...does this mean the Pope will be stranded ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7614336.stm

Alitalia 'running out of fuel'

Negotiations with unions will be critical to saving the airline

Italy's troubled national airline, Alitalia, cannot guarantee flights
beyond Sunday because of a lack of funds to buy fuel, a top official
says.

"Until the end of tomorrow, flights are guaranteed. From Monday, they
are not," Augusto Fantozzi, Alitalia's bankruptcy administrator, told
unions.

Mr Fantozzi was speaking as he called the unions to emergency talks a
day after the latest session broke down.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi blamed "political" motives for the
failure.

He said he would do all he could to save Alitalia from collapse.

"The executive is always ready... to give all the possible support to
get to the only solution possible to avoid the airline going bust," he
told the Italian news agency Ansa.

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Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama may be playing possum.
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John McCain's campaign is boasting about a surge in fundraising
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The Illinois senator's campaign hasn't done much to refute the notion
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LAKE CHARLES, La. - Storm surge driven by Hurricane Ike breached
levees in coastal Louisiana Friday and flooded hundreds of homes in
areas along the Gulf of Mexico still recovering from Gustav.
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About 1,800 homes and business flooded in coastal Cameron Parish as
the storm churned toward expected landfall in Texas, said Gov. Bobby
Jindal, and he expected water to eventually inundate all 2,900 homes
in the area. Flooded homes were reported in other parishes, though
numbers were sketchy at nightfall.

Flooding was reported in areas from Plaquemines Parish in southeast
Louisiana to Cameron Parish on the Texas line.

"It's going to be devastating for people," said Cameron Parish
emergency preparedness director Clifton Hebert. "We don't have the
wind that Rita brought, but we have at least the same storm surge, if
not a little more."

In nearby Terrebonne Parish, crews worked to plug at least four
breaches. Officials said areas in which Rita inundated 10,000 homes in
2005 were vulnerable again.