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Russia expels 4 U.K. diplomats

Russia has expelled four British diplomats from Moscow, in a tit-for-tat retaliation for the expulsion of four of its own officials.

Telegraph.co.uk

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Timeline: Litvinenko death case

BBC

Prosecutors call for closure of Sao Paulo airport after crash

Brazilian prosecutors called for the immediate closure of Sao Paulo's domestic airport after a second passenger plane was forced to abort its landing.

Guardian

In pictures: Brazil plane crash

BBC

FEMA slow to test toxic trailers

Lawyers for FEMA discouraged officials from pursuing reports that trailers housing hurricane victims had dangerous levels of formaldehyde.

Guardian

Are FEMA trailers toxic?

CBS News

Police deaths reach highest midyear level in decades

A surge in fatal shootings has contributed to a dramatic increase in deaths of law enforcement officers during the first six months of this year, the highest midyear body count in nearly 30 years.

ABC News

More and more police being killed

MSNBC

Iran uses activists for propaganda

Using methods that hark back to Iran's 1979 revolution, Iranian state-run television broadcast "confessions" of two Iranian-American academics accused of undermining the regime.

Christian Science Monitor

Iran's Evin Prison likened to torture chamber

NPR

NATION

Sunni bloc ends Iraqi parliament boycott

Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc has ended its boycott of the Shiite-dominated parliament, officials said, in a positive sign for the country's faltering attempts at national reconciliation.

Reuters

Bombings rock Baghdad

MSNBC

North Korea talks extended

Envoys seeking to end North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions decided to extend talks as they tried to reach agreement on a deadline for disabling the North's atomic facilities.

The Age

Timetable hope for North Korea

Reuters

French judge quizzes Chirac over fake jobs case

Former French President Jacques Chirac underwent four hours of questioning by a judge investigating a fake jobs scam alleged to have profited his conservative party when he ran Paris City Hall.

Reuters

POLITICS

Poll: 63 percent say Clinton 'likely' to win

A new CBS News/New York Times poll shows 63 percent of voters believe it's likely that Hillary Clinton will be elected the first woman president in U.S. history if she wins her party's nomination.

CBS News

Hillary's former opponents speak

MSNBC

Valerie Plame's lawsuit dismissed

A federal judge dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration in the CIA leak scandal.

Yahoo! News

Reid pulls defense bill off Senate floor

Senate Democrats pulled a major defense bill from the floor over bitter Republican protests, prompting a meltdown of relations and further clouding prospects for bipartisan accord on Iraq.

The Hill

BUSINESS

China's economy: another blazing quarter

Beijing announced a set of torrid economic numbers that came in ahead of already bullish market forecasts. China's $2.8 trillion economy clocked 11.9 percent growth in the second quarter.

BusinessWeek

China posts stunning 11.9 percent growth

Reuters

A Web phone called ooma

With its quirky version of Internet phone calls, a startup hopes to succeed in a business where others have failed.

BusinessWeek

Dow CEO: future brighter with News Corp.

The man who has led Dow Jones's negotiations over News Corporation's $5.7 billion takeover bid has used an internal memo to explain why the company's future is "even brighter" with the deal.

The Australian

SPORTS

Dog fighting's winners, losers

There are an estimated 40,000 people in the United States involved in professional dog fighting, according to the Humane Society, and that number is growing. And so are the blood sport's animal victims.

CNN

Hunter wins 11th stage of Tour de France

Robert Hunter of South Africa won the 11th stage of the Tour de France, while Michael Rasmussen of Denmark retained the overall leader's yellow jersey.

Yahoo! News

HEALTH

CDC: 2 million in U.S. have chlamydia

More than 2 million people in the U.S. are infected with chlamydia and 250,000 have gonorrhea, according to a government prevalence estimate for the two sexually transmitted diseases.

WebMD

Rates of rare lymphoma increasing

The incidence of a rare cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma has increased threefold over the past 30 years in the United States, a new study found.

Health Day

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GOOD NEWS

Firefighters save dog from fire

When paramedics are called to a scene of an accident or fire, their first priority is to take care of anyone who's injured. That happened in Utah, but one of the victims was a different kind of patient.

KSL

Firefighters save man's best friend

MSNBC

The moose babysitter

Rick Sinnott, an Alaska wildlife official, has made a career of catching bears, corralling geese and making sure ravens don't eat Pringles.

Christian Science Monitor

NATION

Alert level raised as 1,000 new wildfires reported in the West

The nation's wildfire preparedness was raised to its highest level as dozens of new fires started in the bone-dry West, including one on the sprawling grounds of the Idaho National Laboratory.

CNN

Heat wave fuels wildfires

ABC News

Classified material stolen from nuke lab

A contract employee at a nuclear material cleanup site in Tennessee was charged with allegedly stealing classified data about enriching uranium to sell to foreign governments.

Yahoo! News

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists say trout not endangered

Yellowstone cutthroat trout are "holding their own" in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming despite threats ranging from habitat loss and disease to hybridization with other species, officials say.

Environmental News Network

Spanish beaches reopen after oil spill

The situation was gradually returning to normal on the Spanish holiday island of Ibiza as authorities opened the two remaining beaches closed after a fuel spill last week.

Raw Story

Importing sand, glass may help restore beaches

NPR

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

For Gen-Yers, last Potter book marks the end of an era

For Brent Lomas, the official end of childhood comes with the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." The college senior said, "I have to go out into the world and say goodbye."

Christian Science Monitor

Early reviews smash Potter embargo

Guardian

'Hairspray' premiere draws a crowd

The stars turned out for "Hairspray" in Baltimore -- Amanda Bynes and teen heartthrob Zac Efron. John Waters was there, too, along with his family, both real and adopted.

Baltimore SUn

'Hairspray' stars grace the red carpet

WJZ

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Computer is crowned king of checkers

It is game over for checkers: scientists have created the ultimate computer player, which can be battled to a draw with a perfect strategy but can never be beaten.

Times Online

Robots that walk on water

As if signing books and performing surgery on patients were not enough, robots can now walk on water, too, thanks to engineers at Carnegie Mellon University.

Scientific American

EDUCATION

Sides clash over education, health bill

A bill filled with money for job training, health and education faces a veto from President Bush, who complains that Democratic add-ons have made it too expensive.

Michigan Live

Uganda earned $30M from foreign students in 2005

Uganda earned about $30 million from international student enrollment in the country's secondary and tertiary institutions in 2005, the government announced.

allAfrica.com

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Adultery allegations against Catholic archbishop in Zimbabwe

A camera hidden in the bedroom of Zimbabwean Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube allegedly took photos of him undressing with a woman named in an adultery case.

International Herald Tribune

Nepalese 'goddess' is reinstated

A 10-year-old girl who is worshipped as a living goddess in Nepal has had her title reinstated after defying tradition and visiting the U.S.

BBC

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