanmar reported receiving news of up to eight deaths Wednesday.
It's the stiffest challenge to the military junta in the isolated Southeast Asian nation in two decades.
Read more in this AP story.
-- Jaime Holguin
(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Here are some of the top stories of the moment, straight from the AP wires.
Myanmar soldiers fire weapons into crowd
Bush climate goals marked by bureaucracy
11 Palestinians killed in Gaza fighting
Iran strengthens South America ties
NASA launches asteroid mission
PHOTO: Water
is sprayed as Palestinians gather around the wreckage of a car after it
was hit in an Israeli missile strike in the Zeitoun neighborhood of
Gaza City, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007.
-- Jaime Holguin
(AP Photo/Don Ryan, file)
When we saw the headline on the wire, we first thought this story was about the New England Patriot's illegal surveillance of the New York Jets a few weeks ago. But it turns out the actual Patriot Act is breaking the rules, too.
The AP's William McCall reports that a federal judge has found that parts of the USA Patriot Act (to use its entire name) are
unconstitutional . In U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken's words, the act "now
permits the executive branch of government to conduct surveillance and
searches of American citizens without satisfying the probable cause
requirements of the Fourth Amendment."
Read McCall's entire story here.
-- Otis Hart
(AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
Remember that tirade by San Diego outfielder Milton Bradley over the weekend? Turns out he was provoked.
Major League Baseball suspended umpire Mike Winters for the rest of the regular season on Wednesday, saying he baited Bradley, who has a history of confrontations.
The shoutdown took place in the eighth inning of San Diego's 7-3 loss to Colorado on Sunday, when Bradley singled and asked Winters if told plate umpire Brian Runge whether Bradley threw his bat down after striking out to end the fifth inning.
Runge indicated that he did tell Runge that Bradley flipped that bat at him and apparently shouted a profanity at him. Bradley flew into a rage and had to be restrained by Padres manager Bud Black, tearing his anterior cruciate ligament in the process.
Winters has been a Major League umpire since 1990 and has worked in two World Series, including last season.
Read more about Winters' suspension here.
-- John Marshall
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Legendary music producer Phil Spector walked out of a Los Angeles courthouse today after a mistrial was declared in his murder trial. The jury reported that it was deadlocked 10-2 in favor of convicting Spector for the shooting death more than 4 1/2 years ago of actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion.
The district attorney's office said it will seek to retry Spector, who is shown above with his wife, Rachelle, as they left the courthouse today.
The jury met for about 44 hours over 12 days since getting the case on Sept. 10.
For more on the case, read this report filed by AP special correspondent Linda Deutsch.
--Paul Chavez
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
The Bush administration wants another $633 from each and everyone of you out there to fund our war in the Middle East.
The Pentagon is asking Congress to approve another $190 billion dollars to keep on fightin' in Iraq and Afghanistan. Divide that figure by the 300 million or so Americans and you get $633.33.
Sen. Robert Byrd, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, doesn't like the sound of it so far. "We cannot create a democracy at the point of a gun," said Byrd,
D-W.Va., whose speech during a Senate hearing on the spending request
was interrupted several times by cheers of anti-war protesters. "Sending more guns does not change that reality," Byrd said.
-- Otis Hart
(AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy)
So what's Michael Vick been doing with all of his newfound free time?
The erstwhile Atlanta Falcons quarterback, who was suspended by the league after pleading guilty to bankrolling a dogfighting operation, has tested positive for marijuana. As a result, he was put under tighter restrictions by a federal judge who could take the drug test into account at his sentencing.
Vick's urine sample was submitted Sept. 13, according to a document by a federal probation officer that was filed in U.S. District Court today. He'll now be restricted to his home between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. with electronic monitoring and be subject to random drug testing.
--Josh L. Dickey
After a month of mostly peaceful demonstrations against the military junta running Myanmar, security forces unleashed a violent crackdown today, firing on demonstrators and beating up dozens of monks.
The government said at least one person was killed, but dissident groups and media reported up to eight dead.
For more details, watch the above video report and for the latest developments, read this report from Yangon, Myanmar. Also, check here for first lady Laura Bush's appeal for peace.
--Paul Chavez
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From the top:
-- Bernadette Tuazon
(AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
"Carlos was up all night."
The AP's New York-based chief picture editor, Madge Stager, is talking about AP photographer Carlos Osorio, who shot this and other images from the ongoing labor dispute in the auto industry.
This image, showing United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger soon after a middle-of-the-night agreement with General Motors was announced, was one of several Stager highlighted at this morning's AP global news meeting.
See below for more of her picks.
-- Eric Carvin
