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GOOD NEWS

Firefighters rescue horse whose head got stuck beneath a metal fence railing

Firefighters cut through metal railing with a hacksaw to free a horse whose head was stuck in it.

San Jose Mercury News

Vehicle theft continuing to decline

Once again, the 1995 Honda Civic was the most stolen car in America, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but auto theft appears to have declined dramatically for the fourth year in a row.

Yahoo! News

WORLD

Israel 'ready to act' if threatened by Iran

Israel's defense minister has warned of his country's readiness to act against Iran if it feels threatened.

BBC

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Iran's missile range

CNN

US-India nuke deal in jeopardy

Even with India's last-minute revival of a languishing civil nuclear accord with the United States, it may be too late for an election-year Congress to ratify the deal.

TIME

China says 82 suspected terrorists detained in Olympic plots

China has detained 82 suspected terrorists in the first half of the year on allegations that they were plotting attacks against the Olympic games, according to state media reports.

Sports Illustrated

Dog meat off the menu during Beijing Olympics

Yahoo! News

BUSINESS

Anheuser-Busch reverses hostility to InBev overtures

Anheuser-Busch has reversed course and agreed to negotiate with Belgian rival InBev, which has raised its takeover offer to $70 per share according to a person familiar with the matter.

Financial Times

CBO: Americans use less gas, hurt highway trust fund

Americans are inadvertently hurting the country's highway trust fund as they buy less gasoline in the face of increasingly rising prices.

Reuters

SPORTS

Olympic swimmer Shanteau has testicular cancer, delays surgery

A week before the Olympic trials, swimmer Eric Shanteau was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He intends to delay surgery until after Beijing so as not to disrupt his lifelong goal.

Star Tribune

Jones faces felony drug charge, suspected of cocaine possession

Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Matt Jones faces a felony drug charge in his former college town after police say he was inside a car cutting up cocaine with a credit card.

ESPN

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists investigate Gulf's dead zone

The Black Sea has the largest dead zone in the world. The second largest is right off Louisiana's coast. Experts said it's growing every year, but Louisiana scientists are trying to decrease it.

CNN

LCD chemical found to have 17,000 times the climate impact of CO2

Dubbed the "missing greenhouse gas," nitrogen trifluoride was found by a recent study to have a global climate impact 17,000 times greater than carbon dioxide.

Environmental News Network

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Fans line up for release of Apple's cheaper ($199), faster (3G) iPhone

Geeks and iPhone freaks are gearing up to grab the latest version of Apple's signature phone. The biggest draw for many is the price - at $199, the new phone is half the price of the original.

NY Daily News

Londoners bonkers for iPhone

CNN

More efficient solar energy collectors attach to windows

A new, compact way to collect sunlight from windows and focus it to generate more electricity could make those multiple expensive rooftop solar panels a thing of the past.

LiveScience

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