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In about the year seven hundred fifty, the early Pueblo people began building square structures of large connected rooms, or pueblos, above ground. Finally, in about eleven hundred, they climbed down the canyon walls and began building cliff dwellings. Today, visitors to Mesa Verde can see some of the remains of all four kinds of settlements.

The Rim Fire has burned 525 square kilometers an area about the size of Chicago and was just 7 percent contained late Saturday night. It started in a remote canyon of the Stanislaus National Forest on August 17 and grew rapidly under dry conditions. More than 2,600 firefighters and a half dozen aircraft were battling the blaze.

CHINA Metallurgical Corp plans to buy US$200 million worth of shares in Australian Resourcehouse, eying its rich mines in eastern Australia including coal, iron ore and crude oil.

With Moscow, the agenda will include disputes over energy, Russia's continued opposition to US missile defense sites in Eastern Europe and warhead cutbacks. Obama has indicated less enthusiasm for the missile system than his predecessor George W. Bush, raising hopeful expectations in Moscow. But Russian leaders have engaged in tough talk lately in terms of regaining their own status in the world, posing an early test for Obama.