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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right, is welcomed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Rice called a Russian general's warning that Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted if they host American missile defense bases "extremely unfortunate." (Photo by Herbert Knosowski/AP Photo)

Suicide car bomber kills at least 8 in Najaf

A suicide car bomber struck a police checkpoint near a market in the Shia holy city of Najaf, killing at least eight people and wounding 43.

CBC

Merck suspends lobbying for cervical cancer vaccine

Bowing to pressure from medical groups, politicians and parents, Merck that it is immediately suspending its controversial campaign, which it had funded through a third party.

ABC News

Gas price jumps more than 5 cents to $2.30 a gallon

The average price of gasoline bounced up 5.5 cents in the past week, to $2.296 a gallon, marking the third consecutive week of price increases.

USA Today

State by state gas prices

AAA

Blair announces Iraq troops cut

Prime Minister Tony Blair has confirmed that 1,600 British troops will return from Iraq within the next few months.

BBC

Former admiral says all American forces should pull out by year's end

McClatchy

Assessing Blair's Iraq troop plan

BBC News

Iraq copter attacks may indicate new militant strategy

Washington Post

U.S. helicopter shot down near Baghdad

San Francisco Chronicle

Survey shows anti-American feelings have soared among Muslims

The War on Terror has radicalized Muslims around the world to unprecedented levels of anti-American feeling, according to the largest survey of Muslims ever to be conducted.

Times

U.N. investigator says Philippines military responsible for killings

Extra-judicial killings in the Philippines are distressingly high and the military appeared to be responsible for a number of them, a U.N. investigator said.

CNN

NATION

Italian prime minister resigns

Italy's president accepted Prime Minister Romano Prodi's resignation following the government's defeat in a Senate vote on foreign policy.

CNN

U.N. authorizes African Union force in Somalia

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to authorize an African Union force to help stabilize Somalia, setting the stage for U.N. peacekeepers to take over job of bringing peace to the nation.

Forbes

Police: 2 suspects jumped from India train before explosion

Indian police released sketches of two suspects in the firebombing of a train to Pakistan, as details emerged of how the two men jumped from the train before the bombs went off.

Independent

POLITICS

Cheney says British troop withdrawal is positive sign

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's announcement that British troops will begin withdrawing from Iraq would appear to be bad news for the Bush administration.

ABC News

Cheney Says British Troop Withdrawal Is Positive Sign

ABC News

Jury deliberating in Libby perjury case

A U.S. jury began deliberating in the perjury case of former vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Reuters

Clinton seeks aid for minority students

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton criticized President Bush's education policy as doing little to help minorities and said she wants to raise minority student test scores.

Yahoo! News

SPORTS

Confident Bonds takes the field

San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds, in a cheerful and vivacious mood, made sure nothing would spoil the vigor of his annual spring training commencement address.

USA Today

Morrison approved for return to ring

Former World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion Tommy Morrison said he is staging a comeback after an inaccurate HIV test ended his career more than a decade ago.

Sports Illustrated

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New X-ray videos show animal skeletons in motion

Scientists are filming alligators as they trot along treadmills and pigeons on the fly in wind tunnels, using a new 3-D video technique peeks beneath the skin to show skeletons on the move.

LiveScience

Studios, FBI teach Swedish cops to hunt file sharers

The FBI and the Motion Picture Association of America have been training officers at the Swedish National Police Academy in copyright and piracy matters.

PC World

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Study: Yellowstone air quality improving

The air quality at two of the most popular winter spots in Yellowstone National Park continues to improve, a new study finds.

Environmental News Network

Environmental groups attack World Bank for endorsing plantation plan

Environmental groups said a new World Bank report on Indonesia's forests is an endorsement of a government plan to create vast timber plantations that would damage local ecosystems and livelihoods.

PlanetSave.com

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GOOD NEWS

Record-breaking giving

More than 20 Americans contributed at least $100-million to charity last year, a survey finds.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Blind can see again thanks to bionic eye

People who have been blind for most of their lives have been able to see everyday objects with the help of a "bionic" eye that may one day restore sight to patients with degenerative eye diseases.

New Zealand Herald

NATION

Judges bar habeas corpus for detainees

In a victory for the White House, a U.S. appeals court threw out the legal claims brought on behalf of the hundreds of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.

San Francisco Chronicle

Judge rules California inmate transfers are illegal

Already in crisis, California's troubled prison system was dealt a potentially crippling setback when a judge ruled the state cannot solve its severe overcrowding by transferring inmates.

San Jose Mercury News

Class action suit filed over peanut butter illnesses

Seattle lawyer William Marler has filed a class action lawsuit seeking to represent people who became sick after eating peanut butter contaminated with salmonella.

Seattle Post Intelligencer

BUSINESS

Warner bid could spark EMI auction

Warner Music has tabled a fresh takeover approach for troubled EMI in a move which could spark a £2 billion bidding war for the British music giant.

Scotsman

US Airways CEO sentenced to jail

The CEO of US Airways will spend one day in jail for his drunken driving arrest shortly after his airline's $9.8 billion bid for Delta Air Lines was rejected.

CNBC

HEALTH

Feeding your brain: new benefits found in chocolate

As if people needed another excuse to like chocolate, new studies suggest a specially formulated type of cocoa may boost brain function and delay decline as people age, researchers said.

Reuters

Study: Yearning most common after loved one's death

The most common reaction to the death of a loved one from natural causes is not depression as has been thought but rather yearning or pining, a study said.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Mother says Smith wanted to be buried near Marilyn Monroe

Anna Nicole Smith's estranged mother tearfully acknowledged that her daughter last told her she wanted to be buried in California near her idol Marilyn Monroe.

Houston Chronicle

Britney Spears flees hours after entering Malibu rehab

Britney Spears left a live-in drug rehabilitation facility, just hours after checking in, according to reports.

San Francisco Chronicle

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

Millions of Christians celebrate Ash Wednesday

Roman Catholics and many Protestants celebrated Ash Wednesday in the U.S. and worldwide, a day when Christians begin the season of Lent, leading up to Easter.

CBS2Chicago

Pope an Anglican? Church unity plan

A radical proposal to reunite Anglicans with the Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope has been delivered by bishops from both churches.

Sydney Morning Herald

University provides low-calorie cafe to students

These days Mean Green means more than the green-jerseyed football team at the University of North Texas.

CNN

School apologizes for questionable homework assignment

An Auckland high school is apologizing after students were given an assignment in which they had to describe themselves as a murderer and detail how they would kill their victim and dispose of the body.

New Zealand Herald

Photo of the Day

Visitors observe a turtle inside a sea life aquarium in Hanover. The aquarium with the first tropical water pool in Germany will open on Saturday. (Photo by Kai-Uwe Knoth / AP)

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