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U.S. soldiers detain a protester as local residents rally against the U.S. military presence in Kamaliyah neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq. Hundreds attended the rally, some throwing stones on an passing American convoy. (Photo by Adil al-Khazali / AP)

Protests across U.S. focus on raids, reform

Demonstrations pressing for immigrants' rights drew tens of thousands of people across the nation, with some cities, like Chicago, attracting much larger crowds.

San Francisco Chronicle

U.S. ready to talk with Iran

The Bush administration has made it clear it is willing to engage in high-level talks with Iran. These are likely to take place at a conference on Iraq in Egypt this week.

Guardian

Plans underway for U.S-Syria meeting

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

ICC issues first Darfur arrest warrants

The International Criminal Court has issued its first arrest warrants over the Darfur conflict for a Sudanese minister and a Janjaweed militia leader accused of murder, torture and rape.

NEWS.com.au

Bush's veto survives House challenge

Yahoo! News

Soldiers' wages to run out

Melbourne Herald Sun

Timetable prompts veto

NPR

Controlling war spending? Not really

Marketplace

Murdoch offers $5 billion for Dow Jones

In a bold move to expand his global media empire, Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corp., has made an unsolicited $5 billion offer to buy Dow Jones, the venerable publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

International Herald Tribune

Murdoch's Dow move may spur bidding war

Marketplace

Chavez pulls out of IMF and World Bank

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez underlined his intention to develop an alternative economic vision for Latin America by pulling his country from the World Bank and the IMF.

London Independent

EU presses Russia on Estonian embassy

The EU pressed Russia to ensure protection for the Estonian embassy in Moscow, which has been besieged by activists protesting the removal of a Soviet war memorial.

International Herald Tribune

NATION

U.S. urges caution on reports of al-Qaeda leader's death

A senior Iraqi Interior Ministry official said that officials were trying to gain custody of Abu Ayyub al-Masri's body amid widespread skepticism over claims that the leader of al- Qaeda in Iraq had been killed.

FOX News

Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader 'killed'

BBC

Israeli lawmakers say 'Olmert must resign'

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert came under renewed political fire with calls for his immediate resignation. At issue: mistakes made in last summer's war with Lebanon.

CNN

Sarkozy, Royal set for TV showdown

Royal and Sarkozy are scheduled to appear in a televised presidential debate. It is a crucial platform for what has been a personality driven election.

CNN International

French far-right leader tells voters to snub Sarkozy, Royal

Turkish Press

Excerpts from Reagan's diaries released

After he was seriously wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt, Ronald Reagan described the experience simply in one of his presidential diaries: "Getting shot hurts."

Houston Chronicle

Sounding like Reagan not easy for GOP

CBS News

Special section:

Rate the candidates

MSNBC

Senate subpoenas Gonzales on Rove e-mail in U.S. Attorney firings

Senators subpoenaed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, ordering him to provide all e-mails related to presidential adviser Karl Rove and the firings of eight federal prosecutors.

Kansas City Star

POLITICS

Dow continues record run on factory order reports

Stocks jumped, sending the Dow Jones industrials past 13,200 for the first time after a strong reading on U.S. factory orders stoked investor optimism about the economy.

Forbes

Bad days for automakers

April was indeed the cruelest month for automakers as many consumers stayed on the sidelines in the face of stagnant home values and rising gas prices.

BusinessWeek

Oil prices waver on expectations for decline in gas stocks

Oil prices fell despite expectations that U.S. fuel inventory data would again show a drop in domestic gasoline stocks. Light, sweet crude for June delivery fell 23 cents to $64.66 a barrel by midday in Europe.

International Herald Tribune

SPORTS

Report: NBA refs have racial bias

An academic study of NBA officiating found that white referees called fouls at a greater rate against black players than against white players, The New York Times reported.

Sports Illustrated

Cardinals GM: Players have to police themselves

Cardinals general manager Walt Jocketty said the club had little knowledge about pitcher Josh Hancock's off-field activities and that the responsibility for policing players' activities lies with the players.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Hancock had accident days before death

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

HEALTH

Tainted food moves beyond pets

Chemically tainted pet-food ingredients from China, believed to have sickened or killed thousands of American pets, entered the U.S. human food chain, the Food and Drug Administration said.

Kansas City Star

Deaths from heart attack 'halved'

Deaths from severe heart attacks after hospital admission have nearly halved in six years, a study shows.

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Science in the 21st century: miracle in sight

A cure for blindness is the breakthrough every scientist working in the field of opthalmology dreams about. Now, a team of gene therapy researchers at Moorfields Hospital may be on the brink.

The Independent

Wallet returned 56 years after theft

Val Gregoire lost his wallet — and his pants — during a Boston mugging in 1951. Now, 56 years later, the wallet has been returned by a demolition worker who found it inside a Paramount Theatre wall.

USA Today

NATION

Texas bill would require sonograms for abortion-seekers

Women seeking to terminate their pregnancies would have to undergo a sonogram before the procedure could be performed under legislation tentatively approved by the Texas Senate.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Texas abortion bill

CBS 42

Train carrying shuttle rockets derails

A train carrying reusable solid rocket booster segments for the space shuttle derailed in western Alabama, leaving at least two people injured, a NASA spokeswoman said.

CNN

Another setback for NASA

CBS News

Corzine pays fine for no seat belt

Gov. Jon S. Corzine voluntarily paid a $46 fine for violating state law by not wearing a seat belt in his near-fatal car accident on the Garden State Parkway in Atlantic Co-unty last month.

Press of the Atlantic

ENVIRONMENT

Los Angeles most polluted U.S. city

For the first time since the American Lung Association began issuing its annual air quality report card, data reveal a split picture along either side of the Mississippi River.

Science Daily

Arctic melting faster than forecast

Arctic ice is melting faster than computer models of climate calculate, according to a group of U.S. researchers.

BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Sealed with a kiss

A seasoned traveller to India, Richard Gere might have known that it would come to this. The Hollywood star was ordered to appear before a court in Jaipur, Rajasthan, on a charge of public indecency.

Economist

Richard Gere kissing Shilpa Shetty

YouTube

'Spider-Man 3' premieres at Tribeca

Sometimes, the venue is so unorthodox, the concept so ambitious, the movie itself such a draw that the premier becomes one of those you-had-to-be-there spectacles.

Variety

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Google cites safe harbor in Viacom v. YouTube defense

Google has filed its answer in the case of Viacom v. YouTube, accusing Viacom of threatening "the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information" with its lawsuit.

Ars Technica

NASA's probe shows Jupiter up close

Small moons are acting as shepherds using their gravity to herd dust and boulders in Jupiter's faint rings, NASA scientists reported.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Bono gives weight to proposed U.S. education bill

Rock singer Bono threw his weight behind proposed U.S. legislation that would boost funding for free basic education for some of the world's poorest children.

Reuters

Duke cheating shows failure of post-Enron ethics classes

The cheating episode at Duke University may cause academics to conclude the post-Enron emphasis on teaching ethics in graduate business schools is a failure.

Bloomberg

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholics detail Irish sex abuses

The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has revealed figures showing the extent to which priests in its largest archdiocese may have abused children.

BBC

Religion gets an 'A' at U.S. colleges

Peter Gomes has been at Harvard for 37 years and remembers when religious people on campus felt under siege. No more, as campus religious activism is reaching new heights.

International Herald Tribune

Photo of the Day

A crew member of the USA BMW Oracle yacht works as the Oracle prepares to cross the topmark, during the flight 3 of the second round-robin stage of the Louis Vuitton Cup off the coast of Valencia, Spain. (Photo by Fernando Bustamante / AP)

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