Chicago -- A Chicago newspaper says it wants its readers to tell it where the hands should be on its "Obama Clock."

The feature in the Chicago Sun-Times shows the face of the Democratic U.S. presidential nominee superimposed on a clock. The newspaper says that when the hands reach midnight, it signals Obama has been elected president, but if they're moved to 11:30, it means he's lost.

With fewer than 60 days to the Nov. 4 general election, the "Obama clock" has been set to 11:48 after the U.S. senator from Illinois saw his eight-point lead over Republican opponent, U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, dwindle into a dead heat in a CBS News poll.

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London -- The London Evening Standard has issued an apology for erroneously reporting that Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, suffers from prostate cancer.

The BBC said the newspaper Wednesday claimed the 87-year-old royal had been diagnosed with the disease when he was treated this spring for a chest infection.

Buckingham Palace issued a statement after the story ran denying the claim about the royal's health and arguing the report was a "serious breach of Prince Philip's privacy."

The incident was also reported to the media watchdog, the Press Complaints Commission, the BBC said.

"We unreservedly apologize both to him and to his family for making this distressing allegation and for breaching his privacy," the Evening Standard said in its published apology, adding that the husband of Queen Elizabeth II is "not suffering from any such condition."

Melbourne -- A handgun belonging to the sister of notorious Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is going under the hammer in Melbourne.

Kate Kelly was a member of the five-person gang led by her brother, which was involved in a string of robberies in eastern Australia in the 19th century. Ned Kelly was finally captured and hanged in Melbourne in 1880 at age 25.

The revolver with the initials "K.K." was found in the former home of the Kelly family just a few years ago.

The Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported the gun is up for sale at a Melbourne auction house next week. Auction director Paul Sumner said the revolver was a "rare and exciting find."

"In America, it would be equivalent to finding Jesse James' gun," he said.

Clarkstown, N.Y. -- Hundreds of Clarkstown, N.Y., high school students have walked out of their classes to protest of their school's pest problems.

The Clarkstown North High School students said during the walkout Wednesday that rats, maggots, roaches and flies are common sights inside the school building, The Journal News, of White Plains, N.Y., reported Thursday.

The students gathered on the campus sports fields, chanting slogans including "save our school, roaches must go" and "no more rats."

Superintendent Margaret Keller-Cogan said after the walkout that exterminators check the school three times a week for roaches and other pests. She said the Rockland Health Department declared the school clear of maggots and rats.

"There is a lot of misinformation out there ... and a lot of time the information is sensationalized and exaggerated," she told a news conference. "For now we don't have a rat and maggot problem."