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South African fans celebrate during the soccer World Cup match between South Africa and Mexico in Soweto, outside Johannesburg. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa / AP)

World Cup: South Africa set for historic event

South Africa is preparing for the start of the biggest football tournament on earth, the World Cup, which gets under way in Johannesburg.

BBC

Top 10 players to watch in the World Cup

Christian Science Monitor

Abby Sunderland found alive

A 16-year-old Southern California girl who was feared lost at sea while sailing solo around the world has been found alive and well, adrift in the Indian Ocean with rescue boats headed toward her, officials said.

Detroit Free Press

Teen sailor found alive in Indian Ocean

YouTube

House-Senate committee meets to reconcile financial reform bill

The final act in finance regulation reform got off to a prickly start as Democrats tacked new provisions onto the bill before the first meeting of a House-Senate conference committee.

Washington Post

Circuit breakers: 1st step in slowing stocks?

BusinessWeek

Numbers grow more grim in Gulf oil disaster estimates

The numbers on every front of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster keep their steady march upward to staggering proportions.

CNN

Discussion:

Map: oil cleanup concentration sites

Los Angeles Times

Gulf of Mexico spill

Baltimore Sun

Pope on abuse: begs for forgiveness, promises action

Pope Benedict XVI begged forgiveness from abuse victims and promised to "do everything possible" to ensure that clerics never rape or molest children again.

Houston Chronicle

NATION

Detainee is wrongly held, judge says

A federal judge has put Yemeni citizen Mohammed Mohammed Hassan Odaini on the path to freedom after eight years of incarceration at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Census suggests 'majority minority'

The census shows that Whites are on the verge of becoming a minority among newborn children in the U.S., marking a demographic shift that is already reshaping the nation's politics and economy.

Wall Street Journal

Special section:

Census in America

CNN

Holder on border shooting

YouTube

POLITICS

Rep. Clyburn alleges Senate nominee Alvin Greene was a 'plant'

U.S. Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn said the winner of his party’s South Carolina U.S. Senate primary is “someone’s plant” and called on authorities to investigate.

Greeneville News

Alvin Greene interview

live5news.com

Resolution on greenhouse gases fails, could boost energy bill

Democrats and environmentalists took satisfaction in the defeat in the U.S. Senate of a resolution that would have stripped the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases.

Christian Science Monitor

HEALTH

Bringing comparison shopping to the doctor’s office

Americans comparison-shop for items as small as groceries and as big as cars. But how do you compare prices on health care?

New York Times

More workers alleging bias against caregivers

NPR

Birth control pill for men still a ways off

For half a century, women have had access to birth control pills. Men? Still waiting. To date, no one has come up with an equivalent product for men.

USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Dvorkovich, chess robot go 1-1

Playing alongside an international grandmaster and a 7-year-old prodigy, the smart money would not have been on Arkady Dvorkovich to score the only victory against Russia's chess robot.

Moscow Times

4th 'Twilight' film to be split in 2

Why make one "Twilight" film when you can charge moviegoers to see two of them? The fourth movie in the vampire franchise will be split in two, distributor Summit Entertainment confirmed.

ABC News

EDUCATION

Graduation rate falls across the US

The national graduation rate was 68.8 percent in 2007, according to a new study. But the report also identifies 21 big-city ''overachievers'' that posted higher-than-expected graduation rates.

Christian Science Monitor

Pressured teachers tamper with scores

Investigations in Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Virginia and elsewhere this year have pointed to cheating by educators.

New York Times

SPORTS

Celtics claw back vs. Lakers in game 4

The finals are tied at 2-2 after Boston's 96-89 win against the defending champion Lakers, ensuring a return to Los Angeles.

USA TODAY

USC is handed harsh penalties

Citing major violations by the University of Southern California’s football and men’s basketball programs, the NCAA barred the Trojans football program from bowl games in the 2010 and 2011 seasons.

New York Times

Coach's comments

ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

More than $4 million donated in response to Gulf Coast oil spill

In the wake of the drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, donors have contributed more than $4 million to support relief efforts.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Fewer people have myocardial infarctions, more survive

Fewer people appear to be having heart attacks in recent years, and the number of patients who do seem to be surviving them has increased, researchers have found.

MedPage Today

WORLD

Bloody Sunday inquiry 'to rule killings unlawful' after 38 years

The long-awaited official inquiry into the deaths of 13 protesters shot dead by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday will conclude that several of them were unlawfully killed.

Telegraph.co.uk

Special section:

Bloody Sunday

Guardian

Euro at 1-week high as concern over debt crisis eases

The euro traded near a one-week high against the dollar and the yen as concern waned that Europe’s debt crisis will derail global growth.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Retail sales drop 1.2 percent in May

A big drop in May retail sales has raised new concerns about the durability of the economic recovery.

Kansas City Star

Upper-income spending surges 33 percent

Gallup

China policy outlook murky

Chinese inflation quickened to a 19-month high in May, but a moderation of growth in factory output and capital spending eased worries for some analysts that the world's third-largest economy could boil over.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Study: Comets may be 'aliens'

Turning the Oort cloud theory on its head, a team of astronomers says not all comets originated from within our solar system. If true, more clues could be gleaned about distant stars.

Los Angeles Times

World's oldest leather shoe found in a cave in Armenia

A perfectly preserved shoe, 1,000 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and 400 years older than Stonehenge in the U.K., has been found in a cave in Armenia.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Review: Broadway play explores evangelical faith, gay life

A new Broadway play that has been nominated for a couple of Tony awards features a character that might seem rarer than a unicorn: a gay evangelical.

Religion News Service

Priesthood recruiting difficult in France

The Roman Catholic Church in Europe is struggling with a shortage of priests. In France, the number of priests has been in steady decline since the 1960s.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

GMO potato has some Swedes frowning

Reflecting European resistance to genetically modified crops, some in Sweden remain divided on the Amflora potato, which is being grown for its starch, not for food.

New York Times

Plastic's future may not be in the bag

Plastic bags may have become victims of their own success. Their very ubiquity has led to a small but growing number of jurisdictions discouraging their use through fees or outright bans.

NPR

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