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Forest Service firefighters set a backfire while fighting the Angora wildfire in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. (Photo by Jeff Chiu / AP)

A big break as winds change

Aided by lighter winds, firefighters began to tame the explosive wildfire that turned a corner of alpine paradise at Lake Tahoe into a hellish inferno.

San Francisco Chronicle

Wildfire rages near Lake Tahoe

CBS News

Prisoner kills officer at Utah hospital

An inmate with tattoos covering his face and head stole a gun from a corrections officer and shot him to death when the prisoner was at a doctor's appointment, authorities said.

Forbes

Press conference on officer shooting

WBBM

Cyclone hits southwest Pakistani coast

A cyclone hit the coast of Pakistan, dumping torrential rain over a thinly populated region days after about 230 people were killed when a storm lashed the country's biggest city, Karachi.

Reuters

Israel to free hundreds of Hamas prisoners

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he intends to free 250 Palestinian prisoners in a goodwill gesture to help President Mahmoud Abbas.

TVNZ

Mideast leaders hold summit

BBC

Whitman on hot seat over 9/11 aftermath

Ex-EPA chief Christie Whitman denounced as "downright falsehoods" the criticism of her assurances that it was safe to breathe the air around the fallen World Trade Center.

Houston Chronicle

Ground Zero health crisis

CBS News

Zoellick confirmed as World Bank chief

The World Bank's governing board rubber-stamped the appointment of Robert Zoellick as its next president, clearing the way for the U.S. nominee to take up his post next week.

Guardian

Boy says Taliban tricked him into wearing bomb

The story of a 6-year-old Afghan boy who says he thwarted an effort by Taliban militants to trick him into being a suicide bomber provoked tears and anger at a meeting of tribal leaders in Afghanistan.

MSNBC

NATION

Villagers flee as dam is poised to burst

Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes because of fears that the Ulley Dam in South Yorkshire could burst following torrential rain that has claimed a number of lives.

Telegraph.co.uk

Floods in Britain

Guardian

U.N. officials in N. Korea for reactor shutdown talks

U.N. nuclear officials arrived in North Korea to negotiate terms for inspectors to monitor the shutdown of Pyongyang's nuclear reactor, its source of bomb-grade plutonium.

Reuters

A harrowing day for GIs facing a trap

The enemy never showed his face, but transformed a neighborhood into a network of houses rigged to explode, and the soldiers from Comanche Company's First Platoon confronted the deadly trap.

International Herald Tribune

POLITICS

U.S. official: Blair set as Mideast envoy

Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be named as special envoy for the Middle East with a portfolio focused on Palestinian economic and political reform, a senior U.S. official said.

San Francisco Chronicle

Lugar urges Bush to change course soon in Iraq

Republican support for President Bush's Iraq war policy suffered a significant crack when Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana urged the president to change course in Iraq "very soon."

CNN

BUSINESS

Washington vs. Wall Street

The House Financial Services Committee will haul in all five commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission for the first time in at least a decade, an affair being billed as an "oversight" hearing.

Forbes

The Falcon has landed

Novint turned to Lunar Design to transform a $20,000 engineering device into a $239 video game controller — with an eye on the medical training market.

BusinessWeek

SPORTS

Murder-suicide suspected in wrestler death

Pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife and smothered his son before hanging himself in his weight room, a law enforcement official close to the investigation told The Associated Press.

Sports Illustrated

Federer, Roddick, Serena, Henin win Wimbledon openers

Roger Federer came onto Center Court at Wimbledon dressed like a player from a bygone era. He then played like his usual modern-day great self.

Sports Illustrated

Special section:

Wimbledon history

Sports Illustrated

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tiny Web radio stations squawk over royalty fees

Internet radio DJs are replacing their eclectic playlists with a "Day of Silence," a protest against new royalty rates they say could decimate the fledgling digital broadcasting industry.

San Francisco Chronicle

Apple, AT&T set 3 price plans for iPhone

Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. said they will offer three price plans, starting at $59.99 per month, for the widely anticipated iPhone that is set to go on sale this week.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Set lesson plans stir controversy

In the name of student achievement, more teachers must follow stricter rules about what — and sometimes how — they teach. In some places, they stay almost literally on the same page.

Seattle Times

Apology issued in blackout of gay kiss in high school yearbook

The Newark city school district that ordered staffers to use markers to black out a picture of a male student kissing his boyfriend from all copies of a school yearbook now says it regrets the decision.

KUTV

Student angered over yearbook blackout

WCBS

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GOOD NEWS

U.S. bald eagle population soaring

Decades after hovering on the brink of extinction, the bald eagle is continuing its historic comeback.

Fort Worth Star Telegram

Girl, 2, becomes member of Mensa

Georgia Brown, from Aldershot, Hampshire, astounded experts by scoring 152 on an IQ test, putting her in the top 2 percent of the population for her age.

BBC

NATION

Student loses 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' case

A high school student who was suspended for unfurling a banner saying "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" did not have his rights violated, a divided Supreme Court ruled.

NEWS.com.au

Supreme Court rules against students' rights

ABC News

Justices bar U.S. taxpayers from suing over religion-based programs

International Herald Tribune

Cutts held on $5 million bond in slaying of pregnant woman

Bobby Cutts and Myisha Ferrell appeared in court as lawyers made initial appearances on behalf of the two suspects charged with killing a pregnant woman.

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Suspects arraigned in Canton

ABC News

Bus taking family home from reunion crashes; 1 killed, 66 injured

A tour bus carrying members of an extended Alabama family from a reunion in New York veered off a Kentucky highway and slammed into an overpass, killing one and injuring 66 others.

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Green is good, by customer demand

Raffaello Napoleone, chief executive of Pitti Immagine Uomo, believes that in five years both ethical and ecological clothing will be a real part of the market — by public demand.

International Herald Tribune

Asia urged to invest more on clean energy sources

The Asian Development Bank urged countries in the region to boost investments in clean energy sources to sustain its economic growth and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Earth Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Jubilant Paris Hilton out of jail

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton walked out of a Los Angeles-area jail with a big smile on her face after serving 23 days for violating her probation on a reckless driving conviction.

CNN

To jail and back

E! Online

New director brings darker approach to Potter film

Filmmaker David Yates has brought a darker edge to the latest Harry Potter film — he tackles the adolescent boy wizard as he walks a thin line between good and evil.

Reuters

'Potter' stars on growing up, kissing and more

Yahoo! News

Rosie not relocating for 'Price' job

It looks like Rosie O'Donnell's next gig won't be on "Price Is Right." In a video message on her blog, O'Donnell said it looked like a deal with the game show "ain't gonna happen."

KUTV

Everything Rosie?

Showbuzz

HEALTH

Fructose: sugar's dark side?

Cane sugar has a dark side, a provocative new study shows. The sweetener we call sugar is actually a double sugar.

WebMD

Study: Omega 3 protects against blindness due to retinopathy

Scientists in the U.S. and Sweden have shown that Omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids stopped mice from getting retinopathy, a condition where the retina deteriorates and results in blindness.

Medical News Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Poll: trust in organized religion at near-record low

Americans trust the military and the police force significantly more than the church and organized religion, a new Gallup Poll says.

Beliefnet

Anglican 'No' vote threatens future gay unions in B.C.

Canada's first Anglican diocese to bless gay unions has become the focus of what is likely to be an impassioned political and theological debate.

CBC

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