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Governor Schwarzenegger is calling for new cuts instead of borrowing from Wall Street, as he'd originally proposed.

Shipping executive Per Gullestrup wanted to rescue a crew of sailors from pirates demanding a $7 million ransom. He ended up forging an unlikely business relationship with the negotiator, marked by mutual respect and the gift of three camel calves.

Device Gallery moved to a new space in Barrio Logan and to celebrate they opened a show of moving sculpture. It Moved! features kinetic work from six regional and national artists.

The leader of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka is dead. That's according to international news agency reports out of the island. It marks the final end of a war that's lasted more than a quarter if a century and claimed tens of thousands of lives.

In a remote corner of western Afghanistan, a team of high-ranking Afghan officials is making reparation payments to survivors of a U.S. airstrike last week. The official death toll, disputed by the U.S. military, is 140 civilians and 25 Taliban fighters.

U.S. and Afghan officials agree that most of the 21,000 U.S. troops President Obama plans to send to Afghanistan in the coming months should be deployed in Kandahar and its surrounding areas to fight the Taliban resurgence.

In the impoverished northwestern district of Buner, thousands have piled into cars and on top of camels to escape five days of fighting. The militants pushed into Buner last week from their stronghold in the neighboring Swat Valley. Relief workers say refugees lack clean water, food and housing.

South Africans go to the polls on Wednesday and Jacob Zuma is almost certain to win the presidency. Alec Russell is author of the book Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa from Mandela to Zuma. Russel talks with Renee Montagne about Zuma, who is the charismatic leader of the African National Congress.

When Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was an infant, her family was told she would become a great woman. But assuring words, unfortunately, were not enough to shield Africa's first woman president from a life of hardship, which included an abusive marriage.

Humans have used native plants for food, shelter, clothing and art for tens of thousands of years. We'll look at how California's Indians used native plants throughout history and into the modern age