AP - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.

AFP - A bomb packed with nuts and bolts injured up to 50 young revellers on Friday at a huge outdoor concert in the Belarussian capital Minsk attended by President Alexander Lukashenko, officials said.

AP - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.

Reuters - The buyers of telecoms company BCE Incare sticking to the agreed C$34.8-billion ($34.1 billion)purchase price and have finalized the funding for the deal togo ahead, the company said on Friday.

AP - Is Barack Obama close to being shadowed by giant flip-flops and, worse, having the image stick with people all the way to the voting booth?

PC World - A vulnerability in a Web server contributed to the attacks on some 300 Web sites in Lithuania earlier this week, a computer...

AP - Jaromir Jagr signed with a Russian team a day after his split with the New York Rangers, returning to the club he joined during the NHL's 2004-05 lockout.

Fashion Wire Daily - Half the passages in this week's haute couture show by Jean Paul Gaultier had birds'names; several were simply entitled cage, befitting a collection where many of fashion's most beautiful models hit the runway bound in wire traps or metal frames.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Trying to get pregnant again after amiscarriage can be fraught with a host of emotional and physicalconcerns.

AP - Weather around the U.S.A.

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