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Authorities in London are investigating three incidents on the London Underground and one explosion on a bus. Police say one person has been injured but they emphasized that the incidents were not on the scale of four explosions two weeks ago today that killed more than 50 people.

Two suicide bomb attacks and a roadside bombing in Iraq kill at least 31 people, many of them members of the Iraqi police. These bombings come a day after attacks in Iraq killed more than 150 people, and Jordanian militant Abu Musab al Zarqawi announced he's waging a war against Iraqi forces and the country's Shiite Muslims.

President Bush says he takes personal responsibility for shortcomings in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, saying the storm had "exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government."

Vivian Malone Jones, the first African-American student to graduate from the University of Alabama, has died at age 63. Malone was one of the students Alabama Gov. George Wallace tried to block from entering the university in 1963.

Foreign ministers from Germany, Great Britain and France meet in Berlin and decide to ask the International Atomic Energy Agency to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council. The United Nations could impose sanctions on Iran for reactivating its nuclear program earlier this week.

Israeli and U.S. citizen Robert J. Aumann and American Thomas C. Schelling win the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on game theories that help explain economic conflicts, including trade and price wars.

Bernard Ebbers, who as the once-swaggering CEO of WorldCom oversaw the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history, wept in court Wednesday after a judge sentenced him to 25 years in prison -- the toughest sentence yet in the string of recent corporate scandals.

Residents of Florida, Alabama and other Gulf of Mexico areas are preparing for Hurricane Dennis. The Category 2 storm is expected to make landfall as early as Sunday. Hurricane Dennis is blamed for at least 10 deaths in Cuba and another 10 deaths in Haiti. From member station WJCT, Lucy Nalpathanchil reports.

Ukraine's Parliament votes to declare the country's disputed presidential election null and void. The move boosts supporters of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko, who claim the government rigged election results to support incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. NPR's Emily Harris reports

Egypt hosts a military funeral for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat's coffin was carried on a horse-drawn carriage from a Cairo mosque to an Egyptian airbase where the funeral took place. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak led the procession. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne and NPR's Peter Kenyon.