AP 2010-11-18（在线收听）

1. The ethics trial of Rep. Charles Rangel is going ahead without the New York Democrat there. The 80-year-old Rangel says he has no money for attorneys asking for a delay to start a legal defense fund. The House panel said no.

2. A search near an Ohio home where a 13-year-old girl was found bound and dead. The girl's mother, bother and another woman are missing. A man has been charged with kidnapping them.

3. In China, a fire in a high-rise apartment building kills more than 40 people. A witness says building materials caught fire, the blaze spreading to scaffold.

4. How's this for charity? This man in Australia is planning to live with spiders for the next three weeks, about 400 of them, many deadly, all with the hopes of raising about 50,000 dollars.