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A man covers bodies of people killed by unknown gunmen, after they arrived at a Kirkuk, Iraq, hospital morgue. They were killed while riding on a mini bus in the town of al-Riyadh, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Kirkuk while coming back from a construction site where they worked. (Photo by Yahya Ahmed / AP)

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Blast hits Iraq hospital, violence spreads

Car bombs and gunfire killed more than two dozen civilians and wounded more than 60 in attacks throughout Iraq, officials said.

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U.S. death toll in March twice that of Iraq forces

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MSNBC

Global warming could bring hunger, melt Himalayas

Global warming could cause more hunger in Africa and melt most Himalayan glaciers by the 2030s, according to a draft U.N. report due next Friday which also warns that the poorest nations are likely to suffer most.

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Reuters

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UK in direct communication with Iran on sailors

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Reuters

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What law did Tehran break?

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Iran sends mixed signals on captured Britons

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International Herald Tribune

Scores dead in battle-ravaged Somali capital

Somalia's battle-ravaged capital, Mogadishu, suffered a third successive day of fighting. Scores of civilians were killed, hundreds were injured, and thousands fled.

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London Independent

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Battles ravage Somalia

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CNN

Tainted pet food a bigger risk to cats than dogs

A greater sensitivity of cats to a chemical found in plastics and pesticides could explain why they’ve died in larger numbers than have dogs after eating contaminated pet food, experts said.

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NATION

South Korea and U.S. try to save extended trade talks

The United States and South Korea struggled to save a proposed free trade agreement in extended high-level talks, after failing to conclude the deal by an original U.S.-imposed deadline.

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International Herald Tribune

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N. Korea raps U.S., S. Korea over spy flights

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Pakistan jihad schools thriving

The International Crisis Group has condemned President Pervez Musharraf's failure to curb Pakistan's extremist Islamic schools.

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POLITICS

Many U.S. attorney posts go to insiders

About one-third of the nearly four dozen U.S. attorney's jobs that have changed hands since President Bush began his second term have been filled by administration insiders.

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President Bush stands by Gonzales - again

President Bush expressed his support for Alberto Gonzales for the second time in as many days, insisting there is no evidence that he broke any law.

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ABC News

Style on the stump

In presidential politics, the goal is to get voters to focus on a candidate's record. But this year, style has been front and center—and has sometimes seemed like a curse.

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Wall Street Journal

BUSINESS

U.S. prices rise for third consecutive month

U.S. prices continued to rise last month at a fast pace, according to fresh government figures that underlined the Federal Reserve’s concerns about inflation.

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Financial Times

Lawsuits filed in Miami in Brazil crash

A group of lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages were filed in federal court on behalf of family members of some of the 154 people killed in Brazil‘s worst air disaster.

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Jordan Falls News

SPORTS

Gators pack bite in semifinal victory over UCLA

Florida's 76-66 romp against UCLA in the Final Four semifinal wasn't as mathematically overpowering as last year's 73-57 win over the Bruins for the national title, yet was every bit as lopsided.

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USA Today

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Florida runs over UCLA

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Yahoo! News

Phelps grabs sixth gold medal at World Championships

Michael Phelps continued his incredible run in Australia, winning the 100-meter butterfly final to capture his sixth gold medal at the 2007 World Championships.

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Another world record for Phelps

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ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Rubbish is a ticking timebomb in the sky

The passengers on the LAN Chile flight from Santiago to Auckland last week should know just how close they came to calamity when mysterious burning objects roared past during their journey.

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New Zealand Herald

Congressional subcommittee criticizes Google pre-Katrina images

Google's replacement of post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its map portal with images of the region before the storm does a "great injustice" to victims, a congressional subcommittee said.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Is Google too powerful?

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BusinessWeek

EDUCATION

Teachers' sex charges bring cries of racism

The arrest of two women teachers on charges of having sex with their male students has brought cries of lingering racism in one of South Carolina's most conservative counties.

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AOL News

Contractor evaluating own reading program

The government contractor that set up the billion-dollar-a-year federal reading program for the Education Department is also part of the team hired to evaluate it.

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CNN

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GOOD NEWS

MacArthur Foundation announces 2007 creative and effective nonprofits

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced that eight organizations in six countries will receive the second annual MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.

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PNN

U.N. pact on disabled rights signed

In what the U.N. human rights chief called an unprecedented show of support, 80 countries signed a U.N. convention enshrining the rights of the world's 650 million disabled.

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ABC News

NATION

Was Amelia Earhart a doomed castaway?

It's the coldest of cold cases, and yet 70 years after Amelia Earhart disappeared, clues are still turning up.

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CNN

Girl in prison for shove released

After spending a year behind bars, Shaquanda Cotton walked out of a Texas youth prison pretty much like many 15-year-olds would: eager for a hug from her mom and pining for a Big Mac.

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Chicago Tribune

No love lost on ferrets, poll finds

Almost everyone in California knows what a ferret is. And most think the creatures should remain illegal, according to a poll that has ferret lovers frowning - and some at each other's necks - across the state.

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San Jose Mercury News

ENVIRONMENT

U.S. agency, Indian industry to fight climate change together

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided to collaborate and share information with India's leading industry body for its upcoming global session on climate change.

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Earth Times

Ethanol-blend auto emissions no greener than gasoline: study

An unpublished Canadian federal report appears to undermine the belief that commercially available ethanol-blended fuel produces cleaner emissions than regular gasoline.

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CBC News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

At 96, author debuts with acclaimed memoir

Into his 90s, decimated by the loss of his beloved wife and alone at night with the memories of a rough and sad childhood, Harry Bernstein decided to write.

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CBS News

South Korea vies for Hollywood business

The Seoul Korea government is stepping into the major film making league by issuing incentives to attract foreign film shoots to the South Korean capital.

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Monsters and Critics

HEALTH

Is race a factor in heart health?

New findings emerging from a study of race and cardiovascular disease promise to shed light on why African-Americans are at greater risk of heart failure than other groups.

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Groundbreaking Canadian asthma study

A new report published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that patients treated with bronchial thermoplasty demonstrated an overall improvement in asthma control.

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Medical News Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Diocese names 38 accused priests

In its most extensive accounting of priests accused of sexually molesting minors, the Catholic Diocese of San Diego released the names yesterday of 38 priests with “credible allegations” against them.

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San Diego Union-Tribune

Nun says dead pope cured her Parkinson's

Smiling broadly, a French nun said she had been inexplicably and suddenly "cured" of Parkinson's disease - a case that could prompt the Catholic Church to beatify pope John Paul II.

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NEWS.com.au

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French nun: I am cured

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CNN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Algae may fuel our future

U.S. biochemistry scientists at Utah State University are using an innovative approach that takes oil from algae and converts it to biodiesel fuel.

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Monsters and Critics

Photo of the Day

An Afghan man on a horse carriage is seen through a side mirror of a vehicle in Herat province, south west of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Fraidoon Pooyaa / AP)

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