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A paramilitary police rescue crew stops recovery work in a collapsed building to stand for three minutes silence as a mark of respect to the victims of a devastating earthquake, in the town of Tashui, in China's southwest Sichuan province. (Photo by Greg Baker / AP)

China quake toll hits 32,500 as three-day mourning begins

Sydney Morning Herald

200 Chinese relief workers buried by mudslides

Times Online

One family's loss in Sichuan earthquake

YouTube

VA struggles to care for female veterans

Roughly 180,000 women have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. As they return home, they're increasingly turning to an already overtaxed Department of Veterans Affairs for help.

McClatchy Newspapers

Economy predicted to weaken further

First the good news: The worst of the painful housing slump and the credit crunch might come to an end this year. Now the bad: The economy will weaken further and unemployment will rise.

Baltimore Sun

Bush calls for Middle East reform

President George Bush has called for greater political reform in the Middle East, saying democracy is the best way to nurture economic growth.

Al Jazeera

Bush's lecture to Mideast leaders

YouTube

Asian leaders discuss cyclone aid

Leaders of South East Asian nations gathered in Singapore to discuss plans for providing aid to Myanmar where hundreds of thousands of people are homeless following the cyclone two weeks ago.

International Herald Tribune

UN leaders allowed in Myanmar delta

Newsweek

Microsoft and Yahoo in discussions on possible deal

After withdrawing a $47.5 billion offer to buy the Internet icon, Microsoft said that it and Yahoo are discussing a transaction but not an acquisition of all of Yahoo.

USA Today

13 killed in anti-immigrant violence in South Africa

At least 13 people have been killed and 50 others injured in Johannesburg after mobs attacked immigrants from neighboring African countries using guns, knives and iron bars.

Telegraph.co.uk

Mayhem in Johannesburg

BBC

NATION

New breed of American in need of food

USA Today

Wanted: foreign-born spies for CIA

The spy agency is desperately trying to recruit those with the cultural awareness and language skills needed to fight terror.

CBS News

Residents return home as workers clean La. acid spill

Thousands of Lafayette, Louisiana residents were allowed to return to their homes as crews continue to clean up hydrochloric acid that spilled when six train cars derailed a day earlier.

Associated Press

POLITICS

Obama warns GOP 'lay off my wife'

Sen. Barack Obama ripped into a Republican ad that targets comments made by his wife, Michelle, and called the GOP tactic "low class" and "detestable."

ABC News

McCain's national finance co-chair exits over lobbyist ties

John McCain's national finance co-chairman has stepped down, the latest casualty of a presidential campaign eager to cauterize damage caused by its ties to lobbyists.

Google News

Poll: Rural voters not reliably Republican in 2008

NPR

Obama, Clinton fundraisers discuss merging teams

Top fundraisers for Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have begun private talks aimed at merging the two candidates' teams and not waiting for the Democratic nominating process to end.

MSNBC

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Obama hints he sees imbalance in the way the press covers McCain

ABC News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

For moms, Wii might have the perfect Fit

Nintendo is releasing what might be the first big-budget console game that can pull in that ever elusive segment: mothers.

San Francisco Chronicle

Indiana star Ford won't read reviews

Good or bad, actor Harrison Ford will not be reading reviews of the new Indiana Jones movie, which divided the Cannes film festival's notoriously picky critics.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New surgical technology holds promise of painless, scarless procedures

Natural office translumenal endoscopic surgery is a new procedure in which an endoscope is inserted through natural body openings, thereby avoiding incisions.

HealthDay

World's poor pay the price as crop research is cut

Cuts in agricultural research continue even as the growth of the global food supply slows and the population increases.

International Herald Tribune

Burma's rice harvest under threat

BBC

Facebook to Google: friend disconnect

The industry momentum for data portability brotherhood hit a bump when Facebook blocked Google's Friend Connect service from accessing Facebook members' data.

PC World

EDUCATION

At some schools, failure goes zero to 50

In most math problems, zero would never be confused with 50, but a handful of schools nationwide have set off an emotional academic debate by giving minimum scores of 50 for students who fail.

USA Today

Can candidates cut college costs?

From groceries to gasoline, everything is costing more. As schools compete to be the best by expanding campuses and adding research centers, the cost of an education is growing.

CNN

Are college degrees a waste of money?

NPR

HEALTH

Chicago company recalls meat for E. coli contamination concerns

Federal officials say a Chicago-based company is recalling beef products distributed in 11 states because of possible E. coli contamination. The U.S.D.A. said no illnesses have reported from the meat.

Associated Press

Fighting breast cancer? Take your vitamin D

Researchers have found that breast cancer patients who don't have enough vitamin D in their bodies are much more likely to have their cancer spread and to die from the disease.

ABC News

Prostate cancer vaccine looks promising in early trial

A therapeutic vaccine to treat prostate cancer appears safe and may be effective, according to the results of an early trial.

HealthDay

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Editorial:

California can do better than gov's plan

San Jose Mercury News

Column:

American car culture running out of gas

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Rebuilding US forces to face the challenges ahead

International Herald Tribune

Column (Prime Minister Gordon Brown):

Why I believe stem cell researchers deserve our backing

Guardian

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Republicans seek salvation from McCain

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Backers say Hillary can still find victory

Chicago Sun-Times

Column:

Hamas hysteria

TIME

Column:

The reasons I defend President Bush when I'm abroad

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Nissan moves ahead on electric cars

Nissan's joint venture with electronics maker NEC Corp. will invest $115 million to start mass-producing lithium-ion batteries — a technology widely viewed as key for next-generation "green" cars.

ABC News

Residents complete record Relay For Life for cancer treatment

Volunteers concluded the most successful Relay for Life fund-raising campaign in Patrick County's history with renewed "HOPE" for a cancer-free tomorrow, having raised approximately $75,000.

eMaxHealth

WORLD

BAE chief subpoenaed over arms deal

U.S. officials investigating alleged bribes in a Saudi arms deal subpoenaed the chief executive of BAE Systems, Britain's biggest military contractor.

Reuters

Leader of Burmese junta Than Shwe visits refugee camp