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Traffic moves along a downtown Bangkok, Thailand street. International delegates brokered a report showing the world has the technology and the money to avoid catastrophic global warming by quickly cutting harmful greenhouse gas emissions with biofuels, renewable energy sources, greater fuel efficiency and other steps. (Photo by David Longstreath / AP)

Republicans focus on Iraq in first debate

Guardian

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Israelis demand Olmert resignation

Tens of thousands of protesters in Tel Aviv demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert because of a scathing report on his handling of last summer's bloody war in Lebanon.

Sydney Morning Herald

Head of gluten export company detained in China

The general manager of one of the companies accused of selling contaminated wheat gluten to U.S. pet-food suppliers has been detained by the Chinese authorities, police officials said.

International Herald Tribune

Delegates reach deal on climate change

Delegates approved the world's first roadmap for stemming greenhouse gas emissions, laying out measures that must be rushed into place to avert a disastrous spike in global temperatures.

CNN

As the climate changes, bits of England's coast crumble

International Herald Tribune

House passes expanded hate crimes bill

The House voted to expand federal hate crime categories to include violent attacks against gays and people targeted because of gender, acting just hours after the White House threatened a veto.

Houston Chronicle

Gay rights advocates launch campaign in Iowa, other early states

San Diego Union-Tribune

Senior U.S. and Iranian officials meet

Senior U.S. and Iranian officials met at a big international conference on Iraq, but mediators failed to arrange a meeting at a higher level between the two old foes.

Reuters

U.S. policy shift as Rice meets with Syria

Telegraph.co.uk

Iraq summit starts

Reuters

U.S. fugitive due in Hong Kong court

An American accused of raping his daughter and posting a video of the attack online was due to appear in a Hong Kong court for an extradition hearing.

AOL News

NATION

Cuba says 1 killed in fatal hijacking

Fugitive army soldiers tried to hijack a plane bound for the United States and killed a military officer they took hostage during the failed attempt, the Interior Ministry said.

Forbes

Girl carrying ailing fetus tests Ireland’s abortion ban

A pregnant teenager will learn if she has won the right to travel to England for an abortion when an Irish court makes a landmark ruling on the Republic’s controversial abortion laws.

Times

Prime Minister calls for a 'bold review' of Japanese Constitution

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe marked the 60th anniversary of the Japanese Constitution by calling for a bold review of the document to allow the country to take a larger role in global security.

International Herald Tribune

POLITICS

Former deputy attorney general official defends fired U.S. attorneys

A former senior Justice Department official said he had concerns about only one of the eight U.S. attorneys the Bush administration fired, and wouldn't have recommended that the others be removed.

McClatchy Newspapers

Why Specter isn't calling for Gonzales' ouster

Philadelphia Inquirer

Obama gets Secret Service protection after reported threat

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has been put under the protection of the U.S. Secret Service, reportedly because of security concerns that include threats against the candidate.

6abc

Reports: Ex-N.J. governor converting, going to seminary

A church in turmoil faces a new controversy with word that James McGreevey, who made headlines as the nation's first openly gay governor, may become an Episcopal priest.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Priest McGreevey

Yahoo! News

POLITICS

Employment growth lowest in two years, jobless rate increases

Job growth in the U.S. fell to its lowest level in more than two years in April as payroll losses spread beyond struggling homebuilders and manufacturers.

Bloomberg

A bargain

What it would cost to tackle climate change? About 0.1% of world GDP, a year.

Economist

Wolfowitz in last-ditch change of tack

Paul Wolfowitz backed away from earlier claims that the World Bank’s ethics committee had been kept informed of his handling of the promotion of a colleague with whom he was involved.

Financial Times

SPORTS

The Elite 8: Warriors oust favored Dallas

Golden State smashed the Dallas Mavericks' brittle championship dreams, dethroning the defending Western Conference champions in the first round of the NBA postseason with a series-clinching, 111-86 victory.

San Jose Mercury News

Harrington buoyed by putting efforts

Padraig Harrington was not impressed with his all-round game despite leading the field by one stroke at the end of the first round of the Wachovia Championship in Charlotte.

