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Gadhafi vows to fight until 'victory or death' A defiant Moammar Gadhafi vowed Wednesday to fight on "until victory or martyrdom" and called on loyalists to free Tripoli from the "devils and traitors" who have overrun it. Journalists imprisoned in luxury Tripoli hotel Dozens of us journalists have been trapped for days in the luxury Rixos Hotel, kept there by government enforcers whose weaponry has convinced us of the wisdom of staying put. PhotoBlog: Rebel raids Gadhafi's bedroom Video: Gadhafi calls on supporters to fight back After rebels in Libya stormed and looted Moammar Gadhafi’s compound in Tripoli, the embattled dictator called on his supporters to fight back and retake the country’s capital. NBC’s Richard Engel reports. (TODAY) Hurricane Irene strengthens to Category 3 Hurricane Irene strengthened to a major Category 3 storm over the Bahamas on Wednesday with the East Coast in its sights. Video: Carolinas brace for Hurricane Irene People on a small island off the coast of North Carolina are already being told to evacuate as Hurricane Irene storms toward the Eastern Seaboard. NBC’s Kerry Sanders reports. (TODAY) Californians mock East Coast quake panic Soon after the lunch plates stopped rattling, shaken easterners could hear another sound from Tuesday's magnitude-5.8 quake: snickering emanating from the opposite side of the continent. Video: Quake felt from Atlanta to Montreal A rare East Coast earthquake, with an epicenter in Virginia, was felt from Atlanta to Montreal on Tuesday afternoon. NBC’s Tom Costello reports. (TODAY) 'Fun trip': Kim Jong Il meets with Medvedev Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reportedly arrived Wednesday in remote eastern Siberia for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il expected to focus on energy deals, economic aid and nuclear disarmament. What crazy thing have you done to make ends meet? If necessity is the mother of invention, recession is the mother of extreme job searches. Tell us how you're getting by. Suspicious powder sent to Craig Ferguson A suspicious-looking substance sent to "The Late Late Show's" Craig Ferguson proved not dangerous, but a threatening note that accompanied the powder is still being investigated. Firefighters working to prevent rail car explosion Firefighters in a Northern California suburb were trying to keep a burning rail car from exploding and leveling nearby houses, schools and businesses as authorities on Wednesday kept an evacuation order in place that affected thousands of homes. Sprint to start selling iPhone 5 mid-October: report Sprint Nextel will start selling the next version of the Apple iPhone in mid-October, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal that cited unnamed sources. Sex charges against Strauss-Kahn dropped A last-ditch effort to keep alive the sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn was rejected Tuesday, ending the sensational case against the former IMF leader. Cadillac aims high with flashy concept car The sky’s the limit with the new Cadillac Ciel concept car â€" or so it might seem with the striking convertible that hints at a future flagship model for the automaker. Prostitution scandal threatens Australian government A political scandal involving a government MP over payments to prostitutes, which threatens Australia's minority government, deepened on Wednesday. Pluto holds big surprises for NASA probe Pluto may be small, but it is proving to be big on surprises. With NASA's New Horizons spacecraft now speeding toward it, our understanding of the dwarf planet should transform even further. Wild world: Millions of unseen species fill Earth Our world is a much wilder place than it looks. A new study estimates that Earth has almost 8.8 million species, but we've only discovered about a quarter of them. And some of yet-to-be-seen ones could be in our own backyards, scientists say. Class of 2015: So young, Ferris could be their dad The current freshmen entering college who will make up the Class of 2015 have no remembrance of what life was like before the Internet, what this whole Communist Party fuss was about in Russia and that Amazon was once just known as a river in South America. It’s enough to make even those in their thirties feel ancient. PFT: Weeks after seizure, Patterson to play Thursday Ex-policeman held in Russian reporter killing Russian investigators on Tuesday arrested a retired police officer on suspicion of organizing the 2006 killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building. Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032091/device/rss/rss.xml

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