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Prime Minister Stephen Harper is applauded by caucus members after he votes in favor of the government's motion to recognize Quebecois as a nation, in the House of Commons, in Ottawa. (Photo by Tom Hanson / AP)

Canada recognizes Quebecers as nation

Canada's Parliament recognized Quebecers as a nation within a united Canada, backing a controversial proposal that has already prompted one minister in the minority Conservative government to quit.

Yahoo!News

Thailand to ease martial law for first time since September coup

Thailand is to lift martial law across more than half of the country, including Bangkok, the military-installed government has announced in the first easing of restrictions since September's.

Yahoo!News

Weather woes: Snowstorm, ice cause problems in Washington state

A storm that dumped up to two feet of snow on some parts of Washington state turned freeways and city streets into icy gridlock and left thousands of people without power.

MSNBC

Investigators do not suspect arson in fatal Missouri fire

Investigators do not think a fire that killed 10 people at a group home for the mentally ill and mentally disabled was deliberately set.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Bush: Iraq violence is al-Qaida plot, not civil war

USNews & World Report

United Nations head: Iraqis 'almost' in civil war

CNN

Pilot of crashed U.S. fighter still missing

The U.S. military says it has not found the pilot of an Air Force fighter jet a day after it crashed in Iraq. The pilot, who officials have not named, has been classified as "duty status and whereabouts unknown."

CNN

Hezbollah said to be helping Shiite militia

A senior American intelligence official says the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah has been training members of the Mahdi Army, the Iraqi Shiite militia led by Moktada al-Sadr.

New York Times

Insurgents target oil sources, spark massive infernos

CNN

Pope arrives safely in Turkey

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Turkey on his first visit to a Muslim country, where he will seek to ease anger over his perceived criticism of Islam and mend a split with the world's Orthodox Christians.

USA Today

AIDS cases on the rise; forecast to be among top causes of death worldwide

Within the next 25 years, AIDS is set to join heart disease and stroke as the top three causes of death worldwide, according to a newly released study.

CBS

Burma 'closes' Red Cross offices

The Red Cross says Burma's government has ordered it to close five field offices in the country, severely curtailing its humanitarian work there.

BBC

Pinochet indicted for 1973 executions

Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was indicted and ordered to remain under house arrest for the execution of two bodyguards of Salvador Allende, the president who was toppled in a 1973 coup.

San Jose Mercury News

U.S. embassy asks Bush twins to leave Argentina

U.S. embassy officials "strongly suggested" President Bush's twin daughters cut short their trip to Buenos Aires because of security issues, U.S. diplomatic and security sources said.

ABC News

Durable goods orders slide 8.3 percent in October

Reuters

Ford plans $18 billion in debt, some backed by plants

Ford Motor Co., struggling to overcome record losses this year, plans to borrow $18 billion to pay for U.S. jobs cuts and factory shutdowns and will back its loans with collateral for the first time.

Bloomberg

Supreme Court sides with Philip Morris

The Supreme Court refused to disturb a court ruling that threw out a $10.1 billion verdict over "light" cigarettes.

Forbes

POLITICS

Tax issue presents dilemma for Dems

After six years of railing against tax cuts and fiscal irresponsibility, Democrats will find themselves come January under pressure to reinstate the alternative minimum tax.

San Francisco Chronicle

Fiscal battle lines are drawn between Democrats and GOP on Capitol Hill

The Hill

Senior Rice aide on Mideast resigns

Philip Zelikow, one of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice 's closest advisers on Iraq and the Middle East, will quit his post to return to university teaching, a State Department official said.

AOL

At a national airport, prayers against profiling

Imams, ministers and a rabbi staged a pray-in at Reagan National Airport and demanded an apology from US Airways for barring six Muslim clerics from a Minneapolis-to-Phoenix flight last week.

Washington Post

Ancient Christian site becomes ‘very sensitive ground’ for pope

No moment of Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming trip may be as closely watched as his walk through the majestic Haghia Sophia.

Boston Herald

Turkey’s PM Erdogan says he will meet pope after all

MSNBC

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GOOD NEWS

Putting breast milk to good use

A new program offers a way for mothers who have lost children to donate their milk in an effort to help some of the world's most vulnerable children.

Time

Brother gives his sister a second chance at life

As siblings growing up in Auburn, Noah and Rebecca Goodrich learned early about sharing. They shared toys, jokes, backyard forts, neighborhood best friends, and now a kidney.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Red Cross fined $5.7 million for blood safety violations

The federal government has fined the American Red Cross $5.7 million for violating blood safety laws and the terms of a 2003 consent decree.

CBS

NATION

Police under fire following NYC shooting

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the fatal shooting of a groom-to-be by police seemed "unacceptable" and "inexplicable," but remains steadfast in his support for Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

Yahoo!News

Justice department eyes spy program

The Justice Department has begun an internal investigation into its handling of information gathered in the government's domestic spying program.

Salon

ENTERTAINMENT

Pam Anderson, Kid Rock call it quits

Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock each filed divorce papers seeking to end their marriage of less than four months.

CNN

Black leaders: End N-word in entertainment

In the wake of the controversy over statements made by comedian Michael Richards a week ago, black leaders challenged the entertainment industry, including rappers, to stop using the slur.

CNN

Professor: New solar cell could be commercially viable

A University of Idaho professor is devising a new form of solar cell she says could lead to a breakthrough that would make solar energy commercially feasible.

San Francisco Chronicle

Forest fragmentation hurts Amazon biodiversity

Chopping up the dense forests of the Amazon lets hot winds blow in and around ancient trees, killing them off hundreds of years early, researchers have found.

Reuters

Exotic pets in U.S. may pose health risk

Exotic animals captured in the wild are streaming into the U.S. by the millions with little or no screening for disease, leaving Americans vulnerable to a virulent outbreak that could rival a terrorist act.

Yahoo!News

Scientists working on sperm-blocking contraceptive

Scientists are working on a contraceptive treatment which would stop men producing sperm.

BBC

Vick apologizes for gesture

Michael Vick's frustrations with fading playoff hopes and unexpected insults from home fans caused him to flash an obscene hand gesture.

Sports Illustrated

EDUCATION

Court rejects Maine school voucher case

The Supreme Court refused to take up the issue of school choice in Maine, where a state law bars the use of public funds to send students to private religious schools.

Forbes

Shaking dust off teacher education

A four-year study of the America’s 1,200 schools of education calls teacher colleges “the Dodge City of the education world,” saying they are as chaotic as the fabled Old West town.

Columbia Missourian

U.S. trout get unlikely boost from dams

It looks like a perfect trout stream in autumn: clear, cold water gushing over rocks and through wooded hills shedding the last of their leaves.

Reuters

Supreme Court weighs climate change

The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments this week in a case that could determine whether the Bush administration must change course in how it deals with global warming.

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