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President George W. Bush, left, gestures during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda at the G8 summit in the lakeside resort of Toyako on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. (Photo by Evan Vucci / AP)

Tired firefighters battle more than 330 Calif. wildfires

Firefighters got a gift of a mild, mostly windless night and a forecast for similar conditions with their energy and resources taxed by more than 300 blazes still burning around the state.

Google News

Crews forge progress against Calif. fires

CNN

Betancourt sends radio message to remaining jungle hostages

Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt sent a radio message to all hostages still in the grips of FARC rebels, as she recovered in Paris from her six-year ordeal, according to her sister.

AFP

Betancourt: 'I suffered terribly'

CNN

Hamas, long the peace spoiler, finds it hard to halt attacks

The Egyptian-brokered peace is slowly unraveling as Hamas leaders in Gaza struggle to keep militants — especially their Fatah rivals — from firing the occasional rocket at Israel.

McClatchy Newspapers

Rich nations poised to tackle soaring oil, food prices

The U.S. and Japan called for urgent action on red-hot oil and food prices that could derail the global economy on the eve of a summit of the world's richest nations.

AFP

Bush promises to be constructive on climate at G8

Reuters

G-8 Summit draws grab-bag of activists, causes

CBS News

Political spins blurring energy realities

When it comes to the raging national debate over energy policy, reality is often in the eye of the beholder and both parties tend to play loose with the facts.

Houston Chronicle

Bush: Olympic boycott would insult Chinese people

CNN

Canada ruling boosts US deserter

A Canadian court has ordered the country's refugee board to re-examine an American deserter's rejected attempt for asylum in Canada.

BBC

‘Germ warfare’ fear over African monkeys taken to Iran

Hundreds of endangered monkeys are being taken from the African bush and sent to a “secretive” laboratory in Iran for scientific experiments.

Times Online

NATION

Miss. River reopens as flooding wanes

The Mississippi River, the most important U.S. commercial waterway, reopened to water navigation after much of it was closed for nearly a month due to the worst flooding in 15 years.

Reuters

After DC gun ban overturned, city seeks new rules

Prospective gun buyers and sellers said they remain on hold, awaiting the response of D.C. officials who are scrambling to draft new handgun regulations that comply with the Supreme Court ruling.

CBS News

FDA steps up testing of peppers, cilantro in salmonella probe

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is increasing its testing of foods and herbs traditionally used in Mexican cooking as it seeks the source of a salmonella outbreak that has hospitalized 130 people.

Bloomberg

Cilantro, peppers now suspects

CNN

POLITICS

Carly Fiorina backing McCain

Times Online

Obama: Media response to Iraq remarks overblown

Obama told reporters he was surprised at how the media has "finely calibrated" his recent words on Iraq, and reaffirmed his commitment to ending the war if elected.

Google News

Both left and right pile on Obama

MSNBC

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VP picks: Gore, or somebody like him

Baltimore Sun

ENVIRONMENT

Some species could be wiped out 100 times faster than feared, say researchers

Scientists now say methods used to predict when species will die out are seriously flawed and dramatically underestimate the speed at which some will disappear.

Guardian

Green countries

The Environmental Performance Index aims to be a comprehensive assessment of the world's environmental challenges and how individual countries are responding to them.

Newsweek

Companies begin quest for oil and gas off Florida coast

Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive; politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide. No more.

Kansas City Star

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Our presidential pets

You can forget the elephant and the donkey — because every president since Warren G. Harding has made the White House a virtual doghouse, a phenomenon likely to continue.

Boston Herald

Growing up geek is a good thing

Parents who were popular during childhood usually expose their kids to "the culture of cool," while former geeks turned parents tend to limit their children's exposure to popular culture.

NY Daily News

Oscar candidates lagging this year

On paper, this year looks like a return to the old days, when the majors dominated the Oscars — in contrast with recent history, when the Oscar charge was led by specialty divisions and fall launches.

Variety

EDUCATION

Culinary students treated to a gourmet-style education

With the prediction that there will be a shortage of 2 million jobs for chefs between now and 2017, some culinary schools seek to make a culinary education accessible to more students.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

School district's 4-day week approved

In an effort to save money for the rural west-central school district, the Minnesota Department of Education has approved of reducing the school week to four days, making Monday a no-school day.

Star Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Bible translation project stirs controversy

Plans to translate the Bible into patois — Jamaica's unofficial language — have ignited a fiery debate that stretches beyond the shores of this island nation.

Google News

British schoolboys disciplined for 'refusing to pray to Allah'

Two schoolboys were allegedly disciplined after refusing to kneel down and "pray to Allah" during a religious education lesson.

Daily Telegraph

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GOOD NEWS

3 freed hostages give thanks for rescue

The three American hostages rescued by Colombia's military said in a statement that they are doing fine and are thrilled to ''return home to the country we love.''

Chicago Sun-Times

Vintage 'Metropolis' scenes unearthed

Film historians had lost any hope of ever retrieving the missing portions of Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic silent film “Metropolis,” until three reels were found in Argentina.

eFlux Media

WORLD

Al-Qaida is driven from Mosul bastion after bloody last stand

In Mosul, Al-Qaida’s last redoubt, the group now lacks the strength to fight the army face to face and has lost the sympathy of most of the ordinary citizens who once admired it.

Times Online

Al-Qaida expanding recruitment of children for terror plots

CBS News

Teenage girls raped at Robert Mugabe's torture camps

Dozens of teenage girls have been made pregnant after being taken into the bush and raped in torture camps by President Robert Mugabe’s youth militia, human rights workers allege.

Times Online

Mbeki holds Harare crisis talks

BBC

Colombia foils bomb plot

Colombia found explosives set to be used in bombs across the capital in reprisal for this week's rescue of the leftist rebels' highest-profile hostages, including Ingrid Betancourt, military officials said.

Reuters

BUSINESS

The buck doesn't stop, it keeps on falling

The dollar has been declining steadily for six years against other currencies, undercutting its role as the leading international banking currency.

Forbes

Netflix stars in a slow-mo economy

When economic ill-winds start to blow, consumer businesses like booze and cigarettes have turned out to be safe harbors for investors. Will video rental king Netflix prove the same?

CNNMoney

SPORTS

Blast of fresh emotional air in the Williams Wimbledon finale

Venus Williams beat her sister Serena Williams 7-5, 6-4 for her fifth Wimbledon title and seventh major championship.

ESPN

Child's play

Sports Illustrated

Tough, but satisfying win for Venus

MSNBC

Dana Torres, 41, makes record 5th Olympic swim team

Torres swam in her first Olympic Games in 1984; she came out of a seven-year retirement to take a shot at making her fifth U.S. Olympic team. Now her dream has come true.

San Francisco Chronicle

Spain's Valverde takes first stage of Tour de France

The 2008 Tour de France opened with Spain's Alejandro Valverde winning the first stage and the leader's yellow jersey.

The Sports Network

HEALTH

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

More evidence that Sudden Infant Death is linked to brain chemical

A new study reinforces that the brain chemical serotonin plays a key role in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Discover

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Letting science warn effects of alcohol

Kevin Strang, a faculty at UW-Madison, has developed a popular campus lecture on how students can use science to maximize alcohol's pleasurable aspects while minimizing its harmful ones.

Wisconsin State Journal

Texas archaeological dig challenges assumptions about first Americans

The Clovis people were believed to be highly mobile nomadic hunters, but excavations have revealed that Clovis people lived at a Texas site for extended periods over a span of 300 years.

Scientific American

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