- Congress returns from summer recess for a couple of weeks, but neither side expects any significant legislation to pass during a bitter campaign season.
- The Afghan Taliban is promising to kill newly deployed British Prince Harry, four years after his original Royal Air Force deployment was cut short due to security reasons.
- Royal Dutch Shell becomes the first company to drill offshore along Alaska's Arctic Chukchi Sea coast, with the first wells expected to go into full production next year.
- More government austerity in the UK continues as Business Secretary Vince Cable plans to eliminate "thousands" of health and safety regulations.
- California biologists are tracking honeybees infected with a fly parasite to try to discover how to save hive populations from so-called infested "zombees".
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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