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Jobless rate jumps to 5-year high of 6.1 percent (AP)

The dollar struck a near 11-month high versus the euro on news of slumping industrial output in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, and as the market awaited key US jobs data(AFP/Getty Images/File/Annie Tritt)AP - The nation's unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs, dramatic proof of the mounting damage a deeply troubled economy is inflicting on workers and businesses alike.


McCain and Obama campaigns grapple for 'change' (AP)

Republican presidential candidate John McCain waves to the crowed as he goes on stage at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008.  (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Invigorated by back-to-back political conventions, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama grappled for the mantle of change Friday as the fall race for the presidency took off in states teeming with the independent voters they needed to win.


US East Coast braces for Tropical Storm Hanna (AP)

Kathy Crabtree of Wrightsville Beach enjoys the breezy day between rain squalls as she sits on a bench in Wrightsville Beach, NC., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hannah continues to churn towards the United States coast. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Beach vacationers in the Carolinas prepared to pack up and head inland Friday as Tropical Storm Hanna cruised steadily toward the coast, while others decided to ride out the fast-moving storm that had only a slight chance to become a small hurricane before crashing ashore overnight.


US warship to Georgian port partly held by Russia (AP)

The flagship of the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean, the USS Mount Whitney, arriving to the Georgian port Poti, with more aid for Georgia,   Friday, Sept. 5, 2008.  (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)AP - The flagship of the U.S. Navy's Mediterranean fleet anchored outside a key Georgian port Friday, defiantly bringing in tons of humanitarian aid to a city still partly occupied by hundreds of Russian troops.


Rice arrives in Libya on historic visit (AP)

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado smile at each other during a news conference following their meeting Friday, Sept. 5 2008, at the Necessidades palace in Lisbon, ahead of a trip to North Africa that will take her to Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Libya, becoming the highest-ranking American official to visit the North African country in more than a half-century and opening a new chapter in U.S. relations with the one-time pariah state.