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A Palestinian youth looks at the rubble of a destroyed metal workshop allegedly used by the Islamic group Hamas after it was hit by an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City. (Photo by Hatem Moussa / AP)

Israel hits Hamas targets in Gaza, factions vow truce

Israel launched more air strikes against Hamas targets in Gaza, killing at least one person, as top officials considered a broader strategy for stopping rockets being fired at Israeli towns.

Reuters

Gaza hit with more Israeli airstrikes

International Herald Tribune

Violence in Gaza

MSNBC

Battle looms over Wolfowitz successor

After Paul Wolfowitz's resignation as World Bank president a new battle looms over how and if the U.S. should pick his successor. The White House said President Bush would move quickly to nominate a successor.

ABC News

World Bank will change after Wolfowitz

Marketplace

Special section:

Potential successors to Wolfowitz at World Bank

Reuters

Blasts hit Green Zone as Blair makes farewell visit

CNN

Iraqis in besieged city struggle to survive

Reuters

Suicide bomb kills 8 in Afghanistan

A suicide attacker detonated himself next to German soldiers shopping in a market in northern Afghanistan, killing eight people and wounding 16, officials said.

MSNBC

Uneasy calm in Indian city a day after mosque blast

Thousands of police patrolled the streets of India's southern city of Hyderabad, a day after a bomb blast in a historic mosque and subsequent clashes killed at least 16.

Reuters

Madeleine police failed to check road cameras film

Portuguese police have failed to check the surveillance cameras along the A22 motorway, which runs through the Algarve, a Portuguese newspaper reported.

The Herald

Has Britain gone overboard for missing Madeleine?

Reuters

NATION

Sudan accused of Darfur killings

Sudanese security forces took part in the killing of some 100 people in the war-torn Darfur region, the UN says.

BBC

Discord at EU-Russia summit

Vladimir Putin met with Jose Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, and Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany which holds the rotating EU presidency, but little was resolved.

Al Jazeera

Journalists in Russia resist state crackdown

International Herald Tribune

Burundi refugees move to U.S. after 35 years in exile

The first of some 8,500 Burundian refugees who fled their homeland 35 years ago have begun a journey from camps in Tanzania to new homes in the U.S. cities of Atlanta and Phoenix, the United Nations said.

Reuters

POLITICS

Immigration deal cheered, questioned

The White House and a group of senators have reached a deal on a bill that moves Congress closer to passing an overhaul of immigration policy. But critics say they find the bill unworkable and troubling.

NPR

White House: Gonzales no-confidence a 'political stunt'

The White House called the Senate's upcoming no-confidence vote over Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a "political stunt."

MSNBC

An 'absentee' U.S. attorney fights back

U.S. News & World Report

BUSINESS

Claim: Exxon funding climate 'skeptics'

Exxon Mobil gave more than $2 million in 2006 to groups Greenpeace says are global warming skeptics, even as the oil company campaigned to improve its climate-unfriendly image.

CNNMoney

Yen rises versus dollar, China allows faster currency gains

The yen rose from an almost three-month low against the dollar after China allowed its currency to strengthen at a faster pace and lifted interest rates to cool an overheating economy.

Bloomberg

Virgin America gets OK for U.S. airline

Startup airline Virgin America won final approval to take to the skies in the United States.

Houston Chronicle

SPORTS

AT&T logos allowed at race sponsored by rival Sprint Nextel

AT&T Inc. won a court ruling allowing the largest U.S. phone company to display its logos in Nascar's top series, lending a new look to the All-Star Challenge sponsored by rival Sprint Nextel Corp.

Bloomberg

Fans, players weigh in as Bonds chases Aaron's mark

Major League Baseball players and fans strongly disagree on whether San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds should be recognized as baseball's home run king if he breaks Hank Aaron's career record.

USA Today

EDUCATION

Why the pool of U.S. Arabic speakers is still a puddle

Six years after the U.S. awoke to the need for its citizens to learn Arabic, obstacles remain.

Christian Science Monitor

In this class, it is rocket science

Brett Williams has his high school students build a rocket each year as a hands-on way to learn science and engineering – and they've set flight records.

Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Russian Orthodox accord heals schism

As bells pealed and worshipers wept, Russian Orthodox leaders signed a pact to heal an 80-year schism between the church in Russia and an offshoot set up abroad following the Bolshevik Revolution.

Newsday

ACLU sues Louisiana school district over distribution of Bibles

The ACLU filed its fifth religion-related lawsuit in 13 years against an eastern Louisiana school district, this time alleging that a principal improperly allowed people to distribute Bibles to students.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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GOOD NEWS

Gates Foundation gives $9.7M for research on kids and AIDS

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $9.7 million grant to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation to study ways to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission to children via breast milk.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

NATION

Arrest in N.Y. church attack

A surveillance video of a woman in a church pew warding off an attacker with a pen led to the arrest of a 44-year-old man, police said.

Philadelphia Daily News

Two deputies killed, 1 wounded hours after memorial

A gunman shot and killed two deputies and wounded another before he was shot, hours after the officers participated in a memorial to honor peace officers slain in the line of duty, authorities said.

CNN

Texas lawmakers say they will probe deaths of soldiers

Rep. Jackson Lee wants the Army to answer a Houston family's questions on the abduction and murder of Pfc. Kristian Menchaca of Houston and another soldier in Iraq last year.

Houston Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

First songs, now banging pipes in bid to free whales

Marine scientists trying to lure two injured whales out of a river prepare for plan B: Herding the animals by boat while banging pipes underwater.

Toronto Star

Governments to rewrite trade rules for imperiled species

From June 3 to 15, more than a thousand delegates from 171 countries will convene in The Hague to determine the fate of 40 animal and plant species at risk of over-exploitation due to international trade.

Environment News Service

Antarctic sea losing climate change war

One of the Earth's major natural barriers to global warming is weakening. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is no longer being absorbed by the Antarctic Ocean at the rate it used to be.

Scotsman

Concern over Arctic breakaway

BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Warhol painting fetches $72 million

A painting by Andy Warhol, “Green Car Crash," has sold for $72 million at Christie’s – more than twice its estimate, and a record for a work by the artist.

Financial Times

Sweet failure? 'Idol' rejects find success

It was the shock heard around the "Idol" world. "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell's pick for the final two - Melinda Doolittle - was voted off Wednesday night's show.

ABC News

'Anonymous' 1980 Pulitzer Prize winner will finally get his reward

Jahangir Razmi has waited 27 years for his prize, despite winning it in 1980. His dramatic photo of an Iranian firing squad executing 11 men in 1979 has always been credited simply to "anonymous."

Editor & Publisher

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New species of sea anemone found In deepest Pacific

Researchers cruising for creatures that live in the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean found a new species of sea anemone living in the unlikeliest of habitats – the carcass of a dead whale.

Science Daily

Ancient Maya tomb found: upright skeleton, unusual location

Archaeologists working in Honduras have discovered an entombed human skeleton of an elite member of the ancient Maya Empire that may unravel longstanding mysteries of the vanished culture.

National Geographic

HEALTH

Alzheimer's chip: protection or violation of privacy?

A Florida adult-care facility is going ahead with plans to implant identity chips into patients with Alzheimer's disease who are in its care, despite protests that it is a form of branding.

ABC News

Medical experts debate giving HPV vaccine to boys

Amid the controversy around mandated vaccination of young girls against the human papillomavirus (HPV), some experts are beginning to wonder whether the shot should also be given to boys.

Health Day

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