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U.S. President George W. Bush, far right, steps off Marine One on his return from Anchorena Park in Montevideo, Uruguay. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

EU sets binding targets for switch to green energy

EU leaders drafted a bill promising to take the lead in fighting global warming by setting binding targets to cut greenhouse gases and ensure a fifth of the bloc's energy comes from green power sources.

Environmental News Network

Kosovo status talks end in deadlock

Yearlong talks on the future status of Kosovo ended in deadlock, reflecting bitter divisions between the Serbian government and the disputed province’s independence-seeking ethnic Albanians.

MSNBC

U.N. envoy to send Kosovo plan to Security Council

Reuters

Wikipedia: fact or fiction?

Wikipedia's wide variety of contributors is both a strength and a weakness of the online encyclopedia.

Economist

Wikipedia founder addresses user credentials

PC World

U.S., Iran no closer after multi-national meeting

Los Angeles Times

Iraq plea to help tackle violence

BBC

Iraq group 'holding two Germans'

BBC

N.Korea warns of 'actions' if bank squeeze upheld

North Korean nuclear envoy Kim Kye-gwan warned that if the United States failed to lift financial sanctions against it, his country would have to take "corresponding actions" in response.

Reuters

Pentagon struggles to find fresh troops

Military leaders are struggling to choose Army units to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan longer or go there earlier than planned, but five years of war have made fresh troops harder to find.

Yahoo! News

No need to stress about early daylight saving

It’s unlikely you'll see any impact from the early switchover to daylight savings time this weekend.

MSNBC

Daylight saving change: energy boon or waste of time?

National Geographic

NATION

Chavez continues counter-Bush tour, visiting flood-ravaged Bolivia

International Herald Tribune

Fatah and Hamas gunmen clash despite unity talks

Fatah gunmen shot at the convoy of a minister from the rival Hamas movement in the occupied West Bank, the first factional violence since Palestinian unity talks began a month ago.

Reuters

Ethiopia hostages: no rescue plan

Britain and Ethiopia have, for now, ruled out a military operation to rescue a group of five Europeans and eight locals kidnapped in a remote Ethiopian region, their officials said.

CNN

POLITICS

Bush vows swift action in FBI records scandal

President Bush pledged swift action over findings that the FBI illegally or improperly obtained private records during terrorism and espionage investigations.

ABC News

Democrats cancel Fox News debate

Nevada Democratic Party officials said they were canceling a presidential debate co-sponsored by Fox News, following a joke Fox chairman Roger Ailes made about Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

Reuters

White House faces intensified probes on Iraq, domestic matters

Congressional committees have launched investigations on numerous topics, including U.S. efforts to train Iraqi military forces, waste by military contractors, and the treatment of terrorist suspects.

Voice of America

SPORTS

Mom fights NCAA academic rules

A snapshot shows Michael Bowers towering over his petite mother in his prom tuxedo, the star athlete's future seemingly full of promise. The 6-foot-7 Bowers had been actively recruited for his football prowess.

Yahoo! News

Islanders' Simon may face criminal charges

The New York Islanders' Chris Simon may have more to worry about than being indefinitely suspended by the National Hockey League. He may face criminal charges.

USA Today

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Study: No need to ban cell phones in hospitals

Calls made on cell phones do not affect hospital medical devices, U.S. researchers said, but store anti-theft alarms might make implanted heart devices misfire.

CNN

Bracing For The iPhone

Apple's iPhone - which will rely on software to morph from telephone to mobile Internet device to PDA - will put a premium on mobile engineering talent.

Forbes

HEALTH

ConAgra extends peanut butter recall

ConAgra Foods Inc. has extended its recall of all peanut butter produced at a plant in Georgia by more than a year, back to October 2004, the Food and Drug Administration said.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Peanut butter recall widens for salmonella link

Reuters

FDA issues new warnings on anemia drugs

Federal health officials issued new warnings for doctors to more carefully prescribe widely used anemia drugs that can increase the risk of death and other serious problems in patients with cancer and kidney disease.

ABC News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The face of war

Photojournalist Nina Berman discusses her award-winning portrait of disfigured Iraq vet Ty Ziegel and his fiancée, Renee, on their wedding day — and what was really going on behind the lens.

Salon

Boston lead singer Brad Delp dies at 55

Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston, was found dead in his home in southern New Hampshire. He was 55.

ABC News

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GOOD NEWS

Autoworkers giving bonuses to charity

Some of Ford Motor Co. workers in Milan, Mich., are donating their $500 bonus checks to charity.

Monsters and Critics

‘Idol’ recruits Stefani, Bono for charity special

Gwen Stefani, Pink and Annie Lennox will perform on a star-studded two-night “American Idol” charity special next month.

MSNBC

NATION

Official: Nurse impostor snatches ill newborn

A woman posing as a nurse abducted a 3-day-old girl in need of medical attention from a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday, police said.

CNN

What to make of those Supreme Court signing bonuses?

Later this spring, elite law firms will again be offering Supreme Court law clerks signing bonuses of $200,000 or even more for their first jobs as practicing lawyers.

Slate

10th Bronx fire victim dead

A devastating Bronx fire claimed its 10th victim when a 7-year-old girl died after a two-day battle for her life, a family spokesman said.

ABC News

BUSINESS

U.S. job growth weakest in 2 years, but pay rises

Employers — both private companies and the government — added a total of 97,000 new jobs to their payrolls last month, the fewest in two years, the Labor Department reported.

Seattle Times

Biofuels boom raises tough questions

America is drunk on ethanol. Farmers in the Midwest are sending billions of bushels of corn to refineries that turn it into billions of gallons of fuel.

BusinessWeek

ENVIRONMENT

Bush, Brazil's leader unveil ethanol deal

President Bush and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced a new partnership to promote the use of alternative fuels to reduce the Western Hemisphere's dependence on fossil fuels.

Sun-Sentinel

Cooling Pacific heralds active Atlantic hurricane season

The cooling weather pattern in the east-central equatorial Pacific known as La Niña is expected to arrive soon, which typically means a greater than normal number of Atlantic hurricanes.

Environment News Service

EDUCATION

The suicide test

Alarmed by recent reports of student depression and fearing malpractice lawsuits, colleges are struggling with ways to treat suicidal students - including expelling them.

Salon

States grapple with college textbook prices

Winona State University senior Rick Howden, a business administration major, figures he knows a bad deal when he sees it. A $4,500 tab for his college textbooks by the time he graduates? Bad deal.

CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope's envoy hails Putin meeting

A meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Russian President Vladimir Putin next week will benefit Russia's small Catholic community, the pope's envoy to Moscow said.

Forbes

Radio host finds conversation easily intersects with religion

Every week, radio host Krista Tippett digs into her grab bag for topics of spirituality and meaning — Hurricane Katrina, whale songs, sports. Yes, even baseball scores in a program about spirituality.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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