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A Buddhist monk makes his way under a fallen tree following a devastating cyclone, in Yangon, Myanmar. Five of the country's regions in which 24 million people live have been declared disaster zones. (Photo by Barry Broman / AP)

Yahoo stock plunges after Microsoft withdraws bid

After Microsoft withdrew its $33-a-share offer for Yahoo, the question was how far Yahoo's stock would drop. The markets gave an initial answer: plenty.

International Herald Tribune

Yahoo investors think company has backup plan

MarketWatch

Oil price crosses $120 per barrel

Oil prices crossed $120 a barrel for the first time following fresh unrest in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, and rising tensions between the West and Iran.

Agence France-Presse

The politics of gas

CNN

Deadly germs resisting antibiotics

The threat of death-defying bacteria, stubborn organisms that refuse to be conquered by antibiotic medicines, is growing more alarming.

McClatchy Newspapers

Burmese cyclone toll 'tops 10,000'

More than 10,000 people were killed in a devastating cyclone that hit western Burma, the foreign minister said. Survivors of Cyclone Nargis are lacking basic needs, but help has not yet arrived.

BBC

Cyclone's afermath

YouTube

Impact of Cyclone

Guardian

Why US job market has not plunged

Despite the burdens of record oil prices and a housing bust, the U.S. economy has been avoiding a sharp downturn where it matters most — in jobs.

Christian Science Monitor

Retirement plans shrink as economy falters

NPR

ERs still unprepared for terror attack

The nation's emergency rooms and hospitals are still, nearly seven years after Sept. 11, not prepared to deal with the "surge" of patients that could be caused by a terror attack.

ABC News

Asia calls for funding to fight food shock

Reuters

NATION

US drops charges against alleged '20th hijacker' in September 11 attacks

The United States has dropped charges against the alleged "20th hijacker" in the September 11th, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.

Voice of America

Bush hails graduating class of 18 in Kansas town

Seldom has such a small graduating high school class in Kansas received such a rousing sendoff from such a large crowd or in such strange and evocative circumstances.

Wichita Eagle

POLITICS

Clinton campaign hits Obama over Teamsters report

The Clinton campaign knocked Barack Obama over a report that he received the Teamsters endorsement as part of a questionable agreeement.

CBS News

Dems' wins suggest hard road for GOP

For the second time in three months, a Democrat's victory in a House district previously held by Republicans is pointing to a difficult landscape for the GOP this fall.

USA Today

Candidates make pitch to party insiders

In back-to-back speeches before state Democratic activists in Indianapolis, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama each offered themselves as the candidate who can best deliver change.

Indianapolis Star

Obama edging McCain in US campaign

Angus Reid

BUSINESS

Target sells credit card receivable stake for $3.6 billion

Target Corp. said that it has agreed to sell about 47 percent of its credit card receivables to JPMorgan Chase for approximately $3.6 billion.

MarketWatch

Iraq, Boeing confirm $2.2 billion order

The Iraqi government has ordered 30 Boeing 737 commercial airplanes in a deal worth up to $2.2 billion and has taken options on ten more, the two parties announced.

Agence France-Presse

Deutsche Telekom considering bid for Sprint Nextel

Deutsche Telekom is exploring the possibility of a bid for Sprint Nextel, the third-largest U.S. cell phone operator, a person close to the situation said.

International Herald Tribune

SPORTS

Steelers RB Mendenhall reportedly robbed at gunpoint

Pittsburgh Steelers first-round draft choice Rashard Mendenhall was robbed at gunpoint while walking along the city's lakefront, according to a report.

ESPN

After 4 OT losses, Sharks lament another year of missed chances

While the NHL's top four teams began preparations for the conference finals, the San Jose Sharks had the day off to get ready for one more summer they'll spend feeling like hockey's fifth wheel.

Google News

Eight Belles a casuality of fragile makeup

America's breeding industry is producing increasingly fragile thoroughbreds. They may not break down, but they have shorter and shorter racing careers before going to stud to beget even more fragile offspring.

MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Feds cap rural cell phone subsidies

The Federal Communications Commission capped a subsidy program that helps fund cell phone coverage in rural areas.

CNET News

After format war, Blu-ray sales still weak

New sales figures from market research firm NPD show that sales of Blu-ray players rose only 2 percent from February to March once Toshiba gave up on HD DVD.

