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A vehicle burns and graffiti decorates the street following clashes between demonstrators and police in Copenhagen. Squatters were evicted from a building, sparking days of rioting.  (Photo by Tariq Mikkel Khan / AP) Danish police search homes amid clashes Police searched homes in Copenhagen for activists involved in street clashes that began when police evicted squatters from an abandoned building that has served as a center for anarchists and leftists. Guardian Ohio college mourns crash victims At a university smaller than some high schools, where many athletes live in the same dormitory, the deaths of four baseball players in a bus crash left the campus feeling a profound sense of loss. Yahoo! News White House OK’d mass U.S. attorney firings The White House approved the firings of seven U.S. attorneys late last year after the Justice Department identified prosecutors who were not doing enough to carry out President Bush's policies. MSNBC 'Laughing' bank heist suspects nabbed - with teller Police arrested two 19-year-old girls and a bank teller in a brazen robbery in which two young women disguised in sunglasses were caught on videotape laughing as they held up a bank branch. CNN   U.S. forces strike insurgents targeting helicopters Reuters Snowstorms sock upper Midwest Fierce wind blew snow across roads and stranded hundreds of drivers on Midwestern highways, as thousands shivered without power and airlines were forced to call off hundreds of flights. USA Today Bush intervenes in army scandal President Bush intervened in a scandal over the way wounded American soldiers were treated after they returned home from Iraq or Afghanistan. BBC 6 Sunnis slain for talking with Shiites Six Sunni men who received death threats for meeting with Shiites were killed in execution-style slayings, police said. Yahoo! News Seoul angry over Japan's WWII sex slaves denial South Korea rapped Japan's prime minister for disavowing his country's responsibility for using Asian women as sex slaves. MSNBC Ammo, weapons, tunnel found in California home More than 1 million rounds of ammunition, a cache of weapons and a tunnel were found in a house after a fire that forced a neighborhood evacuation, authorities said. CNN   NATION U.S. ready to unfreeze N. Korean assets The U.S. will soon recommend releasing a significant amount of frozen North Korean bank accounts, which diplomats hope will keep the communist nation from reneging on its pledge to scrap nuclear weapons. TIME Missing Britons have embassy links Five Britons missing and feared kidnapped in eastern Ethiopia are members of staff from the UK embassy in Addis Ababa or relatives of staff, the foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, said. Guardian 'No reward' for non-nuclear Libya Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said his country has not been given adequate compensation for its decision to renounce nuclear weapons in 2003. BBC POLITICS Rice taps Iraq reconstruction critic Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has decided to appoint a leading critic of the U.S. reconstruction effort in Iraq as a senior aide, the State Department said. AOL News Obama calls Iranian regime a 'threat' Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama blamed Bush administration failings in Iraq for strengthening the strategic position of Iran. Yahoo! News Conservapedia - the U.S. religious right's answer to Wikipedia A website founded by U.S. religious activists aims to counter what they claim is "liberal bias" on Wikipedia, the open encyclopedia which has become one of the most popular sites on the web. Guardian SPORTS Plummer may retire rather than take trade In a twist that could scuttle a proposed trade to the Buccaneers, quarterback Jake Plummer told friends that he plans to retire from football rather than continue his career in another city. ESPN Matsuzaka pitches two scoreless innings in debut Daisuke Matsuzaka's spring training debut with the Boston Red Sox began when he gave up a leadoff double by a college junior. The Japanese star retired his other six batters. Sports Illustrated HEALTH FDA links plant to salmonella strain Federal inspectors found the strain of salmonella behind a recent food-poisoning outbreak at the ConAgra Foods Inc. plant that made the tainted peanut butter, the Food and Drug Administration said. Forbes U.N. warns potentially fatal counterfeit drugs on the rise The United Nations is calling on member countries to tighten up laws to curb illegal manufacture and sale of fake medicines, some of which can be fatal. Medical News Today LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT Condo or co-op? There's an unusual real estate proposition often encountered by young, hip urbanites looking for their first stake in real estate: instead of purchasing a condominium, why not buy a share of a cooperative building? Yahoo! News 'Goodnight, sweet Anna baby': Smith's sentimental send-off Anna Nicole Smith, hailed as a small-town girl who "stumbled over the rocks of life" toward unimagined celebrity and terrible