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Health officials slaughter live poultry at a market in Hong Kong. Health officials are destroying 2,700 live poultry after chickens were found to be carrying the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus strain, officials said. (Photo by Kin Cheung / AP)

Bird flu detected in Hong Kong

Hong Kong health workers slaughtered 2,700 poultry in a market after chickens were found to be carrying the H5N1 bird flu virus.

Seattle Times

Bird flu

Yahoo! News

Special section:

Ten things you need to know about pandemic influenza

World Health Organization

Study: Stem cells could thwart rare neurological disorders

Researchers from the University of Rochester discovered that with a single shot of human fetal stem cells, they cured lab mice suffering from a nervous disorder.

Scientific American

Harvard researchers find how to turn on brain stem cells

New England Journal of Medicine

Clinton endorses Obama, calls for party unity

Sen. Hillary Clinton has conceded, saying, "we need to do all we can to help elect Sen. Barack Obama the next president of the United States."

CNN

Clinton backers offer support, if hesitantly, to Obama

Reuters

Clinton gives way for Obama

BBC

What's next for Hillary Clinton?

NPR

$45 trillion urged to battle carbon emissions, global warming

The International Energy Agency has said that investment totaling $45 trillion might be needed over the next half-century to prevent energy shortages from undermining global economic growth.

International Herald Tribune

Bush warns of pay cuts for troops

The Hill

NATION

Guantanamo Bay's version of justice

A momentous event in the history of Guantanamo Bay showcases the first time senior al-Qa'eda suspects had been seen in public since the Sept. 11 attacks and been charged in a U.S. court.

Telegraph.co.uk

Rain inundates Indiana, threatens dams

Storms dumped as much as 10 inches of rain on already-soggy central Indiana, threatening dams, inundating highways and sending the Coast Guard to rescue residents from swamped homes.

Associated Press

US prison population hits all-time high: 2.3 million incarcerated

The Justice Department has released a new report showing the nation's prison and jail population reached a record high of 2.3 million people.

ABC News

POLITICS

Franken sweeps to endorsement

U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken took the DFL nomination by acclamation, after a day of questions over whether the controversial satirist can wage a focused campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.

Star Tribune

Carbon-capping Senate bill dies

Senate Republicans blocked a vote on a bill that would cut greenhouse gas emissions, but senators backing the measure said they'd keep working to get a stronger version ready for the next president.

McClatchy Newspapers

Gas prices encourage telecommuting

MSNBC

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

'Kung Fu Panda' kicks up the comedy

"Kung Fu Panda" essentially follows the broad outline of a rags-to-riches children's movie, but it recharges the formula with likable characters and funny moments.

San Francisco Chronicle

Review: 'You don't mess with the Zohan'

Adam Sandler's new movie is a pretty good scattershot comedy with counterterrorism as its backdrop.

Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Hoofcrack and heat won't stop Big Brown

Dust off the Crown and place it on the handsome head of Big Brown, who will complete the first sweep of the Triple Crown races in 30 years with a victory in the Belmont Stakes.

MSNBC

Federer, defending champ Nadal reach French Open final

Top-ranked Roger Federer beat Gael Monfils to join three-time defending champion Rafael Nadal in the French Open tennis final.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

A carbon-neutral world is the focus of World Environment Day 2008

New Zealand is the main host of World Environment Day 2008. The theme, “Kick the CO2 Habit," is meant to inspire and encourage actions to eliminate the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

Environment News Servicee

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Phoenix takes first Martian soil sample

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully scooped up a sample of Martian soil with its robotic arm, mission scientists said.

Space.com

Virtual Disney world added to Google Earth

A virtual tour of Walt Disney World on Google Earth may help plan a vacation, or it might substitute for the real thing.

CIO Today

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Editorial:

When Sunday is just another day

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

America at its best

Economist

Column (Dahlia Lithwick):

Looking for some way to repair the feminist gender rift

Slate

Editorial:

A convenient truth, sadly ignored

Economist

Column (Stanley Weiss):

Wielding a small stick

International Herald Tribune

Editorial:

Why women earn less

USA Today

Column:

Why are oil prices so high?

BBC

Column:

Who will Obama choose as veep?

Salon.com

Blog:

Iraq intelligence findings provide lessons

USA Today

Column:

The meaning of a milestone

Real Clear Politics

Editorial:

Bush, Cheney and the truth about the war

International Herald Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

In Iran, a monument to selflessness

The Bakhtiari tribe names a mountain after Helen Jeffreys Bakhtiar, a woman from Idaho, to commemorate her public health work there in the 1950s.

NPR

WORLD

Sri Lanka: 50 people detained after two deadly bombings

At least 50 people were detained during a house-to-house search following two bus bombings in Sri Lanka which killed at least 22 people, police said.

CNN

UN: Zimbabwe aid cutoff endangers 2 million people

At least 2 million people in Zimbabwe face greater risk of starvation, homelessness and disease because the government ordered aid groups to halt operations there, according to U.N. official.

USA Today

Court 'lifts Zimbabwe rally ban'

BBC

Zimbabwe, a nation in decline

MSNBC

BUSINESS

As Dow sinks almost 400 points, oil price surges more than $11

Stocks tanked, with the Dow industrials shedding over 300 points after oil prices spiked more than $11 a barrel and the May jobs report showed a big jump in the unemployment rate.

CNNMoney

Special section:

Q&A: Record oil prices

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Some churches reluctant to hang anti-torture banners

American houses of worship may support a ban on U.S. torture, but they aren't always comfortable with showing it publicly, according to an anti-torture activist group.

National Catholic Reporter

HEALTH

Doctors urged to look for link between type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea

The ties being found between type 2 diabetes and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) indicate these disorders have major implications on public health, the International Diabetes Federation warns.

U.S. News & World Report

Bad bacteria lurk in rest stops

It may come as no surprise to the travel-wise, but public restrooms along America's highways are indeed a haven for potentially dangerous bacteria.

WebMD

EDUCATION

Now students take field trips online

High fuel prices make virtual field trips popular with schools – but no substitute for the real thing.

Christian Science Monitor

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