AP美联社一分钟新闻(2009-10-17)(在线收听

1.A home-made balloon lands on a Carolina field with no sign of a six-year-old boy believed to be inside. It was tethered to a family's home when a young boy was seen going into a compartment in the balloon. The silvery craft then went airborne for some two hours.

2.President Barack Obama promises people on the Gulf Coast he will not forget them, still working to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina four years ago. This is Obama's sixth visit to New Orleans, but his first since becoming president.

3.Gunmen lead coordinated attacks in Pakistan, taking on three law enforcement offices in Lahore and car bombs exploded in other cities. At least 39 people are dead in this escalating wave of anti-government violence.

4.A wayward moose finds its way to a motel in Fargo, North Dakota, soon surrounded by police and animal control officials who shot him with the tranquilizer darts, eventually taking it to a wildlife area, releasing it.

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