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Debris from blast-damaged homes are seen in the Ouenze neighborhood after multiple explosions occurred at a munitions depot, in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. (Photo by Louis Okamba / AP)

Letizia Battaglia: shooting the mafia

Nearly 20 years after the murder of her friend, the anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, one of the great photographers of our time, talks about her experiences during an 18-year mafia killing spree.

Guardian

Putin ‘elected Russian president’

Vladimir Putin has been elected Russian president for the third time after spending the last four years as the country’s Prime Minister. Exit poll results gave him about 60 percent of the vote.

BBC

Dismay with Putin seen on the rails

Moscow Times

Vladimir Putin: 21st-century czar

Globeandmail.com

206 killed in Republic of Congo blasts

Blasts rocked the capital of the Republic of Congo after a weapons depot caught fire, killing at least 206 people and pinning countless others underneath collapsed buildings, including a church.

ABC News

Republic of Congo munition blast

BBC

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Congo facts

National Geographic

Survival stories emerge from tornado victims

As survival accounts were passed around, emergency officials trudged with search dogs past knocked-down cellphone towers and ruined homes looking for survivors in rural Kentucky and Indiana.

Kansas City Star

Tornadoes devastate Indiana

TIME

Romney wins Washington caucuses

Mitt Romney won the Republican caucuses in Washington state, giving the former Massachusetts governor a shot in the arm heading into Super Tuesday contests.

CNN

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NATION

One last fight for secret soldiers

Decades after fighting alongside U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, Hmong veterans begin their final battle with the U.S. Congress: fighting for veteran benefits and the right to burial in a veteran’s cemetery.

McClatchy Newspapers

Fed up, New Orleans looks to shake ‘Murder City’ title

The revelry of Mardi Gras is over, and so is a series of high-profile football games that had people dancing in the streets, yet with nearly a slaying a day in January, not all city residents feel like celebrating.

CNN

Falling incomes rip a hole in middle class

The recession upended a fundamental assumption of middle-class life, which is the belief that most working families can count on earning a little more than they did in the previous year.

Star Tribune

POLITICS

Lesbian custody battle in Florida could redefine law on sperm, egg donors

A custody battle in Florida between two lesbians could fuel the growing national debate over the definition of motherhood.

NY Daily News

Limbaugh apologizes to Sandra Fluke

Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh apologized to activist Sandra Fluke for his “insulting word choices” after calling her a “slut” and a “prostitute” after her testimony before Congress.

CBS News

Text of Rush Limbaugh apology to law student

Seattle Times

BUSINESS

Stocks: the little engine that could

Stocks have proven the naysayers wrong so far in 2012, and the February jobs report could help to keep the bulls going into next week.

Reuters

Hiring, key to US recovery, on upswing

MarketWatch

Lenders change strategy, now helping distressed owners

Forced by the harsh realities of the real estate market, lenders are increasingly likely to allow defaulting owners to remain in their homes — a change in strategy that is helping to buoy some neighborhoods.

CNBC

HEALTH

More young women having strokes

A new study shows an alarming rise in the number of acute ischemic strokes in young adults. From 1995 to 2008, women between 15 to 34 who were hospitalized for this type of stroke rose 23 percent.

ABC News

Many pilots, truck drivers sleep-deprived, survey finds

One in 10 American truck drivers, train conductors, airline pilots and other transportation workers may be dangerously sleep-deprived, a new survey suggests.

Yahoo! News

EDUCATION

Maryland campuses struggle over when to issue emergency alerts

Since 1990, federal law has required colleges and universities to issue timely emergency notifications. Rapidly evolving technology has universities continually evaluating alert systems.

Baltimore Sun

Dual-language schools offer new educational wrinkle

Zavala is a dual-language school. It was one of more than a dozen schools that opened their doors this month to teachers and principals attending a convention for bilingual education.

