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The search continues for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet as authorities investigate two passengers on stolen passports. (Photo by Simon Clancy)

Libya‘s parliament ejects ’failed’ prime minister

Lawmakers ousted Prime Minister Ali Zeidan in a no-confidence vote. His departure is unlikely to resolve Libya’s deep-seated security and economic problems.

Christian Science Monitor

Dianne Feinstein: CIA interfered with committee

Sen. Dianne Feinstein accused the CIA of interfering in Senate Intelligence Committee oversight, possibly violating the Constitution, and demanded an apology in a speech on the Senate floor.

Politico

Mystery Malaysia flight may have been miles off course

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was hundreds of miles off course, traveling in the opposite direction from its destination and stopped sending identifying transponder codes before it disappeared.

CNN

Special section:

Missing Malaysia plane: Who were the passengers?

BBC

No terror link suspected in stolen jet passport

USA TODAY

Ukraine forms new defense force, seeks Western help

Ukraine’s leaders established a new National Guard and appealed to the U.S. and Britain for assistance against what they called Russian aggression in Crimea under a post-Cold War treaty.

Reuters

San Cristobal — where Venezuelan insurrection began — rages

San Cristóbal, the capital of Tachira state, is a city under siege — by its own residents. The city is the birthplace of a protest movement against the socialist government of Venezuela.

USA TODAY

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Student spends break donating marrow to stranger

Ford, a bone marrow donor, signed up to become one at a blood drive with a simple swab. Then, the teenager got an e-mail telling him he was a match for a 63-year-old man fighting leukemia.

KVUE.com

Tanzanian millionaire receives Lions philanthropy award

The International Association of Lions Clubs has awarded Tanzanian multi-millionaire media mogul Reginald Mengi with the International Order of the Lion.

Forbes

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN: 2.8 million Syrian children out of school

Nearly half of Syria‘s school-age children — 2.8 million of them — cannot get an education due to the civil war now in its fourth year, the U.N. children’s agency said.

Bloomberg

UN aims to bring killers to account in Central African Republic

A U.N. inquiry said it would try to establish who should face prosecution for killings and other crimes in Central African Republic in order to halt bloodshed that has raised fears of genocide.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

Fewer than 1,000 Muslims left in Central African Republic capital

Washington Post

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Egypt to permit cement companies to use coal for energy-minister

Egypt, which has been cutting back on natural gas supplies to cement factories, said it would permit cement companies to use coal for energy.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

Poor state education in India threatens the futures of millions of children

Absent teachers, lack of incentives and low standards force Indians, rich and poor, into the private sector.

Guardian

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Senate sends Obama childhood cancer research bill

The Senate passed legislation to repeal taxpayer funding for political conventions and to note its support for $126 million for additional research into pediatric cancer and other childhood disorders.

Politico

Maoist rebels kill Indian police in Chhattisgarh ambush

Maoist rebels have killed at least 15 members of India’s security forces in an ambush in Chhattisgarh state, just as the country is due to hold elections, according to police.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Transatlantic great white shark ‘may be pregnant’

The first great white shark seen to cross from one side of the Atlantic to the other may be pregnant, says the head of the expedition tracking her.

BBC

Tagging a 2,000-pound Great White Shark

YouTube

Koichi Wakata is 1st Japanese astronaut to command ISS

Japan, noted for its robotic prowess, now has an achievement to add to its list of orbital accomplishments. Astronaut Koichi Wakata was named the commander of Expedition 39 to the ISS.

Wired

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GOOD NEWS

Teenage advocate of native education in Canada becomes comic’s superhero

Shannen Koostachin, a teenage activist in Canada who died before ever seeing the results of her work, has inspired a new hero in the DC Universe.

Christian Science Monitor

How one woman’s quest to change the face of beauty might actually be working

Driscoll’s daughter has Down syndrome. So, Driscoll started taking pictures of her daughter, Grace — photographs that would eventually be shared with the world.

Huffington Post

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Krochet Kids knits together sustainable jobs

Krochet Kids teaches textile skills like crochet or knitting to women in Uganda and Peru, helping the women create a livelihood and escape poverty.

Christian Science Monitor

Nonprofits to add staff, don’t budget for recruitment

Hiring new staff has become more popular than using current staff to support new programs, according to an annual survey.

NonProfit Times

ENVIRONMENT

California drought: authorities struggle to impose water conservation measures

Topography, diverse cultures and unmetered supply making it difficult for state and local agencies to make people save water

Guardian

The children of Japan’s Fukushima battle an invisible enemy

The smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the Fukushima nuclear plant, barely know what it’s like to play outside — fear of radiation has kept them indoors for much of their short lives.

Reuters

Fukushima: Is fear of radiation the real killer?

BBC

Three years after Fukushima, Japan still struggles to cope

Telegraph.co.uk

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Curious wild deer blend into their surroundings near Lake Shikotsu in Japan. (Photo by Miki Yoshihito)

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