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Police officers stand guard outside a property in Manchester, England. A police raid was carried out following a major security blunder when Britain's top counter terrorism officer Bob Quick inadvertently allowed top secret details to be photographed. (Photo by Paul Thomas / AP)

FBI assisting in efforts to rescue Somali pirate hostage

The piracy crisis over a lone hostage in the Indian Ocean took on the air of a cops-and-robbers standoff, with the U.S. Navy on the scene getting advice from seasoned FBI negotiators.

NPR

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Timeline: Somali pirates attempted hijacking

Guardian

Navy on scene with US cargo ship, pirates

YouTube

Global stocks gain, led by US bank rally

Global stocks rallied, led by a record gain in U.S. bank shares, with better-than-estimated earnings at Wells Fargo & Co. and speculation American lenders will pass government stress tests.

Bloomberg

UK Police feared 'al-Qaida terror attack' on Easter

Counterterrorism officials believe an al-Qaida terror plot against the U.K., designed to cause mass casualties, was to be carried out within days.

Guardian

Where terror raids took place

BBC

Police hunting for bombs

Times Online

Top terror cop caught showing secrets

ABC News

Economic free fall will end in months

Economic "free fall" will come to an end in the next few months, President Obama's top economic adviser said.

MarketWatch

Obama urges mortgage refinancing

MSNBC

Obama asks for $83.4 billion for military

President Obama said 95 percent of the $83.4 billion in supplemental funds he requested would support U.S. military operations in Iraq and the effort to disrupt and defeat al-Qaida.

Reuters

NATION

Las Vegas project symbol of trouble

Conceived as the centerpiece of a thriving Las Vegas, one of the world's most expensive building projects has come to symbolize the retail and leisure slump.

Reuters

State regulators gear up for casino bankruptcies

Google News

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Las Vegas casino map: the Strip

Las Vegas Sun

Raise beer tax to fight child abuse?

Michigan should increase its beer tax by a nickel a bottle to combat child abuse and neglect and decrease the number of children who wind up in foster care, the co-chair of a state-appointed task force says.

Detroit News

POLITICS

Liberals ramp up healthcare pressure

A coalition of liberal groups are waging a broad national campaign to build pressure on conservative Democrats and centrist Republicans who may not support the president's vision for healthcare reform.

The Hill

Rep. Jackson says he's cooperating with ethics inquiry

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. confirmed he is the subject of a congressional ethics board preliminary inquiry into his attempts to be appointed to the Senate seat vacated by President Obama.

USA Today

HEALTH

Fighting ‘bad fat’ with ‘good fat’

Fight fat with fat? The newest obesity theory suggests we may one day be able to do just that. Just like good and bad cholesterol, there apparently are good and bad types of body fat.

CBS News

New drug targets prostate cancer

Researchers report initial results from the first test of the drug, called MDV3100, in men with advanced prostate cancer.

WebMD

EDUCATION

Pre-K funding up, but cuts loom

Preschool enrollment is up and with it state spending on state pre-K programs. But the economic downturn could spell trouble for the nation's youngest students, says a recent report.

Education Week

YouTube, colleges partner to offer free online classes

Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale and UC Berkeley are some of the schools partnering with YouTube to make an official channel for higher learning.

RedOrbit.com

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Hooray for Hollywood

Recession? What recession? Don't ask a Hollywood executive. Business is booming at the box office this year.

Irish Independent

Box office booms in bust economy

NPR

Obama enjoys edgy HBO shows ‘Entourage’ and ‘The Wire’

While not working to save the planet, the president is said to enjoy kicking back and watching “Entourage” and “The Wire.”

NY Daily News

A few of Barack Obama's favorite things

Guardian

The last outlaw poet

Kris Kristofferson's all-American journey has taken him from the Army Rangers to Nashville to Hollywood — with a few stops in the gutter along the way.

Rolling Stone

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The ACM press-room fracas

Entertainment Weekly

ENVIRONMENT

The tech war on tornadogenesis

The biggest, most expensive, tech-heavy effort to understand how and why tornadoes form begins next month.

Wired

Bad economy helps cut CO2 emissions

The worldwide economic slowdown is having an unexpected positive impact in the fight against global warming. Carbon dioxide emissions are falling, according to governments records.

USA Today

UN demands more climate ambition

The year's first round of U.N. climate talks ended with delegates clearly split between the visions of developed and developing nations.

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Cities cleaning, ‘greening’ urban alleys

Cities are starting to see the thousands of miles of alleyways that line the backside of homes and buildings in a new light by treating them as a way to help the environment and improve city life.

USA Today

Disabled man helps police patrol city

Tom Littlewood has cerebral palsy. He struggles to speak and most of his body is paralyzed. That hasn't stopped him from patrolling the streets of the city in his wheelchair as a police volunteer.

San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

Kim Jong Il unanimously re-elected

Kim Jong Il was unanimously re-elected North Korea's Supreme Leader, with the international community deadlocked over how to react to Pyongyang's missile test.

Times Online

N. Korea parliament renews Kim's leadership

Reuters

Kim Jong Il re-elected as North Korea's leader

YouTube

UK police chief quits over blunder

Britain's top counter-terrorism officer Bob Quick quit after admitting he could have jeopardized an operation to thwart a possible terror plot.

BBC

BUSINESS

Improving unemployment services

For state unemployment offices, inundated with record claims, computer crashes and overwhelmed phone lines, federal stimulus funds are starting to ease the jam.

USA Today

New jobless claims slip more than expected

MSNBC

Microsoft ordered to pay $388 million to Uniloc in patent case

Uniloc accused Microsoft of infringing on its patent in its Windows operating systems and Office programs.

Channel NewsAsia

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Ancient life tapped for solar technology

An ancient life form fuels a new solar energy technology on systems simpler to build than silicon-based solar cells.

LiveScience

Golfers' brains have more gray matter

As Tiger Woods goes for his fifth green jacket in the Masters Tournament, mortal golfers wonder what's inside his head that keeps him winning.

LiveScience

SPORTS

Angels' Adenhart killed in car crash hours after pitching against A's

Los Angeles Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart was killed in a car crash in the early morning hours after pitching a game against the Oakland A's.

San Jose Mercury News

MLB fraternity staggered by Adenhart's death

MLB.com

AFLD says Lance violated rules

France's anti-doping agency accused Lance Armstrong of not fully cooperating with a drug tester. The agency says it could punish the seven-time Tour de France champion.

ESPN

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Non-Jews take temporary custody of food during Passover

Switching legal possession helps Jews fulfill the biblical commandment against eating or owning leavened foods during the holiday, without having to throw away perfectly good food.

Beliefnet

Easter hats fall to economic downturn

In an economic downturn, haberdashers try different tactics to stave off dramatic sales drops around the Easter holiday.

Beliefnet

Photo of the Day

Catholic clergy walk during the Holy Thursday procession of the Washing of the Feet inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally believed to be the burial site of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's Old City. (Photo by Bernat Armangue / AP)

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