美联社新闻一分钟 2007-09-07

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Hundreds of people have gathered at a cathedral in Italy where Luciano Pavarotti’s body has been taken. The tenor¹ was considered one of the best singers of his generation. A funeral has been set for Saturday.

Rescue crews are expanding their search for missing adventure pilot Steve Fossett. He's been missing since Monday. And crews are now covering a 10,000-square-mile area in California and Nevada.

The death toll² from Hurricane Felix continues to rise. Officials in Nicaragua and Honduras now say more than 60 people were killed since Tuesday when it roared ashore³ as a powerful Category Five storm.

There was bamboo of plenty in Atlanta today, as the zoo threw a birthday bash for Mei Lan. The panda turned one today and is a star there. Since she was born, some 561,000 people have come to the zoo and millions of others have watched her on the net.