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RALEIGH (AP) - Duke University remains among the nation's Top 10 best colleges and universities while several other schools in North Carolina - including Wake Forest University and Davidson College - continue to improve their status, according to the latest rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The report, which hits the magazine's Web site Friday, has Duke sharing the No. 8 spot with ...

NEW YORK: US Mid-Atlantic factory activity declined less rapidly this month while weekly jobless claims fell, in two reports yesterday that revealed morsels of good news in an otherwise bleak economic environment.

Finding a solution to our nation's energy problem. That's one thing Congressman, and US Senate candidate, Mark Udall is currently working on. He told KJCT News 8 this week that he is working on creating a comprehensive energy plan.

Finding a solution to our nation's energy problem. That's one thing Congressman, and US Senate candidate, Mark Udall is currently working on. He told KJCT News 8 this week that he is working on creating a comprehensive energy plan.

Staff members at Republican White House hopeful John McCain's Colorado headquarters were quarantined Thursday after receiving a letter containing a threat and a suspicious white powder, the US Secret Service said.

A BBC cameraman has been released after being held in Iraq by the US for 23 days, a military spokesman said. Ali al-Mashhadani, who also works for the Reuters news agency and National Public Radio, had been detained twice before by the US, including for a five-month stretch.

Iraq: Deal on US troop withdrawal 'close' after talks (AKI) - The United States and Iraq are close to reaching an agreement on the future of American troops in Iraq, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said on Thursday.Speaking at a news conference in Baghdad with Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, Rice said the two countries had agreed to "time horizons" for the withdrawal ...

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Pennetta prefers the clay - the surface on which she has won two WTA titles this season - and her record at the US Open isn't much to get excited about.

The tall 19-year-old from Minsk has yet to win her first career singles title although she has tasted success at Flushing Meadows before - winning last year's US Open mixed doubles title.

The US Open will be the Hungarian number one's seventh Grand Slam event and she'll be looking to at least emulate last year's achievement of reaching the quarter-final, where she lost to eventual runner-up Svetlana Kuznetsova.

Yet to make a real impact at any of this season's majors, the 21-year-old Russian will look back at last year's run to the US Open semi-finals as a source of encouragement.

There's no doubt Olympic silver medallist Safina has been one of the revelations of the season and will be looking to continue her brilliant form at the US Open. The 22-year-old Russian recently claimed back-to-back tour titles when she followed up her triumph at the East West Bank Classic in Los Angeles with a dominant straight-sets victory over Dominika Cibulkova to clinch the Rogers Cup. That ...

Williams is a two-time US Open winner but the last time she tasted glory at Flushing Meadows was back in 2002. Since then the powerful American has done no better than the quarter-finals and in 2007 succumbed to the eventual champion Justine Henin.

Yet to win on tour this season, the 2004 US Open champion's best showing at a Grand Slam this year was her run to the semi-finals at Roland Garros.

Ivanovic's position at the top of the rankings is hardly secure given the wide open nature of the women's game since the shock retirement of Justine Henin in May and given her recent injury worries, there are no guarantees of a lengthy US Open run.

US private equity group Lone Star is to buy IKB, the German bank rescued by the state development bank KfW after collapsing because of the subprime mortgage crisis, the KfW said Thursday.