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U.S.-North Korea talks scheduled

U.S. and North Korean officials will meet in New York on March 5-6 to discuss initial steps toward normalizing relations, the State Department has announced.

Associated Press

Bank set to lift its freeze on North Korea

International Herald Tribune

Hamas wins Moscow embargo pledge

Russia says it will work to lift sanctions that western governments imposed on the Palestinian Authority after Hamas won elections last year.

BBC

Castro makes first live comments since illness

Fidel Castro made his first non-recorded comments since falling ill seven months ago, in a phone call to a live radio show hosted by Venezuela's president.

Guardian

Stocks bounce back after big selloff

Houston Chronicle

Stock plunge serves as reality check

San Jose Mercury News

CIA: bin laden establishing new camps

In the most definitive statement in years, America's top intelligence official said Osama bin laden is in Pakistan actively re-establishing Al Qaeda training camps.

ABC News

'State of panic' after Baghdad car bomb kills 10

A car bomb exploded near a market in southwestern Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding 21 others, an official with Iraqi emergency police said.

CNN

Storm batters shuttle Atlantis

Hailstones as big as golf balls put more than 7,000 dings into space shuttle Atlantis' fuel tank and may delay the ship's launch from March until June, NASA officials said.

USA Today

Lost in space?

Australia Herald-Sun

NATION

U.S. accused on 'missing' prisoners

Thirty-eight people believed to have been held in secret CIA prisons - or black sites - are missing, according to a report by a U.S. human rights group.

BBC

Italy's Prodi survives key vote of confidence

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi narrowly survived a make-or-break vote of confidence after his center-left government received a majority vote in parliament's upper house.

Monsters and Critics

Picassos stolen from granddaughter's home

At least two Picasso paintings, worth a total of $66 million, have been stolen from the artist's granddaughter's home in Paris, according to police.

CBS News

POLITICS

Democratic leaders revamp anti-war plan

House Democratic leaders are developing an anti-war proposal that wouldn't cut off money for U.S. troops in Iraq but would require President Bush to acknowledge problems with an overburdened military.

Forbes

Internal debate steers Democrats on new Iraq course

CNN

Romney trying to overcome inconsistencies in record

Republican Mitt Romney titled his book on how he saved the scandal-ridden 2002 Olympics "Turnaround." Now he's trying to fight the perception that he's committed a few too many turnarounds.

International Herald Tribune

SPORTS

Steroids raid might implicate pro, college athletes

Current and former professional and collegiate athletes have reportedly been linked to an Orlando pharmaceutical company that allegedly sold steroids over the Internet.

ESPN

Veterans Committee picks no one for Hall

The Hall of Fame pitched another shutout. Ron Santo, Jim Kaat, Marvin Miller and all the other candidates were left out when the Veterans Committee admitted no new members for the third straight election.

Houston Chronicle

HEALTH

Drug may treat mental symptoms of Down syndrome

An old drug once used to study epilepsy can help improve learning in mice with a form of Down syndrome and also might help people, U.S. researchers said.

Reuters

Antioxidant vitamins may not prolong life

Antioxidant vitamins, including A, E and C, don't help you live longer, according to an analysis of dozens of studies of these popular supplements.

ABC News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Will the BitTorrent download site succeed?

BitTorrent’s new ‘BitTorrent Entertainment Network’ has launched as a legal download store at last, offering new competition in the growing online video store market.

iTWire

Gyllenhaal makes pulses race in 'Zodiac'

Jake Gyllenhaal is much more than a pretty face. He's carried every type of film, from independent to blockbuster, and was nominated for an Oscar for his role in "Brokeback Mountain."

ABC News

Discovery Channel accused of attacking Christianity

As archeologists question filmmaker James Cameron's claim that he has discovered the tomb of Jesus Christ and his family, critics accused the Discovery Channel of attacking Christianity.

