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NEWS | http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat78-0 ************************************************************************ Report: N. Korea blast a planned demolition --------------------------------------------- North Korea said that a large explosion several days ago was a planned demolition for a hydro-electric project, the BBC reported Monday. According to the BBC, North Korea's Foreign Minister said the blast was at the request for information from a visiting British Foreign Office minister. http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat87-0 U.S. planes bomb Fallujah, killing at least nine people --------------------------------------------- U.S. warplanes and artillery bombed the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 12, hospital officials and witnesses said. http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat89-0 Ivan battering Caymans --------------------------------------------- Hurricane Ivan battered the Cayman Islands with ferocious 150-mph winds Sunday, flooding homes, ripping off roofs and toppling trees three stories tall as its powerful eye thundered past. It then strengthened to Category 5 as it moved Monday on course for Cuba. http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat117-0 MONEY | http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat71-0 ************************************************************************ Feds to require safer window controls --------------------------------------------- Federal auto safety regulators are expected to announce Monday that safer power window switches will be required in all vehicles, likely within four years. The better switches, already on virtually all foreign vehicles and many U.S. cars and trucks, are more difficult to unintentionally activate. http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat69-0 Monster truck goes to market --------------------------------------------- International, the heavy-truck company, thinks buyers are pining for even bigger trucks than today's hefty sport-utility vehicles and full-size pickups, and this week it begins marketing the world's largest production pickup. http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat68-0 Video game pioneer shoots for next level with cell phones --------------------------------------------- Video game pioneer Trip Hawkins is going mobile. His latest act, a Silicon Valley company called Digital Chocolate, is developing games and "lifestyle" applications for portable phones. He hopes the new venture will turn out like the first he founded Electronic Arts, the leading video game maker. http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat73-0 SPORTS | http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat98-0 ************************************************************************ Portis helps make Gibbs, Redskins winners in Week 1 --------------------------------------------- On the first series, Joe Gibbs called a clever play that sprung Clinton Portis 64 yards for a touchdown. After that, the Hall of Fame coach's first victory in nearly 12 years was all about defense. http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat95-0 Bonds walks away one HR closer to 700 --------------------------------------------- Barry Bonds hit a 460-foot shot off the bottom of the center-field scoreboard for his 699th home run, helping the San Francisco Giants regain the NL wild-card lead with a 5-2 win Sunday over the Arizona Diamondbacks. After an off-day, Bonds will go for No. 700 when the Giants play at Milwaukee on Tuesday. http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat92-0 Singh steals one from Weir at Canadian Open --------------------------------------------- Vijay Singh posted his seventh victory of the year, beating Mike Weir in a playoff at the Canadian Open. Weir was plagued by poor putting on the back nine and frittered away a two-shot lead with three holes left in regulation. On the third playoff hole, he hit into the water on his approach, leaving Singh to three-putt for par and another win. http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat102-0 LIFE | http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat46-0 ************************************************************************ Denise's happy 'I Do' --------------------------------------------- It's the day before Charlie Sheen's 39th birthday, and Denise Richards has a party to plan for her husband. She's also rushing to get home to her daughter and to meet a delivery person. Despite all that, Richards, is cool, calm and ready to talk up her TV movie, I Do (But I Don't). It airs Monday on Lifetime (9 ET/PT). http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat51-0 Neck injury keeps Theron off red carpet --------------------------------------------- Head in the Clouds. Neck in a brace. Charlize Theron had every intention of being the unofficial belle of the ball at the Toronto International Film Festival at Sunday night's premiere of the World War II romance that opens Friday. But, as they say, accidents will happen, and the 29-year-old Oscar winner for 2003's Monster had a doozy on the Berlin set of her latest film, the sci-fi thriller Aeon Flux. http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat53-0 Broadway loses a trouper in Fred Ebb --------------------------------------------- Fred Ebb's sassy, spirited lyrics have been such a vibrant life force in Broadway and Hollywood musicals that his death on Saturday after a heart attack may have surprised even those who knew his health had been failing in recent years. http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat52-0 TRAVEL | http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat112-0 ************************************************************************ Second bankruptcy tough to overcome --------------------------------------------- Recent history holds an ugly lesson: Companies that file repeat bankruptcies, as US Airways did Sunday, usually perish. It's the second time the company has sought bankruptcy protection in 25 months. http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat115-0 2nd filing for US Airways --------------------------------------------- US Airways Group Inc. filed Sunday for bankruptcy protection for the second time in two years. The Chapter 11 filing came after US Airways was unable to obtain $800 million in annual cost cuts from its workers' unions that the airline said it needed to stay afloat. http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat114-0 TECH | http://e.usatoday.com/a/tBBRXtaAQc5yPAS6N1zASc-fFp2/usat105-0 ************************************************************************ Innovations for an increasingly demanding wireless crowd --------------------------------------------- As co-stars of an elite, wireless-oriented tech show they were improbable indeed: A weed whacker, a blender and a boombox. 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