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Residents surround an army truck carrying aid for earthquake survivors in Pisco, Peru. At least 510 people were killed and 1,500 were injured in the magnitude-8 earthquake on Peru's southern coast. (Photo by Martin Mejia / AP)

Peruvian President appeals for order after looting

Peruvian President Alan Garcia called for the orderly distribution of emergency supplies as desperate victims of a magnitude-8 earthquake on Peru’s southern coast looted markets.

ic Wales

Grim quake toll from Peru church

BBC

Peru quake toll still rising

WCBS

Communities north of Baghdad attacked

USA Today

Search for six trapped coal miners abandoned

The search for six miners trapped in a collapsed Utah mine was suspended after crumbling tunnel walls inside the Crandall Canyon Mine killed two rescue workers and a federal mine inspector.

San Jose Mercury News

Chinese rescuers seek 172 in flooded shandong mine

Bloomberg

Handling of mine disaster questioned

Yahoo! News

Hurricane Dean seen becoming deadly Category 5

Hurricane Dean is expected to grow into a ferocious Category 5 storm as it passes Jamaica and nears Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

Reuters

Dean tears through Caribbean

Yahoo! News

Turkish jet hijack ends peacefully

Two men who hijacked a Turkish passenger jet bound for Istanbul have surrendered to authorities and were escorted from the plane after releasing the remaining passengers and crew.

CNN

In pictures: Turkey hijack attempt

BBC

NATION

Army says suicide rate among soldiers in '06 was a record

Ninety-nine U.S. soldiers killed themselves last year, the highest rate of suicide in the Army in 26 years of record-keeping.

Baltimore Sun

4 killed in helicopter crash over Ariz.

A U.S. Marine Corps search-and-rescue helicopter crashed during a training flight over southwest Arizona, killing four people on board, officials. One person survived.

Yahoo! News

Charity: U.S. food aid is 'wrecking' Africa

Critics of U.S. food aid subsidies say they help cause obesity among Americans and starvation among Africans.

London Independent

POLITICS

Edwards' finances and populism clash

A company John Edwards has invested $16 million in Fortress Investment Group, which owns mortgage companies that have moved to foreclose on homeowners in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans.

Baltimore Sun

Snow to leave before Bush

White House press secretary Tony Snow said he'll leave before the end of the Bush presidency because he needs to make more money.

ABC News

Hastert taps out

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), the longest-serving Republican Speaker in Congress history, announced he will not run for another term and will retire from Congress in 2008.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Starbucks: A baristas union?

At the Labor Board trial of the company, twentysomething activists are trying to poke holes in the company's socially responsible image.

BusinessWeek

Home Depot agrees to pay $10M in hazardous waste dumping lawsuit

Home Depot has agreed to pay nearly $10 million in penalties and investigation costs to settle a lawsuit alleging it mishandled hazardous waste from its California stores, officials said.

International Herald Tribune

SPORTS

Familiar sight: USC once again preseason No. 1

After a season of chasing, Southern California is again the team being chased. And that’s just the way coach Pete Carroll and the Trojans like it.

MSNBC

Vick must make choice after pals plead guilty

With his NFL career in jeopardy and a superseding indictment adding more charges in the works, Michael Vick has been left with a hard choice.

Kansas City Star

Vick's co-defendants enter guilty pleas

ESPN

HEALTH

N.M. planning medical marijuana program

Gov. Bill Richardson ordered the state Health Department to resume planning of a medical marijuana program despite the agency's worries about possible federal prosecution.

Forbes

Dendreon breast cancer drug effective in clinical trial

Dendreon Corp., the developer of a treatment to stimulate the immune system against prostate cancer, said a small study suggests the same technique may help women with breast cancer.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

EDUCATION

Are we failing our geniuses?

Any sensible culture would know what to do with Annalisee Brasil. The 14-year-old not only has the looks of a South American model but is also one of the brightest kids of her generation.

TIME

Learn a foreign language – over the Web

Maurice Acker, a junior at Marquette University in Milwaukee, practices Spanish with natives from Spain every Friday morning at the school's language lab.

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Kidnapped tortoise returns home from rehabilitation center

Bob, a 42-pound pet tortoise who was mutilated after being stolen from a family's yard, has returned home after a month in a rehabilitation center. "He's doing great" owner Dorothy Sullivan said.

San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

German woman kidnapped in Kabul

Armed assailants abducted a German woman from a restaurant in Kabul, officials said, prompting police to shoot at the speeding getaway car, killing a nearby taxi driver.

Guardian

Kazakh election watched as barometer of commitment to democracy

Oil-rich Kazakhstan, the most stable and prosperous of the ex-Soviet Central Asian republics, voted for a new parliament in an election closely watched for signs of the country's commitment to democracy.

International Herald Tribune

Kazakhstan's low-key personality cult

BBC

Warrant out for Hussein daughter

Interpol has circulated an arrest warrant for the oldest daughter of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Raghad Saddam Hussein, who is accused of terrorism and other offenses.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Arctic ice at lowest level ever - a month before melt season ends

Arctic sea ice reached its lowest extent on record and the melting is continuing. Officials said satellite measurements show ice levels falling below the previous record low of 2.05 million square miles.

Scotsman

Climate change demonstrations spread to 2 more airports

The environmental campaign against air travel moved towards a more confrontational phase and spread outside the climate-change camp at Heathrow.

The Independent

Climate change threatens European landmarks

NPR

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Pioneering jazz drummer Max Roach dies at 83

Max Roach was the hottest drummer in New York by the time he was 20 years old. By the time he died at age 83, he was truly one of the giants of jazz.

NPR

Arnold, Ellen, hundreds more honor Merv Griffin

A-list celebrities, political figures, industry titans, old Hollywood luminaries: Merv Griffin knew them all in life. And none of them was about to forget him in death.

E! Online

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Study: As Internet news grows, print is in jeopardy

A new study suggests that the Web is a threat to print media, whose advantage of being a "first mover" is in flux.

Editor & Publisher

Astronauts express relief that repairs not required

Endeavour's astronauts said they were relieved at NASA's decision to skip repairs to the deep gouge on their spaceship's belly and said it would have been a tough job to pull off.

Baltimore Sun

As Dean strengthens, NASA says it may bring shuttle home early

CNN

Tailoring ads to cell phone users

Mobile phones are a potential gold mine for advertisers, the most personal and intimate way to communicate and engage with more than 2 billion subscribers worldwide.

San Jose Mercury News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Idaho congressman apologizes for remarks about Muslim colleague

U.S. Representative Bill Sali has apologized to a Muslim colleague for remarks suggesting the United States' founders never intended for Muslims to serve in the U.S. Congress.

International Herald Tribune

Jews worried over U.S. visa changes

American Jewish organizations are worried that changes to a special visa program could prevent hundreds of Israelis from coming to the U.S. and leave vital religious jobs unfilled.

Jerusalem Post

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