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Former South African President Nelson Mandela, left, blows out his birthday candles alongside his wife Graca Machel, right, during his 90th birthday celebrations at his house in Qunu, South Africa. Mandela, the anti-apartheid icon with his family, and the whole village is celebrating. (Photo by Themba Hadebe / POOL / AP)

Library confrontation points up privacy dilemma

Children's librarian Judith Flint demanded a search warrant, touching off a confrontation that pitted the privacy rights of library patrons against the rights of police on official business, in Randolph, Vt.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Hurdles crossed for Guantanamo trial

Prosecutors who are preparing for a historic war-crimes trial next week cleared a final hurdle as attorneys for defendant Salim Hamdan accepted a federal judge's decision not to interfere.

McClatchy Newspapers

Canadian mother speaks out on son at Gitmo

YouTube

Mandela celebrates 90th birthday

Nelson Mandela, the man credited with ending apartheid in South Africa, has marked his 90th birthday by calling for the rich to do more for the poor.

BBC

Nelson Mandela at 90

Guardian

Remembering Mandela's pivotal moment

NPR

Iraqi prime minister backs Obama troop exit plan

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told a German magazine he supported U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16 months.

Reuters

Obama visits Afghanistan to tour war zone

Google News

Obama arrives in Afghanistan

YouTube

Blood vessels made from human adult stem cells grown in mice

Stem cells drawn from the blood system of adult humans or the umbilical cord blood of newborns, injected into mice, formed vessels that may one day deliver oxygen-rich blood to damaged organs.

Bloomberg

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Lauren McGraw, 16, of Chandler, Ariz., sinks into a mud pit as she runs the obstacle course at the annual Mighty Mud Mania at Chaparral Park in Scottsdale, Ariz. (Photo by Ross D. Franklin / AP)	Children at the Bertrams Junior School eat birthday cake as they celebrate their school's 90th anniversary, as well as Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday, in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Denis Farrell / AP)	A duckling swims besides a yellow leaf in the river Gera in Erfurt, Germany. (Photo by Jens Meyer / AP)

NATION

KBR's internal wiring inspection shocks Senate Dems

Pentagon officials have acknowledged that between September 2003 and May 2008, 13 Americans — 11 military personnel and two civilian contractors — had been electrocuted in Iraq.

Houston Chronicle

Could DC bribery have cost troop lives?

CBS News

85 percent of US unhappy with economy

Americans are not simply dissatisfied. They are very unhappy. OK, deeply, pessimistically unhappy. Un–American dreamy unhappy.

TIME

For teens, few jobs

Christian Science Monitor

Inflation hits consumers hard

Reuters

POLITICS

Hillary Clinton rips Bush abortion proposal

Sen. Hillary Clinton blasted a Bush administration proposal that would change the definition of abortion and, she argues, limit women's access to contraception.

ABC News

McCain to General Motors Corp.: electric car 'vital' to oil independence

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain told General Motors Corp. employees that reviving the struggling industry would be of utmost importance in his administration.

USA Today

Gramm steps down after 'whiners' comment

CNN

BUSINESS

Freddie's finally a regulated guy

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that government-backed mortgage lender Freddie Mac has finally registered with the agency, 38 years after the publicly traded firm was created.

Forbes

Oil markets search for signs of a bubble bursting

Crude oil futures closed below $130 a barrel for a second day, marking their biggest weekly drop ever, as traders started to wonder if the oil bubble has burst.

USA Today

Water to gas: Can it be true?

ABC News

SPORTS

Anderson, Angels slam Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox came out flat in their first game after the All-Star break and Garret Anderson went 4-for-4 and drove in five runs for the Los Angeles Angels in an 11-3 victory.

ESPN

Pistorius fails to make South African Olympic team

In the end, it was a split second and not a court's decision that kept double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius from competing in the Beijing Olympics.

Google News

EDUCATION

Texas schools get OK for Bible course

Texas school districts got a green light to offer high school students an elective Bible course without the specific state standards that some contend are necessary to guide well-intentioned teachers.

Houston Chronicle

Chinese schools now top source of doctoral students for US universities

The pipeline into America's PhD programs used to flow from Berkeley. Now the most students pour in from China's Tsinghua and Beijing universities.

San Jose Mercury News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

NASA used human cadavers in Orion landing tests

Personnel working under contract for NASA used cadavers in tests to develop landing systems, spacesuits and seats in the new Orion moonship, space agency officials said.

Houston Chronicle

No recession for game console makers

The rest of the economy might be on the road to ruin, but the video-game market is riding high.

TechNewsWorld

Cool Video And Audio

The Daily Extra

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."

Hal Borland

Outdoor writer

Daily Extra Archives

Columns And Op-Ed

This edition edited by: Rachel Wright, Brian Levine, Max Miller, Binal Ghelani, Beverly Stiles, Steff White-Olson, Destinei Waddy, Bryan Panhorst, Andrew McMillan, Eric Connolly and Walt Chiu.

GOOD NEWS

Guilt-free luxury travel

Buying travel packages or event tickets through charity auctions is not a new trend, but it can be a useful tool for conscientious travelers who like the idea of combining a vacation with altruism.

Forbes

WORLD

How the International Court pieced together its case against Sudan's Bashir

With the controversial indictment of Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, earlier this week, the International Criminal Court is putting its reputation on the line.

Newsweek

Iran rules out freeze on uranium enrichment

A senior Iranian official ruled out any freeze in uranium enrichment, rejecting a central demand of major powers at talks on its nuclear program in Geneva, Switzerland.

Times Online

Rice affirms Iran policy shift