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  • Justin Lane/EPA

    Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange before the Closing Bell in New York, New York, November 1. The Dow Jones industrial average lost nearly 300 points on concerns about Greece's acceptance of a proposed solution to that country's debt problems.

    Fears about Europe's stability spark a wave of selling on Wall Street

    By Rich Shulman

    Here we go again.

    msnbc.com's news services report:

    A wave of selling hit Wall Street and stock markets around the world Tuesday after Greece’s Prime Minister George Papandreou said he would let the Greek people vote on an unpopular European plan to rescue the nation’s economy.

    The Dow Jones industrial average closed the day down 297 points having seen a 321-point deficit at the session’s low. As stocks tumbled, a widely-watched gauge of investor fear, the VIX index, jumped some 25 percent, chalking up its biggest daily gain since mid-August.

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  • Man buries dog who alerted him to house fire in Georgia

    John Spink / Atlanta Journal Constitution via AP

    Scott Dunn, of Marietta, grieves over his dog's freshly dug grave Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 in Cobb County, Ga. Dunn's three and a half-year-old boxer Duncan alerted him to a fire Tuesday at Dunn's home but died in the flames. Dunn escaped the fire. Fire officials haven't determined the cause of the blaze.

    From the story at ajc.com:

    “Duncan was covered up with me, and I fell asleep, and the next thing I knew, he was poking at me and barking,” Dunn told the AJC. “Normally, that means he needs to go out, but when I woke up, I couldn’t see because there was smoke.”

    Dunn said he put on his pants and boots, found his truck keys and cell phone and grabbed Duncan by the collar, then ran out of the burning house.

    “When I got out the front door, the flames went everywhere,” he said. “I got in my truck, started it and backed it out of the carport and realized I had [Duncan’s] collar and he wasn’t there.”

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  • Elizabeth Dole stands next to much taller statue of former US President Ronald Reagan

    Jason Reed / Reuters

    Elizabeth Dole, former Secretary of Transportation under former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, holds onto a newly-unveiled statue of Reagan at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington November 1, 2011. The statue is one of several worldwide that are being unveiled in 2011 as part of the historic year-long celebration commemorating the 100th anniversary of Reagan's birthday.

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    A statue of President Ronald Reagan was unveiled Tuesday at the Virginia airport that bears his name. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

  • Deportation threat draws tears, support for teen immigrant

    By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com

    Our coverage is so often dominated by immigration issues between the U.S. and Mexico, I was moved by these images from the Netherlands we received today.

    The central figure in this story is a boy named Mauro Manuel. According to the BBC, his mother brought him to the Netherlands as a child, hoping he would have a better life than in their war-torn home of Angola.

    Upon his arrival, he was picked up by police and eventually fostered by a family in Limburg.

    Now that he has reached adulthood, Dutch immigration law states he is to be deported, but supporters are arguing that he should be able to stay.

    Koen Van Weel / EPA

    Tears stream down the face of Mauro Manuel, a young Angolan asylum-seeker in The Hague, Netherlands, on Tuesday, Nov. 1.

    Koen Van Weel / EPA

    Supporters stand beside Angolan asylum-seeker, Mauro Manuel as he hugs his foster mother, Anita Marijanovic, in front of his step-father, Hans Mandigers, at a rally in The Hague, Netherlands on Nov. 1. Sympathizers are appealing so Manuel can stay in The Netherlands today, as the Dutch Lower House of Parliament debates the fate of the 18-year-old's future.

    More from this compelling and polarizing story, carrying far-reaching implications on immigrants abroad, can be found at the BBC.

  • Plane from U.S. crash-lands in Poland with 230 passengers aboard

    Peter Andrews / Reuters

    A Boeing 767 of Polish LOT airlines makes an emergency landing at Warsaw airport on November 1. The plane en route from Newark with 230 people onboard made an emergency landing in Warsaw airport on Tuesday. No passengers were hurt, Polish media reported.

    Wojtek Radwanski / AFP - Getty Images

    A LOT Polish airlines Boeing 767 flying with 227 people on board makes an emergency landing at Warsaw's airport on November 1, after having problems lowering its landing gear. The plane had dropped fuel and circled above Warsaw for some time and a landing strip was especially prepared at the airport for the crash landing. No one was injured during the emergency landing according to a LOT spokesman.

    Wojtek Radwanski / AFP - Getty Images

    Fire engines spray fire retardant on a LOT Polish airlines Boeing 767 as passengers leave the plane as after it made an emergency landing at Warsaw's airport on Nov. 1 after having problems lowering its landing gear. The plane had dropped fuel and circled above Warsaw for some time and a landing strip was especially prepared at the airport for the crash landing. No one was injured during the emergency landing according to a LOT spokesman.

