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Bystanders and a firefighter carry the body of a victim outside Mustansriya university in Baghdad. Two minivans exploded near the university in a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, killing at least 65 people. (Photo by Karim Kadim / AP)

Philippines kills top al-Qaida militant

Jainal Antel Sali Jr., popularly known as Abu Sulaiman — a top leader of the Abu Sayyaf rebel group — was fatally shot in a fierce gunbattle with army special forces.

MSNBC

Castro sets stage for power transition

Cuban President Fidel Castro, ailing and out of sight, has been meeting with a trickle of international guests in recent months.

Yahoo! News

3 DJs fired after deadly water-drinking contest

MSNBC

U.S. cancer deaths drop for second straight year

The number of Americans dying of cancer declined for the second year in a row, the American Cancer Society reports, a signal that decades of advances in prevention and treatment are paying off.

USA Today

Bombers strike again in Baghdad

CNN

Defense chief considers more troops for Afghanistan

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he will consider sending more troops to Afghanistan, where U.S. commanders say they expect the Taliban to step up attacks.

Reuters

Israeli army chief quits over Lebanon

The chief of Israel’s armed forces has resigned over the conduct of last year’s Lebanon war, generating further pressure on the political leadership that oversaw the conflict.

Financial Times

Resignation spurs calls for Olmert, Peretz to quit too

Ha'aretz

NATION

U.S., North Korea to meet again on nuclear program

U.S. and North Korean envoys will hold a second, and perhaps third, day of unprecedented talks on North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions.

Reuters

Somalia's parliament ousts speaker

Somalia's transitional parliament has voted overwhelmingly to oust its speaker, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, who opposed Ethiopia's intervention in the country.

BBC

Australia bushfires show no sign of letting up

Australia's second-most-populous state is in the grip of one of the worst bushfire seasons in recorded history.

International Herald Tribune

BUSINESS

Report: Toyota may consider Ford venture

Toyota is willing to consider a broader partnership with Ford if the U.S. automaker requests it and the conditions are right.

Business Week

Cost of gas dips to lowest point in weeks

U.S. retail gasoline prices fell to their lowest level in five weeks, and could near $2 a gallon in coming weeks as plummeting crude oil prices trickle through to the pump.

MSNBC

POLITICS

GOP faces tough vote on Bush's war plan

Bruised by the elections and divided on the Iraq war, the GOP will find itself in a tough spot when Democrats force lawmakers to go on record for or against President Bush's troop strategy.

Yahoo! News

Republican Tancredo opens 2008 White House campaign

Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, a leading opponent of illegal immigration, said he would take the first step toward a longshot 2008 presidential bid.

ABC News

McCain hopes to mend fences with evangelical leader

Sen. John McCain hopes to patch things up with conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who said he won't support McCain under any circumstances.

CNN

SPORTS

Coaches Dungy, Smith, chase Super Bowl -- and history

Tony Dungy, the Indianapolis Colts coach and Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith can break ground if one or both advance to Super Bowl XLI.

USA Today

Ex-NASCAR champ Benny Parsons dies

Benny Parsons made a career of beating the odds, rising from a childhood of poverty in the North Carolina foothills to NASCAR champion.

Sporting News

EDUCATION

Census: Kids in poverty have less parent time

American children living in poverty or in single-parent homes are more likely to have trouble at school than youths in wealthier, two-parent homes.

CNN

Vocational ed rebounding as an answer to dropout crisis

Vocational education in high schools is emerging as one solution to many of the problems facing California public school students.

Mercury News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Dollars, not just democracy, often drive U.S. foreign policy

USA Today

Blog (Caroline Overington):

Parents pay the price for war

Australian

Column:

Don't take a day off for MLK - go out and change the world

Kentucky Kernel

Column:

Why David Beckham is bad for American soccer

Slate

Editorial:

No to escalation

Nation

Column:

How Bush is blowing our last chance

Slate

Editorial:

An information trove in Holocaust archive

Miami Herald

Column:

Stop the middle-class wage slide

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Column:

A defining realignment

Newsweek

Editorial:

Minimum wage politics

Review Journal

Editorial:

Enemy in our backyard

New York Sun

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GOOD NEWS

Good Samaritan makes up for stolen bikes

When the bikes Dennis and Tamie Leporin bought themselves for Christmas to ride with their young son disappeared from their front lawn, their guardian angel came knocking.

HappyNews

Protection for 'weirdest' species

A conservation program for some of the world's most bizarre and unusual creatures has been launched by the Zoological Society of London.

BBC

NATION

Killer cold's death toll grows

Hundreds of people hunkered down in shelters and thousands stuck it out in darkened homes after a winter storm that left 54 dead in nine states.

U.S. News & World Report

California seeks crop freeze aid

San Francisco Chronicle

Train blaze in Kentucky continues to burn

Thick, billowing smoke and flames fed by volatile chemicals leaking from a derailed train continued to belch into the sky.

U.S. News & World Report

ENVIRONMENT

Naomi Campbell phones in assault plea

The supermodel pleaded guilty to one charge of misdemeanor assault for hurling a cell phone at her maid's head last March over a missing pair of prize denim.

E! Online

Bollywood's golden couple to tie the knot

Two of Bollywood's biggest stars, Abhishek Bachchan, 30, and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai, 33, finally got engaged after months of feverish speculation across India.

Guardian

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Gum disease increases pancreatic cancer risk

Gum disease can more than double a person's risk of pancreatic cancer, a Harvard study shows.

Fox News

France touts rising fertility rate

France had more babies in 2006 than in any year in the last quarter-century, capping a decade of rising fertility that has bucked Europe's graying trend.

Yahoo! News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The warming of Greenland

All over Greenland and the Arctic, rising temperatures are not simply melting ice; they are changing the very geography of coastlines.

International Herald Tribune

U.A.E. first in environmental harm

The average person in the U.A.E. puts more demand on the global ecosystem than any other, giving the country the world's largest per-capita "ecological footprint." The U.S. runs second.

Environmental News Network

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

King papers exhibit opens on national holiday

As the Atlanta History Center opened for the first public exhibition of Martin Luther King Jr.’s papers since they were returned, crowds filed past King’s sermons, notes and books.

MSNBC

Science and faith join forces

Some leading scientists and evangelical Christian leaders have agreed to put aside their fierce differences over the origin of life and work together to fight global warming.

Examiner

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Skype's millionaire founders to launch Internet TV

Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, have named their social-networking meets TV-programming Internet venture Joost.

Guardian

Science mysteries explained

The world is full of mysteries, and this article strives to help you learn the answers to 20 questions that have always made you scratch your head.

Popular Science

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