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GOOD NEWS

$196 million lottery ticket sold in Cincinnati liquor store

A lucky lottery player who stopped into a suburban Cincinnati liquor store has a Mega Millions ticket worth $196 million.

MSNBC

Douple-amputee sprinter wins right to try for Olympic spot

Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius won his appeal Friday and can compete for a place in the Beijing Olympics.

Sports Illustrated

WORLD

Raul's reforms, as small as they are, stir hope in Cuba

The changes unfurled by new leader Raúl Castro are hardly profound, but they've stirred a new sense of hope in a nation with its first new president in 49 years.

McClatchy Newspapers

Tiny Jewish enclave thrives, witnesses a rebirth in Cuba

Boston Globe

Hezbollah's actions ignite sectarian fuse in Lebanon

After almost a week of street battles, long-simmering Sunni-Shiite tensions have sharply worsened in an ominous echo of the civil conflict in Iraq.

International Herald Tribune

Unexploded landmines leave lethal legacy in Uganda

The recent deaths of children in a landmine explosion in Uganda have raised awareness about the dangers of unexploded devices left over from twenty years of conflict.

Environment News Service

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Oreos invade England

The classic sandwich cookie may be as familiar and nostalgia-inducing as, well, Mom's apple pie for Americans, but the majority of Britons have never seen or tasted one. Until now.

ABC News

WMA tops $100 million film fund

William Morris Agency and Screen Capital International announced the development of a $100 million film financing company that will fund up to 50 movies within the next five years.

Variety

SPORTS

Feds: Donaghy bet on over 100 games he officiated

Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy bet on about 14 games he officiated in the 2006-07 season, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Goldberg said in a letter filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.

MSNBC

Lakers show championship form en route to quieting Jazz

So maybe it was more of a stagger than a bold leap into the next round, the Lakers squandering all but three points of a convincing 19-point lead before holding on to close out the Utah Jazz in Game 6.

ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

At ten, dark energy "most profound problem" in physics

For decades physicists were convinced that gravity should be causing the expansion rate of the universe to slow. But that might not be the case.

National Geographic

FDA not worried about BPA but critics demand moratorium

The controversy over the use of bisphenol A — or BPA — in many consumer plastics isn't going away, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may have further inflamed it.

Consumer Affairs

ENVIRONMENT

Baby buffalo's escape: the movie

"Battle at Kruger," the amateur clip about the escape of a baby buffalo from lions and crocodiles is made into a documentary by National Geographic.

Guardian

Battle at Kruger

YouTube

Native Canadians win mini-victory over big loggers

Pressure is mounting on the Canadian government to take actions against private loggers and businesses that encroach upon the indigenous peoples' territories.

OneWorld

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