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Turkish soldiers in armored vehicles patrol on a road in the province of Sirnak, on the Turkish-Iraqi border, southeastern Turkey. (Photo by Kadir Konuksever / AP)

Bhutto visits bomb victims

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan visited bomb blast victims in her first public outing since a suicide attack killed at least 136 people and wrecked her jubilant return to Pakistan from exile.

ABC News

Democracy at risk in Pakistan

CBS News

Countdown to shuttle's launch begins

NASA's countdown for the launching of the shuttle Discovery on a pivotal assembly mission to the international space station got under way with a weather outlook that was only slightly favorable.

Houston Chronicle

World's biggest airliner approaches

Scientific American

Dozens die in Turkey border clash

Fighting between Turkish soldiers and Kurdish rebels near the border with Iraq has left 12 soldiers and 23 rebels dead, said Turkish military officials.

BBC

Turkey set for referendum to decide how to elect presidents

International Herald Tribune

Turkey tensions

CBS News

U.S. military kills 49 in Baghdad

U.S. forces said they killed 49 gunmen in fierce fighting in Baghdad during a raid to capture an Iranian-linked kidnap cell leader suspected of abducting U.S.-led coalition soldiers and other foreigners.

Reuters

Sexual misconduct plagues U.S. schools

An Associated Press investigation found more than 2,500 cases over five years in which educators nationwide were punished for actions from bizarre to sadistic.

Salt Lake Tribune

School board OKs birth control for middle school

ABC News

NATION

Capital punishment at crossroads in U.S.

Most executions will not proceed until the Supreme Court rules in a challenge by two death row inmates to the lethal injection procedures used by Kentucky.

Newsday

IMF panel warns of inflation risks

The IMF policy-setting committee noted rising food and oil prices and other indications of inflation in urging finance ministers and central bankers to stay focused on achieving price stability.

International Herald Tribune

More mothers exit work force

The long march of American mothers into the workplace has ground to a halt. And the reason will come as no surprise to the millions of women trying to balance kids and a job: It's getting too tough to pull off.

Akron Beacon Journal

POLITICS

Louisiana elects Jindal as its first Indian-American governor

Republican U.S. Representative Bobby Jindal was elected governor of Louisiana and will become the first Indian-American to lead a U.S. state.

Bloomberg

'Values voters' lean toward Romney

After a dramatic and well-received appeal for acceptance from Rudy Giuliani, Christian conservatives are still divided about which of the Republican presidential candidates to marshal their collective might behind.

San Jose Mercury News

Faith and politics

Yahoo! News

Clinton's steady march

The former first lady appears to be pulling away from her rivals in the Democratic presidential contest. One year ago, few would have expected Clinton to hold such a commanding advantage.

Baltimore Sun

Campaigning getting personal for Clinton

CBS News

BUSINESS

No. 3 grocery chain nearly loses $10.1 million in fraud

Supervalu Inc., the No. 3 U.S. grocery chain, has fallen prey to an e-mail fraud, nearly losing about $10 million after wiring money to bogus bank accounts, according to federal court filings.

Baltimore Sun

IMF fails to make progress on reforms

Rodrigo Rato bowed out as managing director of the International Monetary Fund with effusive plaudits from world financial leaders in public, but sharp criticism of his role.

Financial Times

EBay reports a rare plunge into the red

EBay Inc. reported a rare dip into the red, with a third-quarter net loss of more than $936 million caused by a $1.4 billion charge to write down the value of its Skype telecommunications division.

Baltimore Sun

HEALTH

Daily aspirin for men only?

Aspirin cuts the risk of a first heart attack in men but not in women, an analysis of clinical trial data suggests. Evidence suggests that aspirin helps everyone who has had a heart attack.

WebMD

Gates fights to eradicate malaria

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation delivered a call to action to more than 300 malaria scientists and policy makers at the Gates Foundation Malaria Forum in Seattle.

Forbes

Breast cancer care eludes older women

Many older women are being under-diagnosed and under-treated for breast cancer, studies show.

HealthDay

SPORTS

Red Sox have the momentum

The Red Sox have snatched back the momentum heading into Game Seven because they've gotten back to playing the kind of baseball that has worked for them the past few seasons.

