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Relief soldiers carry out the wounded in the earthquake-affected Beichuan County, in southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Photo by Xinhua, Chen Xie / AP)

US urges monitors to watch runoff election in Zimbabwe

The White House urged the presence of election and human rights monitors at a runoff vote in Zimbabwe between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

Reuters

Zimbabwe election may be delayed

BBC

Wildfires rage in Florida, residents flee

Firefighters from Marion County joined the battle to try to push back the flames that have destroyed homes and forced hundreds to flee.

Ocala.com

China forms company to build its own jets, challenges Boeing, Airbus

China has set up a company to build large jets, challenging the dominance of Boeing and Airbus in the market for planes with 150 seats.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

China quake death toll rises to nearly 10,000

Across central China, the toll from a 7.9 magnitude quake rose to nearly 10,000 dead — the worst to hit the country in more than three decades.

Charleston Daily Mail

China quake

NPR

Shiite gunmen in Baghdad ignore truce

A deal aimed at ending fighting in the Baghdad bastion of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was on the verge of collapse after gunmen launched a spate of attacks on U.S. troops.

Reuters

McCain breaks with Bush administration on global warming

Knoxville News Sentinel

Candidates play up 'clean coal'

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are talking more about "clean coal" and less about global warming as they woo voters in West Virginia and Kentucky — the heart of the nation's coal economy.

Reuters

WV Voters Ready for Primary

YouTube

Clinton Asks West Virginians for `Big Vote' in Primary Race

Bloomberg

NATION

US drops charges against alleged '20th hijacker' in September 11 attacks

The United States has dropped charges against the alleged "20th hijacker" in the September 11th, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.

Voice of America

Arizona police hunting for a serial predator

Police are searching for a serial predator who's been linked to four attacks on women in Phoenix and Mesa, including two unsolved killings.

USA Today

In pictures: US tornadoes

BBC

Spectacular Tornado footage taken 5/8/08 in Western Kansas

LiveLeak

Arizona police hunting for a serial predator, kiler

Police are searching for a serial predator who's been linked to four attacks on women in Phoenix and Mesa, including two unsolved killings.

USA Today

POLITICS

Vets have advice for Congress about fat cats (dogs, too)

Future pet food labels that indicate the number of calories per serving could help obese animals shed the extra pounds, a veterinarians' association recommended to the Food and Drug Administration.

McClatchy Newspapers

Obama takes superdelegate lead

Sen. Barack Obama took the lead in the race for superdelegates on the eve of a contest that's expected to fall easily into Sen. Hillary Clinton's column.

CNN

Group pushing Clinton as VP choice has ties to her campaign

A group called VoteBoth has been leading the charge for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up on the Democratic ticket.

McClatchy Newspapers

EDUCATION

Schools say inflation puts them at risk

The school funding approved by Texas lawmakers provides no new money to cover rising costs like fuel, utilities and health insurance. Officials warn inflation could push school districts into bankruptcy.

Houston Chronicle

State funding helps fuel preschool boom

The most recent federal statistics show that more than 1 million children were enrolled in public programs in 2005, up 63% from 1995. The rise far outpaces that of public school enrollment, up 10%.

USA Today

Texas Tech freezes tuition

Parents and lawmakers welcomed news last week that Texas Tech University would become the first Texas school in at least five years not to raise tuition rates.

El Paso Times

SPORTS

Suspects in Taylor murder case won't face capital punishment

Prosecutors said they will not seek the death penalty against four people charged with murdering Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor because the accused shooter was a minor at the time of the crime.

FOX Sports

Other priorities taking precedence to golf for Sorenstam

It is a game that most retire to, not from. Perhaps that is the surprise in Annika Sorenstam's announcement. She set a firm finish line, a time and date at which she will walk outside the ropes, never to return.

ESPN

HEALTH

Old herb, new controversy

Ten states have recently passed laws to either criminalize or restrict the sale and possession of salvia, a hallucinogenic drug.

Newsweek

HIV funding priority shift call

Funding for HIV prevention is being wasted on strategies which have little impact, say U.S. researchers who call for a "dramatic shift" in priorities.

BBC

Families will make case for a vaccine-autism link in federal court

Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine as they take their case to a federal court.

ABC News

Doctor urges organ sales

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Costa Rica plants more trees to become carbon neutral

Costa Rica will plant seven million trees in 2008 to soak up as many greenhouse gas emissions as it produces, in a bid to become the world's first carbon neutral nation, a top official said.

Yahoo! News

Honest teen returns bag filled with $108K

When Jared Gray found a bag of cash outside the school where he works as a custodian, the 18-year-old says there was no question he would be returning the $108,000 to its rightful owners.

USA Today

WORLD

India's Jaipur blasts leave 60 killed, hundreds injured

As many as 60 people were killed and 200 injured as eight bombs exploded in the city of Jaipur, the capital of the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.

Bloomberg

Hackers shut down Zimbabwe website

Computer hackers have attacked the website of Zimbabwe's state-owned Herald newspaper.

BBC

BUSINESS

Craigslist fires back at eBay with lawsuit

Among its list of accusations, Craigslist claims that eBay has engaged in unlawful and unfair competition, false advertising, trademark infringement and breaches of fiduciary duty.

TheStreet.com

Plastic surgery can boost your career

More Americans go under the knife to move up the corporate ladder — and some say it makes sense.

U.S. News & World Report

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Powerset brings the Semantic Web to Wikipedia amid Microsoft speculation

Amid speculation that Microsoft is looking to make an acquisition, Powerset launched a public beta of its Wikipedia search engine.

CNET News

BlackBerry unveils challenge to iPhone

Research in Motion, the creator of the BlackBerry, has today launched a slicker, faster and more powerful version of the businessman's favorite toy in an attempt to compete with Apple's iPhone.

Times Online

ENVIRONMENT

Daisetta, Texas sinkhole at risk of further cracking

Geologists are still keeping a close eye on the sinkhole that formed a crater as wide as 900 feet and as deep as 250 feet in Daisetta.

Houston Chronicle

Texas sinkhole — two football fields in size

Post-Chronicle

Drilling for oil … in downtown L.A.

Record prices are prompting oil prospectors to renew interest in drilling in L.A., where urban sprawl and environmental opponents make for one of the world's toughest oil fields.

ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Illinois bill would allow detainees access to religious counselors

Two Sisters of Mercy of the Americas are among the advocates for a bill in the Illinois House of Representatives that would require that detainees have access to visits from religious ministers.

National Catholic Reporter

For some, Mother’s Day is one that quickly comes and goes

The Rev. Jana Williams still dreads Mother's Day. In fact, if she weren't a minister herself, and married to a minister, on many Mother's Days she would have simply skipped church.

Religion News Service

Fake topic

Former girlfriends dish on Bob Dylan, John Lennon

The year was 1963. And she was Bob Dylan's girlfriend. The image of them together is one of many from a Columbia Records publicity shoot.

CBS News

'Iron Man' still No. 1 at box office

Iron Man beat Speed Racer to the finish line of the weekend box office, according to studio estimates.

Baltimore Sun

Young Saudis ask, 'where is the love?'

International Herald Tribune

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