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WASHINGTON (AP) — Government figures show U.S. builders started work on single-family houses last month at the fastest pace since the Great Recession began in late 2007. The Commerce Department says housing starts in August rose 0.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.21 million homes.
BANGKOK (AP) — In Thailand, police photos show a man in a yellow t-shirt at a shrine with a backpack, and then without one. Police say he's the man who carried out yesterday's bombing attack that killed 20 people and wounded more than 100. There was a second explosion today at a pier in Bangkok, but police say no one was injured.
JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Authorities are hoping that two recovered "black boxes" from an Indonesian plane will tell them what caused the plane to slam into a mountain Sunday, killing all 54 people on board. Rescue crews recovered the plane's flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder today, as well as the bodies of all of the victims.
MILAN (AP) — An Italian prosecutor says authorities are detaining eight suspected smugglers in the deaths of 49 migrants trapped inside the hold of an overcrowded fishing vessel over the weekend. The prosecutor says a Moroccan was the captain of the ship and seven other people used violence to keep order. He says the air below deck was not breathable because of the number of people and engine fumes, and that the smugglers beat those who tried to get out.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is back in a hospital for the third time in recent months. Tutu's daughter says her father is being treated for inflammation, and not for an infection he had earlier. The 83-year-old old Tutu was hospitalized twice in July. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been treated for prostate cancer for many years, but his daughter says the cancer is under control.
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