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Guy Laliberte views the Soyuz space capsule, shortly after landing with other crew members near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov / Pool / AP)

Laliberté returns safely to Earth

A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying Canada's first space tourist, Guy Laliberté, has landed safely in Kazakhstan.

CBC News

Space station peril?

CNN

Clinton warns on Pakistan threat

The U.S. Secretary of State Clinton has said that a militant attack on Pakistan's army HQ is evidence of an increasing threat against the authority of the state.

BBC

Pakistan army rescues 22, ends siege of HQ

Youtube

Pope proclaims 5 new saints

Pope Benedict XVI has recognized five new Catholic saints, including a Belgian priest who worked with leprosy patients on an isolated Hawaiian island.

Google News

Obama to end military gay policy

U.S. President Barack Obama has said he will end the ban on gay people serving openly in the U.S. military.

BBC

Gays question 'don't ask, don't tell' pledge

ABC News

Obama addresses Human Rights Campaign

HRC

McCain: Avoid 'an error of historic proportions' in Afghanistan

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain said any added military deployment in Afghanistan less than the 40,000 troops “would be an error of historic proportions.”

CNN

Sensors can detect chemical weapons

Scientists are developing new sensors to detect chemical agents and illegal drugs which will help in the fight against the threat of terrorist attacks.

ScienceDaily

Cheaper business airfares a rough sell

Many business-class airfares to Europe are 33 percent to 66 percent cheaper, an analysis by FareCompare.com finds.

ABC News

NATION

US lead in danger? Nobel Prizes tell a different story

At a time when some had begun to question how long America's pre-eminence in science and diplomacy could last, nine of the 11 Nobel Prize nominees who won or shared five prizes are American.

Associated Press

Special section:

All Nobel Peace Prize laureates

Nobelprize.org

8 months of Obama's diplomacy

TIME

Europeans, rights groups press the U.S. to end the death penalty

As a number of countries prepare to mark World Day Against the Death Penalty, the United States finds itself on a list of five countries where nearly all of 2008's executions were carried out.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Benefits wait is 3 years if health care bills pass

Under the Democratic bills, federal tax credits to help make health insurance affordable for millions of households won't start flowing until 2013.

Denver Post

Calif. top justice slams referendum process: 'dysfunctional'

The chief justice of the California Supreme Court criticized the state's reliance on the referendum process, saying it has "rendered our state government dysfunctional."

San Francisco Chronicle

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

WWE's wrestlers grapple with change

The WWE want networks that air their programming to change U.S. parental guidance ratings from TV-14 to PG.

Toronto Star

Springsteen plays at legendary NJ venue

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band played the final ever concert at Giants Stadium, New Jersey, and sent the legendary venue off with a literal bang.

NME.com

Bruce Springsteen at Giants Stadium

YouTube

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Even the Maya are sick of the 2012 hype

Guatemalan Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out." After all, it's not the end of the world, or is it?

MSNBC

Texting and your love life

Texting has become as ubiquitous as the cell phones that birthed them, but what is it doing to our love lives?

CNN

Largest dinosaur footprints ever found discovered in France

Footprints from sauropod dinosaurs, giant herbivores with long necks, were found in Plagne, near Lyon, France.

ScienceDaily

SPORTS

Sweep deal: Dodgers return to NLCS

The Dodgers bounced the Cardinals with a three-game sweep, clinching the National League Division Series with a 5-1 victory in a silenced Busch Stadium.

MLB.com

'Gitano' shocks 'em in Goodwood

The 3-year-old colt who had never won a stakes and made his last start at one of England's smallest racecourses pulled an upset in the $305,000 Goodwood Stakes at Santa Anita.

ESPN

EDUCATION

Doctor shortage prompts education shifts

The Council on Graduate Medical Education predicts the national physician shortage will reach 85,000.

