The CNN Wire: Monday, Sep 3

Editor's Note: The CNN Wire is a running log of the latest news from CNN World Headquarters, reported by CNN's correspondents and producers, and The CNN Wire editors. "Posted" times are Eastern Time.

Coalition, Afghan forces kill 'several' suspected Taliban militants in eastern Afghan operation

(CNN) -- U.S.-led coalition forces and Afghan soldiers killed and wounded "several suspected militants" early Tuesday during a military operation conducted in eastern Afghanistan's Ghazni Province, the coalition press center said.

The operation aimed at cracking down on Taliban militants suspected of hiding out in an area in Qarabagh district.

"During the course of operations the forces were engaged by small arms fire and rocket propelled grenades," the coalition said. "The forces returned fire -- using precision munitions as necessary -- resulting in the death of several militants who were armed and wearing ammunition vests."

Three individuals were also detained for questioning.

The coalition said there were "no indications of injuries or deaths to non-combatants," although some damage was done to buildings and fields. (Posted 3:22 a.m.)

Fast-moving Hurricane Felix's winds increase as it heads for Central America

MIAMI (CNN) -- Barreling towards Central America, Hurricane Felix -- a category 4 storm -- increased in strength in the early hours of Tuesday, with top winds reaching 150 mph with higher gusts.

The National Hurricane Center's 2 a.m. ET advisory said Felix was an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane and "is expected to make landfall near or just south of the border between Nicaragua and Honduras in a few hours."

The storm's center was about 100 miles (165 km) east-southeast of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Nicaragua-Honduras border and was moving west at about 17 mph.

Conditions along the coasts of Nicaragua and Honduras are deteriorating, forecasters said, and prior to making landfall on Tuesday, Felix could intensify to a Category 5 storm -- the most extreme level on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, and one capable of producing "potentially catastrophic" damage. (Posted 3:08 a.m.)

Roadside bomb kills 1 in Baghdad

BAGHDAD (CNN) -- A roadside bomb blast in eastern Baghdad's Zayouna neighborhood killed one civilian and wounded five others Tuesday morning, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry official. (Posted 2:24 am.)

Two bomb blasts near Pakistan's capital kill 11, hurt dozens

LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) -- Two bomb blasts killed at least 11 people near the country's capital city Tuesday morning, Pakistani police said.

At least seven people were killed and several dozen others were wounded when a bomb hidden on a bus in Rawalpindi -- a city adjacent to Islamabad -- exploded, police said.

Details on a second bomb blast in Rawalpindi were not immediately clear, but police confirmed at least four people were killed by the explosion.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, police said. (Posted 12:20 a.m.)

Personal DNA mapping reaches new conclusions, paves way for individual human genome sequencing

(CNN) -- J. Craig Venter, a biologist who led one of the teams that sequenced the first human genome in 2001, is now one of the first individuals to have 96 percent -- or almost all 6 billion letters -- of his own personal genetic code sequenced.

Appearing in the journal PLoS Biology, the paper marks the first time a scientific publication has printed the entire available DNA makeup of a single person. Venturing beyond medical family history, Venter told CNN the knowledge has been life changing.

"In my case it gives me a little bit more motivation to try and persistently stick with healthy habits because you don't have the excuse of saying ... you know, I don't really have those traits. ... I know what is in my genetic code," he said. Venter's team also found that humans' DNA differences are slightly greater than previously thought.

Older research has said that humans are 99.9 percent identical genetically, but this new research points to greater variation with only 99.5 percent to 99.0 percent commonality to human DNA. (Posted 8:05 p.m.) E-mail to a friend