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This image provided by NOAA shows Typhoon Wipha, which is expected to be the most powerful storm to hit China in a decade. It churned toward the densely populated coast with 165 mph wind gusts. (Photo by AP / NOAA)

Typhoon Wipha slams into China; heads to Shanghai

Typhoon Wipha slammed into the east coast of China with winds of 116 miles per hour and headed toward Shanghai. About 2 million people were evacuated, including 200,000 in China's financial capital.

Bloomberg

Photos of Wipha

MSNBC

French defense minister says no military plan against Iran

French Defense Minister Herve Morin said that France had no military plan to attack Iran's nuclear program, despite warnings by the country's foreign minister to prepare for possible war.

AFP

Americans worry about economy, despite rate cut

Reuters

Federal Reserve cuts key rate by a half point to buffer economy

International Herald Tribune

Special section:

Federal Reserve decision: full statement

BBC

N. Korea dismisses nuke link to Syria

North Korea dismissed recent reports suggesting it has a nuclear link to Syria, calling them "sheer misinformation" and reaffirming its pledge to halt its nuclear activities.

Korea Times

North Korea makes nuke deal

CBS News

Candidates campaign at their own pace

Across the presidential field are candidates of all types, Democrats and Republicans who find common ground in the need to meet voters, fund campaigns and enlist special interest groups.

Associated Press

NATION

State Department under scrutiny

A congressional committee has opened an investigation of the State Department's inspector general, alleging he blocked fraud investigations in Afghanistan and Iraq, including potential security lapses.

Guardian

Study: Traffic congestion getting worse for metro areas

Traffic congestion is a $78 billion-a-year drain that threatens the nation's economic viability, causes Americans to spend an extra 4.2 billion hours a year in their cars and costs commuters $710 yearly.

USA Today

POLITICS

Criminally rich: all the money in the world

The rich should be a law-abiding lot if the theory that crime has its roots in poverty has any credence. And on the whole it appears they are -- or at least can afford the lawyers to keep it looking that way.

International Herald Tribune

BUSINESS

Asian, European stock markets rally

Asian and European stock markets rallied in the wake of Wall Street's overnight surge spurred by the U.S. Federal Reserve's larger-than-expected interest rate cut.

Yahoo! News

London moves to safeguard U.K. savings

The British government stepped in to guarantee the savings of customers of the beleaguered Northern Rock bank as it moved to prevent panic from gripping the entire U.K. banking sector.

Financial Times

British lender Northern Rock under pressure

EuroNews

HEALTH

Patch promises painless injection

Technology from inkjet printer cartridges could be used to inject medicines painlessly through the skin from a patch on the arm. It could potentially deliver many drugs currently injected daily.

BBC

Firms launch import food safety effort

Top U.S. food companies, worried recent import scares may turn away customers, launched a plan to add teeth to existing safety guidelines and increase funding for bare-bones federal regulators.

Environmental News Network

SPORTS

Embarrassment for New York Knicks regardless of verdict

The Knicks' seemingly limitless capacity to embarrass themselves stretched its boundaries, as damaging testimony in a sexual harassment trial further sullied the team's already degraded reputation.

New York Sun

NBA makes a big move in China

The National Basketball Association said that it had hired Timothy Chen, chief executive of Microsoft's operations in China, to head a new NBA subsidiary.

International Herald Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

India's debate over sacred geography

A 30-mile chain of limestone shoals called Adam's Bridge connecting India with Sri Lanka has become the unlikely centerpiece of a political and religious drama.

TIME

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GOOD NEWS

Puppy rescued from drain pipe

A 12-day-old puppy named Tough Guy lived up to his name after being rescued from a drainage pipe.

KCTV

Indian paraplegic a stock market winner

Twenty-eight-year-old Indian paraplegic Burla Sujata is totally dependent on her two helpers — except when she sits behind her computer screen and plays the stock market.

Yahoo! News

Digital 'Smiley Face' turns 25

Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman says, he was the first to use a colon, a hyphen and a parenthesis as a ''smiley face'' in a computer message.

HappyNews.com

WORLD

Guns, not roses, for Iraq

The U.S. is selling billions in weapons to Iraq. Is the Pentagon's plan making the country secure or arming it to the teeth for civil war?

Salon.com

Poll: Public not swayed by Petraeus plan

USA Today

Gaza faces fuel and water shortages after Israel 'declares war'

Israel's security cabinet declared Gaza an "enemy entity", paving the way for possible cuts in fuel and water to the Hamas-controlled territory.

Guardian

Top Khmer Rouge leader seized

The murderous Khmer Rouge regime's most senior surviving leader was detained, taken from his home in the Cambodian jungle by police and officials from a U.N.-backed genocide court.

AFP

Mosquito fever hits Cambodia

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Alerts for severe weather get a make-over

The National Weather Service is revamping the way it has issued severe weather warnings for decades with a new system designed to mark a geographic bull's eye where a storm will hit.

MSNBC

Report: Europe's shipping lanes causing air pollution over land

They may be far over the horizon, but the cargo and passenger ships crowding North Sea lanes are fouling the air above land, according to a new Dutch environmental study.

International Herald Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

O.J. charged in hotel room heist

Prosecutors filed formal charges against O.J. Simpson, alleging the star committed seven felonies, including kidnapping, in the armed robbery of sports memorabilia collectors in a casino hotel room.

Toronto Star

Alleged robbery audio

TMZ

I sound like what in Japanese?

In spoken Japanese, there is "men's Japanese" and "women's Japanese." By the end of my 2-1/2-year stay in Japan, I had unwittingly become conversant in the latter form.

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

MySpace mines data to tailor advertising

MySpace, the Web's largest social network, says that after experimenting with technology over the last six months, it can tailor ads to personal profile information.

International Herald Tribune

The search begins now for a few good NASA astronauts

NASA announced that it is accepting applications for its 2009 Astronaut Candidate Class. Those selected will train for space missions to possible destinations such as the Moon, Mars, and asteroids.

iTWire

EDUCATION

Hooked on mnemonics: a new way to conquer foreign languages?

How I "learned" Spanish in a weekend by free association.

International Herald Tribune

NYC wins top urban education award

New York City has won the nation's most prestigious prize for urban education, known as the Broad Prize. The prize honors school systems that narrow racial gaps and boost poor performance.

New York Sun

Photo of the Day

Sweden's captain Victoria Svensson, left, sits on the field with team mates Therese Sjogran, center, and Karolina Westberg after the team's 2-1 win over North Korea in a Group B match at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup soccer tournament in Tianjin, China. (Photo by Greg Baker / AP)

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