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Celia Brown looks over the DVD version of "Little Miss Sunshine," one of the five best Oscar-nominated pictures, at a Blockbuster Video store in Los Angeles. It's hard for industry analysts and economists to determine if an Oscar nomination translates into box office bucks, but most seem to agree that a nomination and/or win can add anywhere from $10 million to $50 million to the gross revenue of a nominated film. (Photo by Nick Ut / AP Photo)

Iran: U.S. is in no position to attack

Yahoo! News

Cheney leaves open military option against Iran

MSNBC

Officials seek cause of U.K. train crash

Investigators were examining rail tracks as the possible cause of a high-speed commuter train crash in northern England which killed one passenger and sent carriages hurtling down an embankment.

Guardian

Proposed war resolution may spark constitutional showdown

Senate Democrats will pursue a resolution aimed at limiting the role of U.S. forces in Iraq and removing combat troops there by March 2008, a senior Democratic aide familiar with the proposal said.

CNN

Truck bomb kills dozens

A fuel tanker rigged with explosives killed 40 people when it blew up near a Sunni mosque in western Iraq, a day after the mosque’s imam had criticized al Qaida militants.

MSNBC

Gunmen kill 8 police at Baghdad checkpoint

Reuters

Former U.N. envoy supports Iraq pullout

President Bush should follow British Prime Minister Tony Blair's lead and start withdrawing troops from Iraq, former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said.

Yahoo! News

Maliki hails crackdown in Baghdad

The Iraqi prime minister says there has been a reduction in sectarian killings and kidnappings since a Baghdad security plan was launched 10 days ago.

BBC

Prodi keeps job as Italy PM

Italy's president asked Romano Prodi to stay on as prime minister, but he now faces a confidence vote in parliament to prove he has enough support to govern.

Reuters

N. Korea nuclear envoy to visit U.S.

North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator plans to visit the United States within days for follow-up talks on a recent disarmament deal, South Korean news reports said.

Yahoo! News

NATION

NATO colonel calls al Qaeda tape 'video fiction'

The purported al Qaeda video showing fighters firing missiles at a U.S. base in Afghanistan is "video fiction," a NATO official said.

CNN

Three killed in new Gaza clashes

At least three Palestinians have been killed and nearly 20 hurt in the Gaza Strip in fresh violence between backers of the rival Hamas and Fatah factions.

BBC

Hamas sends message to captured Israeli soldier's dad

CNN

POLITICS

Lieberman says no plans to join Republicans

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent who supports Democrats in Congress despite his backing of the Iraq war, said he had no plans to join Republicans and upset Democratic control of the U.S. Senate.

ABC News

Iran links undercut Romney's recent call

Republican Mitt Romney is urging state pension systems to divest from Iran, yet his former employer and the company he started have links to recent Iranian business interests or deals.

Guardian

SPORTS

Sabres' Ruff fined $10,000 by NHL

The NHL has fined Sabres coach Lindy Ruff $10,000 for his role in a brawl between Buffalo and the Ottawa Senators.

TSN

Tiger's streak ends in shocking fashion

A winning streak that carried an asterisk ended because of a ball mark.

Examiner

HEALTH

Bush spotlights rising health care costs

President Bush is not giving up on his call to overhaul the tax code for those who buy health insurance.

CBS News

Circumcision's anti-AIDS effect found greater than first thought

Circumcision may provide even more protection against AIDS than was realized when two clinical trials in Africa were stopped two months ago because the results were so clear.

International Herald Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Space case

"The Astronaut Farmer" is the upside-down version of a typical movie; here, the kids let their parents do something that they probably shouldn't be doing.

San Francisco Chronicle

The nerd auteurs

Machinima, perhaps the worst-named genre ever, is the blanket term for movies made with characters and graphics from videogames.

Slate

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

Two charged with religious fraud in travel scam

Two men were arrested and charged with using fake religious organizations to get thousands of people permission to travel to Cuba, prosecutors said.

MSNBC

Episcopalians face crucial choice

Anglican leaders have given the U.S. Episcopal Church an ultimatum: Halt your march toward full acceptance of gays, or lose your place in the global Anglican family.

Columbus Dispatch

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GOOD NEWS

Charity teaches lifesaving lesson: swimming

When many people think of aid to Africa, they imagine sacks of grain for the starving or blankets for the homeless. But in Uganda, one charity is offering something different: swimming lessons.

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Benefactor's philanthropy reaches students with like backgrounds

After a lifetime of saving, a Texas woman who died at 80 has left her $1.5 million estate to help poor children out.

Houston Chronicle

NATION

Polygamy a prominent feature in Romney's family tree

While Mitt Romney condemns polygamy and its prior practice by his Mormon church, the Republican presidential candidate's great-grandfather had five wives and at least one of his great-great grandfathers had 12.

International Herlad Tribune

U.S. court upholds same-sex teaching to children

A federal judge in Boston has dismissed a suit by two families who wanted to stop a Massachusetts town and its public school system from teaching their children about gay marriage, court documents show.

Reuters

Powerful X-ray machine debuts in Phoenix airport

An X-ray security scanner that can see through clothing was put into its first operational use at Sky Harbor International Airport and could be used in two other major airports by year's end.

MSNBC

BUSINESS

MP3 ruling could haunt music tech firms

A federal jury's ruling that Microsoft infringed on two MP3 patents and must pay $1.52 billion in damages could turn into a major sour note for other companies in the digital music business.

BusinessWeek

U.S. stocks decline for a 3rd day; financials lead the retreat

U.S. stocks declined for a third day, buffeted by the biggest drop in financial companies in a month, on concern the fallout from mortgage defaults among the riskiest borrowers may spread.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

European comet probe to make crucial flyby of Mars

A European spacecraft was on course for a close flyby of Mars, a crucial maneuver in its meandering, 10-year voyage through the solar system to make the first landing on a comet.

International Herald Tribune

Shorter walk for us and the chimps

Chimpanzees and humans split from a common ancestor 4 million years ago — a much shorter time than present estimates of 5 million to 7 million years ago.

The Age

ENVIRONMENT

NZ fishermen land colossal squid

New Zealand fishermen have caught what is expected to be a world-record-breaking colossal squid.

BBC

Beavers return to New York City after 200 years

Beavers grace New York City's official seal. But the industrious rodents have not been seen in the flesh here for as many as 200 years — until this week.

CNN

EDUCATION

Improving grades, low test scores aren't matching up

Two federal reports offer conflicting messages about how well high-schoolers are doing academically.

CNN

Advanced courses may not be all that advanced, some say

Years of education reforms have failed to lift the performance of U.S. high school students, according to a gloomy set of numbers that stunned educators and brought calls for more urgency.

St. Petersburg Times

Photo of the Day

A portrait of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, right bottom, among other leaders portraits, are displayed by Palestinian artist Walid Ayoub, center, outside his shop in the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP)

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