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Gen. David Petraeus speaks at Princeton University during the school's Alumni Day in Princeton, N.J. (Photo by Rich Schultz / AP)

Ukrainian prime minister concedes election challenge

Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko of Ukraine effectively conceded the presidential election by withdrawing her legal challenge, saying that she did not believe that she would get a fair hearing.

New York Times

Controversial diabetes drug harms heart

Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports.

MSNBC

Diabetes drug a heart risk

CBS News

Top US commander sees progress in campaigns

The U.S. commander overseeing troops in Iraq and Afghanistan said that the military is on pace to shift away from a combat mission in Iraq, but he warned that casualties will worsen in Afghanistan.

Dayton Daily News

Afghans near Marjah urged to keep Taliban out

Los Angeles Times

Inside enemy bunkers in Afghanistan

CBS News

Va. tobacco giants clash over excise tax

Excise taxes on tobacco are among the most old-fashioned taxes of all, but the question of what you measure to levy it is emerging as the latest skirmish in the battle for space on stores’ shelves.

Lynchburg News Advance

Government sues tobacco industry

Sydney Morning Herald

NAACP elects youngest board chairman

The NAACP elected a health care executive as its youngest board chairman, continuing a youth movement for the nation's oldest civil rights organization.

San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Alexander Haig, former secretary of state, dies at 85

Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, a four-star general who served as a top adviser to three presidents and had presidential ambitions of his own, died of complications from an infection. He was 85.

Houston Chronicle

Battles marked Haig's long political career

MSNBC

Using ladder, vet rescued people from Texas office building

Robin De Haven was driving the company truck to a job when he saw something that didn't look right — a small plane, flying extremely low over a heavily congested area of Austin.

ABC News

Suicide pilot's family speaks out

ABC News

New law allows guns in national parks

The law lets licensed gun owners bring firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges if they are allowed by state law.

MSNBC

POLITICS

At governors’ gathering, talk of a dire year

Although the national economy has begun to bounce back, governors said that the worst had yet to come at the state level, where revenues are still falling short of projections.

New York Times

First lady to governors: Address child obesity

Arizona Republic

Bad economies in states to worsen

Reuters

Obama as campaigner-in-chief

President Barack Obama doesn’t have the best track record in helping fellow Democrats get elected. Just ask former Gov. Jon Corzine of New Jersey or never-Gov. Creigh Deeds of Virginia.

Christian Science Monitor

Justice Department clears Bush lawyers

Two former high-level Bush administration officials who provided legal justification for harsh interrogations of terror suspects are likely to escape formal punishment.

McClatchy

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Casanova's steamy memoirs donated to French National Library

The manuscript given to France's national library was written by the 18th century adventurer whose name has become a synonym for lover.

USA TODAY

'The Oath': a tale of 2 al-Qaida operatives

One of the films generating the most buzz this year at the Berlin Film Festival is "The Oath," a documentary about two former jihadists who once worked for Osama bin Laden: his bodyguard and driver.

TIME

Award for best Oscar prediction

As the British Academy of Film and Television Arts rolls out its red carpet for its annual film awards, the eyes of Oscar judges will no doubt be trained on the glittering ceremony.

The Independent

WINTER OLYMPICS

Austria's Fischbacher upsets Lindsey Vonn in super-G

Andrea Fischbacher of Austria has won the Olympic super-G, denying Lindsey Vonn a sweep of the speed events.

CBS News

Interview: Lindsey Vonn

CNN

Carbon offsets and recycling bins do not a green Olympics make

The pressure to green-up the Olympics builds with each games, forcing the host cities to get creative. Like using beetle-chewed wood for a skating center's roof.

Calling the Olympic sliding track "stupid fast," American women's bobsledder Shauna Rohbock said the venue where a luger was killed could generate speeds that are too dangerous for racing.

CBS News

Thousands gather for somber ceremony

ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA says it's a candy store for WISE

The first photographs of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer were announced by NASA astronomers.

iTWire

Youngest extra-solar planet discovered

ScienceDaily

Ancient fish fossil found in Kan.

Paleontologists announce the discovery of a new genus of ancient giant fish, uncovered in the chalk deposits near Wichita, Kan.

Wichita Eagle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Spiritual discovery: Lent begins a time of reflection, self-rejuvenation

For more than 1.2 billion Christians worldwide, Ash Wednesday marked the beginning of a time of solemn reflection and self-rejuvenation.

Gainesville Sun

Australia gets first saint — she's a rebel

It has taken nearly a century, but Australia is to get its first saint: Mary MacKillop, a nun who spent her life helping impoverished children and who was also briefly excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

NJ show dog has 6th sense for special-needs kids

He put his best paw forward at the Westminster dog show, but this particular breed is a champion to kids with special needs.

NY Daily News

Cyclists’ charity bike ride is in gear

Bill Irwin Jr. and his friend Ed Ott dipped their back tires into the Pacific Ocean and then set out across the country on a bicycle ride that will hopefully raise big money for philanthropic causes.

San Diego Union-Tribune

WORLD

The Mekong transformed

From its source in China's central highlands, the Mekong passes through six countries on its way to the South China Sea, a journey of nearly 3,000 miles.

NPR

Credit cards implicate Mossad in Dubai

New evidence incriminating Israel's spy agency in the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai includes credit card payments and phone calls by suspects.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Insurance rates attract federal scrutiny

Dramatic increases in health insurance rates aren't limited to California, according to a recent report found insurers had asked for large rate hikes in at least six other states.

San Francisco Chronicle

DiPascali prosecutor to seek 'extraordinary' leniency

The cooperation of Frank DiPascali Jr., who pleaded guilty to helping Bernard Madoff, will result in a government request for "extraordinary" leniency in his case, prosecutors said in a letter to the judge.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Volcanoes erupt side by side in new satellite picture

In a satellite image released by NASA, two neighboring Russian volcanoes are seen erupting at the same time.

National Geographic

Great white sharks are 'more endangered than tigers'

Great white sharks are now even more endangered than tigers, according to a leading marine biologist.

Telegraph.co.uk

Science damaged by climate row says National Academy of Sciences

President of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Ralph Cicerone, said scandals including the "climategate" e-mail row had eroded public trust in scientists.

BBC

HEALTH

Flexible working schedule improves health

Evidence suggests that flexible working might be beneficial for employees' health if they are allowed to have input into their own working patterns, says a new study.

ScienceDaily

WHO may declare post-peak H1N1 pandemic phase

Flu experts will advise whether the world is in a post-peak phase of the H1N1 pandemic, signaling infections are falling in most countries.

Reuters

SPORTS

Danica Patrick already a NASCAR force

It's a fascinating phenomenon, Danica Nation, and it's mushrooming at the perfect time for NASCAR, when money is tight and endorsements are hard to come by.

ESPN

No. 8 W. Va. avoids meltdown, tops Seton Hall 75-63

West Virginia needed a flurry of free throws to overcome another late meltdown against Seton Hall.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

High schools can compete to have Obama at graduation

The White House is giving public high schools the opportunity to compete to have the president speak at their commencement ceremony this spring.

EducationNews.org

Ind.'s Goshen College lifts 116-year ban on national anthem

For more than a century, there was no playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Goshen College. But for the first time in the school's history, the school will play an instrumental version of it.

San Francisco Chronicle

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