Cruise the high seas with Pelé

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Supporters are being offered the chance to join the Brazilian footballer on a new European cruise. Caroline Shearing reports.
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Former Secretary of State Powell endorses Obama (AP)

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This photo provided by NBC, shows former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell speaking during a taping of 'Meet the Press' at NBC Sunday Oct. 19, 2008, in Washington. Powell, a Republican who was President Bush's first secretary of state, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Sunday, and criticized the tone of Republican John McCain's campaign. (AP Photo/Meet The Press, Brendan Smialowski)AP - Democrat Barack Obama, running a presidential campaign that’s raising money at a record clip, has won the endorsement of a widely admired Republican and former member of President Bush’s Cabinet.



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Bruised economy likely to limp into next year (AP)

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Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr., walks to a motorcade after arriving with President Bush and first lady Laura Bush via the Marine One helicopter at the Naval Observatory, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008, in Washington. Paulson was returning from a weekend at Camp David.  (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Beaten down by housing, credit and financial crises, the bruised economy is likely to drag into next year, leaving more people out of work and more businesses wary of making big investments.



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Global markets advance; S. Korea up on bank plan (AP)

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Pedestrians cross an intersection with an electric stock board behind in Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. Japan's benchmark Nikkei index gained 45.88 points, or 0.53 percent, from Friday to 8,739.70 to finish the Monday morning session   (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)AP - World markets advanced Monday, with South Korean shares gaining for the first time in four days after the government announced a $130 billion plan to buttress the country’s vulnerable banks amid the credit crisis.



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South African aid worker killed in Afghanistan (AP)

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An Afghan police man guards as another officer questions a taxi driver at a highway in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008. Taliban militants stopped a bus traveling on Afghanistan's main highway through a wild and dangerous part of the country's south, seized about 50 people on board and slaughtered around 30 of them, officials said Sunday.(AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - Gunmen on a motorbike killed a South African aid worker in the Afghan capital on Monday, while NATO-led troops assaulted an insurgent stronghold in a two-day battle that killed at least 20 militants, officials said.



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US diplomat visits Pakistan amid new violence (AP)

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In this photo released by Pakistan Press Information Department, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher, center, talks with Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti, right, during a meeting in Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008. Boucher arrived in Pakistan for talks with leaders of a country vital to Western security concerns. Boucher's trip comes amid strains between Islamabad and Washington over suspected American missile attacks targeting militants inside Pakistan. (AP Photo/Pakistan Press Information Department, HO)AP - A top U.S. diplomat met with Pakistan’s prime minister Monday as Pakistani security forces used artillery and fighter jets to kill seven suspected insurgents in the northwest tribal region, officials said.



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AP IMPACT: Mortgage firm arranged stealth campaign (AP)

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Hollis McLoughlin, an executive of DCI, watches a Washington Capitals hockey game Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, in Washington.  Freddie Mac secretly paid DCI, a Washington-based Republican consulting firm, $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)AP - Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse.



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Abducted Las Vegas boy is returned to his father (AP)

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Robert Puffinburger talks at a news conference in Las Vegas early Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008. Robert's son Cole Mason Puffinburger, who was kindapped on Oct. 15, was found alive Saturday in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher)AP - A 6-year-old boy abducted from his home at gunpoint was safe in his father’s custody Sunday as police tried to untangle any ties the youngster’s family had to the Mexican drug dealers suspected of taking him.

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Parents press states for autism insurance laws (AP)

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Sean and Michele Trivedi laugh as they play with their 11-year-old daughter Ellie, outside their home in Carmel, Ind., Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. Ellie, who has autism, receives behavior therapy that is covered under the family's health insurance. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - In Washington state, Reza and Arzu Forough pay more than $1,000 a week for behavior therapy for their 12-year-old autistic son.



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Fashion critic Mr. Blackwell dies in Los Angeles (AP)

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in a Jan. 14, 1996 file photo  Mr. Blackwell announces his 37th Annual Worst Dressed Women List  in Los Angeles.Blackwell died Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008 of complications from an intestinal infection, publicist Harlan Boll said.   (AP Photo/Nick Ut/file )AP - Mr. Blackwell, the acerbic designer whose annual worst-dressed list skewered the fashion felonies of celebrities from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears, has died. He was 86.



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