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A supporter of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is taken away by Pakistani police in front of a barbed-wire barricade outside of her home in Islamabad. (Photo by Wally Santana / 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

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

Recruiters struggle to find an army

The Army is struggling to find volunteers for an unpopular war, despite recruiting bonuses of up to $20,000 and pay increases for enlistees that have beaten inflation by 21 percent since 2000.

McClatchy Newspapers

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

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

High court to look at ban on handguns

The Supreme Court will discuss gun control in a private conference that soon could explode publicly.

Houston Chronicle

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

Rising global demand for oil provoking new energy crisis

With oil prices approaching the threshold of $100 a barrel, the world is headed toward its third energy shock in a generation.

International Herald Tribune

HEALTH

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

Relationship between environmental stress and cancer elucidated

Science Daily

U.S. smoking rate stalled at 21 percent, CDC says

Nearly 21 percent of Americans smoke, a number that has been stalled since 2004, federal researchers reported in a study they said means governments must spend more to persuade people to kick the habit.

Reuters

Energy drinks may be harmful

These days, high energy drinks fill a larger space on store shelves. But most of them pack more than just a high dose of caffeine.

WRAL

Energy drinks raise blood pressure

Insider Medicine

SPORTS

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

Vikes dock Williamson's pay for missing game for grandmother's funeral

Missing a game and three practices in order to attend his grandmother's funeral will cost Troy Williamson $25,588.

ESPN

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

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 U.K. journalists kicked out of Pakistan

Three reporters from Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper have been ordered to leave Pakistan for an editorial the paper ran that used an expletive in an allusion about President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

CBS News

Chad frees more 'kidnap' suspects

The Chadian authorities have ordered the release of four Europeans detained as part of an alleged attempt to fly 103 African children to Europe, legal sources said.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

China launches fund to back carbon emissions trading

China launched a state-run fund to support trading of carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

Earth Times

New climate solutions sought as CO2 levels rise

NPR

Turning to chemistry for alternative fuel

Scientists believe techniques borrowed from oil refining and other chemical industries will allow them to crack open big biological molecules, transforming them, maybe, into gasoline.

International Herald Tribune

Seawater treatment plants could combat climate change

The seas themselves might be modified to combat global warming by absorbing climate-altering carbon dioxide from the air, research now reveals.

LiveScience

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The myth of the Asian fetish

Two psychologists and two economists conducted a speed-dating experiment at a bar near Columbia University as they tried to solve the mysteries of dating.

Slate

Priest charged with stalking Conan O'Brien out on bail

A Catholic priest, accused of stalking the comedian and acting out an obsession he has harbored for years, was released after posting $2,500 bail.

NY Daily News

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

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The birth of a brain cell

For the first time, researchers have developed a way to view stem cells in the brains of living animals, including humans. A finding that allows scientists to follow the birth of neurons.

Scientific American

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

‘Google is not ahead of us,’ Microsoft CEO says

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, who was in Tokyo to launch new Windows Live services, played down the threat of Google, denying the rival was ahead.

MSNBC

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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