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Pakistani volunteers carry a victim of a massive truck bomb explosion at the heavily guarded Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. At least 40 people were killed, 100 injured. (Photo by Rizwan Khan / AP)

Bomb a warning to Pakistan: End US alliance

The brazen truck-bombing of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad is a warning from Islamic militants to Pakistan's new civilian leadership to end already-strained cooperation with the United States pursuing al-Qaida and the Taliban.

MSNBC

Al Qaeda suspected of Pakistan bombing

Reuters

Ambassador among 57 dead in truck bombing of Mariott in Pakistan

CNN

Dozens killed in Pakistan hotel blast

Al Jazeera

Candidates shift focus to financial emergency

The financial crisis has wiped away almost all other issues. Both candidates ratcheted up the visuals and rhetoric to make themselves the standard-bearers of economic confidence and change.

International Herald Tribune

Seven days that shook Wall Street

BusinessWeek

Plan seeks $700 billion to buy bad mortgages

ABC News

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Full coverage: global financial crisis

Financial Times

Judge orders Cheney to preserve his 'private' papers of his tenure in office

Vice President Dick Cheney must preserve a broad range of records from his time in office, a federal judge ordered in ruling for a private watchdog group.

CNN

Documents raise fresh doubts over Palin's 'Troopergate' explanation

An internal government document appears to contradict Sarah Palin's explanation for firing her public safety chief, which prompted the now-contested "Troopergate" probe.

ABC News

NATION

Evangelist complex raided for child porn

FBI agents and state police raided an evangelist's headquarters as part of a child pornography investigation and said they planned to remove several children from the complex.

CBS News

Ike evacuees sneak back onto island

Rats, raw sewage and a no-excuses curfew await exiled residents who try to return to storm-wrecked Galveston Island when it reopens next week.

USA Today

POLITICS

Obama, McCain aiming for different messages in upcoming debates

Barack Obama and John McCain will try to convey very different messages to the millions of American voters who tune in to their three debates.

Houston Chronicle

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The debates could learn from reality TV

TIME

Linking commerce to geopolitics: the candidates' views on global trade

John McCain and Barack Obama have clear differences on global trade that may transcend economics to reflect the candidates' attitudes about foreign relations more broadly.

Knowledge@Wharton

Students saw in Professor Obama a pragmatist, not an idealogue

When Jaime Escuder was searching for a professor to supervise a project, he turned to Barack Obama. Escuder was impressed by Obama's ability to see both sides of an argument.

International Herald Tribune

SPORTS

Phillies hold off Marlins, take half-game lead in National League East

Philadelphia went ahead, fell behind, rallied and held, escaping threats in the final three innings to beat the Florida Marlins 3-2 and reclaim first place from the New York Mets.

USA Today

Europeans cut into commanding US lead after foursomes

Even with Sergio Garcia and Lee Westwood reduced to the role of spectators, the Europeans cut into a commanding U.S. lead at the Ryder Cup.

Sports Illustrated

Baseball's replay produces first reversal

Baseball's instant replay system produced its first reversal when Tampa Bay's Carlos Pena had a two-run double changed to a three-run homer during the fourth inning against Minnesota.

Sports Illustrated

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

4 killed, 2 hurt as rock star's jet crashes

A Learjet has crashed while departing from a South Carolina airport, killing four people and critically injuring two others including rock band Blink-182's former drummer.

MSNBC

Critics picks dominate Emmy nominee mix

By nominating some of the most deserving series of the year, the TV Academy may be sacrificing ratings for credibility.

Variety

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An Emmy list: dream, settle, expect

TIME

ENVIRONMENT

Italy bans pesticides linked to bee devastation

The Italian government banned the use of several neonicotinoid pesticides that are blamed for the deaths of honeybees.

Environmental News Network

More to come in Atlantic hurricane season

The 10 tropical storms and hurricanes that ripped through the Atlantic and Caribbean during this busy hurricane season savaged Haiti, Cuba and the U.S. Gulf coast, and conditions are now ripe for more.

Reuters

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Spiritual subway: Islam ads seek to educate NYC

A grassroots Islamic awareness group is hoping its new ad campaign will help catch the eyes of millions of people who ride the New York City subway system every day.

NPR

Christians and Muslims discuss divide

Especially since 9/11, major Christian and Muslim scholars and religious officials have been working together to find ways believers in each religion can live side by side in peace.

Religion & Ethics

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GOOD NEWS

Ex-farmworker wins national award

She grew up in those fields and cherry orchards of Brigham City. Still in Brigham City, she now answers phones, draws blood and attends to patients.

Salt Lake Tribune

Kid gyms send children out to play on their treadmills

It may sound like a grown up routine, but many parents are enrolling their children in fitness centers or buying child-sized equipment for a workout more grueling than ballet or Little League.

Houston Chronicle

WORLD

Iran vows to block any attack

Iran will stop any attacker before he can "pull the trigger" and western sanctions against his country have failed, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a military parade.

Reuters

Scandal-hit Olmert resigns as Israel PM

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resigned at a cabinet meeting, but the scandal-hit leader could remain in office for weeks or months until a new government is formed.

Reuters

Street clashes erupt in Germany

Thousands of left-wing demonstrators gathered to protest against an extreme right-wing rally have clashed with police in the Germany city of Cologne.

BBC

BUSINESS

GM's long road back to electric cars

Electricity seemed like a natural way to power early automobiles. The motors were quiet, clean and unlike gasoline or steam engines, they could be started with a button press.

CNNMoney

Court approves Lehman sale to Barclays

Lehman Brothers, the U.S. investment bank that filed the largest bankruptcy in history, won federal court approval to sell its North American business to London-based Barclays for $1.75 billion.

Bloomberg

Students paying special attention to economy

ABC News

EDUCATION

Blogging from the classroom, teachers seek influence, risk trouble

Dismissed by school administrators as "faculty bathroom graffiti," teacher blogs, some anonymous, are becoming essential reading for looking beyond standardized test score reports into schools.

US News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

How robots aid stroke rehabilitation

Robots have been billed as the next big thing in stroke therapy, a way for stroke patients to get more intensive therapy and recover more function.

US News

World's biggest particle smasher shut down; magnets failed, helium leaking

At least one of the LHC's more than 1,700 superconducting magnets failed, springing a leak and spewing helium gas into the subterranean tunnel housing the collider.

Science

HEALTH

Americans get low marks on hand hygiene on annual report

The Soap and Detergent Association is out with its 4th Clean Hands Report, and it gives Americans a C-minus. That's because some key hand-washing hygiene skills seems to have slipped.

WebMD

Why chemo works for some people and not for others

MIT researchers have shown that cells from different people don't all react the same way when exposed to the same DNA-damaging agent.

Medical News Today

Photo of the Day

A woman with a peace flag in Berlin protesting the Afghan war walks past a pantomime wearing an old uniform from former German Democratic Republic. (Photo by Miguel Villagran / AP)

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