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Myanmar Buddhist monks march and pray during a protest against the military government on the street in Yangon, Myanmar. Armed only with upturned begging bowls, chanting Buddhist monks in Myanmar have caught the country's military rulers off guard with their peaceful protests. (Photo by AP)

Democracy icon Suu Kyi greets Myanmar monks

Detained Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi stepped out of her home in tears to greet Buddhist monks marching past the compound where she is confined by the military junta.

ABC News

Special section:

Profile: Aung San Suu Kyi

BBC

1 million Chinese-made cribs recalled

About 1 million Simplicity and Graco cribs are being recalled after three children became entrapped in their cribs and died of suffocation, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said.

CBS News

Crib deaths prompt massive recall

MSNBC

Feds target Blackwater in weapons probe

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in terrorist hands.

Yahoo! News

'Jena 6' case raises questions of bias in U.S. justice

Five young black men were charged with attempted murder after a school fight in Jena, La. Charges were reduced for four, but protests in the town call attention to what many say is a biased justice system.

Christian Science Monitor

Court: 'Jena 6' defendant to stay in jail

CNN

Jena and the son of Jim Crow

CBS News

Iran warns West against attack

Iran told Western powers they would regret any attack over Tehran's nuclear activities, displaying missiles and other military hardware to back the warning.

Reuters

Columbia University defends Ahmadinejad visit

ABC News

Special section:

Q&A: Iran and the nuclear issue

BBC

NATION

Activists document government's collecting of American travelers' details

MSNBC

Va. Tech inspired Delaware St. response

Yahoo! News

Police questioning student in shooting

CNN

War’s at-home impact falls hard on relative few

Scores of readers of msnbc.com’s Gut Check America project wrote of loved ones who repeatedly deployed to the combat zone or languished there months after their deployments were to have ended.

MSNBC

POLITICS

Giuliani cheered at NRA, amid skepticism

As mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani was critical of the National Rifle Association; during the NRA's conference in Washington, the Republican presidential candidate was applauded.

NPR

Kouchner, French foreign minister, draws antiwar protesters in Washington

For anyone doubting the turnabout in U.S.-French relations, it was enough to see the reception Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner got during a speech before his meetings with Bush cabinet officials.

International Herald Tribune

BUSINESS

Forbes: big business in women's lifestyle

Forbes has spent a century covering businessmen in Brooks Brothers shirts. Now the magazine empire is aiming at executives who prefer Prada skirt suits and Balenciaga pumps.

Reuters

Bernanke says Fed will develop new loan rules this year

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told lawmakers that the central bank is "actively working" to avoid a repeat of the subprime-mortgage rout.

Bloomberg

Wage wars

Workers — from truck drivers to stockbrokers — are winning huge overtime lawsuits, raising fundamental questions about the modern workplace.

BusinessWeek

HEALTH

Merck's experimental AIDS vaccine fails

A promising experimental AIDS virus vaccine has failed in a crucial experiment, with volunteers becoming infected with HIV anyway, leading the drug developer to halt the study.

ABC News

Congress acts to improve drug safety

Congress overhauled the government's drug-safety system, giving the Food and Drug Administration sweeping new powers to better protect patients from harm caused by drugs such as Vioxx.

Baltimore Sun

Bush challenges Democrats over kids' health bill

President Bush vowed to veto a reported deal in Congress to expand a children's health-care program, accusing Democrats of wanting to send him the legislation to score "political points in Washington."

CNN

SPORTS

Landis fallout: Pereiro named '06 Tour de France champ

Cycling's governing body, declared Spanish cyclist Oscar Pereiro the winner of the 2006 Tour de France, after arbitrators upheld test results showing that Floyd Landis used synthetic testosterone.

USA Today

New team, new sponsors, new number for Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Next season Dale Earnhardt Jr. will drive a Chevy with the No. 88 and Mountain Dew, Amp Energy and the Army National Guard on the side.

New York Daily News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

The polygamy paradox

The trial of Warren Jeffs pits the state's interest in protecting children against his claim to religious freedom.

