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Earthquake survivors wait to get on a truck after arriving on a boat from areas inaccessible by road at the Zipingpu Dam near Dujiangyan, in southwestern China's Sichuan province. (Photo by Vincent Yu / AP)

Strong aftershock hits China quake epicenter

A strong aftershock sparked landslides near the epicenter of this week's powerful earthquake, while some survivors were pulled from rubble after being buried for four days.

ABC News

Phoenix rushes to help its 'sister' Chengdu

Christian Science Monitor

Desperate search for loved ones

NPR

Quake rescuers finally reach all towns

Yahoo! News

Marines given jail for Japan sex assaults

Two U.S. Marines were sentenced to prison time on charges related to sexual assaults on two different young women in Japan, but both men have avoided rape convictions.

CBS News

'Bin Laden' call targets Israel

A new message purported to be from Osama bin Laden calls for Muslims to continue fights to liberate Palestinian lands.

BBC

Transcript of the alleged bin Laden tape

ABC News

Amputee wins right to try for Olympics

Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee South African sprinter, won his appeal to be eligible to compete in the Olympics using his carbon-fiber prosthetics.

Bloomberg

OSCAR PISTORIUS - The Blade Runner

YouTube

NY governor signs anti-noose bill

New York Governor David Paterson signed into law a bill making it a felony to display a noose with the intention to threaten or harass someone.

NY Daily News

Cyclone beggars line roads of Myanmar delta for miles

The rows of beggars on either side of the road stretched for miles, twin columns of human misery left by the winds and waves of Cyclone Nargis.

Reuters

Foreign envoys to see Burma delta

BBC

NATION

Calif. governor will uphold state Supreme Court's 4-3 decision

Gov. Schwarzenegger said he would uphold the decision allowing gays and lesbians to marry, adding, "I will not support an amendment to the constitution that would overturn this state Supreme Court ruling."

Sacramento Bee

Gay marriage opponents vow to fight Calif. ruling

Salt Lake Tribune

Reaction to decision

San Jose Mercury News

What the ruling means

CNN

Teen alleging rape turns to YouTube

For an online generation, the Internet offers a chance to communicate without having to fear judgment. Young people are turning to social networking sites like MySpace to talk about sexual assault.

CNN

Special section:

National sexual assault hotline

RAINN

Woman indicted in MySpace suicide hoax

A Missouri woman was indicted on federal charges for allegedly perpetrating an online hoax that led to the suicide of her 13-year-old neighbor.

ABC News

POLITICS

Senators say they have accord on housing rescue plan

Leaders of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee said they have agreed to the underpinnings of a housing rescue plan that will create a federal backstop for failing loans.

Reuters

House rejects war funding, tossing that job to Senate

The House refused to provide more funds for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, effectively delegating that task to the Senate for now.

CQ Today

Rejecting war fund

MSNBC

Behind the Bush-Obama smackfest

In the escalating smackfest between President George W. Bush and Barack Obama it's hard to know who needs whom more.

TIME

BUSINESS

CBS agrees to purchase Cnet Networks for $1.8 billion

CBS Corp. agreed to buy Cnet Networks Inc., a technology news provider, for about $1.8 billion, to become one of the 10 largest Web site companies.

Bloomberg

Icahn launches battle against Yahoo

Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor, unleashed a proxy fight to remove the Yahoo board and resurrect a takeover bid for the internet company by Microsoft.

Financial Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

EU says Google maps could be a problem

The ability of Google's map service to put detailed street-level images on the Internet could raise concerns in Europe if introduced there, the EU's data protection agency said.

Reuters

NASA moves to save computers from swarming ants

The Johnson Space Center has called in extermination experts to keep a flood of voracious ants, which is heading straight for Houston, out of NASA's sensitive and critical systems.

Computerworld

Ants swarm crazily

CNN

EDUCATION

Teen accused of poisoning teacher

A 16-year-old student is accused of poisoning his teacher, who went to the hospital with "severe intestinal distress" after the teen spiked a soft drink with eye drops, authorities said.

MSNBC

First-year students at Naval Academy take on monument climb

19-year-old Greg Reichel had become the latest plebe to conquer Herndon, in an annual rite of passage for academy freshmen, or plebes, that dates back to 1907.

Baltimore Sun

ENVIRONMENT

Water plan makes every drop count

Water conservation and an unprecedented water recycling program are key to the 20 year, $1.5 billion water supply strategy introduced by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Environment News Service

Clean-air rules for national parks may be eased, easier to build power plants

The Bush administration is on the verge of implementing new air quality rules that will make it easier to build power plants near national parks and wilderness areas.

MSNBC

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GOOD NEWS

Farmers pamper cows to boost output

Kirk Christie, an Iowa dairy farmer, believes "a happy cow is a productive cow," so he pampers his cows to increase their milk productivity.

Associated Press

Buddhist teachers vow never to be more than 15 feet apart

Ten years ago, Michael Roach and Christie McNally, Buddhist teachers, took vows never to separate. By "never part," they did not mean only their hearts or spirits. They meant their bodies as well.

International Herald Tribune

Watchful citizen helps in arrest of 2 Calif. bank robbers

Two bank-robbery suspects were captured after an alert witness flagged down a Vallejo, Calif., police officer who happened to be nearby, authorities said.

San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

`Indian Mujahideen' claims responsibility for Jaipur blasts