Digital Trends

Fake topic

Asian Disneyland: the 5th happiest place on Earth

Hoping to boost attendance, Disney will add the "Small World" ride to this theme park, but how will it play in 21st century Asia?

TIME

Cinco de Mayo: Party like it's 1862

Cinco de Mayo is a day for celebration, but it doesn't celebrate Mexican independence from Spain. Instead, it commemorates an 1862 battle that ended with a victory over the French.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

'Iron Man' forges box office win

The 2008 summer movie season started off on a historic note as Iron Man opened with huge box office numbers that propelled it to a weekend win.

Entertainment Weekly

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Big oil's friends in the US Senate

International Herald Tribune

Column:

The party system and the 2008 campaign

Real Clear Politics

Editorial:

A food crisis sweeps the globe

San Francisco Chronicle

Column:

ID theft twist: Law hurts legal Hispanics

Chicago Sun-Times

Column:

Paying for health care — who and how?

Real Clear Politics

Editorial:

Rules are needed to monitor worth of carbon 'offsets'

San Jose Mercury News

Column:

Obama-Clinton battle will haunt party's nominee this fall

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Editorial:

Gasoline-tax reprieve is an idea running on empty

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Costa Rica plants more trees to become carbon neutral

Costa Rica will plant seven million trees in 2008 to soak up as many greenhouse gas emissions as it produces, in a bid to become the world's first carbon neutral nation, a top official said.

Yahoo! News

Paperboy saves woman trapped in home

Ethan Hall, 9, was out on his regular route when a pack of piled-up letters on a woman's front porch caught his eye. He suspected something was wrong.

ABC News

Idaho team readies artificial beak for wounded bald eagle

A team of volunteers is working to attach an artificial beak to the disfigured bird, in an effort to keep her alive.

Yahoo! News

WORLD

Iran rejects tougher nuclear checks, citing hypocrisy

Iran ruled out accepting intrusive nuclear inspections unless there was an end to "double standards" on global non-proliferation that it said benefited nuclear arms powers, including Israel.

Epoch Times

Iraq investigates weapons allegations against Iran

NPR

On China's heels, India vies for its old edge in Africa

India promised to increase lines of credit to Africa to $5.4 billion during a summit in New Delhi last month.

Christian Science Monitor

Two die in Somali currency riot

Somali troops killed at least two people in the capital, Mogadishu after opening fire to halt riots over rising costs and counterfeit money.

BBC

HEALTH

Australian doctor proposes paying $47,000 for a kidney

An Australian doctor proposed that the government pay up to $47,000 for kidney donations to overcome a chronic shortage.

Newsweek

Researchers: Adults grow new fat cells

The good news is that about 10 percent of our fat cells die each year. The bad news is that the same amount of new ones are produced annually to replace them, scientists have found.

Sydney Morning Herald

WHO: Deadly child virus in China is not a threat to Olympics

A highly infectious virus that has killed 24 children in China is unlikely to be a threat to the Beijing Olympics, although it is too early to tell whether it has peaked, the World Health Organization said.

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

Protected sea lions found shot dead on Columbia River

The deaths of six sea lions are under investigation after the bodies of the federally protected animals were found in open traps on the Columbia River and appeared to have been shot.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Sea lions killed

CBS News

Fishing for oxygen in warming oceans

A new report says that as the globe has warmed, waters with low oxygen content have expanded in the tropical Atlantic and equatorial Pacific oceans.

Scientific American

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

New French shrine 'could rival Lourdes'

The Roman Catholic Church has officially recognized a shrine in the French Alps where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to a young shepherdess.

Telegraph.co.uk

'Doctor Who' to boost church popularity

Episodes of TV show "Doctor Who" have been examined by church leaders in Britain as part of an attempt to make Christianity more appealing to teenagers.

Herald Sun

EDUCATION

College grads face tougher job market

Entry-level pay rises, but offers are less plentiful, thanks to economic downturn.

Christian Science Monitor

The gap in graduation rates

A recent report finds that many colleges and universities are graduating their black students at rates that are significantly lower than those for their white students.

U.S. News & World Report

Drunken brawl preceded fatal stabbing of Cal student

Berkeley police are investigating how an alcohol-fueled argument outside a U.C. Berkeley sorority house ended in the fatal stabbing of a Cal student.

San Francisco Chronicle

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