tragedy, embarked on her final red carpet ride. E! Online   Columns And Op-Ed The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more. Column: How the U.S. ignored Iran's reformers TIME Column: Case of the missing Padilla video Newsweek Column: A dose of reality on HPV vaccine Boston Globe Column: A historian's valedictory International Herald Tribune Column: Veterans: Shame then rage Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial: Reforming Real ID San Francisco Chronicle Column: For Cambodia, read Iraq Times Editorial: Splitting atoms to cool the planet Christian Science Monitor Column: From Selma to Obama Real Clear Politics Editorial: Gulf Coast's halting recovery leaves much to be done USA Today Editorial: All of Bush's talk about helping Lebanon is just that - talk Daily Star   Site edited by: Joe Naroditsky, Tom Regan, Yvonne Lee, Peter Dunn, Ryan Dowse, Walt Chiu and Josh Miles.   GOOD NEWS Tourism expected to exceed pre-9/11 levels The number of international tourists visiting America should exceed pre-Sept. 11 levels for the first time since the 2001 terrorist attacks crippled the travel industry. San Diego Union-Tribune Rare gorilla birth recorded in Congo Conservationists announced the birth of a rare mountain gorilla in eastern Congo, where rebels have been accused of killing and eating the endangered animals. Yahoo! News NATION Snowstorms sock upper Midwest Fierce wind blew snow across roads and stranded hundreds of drivers on Midwestern highways, as thousands shivered without power and airlines were forced to call off hundreds of flights. Houston Chronicle Court nixes suit alleging CIA tortured man Khaled El-Masri, a German who sued the United States for allegedly ordering his abduction and secretly detaining him in an Afghan prison, has been dealt another setback in the U.S. courts. CBS News Accused D.C. madam could name clients A woman accused of running an upscale prostitution service in the Washington area might sell her list of 10,000 clients to pay for her defense, her attorney said. Seattle Post-Intelligencer BUSINESS Price war looms over flights from London to New York Air fares from London to New York are likely to be slashed after the European Union broke the British Airways stranglehold on flights from Heathrow. Times Online Fed: Use caution in subprime mortgages Federal bank regulators, worried about a surge in defaults on high-risk home mortgages, told lenders to be cautious making subprime loans and closely evaluate borrowers' ability to repay them. Forbes SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Saturday night fever as lunar eclipse nears The moon will turn a shade of copper red this Saturday when it will be fully eclipsed by the Earth, whose shadow will blot out all but a tiny bit of refracted solar light. Independent Key found to changes in hurricane intensity A new study of the dynamics at the core of hurricanes has shed light on a process that can change the storm's intensity, and the finding could improve storm predictions. LiveScience ENVIRONMENT U.S., Brazil plan ethanol partnership U.S. and Brazilian officials are negotiating details of an ethanol partnership in advance of President Bush's scheduled visit to Brazil next week. USA Today Wildlife on the Ho Chi Minh Trail is making a comeback Four decades after U.S. warplanes plastered it with bombs, a remote corner of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia is making a comeback as a treasure trove of endangered wildlife. Environmental News Network EDUCATION Critics denounce Pizza Hut reading program Pizza Hut's Book It, an incentive program used by schools to reward students with free pizzas, is under attack by experts who say it promotes bad eating habits and turns teachers into corporate promoters. CNN Sexual harassment on study abroad A University of Minnesota student who says she repeatedly endured sexual assault and harassment while studying abroad is publicly criticizing the response of the university’s study abroad office. Inside Higher Ed RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY Experts debate what drives Islamic terrorists More than five years after 9/11, experts continue to debate what motivated the attacks on the United States and other violent actions by Islamic extremists against the West. Crosswalk   IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Rarely seen King papers go on display The words of Martin Luther King Jr. are as inspiring today for Shirley Franklin as they were when she saw him deliver his "I Have A Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Monument in Washington in 1963. Modesto Bee   Photo of the Day Kashmiri women pray outside the shrine of Hazrat Sheikh Hamza Makhdoomi on his death anniversary in Srinagar, India. Hundreds of Muslim devotees thronged to the shrine during the thirteen day festival.  (Photo by Mukhtar Khan / AP)	DailySource Most Popular Most viewed Most shared Most recent Connect with Us Or enter Amazon via the box below and they will donate 4-7% of all purchases you make in the next 24 hours to us. 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