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Worshippers congratulate each other after attending joint Sunni-Shiite prayers in a reopened Sunni mosque in west Baghdad, Iraq. More and more Sunni mosques are being reopened in Baghdad, as authorities hope to encourage members of the displaced Sunni minority to return to their neighborhoods and reverse the sectarian cleansing that drove thousands of people from their homes. (Photo by Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo)

White House opposes war authority limits

Forbes

Democrats move to limit Bush's authority

Yahoo! News

Canada rules indefinite detention wrong

Canada's Supreme Court struck down the government's right to detain foreign terrorism suspects indefinitely and without trial.

Detroit Free Press

U.S. used bases in Ethiopia to hunt Al Qaeda in Africa

The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top leaders of Al Qaeda in the Horn of Africa, according to U.S. officials.

International Herald Tribune

Soldier gets 100 years for rape, killing of Iraqi girl

San Diego Union-Tribune

Fla. boy, 13, found safe after abduction

A child who was abducted by a gunman while waiting at a school bus stop was found safe hours later, officials said. Clay Moore, 13, was kidnapped shortly before 9 a.m. as he was in the street.

ABC News

Iran vows no weakness over nuclear program

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran should not show weakness over its nuclear program, a day after Tehran ignored a U.N. deadline to stop nuclear work.

MSNBC

Iran faces new sanctions over nuclear expansion

London Independent

Report: Britain to boost Afghan troops

Britain will send an extra 1,000 soldiers to bolster its force in Afghanistan, a move that will be announced in the coming days, the Guardian newspaper reported.

CNN

N. Korea ready to stop making plutonium

Reuters

NATION

Europeans' chill on U.S. policy deepens

European capitals are wavering over how to approach the final two years of a U.S. administration saddled with inconclusive wars.

Christian Science Monitor

Islamic artists were 500 years ahead of Western scientists

Islamic artists were exploiting a mathematical principle to decorate buildings with complicated patterns of tiles more than 500 years before its discovery in the West.

London Independent

Somali peace mission in two weeks

Uganda is sending 1,500 soldiers to serve in the African Union mission which will replace Ethiopian troops.

BBC

POLITICS

Cheney won't take back Pelosi comment

Vice President Dick Cheney refused to take back his charge that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's opposition to President Bush's Iraq war buildup is playing into the hands of the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Yahoo! News

In both parties, politeness falls to infighting

Members of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign team were confronted with the kind of attack that most infuriates them: one questioning the character of Mrs. Clinton and her husband.

AOL News

Clinton-Obama tussle reveals some real issues

CNN

SPORTS

Dillon asks Pats for release

New England running back Corey Dillon, 14th on the NFL's career rushing list, intends to ask the Patriots for his release and will likely retire.

Sports Illustrated

Sosa arrives at Rangers camp after season out of game

Sammy Sosa arrived for spring training with the Texas Rangers, appearing to be in good shape and good spirits after a season out of the game.

USA Today

HEALTH

Tests confirm salmonella in peanut butter

A week after ConAgra Foods Inc. recalled peanut butter from its Georgia plant after a salmonella outbreak, the Center for Disease Control confirmed the presence of the dangerous germ.

Newsday

Outside forces 'medicalizing' everyday problems, experts say

Consumers, often egged on by drug ads they see on television and elsewhere, are "medicalizing" what doctors may have previously not considered full clinical problems.

HealthDay

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Study to forecast side effects of pollution policy

The University of Michigan is leading a four-university team in a large-scale project to develop software to help analysts craft greenhouse gas reduction policies in the transportation industry.

Science Daily

Minnesota increases renewable energy sources target

Reuters

Fight brews over how to address climate change

Now that it is official - humans are almost certainly causing the most dramatic climate shift the planet has seen in thousands of years - it is time to solve the problem.

Environmental News Network

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

Germany university to issue complete works of pope

The German university where Pope Benedict XVI made a speech last year which upset Muslims said it would publish the complete works of Joseph Ratzinger from his early days as a theologian.

Earth Times

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GOOD NEWS

Iranian refugee granted asylum

For nearly three years, Amir Kazemian listened to the rain from inside a Vancouver church where he sought sanctuary from a deportation order.

Globe and Mail

Hoop dreams alive, well in New Orleans

The destruction that has ravaged Alfred Lawless High School in the lower Ninth Ward is beyond heartbreaking. The school was steamrolled when a nearby levee broke.

Seattle Post- Intelligencer

NATION

Iowa’s Vilsack drops 2008 presidential bid

Democrat Tom Vilsack is abandoning his bid for the presidency after struggling against better-known, better-financed rivals, a senior campaign official told The Associated Press.

MSNBC

5-year-old girl trampled in rodeo parade

Rodeo parade spectators in Tucson watched in horror as a 5-year-old girl was thrown off her mount and trampled by an out-of-control team of horses pulling a wagon. She later died.

CBS News

U.S. seniors fight off muggers, killing one

A tour group of U.S. senior citizens fought off a band of muggers in eastern Costa Rica, sending two of the assailants fleeing and killing a third.

CNN

BUSINESS

Oil hits high for the year on tight U.S. supplies, Iran concerns

Oil climbed above $61 to its highest level this year after the United States reported an unexpected drop in gasoline stocks and Iran said it would show 'no weakness' over its nuclear program.

CNBC

Starbucks chairman warns of brand's 'watering down'

Howard Schultz, the founder of the Starbucks Corp., told executives that the company's expansion to 13,000 stores is "watering down'' the Starbucks brand.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Walking tall: Student working on space suit redesign for NASA

Space suits for astronauts may get a new and better design following a University of Houston doctoral student’s locomotion stability research.

Science Daily

Are scientists ignoring environmental influence on genetic research?

In yet another collision of nature versus nurture, a team of scientists at the University of Arizona says researchers must control for the environment when conducting experiments.

Scientific American

Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'

Chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed making and using wooden spears to hunt other primates, according to a study in the journal Current Biology.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

As screen violence rises, so do new tactics to curb it

Many say education, not more regulation, is the right approach to finding common ground among Hollywood, politicians, and parents.

Christian Science Monitor

'American Idol' goes to camp

To tide the tweens over until they reach the magic audition age of 16, "Americal Idol" producers will launch Idol Camp, a summer getaway for pop star wannabes between the ages of 12 and 15.

E! Online

College students seeking therapy in record numbers

Universities around the country are reporting increases in campus mental illness, at times creating a backlog of cases and weeks-long waits to see a therapist.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Clovis not first Americans, study says

A Colorado geochemist have dealt the mortal blow to Clovis First, the long-held idea that the first Americans were spear-toting hunters who crossed into an uninhabited continent from Asia.

Rocky Mountain News

Photo of the Day

A Palestinian who offers donkey rides to tourists shares a laugh with an Ultra-orthodox Jewish man at the Mount of Olives, overlooking Jerusalem's Old City. (Photo by Oded Balilty / AP)

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