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A boat carrying Pope Benedict XVI sails past the Sydney Opera House as it heads to Bangaroo harbor for an official World Youth Day welcome. (Photo by Robert Pearce / Sydney Morning Herald / AP)

Pope assails moral relativism during Australia visit

Pope Benedict XVI laid out a modern agenda for his trip to Australia, putting social justice and the environment center stage and attacking moral relativism.

International Herald Tribune

Papacy and the Vatican

Yahoo! News

Obama and McCain expand their courtship of Hispanics

Three times this month, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have addressed national Hispanic advocacy and organizations.

MSNBC

McCain to NAACP: more education

BBC

Bush chooses compromise with Iran

For now, the Bush administration has chosen compromise over confrontation in dealing with Iran's nuclear program with a dramatic gesture intended to demonstrate commitment to a negotiated solution.

Baltimore Sun

By talking to Iran, US budges in nuclear impasse

International Herald Tribune

Adm. Mullen favors more Iraq troop cuts for now

Adm. Mike Mullen, the nation's top military officer, says that, for now, he would likely recommend withdrawing more U.S. troops from Iraq this fall if improved security trends continue over the summer.

ABC News

NATO forces abandon Afghan outpost

CNN

US stocks advance as JPMorgan leads 2-day financial rally

U.S. stocks advanced for a second day after JPMorgan Chase & Co. joined Wells Fargo & Co. in reporting earnings that topped analysts' estimates, extending a record rally for financial shares.

Bloomberg

NATION

Senate report says wealthy use foreign banks to evade taxes

The report asserts that Swiss banking giant UBS and LGT, a large bank in the tiny European principality of Liechtenstein, actively helped wealthy American clients evade federal taxes.

USA Today

Report: FBI Investigates IndyMac

ABC News

Anti-gay marriage initiative kept on ballot

The California Supreme Court rejected a bid to remove a measure from the November ballot that would restore the state's ban on gay marriage.

San Jose Mercury News

Airplane fuel tank rules unveiled

A device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes, federal officials said.

TIME

POLITICS

Time to rid world of nuclear weapons, says Barack Obama

Sen. Barack Obama said he wants to rid the world of nuclear weapons and pledged to fight emerging threats.

CNN

Poll: Obama isn’t closing racial divide

MSNBC

Bush claims executive privilege on CIA identity leak

President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Cheney and records related to the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.

San Francisco Chronicle

Poll: Economic woes hits swing states

NPR

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Emmy nominations announced

TV academy voters cast their ballots for “John Adams,” the seven-part HBO miniseries, which garnered 23 nominations in bids for the 60th annual Emmys Award.

Variety

Primetime Emmy Awards

Yahoo! News

Ledger makes 'Dark Knight' unforgettable

Step aside, Spider-Man 2 and Superman II: The phenomenal, The Dark Knight now reigns as one of the greatest superhero film of all time.

People

'Eli Stone' recruits Katie Holmes

As a show and a character, ABC's "Eli Stone" is back from the dead. And coming along to boost the long-term chances of survival? Guest star Katie Holmes.

USA Today

EDUCATION

Merit pay and a Colo. school district

Many questions surround the issue of merit pay, including whether teachers can be punished for the challenges facing students. One school district in Colorado already has tackled the problem.

NPR

California high school dropout rate far higher than expected

California's first true count of high school dropouts shows that one in four kids quit school last year, far more than state educators estimated before they began using a new student-tracking system.

San Francisco Chronicle

Parents teaching 'old math' on the sly

On an occasional evening in Brooklyn, N.Y., Victoria Morey has been known to sit down with her 9-year-old son and do something she's not supposed to.

USA Today

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Apple must win its case against Psystar — or else

In a move that everyone was waiting for, Apple has finally sued Psystar for violating its copyright and has asked for the company's profits and a recall of all orders.

CNET News

Gamers get a handle on the Wii's future features at E3

Nintendo continues to innovate with its motion-sensing Wii controller, displaying a few new options at E3.

TechNewsWorld

HEALTH

The never-ending diet wars

A new study comparing the Atkins diet and two others published in The New England Journal of Medicine is likely to inspire headlines saying that Atkins is better for your health than a low-fat diet.

Newsweek

Breast self-exams: no survival benefit

Doing a breast self-exam doesn't improve breast cancer survival, and it makes biopsies of benign breast lumps more likely.

WebMD

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GOOD NEWS

Exercise 'slows down Alzheimer's'

Being physically fit could hold back the advance of Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers have suggested.

BBC

Coming this fall: free textbooks

Shelling out big bucks at the campus bookstore is a college tradition. But publishing upstart Flat World Knowledge will offer a much more appealing price point: Its books will be free.

TIME

WORLD

Olmert says 'heavy price' paid in Hezbollah exchange

Israel paid a "heavy price" in its agreement with Hezbollah to release five Lebanese prisoners in exchange for the return of the bodies of two Israeli soldiers, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said.

Bloomberg

Beirut welcomes freed prisoners