    Peter Andrews / Reuters

    A Boeing 767 of Polish LOT airlines is pictured after an emergency landing at Warsaw airport on November 1. The plane en route from Newark with 230 people onboard made an emergency landing in Warsaw airport on Tuesday. No passengers were hurt, Polish media reported.

    Reuters reports from WARSAW:

    A Boeing 767 flying from New York with 230 people on board made an emergency landing at Warsaw's airport on Tuesday after trouble with landing gear.

    No further information was available from Polish flag carrier LOT or from airport authorities and live footage showed an otherwise normal landing.

    The plane had dropped fuel and circled above Warsaw for some time and Warsaw airport closed to all other flights, nearby streets were cleared, and a landing strip was especially prepared at the airport for the crash landing.

  • Former skinhead removes facial tattoos and embraces family life

    Duke Tribble / AP

    This combination of eight photos provided by Bill Brummel Productions shows the progress of tattoo removal treatments for former skinhead Bryon Widner. For 16 years, Widner was a glowering, swaggering, menacing vessel of savagery - an "enforcer" for some of America's most notorious and violent racist skinhead groups. Though his beliefs had changed, leaving the old life would not be easy when it was all he had known - and when his face remained a billboard of hate. (AP Photo/Duke Tribble, Courtesy of MSNBC and Bill Brummel Productions)

    Jae C. Hong / AP

    In this Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 photo, Bryon Widner hugs his 4-year-old son, Tyrson, at their home as his wife Julie watches. After getting married in 2006, the couple, former pillars of the white power movement (she as a member of the National Alliance, he a founder of the Vinlanders gang of skinheads) had worked hard to put their racist past behind them. They had settled down and had a baby; her younger children had embraced him as a father.

    Jae C. Hong / AP

    In this Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011 photo, Bryon Widner, left, and his wife are applauded in Pasadena, Calif. after the screening of a documentary film featuring their family. After getting married in 2006, the couple, former pillars of the white power movement (she as a member of the National Alliance, he a founder of the Vinlanders gang of skinheads) had worked hard to put their racist past behind them. They had settled down and had a baby; her younger children had embraced him as a father. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    Here are several excerpts from the documentary made about Bryon Widner:

     

    Bryon explains how becoming a father changed his life forever and inspired him to leave the skinhead movement. Byron and Julie knew they didn't want their children to be raised in the skinhead movement, and they didn't want them making the same mistakes that they'd made. "Erasing Hate" airs on Sunday, June 26 at 9pm ET on msnbc.

    Bryon and Julie Widner grow disillusioned with the skinhead movement, but find that escaping is much more difficult than either ever anticipated. As Bryon puts it, 'the retirement program is either prison or the grave.'

    Bryon describes the first tattoo he ever got: "I got the HATE tattooed across my knuckles when I was about 15. I always liked the word hate. I thought it was real cool at the time."

    Bryon and Julie scour the newspapers each day for job leads, but quickly learn that no business wants to hire someone whose covered in racist tattoos. Through aid provided by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Bryon decides to undergo the grueling tattoo removal process.

    From the full story:

    Widner's arms and torso are still extensively tattooed. He is in the process of inking over the "political" ones, like the Nazi lightning bolts. His face is clean and scar free, and he has a shock of thick black hair. With his thin glasses and studious expression, he looks nerdy, Julie jokes.

    His neck and hands have suffered some pigment damage, he gets frequent migraine headaches and he has to stay out of the sun. But, he says, "it's a small price to pay for being human again."

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    See more pictures in this slideshow.

  • More than 100 Tibetan protesters detained in Nepal

    Prakash Mathema / AFP - Getty Images

    A Tibetan woman, center, chases a Nepalese policeman, right, as he takes away a banner of the Dalai Lama during a protest near the Jwalakhel Refugee Camp in Katmandu, Nepal, on November 1.

    Prakash Mathema / AFP - Getty Images

    Riot police arrest Tibetan protesters near the Jwalakhel Refugee Camp on November 1.

    The AP reports:

    Nepalese police detained more than 100 Tibetan exiles on Tuesday who had gathered to pray for nine Tibetans who set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese rule.

    A group of Tibetans including 150 monks were holding a prayer meeting on the outskirts of Katmandu in honor of the monks, former monks and a nun who have self-immolated since March in a restive Tibetan area of western China that has been under martial law-type police controls.

    Aged in their late teens and twenties, at least five died of their injuries, while the condition of the other four is not known.

    An Associated Press reporter saw police in riot gear enter the prayer meeting at the Tibetan Refugee Center and pull down a banner of their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. This angered the Tibetans at the meeting who poured into the streets to protest. They chanted anti-China slogans calling for a "free Tibet" and for China to "leave our home."

    Niranjan Shrestha / AP

    Police detain a Tibetan who was shouting anti-China slogans in Katmandu on November 1.