Cybercast News Service

Zen is philosophy for some, religion for others

Tim McCarthy was raised in a born-again Christian family in Michigan, but he is now a Zen priest for the Kent State Zendo Buddhist group.

Daily Kent Stater

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Bruce Reed):

Les Mitts

Slate

Column (Laurie Garrett):

The choice is simple — let them live

International Herald Tribune

Column (Ann Althouse):

A license to blog?

International Herald Tribune

Editorial:

Departed from Boston

International Herald Tribune

Column (John Hughes):

Character – not celebrity – should count in news and politics

Christian Science Monitor

Column:

XY-Zone gets A's for helping at-risk kids

Miami Herald

Column:

Josh Wolf — blogger — has no press pass

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

Serbia called to account

Guardian

Column:

A Rough Ride on Air Force Two

Newsweek

Column:

Appeasing our enemies won't bring peace

RealClearPolitics

Editorial:

Buyout puts focus on coal energy, pollution

Denver Post

Editorial:

Few signs of success in Iraq

Houston Chronicle

Editorial:

Lighting up D.C.

San Francisco Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Most Europeans feel happy

Two EU reports released this week show most Europeans are happy with their lives, despite social challenges facing the 27-nation bloc.

Deutsche Welle

Bus driver leaps off bus to save girl

A city bus driver is lauded as a hero after he leapt off his bus and snatched a 3-year-old girl from traffic.

Daily Times

NATION

Oklahoma town is toxic waste site

Undercut with mine shafts and buried under bleak, gray mountains of lead waste, this Oklahoma town is in the middle of one of the nation's worst environmental nightmares.

Yahoo! News

FBI revisiting decades-old civil rights cases

The FBI has reopened files on about a dozen decades-old suspicious deaths amid a Justice Department focus on cracking unsolved cases from the nation’s civil rights era.

MSNBC

Wildlife refuges lack means to survive

The system that spans states is being forced to choose between programs, and in some cases, animals, as staff and funding levels fall.

Los Angeles Times

BUSINESS

Airbus confirms 10,000 job cuts

Troubled planemaker Airbus has announced it is to cut 10,000 jobs across Europe over the next four years. France will lose 4,300 jobs, Germany 3,700, while the UK and Spain will see 2,000 jobs cut.

BBC

Home Depot sees profit drop, slowdown in sales growth

Home Depot Inc., the world's largest home-improvement retailer, forecast a decline in profit this year and said sales growth will slow because the U.S. housing slump may last another six months.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Milestone for giant physics lab

Construction on a giant underground laboratory that will help take physics into a new era has reached a major milestone.

BBC

Pluto probe gets an eyeful in Jupiter flyby

Visions of a volcanic plume spewing out of Jupiter's moon Io and a swirling storm are among the first images returned by a NASA probe as it made an early-morning swing past the gas giant.

MSNBC

'Storm' worm is infecting blogs

This week, a new variant of the so-called Storm worm has been discovered insinuating itself into various blogs, Webmail, and Web-based message forums in an effort to infect even more PCs.

PC Magazine

ENVIRONMENT

Environmental activists use cell phone ringtones to make nature statement

Amid the cacophony of cell phone ringtones these days, add these: the clickety-click-click of a rare Central American poison arrow dart frog and the howl of a Mexican gray wolf.

Environmental News Network

Researchers use genetic map to track down source of illegal ivory

Scientists have traced a multi-million pound haul of ivory products to its origins on the African savanna using a revolutionary genetic map of elephant herds on the continent.

Guardian

Bye-bye, incandescent bulb?

Global warming concerns are pushing bulbmakers and environmentalists to talk about phasing out the common light bulb.

Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

All school religious holidays dropped

The Hillsborough county, Florida school calendar will not recognize any religious holidays next school year, but it will continue a traditional day off for students to attend the state fair.

St. Petersburg Times

Study: Vanity on the rise among college students

Today's college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists.

CNN

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