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A year after his historic election, President Barack Obama sought to remind Americans on Wednesday the biggest problems he is grappling with — from the economy to the war in Afghanistan — are the legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

The convicted rapist who allegedly kidnapped Jaycee Dugard and held her for 18 years was classified as a low-risk sexual offender and authorities missed multiple opportunities to catch him earlier, an official report into the case said Wednesday.

Nov. 3: WCMH's Steve Wainford reports on the world's only blind marching band. (NBC News Channel)

The three college softball players who drowned after driving into a North Dakota pond did what many people would do — they called for help on their cellphones.

Otto, a dachshund-terrier mix, is 20 years and 8 months old — that’s about 145 in dog years, his owners estimate — and he is being recognized for his great age by Guinness World Records.

An 88-year-old woman in Colorado Springs who walks laps around a nursing home in memory of her deceased husband has hit a major milestone: 10,000 miles.

A lucky swap and some eager building propelled a 19-year-old Norwegian student to the top of board game fame and sent three would-be tycoons to the poor house at the Monopoly World Championship in Las Vegas.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Police killed seven suspected drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, bringing to 33 the total number of deaths since the city's worst recent outbreak of violence erupted over the weekend.

LONDON (Reuters) - Disaffected Anglican Dioceses in Papua New Guinea, the United States and Australia might consider switching to Roman Catholicism under a new constitution offered by the Pope, a traditionalist Anglican group said on Wednesday.

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog presented Wednesday a draft deal to Iran and three world powers for approval within two days to reduce Tehran's stockpile of enriched uranium, seen by the West as a nuclear weapons risk.

Afghan opium is bankrolling the Taliban and fueling terrorism and insurgencies in Central Asia, the head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime warns in a new report on the heroin trade. About 15 million people around the world use heroin, opium or morphine, fueling a $65 billion market, according to the study.

KABUL (Reuters) - Half of the top Afghan district election officials will be fired, U.N. officials said on Wednesday as they sought to prevent more fraud in a run-off presidential poll crucial to the government's credibility and foreign support.

Iraq's parliament failed Wednesday to reach agreement on a new electoral law, but the parliament speaker said it would not affect the date of the general election scheduled for January.

DHAKA (Reuters) - About a dozen people were injured on Wednesday when unidentified attackers threw a bomb at the car of a Bangladesh politician related to the country's prime minister, police and witnesses said.

Three days of talks on Iran's nuclear program wrapped up here Wednesday with a draft agreement on how to provide the Islamic republic nuclear fuel for civilian purposes.

Pakistan denied Wednesday that it is harboring a Sunni rebel leader accused of orchestrating a suicide attack in neighboring Iran.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani helicopter gunships attacked Taliban bases near the Afghan border on Wednesday as authorities ordered educational institutions closed amid fears of retaliatory militant strikes.