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Firefighter Lou Sturtevant walks back up to the road after starting a backfire on a wildfire burn in Big Sur, Calif. (Photo by Tony Avelar / AP)

Pakistan 'knew of nuclear cargo'

Abdul Qadeer Khan, the architect of Pakistan's nuclear program, has said the Pakistani army, under President Pervez Musharraf, supervised a shipment of centrifuges to North Korea in 2000.

Al Jazeera

Despair drives attacks by Iraqi women

International Herald Tribune

Japan to show off on energy frugality

Japan, by many measures the most energy-frugal country among the world's developed nations, is expected to urge others to do the same at the upcoming G8 meeting.

International Herald Tribune

Report blames biofuels for food crisis

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75 percent, far more than previously estimated.

ABC News

Big Sur blaze rages, other fires spreading

The fire near Big Sur — one of three fires raging in Los Padres National Forest — burned an additional 4,407 acres, reaching a total of more than 68,700 acres since the fire was started by lightning.

San Francisco Chronicle

Hot weather returns, complicating firefighting efforts

San Jose Mercury News

Wind keeps California wildfires raging

YouTube

Zimbabwe 'vote fraud proof' emerges

Video footage which appears to show ballot-rigging taking place in Zimbabwe's recent presidential run-off election has been posted on the Internet.

Al Jazeera

Exclusive: secret film reveals how Mugabe stole an election

Guardian

Mugabe uses food as weapon as famine looms

Times Online

Judge rejects Bush's stance on wiretaps

A federal judge said that President Bush does not have the authority to overstep the law to establish the government's ability to conduct warrantless wiretaps on American citizens.

CBS News

Researcher retreats on sexual enhancement claim for watermelon

Chalk up the widely publicized report that watermelons can enhance erections to a stretched version of the truth by a university PR officer seeking a good story for the Fourth of July.

MedPage Today

NATION

Salmonella signs point to peppers

Investigators are seeing more signs that the salmonella outbreak blamed on tomatoes might have been caused by tainted jalapeno peppers, according to health officials.

Baltimore Sun

Lady Liberty's crown may reopen

The federal government may reopen the Statue of Liberty's crown for the first time since the World Trade Center attack.

NY Daily News

Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies

Former U.S. Republican Senator, Jesse Helms from North Carolina, is dead at the age of 86.

CNN

Jesse Helms

Yahoo! News

POLITICS

The presidential race: Graham soars as McCain’s wingman

Sen. Lindsey Graham's visibility as the Arizona senator’s closest political confidant has risen in recent weeks as the two men crisscross the country and travel abroad on McCain’s presidential quest.

The State

A legacy of service

MSNBC

Obama remarks on flip-flop charge

Sen. John McCain's campaign again called Sen. Barack Obama a flip-flopper after the Democratic candidate held a do-over news conference to clarify his remarks on the Iraq war.

CNN

Barack Obama: from childhood to political service

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Feds' closed-door deal could ease development

The Bush administration is preparing to ease the way for the nation's largest private landowner to convert hundreds of thousands of acres of mountain forestland to residential subdivisions.

MSNBC

Derailment leaks chemical into British Columbia river

A toxic chemical leaking from a derailed Canadian Pacific Railway car into British Columbia's Thompson River could kill, contaminate or disrupt the remainder of the river's salmon runs.

Globeandmail.com

Vague land ownership a key factor in Amazon deforestation

A “fragile” land tenure system and “a scarce presence” by the state government were identified as key factors in rising Amazon deforestation.

Environmental News Network

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Champ retains hot dog eating title

Joey Chestnut achieved frankfurter immortality, outdueling his celebrated Japanese rival in an epic hot dog eating contest that pushed both of the gluttonous gladiators to the brink.

Google News

Hot dog eating contest

Baltimore Sun

Single shot: O say, can you see how great living alone can be?

The joys of living alone reveal that every day is a celebration of independence for singles.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Who is the average American?

Kevin O'Keefe's book, "The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation's Most Ordinary Citizen," is a collection of facts from credible sources that reveal who the average American is.

