美联社一分钟新闻2009-08-25

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1. Ben Bernanke sees the beginning of the end of the financial crisis. The Federal Reserve chairman says economic activity in the US and around the world appears to be leveling out and the prospects¹ for a return to growth in the near term appear good. Though he warns difficult challenges still lie ahead.

 2. President Obama is describing the elaborate homecoming of the freed Lockerbie bomber² in Libya as "highly objectionable". He was freed from a Scotland prison because he's dying of prostate cancer. 

 3. A possible glimpse of the defense³ for Casey Anthony. Attorney used for the Florida mom charged with killing⁴ her two-year-old daughter Caylee claimed Friday that she could not have killed the child because the toddler's remains⁵ were left in the woods while she was in jail.

 4. This python put the squeeze on people looking for cash at this ATM machine in Serbia. Customers found the six-and-a-half-foot python sprawled⁶ over the machine in the center of town. Firefighters eventually captured the reptile⁷.