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Mom bought assault rifle for boy

The mother of a 14-year-old boy accused of planning a "Columbine" type event at a high school was arrested. She is accused of buying a 9 mm assault rifle for her son.

CNN

Teen planned 'Columbine-type' attack

Yahoo! News

The great iPhone hack, round 3

Two weeks after Apple's iPhone software update wiped third-party applications from the device and disabled unlocked phones, the hackers have struck back.

CNET News

New iPhone lawsuit seeks $2.6 billion in damages

Computerworld

Gore shares Nobel Peace Prize with U.N. panel

Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their work to raise awareness about global warming.

CNN

Could Nobel Prize spur Gore to run in '08?

CBS News

Special section:

Profile: Al Gore

BBC

Putin threatens withdrawal from Cold War nuclear treaty

President Vladimir Putin warned that Russia was considering withdrawal from a major Cold War arms treaty restricting intermediate range nuclear missiles.

Guardian

Rice to Russia

Yahoo! News

'Jena 6' teen Mychal Bell back in jail

A teenager at the center of a civil rights controversy was back in jail after a judge decided the fight that put him in the national spotlight violated terms of his probation for a previous conviction.

ABC News

NATION

Accused woman’s husband asked police about missing baby

Lisa Montgomery is accused of strangling a woman in her Skidmore, Mo. home, then taking her unborn child via a crude Caesarean section.

Kansas City Star

NYPD gets security tapes in noose case

Police began collecting 56 hours of surveillance camera images they hope will reveal the culprit who strung a noose on a black professor's office door at Columbia University.

Associated Press

POLITICS

Giuliani: Romney's statement on Iran a 'mistake'

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani smiled as he criticized what he depicted as a gaffe made by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

ABC News

Giuliani edges Thompson in state GOP straw poll

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Judge delays 'no-match' firings

Dealing a major blow to Bush administration policy, a federal judge put on hold new rules that would require businesses to fire employees whose names don't match their Social Security numbers.

San Jose Mercury News

BUSINESS

Retail sales jumped up in September

The Commerce Department reported that retail sales posted a stronger-than-expected gain, as a big jump in auto sales helped offset weak demand for clothing.

Associated Press

Americans not in buying mood

Yahoo! News

Bernanke praises economist John Taylor

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke heaped praise on Stanford University economist John Taylor, kicking off a conference on Taylor's accomplishments at the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank.

MarketWatch

HEALTH

Chocolate cravings may be a gut feeling

If that craving for chocolate sometimes feels like it is coming from deep in your gut, it just may be. A small study links the craving to a digestive bacteria.

MSNBC

Study says U.S. children lack quality medical care

In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that America's children received appropriate medical care only 47 percent of the time when they visit health professionals.

Akron Beacon Journal

SPORTS

Cowboys' Phillips denies 'Spygate' report

Wade Phillips denied comments attributed to him that said the Dallas Cowboys' coach believes the Patriots spying scandal earlier this season tainted New England's three Super Bowl titles.

ESPN

Rockies carry near-spotless run into NL Championship series

The one blemish on the Colorado Rockies' near-spotless run into the Major League Baseball playoffs came at the hands of the Arizona Diamondbacks and the arm of Brandon Webb.

Bloomberg

Fresh faces set to shine for Rockies, D-Backs in NLCS

NY Daily News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Terrorist mastermind now a Christian?

Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, claims he converted from Islam to Christianity, a reporter said.

CBS News

Conflict between religions threatens future of the world

The survival of the world is at stake if Muslims and Christians cannot make peace with each other, Islamic scholars have told the Pope.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Students steer school bus after driver falls ill

Some quick-thinking students were able to take control of an out-of-control school bus after the driver apparently lost consciousness along a busy highway.

WESH 2 News

Dog saves family from fire blamed on cat

Thumper, a black Labrador retriever, is getting credit for saving a man when a fire swept through his home.

Newsday

WORLD

Turkish ire may affect Iraq war

Two obsessions in Turkey may appear unrelated, but they are swiftly combining as a tipping point in U.S.-Turkey relations that could affect American forces in Iraq.

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Q&A: Armenian 'genocide'

BBC

Olmert, Abbas narrow land gap, other snags remain

The gap is narrowing between Israeli and Palestinian leaders over the amount of territory Israel would hand over to a Palestinian state.

Reuters

Palestinians watch as Hamas offers olive branch to Fatah

Al Jazeera

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Pollution pouring into nation's waters far beyond legal limits

Over half of all industrial and municipal facilities across the country dumped more sewage and other pollutants into the nation's waterways than allowed under the Clean Water Act.

San Francisco Chronicle

NM Tech to lead greenhouse gas project

New Mexico Tech will coordinate a project to inject million of tons of carbon dioxide into a sandstone formation that stretches from Colorado to Wyoming, removing the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.

Forbes

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Radiohead: shaking up the recording industry, with success

Without a label or a fixed price, and not quantifying its sales for pop charts, "In Rainbows," Radiohead's first album since 2003, is selling, being avidly played and making the world pay attention.

International Herald Tribune

Literature Nobel awarded to Brit

British writer Doris Lessing was announced the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Just several weeks short of age 88, she is the oldest writer and only the 11th woman to receive the honor.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Malaysia sets flexible religious rules for Muslims in space

The Malaysian government's Department of Islamic Development has prepared religious guidelines for the country's first astronaut, who is spending about 10 days at the international space station.

International Herald Tribune

World's oldest wall painting unearthed

French archaeologists have discovered an 11,000-year-old wall painting underground in northern Syria which they believe is the oldest in the world.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Parent says school's 'weight notice' causes emotional distress

Flaurette Martinez's daughter's school district suggests the girl is overweight due to the daughter's body mass index, and sent a note home with Martinez's daughter to inform her.

USA Today

The rising price of studying abroad

With the dollar falling, the cost of studying abroad is rising for everything from meals to museums.

Newsweek

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