 Reuters - Pakistan's Taliban on Friday took responsibility for triple bombings at a Shi'ite Muslim procession this week, challenging the civilian government further as it struggles with a flood crisis.
 Reuters - At least 25 suspected drug gang members were killed in an army raid in rural northeastern Mexico on Thursday, the army said in a press release.
 AFP - Cricket's world governing body charged three Pakistan stars with anti-corruption offences and provisionally suspended them, as the trio protested their innocence in an alleged betting scam.
 Reuters - Hurricane Earl battered North Carolina's coast with rain, winds and waves on Friday and swirled up the U.S. eastern seaboard toward New England and Canada as a weakened but still dangerous storm.
 Reuters - The White House stressed on Thursday that no second economic stimulus package is being considered as part of new measures under review by President Barack Obama's team.
 AP - A passenger was detained and four of Miami International Airport's six concourses were evacuated after a screener spotted something suspicious in a checked bag, authorities said.
 AP - Republican Jesse Kelly was still basking in the glow of his victory in an Arizona congressional primary when the Democratic congresswoman he's trying to unseat released a scathing TV ad branding him "a risk" who would gamble away people's retirement savings.
 AP - They all want to be like Maria. They all want to beat Maria, too.
 AP - The unemployment rate may be about to rise again.
 AP - Soldiers killed at least 25 suspected cartel members Thursday in a raid and gunbattle in a Mexican state near the U.S. border that has become one of the most dangerous battlegrounds in the country's drug war.
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 AP - Dolphins have been herded into a cove as part of an annual hunt in the Japanese seaside town made famous by an Oscar-winning documentary about their slaughter, conservationist group Sea Shepherd said Friday. A town official said none were killed.
Reuters - The summer box-office season wraps this weekend with three unheralded, adult-targeted new releases struggling to topple reigning champ "Takers."
AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
Reuters - The famously unflappable Cameron Bailey is looking a touch puzzled, and has for weeks.
Reuters - If the new "Date Night" DVD had sold only 25,000 copies, there would have been hell to pay for studio executives. But for Steven Hirsch -- or anyone else in the adult entertainment business, for that matter -- that figure represents a blockbuster.
Reuters - The fact that "Norwegian Wood" is based on Haruki Murakami's 1987 international best-seller should encourage many viewers to give this long, elegantly shot, sporadically involving Japanese film a try.
Reuters - Critics are queuing up to praise Natalie Portman in her latest movie "Black Swan," the opening picture at this year's Venice film festival, with one review saying the performance "elevates her ... to a major star."
Reuters - Want to experience the worst sort of theater without the bother or expense of heading to New York? Take in the new indie film "Clear Blue Tuesday," a 9/11-themed musical -- that's not a typo -- representing the sort of egregious fatuousness and self-indulgence that is all too endemic to off-Broadway stages.
 AP - A French skyscraper climber nicknamed "Spider-Man" pleaded not guilty Friday to charges related to his bare-handed climb up a 57-story building in downtown Sydney.
 AP - Twentieth Century Fox's "Machete" is set to slice up the competition as director Robert Rodriguez's star-studded extravaganza will likely dominate the weekend with a Friday through Monday total of around $16 million.
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 AP - The former television producer who tried to blackmail David Letterman was freed Thursday after four months in jail for a plot that put a spotlight on the comic icon's office affairs, city Correction Department records show.
 Fashion Wire Daily - They danced, they sang and host Jimmy Fallon killed it at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards held Sunday, Aug. 29, at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
Reuters - God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
AP - A French skyscraper climber nicknamed "Spider-Man" pleaded not guilty Friday to charges related to his bare-handed climb up a 57-story building in downtown Sydney.
AP - Dolphins have been herded into a cove as part of an annual hunt in the Japanese seaside town made famous by an Oscar-winning documentary about their slaughter, conservationist group Sea Shepherd said Friday. A town official said none were killed.
Reuters - God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
 AP - After finishing a sentence for weapons charges earlier this year, T.I. was poised to have the comeback of the fall.
AP - Axl Rose, it seems, needs a little more patience — and a much louder alarm clock.
Reuters - American rock band Guns N' Roses incurred the wrath of a crowd in Ireland after showing up almost an hour late -- and then left the stage after being pelted with plastic glasses.
 Reuters - NBC might have summer's most-watched show in "America's Got Talent," but the network's late-night ratings aren't so hot.
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