Sporting Life

Wachovia championship slideshow

Golf.com

HEALTH

Pet food recall widens again

Two months after it triggered the largest pet food recall in U.S. history, a key Canadian manufacturer has widened its recall once more on the threat of cross-contamination in some products.

Health Day

DNA mutation hikes heart attack risk

A treasure hunt for genes has found a genetic mutation that significantly increases the risk of developing heart disease and the chance of a heart attack.

Newsweek

EDUCATION

Attorney General Cuomo sends 90 subpoenas in loan probe

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has broadened his student loan investigation to alumni associations nationwide that steer students to loan consolidation companies.

USA Today

Many Va. Tech students skipping finals

As final exams get underway at Virginia Tech, teachers may notice students are missing. In the wake of the shootings on April 16, many have decided not to take finals.

WTKR

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GOOD NEWS

Study: Doing good makes you feel good

There's a new incentive to doing good things for others: it makes you happier. A new study found that the more people participated in meaningful activities, the more purposeful their lives felt.

LiveScience

Granny in love wins contest of phone text poetry

A love-struck pensioner has come up trumps in a poetry contest with a difference: the poems had to be written in mobile phone "text speak."

Reuters

New orca calf in Puget Sound

It's official: Puget Sound's endangered orcas have a new baby to show off. The calf was spotted on the west side of San Juan Island, by volunteers for the Center For Whale Research

Seattle Times

New orca calf born

Center for Whale Research

NATION

Queen Elizabeth visits U.S.

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are in Virginia to mark the 400th anniversary of England's original settlement. They plan to tour the site of the Jamestown fort.

WBIR

Queen Elizabeth lands in U.S.

CBS News

An elite escort service

Washington is on edge as names of the clients of the accused "D.C. Madam" begin trickling out. But the women who worked for her might surprise you: college grads, even military personnel.

Newsweek

D.C. madam affair

ABC News

Cop suspended after arresting woman rushing to ill dad

News-Press

Cops behaving badly

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Steve Jobs promises a 'greener' Apple

Apple chief Steve Jobs is promising a more environmentally friendly Apple. He says in a letter that the company will eliminate toxic chemicals such as lead, cadmium and arsenic from its products.

TG Daily

Germany shades highest mountain from sun with tarpaulin

Workers began stretching a huge sun-screen tarpaulin over parts of Germany's highest mountain in a battle against global warming which is melting the "eternal snow."

Earth Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

U.S. spouses cheat like the French - but feel worse

Men in South Africa say they cheat instead of taking second wives, Americans lament that love has died in their marriages, and the Japanese believe ex-marital sex isn't adultery if they pay for it.

Reuters

'Star Wars': the legacy revealed

Thirty years ago, an unheralded film known as 'Star Wars' opened in theaters and took audiences on a groundbreaking journey to a galaxy far, far away. It instantly seized the public's imagination.

WTMJ

'Star Wars' honored in London

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

IBM: new chips are big breakthrough

IBM has found a way to use the designs of nature in building powerful computer chips. The breakthrough marks the first time chips have been made with a self-assembling nanotechnology.

San Francisco Chronicle

New Horizons probe shows Jupiter up close and personal

Small moons are acting as shepherds using their gravity to herd dust and boulders in Jupiter's faint rings, NASA scientists reported.

Scotsman

Stormy views of Jupiter

ZDNet

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Religion gaining ground on campuses

Peter J. Gomes has been at Harvard University for 37 years, and says he remembers when religious people on campus felt under siege.

San Mateo County Times

Christian non-profit co-owner indicted

The co-owner of a non-profit Christian investment company says he was doing God's work. An Arizona grand jury says he bribed a police officer and filed bogus legal claims against public officials.

Arizona Republic

Photo of the Day

The U.S. BMW Oracle Racing waits for wind off the coast of Valencia, Spain. Lack of wind postponed the fifth flight of Louis Vuitton Cup match racing. It is the second delay in three days. (Photo by Fernando Bustamante / AP)

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