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Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. speaks during an Earth Day rally in front of the Old Capitol at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. (Photo by Charlie Neibergall / AP)

Suicide bombings kill 24 in Iraq

CNN

U.S. envoy: Coming months critical in Iraq

The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Iraq's feuding leaders had to move away from an all or nothing approach to reach the broad political compromises necessary for healing their fractured country.

Reuters

Iraqi PM calls for halt to Baghdad wall

Guardian

Boris Yeltsin, first post-Communist Russian president, dies

Russia's first post-Communist president Boris Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, has died, a Kremlin official said.

International Herald Tribune

Report: Pressure increases on World Bank

A group of top former World Bank executives has urged Paul Wolfowitz to resign, as the bank's watchdog warned his actions were undermining the ability of the institution to carry out development work.

Reuters

Va. Tech classes resume with talks, hugs

Chemistry professor Joe Merola tried to give a lecture, but looking out at 100 Virginia Tech students' faces — and the sweatshirt he'd placed on the seat of a wounded student — he couldn't do it.

Roanoke Times

Classes resume at Va. Tech

ABC News

Navy identifies fallen Blue Angel aviator

One day after a U.S. Navy Blue Angels pilot died when his jet crashed during an airshow, the airshow continued with a memorial to the 11-year Navy veteran, Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Davis.

CNN

Sarkozy, Royal appeal to center as campaign resumes

French presidential candidates Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal went back to the campaign trail as they battled for votes from the undecided.

Reuters

Specter: Gonzales hurt administration

ABC News

Fresh Somali clashes 'kill many'

At least 47 people have been killed in Mogadishu in fresh fighting between Ethiopian-backed Somali forces and Islamists, a human rights group says.

BBC

NATION

Iran rules out nuclear suspension ahead of EU talks

Iran rejected Western calls for a suspension of its sensitive nuclear activities just days ahead of crucial talks on its atomic drive with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.

Times of India

Yar'Adua looks set to win Nigerian presidential poll

Ruling party candidate Umaru Yar'Adua looked set to win Nigeria's presidential poll, but monitors condemned the vote as a blow to the country becoming a beacon of democracy for Africa.

Reuters

Nigeria's violent election aftermath

Yahoo! News

Millions face famine due to crop disease

Scientists say millions of people face starvation following an outbreak of a deadly new strain of crop disease which is spreading across the wheat fields of Africa and Asia.

Observer

POLITICS

Specter, Schumer call for gun law reform

Sens. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that federal gun control laws should be changed to increase coordination between state and federal databases.

The Hill

Democrats craft new tax rules, new image

House Democrats, aiming to seize taxes as a political issue, have come up with a plan to shift the burden of the hated alternative minimum tax onto the shoulders of the nation's richest households.

MSNBC

Congresswoman Millender-McDonald dies of cancer

Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, a seven-term congresswoman from southern California, has died of cancer. Her chief of staff says Millender-McDonald died at her home in Carson. She was 68.

San Jose Mercury News

BUSINESS

Stocks struggle after record

Stocks were mixed as investors took tentative steps one session after the Dow industrials closed at an all-time high.

CNNMoney

Riding the Wall Street roller coaster

ABC News

Gates: Asia to spawn tech breakthrough

Asia will increasingly become a source of technological innovation, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said.

CNET News

Wal-Mart's midlife crisis

CEO Lee Scott faces declining growth, increasing competition, and not an easy fix in sight.

BusinessWeek

SPORTS

Top-ranked Americans get tough World Cup draw

The top-ranked United States got a tough draw for this year's women's World Cup, placed in Group B with Sweden, North Korea and Nigeria.

USA Today

Barry Bonds launches home run No. 740

Nobody looks more lively at the plate than 42-year-old Barry Bonds, who hit a solo home run for the second day in a row to increase his career total to 740, only 15 shy of Hank Aaron's record.

USA Today

HEALTH

Sheep reveal 'body clock' clues

Researchers are studying the habits of sheep to better understand how the seasons affect human beings.

BBC

Social, health care factors make colon cancer deadlier for blacks

Social, economic and health care inequalities—not genes—are probably to blame for black Americans' higher rate of colorectal cancer death compared to whites, a new study finds.

Health Day

FDA knew for years of potential problems with spinach, peanut butter

The Food and Drug Administration has known for years about contamination problems at a Georgia peanut-butter plant and on California spinach farms that led to disease outbreaks that killed three people.

Seattle Times

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GOOD NEWS

Building to save the world

Adnams Brewery Distribution Centre in Southwold, Suffolk, has become the first major construction in the U.K. to reverse the damaging effects of greenhouse gases.

PNN

Russia targets hunting to try saving polar bear

On the frozen edge of the country's Arctic expanse, Russia has embraced a counterintuitive method of trying to preserve dwindling populations of polar bears: hunting them, legally.

Scotsman

NATION

Earth Day: Regular folks join Gore's fight to rescue the planet

About 1,000 foot soldiers for Al Gore's message about global warming are receiving training to spread the message themselves.

San Francisco Chronicle

Earth Day

Yahoo! News

Gasoline prices: up, and rising

Gas prices rose more than eight cents in the past two weeks to a national average of $2.87 per gallon of self-serve regular—and are expected to rise further—according to a national survey.

CNNMoney

All accounted for after Texas tornado

Fifty people left unaccounted for after a tornado destroyed homes in this Texas Panhandle town have been located and appear to be safe, an official said.

MSNBC

Tornadoes and hail in Texas

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists forecast 1 in 3 chance of record low sea ice in 2007

University of Colorado at Boulder researchers are forecasting a one in three chance that the 2007 minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic region will set an all-time record low.

Science Daily

NYC pledges 1 million new trees by 2017

One million new trees will join the urban landscape of New York City by the year 2017 to reduce air pollution, cool temperatures and help improve the city's long term sustainability, officials said.

Yahoo! News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

It's curtains for 'The Producers'

It was an emotional, highly charged matinee at the St. James Theatre as the show's current Max (John Treacy Egan) and Leo (Hunter Foster) led the company of "The Producers" through the show.

Showbuzz

McDonald's wireless hook

Mary Dillon uses Web, text messaging, podcasts to lure the YouTube generation.

Baltimore Sun

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AttenTV turns Web surfing into eerie spectator sport

Someone peering over your shoulder as you browse the Internet would probably make you uncomfortable. But what if the situation were reversed?

CNET News

Sun is like a giant pipe organ in the solar atmosphere, scientists say

Astronomers have found that the atmosphere of the Sun plays a kind of heavenly music.

Science Daily

EDUCATION

The unkindest cut

A new report contends that fewer and fewer college English majors are being required to study Shakespeare.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

More grads means it's harder than ever to get into top colleges

The U.S. Education Department estimates that a record 3.2 million seniors will graduate from public and private high schools this year—a 24 percent increase from 10 years ago.

Rocky Mountain News

Tears for victims, fears on campuses

For school officials and law officers across Western Washington, it has been a long four days since the killings at Virginia Tech shocked the nation.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Dissatisfaction, yearning make churchgoers switch

The faithful are restless, a new study of Protestant churchgoers suggests. They're switching from church to church, feeling a mix of dissatisfaction and yearning, the study by LifeWay Research says.

USA Today

Mastermind recruiting Islamic gang inside super jail

The New South Whales Government has launched a prison crackdown on a group of the state's most dangerous criminals who have converted to Islam in the highest security jail in Australia.

Sydney Morning Herald

Photo of the Day

The American Falls are bathed in maroon and orange light, in honor of the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting, as seen from Niagara Falls State Park in Niagara Falls, N.Y. (Photo by Don Heupel / AP)

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