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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem. (Photo by Jim Hollander / AP)

Probe of runaway Prius story in Calif.

Sikes called 911 to report losing control of his Prius as the hybrid reached speeds of 94 mph. A California Highway Patrol officer helped Sikes bring the vehicle to a safe stop on Interstate 8 near San Diego.

USA TODAY

Prius 911 Call: "My car won't slow down"

YouTube

Coffee party brews up rival for tea party

The "Coffee Party", a grassroots political grouping that has emerged in recent months in opposition to the conservative tea party movement, has been holding its first national day of meetings in the U.S.

BBC

'Coffee party': Not far from 'tea party' message?

Christian Science Monitor

Coffee party founder wants common grounds

NPR

Israel to investigate timing of settlement announcement

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set up a team to investigate why officials announced new settlement construction in disputed territory while U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was visiting.

CNN

Clinton's harsh words stun Israel

Los Angeles Times

Netanyahu regrets settlement with US

Reuters

Raw video: Israeli troops, Palestinians clash

YouTube

Iraq vote count too close to call

With early results representing only a fraction of the vote and no figures in from areas like Basra, overall results from Iraq's general elections were too close to call.

Al Jazeera

Going rogue or leading the fight?

U.S. Marine commanders have a different view of the dusty, desolate landscape that surrounds Delaram. Controlling this corner of remote Nimruz province as essential to promoting economic development.

MSNBC

Human cells exhibit foraging behavior

When cells move about in the body, they follow a complex pattern similar to that which amoebae and bacteria use when searching for food, a team of Vanderbilt researchers has found.

ScienceDaily

NATION

Ireland frees US woman in terrorist plot

Jamie Paulin-Ramirez of Colorado had been arrested in an alleged plot to kill cartoonist Lars Vilks, after following radical Islamists to Ireland. Her parents await word of her and their grandson, 6.

ABC News

New fraud cases point to lapses in Iraq

Federal investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new cases by scrutinizing large cash transactions made in the nearly $150 billion rebuilding program.

New York Times

POLITICS

FCC plan for Internet sets up battle

The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a 10-year plan that will transform the nation's media and technology priorities by establishing high speed Internet as the country’s dominant communication network.

New York Times

Blog:

FCC chairman outlines broadband plan

CNET News

Kissinger hospitalized in South Korea

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was hospitalized after he complained of stomach pains.

MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Innovation ruled Game Developers

Motion controls and social gaming were hot topics at the Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of designers, programmers and executives.

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

We like to move it, move it

Toronto Star

Biologists find 1st confirmed species of monogamous frog

Amphibians may be a love 'em and leave 'em class, but one frog species defies the norm.

ScienceDaily

Ancient shipwrecks a wonder of the 'Baltic Triangle'

A dozen ancient shipwrecks have been discovered in the Baltic Sea, just east of Sweden. The well-preserved ships are hundreds of years old.

NPR

HEALTH

FDA issues strong warning on blood thinner Plavix

The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix, cautioning that some patients do not respond to the blockbuster blood thinner.

San Francisco Chronicle

Brain scan 'can read thoughts'

British scientists from University College London found they could differentiate brain activity linked to different memories and thereby identify thought patterns by using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Sydney Morning Herald

ENVIRONMENT

Edible gardens are sprouting all over

People are eating up the idea of growing their own food. Economic hard times have sent millions of Americans foraging for ways to eat more economically, and they're doing it by growing their own food.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ivory and bluefin tuna top agenda at UN wildlife summit

Sales of ivory and a possible ban on trading bluefin tuna top the agenda for the meeting in Doha, Qatar.

BBC

SPORTS

Vettel edges Massa, Alonso for Bahrain Grand Prix pole

Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull will start Formula One's season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix from pole position, while Michael Schumacher's comeback with Mercedes will start from a disappointing seventh place.

USA TODAY

D.C. football team gets female coach

The football players at Calvin Coolidge Senior High School, Mayor Adrian Fenty and a room full of cheering staff needed only one word to describe her: coach.

San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Abuse claims sweep church in Europe

From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons.

MSNBC

Vatican: Pope being set up over sex abuse case

Guardian

Muslim families seek to join in legal fight over religion at school

Seeking to protect their rights, a group of Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy students and parents want to join the lawsuit between the American Civil Liberties Union and the school.

Star Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Dance troupe brings grace to school for the blind

One of New Zealand's top dance troupes, the 15-member Black Grace, visited the Perkins School for the Blind and taught a customized dance class for 16 eager students at a Boston school.

Boston Herald

Free dental clinic brightens smiles for uninsured patients

An out-of-work nursing assistant got in line at 3:15 a.m. to get three teeth pulled at a free dental clinic. When he arrived, 70 people were already in line.

News & Observer

Dentists of mercy

Hartford Courant

Denver school officials heartened by enrollment in preschool, kindergarten

Denver Public School officials see a promising future for the district as enrollment continues to climb for preschool and kindergarten classes.

Denver Post

WORLD

Afghanistan hit by suicide bombers

At least 30 people have been killed and 46 wounded in four suspected suicide bombings in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, hospital officials say.

BBC

Deadly blasts rock southern Afghanistan

CNN

Thai 'Red Shirts' rally for ousted leader

Thousands of red-shirted anti-government protesters converged on the Thai capital Bangkok, giving the government an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament or face mass marches on key spots in the city.

CBS News

BUSINESS

Storms probably hurt production

Blizzards on the East Coast and harsh weather in other parts of the U.S. probably impeded manufacturing and construction, representing a temporary setback to the recovery, economists said.

Bloomberg

States use tax incentives to draw film work from Hollywood

"The Blind Side" could have been filmed anywhere, says Tim Bourne, an independent producer who worked on the film. But there's a reason producers brought the project to Georgia: money.

CNN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

People names for pets has become our new calling

The roster includes Hannah, Cameron, Sophie, Henry, Tucker and Emma, the same names you'd find at just about any day care center in town. But these names are from a day care for dogs.

Denver Post

How do you make a Yugo cool? Turn it into a book

Remember the Yugo? Jason Vuic would like to remind you of its not-so-illustrious story. Vuic's book is on the tiny, no-frills, breakdown-prone automobile imported from communist Yugoslavia in the 1980s.

NPR

EDUCATION

Lured into trade school and debt

America has become a beneficiary of the recession: for-profit colleges and trade schools, where anxious students borrow aggressively to pay tuition that can exceed $30,000 a year.

New York Times

Schools spar over stimulus funding

Herald Tribune

Obama to overhaul 'No Child Left Behind'

President Barack Obama promised to rewrite the nation's education law known as "No Child Left Behind" with a plan to prepare students for life and to place better teachers at the blackboards.

Houston Chronicle

Obama's education reform is short on specifics

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Education in America

CBS News

The Mad Hatter's secret ingredient: math

Since author Lewis Carroll was also a math teacher in Oxford, England, mathematicians say the Alice books are full of algebraic lessons — such as why a raven is like a writing desk.

NPR

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