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Visitors try to control their umbrellas against strong wind at the Bund, one of the most famous tourist attractions in Shanghai, China. Typhoon Wipha flooded streets and prompted mass evacuations as it swept through eastern China, but the storm eventually weakened and caused little damage in the financial center of Shanghai. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko / AP)

China typhoon leaves 5 dead, 3 missing

Typhoon Wipha left five people dead and three missing in eastern China when it swept ashore, the official Xinhua News agency reported, citing the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Bloomberg

Photos of Wipha

MSNBC

Bid to give Gitmo detainees right to appeal falls short

The Senate voted against legislation that would have given Guantanamo detainees and other terrorism suspects the right to challenge their detentions in federal court.

NPR

Senate rejects anti-war bill to limit troops

President George W. Bush's administration beat off the latest bid by Democrats to derail its Iraq strategy, as the Senate blocked a bid to limit numbers of troops ready for deployment.

AFP

Fallout from Blackwater probe

Yahoo! News

U.S. bans ground travel for diplomats in Baghdad

NPR

Letter from America: journey from New York to Kuwait, and suicide

In the space of three months, three members of the U.S. Army committed suicide. Two of them had power over contract awards and had been accused of taking bribes just before they killed themselves.

International Herald Tribune

The fighting monks of Burma

Demonstrations by Burma's monks have turned into the longest sustained display of dissent in Burma in nearly two decades. At first, the ruling junta tried to extinguish the protest movement.

TIME

Monks lead protests in Burma

BBC

NATION

Maryland court upholds gay marriage ban

Gay-rights groups vowed to take their fight to the Maryland legislature after the state's highest court upheld a state law banning same-sex marriage.

Southern Maryland Online

N.J. same-sex couples can now enter into civil unions

WCBS

Closing arguments end in U.S. Muslim charity trial

Closing arguments were completed in the trial of what was once the largest Islamic charity in the United States, accused of channeling money to the militant Palestinian group Hamas.

Reuters

Assigned seats not on Southwest Airlines' to-do list

Dallas-based carrier, Southwest Airlines, is keeping the open seating concept it started with decades ago, but will instead assign passengers a place in line.

Houston Chronicle

Southwest Airlines celebrates Red Rocks in the skies

KCNC

POLITICS

Bush pushes to extend wire-tap law

George W. Bush stepped up pressure on Congress to extend a law allowing eavesdropping on conversations between U.S. citizens and foreign terrorist suspects without court approval.

MSNBC

Sen. Larry Craig back to work in D.C.

Just when the GOP was preparing for a good week — touting a new attorney general pick and positive testimony on the war — Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, made his surprise return to Capitol Hill.

The Hill

206 years and still no House seat for D.C.

Seattle Times

BUSINESS

U.S. economy: homebuilding, consumer prices decline

U.S. home starts fell still more last month and consumer prices unexpectedly dropped, validating the Federal Reserve's interest-rate cut to head off a further slowdown in the economy.

Bloomberg

Asian, European stock markets rally

Asian and European stock markets rallied in the wake of Wall Street's overnight surge spurred by the U.S. Federal Reserve's larger-than-expected interest rate cut.

Yahoo! News

HEALTH

House gives FDA more power to police drug safety

The House approved compromise legislation that would give the U.S. government more power to police the safety of prescription drugs, sending the measure to the Senate for final approval.

Bloomberg

FDA warns about hand sanitizer ad claims

MSNBC

Pfizer touts successful tests on new anti-AIDS drug

Pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer unveiled the results of lengthy tests on a new anti-AIDS drug which it said could help HIV patients stay healthy for longer.

AFP

AIDS crisis politicized in South Africa as graves fill

NPR

SPORTS

Cleveland sweeps Detroit to close in on AL Central crown

C.C. Sabathia hurled seven solid innings, and Casey Blake homered as Cleveland seized control of the AL Central by completing a three-game sweep of Detroit with a 4-2 win at Jacobs Field.

Sports Network

Cleveland Browns camp confidential

ESPN

Embarrassment for New York Knicks regardless of verdict

The Knicks' seemingly limitless capacity to embarrass themselves stretched its boundaries, as damaging testimony in a sexual harassment trial further sullied the team's already degraded reputation.

New York Sun

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GOOD NEWS

Miracle smiles

A TV news segment two years ago caught the eye of a Lehigh Valley hotel executive with a long history of helping disabled and terminally ill children.

Yahoo! News

Puppy rescued from drain pipe

A 12-day-old puppy named Tough Guy lived up to his name after being rescued from a drainage pipe.

KCTV

Arrgh, it's Talk Like A Pirate Day

Put a parrot on your shoulder, strap on a peg leg, hit the rum and start bellowing "Shiver me Timbers" — it's International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Yahoo! News

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Pirate words and phrases

Yahoo! News

WORLD

Politician killed in Beirut blast

A car bomb exploded in the predominantly Christian area of Sin el-Fil in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, killing at least seven people and injuring 20, according to a security source.

Al Jazeera

4 killed in Beirut blast

CBS News

China's diplomatic mission in Darfur

China is to be allowed to deploy hundreds of troops as part of a new peacekeeping effort in Darfur despite being accused of fuelling the violence perpetrated by the Sudanese regime.

Sydney Morning Herald

China's offer for peace talks

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Louisiana eyes storm now hitting Florida

Emergency officials in Louisiana were on guard as a weather system dumping heavy rain on Florida and with the potential to become a tropical storm appeared to be heading toward the state.

MSNBC

Bog helps build climate insights

A 55 million-year-old British bog uncovered by the Channel Tunnel rail link is giving scientists insights into a ancient period of global warming.

BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million

Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather sued his former employer for $70 million, claiming that the company failed to properly investigate a discredited story on President Bush's National Guard service.

ABC News

Dan Rather takes CBS to court

CNN

O.J. Simpson granted $125,000 bail

A Las Vegas judge set bail at $125,000 for O.J. Simpson for his alleged role in the armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas hotel.

ABC News

O.J. Simpson in court

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Blue whale carcass washes up on California beach

Hundreds of spectators gathered to watch as biologists began to examine the immense carcass of a blue whale that washed up on a beach. They seldom wash ashore.

San Francisco Chronicle

Whale of a mystery

CBS News

Study claims tubers, not meat, made early humans excel

New evidence shows amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starch into glucose in the mouth, may have helped evolve humans to their dominant position within species on Earth.

iTWire

EDUCATION

Students know less after 4 college years

Students at many of the country's colleges and universities are graduating with less knowledge of American history, government, and economics than they had as incoming freshmen.

New York Sun

NYC public schools win education prize

The New York City public schools won the largest education prize in the country, a $500,000 award that will fund scholarships for graduating seniors.

USA Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

India's debate over sacred geography

A 30-mile chain of limestone shoals called Adam's Bridge connecting India with Sri Lanka has become the unlikely centerpiece of a political and religious drama.

TIME

Photo of the Day

Dancers and acrobats perform on stage at the start of the German tour of show "Delirium" of Canadian "Cirque du Soleil" in Hamburg, northern Germany. (Photo by Patrick Lux / AP)

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