Houston Chronicle

Fla. charter schools get merit pay break

Over the opposition of Democrats, the Florida House passed a bill that clarifies that charter schools have wiggle room in complying with a controversial “merit pay” law signed last year.

Florida Times-Union

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Cardinal Keith O’Brien clashes with David Cameron on same-sex marriage

The Catholic Church is on a collision course with David Cameron as one of its most senior figures issues an outspoken attack on the Government over its plans to legalize gay marriage.

Telegraph.co.uk

NY‘s Cardinal Dolan urges ’freedom of religion battle’

Cardinal Timothy Dolan called on Catholic worshippers to become more involved in politics as the church stands against what he called a “freedom of religion battle,” concerning contraceptive coverage.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Columns And Op-Ed

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NYPD oversteps regarding its surveillance of Muslims

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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The American debate: swing voters amid the mess

Philadelphia Inquirer

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We were born to not get bullied

Seattle Times

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A look at environmental politics

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On Being Green

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Brother, can you spare an e-dime?

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The cultural attitudes of Rick Santorum

U.S. News & World Report

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Russian elections: US and Europe must rethink the ‘reset’

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining globally

The world reached the U.N.’s “millennium development goal” of halving world poverty between 1990 and 2015 five years early.

Economist

The baby in the cornfield: tales of tiny tornado survivors

Why are stories of tornado “miracle babies” so common? It happened again when rescuers found a blond, blue-eyed toddler in the middle of an Indiana cornfield, 10 miles from her home.

Christian Science Monitor

Dachau survivor and liberator meet 6 decades later

Many years after the liberation of Dachau, one man meets one of his rescuers. Together, they are working to repudiate those who would deny the Holocaust.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Kim Jong Un visits front-line DMZ troops, orders high alert

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the heavily armed border with rival South Korea and ordered troops to be on high alert, state media reports.

Star Tribune

Life on the DMZ

Reuters

Syrian rebels withdraw from enclave

After a punishing, month-long military siege, Syrian rebels retreated from a key district in Homs, saying they were running low on weapons and that humanitarian conditions were unbearable.

Houston Chronicle

Red Cross attempts entry to Baba Amr for a third time

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Navy ‘Sinkex’ program raises concern over ocean pollution

The U.S. Navy gets rid of most of its old ships through target practice. However, this introduces toxins to the sea when the ships wind up at the bottom of the ocean.

FOX News

This is the story of the world’s most common bird

Even if you do not know it, you have probably been surrounded by house sparrows your entire life.

Smithsonian Magazine

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sighting of meteor reported across UK

Police forces across the U.K. have received numerous calls after a large fireball, thought to be a meteor, was spotted in the sky.

The Independent

In future restaurants, a gadget may take your order

A new tablet works well for customers and saves restaurants money, but could this device mean the beginning of the end for the waitstaff?

The Atlantic

Will Apple create the all-iPad classroom?

Apple hopes its digital textbooks for the iPad will corner a lucrative K-12 book market. But high costs and challenges of mobile technology could ensure that hardback books remain in classrooms.

San Jose Mercury News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The gray divorcées

The divorce rate for people 50 and older has doubled in the past two decades. Why are baby boomers breaking up late in life like no generation before?

Wall Street Journal

Raw drama of case against Proposition 8 given a slice of Hollywood A-list ham

In Los Angeles, a group of A-listers tried to walk the precarious line between aesthetics and public service.

Guardian

Review:

US District Court decision: It comes to Perry v. Schwarzenegger

New York Times

SPORTS

Rory McIlroy aims to seal the deal

Rory McIlroy is set to become golf’s next superstar. He is a huge talent, ready to burst out and become No. 1 in the world.

ESPN

Tiger Woods falls 9 shots back

Orlando Sentinel

Fabulous Federer claims 5th Dubai title

Roger Federer brushed aside the challenge of Andy Murray to claim his fifth Dubai Open title. The Swiss champion and world No.3 won in straight sets to notch up the 72nd title of his career.

CNN

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