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An airline mechanic walks past the damaged right wing fuselage of a Qantas Airways Boeing 747-400 passenger plane following an emergency landing at the Ninoy Aquino International in Manila, Philippines. (Photo by Bullit Marquez / AP)

Hole in Qantas jet forces emergency landing in Manila

A Qantas Airways plane made an emergency landing in Manila after part of its undercarriage blew off, triggering a loss in cabin pressure during a flight from Hong Kong to Melbourne.

International Herald Tribune

Jet plunges in midflight

ABC News

Karzai 'impeding Afghan drug war'

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is obstructing efforts to tackle his country's drugs problem, says a former U.S. narcotics official.

BBC

Obama: Together we can defeat terrorism

Sen. Barack Obama, standing before a cheering crowd of more than 200,000 in Berlin - many waving American flags - delivered an historic political address to a worldwide audience.

San Francisco Chronicle

McCain takes swipe at Obama for Berlin speech

Reuters

Obama: "The walls...cannot stand"

MSNBC

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Obama tour of Europe, Middle East

CNN

Arctic may hold as much as a fifth of undiscovered oil and gas reserves

The lure of the Arctic as oil's next big frontier was vindicated as a major survey found the region might hold as much as a fifth of the world's yet to-be-discovered oil and natural gas reserves.

International Herald Tribune

Northern lights mystery exposed

Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights.

AOL News

NATION

Mystery vibrations have Green Bay couple spinning

Bob and Leona Ehrfurth are sensitive to the possibility that people think they're crazy. For two years now, they have been enduring an annoying noise in their home. They can't figure out what's causing it.

Green Bay Press Gazzette

Surviving (or not) on minimum wage

The country's lowest-paid workers will get raises today as the federal minimum wage increases 12 percent, or 70 cents, from $5.85 to $6.55 an hour. But that's still not enough to pay the bills, say some.

ABC News

Hurricane season: big start

As the remnant of hurricane Dolly creeps toward far northern Mexico, the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season is already a concern as hurricane specialists look at July's unusually high level of activity.

Christian Science Monitor

Dolly knocks out power as it drenches Texas

CNN

Hurricane pictures

MSNBC

POLITICS

McCain gains on Obama in Minnesota

USA Today

John McCain denies misstatement on Iraq surge timing

Republican John McCain pushed back against Democratic criticism, saying elements were put in place before Bush announced the strategy in early 2007.

CBS News

McCain's foreign policy frustration

TIME

BUSINESS

Dow Jones plunges 283 points

Wall Street retreats following steeper-than-expected drop in home sales; financials decline.

ABC News

Source: Federal grand jury probing banks

A federal grand jury is investigating mortgage lenders Countrywide Financial Corp., New Century Financial Corp. and IndyMac Bancorp Inc.

MSNBC

Ford posts $8.7 billion second quarter loss on asset write-downs

Ford Motor Co. says it lost $8.7 billion in the second quarter largely because of a reduction in the value of assets.

Forbes

See what production changes Ford plans

Detroit Free Press

ENVIRONMENT

Nevada, Southwest face drought

A new study predicts that climate change will create devastating drought in this state and throughout the Southwest and continue to drop the levels of already low Lake Mead and Lake Powell.

MSNBC

Microloans pay off for planet, investors

The number of "microborrowers" worldwide-people participating in the rapidly growing field of microfinance-increased by 17 percent.

Environmental News Network

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

FCC reaches deal to approve satellite radio merger

Commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission have reached an agreement to approve Sirius Satellite Radio's purchase of XM Satellite Radio, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Guardian

How anecdotal evidence can undermine scientific results

The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

Scientific American

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholic critics ask Pope to lift contraception ban

More than 50 dissident Catholic groups published an unusually frank open letter to Pope Benedict saying the Church's ban on contraception has been "catastrophic" and urging him to lift it.

ABC News

Polygamist sects likened to organized crime rings

A Senate committee heard appeals for the creation of a federal task force to combat polygamist sects that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid described as sophisticated organized crime rings.

McClatchy Newspapers

Gurpurbs

Gurpurbs are festivals that are associated with the lives of the Gurus. They are happy occasions which are celebrated most enthusiastically by Sikhs.

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

HIV-infected patients' life expectancy increased by 13 years

HIV-infected patients in North America and Europe are living at least 13 years longer on average as a result of combination drug therapies introduced in the mid-1990s.

Bloomberg

Fish oil, red yeast rice cut cholesterol

Supplements of fish oil and red yeast rice, coupled with lifestyle changes in diet and exercise habits, can reduce cholesterol as much as standard cholesterol-lowering medications known as statins.

WebMD

The $500 million war on smoking

Billionaires Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg are pooling their riches in an uphill drive to cut tobacco use in poor and middle-income countries.

Star Tribune

WORLD

Iraqi teams banned from Olympics

The International Olympic Committee has upheld a ban on Iraqi teams at the Beijing Games, the government missed the deadline to address accusations of political interference.

TIME

Olympic media harassed

CNN

8 killed by female suicide bomber in Iraq

Iraqi police say at least eight people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a checkpoint manned by U.S.-allied Sunni guards northeast of Baghdad.

USA Today

US shifting Pakistan funding to new fighter jets

The Bush administration plans to shift nearly $230 million in aid to Pakistan from counterterrorism programs to upgrading that country's aging F-16 attack planes.

International Herald Tribune

Pakistan accused of disappearing terrorism suspects

McClatchy Newspapers

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Gamers come out for Comic-Con

Videogame publishers have set up shop at the annual confab to tout their newest titles, hoping that the kind of early buzz that benefits movies and TV shows will help boost interest in their games as well.

Variety

The X-Files: I want to believe

In grand “X-Files” manner, the film’s storyline is being kept under wraps. This much can be revealed: It is a stand-alone story like some of the show’s most acclaimed and beloved episodes.

Monsters and Critics

SPORTS

Krzyzewski: James likely out of US exhibition against Canada

U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski says injured forward LeBron James is a "95 percent no-go" for the exhibition game against Canada.

CBS SportsLine

Carlos Delgado's big hit lifts Mets into first place

Carlos Delgado's tie-breaking, two-out, two-run double in the eighth inning gave the Mets a 3-1 win over the Phillies.

Newsday

Urine test for human growth hormone is in the works

A urine test that detects human growth hormone could be available within six months, according to reports.

Sporting News

Positive tests for swimmer

San Jose Mercury News

EDUCATION

Educators look to boost American Indian and other minority graduation

American Indian and other minority students sometimes drop out of school partly because they don't feel connected enough to their cultures from an early age.

Salt Lake Tribune

Urban leaders back stronger No Child Left Behind accountability

In the debate over the future of the No Child Left Behind Act, many educators say the federal government should ease the law’s accountability requirements.

Education Week

HEALTH

The wormy truth about aging

The worm may hold one of the keys to aging. In the journal Cell, researchers report that when a worm gene called elt-3 becomes less active, lots of other genes do the same, and worms age.

WebMD

Viagra may boost female libido

Study suggests sildenafil may reduce sexual dysfunction for women taking antidepressants.

U.S. News & World Report

Cancer institute urges caution with cell phone usage

A prominent U.S. cancer institute has posted a notice on its Web site urging cell phone users to take precautions when using cell phones.

Medical News Today

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