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In this file photo, an iceberg melts off Ammassalik Island in Eastern Greenland. Oil reserves lie off the glacial island. (Photo by John McConnico / AP)

Young adventurer leaves NY career to walk across US

Matt Green is not looking to break a record of any kind. Nor does he want to draw attention to a particular cause. There's just something about the act of walking that makes him really happy.

Baltimore Sun

Walking across America

ValleyCentral.com

Fierce hurricane season predicted

Federal forecasters called for an "active" to "extremely active" hurricane season. They predict anywhere from 14 to 23 named storms to form in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

USA TODAY

Hurricane season could be above average

CNN

White House to suspend oil drilling in Arctic

Shell had exploratory drilling contracts pending this summer, but Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a recent report that he will not consider applications for permits to drill in the Arctic until 2011.

CBS News

Obama to suspend Arctic drilling

New York Times

The Gulf oil spill

New York Times

Marine life struggles in oil

CNN

Some recent grads face health care coverage gap

Despite a health care overhaul provision that allows young adults to stay on their parents' health plans until age 26, many 20-somethings and their families are discovering that the coverage varies.

NPR

Baghdad's unregulated trade in wildlife is anything but tame

Iraqis can get just about whatever animals they want, whether as pets, novelties or status symbols or for a private zoo.

San Jose Mercury News

Baghdad's trade in wildlife anything but tame

Times of India

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Lucifer, a male lion at London's Zoo, was given a ball filled with meat and painted in the colors of England. (Photo by Alastair Grant / AP)	An ant makes its way along a blueberry bush leaf in Arrowsic, Maine. (Photo by Pat Wellenbach / AP)	Julia Gnuse, the most tattooed woman in the world, shows off some of her tattoos in New York. (Photo by Seth Wenig / AP)

NATION

BP in wait-and-see mode with 'top kill'

BP officials may soon know whether the oil company's latest attempt to cap the runaway leak in the Gulf of Mexico is yielding results.

CNN

BP used riskier method to seal oil well

New York Times

Special section:

Deepwater Horizon

Houston Chronicle

Seattle's backyard cottages make a dent in housing need

Tiny cottages are sprouting in backyards across Seattle as it tries to expand affordable housing options in established neighborhoods without resorting to high rises and apartment complexes.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

White House mixed signals mess funding

Mixed signals from the White House are making life harder for Democrats as the party tries to navigate between competing demands to reduce the deficit while also investing in new jobs.

Politico

Obama tackles border security

President Barack Obama's plan to send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops back to the U.S.-Mexico border has partly quelled demands for him to battle illegal immigration and drug smuggling.

Star Tribune

BUSINESS

Europe seeks new levy on banks to create crisis funds

A network of national funds should be introduced so the cost of bank failures are not met by the taxpayer, the EU internal market commissioner has said.

BBC

France, Germany at odds as euro tumbles

Christian Science Monitor

National debt soars past $13 trillion

The U.S. national debt has passed the $13 trillion mark, according to USDebtClock.org, an independent website that tracks the real-time growth of revenues and spending.

ABC News

More cities on brink of bankruptcy

CNBC

Lehman seeks $5 billion from JPMorgan

Lehman Brothers Holdings and a group of unsecured creditors sued JPMorgan Chase for more than $5 billion, accusing it of siphoning billions of dollars of assets and hastening Lehman’s bankruptcy.

New York Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Oldest human species found: may have been cannibal?

The new-species designation is based on two-million- to 800,000-year-old fossil-skull pieces, jaws, teeth, and other bones found at the Sterkfontein caves complex in South Africa's Gauteng Province.

National Geographic

Atlantis lands after final flight

The shuttle Atlantis closed out its 32nd and final planned mission with a smooth Florida landing, wrapping up a quarter century of service with a successful space station assembly mission.

CNET News

Atlantis returns home

CNN

Extinct giant shark nursery discovered

The six-foot-long babies of the world's biggest shark species, Carcharocles megalodon, frolicked in the warm shallow waters of an ancient shark nursery in what is now Panama, paleontologists report.

ScienceDaily

ENVIRONMENT

Big energy vs. coal ash regulation

Ever since the Kingston coal ash spill in 2008, which released a billion gallons of toxic waste into a nearby community and river system, the problem of coal ash has been in the national spotlight.

Grist

Bird conservation: Alaotra grebe extinct

The Alaotra grebe is extinct, according to the latest assessment of the world's rarest birds. Experts have confirmed its demise, killed off by a combination of poaching and predatory fish.

BBC

EDUCATION

Colleges prepare for direct lending

Campuses across the country are gearing up to meet the upcoming deadline to revamp student-loan programs, as required in the federal Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

Education Week

To aim for the top of the class, aim for a personal best

Students achieve greater academic success by competing with themselves and not with each other, Australian research has found.

Sydney Morning Herald

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GOOD NEWS

A professor and writer finds ways for peacebuilding

Dr. John Paul Lederach's writings have become a frequent part of the study of peacemaking, as almost 100 U.S. graduate schools offer degrees or certificates in conflict resolution and peace studies.

Christian Science Monitor

Haiti answers help Fla. boy win National Geographic Bee

Knowing a thing or two about Haiti helped Aadith, 13, of Palm Harbor, Fla., win the 22nd annual National Geographic Bee.

USA TODAY

WORLD

Deadly blast rocks Russian city

At least seven people have been killed and more than 20 injured after a bomb exploded near a cafe in the center of Stavropol, a city in southwest Russia.

Al Jazeera

Spanish politicians approve 15 billion euro austerity plan