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Palestinian girls participate in a protest calling for an end to the internal fighting between Hamas and Fatah in Gaza City. At least 30 people have been killed in the fighting since last week. (Photo by Hatem Moussa / AP)

Hamas, Fatah battle despite cease-fire

Palestinian infighting raged in the Gaza Strip despite a cease-fire declaration by warring Hamas and Fatah factions aimed at ending factional clashes.

Guardian

At least 4 killed in latest Gaza fighting

International Herald Tribune

Bush warns Iran about aggression in Iraq

Asserting the right of the U.S. military inside Iraq to defend itself against threats from Tehran, President Bush vowed that Iranian aggression inside Iraq would be met with American force.

Chicago Tribune

Serial molester gets life in prison

A man prosecutors say is one of the nation's most prolific child molesters was sentenced to 152 years in prison for abusing two 12-year-old boys.

Forbes

Iraqi officials: Cult leader and 200 others killed

Reuters

The true cost of war

Newsweek

Experts: Big climate changes in store

Scientists from across the world gathered to hammer out the final details of an authoritative report on climate change that is expected to project centuries of rising temperatures and sea levels.

International Herald Tribune

Sudan loses Africa chair over Darfur

Sudan lost the leadership of the African Union for a second time because of widespread outrage over continuing bloodshed in Darfur.

News.com.au

Darfur dominating Africa summit

BBC

Fleischer contradicts Libby's timeline in CIA leak case

CNN

NATION

Venezuela’s Chavez about to get blank check

Hugo Chavez has just about everything a president could want: popular support, a marginalized opposition, congress firmly on his side and a booming economy.

MSNBC

U.S. and Iran fighting proxy war in Iraq

Outright war between the United States and Iran remains only a remote possibility, but the two countries already are fighting a proxy war inside Iraq, reports CBS News.

CBS News

Australia to recycle sewage for drinking water

An Australian state plans to introduce recycled sewage to its drinking water as a record drought threatens water supplies around the nation, a state leader said.

ABC News

POLITICS

Senator targets surplus sales to Iran

A Democratic senator wants to cut off all Pentagon sales of surplus F-14 parts, saying the military's marketing of the spares "defies common sense" in light of their importance to Iran.

Yahoo! News

Omnibus bill freezes spending levels

Pell grants for lower-income college students and efforts to combat AIDS overseas would get more money under a catchall spending bill heading to the House floor this week.

Kansas City Star

Snow: 'No slight intended by Bush gaffe'

Spokesman Tony Snow said President Bush had no intention of slighting the party now running Congress by referring to it as the "Democrat majority."

AOL News

SPORTS

Bonds signs one-year, $15.8 million deal with Giants

Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants completed a $15.8 million, one-year contract after the slugger spent hours at the ballpark being examined by team doctors.

KARE11

Sampras rejoins tennis on over-30 tour

Pete Sampras will play tournament tennis for the first time since 2002, competing on a tour for players over 30, the Associated Press has learned.

Sports Illustrated

HEALTH

Neurological disorders strike millions

Neurological disorders have struck millions of people, young and old alike, in the United States, new estimates show.

HealthDay

Study shows TV drug ads too emotional

Television commercials for prescription drugs play on viewers' emotions, often lack solid information, and downplay the role of a healthy lifestyle, according to a new study.

WebMD

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

'Hobbit'-like skeleton is a new species

New scientific evidence supports the theory that an 18,000-year old Hobbit-like skeleton unearthed in Indonesia is a new species closely related to Homo sapiens

News.com.au

Hubble's main camera shuts down

The Hubble Space Telescope's main camera is once more having trouble with its primary camera, NASA officials said.

Space.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Everyone should be free of HPV

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

Deported, tortured, cleared

USA Today

Column:

We have nothing to fear from diplomacy

Indianapolis Star

Column:

Tough choices in Mideast

New York Post

Column:

The new politics of global warming

Real Clear Politics

Column (Robert Jamieson):

Student keeps Katrina in the picture

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Editorial:

The red glare of too many rockets

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Crooked politicians should pay

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

China gets too strict on adoptions

Detroit Free Press

Column (Adam Cohen):

Congress, the Constitution and war

International Herald Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

More Americans plan to donate portion of tax refund to charity

More than 34 million Americans say they will give a portion of their tax refund to charity this year, an increase of almost nine million people over 2006, according to a new survey.

Earthtimes.org

Hero rewarded with trip to Super Bowl

A handyman hero is getting the reward of a lifetime for coming to the aid of an elderly man on a South Boston street.

CBS4

NATION

Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro euthanized

Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, who shattered his right hind ankle as an undefeated 3-year-old in pursuit of horse racing's Triple Crown, lost "his biggest race'' and was euthanized.

Bloomberg

NRC: Military should protect nuke plants

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that nuclear power plant operators should not be expected to stop terrorists from crashing an airliner into a reactor, saying that responsibility lies elsewhere.

CBS News

Many in coastal Louisiana want out

More than 16 months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita forced an unprecedented exodus from the Louisiana Gulf Coast, tens of thousands of homeowners have decided not to rebuild.

MSNBC

BUSINESS

AP: NYSE, Tokyo Exchange to announce alliance

The New York Stock Exchange and Tokyo Stock Exchange are expected to announce an alliance leading to the creation of the first financial market with operations in North America, Europe and Asia.

MarketWatch

British Airways, union reach agreement

British Airways PLC and a union representing its cabin crew reached a last-minute agreement to avert a 24-hour strike scheduled to begin at midnight.

MSN Money

ENVIRONMENT

Miss Oklahoma wins Miss America

A 20-year-old aspiring Broadway performer from Oklahoma was crowned Miss America in Las Vegas.

KESQ

Brandy may be charged in fatal car crash

The California Highway Patrol recommended that actress-singer Brandy be charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in a freeway crash that killed a motorist last month.

Billboard

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Melting of glaciers 'speeds up'

Mountain glaciers are shrinking three times faster than they were in the 1980s, scientists have announced.

BBC

Environmentalists offer bounty for whale hunters

Environmentalists bent on confronting Japanese whalers near Antarctica have offered a financial reward for information on where the hunters are.

Times

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

Federal employees get religion training

The departments of Justice and Homeland Security have begun training employees to better understand and protect the civil liberties of American Muslims, Sikhs and other religious groups.

Beliefnet

Sen. Brownback reintroduces public expressions of religion act

Sen. Sam Brownback reintroduced the Public Expressions of Religion Act, which would prevent groups from recovering attorney's fees in cases related to public displays of religion and faith.

Standard Newswire

EDUCATION

State would sue if NCLB funds withheld

A House committee bill directs Virginia to sue the federal government if the state withdraws its public schools from the No Child Left Behind Act.

WDBJ

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