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Residents gather at the scene of a car bomb blast in Baghdad, Iraq. A car bomber ripped through a commercial district in western Baghdad, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens, in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in recent days. (Photo by Hadi Mizban / AP)

Search for survivors under way in leveled town

Rescue workers continued sifting through piles of rubble, looking for survivors from a wave of tornado-packing storms that killed nine people and essentially wiped Greensburg, Kansas, off the map.

CNN

9 dead as Kansas tornado rips through town

Kansas City Star

Deadly twister

Yahoo! Video

French voters cast ballots in clear left-right race

France voted in a presidential election offering a clear choice for its future, with conservative Nicolas Sarkozy urging people to work more and Socialist Segolene Royal pledging to safeguard welfare protections.

MSNBC

France going forward

MSNBC

Search resumes for Kenyan plane

Rescuers in southern Cameroon have resumed searching for a Kenya Airways airliner thought to have crashed with 114 people aboard.

BBC

No word on survivors in Kenya Air crash

Houston Chronicle

Suicide bomb kills 30 in Baghdad

A car bomb ripped through a wholesale food market in western Baghdad, flattening cars and shops and killing at least 30 people in a wave of attacks across Iraq that killed at least 50 people.

MSNBC

U.S., Iraqi forces find Sadr City torture chamber

CNN

Iran: Sanctions won't stop nuclear work

Iran's president told major powers considering United Nations sanctions they could "issue resolutions until you get tired," making clear the country would press ahead with its nuclear program.

Reuters

Iran and America-- a cagey game

Economist

Management shortcomings seen at NSA

In a sharp rebuke to the National Security Agency's leadership, an internal task force has concluded that the country's largest intelligence agency lacks vision and is unable to set objectives and meet them.

Baltimore Sun

NATION

Sinai crash kills nine peacekeepers

Nine foreign peacekeepers were killed when a French plane attached to the Sinai's multinational peacekeeping force crashed in a remote, mountainous area, the force's spokesman and police said.

CNN

Israel's Olmert won't fire rebellious foreign minister

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert opted against firing his deputy, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, saying they would continue to work together despite her call for his resignation.

Reuters

U.S. OKs missile shield talks with Russia

The United States has agreed for U.S. and Russian defense and foreign ministers to meet to try allay Russian concerns about U.S. missile defense plans in Eastern Europe, a senior U.S. official said.

Reuters

POLITICS

N.J. Gov. Corzine to return to work

New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine was released from a hospital last week and expects to resume work Monday from the governor's mansion in Princeton.

U.S. News & World Report

U.S. political system trips up women seeking presidency

When Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni recently suggested Ehud Olmert should step aside and let her be prime minister, nobody batted an eye over the fact she is a woman.

Monsters and Critics

The elephant in the room

George W. Bush has the lowest presidential approval rating in a generation, and the leading Democrats beat every major ’08 Republican. Coincidence?

Newsweek

POLITICS

Microsoft in merger talks with Yahoo!

Microsoft and Yahoo! are in fresh talks about teaming up to launch an all-out assault on Google to try to topple the online search giant from its dominant position on the Internet.

Times Online

Jobless rate hits 4.5 percent

Jobseekers had a harder time finding work last month as the economy cooled and wary employers added the fewest positions in two and a half years. The jobless rate edged up to 4.5 percent.

CNN

SPORTS

Street Sense is first juvenile Derby champ since Spectacular Bid

Street Sense roared from next-to-last in a 20-horse field to win the Kentucky Derby, putting trainer Carl Nafzger back in the winner's circle 17 years after his first visit.

Sports Illustrated

Derby pics

Yahoo! News

Jefferson's late basket sends Nets to second round

Watching Jefferson rise for the go-ahead basket and leap for the clinching steal was a reminder that he's healthy — and the Nets look pretty good, too.

ESPN

HEALTH

Dads' parenting style influences childhood obesity

Fathers' parenting styles have a major influence on children's weight, says an Australian study that looked at almost 5,000 children, ages 4 to 5, and their parents.

Health Day

A trail of poisoned medicine from China to Panama

Over the last 20 years, the syrupy poison, diethylene glycol, has figured in at least eight mass poisonings around the world — and many originated from China.

International Herald Tribune

Brazil to break AIDS drug patent

Brazil's president has authorized the country to bypass the patent on an AIDS drug manufactured by Merck, the U.S. pharmaceutical giant.

BBC

EDUCATION

New superintendent hired for New Orleans schools

Louisiana picked one of the nation's most prominent education reformers to run the troubled school district of New Orleans.

San Jose Mercury News

N.J. probing student loan providers

The state Attorney General's office launched an investigation into New Jersey's college student loan industry.

Asbury Park Press

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GOOD NEWS

Kentucky Derby bows to the queen

Queen Elizabeth II, an avid horse enthusiast, got her first look at Churchill Downson Derby Day when mint juleps flow and fancy hats are in fashion.

CNN

The Queen visits U.S.

BBC

Troops deliver supplies to pediatric hospital in Iraq

The Army's A Company, 3-25th Brigade Support Battalion, delivered a large quantity of medical supplies to the Kirkuk Pediatric Hospital, which is the only pediatric hospital in that Iraqi province.

HappyNews.com

NATION

Bodies of 2 college students thrown overboard found

Police found the bodies of two college students who died after falling into an Adirondack lake.

USA Today

Army and Texas town at odds over disposal of VX nerve agent

Impending shipments of hazardous chemicals from Indiana to Texas by the U.S. Army have prompted environmental and community organizations to file a notice of intent to sue.

Epoch Times

More names due from madam's book

Thousands of Washington's power brokers will wake up this morning knowing they have had a close escape. However, a few will have had their lives turned upside down.

Telegraph.co.uk

ENVIRONMENT

Panda mating frenzy hits zoo

After months of bored indifference, two giant pandas recently joined for not one, not two, but three frenzied bouts of mating.

BBC

Ethanol surges in spite of questions

Ethanol, for decades largely an afterthought in the global fuels market, is in the midst of a booming renaissance, despite a host of questions.

USA Today

Farmers rush to fill demand for corn

Minneapolis Star Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Aloha nui loa to Don Ho: Thousands say goodbye at memorial

Don Ho was cremated and his widow, Haumea Ho, took the remains of her husband and scattered his ashes in the waters off Waikiki Beach during a memorial service in Honolulu.

Monsters and Critics

Spider Man sets record with $59 million box office opening

Hollywood's biggest superhero now has the biggest box-office debut. "Spider-Man 3" took in a record $59 million domestically on opening day.

Forbes

Spider-Man 3 trailer

YouTube

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Yahoo Photos going dark as Flickr shines

Yahoo is shutting down Yahoo Photos — for years, the No. 1 or No. 2 most-visited photo site on the Web. Its users will be directed to move their pictures to Yahoo's hot upstart, Flickr.

USA Today

Europeans latch on to 'Second Life'

CNET News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Hispanics reshape religion in the U.S.

For most Hispanics in the United States, God is an active force in daily life, according to a recent major study.

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

New hopes as Pope and Khatami meet

Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami met with Pope Benedict XVI for talks the Vatican hoped would heal tensions with Muslims following the pope's remarks on Islam last year.

Gulf Daily News

Photo of the Day

Seattle Mariners first baseman Ben Broussard dives for a ground ball hit by New York Yankees' Melky Cabrera during the third inning in Major League Baseball action at Yankee Stadium in New York. Cabrera beat out Broussard to the bag and Doug Mientkiewicz advanced to second base. (Photo by Julie Jacobson / AP)

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