美联社新闻一分钟 2007-09-05

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Authorities are on the hunt for Steve Fossett who's been missing since taking off from Nevada yesterday. The aviation adventurer broke records for circling the globe alone in a balloon.

A just released independent report is offering a less than stellar view of the ongoing¹ situation in Iraq. The Government Accountability Office says that Baghdad isn't meeting 11 of the 18 proposed political and security goals.

A weakened Hurricane Felix is chugging across Nicaragua after demolishing² homes and forcing thousands to flee. Initially³ it made landfall as a Category 5 storm, one of only 31 seen in the Atlantic since the 1800s.

And a French skyscraper⁴ climber was arrested in Moscow today after scaling the city's tallest building. It took him less than 30 minutes to ascend⁵ the 799-foot federation⁶ skyscraper.