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The wreckage of a One-Two-Go passenger plane sits on the site of the Phuket airport after it crashed while attempting to land. (Photo by The Nation / AP)

87 killed in Thai plane crash

A Thai airliner crashed, killing 87 people as it tried to land in bad weather at Phuket airport in southern Thailand, health ministry officials said. A further 43 survived with many suffering injuries.

CNN

Jet crashes in Thailand

Yahoo! News

Greenspan's shock: oil behind Iraq war

The U.S. went to war in Iraq motivated largely by oil, former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan says in a soon to be released memoir.

The Age

Petraeus encounters opposition even among some superiors

Seattle Times

NATION

Wildfires force thousands to evacuate across Southern California

An out-of-control wildfire raged through the San Bernardino National Forest keeping about 5,000 people from their homes in two mountain communities.

Fox News

5,000 cut off from homes as fire rages in national forest

CNN

Protest still on, despite court win

Civil rights protesters plan to descend in the thousands on a small town in central Louisiana, despite the state's court of appeal overturning the conviction of a young black man on battery charges.

Sydney Morning Herald

VA studies: PTSD care inconsistent

The Department of Veterans Affairs, which touts its special programs to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in returning soldiers, spends little on those programs in some parts of the country.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

Clinton makes civil rights pitch to S.C. African-Americans

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton used a speech at a local NAACP banquet to announce her civil rights agenda and to call for an investigation into a racially-charged Louisiana criminal case.

MSNBC

Thompson in Florida

Yahoo! News

New Greenspan book attacks Bush

In a forthcoming book, former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan criticizes President George W. Bush for paying too little attention to financial discipline.

Forbes

Greenspan lashes out at GOP

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Fed lacks the power to dictate prosperity

The Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee will file through its marble-lined halls and vote this week on what's likely to be the first interest-rate cut in four years.

Houston Chronicle

Fed set to cut interest rates

Reuters

HEALTH

Blood banks tainted with HIV in Peru

Officials from the World Health Organization have started a nationwide inspection of blood banks in Peru after four people were infected with HIV from blood transfusions at a public hospital.

Medical News Today

SPORTS

Beckett picks up win No. 19 vs. Yankees

Josh Beckett became the first 19-game winner in the majors and Eric Hinske provided the muscle, bowling over Jorge Posada in a home-plate collision to help the Red Sox rout New York 10-1.

Sporting News

Michigan has Hart, much more in rout of winless Notre Dame

It's Notre Dame's turn to face the critics alone. The Wolverines humbled the Fighting Irish in a matchup of major college football's winningest programs, without a win or ranking between them.

ESPN

EDUCATION

Unions assail teacher ideas in NCLB draft

The two national teachers’ unions are lobbying to change language linking bonuses to test scores and incentive-pay provisions in a draft reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Education Week

They have planted bombs and shot soldiers – now it is time for school

Americans are re-educating children who acted as lookouts for jihadist kidnappers, planted bombs or carried out shootings.

Times Online

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Reporting campaign donations

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (John Diaz):

The phantom terrorist camp

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

The ambitious delusions of George Bush and David Petraeus

The Nation

Column:

Will Bush dare to nominate Ted Olson as attorney general?

Salon.com

Editorial:

Turning rebellion into money

Economist

Editorial:

In for the long term? Maybe, but not with a blank check.

USA Today

Editorial:

Honor all on flight 93

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column:

In trade, China's moral compass is off course

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Editorial:

Palestine: democracy not Zionism

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Heart, immune experts recognized

Pioneering heart surgeons Alain Carpentier and Albert Starr and immunologist Ralph Steinman were named as recipients of Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards.

Reuters

Aussie saved by fellow passenger

Australian Robert Borland survived a horrific plane crash in Thailand because an unknown passenger dragged him from the inferno.

The Age

WORLD

Worldwide rallies held for Darfur

Protests are taking place in 30 countries to bring attention to the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.

BBC

Children's drawings of Darfur

ABC News

NATO comes clean on cluster bombs

NATO chiefs will this week finally tell the Serbian government where they dropped thousands of cluster bombs during the Kosovo campaign, more than eight years after the bombardment finished.

London Independent

Party promises Musharraf another term

Pakistan's ruling party assured President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that he would be elected to a new five-year term in October before exiled opposition leader Benazir Bhutto returns to the country.

Seattle Times

ENVIRONMENT

Ancient records help test doubts about climate change

Diaries of day-to-day weather details from the age before 19th-century standardized thermometers are proving of great value to scientists who study today's climate.

Google News

'Vital Signs' report: record resource consumption depletes a warming world

Record levels of consumption by a global population that now numbers 6.6 billion people are pushing the limits of the ecosystem upon which all life depends, a Worldwatch Institute report says.

Environment News Service

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Peter Fonda to sell 'Easy Rider' items

Actor Peter Fonda is auctioning off some of his memorabilia from "Easy Rider," including the American flag taken from the back of the jacket he wore throughout the film.

Yahoo! News

Propane tanks ignite on opening day of music festival

Four people were hurt — two critically — when propane tanks ignited as a weekend music festival was getting under way.

Houston Chronicle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Moon 2.0: Google funds $30 million Lunar X Prize

X Prize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis said it's unlikely that government will return to the moon in the next several years, but people around the world can with the Google Lunar X Prize.

Sci-Tech Today

Dark matter clues in oldest stars

A computer model of the early Universe indicates the first stars could have formed in long filaments. These structures, thousands of light-years across, would have been shaped by "dark matter."

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

U.S. reports on religious freedom

Religious freedom has deteriorated in Iraq and Egypt, while China has cracked down on foreign missionaries ahead of the Olympics, the U.S. government said.

BBC

Offer to quit in India gods row

India's culture minister has offered to resign in a row over whether Hindu gods are mythological figures.

BBC

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