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Moyna, left, and her mother, right, mourn the death of a family member who was killed in the recent cyclone, at Mazir Char, 125 miles south of Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Photo by Pavel Rahman / AP)

Pakistan parties waver on boycott

Opposition parties wavered on whether to boycott crucial Pakistani elections, backing off their most strident calls to shun the vote unless President Gen. Pervez Musharraf ends his state of emergency.

ABC News

Pakistan army 'kills 40 rebels'

BBC

Pakistan

Yahoo! News

Iran's nukes: still room for diplomacy

TIME

Global spread of democracy stalled

The spread of democracy has been one of the defining geopolitical trends of the last 25 years. But in recent years the growth of democracy and political freedom has slowed.

Christian Science Monitor

Bangladesh picks through the pieces

Relatively speaking, the death toll from the cyclone was small: nearly 3,500, according to latest official count. But the cyclone has left about 4 million people in utter ruin.

International Herald Tribune

U.N. grants aid to Bangladesh to assist 3 million hit by cyclone

Bloomberg

Survivors wait as aid effort builds

Reuters

Water park planned for Arizona desert

The city of Phoenix, Ariz., sits in the middle of a desert that for the past 11 years has been suffering a drought. A perfect spot to build what is described as a "year-round watersports paradise."

Guardian

How low will it go?

The Weather Channel

Naturalization paperwork jam

Millions of people who applied for naturalization are caught in a paperwork pileup that threatens the chance for some to become U.S. citizens in time to vote in the next presidential election.

Houston Chronicle

Smithsonian needs $2.5 billion

The world’s largest museum, the Smithsonian Institution, created with a bequest of golden sovereigns from a British scientist, is asking for an injection of $2.5 billion to stop it from falling down.

Times Online

NATION

U.S. Supreme Court agrees to rule on right to own gun

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether individuals have a constitutional right to own firearms, agreeing to decide an election-year fight over the District of Columbia's decades-old handgun ban.

Bloomberg

Guns law

Polling Report

Pentagon warns on war funds, Democrats say it's a scare tactic

The Pentagon started shifting money between accounts to cover a shortfall caused by lawmakers' refusal to approve war funds, but Democrats called the move a scare tactic.

Reuters

Hazardous toys still on U.S. store shelves

Two consumer groups called for tougher toy oversight by the U.S. government's product safety agency, saying they had easily found toys in stores with high lead levels and other dangers.

Reuters

U.S. recalls of imported toys boost made in America sales

AFP

POLITICS

Former aide blames Bush for leak deceit

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative.

Yahoo! News

Bush predicts Clinton wins nomination, loses 2008 election

President Bush said he believes Sen. Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination, but will lose the presidency next year.

ABC News

Clinton sharpens her attacks on Obama's experience

Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton sharpened her attacks on rival Sen. Barack Obama's experience, a day after a poll showed her falling behind him in Iowa.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Investment banks erred by chasing future mortgage profits

Big-name investment banks are taking a financial beating this year, leaving many Americans to ask: Just how did all these Wall Street bankers in their $5,000 shoes manage to step in you-know-what?

McClatchy Newspapers

Is the dollar losing its luster?

BBC

Fed sees economy slowing in 2008

The Federal Reserve said that the decision to cut a key interest rate last month was a "close call," according to minutes released from that meeting.

CNNMoney

$2 billion loss at Freddie Mac rattles housing industry

Turmoil in the U.S. housing sector reverberated across the industry, reinforcing the mood among investors that the downturn has not yet reached bottom.

International Herald Tribune

HEALTH

Make Thanksgiving a feast of health

By tweaking traditional Thanksgiving dinner recipes, you can avoid as much as 60 grams of fat, ensuring a healthier meal and a good beginning to the diet-busting holiday season.

HealthDay

Study: HIV cases down from estimates

The global burden of HIV has been overstated, with new surveillance data showing the number of people carrying the AIDS-causing virus is about 6.3 million lower than was estimated last year.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

Big-play Broncos share AFC West lead

Bronco's receiver, Brandon Marshall, was one of four Denver players to score a long touchdown in a 34-20 victory over the Tennessee Titans that moved the Broncos into a first-place tie with San Diego.

Sporting News

Vick faces $900,000 bill for dog care

The government asked a federal court to order former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick to keep assets valued at more than $900,000, which is the amount earmarked for the care of 54 pit bulls.

CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Polygamist leader Jeffs sentenced

A judge sentenced a polygamous-sect leader to five years to life in prison for rape as an accomplice, the result of a marriage arranged for a 14-year-old follower and her 19-year-old cousin.

Arizona Republic

Inside polygamy

CBS News

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GOOD NEWS

Iraqis return home 'in thousands'

BBC

Skin cells made to mimic stem cells

Researchers have made skin cells mimic stem cells, raising hope that someday a person's own cells could be manipulated to heal or regenerate failing tissues.

MSNBC

A stem cell breakthrough, without embryos

International Herald Tribune

Stem cell breakthrough

CBS

Woman turns 100, gets her diploma

A woman who led a full life on the West Coast after dropping out of school received an honorary high school diploma at her 100th birthday party.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

WORLD

Uncertainty about Middle East talks

President Bush was preparing for the first Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in seven years, but it remained uncertain how many of the key players would even attend the conference.

NPR

School massacre plots hatched by students on Internet

German authorities closed a school in the west of the country after warnings of a plan to carry out a massacre, in the latest of a string of violent plots believed to have been hatched by students in chat rooms.

Guardian

Civil servants join strikes in France

Many of France's 5 million civil servants have walked off the job, adding to a week of rail strike disruptions.

Canadian Press

French strikes widen

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

A new model to simulate forest growth

A simulator, called Vorest, models the evolution of a forest. This tool is a forestry engineering research aid and an excellent example of how to apply computational geometry to real-world problems.

Science Daily

Cooling begins for 'doomsday' seed tank

Refrigeration units began cooling a new "doomsday" vault dug into an already frigid Arctic mountainside to protect the world's seeds in case of a global catastrophe.

National Geographic

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

West's surgeon cancels TV interview

A plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West's mother the day before she died, abruptly walked off CNN's "Larry King Live" during a live interview.

ABC News

Broadway strike could steal 'Grinch' from children during holiday season

The Broadway stagehands strike could steal "The Grinch" from young fans unless a court intervenes.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mythical Roman cave 'unearthed'

Italian archaeologists say they have found the long-lost underground grotto where ancient Romans believed a female wolf suckled the city's twin founders.

BBC

Males are simpler creatures, so evolve faster than females

The differences in the male and female is stunning. According to U.S. researchers, nearly all male organisms evolve faster than related female organisms because they are constructed more simply.

iTWire

EDUCATION

Juvenile offenders start life over with a crochet hook

At a facility in Maine, Brendan Staples and other teenagers make blankets in a program that teaches valuable skills and life lessons.

Christian Science Monitor

Student group pushes for concealed weapons on college campuses

When it comes to college campus safety, Mike Guzman and thousands of other students around the country say they want more guns in the classrooms and on the quads of public universities.

Houston Chronicle

Obama unveils $18 billion education plan

Presidential contender Barack Obama called for a $18 billion education plan that he said would fix mistakes his chief Democratic rivals made when they approved the "No Child Left Behind" effort.

Associated Press

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