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An elderly woman walks past houses that collapsed following the powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Mianyang city in Sichuan province, China. (Photo by Andy Wong / AP)

Blasts leave 56 dead in India

International Herald Tribune

UN says relief efforts in Myanmar should reach scale of Indian Ocean tsunami

The U.N. said Myanmar faces a catastrophe of monumental proportions unless relief efforts reach the scale of the Indian Ocean tsunami, as soldiers barred foreign aid workers from reaching cyclone survivors.

International Herald Tribune

Myanmar police block aid workers, food piles up

Google News

Caesar bust may date to 46 B.C.

Divers discovered a marble bust of Caesar in the Rhone River near Arles, a town in southern France founded by Caesar.

ABC News

Dam crack has China quake victims in peril

Thousands of Chinese troops have rushed to plug "extremely dangerous" cracks in a dam upriver from the earthquake-hit town of Dujiangyan in Sichuan province, state media said.

CBS News

Race against time to rescue survivors

MSNBC

Special section:

Chinese earthquake

BBC

Florida cops under fire after drug and weapons informant's murder

Police officials are on the defensive after the killing of a young Florida woman who was serving as a confidential narcotics and weapons informant in a sting operation.

ABC News

California appoints first black female legislative leader

California installed the nation's first black female legislative leader, swearing in Los Angeles Democrat Karen Bass as speaker of the state Assembly.

USA Today

Freud work sets new world record

Lucien Freud's painting of a sleeping, naked woman sold at Christie's in New York for $33.6 million, setting a new world record price for a work by a living artist.

BBC

NATION

Ohio attorney general resigns under threat of impeachment

Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann resigned under threat of impeachment because of a sexual harassment investigation in his office and his extramarital affair.

TIME

Gates defends troop quality

Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged that long combat tours in Iraq have strained the military, but he disputed that the quality of U.S. forces has suffered.

USA Today

How big is a brigade? How many in a batallion?

MSNBC

Anonymous rape tests to go nationwide

Rape victims too afraid or too ashamed to go to police can undergo an emergency-room forensic rape exam, and the evidence will be kept on file in a sealed envelope if they choose to press charges.

NewsOK.com

POLITICS

After big win in W.Va., Clinton vows to push forward

Sen. Hillary Clinton used her big win in West Virginia to make her case that she has a better chance of beating the Republicans in the general election.

CNN

Black West Virginians share their political agendas

NPR

Clinton's wealth rose fastest among lawmakers, report finds

McClatchy Newspapers

Congress votes to stop filling oil reserve

The House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to temporarily stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a response to public anger over rising oil prices.

San Francisco Chronicle

Vets have advice for Congress about fat cats (dogs, too)

Future pet food labels that indicate the number of calories per serving could help obese animals shed the extra pounds, a veterinarians' association recommended to the Food and Drug Administration.

McClatchy Newspapers

EDUCATION

Virtual schools see strong growth

A new report by the Stanford University think tank, the Hoover Institute, predicts that by 2019 half of classes in grades 9 to 12 will be delivered through virtual classrooms.

Christian Science Monitor

Veteran education: too big a price to pay?

Congress is struggling with a new veterans bill that would include full tuition payments for college.

CBS News

State funding helps fuel preschool boom

The most recent federal statistics show that more than 1 million children were enrolled in public programs in 2005, up 63 percent from 1995.

USA Today

SPORTS

Derby winner Big Brown could face 12 rivals in Preakness

Big Brown has not scared off all the 3-year-old horses with his overpowering victory in the Kentucky Derby.

USA Today

Knicks to introduce D'Antoni

The New York Knicks have called a news conference to introduce Mike D'Antoni as their next head coach.

The Sports Network

ENVIRONMENT

DOE report: Wind could power 20 percent of US grid by 2030

A new report from the Department of Energy claims that wind turbines could generate 300 gigawatts by 2030, which would power about 20 percent of the U.S. electrical grid.

Wired

Texas wind power

NPR

Corn-like sweet sorghum promoted as 'smart' biofuel

Sweet sorghum, a corn-like plant, can be turned into ethanol without destroying the food grain that grows at the top of the plant.

Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

Ocean motion used to power up homes

When it comes to tapping energy from the ocean, off-shore oil rigs are often what comes to mind. But the ocean itself is proving to be an efficient and environmentally friendly source of energy.

LiveLeak

WORLD

Police seize more Olmert papers

Israeli police have raided the Ministry of Industry and Trade as a corruption investigation into Prime Minister Ehud Olmert continues.

BBC

Signs of an end to soaring food prices

Financial Times

Arab League mediators try to defuse Lebanon conflict

A high-level Arab League delegation began a mediation mission in Beirut to try to pull Lebanon back from the brink of civil war.