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President Barack Obama, with Economic Recovery Advisory Board Chairman Paul Volcker, makes remarks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

G-20 ministers push for more regulation

Financial experts from 20 nations urged more regulation and oversight of fiscal institutions to help prevent another monetary crisis.

CNNMoney

World finance ministers gather for summit

NPR

Obama: US will not choose sides at G-20

MSNBC

Showdown for control in Madagascar

Madagascar's opposition leader declared himself president and appointed a prime minister as head of a transition government, as the authority of the embattled President Marc Ravalomanana crumbled.

International Herald Tribune

Obama: Investors can be confident in US Treasury bills

President Barack Obama said investors can have "absolute confidence" in U.S. Treasury bills as he sought to assuage China's concern about the safety of its holdings of U.S. debt.

Bloomberg

Obama talks up 'post bubble' economy

Politico

Pakistani ex-PM Nawaz Sharif held

Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif has been placed under house arrest, his party officials have said.

BBC

Pakistan activists launch march for justice

YouTube

Bernie Madoff’s world

Among Bernard Madoff’s many dupes were his closest friends. Amid the sobs, screams and curses, victims share their stories and look beyond Madoff’s affable façade to reveal his intimate betrayals.

Vanity Fair

Is fraud contagious?

Newsweek

Madoff looks for way out of jail

ABC News

NATION

Where education and assimilation collide

A record influx of immigrants has put classrooms on the front lines of America's battles over whether and how to assimilate the newcomers and their children.

International Herald Tribune

Survey finds many states lagging

Most parents can easily learn about their state songs and state flowers on the Internet, but it is harder to check to see if your children's school buses are safe or a local gas station charges too much.

Associated Press

POLITICS

Battle brews over Bush library

Former President George W. Bush is preparing for one final struggle against the odds: raising $300 million for a presidential library at a time when skepticism about his presidency runs high.

Politico

Congress attempts to ban BPA

Leaders from the House of Representatives and the Senate announced legislation to establish a federal ban on bisphenol A in all food and beverage containers.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

ENVIRONMENT

EPA to require greenhouse gas reporting by large emitters

The first mandatory national system for reporting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by major sources in the United States has been proposed by the EPA.

Environment News Service

Al Gore optimistic about climate deal

Al Gore, the former U.S. vice president, delivered an upbeat assessment of the global response to climate change, saying he believes a "political tipping point" has been reached.

Guardian

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Facebook Connect goes mobile, arrives on the iPhone

Facebook Connect, the company's technology for sharing data between Facebook and external applications, can now be integrated into the iPhone.

Wired

Brain scans can read memories

Researchers observing brain activity related to "spatial memory" discovered that humans create memories of locations in physical or virtual space as they move around.

FOX News

HEALTH

Dental credit cards drill a hole in wallets

Across the country, dental credit cards are becoming more popular for those who don't have insurance or money to pay for a procedure. But critics warn the cards cause more problems than they solve.

NPR

FDA hazy on e-cigarettes' safety

At first glance, it looks like the real thing. But this is not a typical cigarette — it's an "e-cig," an electronic cigarette.

CNN

EDUCATION

Reading, math software found to have little effect on scores

A controversial federal study testing the effectiveness of reading and math software programs has found few learning differences between students who used the technology and those taught using other methods.

Education Week

Duncan expects higher teaching standards for nation's schools

The nation's top educator wants to work with a handful of states that are "willing to push the envelope" in improving education, spurring what he calls a "race to the top."

Detroit Free Press

Obama's education policy

CBS News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Shiwani Srivastava):

Nobody's model minority

The Root

Column (Fred Barnes):

Young president in a hurry

Weekly Standard

Column (Ronald Brownstein):

The indulgence of absolutism

National Journal

Column (Michael Barone):

Criticism shows Obama is losing focus

Real Clear Politics

Column:

When men lose their jobs

Slate

Blog:

Can Obama take credit for a good week?

Salon.com

Editorial:

When jobs disappear

Economist

Blog:

On Jim Cramer

The New Republic

Editorial:

Obama's plan to fix schools

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column:

How to leave Afghanistan

International Herald Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Girl, 7, recovering after removal of tumor, organs

Hours after the extraordinary surgery that saved her life, 7-year-old Heather McNamara had only one question: "Is the cancer gone?"

Newsday

Baby hippo unlikely to be fed to big cats, say Swiss zoo officials

The lions at the Basel Zoo in Switzerland may be licking their chops, but they probably won't get to sink their teeth into baby hippopotamus flesh, zoo officials said.

CBC

WORLD

Dalai Lama isn’t seeking 'separate' Tibet, exile leader says

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, "is not seeking separation" and hopes China will demonstrate sincerity in dealing with the region, the India-based government-in-exile said.

Bloomberg

Special section:

The heights traveled to subdue Tibet

International Herald Tribune

2 arrests for N. Ireland police murder

A man and a woman have been arrested for the murder of Northern Ireland policeman Stephen Carroll.

BBC

In the gunmen's shadow again

Times Online

BUSINESS

Treasury demands AIG cut bonuses as $165 million payment looms

After AIG, which received $170 billion taxpayer bailout, was ordered by the Treasury to scale back its bonuses, it still plans to distribute about $165 million to its CEOs for their performance in 2008.

Bloomberg

Vital signs: The Fed waits for results

It’s Fed week. The Federal Reserve’s policy committee sits down for a two-day meeting to evaluate recent actions and plot future moves.

BusinessWeek

Will the jobs ever return?

CBS News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Social networks 'are new e-mail'

Status updates on sites such as Facebook, Yammer, Twitter and Friendfeed are a new form of communication, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard.

BBC

CNBC: sticking up for the big guy?

To watch CNBC is to enter an alternative universe, where élites are populists, Wall Street is Main Street and bank executives are the oppressed.

TIME

Media critics pile on Cramer, CNBC

Politico

SPORTS

Picking No. 1 seeds isn't so easy now

If Louisville beats Villanova, T-Will & Co will all but be assured of that No. 1 seed. But in the meantime, two large questions loom over the No. 1 seeding process.

Sports Illustrated

Did Olympics really improve human rights in China?

One political issue overshadowed the rest when International Olympic Committee members voted in 2001 to award the Summer Games to Beijing: human rights.

Sporting News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

MIT to launch Dalai Lama spiritual center

A new think tank at MIT will soon bring Buddhist sensibilities to bear on a quest to explore "the ethical and humane dimensions of life."

Beliefnet

Jury forming in priest molestation trial

Jury selection began in the Fresno County Superior Court civil trial of two brothers who have accused a Catholic priest of molesting them when they were children.

Fresno Bee

Catholic abuse claims increase

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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