Houston Chronicle

EDUCATION

Business school seeks Web cheaters

Prospective and current graduate business students who used a Web site to cheat on entrance examinations over the last five years could have their scores thrown out.

Yahoo! News

Chef proves school lunch can be healthy and cheap

Chef Dominique Valadier once worked in the glamorous world of Riviera restaurants. He says he left that life for something more meaningful. He's now creating fresh and healthy school lunches.

NPR

Give four-year-olds sex education, say 2 leading UK charities

Two leading sexual health charities are calling for children as young as four to be given compulsory sex education.

Guardian

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Prevalence of religious congregations affects mortality rates

A community's religious environment — that is, the type of religious congregations within a locale — affects mortality rates, often in a positive manner, according to research by an LSU professor.

Science Daily

Schedule for Pope's visit to Lourdes

The Vatican has released the full schedule for the trip by Pope Benedict XVI to France, to join in the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Virgin Mary's appearances at Lourdes.

Catholic World News

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GOOD NEWS

Huge trove of 78 rpm records donated to Syracuse University

A vast collection of 78 rpm records — valued at $1 million, weighing 50 tons and representing more than a half-century of American music history — is being donated to Syracuse University.

Yahoo! News

Japanese sailor first to cross Pacific in wave-powered boat

Japanese sailor and environmentalist Kenichi Horie has completed a 110-day solo voyage across the Pacific Ocean in a boat propelled by wave power to claim another world first.

AFP

From a US hostage in the Colombian jungle, a marriage proposal

While his Colombian girlfriend and twin sons waited, American captive Keith Stansell reached out.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Al-Qaida expanding recruitment of children for terror plots

CBS News

Poland rejects US missile shield offer

Poland spurned as insufficient a U.S. offer to boost its air defenses in return for basing anti-missile interceptors on its soil but said it remained open to talks with Washington.

Reuters

Historic China-Taiwan flights begin

The first regular charter flights between China's mainland and Taiwan began in a sign of warming relations between Beijing and Taipei.

CNN

BUSINESS

Florida Buffetted ahead of hurricane season

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway fund has pocketed $224 million in a bet that Florida will not be hit by devastating hurricanes in the coming months.

Guardian

BCE, Ontario teachers reach final agreement on sale

BCE Inc. signed a final agreement with a group led by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to complete the world's largest leveraged buyout after agreeing to scrap its quarterly dividend.

Bloomberg

Rate rise signals European Central Bank serious about inflation

The European Central Bank's interest rate rise sends a signal that it is serious about combating inflation, policymakers said as they staged a public relations offensive to justify the increase.

Reuters

SPORTS

Federer beats Safin to reach sixth Wimbledon final

Roger Federer of Switzerland advanced to his sixth consecutive Wimbledon tennis final by beating Marat Safin of Russia in straight sets.

Bloomberg

Frustrated Damon does some pretty good postgame hitting, too

Manager Joe Girardi held a closed-door meeting with his team after the ugly defeat, and they did not open the clubhouse doors until 31 minutes after the final out.

Newsday

HEALTH

Chemical found in wine eases age-related ailments

It's not exactly a fountain of youth, but a substance found in red wine, grapes and nuts can prevent many age-related problems in mice, an intriguing new study reveals.

San Jose Mercury News

Summer skin hazards

WebMD

New docs on the block

According to medical lore, July is the worst time to be hospitalized because that's when inexperienced med students start clinical training.

Newsweek

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Viacom vs. YouTube: beyond privacy

Viacom was granted access to what people watch on YouTube, which raises concerns of privacy violations if Viacom uses it to track down users who watch copyrighted videos on YouTube.

BusinessWeek

Phishers using Google calendar for new e-mail scams

By now everyone knows to watch out for and ignore shady e-mails with bad grammar (right?), but what about e-mails that appear to be sent from your Google Calendar account?

AOL News

New Mercury images show volcanoes, magnetic field, more

Mercury is full of volcanoes and other surprises, reveals initial data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.

National Geographic

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