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WASHINGTON (AP):Finally, the fall season offers the matchup sure to attract the biggest audience of the campaign: President Barack Obama goes one-on-one with Republican rival Mitt Romney in three prime-time debates.

BEIJING (AP):Rescue workers cleared roads yesterday so they could search for survivors and rush aid to a remote mountainous area of south-western China after twin earthquakes killed at least 80 people.

KABUL, (AP):A teenage suicide bomber blew himself up outside NATO headquarters in the Afghan capital yesterday, killing at least six civilians in a strike that targeted the heart of the United States (US)-led military operation in the country.

Canada’s Foreign Ministry says it is closing its embassy in Iran and will be expelling the remaining Iranian diplomats.

NOSARA (AP):A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swathe of Central America yesterday, collapsing some houses, blocking highways and causing panic, but officials said there was only one reported death, from a heart attack.The...

MIAMI (AP):Tropical Storm Leslie is moving slowly in the Atlantic towards Bermuda and could become a hurricane soon.Leslie's maximum sustained winds yesterday were 70 mph (110 kph).

The ex-police chief at the centre of China's biggest political scandal for years has been charged with a number of offences.

MIAMI (AP): Tropical Storm John has formed in the eastern Pacific near the Mexican island of Socorro but far from the mainland.The United States National Hurricane Centre in Miami said the storm formed early yesterday morning near Socorro...

LAGOS (AP):The roasted chickens had an unusual stuffing, US$150,000 worth of cocaine, according to Nigerian police.A Nigerian mechanic who struggled in Brazil for more than six years had hoped the drugs would buy him a life of luxury in his native land,...

SANTO DOMINGO, (AP):A spokesman for a beach resort in the Dominican Republic says a gas tank explosion has injured 16 kitchen workers.Grand Paradise Bavaro spokesman Luis Lopez says five workers were hospitalised as a result of the blast.

BEIRUT (AP): Two activist groups disclosed yesterday that about 5,000 people were killed in Syria's escalating civil war last month while the United Nations Children's Fund put the death toll for last week alone at 1,600.

MASSACHUSETTS, US (AP):Federal immigration officials say nearly 300 immigrants living in Massachusetts will become US citizens during a naturalisation ceremony at Fitchburg State University.The US Citizenship and Immigration Services says US District...