ESPN

Cleveland pitcher spent thousands on human growth hormone

Paul Byrd, the veteran pitcher of the Cleveland Indians, bought nearly $25,000 worth of human growth hormone and syringes from a Florida anti-aging clinic, business records show.

San Francisco Chronicle

Kentucky can silence the doubters

Today when it faces defending national champion Florida, the University of Kentucky football team has a chance to make the college football world very uncomfortable.

Indianapolis Star

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Church community proves a godsend for stricken family

Peter Mantas struggled to describe his shock when he learned that his son, Andrew, was suspected of killing his ex-wife, Dimitra, with a baseball bat.

San Jose Mercury News

Students of Buddhism prepare for Dalai Lama visit

This week a Greenwood couple, part of a small but diverse community of Buddhists in Central Indiana, will celebrate a weeklong visit by the world's most famous Buddhist teacher, the 14th Dalai Lama.

Indianapolis Star

Rare glimpse of Buddhist relics

Edmonton Sun

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Melodrama in Iraq

Khaleej Times

Editorial:

Shot against secular government in Pakistan

Newsday

Column (Larry Sabato):

Time to rewrite the Constitution

Baltimore Sun

Editorial:

A better world, one office at a time

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Mehdi Khalajj):

The decline of Ahmadinejad

Guardian

Column:

Murderer's sentence can't end mom's pain

Chicago Sun-Times

Column:

Sexual health in kids ignored

Detroit Free Press

Column (Daniel Gross):

Is nuclear power's comeback for real?

Slate

Editorial:

A green light to oust Al Qaeda

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Is the boom in the contemporary-art market coming to an end?

Economist

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GOOD NEWS

Autistic hiker back with family in W.Va.

Against all odds, rescuers found an 18-year-old autistic man in the Dolly Sods Wilderness of the West Virginia woods who had been missing for four days.

ABC News

WORLD

15 migrants killed in shipwreck off Mexico, more missing

Authorities have recovered the bodies of 15 Central American migrants whose boat capsized in the Pacific Ocean, the Mexican navy said. The vessel was believed to be carrying more than 20 migrants.

CNN

Latin American women rise in nations long dominated by men

Defying Latin America’s longtime reputation as a bastion of machismo, women in South America are winning political power at an unprecedented rate and taking top higher education positions.

McClatchy Newspapers

Poland votes in a snap election

People in Poland are voting in general elections called two years early, after the collapse of the ruling coalition in a row over a corruption investigation.

BBC

Polish opposition may win election today, polls show

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Mich. lawmaker: let turtles be roadkill

A congressman disputes the state's contention that it's worth $318,000 in federal money to keep turtles from becoming roadkill.

MSNBC

Challenging views about global warming

The globe is warming, it's our fault and the consequences are going to be terrible. So goes the rhetoric spouted by politicians, celebrities and the media.

ABC News

In many countries, cement is crucial for growth but an enemy of green

Making cement creates pollution, in the form of carbon dioxide emissions, and the greenest of technologies can reduce that by only 20 percent.

International Herald Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Breakthrough by Chinese shakes up contemporary art market

Recent sales of contemporary art at both Sotheby and Christie signaled the entry of high-powered political dissent against totalitarian regimes into the world of art auctions.

International Herald Tribune

JK Rowling outs Dumbledore as gay

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed that one of her characters, Hogwarts school headmaster Albus Dumbledore, is gay.

BBC

Dumbledore into wizards, not witches

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ancient, legless crab discovered

A fossil of a new crab species reveals the itsy-bitsy crustaceans inhabited towering sponge reefs during the Jurassic Period, where they made tasty snacks for ichthyosaurs and other ancient reptiles.

LiveScience

What MySpace-Facebook rivalry?

Talk of a brewing showdown between the two social networks masks fundamental distinctions between the sites' leadership, culture and ability to make a buck.

BusinessWeek

EDUCATION

7-year-old suspended over drawing

A New Jersey second-grader's drawing of a stick figure shooting a gun has earned him a one-day school suspension.

MSNBC

Probe in fatal crash focuses on driver, school bus

The driver of a school bus that smashed into a parked gravel truck on Crowchild Trail, killing a nine-year-old girl, could be facing charges.

Edmonton Sun

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