    Narendra Shrestha / EPA

    A group of exiled Tibetan monks attends a prayer meeting as Nepalese riot police enter to intervene at a refugee camp in Katmandu on November 1.

    Related content on PhotoBlog: Dalai Lama prays for Tibetans who set themselves on fire

  • Is the polar bear ready to step up as Canada's national emblem?

    Mathieu Belanger / Reuters

    A polar bear swims underwater in the St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, Quebec, Canada, on October 31. According to Environment Canada, Canada is home to around 15,000 of the estimated 20,000 polar bears in the world. The U.S. (Alaska), Russia, Denmark (Greenland) and Norway are the other four countries where polar bears can be found.

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    According to a Reuters report on October 28, a Canadian senator has launched a campaign to replace the industrious beaver with the indomitable polar bear as her country's national emblem.

    Describing the beaver as "a dentally defective rat," Conservative politician Nicole Eaton told the Senate that beavers wreak havoc on the dock at her waterfront cottage every summer.

    "A country's symbols are not constant and can change over time," she said. "The polar bear, with its strength, courage, resourcefulness and dignity is perfect for the part."

    The polar bears at St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in Quebec certainly seemed to be living up to their billing as they played up for the cameras on Monday.

    Mathieu Belanger / Reuters

    A polar bear jumps into the water at the St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo on October 31.

    Mathieu Belanger / Reuters

    A polar bear shakes off water from its body at the St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo on October 31.

     

  • Thailand flood misery continues as scientists say climate change is causing more weather extremes

    Paula Bronstein / Getty Images

    Residents walk along a major flooded intersection in the Thonburi area of Bangkok, Thailand, on October 31. Thousands of flood victims have been forced to take shelter at crowded evacuation centers around the capital. Thailand is experiencing the worst flooding in over 50 years which has affected more than nine million people.

    Sakchai Lalit / AP

    Residents wade through floodwaters at Bang Phlat district in Bangkok on Nov. 1. Higher than normal tides pushing into the Chao Phraya river from the Gulf of Thailand in recent days have complicated efforts to drain floodwaters flowing from the country's central heartland, where vast areas have been submerged for up to two months.

    Damir Sagolj / Reuters

    Buddhist monks paddle through a flooded temple where hundreds of victims found shelter, in Bangkok on November 1. Anger mounted among victims of Thailand's catastrophic floods on Tuesday as water flooded new neighborhoods as it made its way to sea.

    Rungroj Yongrit / EPA

    Commuters travel on a bus through floodwaters in Bangkok on November 1. According to local media reports, it will take at least ten days to drain 5.5 billion cubic meters of floodwaters north of Bangkok around the capital and then into the sea.

    The AP reports:

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that extreme weather disasters like the recent record floods in Thailand are striking more often, according to a draft summary of a report obtained by The Associated Press. It says there is at least a 2-in-3 probability that climate extremes have already worsened because of man-made greenhouse gases. Read the full story.

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  • Peter Parks / AFP - Getty Images

    A man walks through heavy pollution on a street in Beijing, China, on November 1. Air pollution in Beijing reached "hazardous" levels, the US embassy said, as thick smog blanketed the city for the fourth day running, forcing the closure of highways and cancellation of flights.

    Smog in Beijing: U.S. Embassy air quality data undercut China's own assessments

    KTUU-TV reported on Beijing's extreme air pollution problem on October 29:

    Perched atop the U.S. Embassy in Beijing is a device about the size of a microwave oven that spits out hourly rebukes to the Chinese government.

    It is a machine that monitors fine particulate matter, one of the most dangerous components of air pollution, and instantly posts the results to Twitter and a dedicated iPhone application, where it is frequently picked up by Chinese bloggers.

    One day this month, the reading was so high compared with the standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that it was listed as "beyond index." In other words, it had soared right off the chart. Continue reading.

  • Train collides with fuel tanker in Sabah, Malaysia

    EPA

    A picture made avalailable on November 1 shows a train on fire after it rammed into a tanker near Kota Kinabalu International Aiport, Sabah, Malaysia, on October 31.

    Adam Arinin / AFP - Getty Images

    Volunteers and rescue workers push an injured woman on a stretcher after a passenger train and an oil truck collided in Sabah state on October 31.

    Adam Arinin / AFP - Getty Images

    Firefighters survey the scene after a passenger train and an oil truck collided near Kota Kinabalu airport on October 31.

    European PressPhoto Agency reports:

    Malaysian fire and rescue officers are searching for 34 unaccounted-for people a day after a train collided with a fuel tanker. Late Monday, a passenger train carrying 200 people hit a tanker carrying 27,000 litres of petrol in the eastern state of Sabah on Borneo island. The collision caused a massive explosion and fire injuring 12 people, at least two of them seriously.

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