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People walk past a billboard showing Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana. The ailing leader resigned as Cuba's president after nearly a half-century in power. (Photo by Javier Galeano / AP)

US embargo of Cuba to stay in force after Castro quits

The United States stressed that its embargo of communist Cuba would remain in force despite the resignation of President Fidel Castro after almost 50 years in power.

Times Online

Fidel Castro

Yahoo! News

Special section:

Castro and Cuba

CBS News

US, Canada and some of Europe will see lunar eclipse

For the third time in the past year, the moon will become completely immersed in the Earth's shadow, resulting in a total lunar eclipse.

USA Today

NATION

Supreme Court rejects domestic spy suit

The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the Bush administration's domestic spying program. The ruling won't allow ACLU to sue for information regarding warrantless wiretaps.

CBS News

Grieving family fetches soldier's dogs from Iraq

During his tour in Iraq, Sgt. Peter Neesley took care of two dogs, a stray Labrador mix and her pup. When he died on Christmas Day, his family decided to bring the dogs he'd been caring for to the United States.

NPR

Beef industry, advocates duel over video

The cattle industry and animal rights groups bickered over the treatment of beef destined for U.S. dinner plates after a secret video triggered the nation's largest meat recall.

MSNBC

Small risk of danger from beef recall

ABC News

POLITICS

Pope to meet with Bush in April

Pope Benedict XVI will visit the White House during his first visit to the United States as pontiff.

MSNBC

Congress disputes risks from lapsed wiretap law

The White House and Democrats on Capitol Hill each had a hand in letting a temporary wiretapping law expire, but most of the political fallout is landing on Congress.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Credit Suisse shocks with $2.8 billion loss

Credit Suisse sent fresh tremors through the banking sector when it revealed $2.85 billion of losses on structured credit positions caused in part by “pricing errors” by traders.

Financial Times

Delta said to be near a Northwest deal

Delta Air Lines moved closer to a deal to buy Northwest Airlines, according to people involved in the talks.

CNBC

SPORTS

Dolphins' Taylor to participate on Dancing with Stars

Jason Taylor was officially announced as the NFL's first active player to be a participant in ABC's Dancing With the Stars.

ESPN

Schilling takes Sox advice

Curt Schilling finally faced reporters -- and an uncertain future. If the shoulder rehabilitation he reluctantly agreed to fails, he knows his brilliant career could be over.

Sports Illustrated

HEALTH

Food containers leach a potentially harmful chemical

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a compound in plastics that leaches out when it's exposed to high temperature. In the body, it can mimic estrogens and promote human breast cancer cell growth.

Scientific American

Laser can detect diseases in your breath

A new laser technique could enable doctors to detect certain diseases, such as lung cancer or asthma, simply by analyzing a patient's breath.

MSNBC

Water crucial, but not filling

Studies show that drinking water before a meal has little effect on how much you consume. Still, it's easy to mistake thirst for hunger, so it's recommended to have a glass of water before eating.

Detroit Free Press

RELIGION

Catholic sues over abortion claim

A former spokesman for the leader of Catholics in England and Wales is suing over a newspaper story which accuses him of hypocrisy over abortion.

BBC

Why do we believe in God?

Researchers at the University of Oxford will spend almost $4 million investigating why people believe in God, and whether belief in a deity is a matter of nature or nurture.

Times Online

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (James Surowiecki):

The stimulus strategy

New Yorker

Column (Gary Kamiya):

Rock vs. jazz

Salon.com

Column (John Wasik):

Hello rebate check, goodbye to credit-card debt

Bloomberg

Editorial:

Not following through on the global tobacco threat

International Herald Tribune

Editorial:

Castro steps down, but change will be slow

Economist

Column:

Candidates' health plans duck some key questions

USA Today

Editorial:

How Republicans might sink Obama

Christian Science Monitor

Column:

Kosovo, a textbook example of the law of unintended consequences.

Slate

Column:

It's fitting to forgive Andy after apology

Houston Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Blind Iraq war vets learn to ski

When former Army Ranger Ivan Castro makes his way down the ski slopes, the Iraq war veteran has one goal: make it from the ski lift down to the bottom of the mountain without falling.

CNN

Team seeks to improve the hardiness of the black-eyed pea

A team of University of Virginia researchers is working to increase the drought and disease resistance of the black-eyed pea, a staple of the diets of roughly 200 million Africans.

Happy News

WORLD

EU split over recognition could undermine Kosovo

International Herald Tribune

Russia warns US over Kosovo move

BBC

Bush uses Rwanda visit to call for world to act on Darfur

President Bush called on all nations to step up efforts to end "once and for all" the ethnic slaughter still continuing in Sudan's western Darfur region.

Houston Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change threatens human rights of millions, UN says

Climate change threatens the human rights of millions of people who are at risk of losing access to housing, food and clean water unless governments intervene early to counter its effects, experts said.

Reuters

Fishing pushes sharks towards danger

Sharks are vanishing from the world's oceans and some species are at risk of extinction, a shark expert said at the conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Environment News Service

World switches on to Earth Hour switch-off lights, TV

As many as 30 million people are tipped to switch off lights and televisions around the world to help fight climate change with 24 cities joining Earth Hour on March 29, environment group WWF said.

Environmental News Network

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Across the Milky Way, more Earths?

Two new discoveries suggest that sun-like solar systems like ours -- with life-hosting planets -- are more common than previously thought.

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

The planets: a guide

National Geographic

Teleportation and wormholes: the science of 'Jumper'

The movie "Jumper" has a hero with the extraordinary power to teleport anywhere on Earth by imagining the place he wants to go. As fantastic as teleportation seems, it can actually happen in the real world.

LiveScience

EDUCATION

Arizona mulls concealed weapons rights at schools

A committee of the Arizona Legislature is weighing arguments made over a proposal to let people with permits carry concealed weapons and bring guns to schools from kindergarten to college.

CBS13

Md. universities become leaders in fight against global warming

Maryland’s public universities have become the second in the nation to combat global warming systemwide, pledging to reduce energy consumption and push for greener public policy.

Baltimore Examiner

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Martha Stewart buys Emeril franchise

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. bought the rights to the Emeril Lagasse franchise of cookbooks, television shows and kitchen products for $45 million in cash and $5 million in stock.

Detroit Free Press

Libraries turn up the noise, draw teens

Video game events at public libraries are drawing crowds of teens, including about 100 competing monthly at "Guitar Hero" at Michigan's Rochester Hills Public Library.

San Francisco Chronicle

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