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Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto stands up from the door of her armored car and chants as Pakistani riot police block her from entering the residence of Pakistan's Chief Supreme Court Justice. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP)

Hardships increase in Gaza

Israel is moving to reduce its supplies of energy to Gaza, while maintaining imports of essentials for life. It hopes to use economic pressure to stop rocket attacks.

International Herald Tribune

6 U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Six U.S. troops were killed when insurgents ambushed their foot patrol in the high mountains of eastern Afghanistan, officials said. The attack made 2007 the deadliest year for U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

CBS News

Special section:

Life in Afghanistan

BBC

Pakistan police block ex-Prime Minister

Police blocked opposition leader Benazir Bhutto from visiting Pakistan's deposed chief justice, as President Pervez Musharraf resisted U.S. calls to end emergency rule.

Reuters

U.S. strategy for Pakistan looks increasingly fragile

International Herald Tribune

Day of rage in Pakistan

ABC News

Pakistan in crisis

BBC

Oil find could transform Brazil

Brazil's state oil company said that it has discovered 8 billion barrels of light crude oil off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, an amount that could help transform the country into a major world oil exporter.

TIME

FCC urged to oppose changing media ownership rules

The Federal Communications Commission is reconsidering rules on media consolidation. It is believed that the commission may decide what, if anything, to do as early as December.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

NATION

New Jersey rejects stem-cell research, Utah axes vouchers

The most watched of 34 state initiatives voted on were in Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington. Of 34 ballot measures in six states, voters approved 27 of them.

Christian Science Monitor

Murder, rape charges in Mo. girl's death

Prosecutors in Missouri filed rape and murder charges against two suspects in the disappearance and death of a 9-year-old girl - including the child's stepfather.

ABC News

2 girls slain in NJ; half-brother held

ABC News

POLITICS

News outlets doing more fact-checking of political ads

News outlets are fact-checking political advertising more than ever, according to new studies, which indicate the number of newspaper "adwatch" stories has tripled since the beginning of the decade.

Editor & Publisher

Confidence in the news media

Polling Report

Mukasey confirmed as attorney general

Michael Mukasey, whose statements on torture and interrogation of suspected terrorists touched off a partisan Senate fight, has won confirmation to be the next U.S. attorney general.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Wall Street plummets over bank worries

Wall Street suffered another huge drop after major banks warned of further losses on their debt portfolios, raising investor concerns that the credit market slump shows no sign of abating.

CBS News

China halts export of bead toys tainted with toxic drug

China has suspended exports of the Aqua Dots toys contaminated with a chemical that can convert to a powerful "date rape" drug, the Xinhua news agency reported.

CNN

HEALTH

Ripe fruit is healthier

Science Daily

Pill poses little cervical cancer risk

Women taking oral contraceptives are at a slightly increased risk for developing cervical cancer. But a decade after stopping the pill, even this very small risk disappears, a new British study suggests.

LiveScience

SPORTS

Illinois topples No. 1 OSU

MSNBC

Big first half leads Vols over Arkansas

Erik Ainge threw two touchdown passes as 22nd-ranked Tennessee pounded Arkansas, 34-13, in Southeastern Conference action.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Wisconsin knocks off No. 13 Michigan

MSNBC

Special section:

College football scoreboard

ESPN

Mattingly will wear No. 8 with Dodgers, rather than familiar 23

Don Mattingly said he'll wear uniform No. 8 to honor Yogi Berra when he takes over as hitting coach with the Los Angeles Dodgers, rather than the 23 he wore with the New York Yankees.

Bloomberg

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Excommunication looms for would-be women priests

Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis, Missouri, has warned two local women that they face excommunication if they go through with plans for a ceremony at which they will claim to be ordained as priests.

Catholic World News

LAPD announces Muslim mapping project

The Los Angeles Police Department announced a mapping program used by its anti-terrorism bureau to identity likely terrorist breeding grounds in Muslim areas.

Beliefnet

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GOOD NEWS

Web game provides rice for hungry

FreeRice, an Internet word game has generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, reports the U.N.'s World Food Programme.

BBC

Couple rescues driver from train

An off-duty police officer and her husband, a volunteer fire chief, rescued a woman from her stalled car seconds before a train smashed into it, police said.

MSNBC

WORLD

Arafat mausoleum opened by Abbas

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has unveiled a mausoleum to former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

BBC

3 journalists expelled from Pakistan

Three journalists from Britain's Daily Telegraph were expelled for "foul and abusive" language about the Pakistani leadership that officials said appeared in an editorial.

Reuters

3 U.K. journalists kicked out of Pakistan

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Florida's 'red tide' mystery solved

Scientists have figured out why harmful "red tide" blooms form along Florida's western coast every fall. The knowledge may help them better predict when the algae will appear.

National Geographic

Rescuers race to save birds tarred by San Francisco Bay oil spill

The Coast Guard nearly doubled the number of ships working to clean up a San Francisco Bay oil spill as rescue teams raced to save hundreds of seabirds tarred with black shipping fuel.

San Jose Mercury News

Ecosystem may absorb Bay Area spill

Most of the oil that spilled into San Francisco Bay when a container ship struck the Bay Bridge will never be retrieved and eventually will be absorbed into the ecosystem, authorities said.

LiveScience

Bay area spill sparks political fallout

MSNBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Singer cries as husband is locked up

Singer Amy Winehouse looked on tearfully as a British judge ordered her husband be held on charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

CNN

Norman Mailer, author and social critic, dies at 84

Norman Mailer, who burst on the literary scene in 1948 and won two Pulitzer Prizes, died at the age of 84.

NPR

Photos: Norman Mailer

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The physics of fading eyesight revealed

By applying physics and biology to the complexities of vision, scientists discovered even a slight change in the interaction of proteins can cause blindness.

LiveScience

Career women might want to have children ASAP

A new mathematical model could help women decide the optimal time in their lives to have kids. This stand-in decision-maker takes into account social interests and professional goals.

LiveScience

EDUCATION

Why quality preschool matters

"The Sandbox Investment" by David L. Kirpeing is an academic history of, and commentary on, the role of preschool in our nation.

San Francisco Chronicle

Attacks on students, teachers rising

The number of reported attacks against students, teachers and educational facilities for political or military reasons has increased dramatically, according to a recent U.N. study.

Associated Press

Judge: Teacher has no right to carry gun

ABC News

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