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Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong follows his attorney from the courtroom after being sentenced during his North Carolina State Bar trial in Raleigh, N.C. Nifong will be disbarred for his disastrous prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players. (Photo by Gerry Broome / AP)

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Duke lacrosse prosecutor disbarred for ethics violations

A disciplinary committee says North Carolina prosecutor Mike Nifong will be disbarred for his handling of the Duke University lacrosse rape case.

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Yahoo! News

Fear grips Iranian academics as radical groups launch campaign of intimidation

Iranian guests leaving a British embassy reception to mark the Queen's official birthday have been harassed by radical students and security officials in a troubling sign of tension with the West.

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London Independent

Mahmoud Abbas outlaws Hamas fighters after Gaza fighting

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas swore in his new cabinet and immediately outlawed the rival Hamas movement's fighters after their bloody seizure of power in Gaza.

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News24

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Blair knew U.S. had no post-war plan for Iraq

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Observer

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U.S.: 60 percent of Baghdad not controlled

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Yahoo! News

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U.S. launches new offensive in Iraq

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Guardian

Bomb in Afghan capital kills at least 35

A bomb ripped through a police academy bus at Kabul's busiest transportation hub, killing at least 35 people in the deadliest insurgent attack in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.

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Yahoo! News

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U.S. convoy attacked in Kabul; 4 dead

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CBS News

North Korea invites U.N. inspectors

North Korea invited United Nations nuclear inspectors into the country for the first time since 2002, days after frozen funds were transferred to the nation.

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Bloomberg

Balky space station computers revived

Balky computers on the International Space Station were fully revived, but crew members admitted the problem had worried them and served as a reminder that spaceflight is dangerous.

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Reuters

NATION

U.S. backs Musharraf to deliver elections

Senior U.S. officials offered broad support to an embattled President Pervez Musharraf, while exhorting him to ensure that elections due this year in Pakistan were free and fair.

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ABC News

Children snatched off the streets to work as slaves

More than 1,000 children may have been kidnapped and sold into slave labor in a brutal human trafficking ring that has shocked and outraged China.

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Polish leader to debate EU treaty

Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski, is visiting Germany for crucial talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel on the future of a new EU constitutional treaty.

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BBC

POLITICS

General says prison inquiry led to his forced retirement

The Army general who investigated the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal has said he was forced into retirement by civilian Pentagon officials because he had been “overzealous.”

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Ledger

Justice Dept. hard-pressed to hire new U.S. attorneys

The Justice Department is scrambling to find willing replacements for nearly two dozen temporary U.S. attorneys, whose time in office is now limited under a law signed last week by President Bush.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Congress debates stricter visa rules

Measures moving through Congress, including a requirement for travelers to register travel plans, have raised fears in Europe of disruptions in the trans-Atlantic flow of business and leisure travel.

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International Herald Tribune

BUSINESS

Asian counterfeiters shift focus to consumer items from luxury goods

Companies battle a new trend in the war against knockoffs.

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International Herald Tribune

Google vs. eBay: round one

EBay is going gaga over Google. Less than a year after the two Web giants signed a billion-dollar advertising pact proclaiming a passionate partnership, a lovers' quarrel has broken out.

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TIME

Pearson may seek a partner for rival Dow Jones bid

Pearson, publisher of The Financial Times, is exploring a rival takeover offer for Dow Jones & Co., and has discussed a joint bid with General Electric and Hearst Corp., people familiar with the talks said.

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International Herald Tribune

SPORTS

Baddeley leads Woods going into U.S. Open final round

Australia's Aaron Baddeley holds a two-shot lead over Tiger Woods after three rounds of the U.S. Open, where no golfers are under-par for the tournament.

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Bloomberg

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Saturday's worst shots

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Sports Illustrated

Lance denies more doping allegations

Already battered by doping allegations, cycling stands to absorb another big blow with the publication of the latest book by Irish investigative journalist David Walsh.

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Sports Illustrated

Lowe fans 11 as Dodgers edge Angels

Derek Lowe outdueled Ervin Santana, as the Dodgers edged the Angels, 2-1, in the latest edition of the Freeway Series at Dodger Stadium.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The gadgets of summer

Looking for some high-tech diversions this season? Check out the latest in gadgets that are more than mere toys — but fun, too.

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InformationWeek

New robot simulates the senses

Biomimesis, the imitation of biological functions, is seen by many scientists worldwide as the key to building robots that can operate in unstructured environments.

