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GOOD NEWS

Donors help save jazz icon's home

Donors made contributions to save four-time Grammy-nominated jazz singer, Ernestine Anderson's, home from foreclosure. Now, she can breathe again.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Anderson sings 'I Can't Give You Anything but Love'

YouTube

Dalai Lama envoys in China talks

Senior envoys of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, are in Beijing for formal talks with the Chinese government.

BBC

WORLD

A.U. recommends a national unity government for Zimbabwe

The African Union recommended creating a government of national unity for Zimbabwe during the A.U. summit in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Monsters and Critics

In oil-rich Iraq, long lines to buy gasoline

Although the Iraqi government hopes that development of its oil fields will boost oil production by more than 60 percent, it still faces challenges fueling its people.

Houston Chronicle

The West could run out of gas

BBC

International migration office bombed in east Nepal

Three bombs exploded at an office of the International Organization of Migration (IOM) in east Nepal that helps Bhutanese refugees to settle in third countries, police and government officials said.

Reuters

In Nepal: 'We are trying our best to understand democracy'

London Independent

BUSINESS

Starbucks closing 600 stores in the US

Starbucks Corp. announced it will close 600 company-operated stores in the next year as the faltering U.S. economy hastened the pain caused by the company's own rapid expansion.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Starbucks' new everyday brew

CBS News

Big trouble for Big Three automakers

America's automobile industry may be facing the biggest turnaround challenge in its history, a problem punctuated as the carmakers released monthly sales results.

Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Women's Wimbledon court scheduling concerns WTA chief

WTA chief Larry Scott said he was "disappointed and concerned" with the scheduling of women's matches at Wimbledon.

ESPN

Change of minds: Bonds' 756th homer ball will go to Hall

Now branded with an asterisk, the ball Barry Bonds launched for his record 756th home run nearly a year ago landed in the Hall of Fame.

CBS SportsLine

Cops: Patriots player held a handgun to fiancee’s head

New England Patriot Willie Andrews is in jail for allegedly holding a .45-caliber Glock to his fiancee's head after she accused him of cheating on her.

Boston Herald

HEALTH

Fragile X: unraveling autism's secrets

Fragile X is the result of a defective gene on the X chromosome, one of the pair of chromosomes that determines gender and has been linked to autism.

TIME

Sizing up sunscreen

Sunscreens were seriously burned this month, when a new ranking of more than 700 sunscreen products found that 84 percent did not provide adequate sun protection.

Newsweek

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The Met's century of photography

"Framing a Century" is an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art that features over 100 years of photography.

Village Voice

Faithfulness blurred in modern world

We used to know what infidelity was: sex with someone other than your mate. But the lines are less clear-cut now.

USA Today

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