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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, third from left, greets top Iranian government officials after a news conference during his visit to the 67th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. (Photo by Bebeto Matthews / AP)

Loco for cocoa: Artisanal chocolate looks to roots

Dozens of small chocolate makers around the world wager that artisanal chocolate is on the cusp of taking off. Comparisons with gourmet coffee, craft beer and high-end wine abound.

McClatchy Newspapers

Most bosses experience less stress than their subordinates

A study suggests that positions of leadership are directly linked with decreased stress levels because status level in a group disproportionately influences our happiness and well-being.

Medical News Today

Iran accuses West of nuclear ‘intimidation’

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s president, accused the West of nuclear “intimidation” in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly that the U.S. and Israel boycotted.

Al Jazeera

What to watch for at UN General Assembly

CNN

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Iran condemns US removal of MEK group from terrorist list

Yahoo! News

Live at the UN General Assembly

United Nations Webcast

IMF Managing Director calls for action now to secure global recovery

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, urged policymakers to take the actions needed to achieve a decisive turn in the global economic crisis.

IMF

Tourists banned from tiger reserves

Can tigers and tourists coexist? The Supreme Court in India has temporarily banned tourism in core areas of the country’s 41 tiger reserves in an effort to protect the last of India’s 1,700 tigers.

NPR

NATION

Cities test 150 square foot micro-housing

Micro-housing aims to diversify downtowns and give workers the chance to shorten their commutes, but not everyone likes the idea.

Christian Science Monitor

Taxes threaten island culture in Georgia

Increasing economic pressures are forcing the saltwater Geechees of Sapelo Island, Ga., to wonder if their fragile community will finally succumb to cultural erosion.

New York Times

Program aims at getting minority kids buckled up

A new study by researchers at the University of Michigan finds that black and Hispanic infants and toddlers are unrestrained at rates 10 times those of white children.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

In Massachusetts, Brown and Warren in ugly sprint to finish

The battle for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, which seemed to be the nation’s most civil political race, has morphed into one of the ugliest.

CNN

Warren and Cherokee heritage

Christian Science Monitor

US election: crunching the numbers

Just like in every U.S. presidential election campaign before, the two opponents have been using statistics to bolster their arguments. But do the numbers stand up?

BBC

Bad weather on election day? Many will not vote

The Weather Channel

BUSINESS

The devil in the housing report details

Home prices are rising, experts say, but not as much as some suggest. And to maintain a realistic view of any real-estate recovery, it may be wise to err on the conservative side.

MarketWatch

Religious pilgrimages spur multibillion dollar industry

International religious pilgrimage: the business of devotion and divinity. A time of life-affirming contemplation for the faithful and the lifeblood of the communities surrounding popular shrines.

NBCNews.com

Study: Lenders may see a different credit score than you do

About one in five consumers are likely to receive credit scores that differ substantially from those used by lenders, according to a government study released.

McClatchy Newspapers

ENVIRONMENT

Midwest drought: how engineered corn saved some farmers from disaster

Estimates suggest that drought-resistant corn might have diminished potential crop losses by one-quarter this year.

Christian Science Monitor

Journey to the Antarctic Ocean

A 70,000 mile expedition by a tiny research ship gives us a snapshot of life in the depths of the world’s seas.

The Independent

HEALTH

Women born early may themselves face difficult pregnancies

Pregnancy complications are more common among women who were themselves born early, a new study finds.

LiveScience

Advances in kids’ early aging disease

Progeria affects approximately one in every 4 million to 8 million infants. Encouraging results from the first clinical drug trial has researchers hopeful that the its treatment could be on the horizon.

CNN

The link between diet and disease

Canberra Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

They are still watching

A group of British UFO-watchers is celebrating 50 years of searching for spacecrafts in the sky. What keeps them looking for extraterrestrial life?

BBC

Is the Texas twang dyin’, y’all?

The Southern charm of the Texas twang has become a part Western swagger. But as the media homogenizes all regional accents into one American English sound, some fear that the famous twang is fading.

ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Most Republicans think West and Islam are in fundamental conflict, poll finds

A majority of Republican voters in the U.S. regard the West and Islam as being embroiled in “a fundamental conflict that only one side can win,” according to new YouGov polling.

Guardian

For Hasidic Jews, a slow, steady rebirth in Russia continues

At one synagogue in Moscow, Russia, Hasidic Jews have been working for years to rebuild their numbers. For some, including the rabbi, it has largely been a self-guided journey.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Man’s failing heart heals itself on day of emergency transplant

A miraculous thing happened the day Michael Crowe was set to receive a potentially life-saving heart transplant. His heart suddenly started beating again.

ABC News

Taking a hammer to hunger

Chosen 300 is an organization powered by volunteers from 80 churches. Volunteers sign up to cook meals, transport them to food halls and serve people. They typically spend $600 a meal.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Michigan town gives bullied teen a homecoming to remember

Students voted Whitney Kropp to the homecoming court because they thought it would be funny if an unpopular student won the popularity contest. The town quickly rallied to support her.

Yahoo! News

Bullied teen gets $40k plastic surgery

Asbury Park Press

WORLD

China‘s ’Great wall of inequality’

At the same time that development has brought millions of people out of poverty, China’s wealth gap has widened into one of the country’s largest social problems.

GlobalPost

Rage against austerity: violent clashes in Athens, Greece

Demonstrators wearing helmets and gas masks and armed with sticks clashed with police in the Greek capital as a general strike was held to protest the government’s austerity drive.

NBCNews.com

EDUCATION

College and social media

Social networking was born in a dorm room, but when it comes to equipping students with the social media skills demanded by today’s jobs, colleges fail.

CNNMoney

Students resist new school lunches

Healthier school lunches, required for the first time this year, are getting some push back from students and teachers across the U.S. who say they are still hungry after eating the noon meal.

USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Google says Maps not waiting in wings for iPhone 5

Google Inc. has made no move to provide Google Maps for the iPhone 5 after Apple Inc. dropped the application in favor of a home-grown, but controversial, alternative.

Hindustan Times

App developers seek future video games

Developers once striving to get a foot into RockStar Games’ doors are now working to build empires of their own through the gaming potential inside billions of new smartphones.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Most detailed image of the universe ever captured published by NASA

NASA has just published the most detailed view of the universe ever taken. It took 10 years of Hubble Space Telescope photographs to show some the oldest galaxies ever observed.

Gizmodo

Hubble’s Extreme Deep Field sees back in time

SPACE.com

SPORTS

Inside the lockout: explaining the NFL’s battle with its referees

The two sides are fighting over pension plans, full-time status while replacement refs with little experience are making a farce out of football.

NY Daily News

Replacement Google and replacement referees

Huffington Post

Big Ten critics free to fire away

With the endless debate over problems with the Big Ten, commissioner Jim Delany has a message for those treating his league like a piñata after the first four weeks of the season: swing away.

ESPN

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