AP - Millions of mosquito eggs laid across southern Texas after Hurricane Ike hit the coast last summer are waiting for the little bit of rain and hot summer days they need to hatch. That's got the man whose job it is to fight the bugs worried — he's already running out of money.

Reuters - The Caribbean's small island states ride out hurricanes year after year, but they are fighting to stay afloat in a global economic storm that is battering rich and poor nations alike.

Reuters - A tropical wave over the western Caribbean Sea between Honduras and Cuba has a moderate chance -- 30 to 50 percent -- of developing into a tropical cyclone over the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center forecast Friday.

AFP - At least eight people were killed while 12 others remained missing after tropical storm Nangka swept through the central and northern Philippines, officials said on Thursday.

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The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 5.7 percent, according to Bankrate's weekly survey.

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NASA Dryden's four F/A-18 mission support aircraft flew in formation for a pilot proficiency flight on Nov. 24, 2008, in this image. NASA Dryden photographer...

(AP) - In this picture provided by Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Liberty, a male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, wears a hat and waves an American flag in honor of the Fourth of July at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif. on Friday, July 3, 2009. Liberty, born on July 4, 1990, was named after his birth date, and this year turns 19 the same day the nation marks its 233rd year. (AP Photo/Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Nancy Chan)

(Reuters) - A jet, its vapour trail streaming out behind, flies past the waxing moon over Zurich June 30, 2009. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND TRANSPORT ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY)

(AP) - A sand sculpture is displayed during the international sand sculptures festival in the Bulgarian town of Burgas east of the capital Sofia, Thursday, July, 2, 2009. The town holds the festival for the second time. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov)

(Reuters) - Tai Lihua (C), art director of China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe, leads deaf dancers to perform "Thousand-hand Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva", or "Guan Yin", a Chinese goddess, in Suining, Sichuan province June 30, 2009. Feeling music through speakers and guided by hand gestures, the troupe takes steps to champion the rights of disabled people around the world. Since forming in 1987, the troupe has performed in more than 40 countries and raised money for disabled people's charities. Picture taken June 30, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA SOCIETY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA

(AP) - Bulgarians meet the first July sunrise at the Black Sea coast near the village of Asparuhovo east of the capital Sofia, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Every year on 1st of July hundreds of Bulgarians traditionally celebrate this July morning. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov)

(AFP) - Beat the heat : A Pakistani youth cools off in a canal during a heatwave in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)

(AFP) - Joy of football : A boy jumps while playing football in a field in Soshanguve near Pretoria. (AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba)

(AFP/DDP) - Duque dives : Colombian cliff diver Orlando Duque dives off the pedestrian bridge "Eiserner Steg" in the western German city of Frankfurt/M. (AFP/DDP/Thomas Lohnes)

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A new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York uses maps and computer modeling to reveal a natural world that preceded island records.

Goodie bags included in an installation at the 53rd Venice Biennale presented interesting challenges for some art collectors.

Rome?s archaeological authority has reallocated money so that it can provide staffs for five monuments in the ancient heart of the city that are usually closed.

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