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New Zealand Herald

Far-flung flowers

Plants lack legs, fins, or wings, but they still get around faster and easier than one might think.

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Science

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Anti-Muslim bias up 25 percent in U.S.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) outlines 2,467 incidents of anti-Muslim violence, discrimination and harassment in 2006, the highest number of such cases ever recorded.

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Press TV

Mourners remember Ruth Graham, evangelist's wife

Reflecting her simple tastes, a casket built of plywood carried Ruth Bell Graham as mourners gathered to remember the wife of evangelist Billy Graham.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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The war comes home: Covering the plight of the badly wounded

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Column (Sam Leith):

Facebook: A thoroughly modern addiction

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Telegraph.co.uk

Israel's elusive two-state solution now a three-way struggle

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Chicago Tribune

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NYT's coverage on the Iran 'debate'

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Salon.com

Column (Daniel Gross):

How the housing collapse is like the Iraq war

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Slate

Column (Eleanor Clift):

Will 2008 be the Liberals' year?

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Newsweek

When it comes to your sons, schools miss the mark

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USA Today

Palestinians at war

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International Herald Tribune

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Testimonial two-step

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Slate

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GOOD NEWS

Female astronaut sets space walk record

A U.S. astronaut made history when she set a new record for the longest uninterrupted space flight by a woman.

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Melbourne Herald Sun

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Baby monitor streams NASA

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MSNBC

Afghanistan vet inspires amputees

Afghanistan veteran Mike McNaughton, 14 months after meeting President George Bush while recovering from an amputation, ran a mile with him on property surrounding the White House.

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Forbes

NATION

Americans less happy today than 30 years ago: study

Americans are less happy today than 30 years ago thanks to longer working hours and a deterioration in the quality of their relationships with friends and neighbors, according to an Italian study.

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Reuters

Clean fuel — but at what price?

California air quality regulators voted this week to boost the amount of ethanol in the state's gasoline, a move that could have big repercussions for fuel supplies and prices.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Bush calls for new immigration bill

One day after the Senate agreed to take up the issue again, President Bush called on Congress to pass an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws by year's end.

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USA Today

ENVIRONMENT

CITES decisions map future of international wildlife trade

Environmental officials from 171 countries are leaving The Hague after adopting more than 100 formal decisions that update the regulations governing international wildlife trade.

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Environment News Service

Mediterranean to get more deadly hot days: study

Deadly heat waves around the Mediterranean, like those that killed some 18,000 people in 2003, could become the norm this century if current trends in greenhouse emissions continue.

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Reuters

Common yard birds disappearing in Ore.

It may be getting a little more quiet in back yards as a steep population decline continues among common birds such as the Western meadowlark in the Portland metro area.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Oh, that John Locke

There's a new sport on the Internet: competing to come up with the best examples of how Wikipedia, the Web's home-grown reference source, is skewed towards pop-culture topics.

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Wall Street Journal

Remembering Monterey Pop: How the 1967 festival changed everything

Forty years ago, a bold experiment called the Monterey International Pop Festival kicked off the Summer of Love with good vibes and amazing music.

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San Jose Mercury News

Rushdie knighted in honors list

Salman Rushdie, who went into hiding under threat of death after an Iranian fatwa, has been knighted by the Queen.

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BBC

HEALTH

Vietnam finds bird flu

Bird flu has spread to ducks and chickens near Vietnam's border with China, the Vietnamese Agriculture Ministry said.

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Scientific American

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WHO to create bird flu vaccine stockpile

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Hindustan Times

Too few doctors filling the needs of older patients

Geriatricians — doctors who have additional training in caring for the elderly — are in short supply, and the shortage will only get worse as the population ages.

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Akron Beacon Journal

Higher screening rates credited with drop in colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer is on the decline in the United States, but doctors aren't declaring victory just yet against the deadly disease.

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Health Day

EDUCATION

Grade-changing grad caught in the act

Martin Sedigh, a 24-year-old financial analyst for Merrill Lynch, broke into American University in an attempt to change the grades he received while in school, reports Washington City Paper.

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U.S. News & World Report

A 'systemic' scandal

As the student loan scandal has unfolded in recent months, college financial aid officers have repeatedly dismissed the hysteria. But a new report suggests widespread practice.

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Inside Higher Ed

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Mass grave found during Mexico drug probe

The bound and gagged bodies of nine people have been found in a shallow grave in the violence-plagued state where President Felipe Calderon kicked off his crackdown on drug trafficking.

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A monkey holds her baby as she jumps at the Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India. (Photo by Anupam Nath / AP)

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