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Members of the media and Hamas security forces are seen next to a display of weapons that Hamas security members claim they confiscated from Fatah members, in Gaza city. (Photo by Hatem Moussa / AP)

Hamas arrests men sent back to Gaza

About 30 pro-Fatah Palestinians who fled to Israel after fierce clashes in the Gaza Strip were sent back to the Hamas-controlled enclave and Hamas said its forces immediately detained them.

Reuters

Israel allows in Gaza fugitives

BBC

Violence erupts in Gaza City

CNN

Gaza infighting

CNN

Sen. Tom Daschle criticizes FBI's handling of Anthrax probe

ABC News

Anthrax case raises concerns about lab security

NPR

Stampede kills 145 Hindu worshippers in India

At least 145 people, mostly women and children, were crushed to death under the feet of thousands of pilgrims in a stampede at a temple in Himachal Pradesh, police said.

Reuters

The Naina Devi stampede

Times of India

Serbia to keep looking for war crimes fugitives despite backlash

Authorities will continue looking for two remaining Serb war crimes fugitives despite ultranationalists' anger over Radovan Karadzic's arrest, Serbia's pro-Western president said.

International Herald Tribune

U.S. works to phase out role in Iraq jails

The U.S. military said it has released more than 10,000 detainees in Iraq so far this year — more than in all of 2007 — as it continues to try to phase out its running of Iraqi prisons.

CBS News

Advisers for the presidential candidates see balanced budget

Advisers for the candidates, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, said on "Face The Nation" that a balanced budget is foreseeable despite a federal deficit that has ballooned to more than $400 billion.

CBS News

NATION

Firefighters close to containing wildfire near Yosemite

Firefighters were getting closer to containing a 53-square-mile wildfire that had destroyed more than 20 homes in the mountains outside Yosemite National Park.

CBS News

Kidnap suspect dad arrested

A man accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter during a supervised visit in Boston was taken into custody in Baltimore, and the girl was safe, authorities said.

TIME

POLITICS

Obama central: harmony and deep secrecy rule

CBS News

Campaigns argue on who's more negative

MSNBC

Bush hammers Democrats on energy

President Bush said that if Democrats refuse to hold a vote on offshore drilling when they return from the August recess they will “owe families across America an explanation.”

The Hill

GOP energy protest to continue

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The Hill

Obama open to offshore drilling as part of Senate 'compromise'

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Shipping costs crimp globalization

Cheap oil, the lubricant of inexpensive transportation links, may not return soon, upsetting the logic of diffuse global supply chains.

International Herald Tribune

Employers in US cutting jobs, hours, signaling slower growth

Employers in the U.S. fired workers in July for a seventh straight month and cut hours for remaining staff to a record low, signaling economic growth weakened at the start of the second half of the year.

Bloomberg

Macro-economic data on the economy

Financial Times

ENVIRONMENT

Revealed: the beach polluters

The water quality of Britain’s beaches is being jeopardized by thousands of unregulated overflow pipes that dump raw sewage into coastal waters and rivers, an investigation has revealed.

Times Online

America's most polluted beaches

Environment News Service

Russia trying to tap into Arctic riches

Russia has begun a push to claim a vast chunk of disputed Arctic territory in an aggressive campaign to win control of the region's oil and gas resources.

Times Online

China's 'rapid renewables surge'

China's rapid investment in low carbon technologies has catapulted the nation up the global renewable energy rankings, a report shows.

BBC

Idaho gladly accepts new Uranium enrichment plant

PlanetSave.com

HEALTH

CDC understated number of new HIV infections in US

At least 56,000 people become infected with the AIDS virus every year in the U.S. — 40 percent more than estimated, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Bloomberg

AIDS treatment in question

CNN

Oral pill turns slacker mice into athletes

U.S. researchers have come up with a pill that promises to give a typical junk-food snacking couch potato the silhouette and endurance of a marathon runner.

AFP

Exercise in a pill

CBS News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

A beginning for global Christian-Muslim compatibility at Yale meeting

In a three-day conference, Christian and Muslim leaders from around the world began shaping their own role in reducing tensions and restoring a sense of hope among their respective followers.

Christian Science Monitor

In Egypt, Muslim-Christian divide seems getting wider

The increase in violence has been so bad that one prominent Egyptian writer has worried it had become "open season" on the nation's Christians. Does Egypt face a sectarian problem?

International Herald Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Girl survives 14-story fall down chimney

A 12-year-old girl fell into a chimney on the roof of her apartment building, plummeted 14 stories down the flue and landed almost unscathed in a pile of furnace soot.

MSNBC

WORLD

Beijing Olympics: the spying games

Aides and officials accompanying British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to the Olympics were told they must take no laptops and all mobile phones must contain no contact numbers or other information.

Times Online

Dress rehearsal for Olympic opening ceremony

YouTube

Algeria car bomb wounds 21

A car bomb exploded near a police station in a town east of Algiers wounding 21 people including six policemen, the government of the OPEC member country said.

International Herald Tribune

Taliban deny Zawahri death report

A Pakistani Taliban spokesman denied a report that al-Qaida number two, Ayman al Zawahri, was killed in a U.S. missile strike.

MSNBC

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Bridesmaid revisited

Siri Agrell's new book, "Bad Bridesmaid: Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums — Tales From the Front Lines," includes harrowing stories from more than 40 bridesmaids.

Salon.com

Proof! Just 6 degrees of separation between us

The theory of six degrees of separation contends that, because we are all linked by chains of acquaintance, you are just six introductions away from any other person on the planet.

Guardian

SPORTS

Team USA cruises past Russia

Kobe Bryant scored 19 points on 7-of-13 shooting as the USA Men's Basketball National team continued to cruise through its exhibition slate with a 89-68 win over Russia.

The Sports Network

US relay team stripped of 2000 Olympic gold medals

The IOC has stripped gold medals from the U.S. men's 1,600-meter relay team that competed at the 2000 Games in the aftermath of Antonio Pettigrew's admission that he was doping at the time.

CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Strike three for SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket

A Falcon 1 rocket failed to reach orbit, marking the third unsuccessful attempt for private spaceflight firm SpaceX.

MSNBC

World's smallest snake thin as spaghetti

Scientists have identified the world's smallest snake - a reptile about 4 inches (10 cm) long and as thin as spaghetti found lurking under a rock on the Caribbean island of Barbados.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Digital textbooks new word in schools

An emerging alternative to the traditional college textbook may lighten students' backpacks and lessen the strain on their pocketbooks.

Union-Tribune

School officials fret about privacy for accused teachers

Tougher state laws have made it harder in recent years for bad teachers to move from one school district to another, but a ruling by the Washington Supreme Court could roll back some of that progress.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

College admissions through the unexpected route

With a little ingenuity, you can attend your school of choice even if you were rejected.

EdNews

Quick-fix diplomas often aren’t real GEDs

In a city like Milwaukee where hundreds of high school students drop out every year, there’s a market for businesses to offer quick-fix diplomas. But are these equivalent to a GED?

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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