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An unidentified person cries as militants refused to let his family members go out of the Lal Masjid, or Red mosque, in Islamabad, Pakistan. The siege of the radical mosque entered its third day after troops rocked the complex with gunfire and explosions. (Photo by K.M.Chaudary / AP)

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UK bomb suspect charged

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Britain bomb threats

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Yahoo! News

32 bodies found after Mexico landslide

Hundreds of rescuers dug frantically to reach victims of an avalanche that swept down a Mexican mountainside and buried a bus carrying up to 60 passengers.

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ABC News

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Mexico landslide buries bus

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Mosque leader refuses to surrender

The deputy leader of the Red Mosque in Islamabad has said he would rather die than surrender to Pakistani government forces surrounding the building.

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Al Jazeera

Court rules in favor of domestic spying

A divided federal appeals court in Cincinnati handed the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program a major legal victory, ruling against the ACLU and other plaintiffs.

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Domestic surveillance

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Yahoo! News

Iran's leader hints at rights for women

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has signaled a willingness to reinterpret Islamic law in favor of women's rights, but not following Western convention.

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London Independent

Khamenei: Don't mess with Islamic law

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Salon.com

N. Korea considers early shutdown

North Korea says it is considering suspending operations at its Yongbyon nuclear reactor earlier than expected.

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BBC

NATION

Nigerian kidnappers demand money for British girl

Contacts began to try to win the release of a British toddler seized by kidnappers who have threatened to kill her unless they are paid ransom.

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Reuters

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President Musharraf survives attack

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Financial Express

Countries sign up to emissions pledge

More than 150 companies around the world pledged to reduce their carbon emissions voluntarily and raise energy efficiency with targets which they will make public and report on each year starting in July 2008.

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Financial Times

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Companies pledge at U.N. to cut carbon burdens

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POLITICS

Romney criticized for hotel's pornography

Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney is being criticized by conservatives for not trying to halt hardcore movie offerings during his near-decade on the Marriott board.

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Houston Chronicle

Gay family values

Some of the states that are denying same-sex couples the right to marry are allowing them to adopt kids.

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TIME

Key Republican defection on Iraq

New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Domenici said the Iraqi government is "failing" and called for a new U.S. military policy in Iraq.

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Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Stocks end week higher after jobs data

Wall Street ended the first week of the third quarter with a respectable gain, shaking off early losses as investors found signs of strength in the government's June employment report.

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Examiner

Nestlé chief fears food price inflation

Food prices are set for a period of “significant and long-lasting” inflation because of demand from China and India and the use of crops for biofuels, according to the head of Nestlé.

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Financial Times

SPORTS

Now batting: the city by the bay

San Francisco becomes the center of the baseball universe as the build-up officially begins for Major League Baseball's All-Star Game at AT&T Park.

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San Francisco Chronicle

McClatchy's Pirates reign over, Nutting takes over CEO role

Kevin McClatchy, a newspaper heir who likely prevented the Pirates from leaving Pittsburgh by assembling an ownership group in 1996, will step down as the team's chief executive officer.

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Federer closes in on record

Roger Federer took another step closer to immortality when he dispatched Juan Carlos Ferrero to take his place in the Wimbledon semi-finals.

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Americans up, down

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Sports Illustrated

HEALTH

Medical tourism takes flight

Soaring U.S. medical costs are causing many Americans to take to the skies on "medical tourism" junkets, looking for high-quality yet low-priced health care at foreign clinics.

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Health Day

Merlot mouthwash? Wine can fight germs

Drinking wine can maintain heart health, prevent cancer and even settle a mean case of diarrhea. Research now shows it’s also good for your teeth and throat.

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MSNBC

Researchers: yawning keeps brain cool

"No one knows why we yawn," says Andrew Gallup, a professor at the State University of New York at Albany. Now Gallup and fellow researchers have an explanation: Yawning cools the brain.

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International Herald Tribune

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Shift the dollars to students and away from lenders

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USA Today

The church's search for an environmental stand

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National Catholic Reporter

Column (Stan Sorscher):

NAFTA-style free trade policy fails

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Any special requests to Congress should be out in the open

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News Journal

Column (Salim Lone):

Africa’s stolen voice

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Cheney's unabashed, secretive power grab

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Newsday

Column (John Mashek):

What Bush never talks about in public

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U.S. News & World Report

Justice is not blind

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Economist

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How to judge the Roberts Supreme Court

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Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

AIDS trial proves hopeful in 2 studies

An experimental AIDS drug taken in combination with an approved medication drastically reduced the amount of virus in the blood of patients with a history of drug resistance, according to two studies.

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Baby survives being buried alive

A two-day-old baby girl in India has survived after being buried alive in a field by her maternal grandfather in the south of the country.

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BBC

NATION

Navy probes Marines in captives' deaths

The Navy is investigating claims that Camp Pendleton Marines killed between five and 10 unarmed captives during a fierce battle in Fallujah, Iraq, in November 2004, current and former Marines say.

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St. Petersburg Times

Stifling heat spreads throughout West

If a heat wave doesn't lift soon, Sharon McDonald may see her hay crop turn to dust. Oppressive temperatures eased a bit in the West, but McDonald's Montana ranch baked under triple-digit heat.

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CNN

Hurricane Center director won’t resign

The new director of the National Hurricane Center, under fire from staff members who wanted him ousted, said that he won’t resign and that the disagreements can be resolved.

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Controversy at Hurricane Center

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AOL News

ENVIRONMENT

Californians asked to cut energy use

Californians facing the summer's first major heat wave are being asked to conserve, or risk losing their power.

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San Jose Mercury News

Sundried tide: silent, natural disaster

Australian researchers have studied and documented the effect of the "sundried tide," a force of nature that can silently wipe out coral reefs.

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DNA reveals Greenland's lush past

Armies of insects once crawled through lush forests in a region of Greenland now covered by more than 6,500 feet of ice.

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BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Magnificent sevens

Feeling lucky? A record number of brides and grooms are betting on the luckiest day of the century being the perfect wedding date.

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New York Daily News

Live Earth concerts kick off in Australia

The Live Earth global concert series kicked off with a digeridoo-backed Aboriginal group dancing and singing a traditional welcome at the first venue in Sydney.

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CNN

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Live from Antarctica, the coolest band on earth

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Christian Science Monitor

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Live Earth web site

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MSN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Another product disaster in China: exploding cell phone batteries

Chinese regulators in the Guangdong Province said that they found Motorola and Nokia cell phone batteries that failed safety tests and were prone to explode under certain conditions.

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International Herald Tribune

Xbox 360 glitch may cost Microsoft $1B

In a setback for Microsoft's unprofitable entertainment and devices division, the company is planning to spend at least $1 billion to repair serious problems with its Xbox 360 video game console.

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CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Gay pastor cut from clergy roster

The openly gay pastor of Atlanta's oldest Lutheran church has been removed from his denomination's clergy roster.

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USA Today

Overexposed by TV crews, mosque framed as target

It has become an iconic symbol to millions of television viewers, perhaps as evocative of Baghdad as the Empire State Building is of New York City, and worshippers say that has made it a target.

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USA Today

EDUCATION

The professor is a headhunter

As companies compete fiercely for top talent on campus, they're forging closer relationships with influential faculty members — and they're not shy about spreading around the cash.

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BusinessWeek

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Essential gear not reaching Iraq Marines

The system for delivering badly needed gear to Marines in Iraq has failed to meet many urgent requests from troops in the field, according to the Associated Press.

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Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Revelers enjoy water thrown from a balcony during the San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona, northern Spain, which attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year. (Photo by Alvaro Barrientos / AP)

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