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President Bush outlines his proposal for major nations to agree on a global emissions goal for greenhouse gases, during a speech ahead of next week's summit in Germany of leading industrialized nations. (Photo by Scott Applewhite / AP)

TB patient in Denver for treatment

Post-Chronicle

U.S. warning over TB flights

BBC

Putin: missile test a response to U.S.

Referencing a missile test by his country, Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a scathing attack on the West, accusing the U.S. of starting a new arms race.

Daily Mail

Spain sues to claim shipwreck treasure

A Tampa company's plan to keep the treasure it recently recovered from an Atlantic Ocean shipwreck just grew a little tougher.

Tampa Tribune

Bush calls for global emissions pact

Before an expected clash with other world leaders at next week's G-8 summit, President Bush offered up his own plan for addressing the threat of climate change.

CBS News

NASA chief doubts global warming is front-burner issue

Houston Chronicle

Suicide bomber kills 25 in Falluja police recruit line

A suicide bomber killed as many as 25 people at a police recruiting center in Falluja, police said, and the U.S. military reported one dead and eight wounded.

CNN

7 die in U.S. copter crash in Afghanistan

CNN

Waiting for the Taliban

MSNBC

Analysts: Thompson's entry would shuffle GOP race

He has been a lawyer, a U.S. senator, and a TV actor, and now Fred Thompson has made it clear that he's ready to audition for the role of a lifetime, president of the United States.

Christian Science Monitor

Thompson inches toward presidential run

Yahoo! News

Suspect: UK involved in ex-spy's death

The Russian businessman whom Britain has named as a suspect in the killing of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko claimed that he has evidence of British special services' involvement in the death.

Forbes

NATION

Abbas seeks Palestinian cease-fire

The U.N. Security Council called for an "immediate end" to the fighting between rival Palestinian factions in Gaza and welcomed efforts by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to arrange a cease-fire.

Daily Star

Turkey masses troops at border with Kurdish Iraq

Turkey has sent large contingents of soldiers, tanks, guns and armored personnel carriers to reinforce its border with Iraq.

International Herald Tribune

Turkish buildup on Iraqi border

Reuters

Death camp museums call for right to charge for entry ticket

Some of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps, now run as museums, could soon demand an entrance fee from visitors to help to finance educational facilities.

Times

POLITICS

President Bush attacks critics of immigration reform bill

President George W. Bush cranked up his campaign for immigration reform, accusing detractors of picking apart a compromise bill and of denouncing the legislation without reading it.

Newsday

Taking sides on immigration bill

CNN

Obama, Clinton target drugs, insurers in health plans

For the leading Democratic presidential hopefuls, making health care more affordable is a tale of two villains. Barack Obama is targeting drugmakers, while Hillary Clinton is taking aim at insurers.

Bloomberg

Villaraigosa ready to endorse Clinton

CBS News

BUSINESS

Economic growth stalls in first quarter

The economy nearly stalled in the first quarter with growth slowing to a pace of just 0.6 percent. That was the worst three-month showing in over four years.

MSNBC

IBM to cut almost 1,600 more jobs

Marking a second round of layoffs this month, IBM announced that it will cut 1,566 jobs from its global workforce, primarily in its U.S. strategic outsourcing services business.

CNET News

BP snares huge Libyan gas fields

At a time when major oil companies are struggling to gain access to good new exploration acreage, BP signed a gas deal with the Libyan National Oil Company.

BusinessWeek

SPORTS

35 former NFL players qualify for Alzheimer's assistance

Gene Upshaw was taken aback when he first saw the list of retired NFL players applying for financial help under a new program to help those with dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Sports Illustrated

Bryant wants out ... then doesn't

Disgruntled Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant said he wanted to be traded from the NBA team before dramatically changing his mind a few hours later.

CNN

Will Kobe be a Laker next year?

ESPN

EDUCATION

Will buying educational toys make your kid a genius?

Every year more and more American parents snap up the latest kid-centric luxuries, convinced they can provide their children with a head start. But do they help?

Slate

Donor gives $100 million for low-income scholarships

A graduate of the University of Chicago gave an anonymous donation of $100 million to his alma mater, marking the largest single donation given to an Illinois university.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Forecasters: 74 percent chance of major U.S. hurricane

Colorado State University hurricane forecasters called for a very active 2007 season with a 74 percent chance of a major hurricane making landfall on the U.S. coastline.

Greeley Tribune

Oddball planet puzzles astronomers

Astronomers have discovered an orb more than 13 times the mass of Jupiter that whips around its parent star in fewer than four days and is considered an "oddball" planet among its exoplanet relatives.

LiveScience

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GOOD NEWS

Woman rescued from Everest

Usha Bista nearly died on Mount Everest. The Nepalese mountain climber got sick about 2,000 feet below the summit. But Meagan McGrath, a 29-year-old Canadian, saved her.

CBS News

Boy's balloon finds pen pal: the Queen

A 4-year-old British boy who released a balloon with a message hoping to find a pen pal in a foreign land ended up having a correspondence with the Queen.

Reuters

NATION

LA police admit riot 'mistakes'

The head of the Los Angeles Police Department, William Bratton, has admitted that his officers made serious mistakes at the end of a May Day rally.

BBC

Fourth prisoner suicide at Guantanamo

A Saudi Arabian prisoner died of an apparent suicide at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, the U.S. military said. He is the fourth detainee to die of apparent suicide at the detention camp.

The Age

U.S. accepting 59 refugees from Iraq, plans for 7,000

The United States plans to receive its first 59 refugees from the Iraq conflict in the coming weeks, the first step to accepting up to 7,000 refugees, officials said.

Earth Times

U.S. to admit more Iraq refugees

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Whales' enriching diversion ends

The two humpback whales that took a wrong turn and swam into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta were spotted in the Pacific Ocean outside the Golden Gate, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

San Francisco Chronicle

Cyclones could save oceanic conveyor belt from global warming

The ferocious winds of tropical cyclones churn up ocean water as they spin over the surface, significantly affecting the transport of heat in the ocean, a new study finds.

LiveScience

Canada sued for abandoning Kyoto climate commitment

Environment News Service

China city suspends chemical plant after uproar over pollution

Chinese citizens alarmed about pollution won a rare victory when a city froze a chemical project after angry residents joined in opposition through a flood of mobile phone text messages.

San Diego Union Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'Breakfast at Tiffany's' dress sells for more than $265,000

A dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" sold at auction for $192,000 - more than six times what the auctioneers expected.

New Zealand Herald

NY may give scalpers free rein

New York's Assembly passed a bill that removes the cap on how much tickets to sports, cultural and entertainment can be resold for. The Senate is expected to follow suit.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Scalpers about to drop hammer on average fan

WCBS

HEALTH

Studies: Surgery can take the bite out of back pain

For millions of Americans with slipped discs and lower-back pain, surgery may provide relief, according to studies.

ABC News

FDA approves new kidney cancer drug

Federal regulators said they have approved Wyeth's drug Torisel to treat a common type of kidney cancer.

Forbes

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope tells parents he'll pray for return of kidnapped British girl

Pope Benedict comforted the parents of a four-year-old British girl snatched from a Portuguese holiday resort and blessed a photograph of the child held up by her mother.

Brisbane Times

Malaysian woman loses religion case

Malaysia's top civil court rejected a woman's appeal to be recognized as a Christian, in a landmark case that tested the limits of religious freedom in this moderate Islamic country.

Guardian

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