Denver Post

Ill. facing college cash crunch

Potential enrollment losses sparked by the huge cuts to the Monetary Aid Program could force schools to slash programs and staff — and might even lead some to struggle to keep their doors open.

Chicago Sun-Times

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Hawaii Catholic and evangelical churches plan election push

Catholic and evangelical Protestant leaders hope to push Hawaii politics rightward, preparing an election-year effort to organize their parishioners into voting blocks to help elect like-minded candidates.

San Francisco Chronicle

Tweets at church gets pastors blessing

One nondenominational church recently started a new service encouraging parishioners to tweet their thoughts, reflections and questions in 140 characters or less via Twitter.

Houston Chronicle

Religions attempt to stop swine flu spread

Meaningful religious rituals present opportunities to spread germs, and in a season of rising concern over swine flu, they will be observed by fewer Catholics.

NJ.com

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column:

A shot in the arm for growth

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column:

Should we even have a Columbus Day?

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Could Obama one day lead the UN?

CBS News

Column (Shawn Tully):

Dangerous secret to the Baucus bill

Fortune

Column (Ronald Brownstein):

Paddling alone on the economic rapids

National Journal

Column (Mark Steyn):

Nobel tops 'SNL' for Obama joke

Orange County Register

Column:

Obama wins Nobel for not being Bush

Newsday

Column:

Democrats change stance on military

RealClearPolitics

Column:

DC's revolving doors are bad for health

Salon.com

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GOOD NEWS

Christmas in October brings an early holiday gift to homeowners

This Christmas in October thing, in its 25th year of making houses more habitable, has a spirit all its own.

Kansas City Star

Artists aid charity auction by jeweler

Artists have donated paintings for an auction by London jeweler Laurence Graff that seeks to raise $1.26 million for Africa.

Bloomberg

WORLD

'Widespread fraud' in Afghan vote

The head of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan acknowledged that there was "widespread fraud" in the presidential election but refused to give specifics.

Houston Chronicle

Tehran sentence to death 3 presidential election protesters

Iranian officials have sentenced to death three protesters who participated in demonstrations following the nation’s disputed presidential election.

New York Times

Azerbaijan condemns Turkish pact

Azerbaijan has criticized an agreement between Turkey and Armenia, saying it raises doubts about regional stability.

BBC

Clinton's Turkey-Armenia diplomacy

Reuters

Armenia and Turkey: promise of peace

YouTube

BUSINESS

Retailers open Christmas season early

Store shelves are piled high with Halloween costumes, plastic pumpkins and candy-corn treats. But right next to the goblins, you're likely to find Santa, too.

NPR

Holiday retail sales predicted to dip

YouTube

Steep losses pose crisis for pensions

The financial crisis has blown a hole in the rosy forecasts of pension funds, casting into doubt as never before whether public systems will be able to keep their promises to future generations of retirees.

MSNBC

Retail sales fell after 'cash for clunkers'

Retail sales in the United States probably fell as auto showrooms sat empty after the "cash for clunkers" program expired, according to economists.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

Poor education may lead to poor health

Adults with a poor education are also likely to have poor health, a growing body of evidence suggests.

HealthDay

Surgeons fail to disclose payments from device makers

Orthopedic surgeons who received payments from device makers often failed to follow disclosure policies required by their chief professional society.

ABC News

Where they grow junk food

Soybeans and corn go into the production of many things: pharmaceuticals, animal feed — and inexpensive calories.

Toronto Star

ENVIRONMENT

River runs wilder now that dam is gone

The wild and scenic Rogue River has become even wilder with the demolition of a dam that had hindered passage of salmon and steelhead to their spawning grounds for 88 years.

MSNBC

Solar homes in student competition

The Solar Decathlon student competition pits colleges students against each other to build the best house powered only by solar energy.

CNET News

New way to tap natural gas may expand global supplies

A new technique that tapped previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas in the United States is spreading to the rest of the world, raising hopes of a huge expansion in global reserves.

International Herald Tribune

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