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Demonstrators protest the visit of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Brasilia, Brazil. The poster reads in Portuguese "Mr. Ahmadinejad uses countries to disseminate messages of hate. Not here! Not Brazil!" (Photo by Andre Penner / AP)

Brazil defends visit of Iranian leader, despite rising tension

As leaders from Brazil and Iran prepared to meet, the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, defended his decision to host the Iranian president at a moment of tension over Iran's nuclear ambitions.

New York Times

Three Mile Island leak probed

Investigators with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission found that a minimal amount of radiation had leaked inside a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Radiation leak at Three Mile Island

ABC News

Democrats step up push for votes on health care reform bill

Obama administration officials and their Congressional allies are stepping up overtures to select Senate Republicans in hopes of winning their ultimate support.

New York Times

Health care fight swells lobbying

USA TODAY

The bottom line on the health care bill

ABC News

Bill may be out of reach for Democrats

NPR

US existing home sales rise 10 percent

Sales of existing U.S. homes increased more than forecast in October to the highest level since February 2007, spurred in part by a first-time buyers' tax credit.

Bloomberg

The koala wars

Representatives of the Australian Koala Foundation took a determined campaign for better protection of the koalas to the government. Their message? The koala would be extinct "within 30 years."

Guardian

NATION

Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for their views

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, said the lawyer representing one of the defendants.

San Francisco Chronicle

US setting aside $1.3 billion for anti-Taliban Afghan militias

The United States will make $1.3 billion available for a program that rewards Afghanistan's anti-Taliban militias with development money.

Huffington Post

Afghan war a game of trade-offs

New York Times

POLITICS

Not all Rhodes lead to Congress

Rhodes scholars have a long history of heading into politics upon returning from their two years at Oxford University. But not many of the most recent scholars will arrive on Capitol Hill as elected officials.

Politico

Proponents alter immigration bill in face of tough economic climate

House Democrats are making changes to their immigration legislation to reflect the nation's high unemployment rate.

The Hill

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Sting urges Brazil to listen to tribe's dam building fears

Rock star Sting has used his latest visit to Brazil to urge the government there to listen to the concerns of indigenous peoples over a proposed new dam in the Amazon.

BBC

International Emmys to honor David Frost

British TV personality David Frost will be honored at the 37th annual International Emmy Awards for a wide-ranging career. ABC's Barbara Walters will give the award.

Hollywood Reporter

ENVIRONMENT

Strange creatures of the deep found in underwater 'twilight zone'

Thousands of strange ceatures which exist in perpetual darkness miles below the surface of the oceans have been catalogued for the first time by scientists.

Telegraph.co.uk

'Dumbo,' other deep-sea oddities found

National Geographic

Students rush to classrooms to land new energy jobs

Ryan Light expected to get just 15 students for his community college classes on installing wind and solar power equipment. Instead, 40 signed up, and enrollment since has grown to 45.

Des Moines Register

HEALTH

Shocking treatment for erectile dysfunction shows promise

If you experience impotence, instead of a little blue pill maybe you want to apply shockwaves to your privates instead.

LiveScience

Your body's biggest enemy

According to a poll of nearly 6,300 people by the Institute for Medicine and Public Health, it's likely that you spend a stunning 56 hours a week planted like a geranium.

Women's Health

EDUCATION

UC Santa Cruz protest regarding tuition increase ends in tense scene

Dozens of student protesters who took over a UC Santa Cruz administrative building after a system-wide tuition increase were removed when police in riot gear ordered them to exit the building.

San Francisco Chronicle

Proposal to merge black schools draws fire in Miss.

Gov. Haley Barbour plans to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities. A decades-long legal battle over the historic underfunding of those schools makes for a tense atmosphere.

MSNBC

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GOOD NEWS

Jacksonville clinic gives free check-ups, tests to senior citizens

A Florida clinic donates its services once a year so that those 60 and older can get a variety of tests done at no cost.

Florida Times-Union

Wanted: money, parts, and prayers

Tyler Shipman will test his fully restored 1986 yellow-and-black Pontiac Fiero. The plan is for his dad, Jay, to have the honor of being in the driver's seat.

Star Tribune

WORLD

21 dead in Mangundadatu hostage crisis

Twenty-one people who were among a group abducted in the southern Philippines have been killed by armed men.

Al Jazeera

In Philippines strife, uprooting is a constant