Car bomber in south Afghanistan kills 3 civilians (AP)

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• Car bomber in south Afghanistan kills 3 civilians (AP)
• Moody's downgrades Spanish gov't debt (AP)
• Inter-Korean military talks end with no progress (AP)
• NKorea prints photos of heir apparent Kim Jong Un (AP)
• India braces for violence amid holy site verdict (AP)
• Union Protests Put Pressure on E.U. Leaders (Time.com)
• UN: Afghan opium production halved in 2010 (AP)
• Mexico: Landslide in another town kills 16 people (AP)
• Nigerian culture thrives 50 yrs after independence (AFP)
• Pakistan stops NATO supplies entering Afghanistan (AFP)
• Canada to chair meeting of G7 finmins, bankers (Reuters)
• Aussie dollar's surge squeezes tourists (AFP)
• Iran announces new delays at Bushehr nuclear plant – but denies Stuxnet link (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Germany: Greens See Red Over Nuclear Power Extension (Time.com)
• Anti-austerity strikes roil Europe, but many see cutbacks as inevitable (The Christian Science Monitor)

Car bomber in south Afghanistan kills 3 civilians (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 12:58 AM PDT AP - A local official says a suicide attack on a NATO convoy near the airport in Kandahar, south Afghanistan, has killed three civilians.

Moody's downgrades Spanish gov't debt (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 12:36 AM PDT AP - Moody's Investors Service downgraded Spanish government debt Thursday, joining two other major credit rating agencies who have taken similar steps out of concern over the country's public finances.

Inter-Korean military talks end with no progress (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 10:01 PM PDT AP - North and South Korea ended their first working-level military talks in two years Thursday with no progress as the meeting stumbled over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on Pyongyang, Seoul's Defense Ministry said.

NKorea prints photos of heir apparent Kim Jong Un (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:10 AM PDT AP - North Korean state media published the first official images Thursday of Kim Jong Un, the youngest son of leader Kim Jong Il and heir apparent of the impoverished, nuclear-armed state.

India braces for violence amid holy site verdict (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 12:43 AM PDT AP - India sent hundreds of thousands of troops into the streets Thursday as it braced for a potential eruption of violence ahead of a court decision on whether Hindus or Muslims should control a disputed holy site.

Union Protests Put Pressure on E.U. Leaders (Time.com) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 12:20 AM PDT Time.com - Across Europe on Wednesday, union members took to the streets to protest the austerity measures being handed down by their governments. Meanwhile, the European Commission proposed rules that it hopes could stop the crisis from happening again

UN: Afghan opium production halved in 2010 (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:04 AM PDT AP - Afghanistan's opium production declined by almost half this year due largely to the spread of a disease that damaged poppy plants, but the amount of land used for growing the crop remained the same, the U.N.'s drug agency said Thursday.

Mexico: Landslide in another town kills 16 people (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:00 AM PDT AP - The unstable hillsides of rain-soaked southern Mexico have claimed at least 16 more victims and authorities are scrambling to deal with the peril after a siege of unusually wet weather.

Nigerian culture thrives 50 yrs after independence (AFP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 11:19 PM PDT AFP - Femi Kuti takes the stage and launches into his politically tinged music the same way his famous father used to, carrying on a tradition some say represents the best of Nigeria 50 years after independence.

Pakistan stops NATO supplies entering Afghanistan (AFP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:08 AM PDT AFP - Pakistan on Thursday temporarily blocked NATO supply convoys from entering Afghanistan after officials blamed cross-border NATO fire for three Pakistani soldiers' deaths, officials said.

Canada to chair meeting of G7 finmins, bankers (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:19 PM PDT Reuters - Canada will chair a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven major industrialized nations in Washington next month, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Wednesday.

Aussie dollar's surge squeezes tourists (AFP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 09:00 AM PDT AFP - German backpackers Christian Morbe and Kathrin Veith were prepared for their stay in Australia to be expensive, but the skyrocketing Australian dollar is catching tourists like them by surprise.

Iran announces new delays at Bushehr nuclear plant – but denies Stuxnet link (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 02:57 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Iran said its troubled Bushehr nuclear power plant won't go on line for at least another three months, the latest delay for a plant that is the centerpiece of Iran's nuclear power program.

Germany: Greens See Red Over Nuclear Power Extension (Time.com) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 12:20 AM PDT Time.com - The German cabinet approves plans to extend the lifespan of its nuclear reactors by an average of 12 years, back-tracking a promise by the previous government to shut them all down by 2022. As support slumps, has Merkel's coalition made a dangerous move?

Anti-austerity strikes roil Europe, but many see cutbacks as inevitable (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 01:45 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Spaniards on Wednesday largely shunned the country’s first general strike this decade against the government’s austerity measures, despite coping with Europe’s worst unemployment rates and one of the deepest and longest recessions.

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