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An Airport Security Force officer with an explosive detector patrols Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad, Pakistan. Airline passengers in Pakistan heading to the United States met increased security screening following U.S. requests for stricter checks. (Photo by Anjum Naveed / AP)

China diesel spill prompts water alert for entire community

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese were told to stop using water from the Yellow River after a pipeline leaked 100 tons of diesel fuel into a tributary.

New York Times

China's polluted rivers are in the spotlight

Times Online

Tunnels beneath Vegas a refuge for homeless people

About 300 people — mostly men battling demons of various addictions — live in the underground storm system built to protect the desert playground from the infrequent cloudburst.

Yahoo! News

Video essay: living under the Vegas lights

YouTube

Pat-downs for travelers from 14 nations

All travelers flying into the U.S. from 14 nations considered high risk will be patted down and have carry-on luggage searched under new security procedures.

ABC News

Are planned airport scanners just a scam?

The Independent

Tighter security for flyers into the US

YouTube

Flights delayed after NJ security breach

Security lines at Newark Liberty International Airport were moving normally, but flights were still running behind schedule a after a man walked through a screening checkpoint to enter a terminal.

ABC News

Obama to tackle airport security

FOX News

Newark Aiport security breach

CNN

Bernanke doesn't rule out higher interest rates

Stronger regulation is the best way to prevent financial speculation and a new crisis for the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said. He did not rule out higher interest rates.

CBC News

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Dancers perform a traditional Mexican dance as part of a Three Kings Day celebration in Washington. (Photo by Jose Luis Magana / AP)	A snow-covered mixed breed dog named "Lotta" runs through the snow near Salzburg, Austria. (Photo by Kerstin Joensson / AP)	A Sikh devotee pays obeisance during a religious procession on the eve of the birth anniversary of the tenth Sikh Guru, in India. (Photo by Altaf Qadri / AP)

NATION

Census begins head count of Americans

The Census Bureau kicks off its $300 million campaign to prod, coax and cajole the nation's residents to fill out their once-a-decade census forms.

CBS News

Death row cases decline in 2009

Prosecutors sought the death penalty less often in 2009. Fewer death sentences were handed down, making it the year with the fewest people sent to death row since the death penalty was reinstated.

NPR

US shuts embassy in Yemen

President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism official confirmed that the U.S. shut its embassy in Yemen based on intelligence that al-Qaida was planning an attack.

ABC News

Yemen crucial to Obama's vow to defeat al-Qaida

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Secretary of State raises millions for US project in China

The U.S. needed $61 million to finance the construction of a national pavilion at a world’s fair in Shanghai. Under federal law, no public money could be used for the project.

MSNBC

Counterterrorism competes with jobs in Obama agenda

Job creation will take a backseat to counterterrorism on President Obama's agenda after an al-Qaida-linked man's failed attempt to bomb a U.S.-bound plane forced the White House to shift its focus.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

NY considers list of 85 chemicals for state to avoid buying

New York is poised to create a list of 85 chemicals for state agencies to avoid buying.

Staten Island Today

Enviro groups have modest legislative agenda

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Strange sanctuary

The Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge encloses everything from chemical factories to a former missile site. Its transformation could be a model for environmental restoration.

E Magazine

EDUCATION

'Race to Top' new template for educators

The rules for the Race to the Top program pushes states to adopt education redesign principles that federal officials say are likely to be the cornerstone of the President Obama administration’s education plans.

Education Week

Grads discover finding jobs is harder work than expected

For recent college grads, the job situation is going from bad to worse. For 20- to 24-year-olds, the unemployment rate rose to 16 percent — up from 15.6 percent in October — the highest for the age group since 1983.

The Star

Education that makes a difference

Dr. Helene Gayle, who heads CARE USA, believes her Atlanta agency has one answer: build schools in the world's troubled regions, including Afghanistan.

San Francisco Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Possible new Michael Jackson song 'Another Day' leaks

The new year kicked off with a potentially new unearthed Michael Jackson song. A snippet of a track called “Another Day,” reportedly sung by the King of Pop, hit the Web over New Year’s weekend.

Rolling Stone

Fee to film in New York municipal buildings riles producers

The entertainment industry argues that a new fee of $3,200 accompanying each permit to film inside city-owned buildings could drive productions elsewhere.

New York Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Can megachurches bridge the racial divide?

The racial divide is beginning to erode, and it is fading fastest in one of American religion's most conservative precincts. Desegregation of the megachurches may be a pivotal moment in the nation's faith.

TIME

Chinese afterlife: restless spirits

In China, ancient human sacrifice has given way to modern tomb-tending ceremonies, but the dead still make demands.

National Geographic

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GOOD NEWS

Farmers smiling but unwilling to declare drought demise

Farmers in northern New South Wales are looking forward to bumper summer crops thanks to drenching rain last week.

Sydney Morning Herald

Missing boys found safe after flood scare

ABC News

Compassionate 2nd-grader organizes shelter donation

After seeing a homeless woman during a holiday trip to Chicago, Jonathon Slack, a seven-year-old boy from Orland Park, Ill., led a 10-day donation drive, collecting over four truckloads of goods.

MSNBC

Australian explorers find Vickers monoplane in Antarctic ice

One of the world's first aeroplanes has been found buried in ice in Antarctica, almost a century after it was abandoned.

Telegraph.co.uk