Fighting between Iraqi security forces and supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr continued for a second day Wednesday.

Record oil prices, the sub-prime mortgage mess and slumping stock markets are hardly music to the ears of investors.

Two people were killed and four injured — one seriously — in a crane accident in downtown Miami, Florida, Tuesday, said Miami Fire Rescue spokesman Ignatius Carroll.

A piece of Antarctic ice measuring 220 square miles has collapsed, and an ice shelf about seven times the size of Manhattan is “hanging by a thread” because of global warming, the British Antarctic Survey said today. “We are in for a lot more events like this,” one professor said.

Two people were killed and four injured — one seriously — in a crane accident in downtown Miami, Florida, Tuesday, said Miami Fire Rescue spokesman Ignatius Carroll.

An explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Dubai sparked a massive fire Wednesday that may burn for more than 24 hours, authorities said.

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Perhaps, now the candidates will play nice.

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