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• Lawmakers demand Lockerbie bomber medical files (AP)
• Chelsea agree Carvalho fee with Real (AFP)
• Villa director deplores O'Neill exit (AFP)
• Fire hits former Nazi death camp in Poland (AP)
• Summary Box: Google's 'Street View' (AP)
• Historic heat to dent Russian growth, fires rage (Reuters)
• Co-pilot Putin helps put out Russia's wildfires (AP)
• Spanish air controllers say no strike in August (AFP)
• PM defends 'bounty hunter' plans for welfare cheats (AFP)
• Gibraltar slams Spanish border town's road toll plan (AFP)
• Human rights groups ask WikiLeaks to censor files (AP)
• After 12 years, EU license plate gets traction (AP)
• Vatican pleased US plaintifs seek to dismiss case (AP)
• Demjanjuk attends shortened trial session (AP)
• Wages cut, Spanish highway cops go soft on drivers (AP)
• Thousands rally in Warsaw to demand cross be moved (AP)

Lawmakers demand Lockerbie bomber medical files (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:08 PM PDT AP - Scottish lawmakers demanded Tuesday that their government publish full details of the medical advice that led to the release from prison of the Lockerbie bomber almost a year ago.

Chelsea agree Carvalho fee with Real (AFP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 01:35 PM PDT AFP - Chelsea have agreed a fee with Real Madrid for the sale of Portuguese international defender Ricardo Carvalho, the English Premier League champions announced here on Tuesday.

Villa director deplores O'Neill exit (AFP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 01:01 PM PDT AFP - Aston Villa director Charles Krulak has slammed manager Martin O'Neill's decision to quit the club just days before the start of the new English Premier League season.

Fire hits former Nazi death camp in Poland (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 12:59 PM PDT AP - A fire swept through a barrack at the former Nazi death camp of Majdanek, destroying more than half the building and possibly 10,000 shoes of Holocaust victims, officials said Tuesday.

Summary Box: Google's 'Street View' (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 12:55 PM PDT AP - WATCH FOR: Google's "Street View" mapping feature for 20 of Germany's largest cities, including Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, will launch before the end of the year.

Historic heat to dent Russian growth, fires rage (Reuters) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 12:53 PM PDT Reuters - Russia's deadly summer heatwave could wipe up to $14 billion off economic growth, economists said Tuesday, as wildfires raged on in several provinces and forecasters said sweltering weather would not abate this week.

Co-pilot Putin helps put out Russia's wildfires (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 12:16 PM PDT AP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin climbed into a firefighting plane Tuesday and dumped water on two of the hundreds of wildfires sweeping through western Russia and cloaking Moscow in a suffocating smog.

Spanish air controllers say no strike in August (AFP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 12:01 PM PDT AFP - The union representing Spain's air traffic controllers said Tuesday it would act responsibly and not strike in August, which would have disrupted flights at the peak of the tourist season.

PM defends 'bounty hunter' plans for welfare cheats (AFP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:28 AM PDT AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron played down concerns on Tuesday about his government's plans to use private firms to track down fraudulent welfare claims.

Gibraltar slams Spanish border town's road toll plan (AFP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:17 AM PDT AFP - Gibraltar on Tuesday condemned as "illegal" a proposal by the neighbouring Spanish town of La Linea to impose a tax on cars entering or leaving the tiny British territory by road.

Human rights groups ask WikiLeaks to censor files (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:04 AM PDT AP - Human rights groups said Tuesday they've asked WikiLeaks to censor secret files on the Afghanistan war to protect civilians who've worked alongside the U.S. and other foreign forces from reprisals.

After 12 years, EU license plate gets traction (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 09:10 AM PDT AP - How do you unify a half-billion people from the Azores to the Arctic? Europeans balked at a continent-wide constitution. EU officials hope license plates might help do the job.

Vatican pleased US plaintifs seek to dismiss case (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 07:05 AM PDT AP - The Vatican said Tuesday it was satisfied that three men who had sought to hold the Vatican liable in an American court for sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests have decided to abandon the case.

Demjanjuk attends shortened trial session (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 06:05 AM PDT AP - A court session at the trial of John Demjanjuk has been shortened to allow the defendant time to rest after receiving a blood transfusion.

Wages cut, Spanish highway cops go soft on drivers (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 05:29 AM PDT AP - As Spain's highways hum with vacationing motorists, relief from fears of being stopped and fined is coming from an odd quarter: the country's economic and debt woes. Traffic cops angry over a pay cut and other slights are slapping wrists rather than writing tickets.

Thousands rally in Warsaw to demand cross be moved (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 01:56 AM PDT AP - Thousands of people held a midnight rally in Poland's capital to demand that a wooden cross erected in memory of the late President Lech Kaczynski be moved from in front of the presidential palace.

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