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Lawyer: TV Bounty hunter 'Dog' offers cash, apology
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'Dog' hoping to cut a deal with Mexico (AP)

AP - TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman hopes to work out a deal to avoid extradition to Mexico to faces charges of illegal detention and conspiracy in his capture of a cosmetics company heir there three years ago, his lawyer said.

N.Korea seeks more plutonium for nuclear arms: scholar (Reuters)
Reuters - A North Korean official said his country will soon unload fuel rods from a nuclear reactor to make plutonium for weapons, seeking to pressure Washington into direct talks, a visiting U.S. scholar said on Saturday.

Google publishes Belgian court ruling (Reuters)

Reuters - Google Inc. on Saturday published on its Belgian website a court order which forbids the Internet search engine to reproduce snippets of Belgian press on its news amalgamation service.

A lucky few get signed copies of U2 book (AP)

AP - So many people showed up at a signing for U2's new book Saturday that organizers had to restrict access to 250 fans who had won tickets through a lottery on the band's official Web site and via competitions on radio stations across Ireland.