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President Bush emphasizes an answer during a press conference at the White House in Washington, in this file photo. Bush will veto legislation banning waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

Bush to veto ban on waterboarding

President George Bush is to veto legislation meant to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics and will argue that the agency needs to use tougher methods.

San Francisco Chronicle

Colombia, Ecuador, Veneuzuela agree to end border crisis

The leaders of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela say they have settled a weeklong crisis that brought them to the brink of military clashes.

Voice of America

Colombia says no risk of war

Reuters

Military: About 100 bodies found in Iraq mass grave

Iraqi security forces found about 100 badly decomposed bodies in a mass grave north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said, one of the largest such finds in the country for months.

Reuters

US, Iraq starting work on long-term treaty

MSNBC

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Analysis: seminary attack highlights Jerusalem's vulnerability

Times Online

Heading in the wrong direction

Americans are seeing their home value sink, giving them an incentive to ditch their property and stack up higher losses for banks. That would push prices down and rattle already teetering financial markets.

Economist

Recession fears rise on more job cuts

Reuters

Leads in NY bombing fizzle

Investigators trying to track down the person who set off a small bomb in front of a military recruitment center have dismissed one lead and are casting doubt on another.

CNN

NATION

Revolt in Mississippi: Indian workers claim 'slave treatment'

Some 100 workers recruited from India staged a dramatic protest at a Mississippi shipyard, claiming they had been tricked into coming to the United States.

ABC News

Congress opens fire on banking 'fat cats'

Executives allegedly enriched themselves as their shareholders were forced to bear the collapse of investments as their banks wrote off billions of dollars of sub-prime losses.

Telegraph.co.uk

No leads in UNC student's brutal murder

Police say they have no leads in the murder of a University of North Carolina student body president and believe the young woman's death was a random, isolated act of violence.

CBS

Gas can eyed in Auburn coed murder

ABC News

POLITICS

McCain gets testy with the press

MSNBC

Obama adviser resigns after calling Clinton a monster

A top foreign policy adviser to Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama resigned after she referred to rival Hillary Clinton as a monster.

Voice of America

Clinton says ‘no’ to a caucus do-over

U.S. News & World Report

Ex-Obama aide sorry for 'monster' remark

ABC News

Superdelegates are torn between voters and party

With the Democratic race potentially coming down to the superdelegates, the Obama and Clinton campaigns are pushing different visions of how the undecided should make their choice.

CBS News

BUSINESS

Islamic banks give London financial clout

After taking a hit from the global credit crisis, London has an ace up its sleeve as it seeks to restore its reputation as a global financial center — its premier position in the Islamic banking industry.

MSNBC

Tempered optimism greets iPhone's push

Apple Inc. made a big splash by unveiling a new software upgrade for the iPhone, but after assessing the details, investors took a mixed view of the company's stock.

MarketWatch

Oil-for-Food figure gets 2 years

Houston oil trader David B. Chalmers Jr. was sentenced to two years in prison for scheming to funnel kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime.

Houston Chronicle

SPORTS

Venus, Serena to face each other in Bangalore semis

Venus Williams will play sister Serena in the Bangalore Open semifinals in India after both advanced with easy victories.

ESPN

A Saturday for couch potatoes

Here are five college basketball games you won't want to miss.

MSNBC

NCAA teams to beat

Sports Illustrated

HEALTH

Golf swing is rough on new knees

Researchers have found that new knees take a beating when you swing a golf club, putting a great deal of pressure on the forward knee in particular.

WebMD

Student determined to rid the world -- and himself -- of cancer

In 2005, Josh Sommer, then 18, had just started college life at Duke University when he found out he was dying.

ABC News

Government assistance linked to better child development

Extra government financial support of poor families boosts children's physical and mental development, a U.S. study concludes.

HealthDay

RELIGION

Sikhs boycott meeting with Pope

Sikh representatives are refusing to take part in a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI when he visits the U.S. The problem is that U.S. secret service will not allow Sikhs to wear the kirpan, or ceremonial dagger.

BBC

Inside Islam, a woman's roar

Wazhma Frogh, an Afghan, uses her religion to press for women's rights — and development agencies take note.

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Polar bear twins enjoy their new world

Their first steps are tentative as they emerge into the public eye for the first time. These two polar bear cubs seem painfully shy, sheltered beneath the massive bulk of their mother, Olinka.

Daily Mail

Bush greets 107-year-old veteran

Calling it a high honor, President Bush warmly greeted 107-year-old Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last known surviving American-born veteran of World War I.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

WORLD

China court rejects death rulings

China's Supreme Court has rejected 15 percent of all death sentences handed down by lower courts in 2007.

BBC

Malaysian voters may trim ruling party's power after 50 years

Malaysians will vote in elections after appeals by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to disaffected minorities to help return him to power.

Bloomberg

Cairo Gaza talks make no progress

A Hamas delegation has returned to Gaza after talks with Egyptian mediators about a possible truce with Israel.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Activists, whalers clash in Antarctic

The Japanese coast guard said that anti-whaling activists threw rotten butter and other objects at a Japanese whale-processing ship, the latest high seas clash over the country's annual hunt.

Google News

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Great Whales

BBC

Greed in the name of green

There was a time when buying organic meant eggs and tomatoes, Whole Foods and farmer's markets. But in the past two years, the word has seeped out into the home store, the vacation industry and Wal-Mart.

Environmental News Network

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mars and Venus are surprisingly similar

Using two ESA spacecraft, planetary scientists are watching the atmospheres of Mars and Venus being stripped away into space.

Science Daily

Mysterious eel fishery decline

American eels are fast disappearing from restaurant menus as stocks have declined sharply across the North Atlantic.

Science Daily

Rings around Rhea: first time discovery?

Scientists have found what appears to be a ring system around Saturn’s second largest moon, Rhea. If this ring is verified, it will be the first time that a ring has been found around a planetary moon.

iTWire

Alpha Centauri should harbor detectable, Earth-like planets

Science Daily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Another former model missing In Europe

Waris Dirie, a former model who has campaigned against female genital mutilation and written an international best-seller about her experiences, is missing.

CBS News

Swayze projects continue despite pancreatic cancer

Patrick Swayze's doctor is optimistic about his prognosis for battling pancreatic cancer, and the "Dirty Dancing" actor's upcoming cable pilot is still in contention to become a series.

ABC News

EDUCATION

'Time to protect girls' in school

Governments around the globe are being urged to prevent girls from becoming victims of violence in school. Girls in many countries are not adequately protected, according to a human rights report.

BBC

Criminalizing home schoolers

Parents of nearly 200,000 home schooled children in California may have to shutter their classrooms — and go back to school themselves, if they want to continue teaching their own kids.

TIME

Governor vows to protect homeschooling

San Francisco Chronicle

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