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AP - How about that? Andre Agassi, 36 years old and burdened by a bad back, held up better than the kid across the net in a thriller that will be talked about for years.

Reuters - Andre Agassi kept his U.S. Open tennis
campaign alive and staved off retirement again with a 6-4 6-4
3-6 5-7 7-5 victory over a battling Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus
to reach the third round on Thursday.

Reuters - Tropical Storm Ernesto
hit North Carolina near hurricane strength on Thursday, dumping
heavy rain on both Carolina states and forecasters warned it
could trigger life-threatening floods and tornadoes.

AP - Tropical Storm Ernesto made landfall on the southern North Carolina coast late Thursday, coming ashore with heavy rains but sustained winds that fell just short of hurricane levels.

AP - When a wooden politician delivers the best line of the MTV Music Video Awards, you know the thrill is gone. So was the decadence, outrageousness and spontaneity that used to make the VMAs such a guilty pleasure.

Reuters - Hundreds of foreign tourists
raced to escape a luxury beach resort in Mexico on Thursday as
Hurricane John took aim at the Baja California peninsula and
rescuers rushed residents into shelters.

AP - Delta Air Lines Inc. has agreed to extend the deadline for its Comair subsidiary to bid on regional jet service as Comair continues to cope with the crash of Flight 5191 that killed 49 people, Comair’s top executive said on Thursday.

AP - Tourists fled hotels and desperately sought flights home, while at least 15,000 residents were ordered to higher ground Thursday as a slightly weakened Hurricane John bore down on the resort of Cabo San Lucas.

AP - Iran defied a U.N. deadline Thursday to stop enriching uranium, opening the door for sanctions, but U.S. and other officials said no action would be sought before a key European diplomat meets with Tehran’s atomic chief next week to seek a compromise.

Reuters - U.S. and Alaskan authorities
on Thursday demanded $92.2 million from Exxon Mobil for
environmental damages linked to the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident.

Reuters - California made a bold move to curb
global warming by passing on Thursday the first bill in the
United States to cap man-made greenhouse gas emissions, an
action state leaders hope will be copied across the country.

AP - The Israeli army turned over a small border area in south Lebanon to Lebanese and foreign troops Thursday, a symbolic move paving the way for U.N. peacekeepers to go into the volatile area.