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Female relatives of the deceased, on their way to vote, walk past the the rubble of a house destroyed by a blast in northern Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo by Hadi Mizban / AP)

Global climate battle in World Bank

The U.S. and Britain are threatening to withhold support for a $3.75 billion World Bank loan for a coal-fired plant in South Africa, expanding the global debate over who should pay for clean energy.

Reuters

Should we put a dollar value on nature?

TIME

Ahmadinejad: Sept. 11 attacks a 'big lie'

Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a "big lie" used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported.

TIME

Blood vessel cells are key to growing unlimited amounts of adult stem cells

Researchers have discovered that the most basic building blocks of the vascular system produce growth factors that can grow copious amounts of adult stem cells.

ScienceDaily

Iraqis defy violence to vote

Iraqis voted in an election testing the mettle of the country's still-fragile democracy as insurgents killed at least 25 people across Iraq.

MSNBC

Guide to groups competing in Iraqi polls

BBC

Many Iraqis voting at Alameda fairgrounds

San Francisco Chronicle

Defectors say Scientology hides abuse

Defectors say members were repeatedly beaten by the church's chairman, David Miscavige, often during planning meetings; pressured to have abortions and forced to work without sleep on little pay.

New York Times

Short-term hope, long-term despair

The latest jobs report showed some glimmers of a recovery, but if you're among the 8.8 million Americans still unemployed, you may have been left scratching your head.

CNNMoney

Federal pay ahead of private industry

USA TODAY

The unemployed: weeks become months

NPR

Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin

Christian-based materials dominate a growing home-school education market that encompasses more than 1.5 million students in the U.S.

The Telegraph

NATION

1-person towns to Census Bureau: Count me in

The Census Bureau estimates that there are four incorporated towns with just one person. But the residents in three of those places say they aren't the lonely souls the census says they are.

MSNBC

Arab-Americans aim to increase their count

Newsweek

Poverty is hitting the suburbs

Bastions of the middle class, Twin Cities suburbs are seeing financial pain spreading quietly among their residents. They now have more poor people than the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Star Tribune

More men file workplace sexual harassment claims

Women still file the overwhelming majority of sexual harassment claims, but lawyers say they've noticed an increase in complaints by men.

Houston Chronicle

POLITICS

Obama's message man comes under increased scrutiny

Recent news reports have cast the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, as the administration's chief pragmatist, and Mr. Axelrod, by implication, as something of a swooning loyalist.

MSNBC

GOP picks Bill Brady to challenge Ill. governor Quinn

After a month of political wrangling, Illinois State Sen. Bill Brady was named the Republican challenger for the governor’s office in the November election.

Christian Science Monitor

GOP: Dems health care bill 'must be stopped'

Yahoo! News

HEALTH

Sleep wrong and you'll feel the bad fat

Sleep's effect on fat is becoming clearer. Having too much or too little piles on the worst kind of fat.

New Scientist

Organs, heal thyselves

It sounds like science fiction — using implants to regenerate human tissues that then become one with the body with no need for removal or replacement.

Globeandmail.com

Docs say right choices tough for them too

Dr. Barry Franklin, a widely respected expert on nutrition and exercise, says everyone is vulnerable to their environment, and making all of the right choices to prevent heart disease is tough.

San Francisco Chronicle

Processed meat may harm the heart

HealthDay

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Silicon Valley rules Oscars as Hollywood looks north

No matter which film gets the Oscar for best visual effects at the Academy Awards this weekend, it’s a guaranteed win for Autodesk Inc. and Nvidia Corp.

Bloomberg

Alcatraz to go solar

In its heyday, Alcatraz prison locked up mobsters such as Al Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly and Alvin "Creepy" Karpis. Now, the famous penitentiary in San Francisco Bay will capture something new: the sun's rays.

San Jose Mercury News

Trapping sunlight with silicon nanowires

ScienceDaily

'Invention Nation': solar panels

HowStuffWorks

ENVIRONMENT

World's largest dead zone suffocating Baltic Sea

The Baltic is home to seven of the world's 10 largest marine "dead zones"— areas where the sea's oxygen has been used up by seabed bacteria that decompose the raining mass of dead algae.

