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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama answer a question during the third presidential debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. (Photo by Win McNamee / AP)

Why would you leave the West for India?

With India‘s economy growing faster than America or Britain’s, the BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan has been speaking to some of the new wave of “reverse migrants” who are seeking opportunities.

BBC

Orionid meteor shower amazes spectators

The Orionid meteor shower put on a cosmic light show for the Northern Hemisphere over the weekend. The Orionids peaked early Sunday morning as more than 25 meteors an hour streaked the night sky.

CNN

Special section:

Meteor shower quiz: How well do you know ‘shooting stars’?

SPACE.com

Obama, Romney tackle foreign policy in 3rd debate

President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney were expected to spend their final debate clashing over the merits of diplomacy and brinkmanship in Libya, China, Iran and the Middle East.

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog:

Presidential debate: live blog

(ABC News)

The Note

Special section:

Live: fact checking the 3rd presidential debate

PolitiFact.com

2012 election: 3rd presidential debate

YouTube

Italian court convicts 7 scientists for failing to predict earthquake

An Italian court convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter for failing to adequately warn residents before a temblor struck central Italy.

FOX News

Earthquake experts condemn ‘appalling’ Italy manslaughter verdict

LiveScience

Eating cooked food made us human

Raw food takes too long to digest and offers too few calories to grow a human brain. Cooking it is the key, suggests a new scientific paper.

Popular Science

NATION

Defense lawyer calls mob tapes ‘just a bunch of geriatric gangsters’ talking

Jurors in the racketeering trial of Philadelphia mob boss Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ligambi and six codefendants got the inside scoop on a 1968 dust-up that is part of underworld folklore.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Is Ohio’s energy boom going to bust?

Dozens of wells drilled this year across rural Ohio are quietly pumping out the answer to the U.S. energy industry’s most loaded question: Is the Utica shale formation a boom or a bust?

Reuters

POLITICS

For many Florida ex-cons, the voting booth is off-limits

The number of people who have lost the right to vote because of a felony conviction has grown dramatically. Almost 6 million people don’t have that right — and about 1.5 million of them live in Florida.

NPR

Emanuel’s plan to shop for electricity in bulk on fast track

Mayor Rahm Emanuel outlined a two-step, competitive bidding process for shopping for electricity in bulk and scheduled four public hearings to persuade voters to approve a Nov. 6 referendum.

Chicago Sun-Times

BUSINESS

Ancestry.com to be sold for $1.6 billion

Ancestry.com, the online genealogy site, agreed to be purchased by Permira, a European private equity firm, for $1.6 billion.

CNNMoney

Rosneft buys BP’s TNK-BP stake for $26B in cash, shares

BP will sell its 50 percent stake in Russia’s third-largest oil producer for $17.1 billion in cash and 12.8 percent of Rosneft’s shares. BP will reinvest $4.8 billion in the government’s shares of Rosneft.

BusinessWeek

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Digital sound tech used to study rare owls

In Yosemite, Calif., researchers are using digital MP3 recorders to study a rare species of great gray owl.

Discovery News

US astronaut sees scientific breakthrough in space mission

A U.S. astronaut departing for the International Space Station said that the bulk of the scientific benefits from the orbiting laboratory will be seen over the coming decade.

Houston Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Dolphin ‘sponging’ existed for centuries

Bottlenose dolphins using sponges to protect their noses, while foraging is a technique that the animals discovered in the 19th century.

BBC

Pesticides put bumblebee colonies at risk of failure, study finds

Farming pesticides are also killing worker bumblebees, meaning colonies that are vital for plant pollination are more likely to fail.

Guardian

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope canonizes 7 saints, including 1st Native American

Tens of thousands of faithful turned out as Pope Benedict XVI canonized seven saints, including the first American Indian to be sainted, as well as a 19th-century nun who tended to patients in Hawaii.

New York Times

Saudis say Syria crisis will not affect Hajj

The interior minister says Muslims traveling to Mecca for the annual pilgrimage will not be affected by regional events.

