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A British army soldier waves from an armored vehicle while on patrol in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, on the day that Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the first large-scale British troop withdrawal from Iraq. Blair said Britain will withdraw around 1,600 troops from Iraq over the "coming months." (Photo by Nabil al-Jurani / AP)

Second case of rape allegations in Iraq

Four Iraqi soldiers have been accused of raping a 50-year-old Sunni woman and attempting to rape of her two daughters in the second allegation of sexual assault leveled against Iraqi forces this week.

ABC News

Soldier Cries Describing Rape, Slaying

ABC News

U.S. will launch its own probe of Iraq rape case

USA Today

Two Chicago-area men arrested for terror acts conspiracy

Two Chicago-area cousins were arrested on charges out of Cleveland accusing them of conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas.

CBS News

Britain’s Iraq timing awkward for U.S.

As the British announced the beginning of their departure, the White House proclaimed it "basically a good-news story." Yet the decision was doing a good job masquerading as a bad-news story.

Washington Post

Iraq leader welcomes troops' exit

BBC

Prince Harry gets Iraq call up

CNN

Second dirty bomb stokes fears in Iraq

The U.S. military said a second bomb in two days using chlorine gas may have been a copycat attack amid concerns insurgents were broadening their range of weaponry.

Reuters

Cisco, Apple Settle iPhone Lawsuit

Cisco Systems Inc. and Apple Inc. have settled the trademark-infringement lawsuit that threatened to derail Apple's use of the "iPhone" name for its much-hyped new iPod cell phone.

Forbes

NATION

Fire on Indonesian ferry kills six

A fire broke out on an Indonesian ferry carrying 350 passengers, killing at least six people, including two children, the Navy said.

Houston Chronicle

Mugabe celebrates, Zimbabweans seethe

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe turned 83 to the strains of the song "God Bless President Mugabe" on state-controlled radio, and looking forward to a birthday party costing 300 million Zimbabwe dollars.

International Herald Tribune

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

POLITICS

Obama, Clinton rivalry flares over donor

The rival presidential campaigns of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama traded accusations of nasty politics over Hollywood donor David Geffen, who once backed Bill Clinton.

Yahoo! 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

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

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

Prestigious computing award goes to a woman for 1st time

One of the most prestigious prizes in computing, the $100,000 Turing Award, went to a woman for the first time in the award's 40-year history.

Newsday

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

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

'Miracle baby' goes home after extra day in hospital

Parents of one of the world's smallest premature babies got to take her home for the first time since she was delivered last fall.

CNN

Prime Minister, Gates ante millions for AIDS research

Billionaire philanthropist and technology guru Bill Gates and Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a major joint initiative to finance the development of possible AIDS vaccines in Canada.

Canada.com

Pentagon takes 'full responsibility' for Walter Reed's Building 18

Top Pentagon officials took full responsibility for poor living conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a facility that houses injured soldiers who have returned from the war.

ABC News

Victims advocates urge Southern Baptists to root out molesters

Victims advocates who dogged the Roman Catholic Church over sex abuse by its clergy have turned their attention to the Southern Baptists, accusing the denomination of failing to stop molesters.

MSNBC

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

BUSINESS

Whole Foods agrees to buy Wild Oats

Whole Foods Market Inc., the largest U.S. natural-foods grocer, said it agreed to buy rival Wild Oats Markets Inc. for $565 million after reporting its first profit decline in five quarters.

Bloomberg

Medical costs push up consumer prices

U.S. consumer prices rose more than expected in January despite a dip in energy prices, as medical costs jumped — leading financial markets to trim bets of interest rate cuts.

Reuters

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

Marcia Cross' dual delivery

Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross and her husband, Tom Mahoney, welcomed fraternal twin girls named Eden and Savannah in Los Angeles, Cross' publicist confirmed.

E! Online

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

If Anna Nicole Smith case is a circus, judge is ringmaster

CNN

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

Top U.S. Anglican stands fast on gay rights

The head of the U.S. wing of the Anglican church, who supports ordaining gays and allowing blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples, will not soften her views, her aide said.

Globeandmail.com

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

Music companies take crackdown to campuses

College students who faced lawsuits for illegally sharing music over campus computer networks risk being unplugged from the Internet or even suspended over recording industry complaints.

CNN

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

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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