National Geographic

Low-oxygen in oceans worries scientists

McClatchy Newspapers

Watermen troll for derelict crab pots

A small navy of watermen have been hired by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to pull derelict crab pots from the Chesapeake Bay. The lost pots can be death traps for the bay's crabs and fish.

Baltimore Sun

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

New sex scandal rocks Vatican

The Vatican is facing allegations that one of Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers, as well as a member of the Vatican choir, were involved in a gay prostitution ring.

CBS News

Hip-hop church reaches out to youth through their own music

A passerby hearing the bass track thumping from Urban Jerusalem in Minneapolis, Minn. might conclude that it's a nightclub. But the Bibles on the chairs tell a different story.

The Tennessean

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GOOD NEWS

Helmet to aid woman with cancer

A helmet worn by U.S. skier Bode Miller in the Vancouver Games is being auctioned off to help raise money for a woman who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

ESPN

Family to donate concentration camp photos taken during WWII

If a picture speaks a thousand words, then the photographs Robert Whiteman left to his family from his service in World War II communicate an important history he was unable to convey in his lifetime.

South Bend Tribune

WORLD

Trinidad surgeon helps women escape past of mutilation

Seven women, all originally from Africa, crowding a tiny Trinidad clinic have traveled a long way to get their condition fixed. They have been genitally mutilated.

Denver Post

Iceland holds referendum on Icesave repayment plan

Icelanders have gone to the polls to vote on paying the U.K. and Netherlands after the collapse of the Icesave bank, with a resounding "No" vote expected.

BBC

Early results: Iceland voters reject debt deal

CNN

Top Taliban deputy believed killed

A top Pakistani Taliban commander close to al-Qaida is believed to have been killed in an army airstrike, in another blow to insurgents who have attacked Pakistan and threatened Afghanistan.

Denver Post

BUSINESS

Verizon said to offer Microsoft phones in May or June

Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. wireless carrier, will introduce two phones from Microsoft Corp. in about May or June that are targeted at teenagers, two people with knowledge of the companies' plans said.

Bloomberg

Russia reopens market to US pork

Citing safety concerns, Russia shut off pork imports from the U.S. in December. Russia said it would resume taking pork from the U.S., reopening a source of about 6 percent of U.S. pork exports.

Des Moines Register

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Green groups to Cameron: Be our king of the environment!

A coalition of environmental groups launched a campaign to highlight Avatar's not-so-hidden green subtext, and to prevail upon the director to use the awards-show as a platform.

TIME

Cablevision homes in New York lose ABC ahead of Oscars

Customers of Cablevision Systems Corp in New York lost broadcast signals of local station WABC as the cable operator and TV network were unable to reach agreement on a new contract.

Reuters

Oscar hopeful Bullock crowned worst actress

Reuters

'Alice' tops box office with $41 million

Disney scored mega numbers with their debut of Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," taking in an estimated $41 million on 3,728 screens.

Variety

SPORTS

Louisville tops No. 1 Syracuse in sendoff

Louisville may also have assured itself a return trip to the NCAA tournament by sweeping the season series from the Orange.

MSNBC

The Iditarod is on, mon!

Newton Marshall, 26, is among 22 rookies on the 2010 Iditarod starting roster of 71 teams, but that's not the reason he made history as the ceremonial start to the race got underway.

CNN

Iditarod race festivities begin

Yahoo! News

EDUCATION

Analysis documents college 'grade inflation' over decades

Grades awarded to U.S. undergraduates have risen substantially in the last few decades, and grade inflation has become particularly pronounced at private colleges, an analysis has found.

EducationNews.org

Pa. classes forming soon to learn the casino ropes

Dealers who want to work in the casinos recently approved by the Pennsylvania state legislature will be required to get as many as 160 hours of training to earn a license to run even one game.

Philadelphia Inquirer

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