U.S. News asked Shawn Lightfoot, wine buyer for Denver's Applejack Wine & Spirits, the nation's largest wine superstore, to grab a shopping cart and pick out a dozen best buys from 15,000 wines on his shelves. He could pick any variety or vintage but was limited to a maximum of $250 for the full case. Here's what he put in his cart:
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AP - Rescuers scouring mountain villages buried under mud and boulders loosed by a powerful typhoon discovered more bodies Saturday, raising the death total to more than 300, with another 300 missing.
AP - Three bombs exploded in parked cars near an area packed with vendors in central Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 38 people and wounding 84, officials said. The bombs were about 100 yards apart and exploded nearly simultaneously, according to police Lt. Ali Muhsin and hospital officials as the casualty toll rose from an initial report of 14 killed.
AP - The snowy debris of a collapsed roof in an Illinois nursing home offered just one snapshot of the wintry mayhem left in the path of the season's first big storm. The storm was blamed for at least five traffic deaths as it cut a swath from Texas to Michigan before moving Saturday into the Northeast. Its powerful winds caused three deaths and at least two have died shoveling heavy snow.
The wife of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko and Mario Scaramella, Italian security contact he met in a London sushi bar, have both tested positive for traces of a radioactive substance following the former intelligence officer's death, friends and officials say.