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U.S. President Barack Obama smiles with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the G-20 Summit in London. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP Photo)

Obama, Medvedev hail 'fresh start' in US-Russia relations

President Barack Obama will travel to Moscow in July, part of what he and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, are calling a "fresh start" in strained relations between the nuclear powers.

McClatchy Newspapers

Russia and US pledge to slash nukes

Times Online

Markets find more reasons to rally

Stock markets surged higher as investors from Hong Kong to London to Wall Street were heartened by a litany of economic developments.

International Herald Tribune

On eve of NATO summit, Obama's style poses inherent challenge for Europe

As Barack Obama leaves London and heads to a key NATO gathering, he steps onto the European continent as new, fresh, a 21st century American, someone Europeans understand and admire.

Christian Science Monitor

Anti-NATO online mobilization

YouTube

G-20 pledges $1 trillion

World leaders have announced they are to triple the finances of the International Monetary Fund to help fight the worst economic crisis since the 1930s and will impose new curbs on financial markets.

Al Jazeera

Special section:

Who's who at the G-20

CNN

Protests turn ugly in London

MSNBC

US invests money to keep arms smugglers out of Mexico

New money to monitor U.S. traffic entering Mexico and detect gun smugglers will be spent on scanners for inspecting trucks as well as communication equipment, the U.S. government said.

Reuters

US-Mexico border to get $400 million upgrade

CBS News

Senate committee approves credit card accountability act

The U.S. Senate is planning a vote on the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, a measure designed to end some of the credit card industry’s more abusive practices.

Consumer Affairs

More troops may be needed in Afghanistan

The situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan is "increasingly dire," top defense officials told Congress, and President Barack Obama may have to send another 10,000 troops beyond the 21,500 he's announced.

McClatchy Newspapers

NATION

Senators grill Petraeus on Afghan strategy

Senators grilled Pentagon officials over the new U.S. strategy for countering terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan, pressing them on whether there will be enough troops and how progress would be measured.

Christian Science Monitor

Congress poised to adopt budget

Democrats controlling the House and Senate are on track to give President Barack Obama a key victory by adopting slightly pared-back versions of his $3.6 trillion budget.

Seattle Times

Former Obama nominee turns top critic on budget

Reuters

Feds drop Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' case

Attorney General Eric Holder dropped a corruption case against ex-Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, saying prosecutors blew it by failing to share evidence.

NY Daily News

'Stunning misconduct' in Stevens case

MSNBC

POLITICS

Romney: Don't root for Obama to fail

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said Republicans shouldn’t oppose President Obama as a reflex and should praise him when he succeeds.

The Hill

Reversing Bush policy, US seeks seat on UN Human Rights council

President Obama is taking another step down the road of engaging America's adversaries with the decision to seek a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, a group President Bush shunned.

Christian Science Monitor

HEALTH

Marijuana chemical fights brain cancer

The active chemical in marijuana promotes the death of brain cancer cells by essentially helping them feed upon themselves, researchers in Spain report.

WebMD

Experts doubt breast cancer screening

Experts aiming to promote better-informed decision making in healthcare have questioned the benefits of mammograms, saying that to save one life, nearly 3,000 women have to be tested.

Medical News Today

White wine stains teeth

Skipping the red wine, coffee and tea isn't enough to keep those pearly whites gleaming. White wine can turn teeth dingy, too.

NPR

EDUCATION

Oregon tracks special ed students after high school

During their first year out of high school, more than one in four special education students in Oregon never held a paying job or enrolled even part time in college or job training.

Oregon Live

Schools chief calls for transparency

The nation’s top education leader said he wants “absolute transparency” in the way states and schools spend stimulus money.

Detroit Free Press

Colleges fearing rejection letters

Decision letters being sent out reflect the worries of administrators, who fear admitted applicants may hesitate to commit in this climate of economic uncertainty.

USA Today

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Bill Cosby awarded Mark Twain Prize

Bill Cosby will receive the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The presentation of the award and accompanying festivities will be staged Oct. 26 at the center’s Concert Hall.

