By Sonja Pace, VOA News
Jerusalem
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is in Israel for talks on how to end the conflict with Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon. The secretary's visit comes as the violence enters its second week amid continued cross-border attacks and ground fighting.
Secretary Rice and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. State Dept photo.
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By Tom Hundley
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
PARIS _ For the eighth year in a row, an American rider led the pack into Paris to claim victory in the Tour de France. The only difference is that the rider was not Lance Armstrong, who retired after his 2005 victory.
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By VOA News
Iraqi authorities say car bombs in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk killed 62 people Sunday.
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By Brian Bull
Phillips, Wisconsin
VOA News
In Australia, it's called the Yowie. In the Himalayas, natives speak of the Yeti. The Mapinguari roams the Amazon Basin. And in North America, tales persist of a giant, ape-like being known as Sasquatch, or Bigfoot. The mystique of this legend has endured for centuries, and a California-based group has just completed yet another leg of a cross-country expedition for the mysterious - and controversial - creature.
The legend of Bigfoot, allegedly pictured here in a photo from Northern California in the 1960s, is kept alive by this sign for a store in Wisconsin.
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