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Heads of the State Administration of Work Safety, State Bureau of Coal Industry and the Provincial Communist Party Committee talk with an injured miner after an explosion ripped through a coal mine in northern China. (Photo by Jin Liangkuai / AP)

Fresh paint at Iraqi house of horrors

Iraqi officials are eager to highlight a different face of Abu Ghraib, one they emphasize is now focused on reforming prisoners. Not everyone is convinced by the prison remake, despite the new paint.

International Herald Tribune

Abu Ghraib's renovations

CNN

Will the Recession doom the last Sunday blue laws?

A handful of state legislatures have declared it's closing time for Sunday alcohol sales restrictions, saying an extra day of sales could give their foundering budgets a much-needed shot of revenue.

TIME

Gas blast kills 74 in northern China mine

Rescuers wearing headlamps and oxygen backpacks carried dozens of miners to safety after a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China killed at least 74.

ABC News

Scores die in Chinese mine blast

Reuters

EU heads back financial clampdown

European leaders in Berlin have agreed on the need to regulate all financial markets including hedge funds.

BBC

Latvia's ruling coalition collapses

Latvia's four-party ruling coalition has collapsed after weeks of political squabbling and economic turmoil.

Al Jazeera

Clinton says U.S. and China are in the same economic boat

China and the United States both depend on reviving the U.S. economy and will rise or fall together, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Beijing.

Reuters

Hillary Clinton aims for China

CBS News

NATION

Housing crisis moves beyond subprimes

Subprime loans may have stumbled first, but the types of loans now going downhill the fastest are loans generally sold to more credit-worthy borrowers.

TIME

Federal foreclosure fix

CBS News

Eight year mystery of Chandra Levy's slaying may end

A Salvadoran immigrant convicted of attacking two women in the park where Chandra Levy's remains were found is expected to be arrested.

Google News

Chandra Levy case developments

CBS News

POLITICS

Obama faces pivotal budget week

President Obama embarks on a pivotal week of his young presidency, simultaneously preaching fiscal responsibility while selling the biggest deficit in U.S. history.

NY Daily News

Obama seeks to halve deficit by 2013

CNN

GOP governors unlikely to turn down stimulus funds

Even Republican governors who say they will reject some stimulus money will end up taking much of the funding, the leader of the National Governors Association said.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Microsoft explores educational link to video games

The software company is studying the reactions of avid gamers to see whether video gaming can promote learning skills that carry over to the classroom.

USA Today

Head-of-the-class reformer

Atlanta's Beverly Hall was named the nation’s top school superintendent, beating out superintendents from Indianapolis, Trussville, Ala., and Fayette County, Ky.

Atlanta-Journal Constitution

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Brother, can you spare a painting?

The recession has been disastrous for the contemporary-art market. That may turn out to be good for the art.

Newsweek

Newly poor swell lines at food banks

While food banks usually see a drop in demand after the holiday season, many in upscale suburbs this year are experiencing the opposite.

International Herald Tribune

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Yahoo may reveal revamping

Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz could be announcing a major management reorganization very soon and possibly abandon a recent restructuring that split the world into four operating regions.

Reuters

NASA delays Discovery launch, citing 'unease' about safety

Citing too many mission safety uncertainties, NASA delayed launching the next shuttle, Discovery, because of worries about faulty fuel valves.

Monsters and Critics

HEALTH

New degree creates doctor nurses

No one wants to badmouth Florence Nightingale, but a new degree for nurses is causing bad blood between doctors and their longtime colleagues.

NPR

Novel proposal for US health insurance

A private U.S. health policy group proposed creating a new public health program and a government insurance exchange to expand coverage and rein in health care costs.

Reuters

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

A recent gruesome killing by a Muslim poses another test for US Muslims

The beheading of 37-year-old Aasiya Hassan and the arrest of her estranged husband for the killing is another crucible for Muslims living in the United States.

Yahoo! News

Misuse of genetics an 'attack on humanity', says pope

Pope Benedict XVI freshly condemned the practice of discriminating through genetic selection as an "attack against all of humanity."

Google News

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GOOD NEWS

Stem cells extracted from pets help treat their ailments

Although still early in its use with more than 1,500 dogs and cats since marketing began last year, pet owners are embracing stem cell technology developed by California-based Vet-Stem Inc.

Chicago Tribune

Frigid dolphin rescue warms hearts in Seal Cove

Five dolphins were rescued after spending a week trapped in a small and closing ice gap in Seal Cove, Newfoundland.

Globeandmail.com

WORLD

Australia mourns 209 who died in the nation's worst-ever bushfire

Australia mourned victims of its worst-ever bushfires, which killed at least 209 people and which is still burning in four areas north and east of Melbourne.

Bloomberg

100,000 protest Irish government over banks, wages

A march in the heart of Dublin — organized by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions — was a warning shot to the government, which wants to cut public sector pay as it pumps money into its troubled banks.

CBS News

Taliban, Pakistan make permanent truce in volatile valley

The Taliban and the government of North West Frontier Province in Pakistan agreed to a permanent cease-fire in the nation's volatile Swat Valley, an official said.

CNN

Doubts raised over Swat sharia deal

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

Its muscle car glory faded, Pontiac shrivels up

When General Motors asked the U.S. government for more bailout money, it also announced a reorganization plan that included demoting Pontiac to a "focused niche brand."

International Herald Tribune

‘Virgin’ North Dakota draws billionaire Icahn in raider quest

North Dakota, known for blizzards and badlands, may one day become a home for corporate America, should billionaire Carl Icahn get his way.

Bloomberg

Stanford's Antigua units seized

Regulators seized billionaire Allen Stanford's banks and companies in Antigua, which is at the center of fraud charges against him, as the financier surrendered his passport to U.S. authorities.

Reuters

Key players in the Allen Stanford affair

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Major Calif. reservoirs remain shallow

Recent heavy rains didn't end Northern California's drought. For the first time in 18 years, mandatory summertime water rationing is all but certain for Silicon Valley.

San Jose Mercury News

Most wars occur in biodiversity hotspots

More than 80 percent of the world's major armed conflicts from 1950-2000 occurred in regions identified as the most biologically diverse and threatened places on Earth.

LiveScience

SPORTS

Stanford affair fallout spreads to golf

If English cricket was shocked at revel- ations surrounding businessman Sir Allen Stanford, then that reaction found its echo in the world of professional golf.

Guardian

Venus Williams tops Razzano in Dubai

Venus Williams won her 40th singles title, beating Virginie Razzano of France 6-4, 6-2 in the Dubai Tennis Championship final.

USA Today

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A hiker makes his way to the peak of Mount Resegone, near Lecco, northern Italy. (Photo by Fabio Polimeni / AP Photo)

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