Variety

Obamas give Queen Elizabeth an iPod

The diplomatic challenges facing President Obama during his overseas trip this week include this one: What gift to give his host in Britain, the Queen?

Baltimore Sun

Wanda Sykes to host show on Fox

Wanda Sykes will start hosting a late night topical show on Saturdays on Fox starting this fall, the network said.

Hartford Courant

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Sour economy forces change, innovation at seminaries

Seminary educators, under pressure to grow enrollments and cut costs, are racing to find alternatives to the quasi-cloistered academic environments that have trained generations of pastors.

Religion News Service

This Passover, the face of hunger is surging to new heights

Across the country, food banks and kitchens are reporting a surge in demand ranging from 20 percent to 75 percent higher than in previous years, as layoffs and cutbacks force families into poverty.

Forward

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GOOD NEWS

Sears customers donate nearly $7 million to support veteran's housing

Rebuilding Together, an organization to preserve affordable homeownership, announced Sears customers have raised nearly $7 million dollars for the charitable program "Heroes at Home."

PNN

Falling baby caught by good samaritans

Ordinary outings turned into a life-saving occasion when Robert Lemire and Alex Day rescued a falling toddler.

HappyNews.com

US donates rice for cyclone survivors

The United States has donated more than 16,000 tons of rice to help survivors of last year's devastating cyclone in military-ruled Myanmar, officials said.

Reuters

WORLD

Zimbabwe prison called 'death camp'

Images have been released of Zimbabwean prisoners who are said to be starving and dying of disease due to meager supplies and appalling conditions.

Al Jazeera

New Israeli foreign minister disavows US-led peace talks

As foreign diplomats and his predecessor looked on in astonishment, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman began by declaring the death of U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

San Jose Mercury News

Fierce fighting rages in Sri Lanka

There have been intense clashes between Sri Lankan security forces and Tamil Tigers in the country's northeast.

BBC

BUSINESS

FDIC may let banks share profit from distressed loans they sell

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is considering giving banks the chance to share in future profits on loans sold into a U.S. government-financed program to remove distressed assets.

Bloomberg

FDIC chief sees hope in US banking industry

Reuters

More jobless may mean less jostling for office space

Problems in the commercial real estate sector are poised to worsen as the jobless rate soars.

MarketWatch

Mass. securities regulators: fraud at Madoff's biggest feeder fund

Bernard Madoff's biggest feeder fund, Fairfield Greenwich Group, was so blinded by the fees it was making off him that it willfully ignored warnings, according to a lawsuit by Mass. securities regulators.

Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

Arctic summer ice-free in 30 years

Summers in the Arctic may be ice-free in as few as 30 years and not at the end of the century as previously expected, a new study suggests.

LiveScience

US sues BP over Prudhoe Bay oil spill

The federal government and the state of Alaska filed civil lawsuits against BP's subsidiary BP Exploration (Alaska), following pipeline leaks which caused crude oil to spill at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska in 2006.

Telegraph.co.uk

6,000 rare, large river dolphins found

A previously unknown population of Irrawaddy dolphins discovered in Bangladesh has given scientists "great hope" for the survival of the rare species, conservationists said.

National Geographic

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Congo-Kinshasa: Electronics firms urged to boycott 'blood minerals'

The world's mass consumption of cell phones, laptops and other electronics fuels widespread sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

allAfrica.com

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is shrinking

Everything about Jupiter is super-sized, including its colorful, turbulent atmosphere. But there's fresh evidence that one of the planet's most recognizable features, the Great Red Spot, is shrinking.

CNN

Va. Space Grant Consortium gets $1.4 million NASA grant

The Virginia Space Grant Consortium will be awarded a $1.4 million grant for its Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars program.

Virginian-Pilot

SPORTS

Stallworth released on $200K bail

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte' Stallworth is expressing condolences to the family of the pedestrian struck and killed last month while prosecutors say the NFL player was driving drunk.

ESPN

NCAA, colleges pushing the envelope with sports marketing

From the $591 million in TV and marketing revenue generated this season to the masses awaiting the semifinals and championship game, the men's tournament has grown into a mega-event.

USA Today

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