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'Uncontacted Indians' of the Envira react to the overflight at their camp in the Terra Indigena Kampa e Isolados do Envira, Acre state, Brazil, close to the border with Peru. (Photo by Gleison Miranda, Funai / AP)

Goverment discloses investigation of crude-oil market

Federal regulators are six months into a wide-ranging investigation of U.S. oil markets, with a focus on possible price manipulation.

CNNMoney

Europe fuel protests spread wider

Fuel protests triggered by rising oil prices have spread to more countries across Europe, with thousands of fishermen on strike.

BBC

Rare tribe found in Amazon

Amazon Indians from one of the world's last uncontacted tribes have been photographed from the air, with images released showing them painted bright red and brandishing bows and arrows.

Reuters

In pictures: rare Amazon tribe

BBC

Second construction worker dies in New York crane collapse

Two construction workers died when a construction crane collapsed in Upper Manhattan during the morning rush hour, city officials said.

New York Daily News

Crane collapses in Manhattan

Yahoo! News

China military dodges landslides to drain quake lake

Chinese military engineers and soldiers are working in 24-hour shifts to drain a lake formed by the earthquake in Sichuan that is threatening to burst and inundate Mianyang, a city of 5 million people.

Bloomberg

Photos: dams under pressure

International Herald Tribune

NATION

Food prices to stay high for a decade

The era of cheap and plentiful food was declared at an end as a key international report issued a warning that high world food prices will continue for at least a decade.

Times Online

CIA chief: al Qaeda in retreat

The head of the CIA has said al Qaeda is essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and on the defense elsewhere.

BBC

Army tallies record number of suicides

USA Today

Court: Sect kids must be returned home

The Texas Supreme Court ruled that the children taken from a polygamist sect's ranch should be returned to their parents.

CBS News

Texas appeal says FLDS families are flight risks

YouTube

POLITICS

Taste of Senate set McCain on new path

A turning point was 1981, when he turned down an admiral’s star to make a run for Congress.

MSNBC

Obama: General election campaign to start

Sen. Barack Obama said that Democrats will know their presidential nominee after the final two primary states vote, and then, in his view, the general election campaign officially will begin.

CNN

California's Democrats shift into Obama's camp, Field Poll finds

Sacramento Bee

Democratic leaders lean on superdelegates

International Herald Tribune

Another pastor problem for Obama

CNN

BUSINESS

Imports fall, improving US trade balance

America's long-insatiable demand for imported goods is cooling. It's seen in everything from clothing, furniture and even imported oil.

Christian Science Monitor

Coffee lovers get a break

Reuters

Bear Stearns shareholders approve JPMorgan buyout

A majority of Bear Stearns Cos. shareholders approved the sale of the company to JPMorgan Chase & Co. at a brief shareholder meeting.

CNNMoney

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Cosby's famous sweaters up for auction

Some of Bill Cosby's patterned sweaters worn in his long-running hit "The Cosby Show" will be auctioned off next month to benefit a charity set up in memory of the actor's late son, organizers said.

MSNBC

Louis Vuitton drops Sharon Stone from Chinese Dior ads on quake remark

Louis Vuitton dropped actress Sharon Stone from Dior ads in China after she suggested the earthquake that killed more than 68,000 may have been "karma" for the nation's treatment of Tibet.

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

He 'cons' them into learning

Alvin Schroeder doesn't give formal lessons on numbers. That's not his style. Instead, he uses shop to inspire children who would otherwise have problems learning, slipping information in bits and pieces.

USA Today

South Carolina to train 10,000 in sex abuse prevention program

The South Carolina Department of Education is launching a statewide effort to prevent sex abuse in schools.

Education Week

HEALTH

Bacteria may be linked to SIDS

Bacterial infection has long been suspected of playing a role in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and now new research from the U.K. appears to bolster the theory.

WebMD

Active social life may keep memory loss at bay, study finds

People 50 years and older who were single, didn't have weekly contact with family and neighbors or volunteer had twice the memory loss as those who engaged in those activities.

Bloomberg

San Francisco, fittest big city in America

San Francisco edged out Seattle for the title of the fittest big city in America, according to a new report released by the American College of Sports Medicine.

WebMD

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GOOD NEWS

World Bank's rapid $1.2 billion fund to feed the poor

The World Bank President Robert Zoellick unveiled a $1.2 billion rapid response fund to help developing countries deal with the food price crisis.

Guardian

Youngest speller ever hits bee stage

Sriram Hathwar, 8, competes at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. He is the youngest speller in the history of the competition.

ABC News

WORLD

Myanmar starts mass evictions from cyclone camps

Myanmar's junta started evicting destitute families from government-run cyclone relief centres, apparently out of concern the "tented villages" might become permanent.

Reuters

Southern Iceland shaken by 6.1 magnitude earthquake