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Florida contest will haul in 13,000 invasive lionfish
Panda born in France now a month old, drinks without bottle
This photo taken on Friday Sept. 1, 2017 and released on Monday Sept. 4, 2017, shows baby panda nicknamed Mini Yuan Zi and its mother Huan Huan at the Beauval zoo in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, central France. The baby panda born last month in a zoo south of Paris can now drink without a feeding bottle and weighs more than one kilogram. (ZooParc de Beauval via AP)
Labour movement has leapt forward in last decade, leaders say
Commercial condos catch on in Calgary
Fairmore Business Park, a new, seven-acre development, is the only new office and warehouse condo project in south central Calgary.
Burundi committing crimes against humanity, says report
Turkey slams Merkel and rival for anti-Turkish rhetoric
BRICS countries express concern over several terror groups
A plenary session of the BRICS Summit is held in Xiamen, Fujian province, China Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. Five major emerging economies opened a summit Monday to map out their future course, with host Chinese President Xi Jinping calling on them to play a bigger role in world governance, reject protectionism and inject new energy into tackling the gap between the world's wealthy and developing nations. (Fred Dufour/Pool Photo via AP)
Wounded and 'afraid,' Rohingya seek Bangladesh medical aid
Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority refugee women and children look for shelters after crossing the border near Cox's Bazar's Gundum area, Bangladesh, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017. Aid officials said relief camps were reaching full capacity as thousands of Rohingya refugees continued to pour into Bangladesh on Sunday fleeing violence in western Myanmar. Some 73,000 people have crossed the border since violence erupted Aug. 25 in Myanmar's Rakhine state, said U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokeswoman Vivian Tan. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
China says Trump's trade threat over N. Korea 'unacceptable'
North Korean workers chat at each other near a window of North Korean Embassy in Beijing, Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday shot back at North Korea's claimed test of a hydrogen bomb with a blunt threat, saying the U.S. will answer any threat from the North with a "massive military response — a response both effective and overwhelming." Earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to halt all trade with countries doing business with the North, a veiled warning to China, and faulted South Korea for its "talk of appeasement." (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
'The Canadian construction sector is for sale,' as Aecon looks for a bidder
Aecon Construction scissor lift operator, Abel Sousa, looks at Toronto Pearson International Airport's new Terminal 1 check-in area from above the scissor lift on Dec. 2, 2003. Canada's construction industry may soon have a better idea of how attractive it is to the increasingly globalized building sector as one of its biggest catches sits on the auction block awaiting bidders. Toronto-based Aecon Group Inc. is in the process of courting suitors after it put it itself up for sale Aug. 25, a move analysts say will draw players across Europe, the U.S. and China looking to size up the company's -- and Canada's -- potential. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tobin Grimshaw
Millions who buy health insurance brace for sharp increases
FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2017 file photo, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., accompanied by the committee's ranking member Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Millions of people who buy individual health insurance policies and get no government help for premiums are facing another year of double-digit premium increases and frustration is boiling over. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Mnuchin: Congress should tie Harvey aid to debt limit bill
FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, file photo, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks during a news briefing at the White House in Washington. Mnuchin is calling on Congress to combine a $7.9 billion disaster relief package for Hurricane Harvey with a contentious increase in the nation's debt limit. He says it’s time to "put politics aside" so storm victims can get the help they need.” Trump plans to meet with congressional leaders from both parties this week. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Kentucky's last abortion clinic to face off against governor
In this Monday, July 17, 2017, photo, Meg Stern, left, and other escort volunteers are lined up outside the EMW Women's Surgical Center in Louisville, Ky. The escorts are preparing for a large anti-abortion protest that is seeking to shut down the center, the last one providing abortions in the state of Kentucky. With its survival on the line, Kentucky's last abortion clinic is bracing for a pivotal legal showdown with health regulators and the state's anti-abortion governor. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)
Suspect kills officer in raid on Pakistan home, escapes
Priest grasps for words as storm victims question their pain
In this Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, photo, the Rev. Mark Goring surveys damage from Hurricane Harvey at a church community center in Houston. The Catholic priest has been inundated with requests for spiritual guidance in the aftermath of the storm, but has also been tending to people's material needs, organizing a huge relief effort. (AP Photo/Matt Sedensky)
Congress returns to Washington with agenda upended by Harvey
In this Feb. 27, 2017 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., accompanied by House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, following their meeting with President Donald Trump inside. Harvey has scrambled the equation for Congress as lawmakers return to Washington Tuesday. Having accomplished little in the first six months of the year they now face a daunting workload, but the immediate need to send aid to help Texas and Louisiana recover from the massive storm damage takes center stage, and pushes other disputes to the side. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Cambodia paper is latest victim of intensifying crackdown
France: Wedding guest charged in missing girl case
Novartis CEO Jimenez to step down early next year
FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017 file photo Joe Jimenez, CEO of Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis, announces the 2016 results during a press conference at the Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland. Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez will step down early next year and be replaced by fellow American Dr. Vasant Narasimhan, the Swiss pharmaceutical company said Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. Narasimhan, currently its chief medical officer and global head of drug development, will take over the top job on Feb. 1, Novartis said. (Patrick Straub/Keystone via AP, file)
Asian stocks mixed amid Korea jitters
A currency trader talks near screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), right, and the foreign exchange rate at the foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. Asian shares were mostly lower Monday, on investor jitters shaken up by a North Korean nuclear test over the weekend that raised fears about risks to regional stability. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Top Indonesia judge gets 8 years in prison for corruption
Constitutional Court Judge Patrialis Akbar, center, is escorted by security officers after his sentencing hearing at the Corruption Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. The court has sentenced Akbar, one of the country's top judges, to eight years in prison for receiving thousands of dollars from a meat importer to influence the outcome of a judicial review of the law on animal husbandry. (AP Photo)
The Latest: South Korea conducts live-fire naval drills
South Korean army's K-9 self-propelled howitzers move during a military exercise in Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. Following U.S. warnings to North Korea of a "massive military response," South Korea's military on Monday fired missiles into the sea to simulate an attack on the North's main nuclear test site a day after Pyongyang detonated its largest ever nuclear test explosion. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Myanmar faces anger from Muslim world over Rohingya plight
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, second left, arrives at Foreign Ministry to meet with Myanmar's Foreign Minster Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. (AP Photo)
Authorities investigate death of man at Burning Man festival
S. Korea continues military drills after N. Korean nuke test
Wildfires across US West force thousands to flee their homes
A Skycrane helicopter drops water on a hotspot, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, in Burbank, Calif. Several hundred firefighters worked to contain a blaze that chewed through brush-covered mountains, prompting evacuation orders for homes in Los Angeles, Burbank and Glendale. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
As robots edge into workplace, free money idea takes hold
Harvey victims leave shelters but face dire housing needs
A pickup truck gets stranded on a street in a flooded neighborhood west of downtown Houston on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017. The city has ordered a mandatory evacuation of flooded-out homes in the area, but people are still retrieving belongings from homes that have been standing in water for days. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
San Francisco official pushes robot tax to battle automation
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Harvey's floodwaters mix a foul brew of sewage, chemicals
US envoy tells UN: North Korean leader is 'begging for war'
A man walks past a TV news on screen reporting North Korea's a possible nuclear test in Tokyo Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017. South Korea's military said Sunday that North Korea is believed to have conducted its sixth nuclear test after it detected a strong earthquake, hours after Pyongyang claimed that its leader has inspected a hydrogen bomb meant for a new intercontinental ballistic missile. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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