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In this file photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad listens to a technician during his visit of the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility. (Photo by Anonymous / Iranian President's Office / AP)

Obama forms deficit commission

President Barack Obama has created a bipartisan commission to confront what he calls the federal deficit's "disturbing" projected trajectory.

Wall Street Journal

How would a commission fix the budget crunch?

Reuters

Roving retirees trade work for home in great outdoors

An itinerant, footloose army of willing retirees is marching through the American outback, looking to stretch retirement dollars by volunteering to work in parks usually in exchange for camping space.

New York Times

IAEA fears Iranian nuclear warhead work

The U.N. nuclear watchdog fears Iran may be working to develop a nuclear-armed missile, throwing ostensibly independent weight behind Western suspicions of an active Iranian weapons program.

Reuters

White House: Iran fails to meet obligations

San Francisco Chronicle

Athlete had filed warnings about dangers of luge track

An Olympic luge athlete injured in a crash at the Whistler Sliding Centre in November warned Canadian officials about safety hazards at the track months before a competitor was killed last week.

New York Times

Jobless claims rise unexpectedly

The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance climbed unexpectedly last week to 473,000, up 31,000 from the previous week.

CNNMoney

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Global economy

BBC

NATION

Wholesale prices rise twice as much as previously expected

Wholesale prices shot up at double the expected pace, propelled higher by big increases in energy costs. The surprisingly large jump was viewed as a temporary blip and not the start of inflation problems.

NPR

Man angry at IRS crashes plane into office building

A software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service plowed his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees.

Yahoo! News

No Islamic terror tie in plane crash

BusinessWeek

Smaller nuclear reactors generate big hopes for energy

A new type of nuclear reactor — smaller than a rail car and one tenth the cost of a big plant — is emerging as a contender to reshape the nation's resurgent nuclear power industry.

Wall Street Journal

Special section:

Nuclear power

New York Times

POLITICS

Dalai Lama, Obama discuss rights, religious harmony

President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama discussed the need to promote peace, humanitarian values and religious harmony.

Reuters

Tibetans herald meeting with fireworks

Guardian

Marco Rubio: belle of the CPAC ball

Conservatives from across the nation will get their first in-the-flesh look at Marco Rubio as he delivers the keynote address before the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.

Politico

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Murder arrest for BBC man who said he killed his lover

British police said they have arrested a BBC television presenter on suspicion of murder after he told viewers he carried out a so-called mercy killing on a former lover.

CNN

JK Rowling accused of plagiarism from children's wizard book

J.K. Rowling is facing a multi-million pound lawsuit after being accused of stealing ideas for her Harry Potter books from the British author of another children's book.

Times Online

ENVIRONMENT

On the brink of extinction — 25 of our closest relatives

The world's leading zoologists will reveal the 25 most-endangered primates — the biological order which contains monkeys, tarsiers, lemurs, gibbons and the great apes, including, of course, humans.

The Independent

Half of world's primate species in danger of extinction

CNN

Falkland Islands: oil boom or no oil boom?

Anticipation of a big oil find off the coast of the Falkland Islands, an archipelago near Argentina, is once again reaching fever pitch.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope's apology rings hollow to US child abuse victims

The scandal in Ireland is all too familiar: thousands of children abused and neglected as some Irish bishops protected the allegedly predatory priests.

KQED

Unification Church woos a 2nd generation

The Rev. Sun Myung Moon carried out one of the signature events of his church: he blessed about 7,000 couples in Seoul, South Korea — most of whom never saw each other before they were matched.

NPR

EDUCATION

Obama and students talk to astronauts

Surrounded by a dozen middle school students from Florida, Michigan and Nebraska, President Barack Obama spoke to 11 NASA astronauts by phone from the Roosevelt Room in the White House.

USA TODAY

Plan would let students graduate early

The proposal is aimed at eliminating the need for remediation once students get to college and stopping the flow of both high school and college dropouts.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Please rob me: the dangers of oversharing information online

You might not be aware of how much information you're revealing. That's the message from the founders of Please Rob Me, a Website illustrating the ease of theft based on Web based information.

TIME

Cyberattack compromises 75,000 systems

Security researchers have unearthed a massive botnet affecting at least 75,000 computers at 2,500 companies and government agencies worldwide.

Computerworld

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GOOD NEWS

NC man exonerated, freed after 17 years

Gregory Taylor, 47, wasted more than half his adult life in prison after what his lawyers declared a reckless rush to judgment by Raleigh police and Wake County, N.C., prosecutors.

Boston Herald

Michigan town one of the happiest places in the US

Despite its 16 percent unemployment rate, Holland has more than 100-volunteer based service organizations fanned out through the city.

ABC News

WORLD

Arrest the head of Mossad, says Dubai police chief

Interpol has issued "red notices" for the hit squad who used false identities when they targeted the Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

Times Online

Israel's envoy asked about fake British passports used by Dubai hit squad

Christian Science Monitor

Factbox: Israel's Mossad intelligence agency

Reuters

UFO files revealed in UK archive

Thousands of UFOs have been spotted in the last 20 years around the U.K., according to newly released documents.

BBC

More top secret UFO files released

YouTube

Pakistani village market hit by bomb

A bomb attack in a crowded market selling hashish in north-western Pakistan has killed at least 15 people and injured up to 100, officials say.

BBC

BUSINESS

IMF to sell gold to open market

The International Monetary Fund said it will soon begin phased sales of 191.3 tons of gold to the open market, a move that has called into question demand for bullion from official sector buyers.

Reuters

Dollar rises versus euro

The dollar rose against the euro as signs the U.S. economy is gaining momentum fueled speculation the Federal Reserve is moving to withdraw stimulus measures.

Bloomberg

Dollar to reach high

BusinessWeek

WINTER OLYMPICS

White rides to repeat in halfpipe, Lago takes bronze

Putting on a show when he didn't even have to, Shaun White capped his gold-medal night on the halfpipe with his signature trick — the dangerous, spiraling Double McTwist 1260.

MSNBC

Shaun White's double McTwist

NBC

Davis wins gold, Hendrick bronze

With a furious kick on the final lap, Shani Davis stuck his skate across the line and won his second straight Olympic title in 1,000-meter speedskating.

ESPN

HEALTH

Happy, enthusiastic people less likely to develop heart disease

People with a tendency to experience positive emotions, such as being happy, enthusiastic and content, are less likely to to develop heart disease, suggests a new American study.

Medical News Today

Calif. research shows pot can ease muscle spasms

The first U.S. clinical trials in more than two decades on the medical benefits of marijuana confirm pot is effective in reducing muscle spasms associated with multiple sclerosis.

Google News

SPORTS

Tracy McGrady traded in 3-team deal

Sources say that the Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings and New York Knicks have agreed to terms that will expand the Houston-Sacramento deal into a three-way trade.

ESPN

Tiger Woods to break silence and apologize at press conference

Tiger Woods intends to end his silence by apologizing, the first time he will be seen in public since a Thanksgiving car crash started a domino effect of sexual allegations against him.

ABC News

Tiger Woods to talk to media

ESPN

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