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Female protesters peek through a hole in a makeshift divider at male protesters during a demonstration to demand the resignation of Yemen’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen. (Photo by Hani Mohammed / AP)

New York ‘urban lab’ seeks to solve city-style problems

With three out of five people across the globe projected to be city dwellers by 2030, transport and urban issues are increasingly vital — prompting some urbanites to solve the issues themselves.

BBC

More blacks leave urban cities, migrating to suburbs and the South

San Jose Mercury News

Ecstasy to be tested for trauma victims

Scientists hope to overcome anger after U.S. trial suggests the clubbers’ drug ecstasy can bring improvements for post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers.

Guardian

Yemeni forces kill cleric Anwar al-Awlaki

Yemen’s defense ministry has reported that cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed. The U.S. especially designated him as a “global terrorist” for his alleged role in a number of attacks.

Al Jazeera

What al-Awlaki’s death means for US, Yemen

Christian Science Monitor

Who was Anwar al-Awlaki?

CBS News

Political unrest in Yemen

Msnbc.com

Fear in Colorado town at heart of national listeria outbreak

Eric Jensen, co-owner of the farm where officials say the listeria outbreak originated, surveys his cantaloupe field and seems stunned at the fate that has befallen his crop: rows of rotting melons.

USA TODAY

World’s earliest Christian engraving shows surprising pagan elements

Researchers have identified what is believed to be the earliest surviving Christian inscription, shedding light on an ancient sect that followed the teachings of a philosopher named Valentinus.

LiveScience

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New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Brodeur dives to make a save during a preseason NHL hockey game against the Philadelphia Flyers in Philadelphia. (Photo by Matt Slocum / AP)	Men wear Earth costumes to promote better care of the planet in Beijing. (Photo by Ng Han Guan / AP)	An artist puts final touches to an idol of Hindu Goddess Durga in New Delhi, India. The Durga Puja festival commemorates Durga’s slaying of a demon king. (Photo by Saurabh Das / AP)

NATION

US government denies border-fence plan, despite report

The United States government insists it has no plans to put up a fence along parts of the Canada-U.S. border, despite a report that contemplates exactly that.

Globeandmail.com

Banks plan new monthly fees for using debit cards

The nation’s beleaguered banking industry, which has been raising fees and doing away with free services, has a new target: debit-card users.

Wall Street Journal

$5 a month to use a debit card?

CNN

New law not end of Ala. immigration war

Alabama’s law on illegal immigration went into effect after a federal judge upheld some of its key provisions, but the court battle over the issue is not finished.

NPR

Judge upholds Alabama’s immigration law

MSNBC

POLITICS

Supreme Court about to start most interesting term in years

California health care conflicts will kick off a Supreme Court term that will, in time, turn toward the truly dramatic.

McClatchy Newspapers

Super PACs for presidential hopefuls changing campaign landscape

Super PACs are shadow cash machines for candidates. Leading GOP contenders have at least one boosting their candidacies, as does President Barack Obama.

Star Tribune

BUSINESS

Data centers are a bright spot in an anemic office rental market

As companies turn to automation as a way to do more with fewer workers, the demand for buildings where they can house their computer servers is exploding.

Los Angeles Times

Kindle Fire may force Android tablet makers to cut prices

Asian technology companies came under pressure to slash prices of their tablet computers after Amazon.com launched its Kindle Fire at a mass market-friendly $199.

Reuters

Amazon unveils Kindle Fire tablet

ABC News

HEALTH

Pink ribbon marketing brings mixed emotions: poll

The country is about to go pink. And on the eve of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, also known as October, a new poll shows that Americans have mixed emotions about the annual event.

USA TODAY

Stem cells correct sickle cell disease

Using a patient’s own stem cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins have corrected the genetic alteration that causes sickle cell disease, a painful, disabling inherited blood disorder.

ScienceDaily

Easily embarrassed? Others trust you more, study shows

The next time you blush after tripping over your own feet in public, don’t try to hide it — a new study finds that showing your embarrassment actually makes other people view you as more trustworthy.

LiveScience

ENVIRONMENT

In Millnocket, a new plan for conservation

For over a decade, there’s been talk of creating a new national park in the heart of the Maine woods. Most locals opposed it from the start, but as the economy here changes, opposition softens.

NPR

Coral reefs more vulnerable than they appear, but collapse is avoidable

Coral reefs that appear healthy may in reality be heading for collapse, according to a study published recently in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Earth Times

Can the wind industry survive without federal tax credits?

The wind production tax credit, a key incentive for new wind energy projects and one of the most politically acceptable ways of supporting the industry, is set to expire at the end of 2012.

Grist

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

8th Day Center for Justice pressured over women’s ordination

The 8th Day Center for Justice, long a staple of Catholic social justice activism in the Chicago area, is facing pressure over women’s ordination.

National Catholic Reporter

Lawyer hopes Christian convert in Iran pastor will be freed

The lawyer for Yusef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor facing the death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity, has said he is “optimistic” that the final verdict could see his client set free.

Telegraph.co.uk

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Robin Williams

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GOOD NEWS

Down syndrome brings joy, not regrets, for many families

In a series of recently completed surveys, 96 percent of parents expressed no regrets about having a child with Down syndrome and nearly eight out of 10 said the child had enhanced their lives.

HealthDay

Surgery to help children walk draws parents across world to St. Louis

Families are flocking to St. Louis to have neurosurgeon T.S. Park perform selective dorsal rhizotomy surgery because he has refined and studied the procedure more extensively than any other surgeon.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

19 major nonprofits lobby to keep charitable deductions

Nonprofits sent a letter to Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, asking them to protect the charitable deduction.

NonProfit Times

WORLD

Europe inflation unexpectedly quickens