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Hansa, right, with Usha, left, fans her husband Ishwar Bhai, 50, injured in the blasts at the Civil Hospital in Ahmadabad, India. (Photo by Gautam Singh / AP)

Obama: Conditions dictate final Iraq force

Reuters

Senate passes housing bill

CNNMoney

Housing bill clears Senate, awaits Bush's signature

NPR

China buys the silence of grieving parents

Free ‘life insurance’ has been offered to families of children who were killed when schools collapsed in the earthquake.

Times Online

Death toll in Ahmedabad blasts rises to 45

At least 161 people were injured when 16 separate small bombs went off in several parts of the city, which has a history of violent clashes between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority.

Guardian

Synchronized blasts hit high-tech Bangalore

Yahoo! News

How one careless phone call ended Radovan Karadzic’s liberty

The breakthrough in the hunt for Karadzic came from a single telephone call. A Serbian security source said that the call, from Karadzic’s mobile phone, was his “fatal error”.

Times Online

At site of massacre, arrest brings little solace

International Herald Tribune

A sanitized view of the Iraq war?

International Herald Tribune

Iraq war's price tag nears Vietnam's

CBS News

Judge tosses Savage's suit against Islamic group

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by radio talk show host Michael Savage against an Islamic civil rights group over its use of a portion of his show in which he called the Quran a "book of hate."

Associated Press

NATION

FDA warning narrowed to raw jalapenos from Mexico

U.S. health officials are urging consumers to avoid raw jalapeno peppers only from Mexico due to concerns about salmonella illness, according to a media report.

MarketWatch

Large wildfire near Yosemite

California's fire troubles are not over yet. Fire crews from several Bay Area cities are now heading to a huge wildfire burning in Mariposa County, about 25 miles from Yosemite National Park.

KCBS-TV

South Padre Island actually turning tourists away

Weekend tourists were being turned away from this popular vacation destination as officials cleaning up after Hurricane Dolly declared the island closed for business.

Houston Chronicle

POLITICS

Republicans block heating aid bill

Republicans blocked the Senate from considering a bill that would nearly double federal aid to help the poor pay heating and air-conditioning bills.

TIME

The Obama roadshow rolls into London

The U.S. presidential hopeful chose to spend the last day of his Middle East and European tour in London, cementing the "relationship" between the UK and America.

Scotsman

Obama on meeting PM Brown

BBC

BUSINESS

New home sales beat forecasts

Orders for U.S. durable goods unexpectedly rose in June, and sales of new homes were higher than forecast, easing concern that the economic slowdown will worsen.

Bloomberg

US multinationals get boost from weak dollar

NPR

Federal regulators close 2 more banks

The 28 branches of 1st National Bank of Nevada and First Heritage Bank, operating in Nevada, Arizona and California, were closed by federal regulators.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Global warming and psycho bears

Knut was the perfect mascot for the Green moment, splashed on the cover of Vanity Fair. But now, he's a quivering, angry mess and a cautionary tale to animal celebrity.

Toronto Star

Commercially engineered bees spread disease to wild bees

Disease spread to wild bees from commercially bred bees used for pollination may be playing a role in the decline in North American bee populations, researchers said.

Environmental News Network

Puffin numbers plummeting

The plight of puffins is worrying the National Trust after the number of breeding pairs on the Farne Islands dropped by a third in five years.

Times Online

Islands' puffin numbers fall

BBC

EDUCATION

Math scores show no gap for girls

A study paid for by the National Science Foundation has found that girls perform as well as boys on standardized math tests.

EducationNews.org

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

At nation's churches, guys are few-and-far-between in the pews

Churches nationwide are fretting and sweating to reel men into their sanctuaries on Sundays.

USA Today

Vatican approves new English translation for Mass

The Vatican has given formal approval to a new English translation of the central prayers of the Mass for use in the United States.

Catholic World News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Richard Dowden):

Mugabe's power ploy

Guardian

Blog (Noam Scheiber):

Romney adds nothing to McCain

New Republic

Column (Joe Dickerson):

What did Obama learn in Iraq?

Slate

Column (William Schneider):

Trying to carry the red states

National Journal

Column (Susan Estrich):

Arrogance won't win the election

Real Clear Politics

Editorial:

Ethanol's allure plummets

USA Today

Blog:

McCain's veep: It's all about the map

Newsweek

Column (Robert Fox):

Truth and other casualties of war

Guardian

Editorial:

Wounded warriors, empty promises

International Herald Tribune

Column:

India's nuclear technology deal

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

South Africa lawyer nominated as UN rights chief

One of South Africa's leading female jurists who won acclaim defending apartheid opponents was nominated to serve as the next United Nations high commissioner for human rights.

HappyNews.com

WORLD

Report: Iran says it now has 6,000 unanium-enriching centrifuges

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran now possesses 6,000 centrifuges, an increase in the number of uranium-enriching machines, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

MSNBC

Iran nuclear issues

Yahoo! News

Despite rebel losses, cocaine sustains war in rural Colombia

Colombia's four-decade-old war fueled by the drug trade is proving immune to American-financed efforts to stop it.

International Herald Tribune

Mexican military losing drug war support

MSNBC

Plane hole 'not due to corrosion'

Qantas boss Geoff Dixon has denied corrosion caused a hole in the body of the plane that was forced to make an emergency landing in Manila.

BBC

Qantas plane lands with hole in fuselage

Yahoo! News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The artistic crime of the century

Philippe Petit, the French wirewalker, shocked and charmed the world when he took to the skies on Aug. 7, 1974, to walk a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

ABC News

High Wire Act

TIME

Reality hosts to preside over Emmys

The reality is, there won't be an Emmy host this year — there will be five. The reality-TV hosts nominated in the new category that honors their work will preside over the show.

Associated Press

Why America worships superheroes

Critics can lament the superhero surge all they want, but many reviewers gave them a stamp of approval, and for good reason: They’re simply better movies than they used to be.

Vanity Fair

SPORTS

Chamberlain leads Yankees to seventh win in a row

Joba Chamberlain shut down the Boston Red Sox to help the red hot Yankees score a 1-0 win and move within two games of their American League East rivals.

Reuters

Packers shareholders back GM Thompson at annual meeting

While shareholders toured the Atrium, bought souvenirs or had lunch, General Manager Ted Thompson emerged from his office shortly before 1 p.m. and signed autographs and visited with fans.

USA Today

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Ballmer urges troops to slap down Apple and Google

A "state of the union" memo from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to all his employees makes it clear that the company still sees Apple and Google as threats, but for very different reasons.

iTWire

Mapping the human mind

Scientists reveal the first “wiring diagrams” of the cerebral cortex, shedding light on the infrastructure behind human intelligence.

Popular Science

HEALTH

Are granite countertops radioactive?

A physics professor at Rice University, W.J. Llope, is warning that some granite countertops contain levels of uranium high enough to be dangerous to humans.

Houston Chronicle

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