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Thai forestic officers and police examine recovered dead bodies in Phuket, Thailand. A plane carrying many foreign tourists to one of Thailand's most popular resort islands crashed while landing in torrential rains. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit / AP)

88 die in Phuket plane crash

A budget airline flight with 130 people aboard crashed on landing at Phuket airport in heavy rains and strong winds, killing 88 people and injuring 42.

Bangkok Post

Jet crashes in Thailand

Yahoo! News

Wildfires force thousands to evacuate across Southern California

An out-of-control wildfire raged through the San Bernardino National Forest keeping about 5,000 people from their homes in two mountain communities.

Fox News

5,000 cut off from homes as fire rages in national forest

CNN

Russian poisoning suspect anounces candidacy for parliament

The man accused of murdering Alexander Litvinenko looks certain to enter Russia’s Parliament after announcing his candidacy for an ultra-nationalist party.

Times Online

Defense Sec. Gates sees 'protracted' role in Iraq

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says U.S. troops are likely to remain in Iraq country for a "protracted period."

International Herald Tribune

U.S. military: Arrest made in killing of Sunni ally

USA Today

Bush settles on Mukasey to replace AG

President Bush has settled on retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General, two sources familiar with the decision said.

CBS News

Greenspan's shock: oil behind Iraq war

The U.S. went to war in Iraq motivated largely by oil, former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan says in a soon to be released memoir.

The Age

Petraeus encounters opposition even among some superiors

Seattle Times

A firsthand look at removing a nuclear threat in Vietnam

Located in a cylindrical, concrete building, the Dalat Nuclear Research Institute contains a 500-kilowatt, pool-type reactor that was only recently loaded with Soviet WWR-M2 fuel assemblies.

CNN

NATION

Protest still on, despite court win

Civil rights protesters plan to descend in the thousands on a small town in central Louisiana, despite the state's court of appeal overturning the conviction of a young black man on battery charges.

Sydney Morning Herald

VA studies: PTSD care inconsistent

The Department of Veterans Affairs, which touts its special programs to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in returning soldiers, spends little on those programs in some parts of the country.

McClatchy Newspapers

O.J. Simpson arrested in robbery probe

Disgraced American football legend O.J. Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas in connection with an alleged armed robbery at a casino hotel, police said.

AFP

Simpson, accusers have storied past

Associated Press

POLITICS

Clinton makes civil rights pitch to S.C. African-Americans

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton used a speech at a local NAACP banquet to announce her civil rights agenda and to call for an investigation into a racially-charged Louisiana criminal case.

MSNBC

Thompson in Florida

Yahoo! News

Anti-war activists question Obama's actions in Senate

Some anti-war Democrats have raised questions about the depth of Obama's opposition to the war in Iraq, taking aim at one of the signature arguments for his candidacy.

San Francisco Chronicle

BUSINESS

Fed lacks the power to dictate prosperity

The Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee will file through its marble-lined halls and vote this week on what's likely to be the first interest-rate cut in four years.

Houston Chronicle

Fed set to cut interest rates

Reuters

Bye, bye, B-school

Many young people on the fast track to fat paydays in the financial industry are choosing to forgo MBA programs.

Ledger

HEALTH

Evista OK for breast cancer prevention

The FDA approved the osteoporosis drug Evista to reduce breast cancer risk in some postmenopausal women.

WebMD

Early puberty tied to increasesed risk of breast cancer

Baltimore Sun

Genetics hold promise, challenges for cancer care

Someday in the future, people may routinely have doctors scan their personal genomes, looking for this or that aberrant gene to help prevent, spot or treat a cancer.

HealthDay

SPORTS

Thome reaches 500 HR milestone in walk-off fashion

Jim Thome knew his 500th homer would be special, but he had no idea it would be a game-winner, too.

ESPN

500 home run club

Sports Illustrated

Michigan has Hart, much more in rout of winless Notre Dame

It's Notre Dame's turn to face the critics alone. The Wolverines humbled the Fighting Irish in a matchup of major college football's winningest programs, without a win or ranking between them.

ESPN

EDUCATION

GOP politician sent e-mail asking how to stop naming of dean

A conservative Los Angeles County politician asked about two dozen people in an e-mail how to prevent the University of California, Irvine, from hiring a renowned liberal scholar.

San Jose Mercury News

School funding debate in Canada

The maintenance of Catholic schools in Ontario and of Protestant schools in Quebec was part of the "historic compromise" that made possible the union of Canada.

Toronto Star

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GOOD NEWS

Heart, immune experts recognized

Pioneering heart surgeons Alain Carpentier and Albert Starr and immunologist Ralph Steinman were named as recipients of Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards.

Reuters

Aussie saved by fellow passenger

Australian Robert Borland survived a horrific plane crash in Thailand because an unknown passenger dragged him from the inferno.

The Age

WORLD

Worldwide rallies held for Darfur

Protests are taking place in 30 countries to bring attention to the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.

BBC

Children's drawings of Darfur

ABC News

NATO comes clean on cluster bombs

NATO chiefs will this week finally tell the Serbian government where they dropped thousands of cluster bombs during the Kosovo campaign, more than eight years after the bombardment finished.

London Independent

Party promises Musharraf another term

Pakistan's ruling party assured President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that he would be elected to a new five-year term in October before exiled opposition leader Benazir Bhutto returns to the country.

Seattle Times

ENVIRONMENT

Ancient records help test doubts about climate change

Diaries of day-to-day weather details from the age before 19th-century standardized thermometers are proving of great value to scientists who study today's climate.

Google News

Analysis: solar energy in Uzbekistan

With record-high oil prices leaving investors and nations scrambling to develop alternative energy sources, solar power is receiving renewed attention, particularly in Uzbekistan, Central Asia.

Earth Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Peter Fonda to sell 'Easy Rider' items

Actor Peter Fonda is auctioning off some of his memorabilia from "Easy Rider," including the American flag taken from the back of the jacket he wore throughout the film.

Yahoo! News

Propane tanks ignite on opening day of music festival

Four people were hurt — two critically — when propane tanks ignited as a weekend music festival was getting under way.

Houston Chronicle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Who did in Neanderthals? Suspects may be familiar

The case isn't closed yet, but modern humans are looking awfully guilty in one of the biggest whodunits in prehistory: the case of the demise of the Neanderthals.

Houston Chronicle

Blue whale carcass washes up in SoCal

Hundreds of spectators gathered to watch as biologists began to examine the immense carcass of a blue whale that washed up on a beach.

San Jose Mercury News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

U.S. reports on religious freedom

Religious freedom has deteriorated in Iraq and Egypt, while China has cracked down on foreign missionaries ahead of the Olympics, the U.S. government said.

BBC

Offer to quit in India gods row

India's culture minister has offered to resign in a row over whether Hindu gods are mythological figures.

BBC

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