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A man covers bodies of people killed by unknown gunmen, after they arrived at a Kirkuk, Iraq, hospital morgue. They were killed while riding on a mini bus in the town of al-Riyadh, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Kirkuk while coming back from a construction site where they worked. (Photo by Yahya Ahmed / AP)

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Blast hits Iraq hospital, violence spreads

Car bombs and gunfire killed more than two dozen civilians and wounded more than 60 in attacks throughout Iraq, officials said.

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U.S. death toll in March twice that of Iraq forces

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Global warming could bring hunger, melt Himalayas

Global warming could cause more hunger in Africa and melt most Himalayan glaciers by the 2030s, according to a draft U.N. report due next Friday which also warns that the poorest nations are likely to suffer most.

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Iranians protest outside British embassy

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UK in direct communication with Iran on sailors

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Reuters

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What law did Tehran break?

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San Francisco Chronicle

Scores dead in battle-ravaged Somali capital

Somalia's battle-ravaged capital, Mogadishu, suffered a third successive day of fighting. Scores of civilians were killed, hundreds were injured, and thousands fled.

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London Independent

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Battles ravage Somalia

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CNN

Tainted pet food a bigger risk to cats than dogs

A greater sensitivity of cats to a chemical found in plastics and pesticides could explain why they’ve died in larger numbers than have dogs after eating contaminated pet food, experts said.

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Canoe riders enjoy cherry blossoms in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Tens of millions of people across the country will take pleasure in viewing the blossoms at this time of year. (Photo by Koji Sasahara / AP)	Kashmiri Muslims raise their hands for prayers to mark the birth anniversary of the Prophet at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, India. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan / AP)	The newly restored ferry building is seen on Ellis Island, N.J. The ferry building is opening to the public for the first time. (Photo by Mike Derer / AP)

NATION

South Korea and U.S. try to save extended trade talks

The United States and South Korea struggled to save a proposed free trade agreement in extended high-level talks, after failing to conclude the deal by an original U.S.-imposed deadline.

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International Herald Tribune

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N. Korea raps U.S., S. Korea over spy flights

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Pakistan jihad schools thriving

The International Crisis Group has condemned President Pervez Musharraf's failure to curb Pakistan's extremist Islamic schools.

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POLITICS

Many U.S. attorney posts go to insiders

About one-third of the nearly four dozen U.S. attorney's jobs that have changed hands since President Bush began his second term have been filled by administration insiders.

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President Bush stands by Gonzales - again

President Bush expressed his support for Alberto Gonzales for the second time in as many days, insisting there is no evidence that he broke any law.

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ABC News

Style on the stump

In presidential politics, the goal is to get voters to focus on a candidate's record. But this year, style has been front and center—and has sometimes seemed like a curse.

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Wall Street Journal

BUSINESS

Saving Starbucks' soul

Chairman Howard Schultz is on a mission to take his company back to its roots. Oh, yeah—he also wants to triple sales in five years

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BusinessWeek

U.S. prices rise for third consecutive month

U.S. prices continued to rise last month at a fast pace, according to fresh government figures that underlined the Federal Reserve’s concerns about inflation.

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Financial Times

SPORTS

Gators pack bite in semifinal victory over UCLA

Florida's 76-66 romp against UCLA in the Final Four semifinal wasn't as mathematically overpowering as last year's 73-57 win over the Bruins for the national title, yet was every bit as lopsided.

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USA Today

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Florida runs over UCLA

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Yahoo! News

Preview: St. Louis vs. New York

Although the stakes will be considerably lower, memories of the St. Louis Cardinals' Game 7 win in last year's NL championship series will be fresh when the teams play the 2007 major league opener.

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Will the Cardinals and Tigers repeat their success?

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ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Rubbish is a ticking timebomb in the sky

The passengers on the LAN Chile flight from Santiago to Auckland last week should know just how close they came to calamity when mysterious burning objects roared past during their journey.

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New Zealand Herald

Congressional subcommittee criticizes Google pre-Katrina images

Google's replacement of post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its map portal with images of the region before the storm does a "great injustice" to victims, a congressional subcommittee said.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Is Google too powerful?

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BusinessWeek

EDUCATION

Teachers' sex charges bring cries of racism

The arrest of two women teachers on charges of having sex with their male students has brought cries of lingering racism in one of South Carolina's most conservative counties.

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AOL News

Contractor evaluating own reading program

The government contractor that set up the billion-dollar-a-year federal reading program for the Education Department is also part of the team hired to evaluate it.

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GOOD NEWS

MacArthur Foundation announces 2007 creative and effective nonprofits

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced that eight organizations in six countries will receive the second annual MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.

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PNN

U.N. pact on disabled rights signed

In what the U.N. human rights chief called an unprecedented show of support, 80 countries signed a U.N. convention enshrining the rights of the world's 650 million disabled.

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ABC News

NATION

Was Amelia Earhart a doomed castaway?

It's the coldest of cold cases, and yet 70 years after Amelia Earhart disappeared, clues are still turning up.

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CNN

Girl in prison for shove released

After spending a year behind bars, Shaquanda Cotton walked out of a Texas youth prison pretty much like many 15-year-olds would: eager for a hug from her mom and pining for a Big Mac.

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Chicago Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

U.S. agency, Indian industry to fight climate change together

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided to collaborate and share information with India's leading industry body for its upcoming global session on climate change.

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Earth Times

Ethanol-blend auto emissions no greener than gasoline: study

An unpublished Canadian federal report appears to undermine the belief that commercially available ethanol-blended fuel produces cleaner emissions than regular gasoline.

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CBC News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

At 96, author debuts with acclaimed memoir

Into his 90s, decimated by the loss of his beloved wife and alone at night with the memories of a rough and sad childhood, Harry Bernstein decided to write.

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CBS News

South Korea vies for Hollywood business

The Seoul Korea government is stepping into the major film making league by issuing incentives to attract foreign film shoots to the South Korean capital.

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Monsters and Critics

HEALTH

Is race a factor in heart health?

New findings emerging from a study of race and cardiovascular disease promise to shed light on why African-Americans are at greater risk of heart failure than other groups.

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Groundbreaking Canadian asthma study

A new report published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that patients treated with bronchial thermoplasty demonstrated an overall improvement in asthma control.

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Medical News Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

John Edwards: 'My faith came roaring back'

The former North Carolina senator talked with Beliefnet's Washington editor to do something he hasn't done before: talk openly and in depth about his religious faith.

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Beliefnet

Diocese names 38 accused priests

In its most extensive accounting of priests accused of sexually molesting minors, the Catholic Diocese of San Diego released the names yesterday of 38 priests with “credible allegations” against them.

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San Diego Union-Tribune

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Algae may fuel our future

U.S. biochemistry scientists at Utah State University are using an innovative approach that takes oil from algae and converts it to biodiesel fuel.

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Monsters and Critics

BITS AND PIECES

Photo of the Day

An Afghan man on a horse carriage is seen through a side mirror of a vehicle in Herat province, south west of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Fraidoon Pooyaa / AP)

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