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Hubble marks 20 years in space

From black holes to primordial galaxies, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided out-of-this-world images of space where no human has ever gone.

CNN

Don't talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking

Times Online

The Hubble Telescope's greatest hits

TIME

Mall of America makes changes aimed at luxury buyers

The Mall of America is getting a $5 million facelift in an audacious bet that luxury shopping is on its way back.

Star Tribune

Al-Qaida confirms deaths of top 2 figures

An al-Qaida front group in Iraq has confirmed the killing of its two top leaders but vowed in a statement that its members would continue to fight.

TIME

Special section:

Al-Qaida

NY Daily News

World Bank gets $3.5B in new capital

Countries pledged $3.5 billion in new capital for the World Bank in a shift that reflects the growing clout of emerging market nations in guiding the global economy.

Globeandmail.com

Gut more important than intellect

Science writer Jonah Lehrer sees every one of life's choices, from what to eat to choosing a mate, as a battle between our gut feelings and our reasoned thoughts.

CBS News

NATION

Miss. tornado kills 10

Rescuers combed neighborhoods in Mississippi, ferrying the injured on all-terrain vehicles where roads were impassable after a tornado sliced through the state and killed at least 10 people.

Chicago Sun-Times

In pictures: Miss. tornado

BBC

Tornado kills at least 10 in Miss.

NECN

Guantanamo court to review Canadian's torture claim

The first Guantanamo tribunal of the Obama era will examine whether U.S. forces tortured a confession from a Canadian accused of murdering an American soldier in Afghanistan.

Reuters

Calif. cyclists split on texting ban

California is one of 23 states that have made it illegal to text while driving. Now a state lawmaker wants to take it one step further and ban texting while riding bicycles.

NPR

POLITICS

Supreme Court case: Do gay rights foes have right to privacy?

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a Washington state case in which religious conservatives fear retaliation from gay rights groups.

McClatchy Newspapers

Graham pulls support for climate bill

Senator Lindsey Graham has issued a protest over what he says are Democratic plans to give priority to a debate on immigration policy rather than the Senate's comprehensive energy and climate bill.

New York Times

Obama speaks for miners after W.Va. mining disaster

Coal has helped divide President Barack Obama from the people of this heavily Democratic state. For one day, however, it will bring the president and West Virginians together, at least briefly.

MSNBC

Wall Street still bullish on Massey despite recent mine blast

NPR

HEALTH

Overall flu deaths down during H1N1 pandemic in US

Although experts are not sure to what degree, seasonal flu cases and deaths dropped in Maryland and nationwide, during the height of the novel H1N1 pandemic.

Baltimore Sun

Redefining longevity

Garnett Beckman says she'd prefer to just be known as a little old lady who walks. Telling her age proved to be an impediment when she wanted to hike the Grand Canyon at age 75 — no one would take her.

ABC News

Shy bladder sufferers work to overcome their anxiety

The International Paruresis Association claims that the fear of peeing in a public restroom affects an estimated 17 million Americans.

Detroit Free Press

SPORTS

Mauer power: AL MVP gets 5 hits as Twins rally past Royals in 12

Joe Mauer matched a career high with five hits, Denard Span singled home the go-ahead run in the 12th inning and Jon Rauch finally closed out the Twins' 9-7 victory over the Kansas City Royals.

USA TODAY

Twins' disputed final out

MLB.com

Sharks close out 5-2 win over Avs

Joe Pavelski scored two goals to lift the San Jose Sharks to a series-clinching 5-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche.

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

'Last and best shot' at climate change bill hangs by a thread

President Barack Obama's hopes for winning climate change legislation in this Congress appeared to be hanging by a thread.

The Hill

Could cleaner air actually intensify effects of global warming?

The Environmental Protection Agency reported that air pollution has declined hugely over the last 20 years. It sounds like good news, but science writer Eli Kintisch argues that there's a surprising downside.

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope will make historic apology for abuse

Pope Benedict XVI is planning to make the first general apology for the abuse of children and minors by Roman Catholic priests at the climax of the International Year for Priests, Vatican sources say.

The Independent

Tennesseans to flout federal court's ruling on National Day of Prayer

Despite a Wisconsin federal judge's ruling that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional, all scheduled events will go on in Murfreesboro and Smyrna, Tennessee, this year.

The Tennessean

National Day of Prayer legal?

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Army of volunteers spruces up neighborhoods, schools

About 55 volunteers spent the morning picking up garbage in the Ville neighborhood in St. Louis as part of St. Louis Serves Day.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Denver Health opens fun center catering to ill kids

A 3,300-square-foot, state-of-the-art therapeutic and education play area was unveiled at Denver Health Medical Center, designed to be a place where sick children can simply be kids.

Denver Post

Students hope they're making secret donors proud

More than 1,500 graduates of Kalamazoo Public Schools in Michigan have shared in $17 million from a program called the Promise, which covers or defrays tuition for students in the district.

Detroit Free Press

WORLD

UN effort to end malaria deaths

Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, has called for the elimination of malaria deaths by the end of 2010, as he marks the first World Malaria Day.

Al Jazeera

Malaria vaccine trials for Kenya

YouTube

Iran test-fires 5 missiles in Gulf war games

Iran's Revolutionary Guards test-fired five missiles during war games in a waterway crucial for global oil supplies, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.

Reuters

US confident it could intercept an Iranian missile

Google News

Bombings raise specter of Shiite militia

Muqtada al-Sadr has said he might be considering reactivating his once-powerful militia known as the Mahdi Army, a move that would play into al-Qaida in Iraq's efforts to spark sectarian war.

Detroit News

BUSINESS

Wall Street Journal revs up old rivalry with NY Times

Rupert Murdoch is racheting up the challenge his Wall Street Journal poses to The New York Times. The Journal will be launching a metro section that will vie for readers and advertisers on the Times' turf.

Kansas City Star

Ratings agencies' Nixon moment

Former president Richard Nixon said he wasn't a crook, but it didn't prevent his downfall. Now it is the turn of the rating agencies to have, in their own words, a Nixon moment.

Financial Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Nanodevice powered by motion

By cramming 20,000 nanowires into three square centimeters, scientists from Georgia Tech have created the world's first device powered solely by motion.

ABC News

6,600 get in line for Nissan Leaf

More than 6,600 people had reserved a Nissan Leaf just a few days after the automaker started taking reservations for the all-electric vehicle.

Detroit Free Press

EDUCATION

Budget woes hit schools hard

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has warned Congress of a "catastrophe unfolding across this country" in the form of stripped-down state budgets that imperil 100,000 to 300,000 education jobs.

Philadelphia Inquirer

College grads face tough job market

Graduation time is rolling around, and college students is preparing to enter an unwelcoming job market.

Denver Post

Training programs teach new skills, but getting jobs still iffy

Hartford Courant

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Study: Bullies home in on gays

A groundbreaking new Harvard study has found that gay people are far more likely to be tormented as youngsters, often leading to years of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Boston Herald

Photographer connects with black 'Homeplace' in Ky.

There's a photo tacked over the stove in Sarah Hoskins' home. It's of her and a man named Ernest Talbert, a hog butcher and a pillar of the tiny communities that used to be called the "Negro Hamlets."

NPR

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