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About 100 police officers and their supporters gathered on the steps of Southampton Town Hall yesterday to protest a move by Supervisor Linda Kabot to terminate the jobs of six veteran police officers...

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(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)Serena Williams, right, of the United States, shakes hands with her sister Venus Williams, of the United States, after Serena won their quarter final match at the U.S. Open te...

Dera Ismail Khan (Pakistan), Sept 4 : Until now the US-led allied forces in Afghanistan had carried out occasional air-strikes and artillery attacks in the Pak-Afghan border areas against militants hiding there. But, last night's commando raid in Wana by the American forces signaled "opening of a salvo in a much broader campaign" by Special Operations forces against the Taliban and Al Qaeda inside Pakistan, said an article in the new york Times.

New york, Sept.4 : The United States envoy to the United Nations, Z. Khalilzad, has said he made no mistake in establishing contacts with PPP, adding that the interactions were purely of social nature.

New york, Sept.4 : Even after Senator John McCain named her as his running mate on Friday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin remained an unknown quantity to most Americans.

New york, Sept.4 : John McCain's millionaire wife Cindy says she doesn't completely agree with Sarah Palin's views on abortion.

As people began trickling back to the city, utility officials gave no word on when electricity would be restored.

Coalition forces opened fire in a village near the Afghan border, killing seven people, the Pakistani military said.

The panel of education experts recommended that the law be renewed but amended to limit City Hall's power.