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People in fancy costumes carry glasses of champagne while swimming in chilly water during the annual swim in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, on New Year's day. (Photo by Dominic Favre / AP)

North Korea quiet on nuclear deadline

North Korea stressed economic issues, but failed to mention a missed deadline for disclosing details of its nuclear program in a New Year editorial.

BBC

Disabling N. Korea's nukes

ABC News

Vote machine flaws, states back to paper

With the presidential race in full swing, some U.S. states have found critical flaws in the accuracy and security of their electronic voting machines.

MSNBC

World welcomes New Year

A million revelers cheered fireworks in Sydney. Summer Olympics organizers hosted dance and music in Beijing. Across the globe, people held out hopes for a peaceful and prosperous 2008.

ABC News

Top Pakistani rival calls for Musharraf to step down immediately

The most experienced opposition politician left in Pakistan, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, sharpened the battle lines with President Pervez Musharraf, calling for his immediate resignation.

International Herald Tribune

Bhutto's chosen successor

CBS News

Missouri law to expand ethanol use

A law taking effect makes Missouri implement an ethanol mandate. Because ethanol is cheaper than traditional gasoline, most of Missouri's gas stations made the switch months ago.

CBS News

With biomass, you can get ethanol out of corncobs

USA Today

NATION

Marine avoids Iraq murder charge

The alleged ringleader of U.S. troops who killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2005 in Haditha will not face murder charges, a U.S. Marines spokesman said.

BBC

Illinois gets rid of illegal waste dumps

Over the course of the past year, 120 illegal dump sites across Illinois have been cleaned up as part of the Environmental Protection Agency's I-RID program.

Environment News Service

POLITICS

Poll shows Obama, Huckabee lead in Iowa

Presidential contenders rang in the 2008 election year with near-constant campaigning as a poll showed Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee leading their rivals.

CBS News

Presidential candidates spar before voting

Presidential contenders squeezed a final few hours of campaigning out of the old year in a race marked by exhausting personal appeals, anonymous phone calls and a negative campaign commercial.

Yahoo! News

2008 Candidate Resolutions

ABC News

Edwards, Romney get Iowa bump

MSNBC

Wicker expected to replace Lott

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is expected to name Rep. Roger Wicker as the next Republican senator from Mississippi.

CBS News

BUSINESS

As Detroit automakers buckle down, Asian carmakers hit the gas

The way that auto executives here have been talking, 2008 will be a bad year to sell cars and trucks in the United States.

International Herald Tribune

Chavez revives historic coin in campaign to reduce inflation

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's latest effort to reduce Latin America's highest inflation rate revives a coin rooted in Venezuela's colonial past: the "locha," based on the old Spanish "piece of eight."

Bloomberg

Nasdaq-Dubai deal gets US security OK

Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. said the U.S. government approved a plan to give Dubai's state-owned bourse a stake in the U.S. electronic exchange.

Forbes

Taking stock of 2007

Reuters

SPORTS

Maddison sets motorcycle jump mark

Australia's Robbie Maddison broke the world motorcycle jumping record, soaring 322 feet, 71/2 inches at the Rio All-Suite Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas.

Sports Illustrated

Return of the Trojans

Back in September, Pasadena was the last place USC thought it would be spending New Year's Day — and it's most certainly not where Illinois thought its season would come to a close.

Sports Illustrated

Ravens fire Billick as head coach

Brian Billick never came close to duplicating the success he enjoyed early in his career as head coach of the Baltimore Ravens, and it finally cost him his job.

MSNBC

HEALTH

Fast-acting cyanide antidote discovered

A newly discovered antidote has potential to save lives of those who are exposed to the chemical — namely firefighters, industrial workers and victims of terrorist attacks.

Science Daily

Battling germs by busting up their gangs

Think of germs as gangsters. One thug lurking on a corner you might outrun, but a dozen swaggering down the street? Yikes.

MSNBC

RELIGION

Pope Benedict XVI criticizes lack of hope in Western society

Pope Benedict XVI has criticized Western society for what he called its lack of hope, which he said leads many people to seek sexual gratification instead of practicing faith and family values.

Voice of America

Casual view of religion masks reflection

Students may be less likely to attend religious services while in college than they were as high school students, but that doesn't mean they're not wrestling with spiritual issues, a study suggests.

Detroit Free Press

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GOOD NEWS

Retired worker giving away millions

The man who donated $1 million to southern New Jersey's Cumberland County College in December came by his riches the hard way -- by tons of work and savvy investing.

WNBC

Woman loses ring in fudge, gets it back

An Indiana woman has recovered a diamond ring she accidentally sold in a batch of fudge. The diamond ring her mother left her 15 years ago was sold at a bake sale inside her donated fudge.

Good News Network

WORLD

Israeli-Palestinian fatalities drop, but other issues persist

Leading Israeli human rights groups say the numbers of Palestinians and Israelis killed in clashes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has dropped dramatically, but that other human rights abuses persist.

Christian Science Monitor

More than 120 killed in Kenya violence

CNN

Mob burns a church in Kenya as hundreds shelter inside

International Herald Tribune

Special section:

Facts about Kenyan tribes

Reuters

UN force takes control in Darfur

The United Nations officially began a new peacekeeping effort in the Sudan's war-torn Darfur region in a ceremony that transferred power from the African Union, after months of resistance.

International Herald Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

Declining water levels in the Great Lakes may signal global warming

Researchers in Michigan report new evidence that water levels in the Great Lakes, which are near record low levels, may be shrinking due to global warming.

Science Daily

Greasy solution to rising gas prices

Move over gas-guzzlers. Make way for grease cars, the latest do-it-yourself auto trend for eco-conscious drivers.

LiveScience

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Report containing thousands of pilot complaints is released

Under pressure from Congress, NASA released thousands of pages of complaints from pilots about crew fatigue, air traffic congestion and communications.

CNN

Forget a Big Bang, universe may have been created with Big Splat

According to data taken from NASA’s WMAP and research performed by University of Illinois researchers, the universe may not have started out with a theory involving traditional inflation.

iTWire

Photo-monitoring whale sharks

Science Daily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Reno: prosecutor to record producer

Former Attorney General Janet Reno's somewhat surprising interest in music is well documented, but perhaps most surprising is her recent turn from tough prosecutor to record producer.

ABC News

Strike may boost Letterman

The late-night landscape is about to change, and no one — not the hosts, not the viewers — knows how it will look.

MSNBC

EDUCATION

Photos used to expel Mexicans from California schools

Mexican children attending California public schools are being photographed as they cross the border, but in El Paso, local officials deem that policy unnecessary and even "unfortunate."

El Paso Times

Mega universities for the new millennium

An MIT initiative called "OpenCourseWare" makes virtually all the school's courses available online for free -- lecture notes, readings, tests and often video lectures.

CBS News

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