Al Jazeera

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Clark Kent makes a major life change in new ‘Superman’

The Daily Planet has a new job opening. In “Superman” issue 13, the Man of Steel’s alter ego, mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, quits the Metropolis newspaper that has been his employer since 1940.

USA TODAY

Backlash for Disney’s first Latina princess

Disney‘s first Latina princess has received backlash as well as support from media outlets, especially the Latino community. Is Disney’s new princess a milestone for Latinos or a culturally irrelevant character?

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Larissa Faw):

Are millennials crowdsourcing themselves out of jobs?

Forbes

Column (Kathleen Parker):

The social-media presidential campaign

Seattle Times

Editorial:

Don’t be fooled:You can vote Nov. 6, even without a photo ID

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Voters, Congress needs your attention

USA TODAY

Column (Dave Helling):

Should Medicare be ran like the airline industry?

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Eric Berger):

Should we jail scientists for failed predictions?

(Houston Chronicle)

SciGuy

Column (Rachel Hills):

Skinny privilege

The Age

Cartoon (Rob Rogers):

Taliban Binders

Rob Rogers’ Cartoons (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

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GOOD NEWS

A good ‘sole’ provides footwear for the homeless in Seattle

Scott Sowle is known as “Shoe Guy” on the streets of Seattle. Formerly homeless himself, Sowle is passionate about providing footwear for the homeless.

Yahoo! News

Blind students get to touch antiquities at Pennsylvania museum

A specially curated “touch tour” at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology allows its blind visitors to touch history.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Coat drive offers warmth to a group of needy Iowa kids

One of the teachers at Hoover High School announced that the school would be distributing a donation of winter coats to help needy kids in the upcoming season who’re unable to afford one.

Des Moines Register

WORLD

Russian ‘rendition’: Kremlin grabs opposition figure from Ukraine streets

Analysts worry that Leonid Razvozzhayev’s alleged kidnapping from a Kiev street and subsequent imprisoning is the start of a full-scale crackdown by Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin.

Christian Science Monitor

Russia sends the women of Pussy Riot to separate prison camps

BBC

Scout training in Afghanistan stirs suspicion among local mullahs

A revival of the Scout movement in Afghanistan has provoked fierce local hostility amid suspicion that the recruits are working as police or even spreading a form of Christianity.

The Age

Al-Qaida is attempting a comeback

San Francisco Chronicle

EDUCATION

Lessons in bystander intervention

As a graduate student, Molly Schenck wrote a theater performance exploring sexual assault. The approach resonated with the cast, who found themselves relating to assault victims in new ways.

Inside Higher Ed

Idaho teachers, lawmakers argue importance of classroom tech

Of the three Idaho education laws up for possible repeal on the November ballot, anecdotal and poll evidence indicates that the so-called laptop law is the least popular.

Idaho Statesman

HEALTH

Pediatricians offer their 1st report on organic foods

Parents who want to reduce their kids’ exposure to pesticides may seek out organic fruits and vegetables, but they aren’t necessarily safer, the nation’s leading pediatricians group says.

Associated Press

The promise (and pitfalls) of sequencing children’s genomes

Can you imagine wanting to know whether your newborn baby will fall victim to Alzheimer’s disease decades down the road? What about cancer or diabetes?

TIME

Bullies nearly twice as likely to have mental health disorder

Mental disorders plague many adults who were bullied as children, but a new study suggests that those who had mental health disorders during childhood are three times more likely to become bullies.

ABC News

SPORTS

Armstrong banned for life, stripped of 7 Tour titles

Cycling’s governing body agreed to strip Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and ban him for life, following a report that accused him of leading a massive doping program.

NBCNews.com

Rich history of Game 7 gets a Cards-Giants addition

A 2012 postseason that has seen more than its share of elimination games will include one more, with the Giants and Cardinals stretching their best-of-seven Championship Series to the limit.

MLB.com

Special section:

2012 postseason playoffs

ESPN

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