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American soccer fans react as they watch a televised broadcast of a World Cup soccer game between the United States and Ghana at the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden in the Queens borough of New York. Ghana won 2-1. (Photo by Mary Altaffer / AP)

Is 'natural' sunscreen better?

While many natural sunscreens have content that might be expected on food labels, the active ingredients that make them work are titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, the latter of which can temporarily whiten the skin.

Los Angeles Times

Undoing the damage from too much sun

Star Tribune

Blog:

Sunscreen: Are we getting all the facts?

Huffington Post

Lunar eclipse 'magnified' in US

A partial lunar eclipse about to take place will appear magnified in the U.S. by an effect known as the "moon illusion."

BBC

Ghana eliminates US for 2nd straight World Cup

Grim-faced American players filed by one by one on their way out of Royal Bafokeng Stadium. Their World Cup was over. They'll have four long years to dwell on what might have been.

Idaho Statesman

What is coach Bradley's future?

USA TODAY

Storm could spell more bad news for BP

A tropical storm churning in the Caribbean could be the latest bad news for BP crews trying to contain and clean up the massive oil spill in the Gulf.

MSNBC

Could Gulf beach towns become uninhabitable?

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Tracking map

St. Petersburg Times

Nev. focuses on pardon for 1st black boxing champ

One hundred years later, fans of Jack Johnson are still seeking a presidential pardon, saying that his later conviction for transporting a woman across state lines for immoral purposes was steeped in racism.

San Jose Mercury News

NATION

Civil War reenactors to honor bravery of Pennsylvania regiment

Almost 150 years ago, Union and Confederate soldiers fought hand-to-hand. Now there is a historical marker celebrating the desperate charge of a unit of Union soldiers.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Calif. may step on smog pedals

California is headed for another showdown over greenhouse gases. A citizen's ballot initiative could suspend the state's landmark 2006 law mandating a 25 percent reduction in industrial greenhouse gases by 2020.

ABC News

POLITICS

Elena Kagan and the porn wars

Some of Kagan’s proposals, particularly her call for more prosecutions under the largely dormant obscenity laws, are highly controversial among civil libertarians and First Amendment advocates.

Politico

Porn sites could get their own '.xxx' domain

CNNMoney

Cheney to stay in hospital over weekend

Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to remain in hospital over the weekend for tests after falling ill.

BBC

HEALTH

Fat and muscle turned into bone, cartilage

Researchers have been able to regrow bone and cartilage by inserting a gene into muscle and fat cells and then implanting them at the site of an injury.

Telegraph.co.uk

ADA: Weekly diabetes drug holds up to popular daily agents

A novel once-weekly formulation of exenatide (Bydureon) improves glucose control in Type 2 diabetes compared with other antidiabetic agents that require daily dosing, according to results of two trials.

MedPage Today

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ingredient in wine may prevent some blinding diseases

Resveratrol — found in red wine, grapes, blueberries — stops out-of-control blood vessel growth in the eye.

ScienceDaily

Government plans to make online transactions safer

Amid growing instances of identity theft, bank account breaches and sophisticated Internet scams, the government is looking for ways to make those transactions in cyberspace more secure.

MSNBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Phoenix student wins national art contest

Victor Coronado, 12, won the "All Kids Can...CREATE!" contest, a national art competition that selects one winner from each state plus Washington, D.C. More than 5,500 students entered nationally.

Arizona Republic

Michael Jackson's '84 Victory Tour glove sells for $190,000

Bidders bought Michael Jackson memorabilia worth $1 million at an auction on the anniversary of his death, including $190,000 for the Swarovski-crystal-studded glove he wore on his 1984 Victory Tour.

Seattle Times

ENVIRONMENT

Coral in sanctuaries proves hotbed of life

Scientists have found beds of cold-water corals off the coast from San Francisco that provide a unique habitat for countless sea creatures, from brittle stars to octopus.

San Francisco Chronicle

Environmentalists file federal suit

Environmental groups sued federal officials including Interior Secretary Ken Salazar over their approval of the 130-turbine offshore wind farm project.

Boston Herald

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Abuse loosens church’s culture of silence

One afternoon last month, for perhaps the first time ever, an Italian bishop took the witness stand in the case of a priest accused of the sexual abuse of children.

New York Times

Crusaders push to go green with God

What to do about off-shore drilling and the regulation of the oil industry is cause for debate in Congress and among coastal residents. Now add to this another dimension: religion.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Blog (DK Matai):

Butterfly effect, oil gusher & edge of chaos

Huffington Post

Column (Rich Lowry):

O's deadly deadline

New York Post

Column (C.W. Nevius):

By speaking out, mentally ill open doors, minds

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

The carp, and the inadequate responses, just keep coming

Detroit Free Press

Column (Glenn Greenwald):

Guantanamo and presidential priorities

Salon

Column (Michelle Malkin):

Obama's Department of (illegal immigrant) Labor

Washington Examiner

Column (Charlie Gasparino):

Why financial reform won't work

The Daily Beast

Editorial:

Experience matters in teaching

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

New lease on life

Martine Wright, who lost her legs five years ago in the London terror attacks, talks to Gareth A. Davies about having a baby — and setting her sights on the Paralympics.

Telegraph.co.uk

'Double take' author: skiing hard and staring back

Kevin Michael Connolly was born without legs, though that has hardly slowed him down. In fact it drove him to become a raging competitor, both in sports and in life.

NPR

WORLD

G20 to take separate routes to recovery

World leaders hoping to shore up a fragile economic recovery will leave it to individual countries to decide how best to repair battered budgets without stunting growth.

Reuters

Geithner says G20 should focus on demand

BusinessWeek

Summit in Toronto

CBS News

Obama meets world leaders in Canada

USA TODAY

Taliban commander shot dead

A Taliban commander disguised as a woman was shot dead in Afghanistan when he fired at troops, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.

CNN

North Korea to elect new leaders

North Korea's ruling party plans to hold a meeting with its representatives in September. The meeting is "for electing the party's highest leading body," the North Korean Central News Agency said.

CNN

BUSINESS

President Obama calls for bank tax as next step in reform

President Barack Obama, fresh from a win on a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street regulations, urged Congress to take up his proposal for a $90 billion, 10-year tax on banks as the next step in reform.

Reuters

Market's slump in wake of bank reform

YouTube

3 US banks collapse as Bond Street Holdings acquires another lender

Regulators closed banks in Florida, Georgia and New Mexico, awarding a third financial institution to Bond Street Holdings LLC, an investment firm that first bought banks beginning of 2010.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

Rivalry between England and Germany

It has been called the greatest rivalry in soccer, a history of 27 international matches going back to 1930, and its renewal has generated some eyebrow-raising headlines in both nations.

New York Times

Prince Harry tosses ceremonial pitch before Mets game

Britain's Prince Harry plays competitive polo and showed on Saturday he could also throw a useful baseball pitch.

Reuters

EDUCATION

How many graduates can be No. 1? Ask the 30 valedictorians

In top schools across the country, the valedictorian is rapidly losing its singular meaning as administrators dispense the title to every straight-A student.

New York Times

Radio helps Latinos, Denver schools stay tuned in to each other

Denver Public Schools is reaching out to an increasingly diverse student population through one of the most popular media for Spanish-speakers: radio.

Denver Post

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