TIME

Critics right and left protest book removals from prisons

The federal Bureau of Prisons is under pressure from members of Congress and religious groups to reverse its decision to purge the shelves of prison chapel libraries.

Ledger

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Elton John):

A matter of life or death

Guardian

Editorial:

Bush returns to full campaign mode

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Editorial:

The fed, the enabler

Boston Globe

Editorial:

The war on Gaza's children

Los Angeles Times

Editorial:

In search of a Congress

International Herald Tribune

Editorial:

Rather's unraveling anchor cult

Los Angeles Times

Column:

Kids gone wild

Salon.com

Column:

China on the wrong road in Burma

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Children's health: where we agree

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Editorial:

The soldier's burden

USA Today

Column (Gary Younge):

Jena: the next step

Guardian

Site edited by: Julia McCallum, Ryan Dowse, Angela Leland, Josh Miles, Walt Chiu, Yvonne Lee and Jim Scripps.

GOOD NEWS

Fund awards $300,000 in grants for work on sustainable rebuilding

The Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health has announced grant awards totaling $300,000 to 27 community-based organizations across the Gulf Coast region.

PNN

Mexico named as best place to retire

Mexico was named as the best place in the world to retire by an annual retirement index, replacing last year's winner, Panama, where real estate prices have soared.

Reuters

11-year-old bullfighter takes life by horns

KCAL

WORLD

Castro seen in rare TV interview

Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro has made his first TV appearance for three months, ending speculation that he had died or suffered a major relapse. Mr Castro, 81 has not appeared in public since last July.

BBC

Castro appears on Cuban TV

YouTube

Fujimori to be extradited

Chile's supreme court has ruled that Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru, will be extradited to face charges of embezzlement and human rights abuses.

Al Jazeera

Special section:

Q&A: Fujimori's extradition

BBC

With scars that will never heal, one woman fights human trafficking

Thousands of women from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe looking for work in the West have found that organizations they used for travel arrangements had criminal intentions in mind.

International Herald Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

U.N. deal reached on cutting ozone-damaging emissions

Delegates from almost 200 countries agreed to eliminate ozone-depleting substances faster than originally planned, the United Nations said.

Reuters

Record sea ice melt this summer larger than Texas and Alaska

The Arctic sea ice shrank 1 million square miles more this summer than the average melt over 25 years, an area larger than Alaska and Texas combined, according to NASA satellite data.

San Francisco Chronicle

Cholera outbreak in Iraqi Kurdistan blamed on dirty water

The Kurdistan Regional Government's health minister has warned that cholera outbreaks in the north could spread if the government does not improve its water supply.

Environment News Service

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Dan Rather making a stand with lawsuit

A day after he filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS for violating his contract, veteran newsman Dan Rather said that he would "absolutely not" settle purely for money.

Reuters

Broadway strike a possibility

Broadway might come to a halt this fall once talks between the Broadway stagehands' union and the producers' union hit a producers-appointed deadline at the end of the month.

Variety

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

'Jurassic Park' raptors had feathers, fossil suggests

Bumps on the forearm bone of a velociraptor fossil suggest the predators were adorned with fluffy feathers, a new study says.

National Geographic

Why stuff stinks: secret sniffed out

Our noses can quickly distinguish a pleasant smell and a stench, but until now the chemical cues that help us make such decisions had not been understood.

LiveScience

EDUCATION

Bomb threats disrupt schools around Jersey and in N.Y.

Schools are back in session, and so are the bomb scares that have become almost daily events in one school or another across the state.

The Star-Ledger

Hooked on mnemonics: a new way to conquer foreign languages?

Taking pleasure in exploring the intricacies of another tongue is hard to imagine. Unless, apparently, you stumble across the Linkword Method.

Christian Science Monitor

Photo of the Day

An Israeli couple sit in the middle of an empty street during Yom Kippur. Many residents enjoy the streets as no traffic is permitted on the roads. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti / AP)

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