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Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang holds the Olympic torch after receiving it from President Hu Jintao, far left, during the Olympic torch lighting ceremony at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. (Photo by Robert F. Bukaty / AP)

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Beijing welcomes Olympic torch

President Hu Jintao took part in the televised event at Tiananmen Square, holding the torch aloft before passing it to Chinese sporting icon Liu Xiang.

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BBC

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Protests mar Beijing Olympics

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CBS News

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Building for Beijing

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MSNBC

Housing Secretary resigns under pressure

A government official says Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson is resigning. Jackson, 62, is under criminal investigation, but did not mention this in his resignation speech.

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USA Today

Bush seeks to salvage legacy at NATO and Putin summits

President Bush sets off for his farewell NATO summit and a final heads-of-state meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin in a bid to salvage a foreign policy legacy frayed by the Iraq war.

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Reuters

Sadr pulls his fighters off Iraq's streets

Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters off Iraq's streets in a move that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki welcomed as a "step in the right direction" after several days of heavy fighting.

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Daily Star

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Curfew lifted in Baghdad

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Reuters

Paulson backs financial overhaul, broader Fed role

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson proposed the broadest overhaul of U.S. financial regulation since the Great Depression, by giving the Federal Reserve more control.

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Bloomberg

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Wall Street awaits government plan

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Forbes

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Super-powered Fed?

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ABC News

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Arab peace offer 'under review'

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Al Jazeera

Yahoo! launches woman-focused site

Yahoo! Inc. launched Shine, a site for women between ages 25 and 54, calling it a key demographic underserved by current Yahoo! properties.

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TIME

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Dancers make their way down Madison Avenue during the 5th annual Persian Parade in New York. (Photo by Jason DeCrow / AP)	Nastia Liukin of the United States performs her balance beam routine at the Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships in San Jose, Calif. (Photo by Tony Avelar / AP)	The cauldron with the Olympic flame burns as spectators watch at Athens' Panathenian Stadium. (Photo by Petros Giannakouris / AP)

NATION

Ex-terror detainee says US tortured him

The story behind Murat Kurnaz is a rare look inside the covert system of justice, where the government's own secret files reveal that an innocent man lost his dignity, his identity and years of his life.

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CBS News

States fight as federal ID deadline nears

Several states are offering stiff resistance to Real ID, a controversial post-Sept. 11 law that aims to make driver's licenses more secure.

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Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Supreme Court denies Justice Department appeal in Jefferson case

The Supreme Court dealt the Justice Department a major blow in a decision that could make it more difficult for the government to investigate other members of Congress.

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The Hill

McCain faces test in wooing elite donors

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is maneuvering for the spotlight, but he has yet to sign up one critical constituency: the big-money people who powered the Bush fund-raising machine.

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International Herald Tribune

Bill Clinton tells Democrats to 'chill out'

Former President Bill Clinton, pushing his wife's longshot presidential campaign, assured California Democrats that the increasingly hard-edged contest won't hurt the party's prospects in November.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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No surrender for Clinton

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BUSINESS

Auto industry workers face hard choices

As the auto industry shrinks, with Chrysler, General Motors and Ford announcing layoffs, many workers find few options with similar wages and benefits.

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Drop in UAW membership reflects changes in the auto industry

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Kansas City Star

Day care's new frontier

At the T3 advertising firm, a $261 million company in Austin, Texas, lets a new parent bring his or her baby to work — every day — until the child is old enough to crawl.

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USA Today

SPORTS

Hamlin gets by Burton at Martinsville for first Cup win of season

Denny Hamlin hopes he's finally put his frustration behind him, not only at Martinsville Speedway, but throughout the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

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ESPN

Knicks' Thomas avoids questions about interest in Hoosiers job

Embattled New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas sidestepped whether he's interested in talking with Indiana University about its head coaching position.

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HEALTH

Getting back to work after a stroke

A stroke can have a major impact on every aspect of a person's life, including his or her job. New research shows that only about half of all stroke survivors are able to return to work.

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WebMD

Increased heart risk for retired NFL players

Retired NFL players have an increased risk of heart problems, say researchers. They added that screening for cardiovascular conditions among football players should begin in high school.

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HealthDay

EDUCATION

Calif. schools trying to adjust to No Child Left Behind

California has more schools falling short of No Child Left Behind standards than any other state, making it a bellwether of how the federal law will play out nationwide.

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Colleges keeping closer watch over strange or troubled students

A University of Kentucky committee of deans, campus police and mental health officials has begun meeting regularly to discuss a watch list of troubled students to decide if they need professional help.

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GOOD NEWS

Frenchman Jean Nouvel receives architecture 'Nobel'

French architect Jean Nouvel, 62, received architecture’s top honor: the Pritzker Prize. He designed the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis as well as the Musée du quai Branly in Paris.

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eFluxMedia

iPods and similar devices found not to affect pacemaker function

A widely reported study concluded that errant electronic noise from iPods can cause implantable cardiac pacemakers to malfunction. This just didn't sound right to cardiac electrophysiologists.

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WORLD

Monitors warn on Zimbabwe 'delay'

Election observers in Zimbabwe have expressed concerns over "delays" in announcing official presidential poll results, amid fears of rigging.

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BBC

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Tsvangirai leads Mugabe in Zimbabwe

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Angus Reid

A highway that binds China and its neighbors

The Prime Ministers of Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam will officially inaugurate a former opium smuggling route as the final link of what they call the "North-South economic corridor."

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International Herald Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

Gray wolf hunts planned after de-listing

Good news for gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains: They no longer need federal protection. The bad news for the animals? Plans are already in the works to hunt them.

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LiveScience

At toxic Montana dam, a river now runs through it

Engineers breached a hydroelectric dam in Montana, the first time an American dam was removed to clean up toxic sediments captured behind it from years of mining upriver.

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Environmental News Network

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tapping into the code of life

In the 20th century, human life expectancy grew by 30 years, according to scientists. That's the biggest lifespan boost, an amount greater than in the previous 5,000 years combined.

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ABC News

Shuttle crew reflects on mission

The seven astronauts of NASA's shuttle Endeavour are readjusting to Earth's gravity after their marathon construction flight to the international space station.

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MSNBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Dith Pran, 'Killing Fields' photographer, dies at 65

Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that he used to press for his people's rights, died. He was 65.

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International Herald Tribune

If it's breakfast time, fork over the dough

On top of the financial pressure from rising gas prices, Americans are also feeling the pinch at the breakfast table. A simple trip to the supermarket can be downright daunting.

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ABC News

RELIGION

Islam has 'overtaken' Catholicism

"For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us," Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.

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CBS News

The pope gets a guide for his US tour

When Pope Benedict XVI makes his first papal trip to the United States, he will be guided by an ambassador who sees an opportunity to introduce a little-known pope to a complex set of audiences.

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International Herald Tribune

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Man saves year's worth of trash

Ari Derfel leads a trashy life. The 35-year-old caterer has saved every piece of trash he has generated over the past year to see how much garbage one person creates.

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Pakistani boys ride a bicycle in the Muslim Colony neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti / AP)

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