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Army troops prepare to leave for patrolling during a curfew in Bannu, a town on the edge of Pakistan's lawless tribal belt Waziristan. (Photo by Ijaz Muhammad / AP)

Pakistan 'starts Taliban assault'

Fierce fighting has broken out as the Pakistan army battles Taliban militants in their remote strongholds in the South Waziristan province. Militants were offering stiff resistance as troops advanced.

BBC

Q+A: Why Pakistan is in South Waziristan

Reuters

Obama issues a call to community service at Texas A&M

Outside, protesters sang, prayed and made speeches. But inside a hushed auditorium at Texas A&M University, President Barack Obama called for a nonpartisan culture of community service.

Houston Chronicle

Obama visits Aggieland

San Antonio Express-News

Sweeps led ICE to limit sheriff's power

An Arizona county's sheriff office is the only law-enforcement agency in the country to lose its authority to enforce federal immigration laws on the street under a controversial program.

Arizona Republic

'Sheriff Joe' vs. the feds

CNN

Albania: return Mother Teresa's remains

"By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world," according to Mother Teresa. But a dispute over her remains continues.

CNN

Mother Teresa in pictures

BBC

Can Bill Gates, the world's richest man, feed the planet?

Bill Gates called for a second Green Revolution focused on African farmers — for new crop varieties, higher yields, farmer training and infrastructure.

Scientific American

The new Green Revolution

TIME

NATION

All-male college forbids cross-dressing

An all-male college in Atlanta, Ga., has banned the wearing of women's clothes, makeup, high heels and purses as part of a larger crackdown on what the institution calls inappropriate attire.

CNN

Women are half of all US workers

Almost 40 percent of mothers are now the main wage-earner. That's difficult economically because women earn 77 cents to every dollar men make.

CBS News

La. judge denies marriage license to interracial couple

A Louisiana justice of the peace has ignited a firestorm after refusing to grant a marriage license to an interracial couple.

BET.com

Gov. Jindal calls for ouster of judge

NY Daily News

POLITICS

Democratic electoral success now leads to governing headaches

The success that came with opening the Democratic party to many centrists and conservatives in Republican-leaning districts is now causing problems as leaders struggle to find unity on health care reform.

The Hill

Obama threatens to end insurers’ federal antitrust exemption

President Barack Obama accused the insurance industry of airing deceiving ads to derail his health care reform and threatened to strip the industry of its exemption from federal antitrust laws.

New York Times

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Queen Nefertiti’s home, a ruin for 70 years, opens in Berlin

Berlin’s war-ruined Neues Museum opens after 70 years, rebuilt from rubble by British architect David Chipperfield as a home for Queen Nefertiti’s bust and the city’s Egyptian and prehistory collections.

Bloomberg

Neues Museum open to public

Euronews

Kevin Bacon loves the stage, and for more than just acting

For the last 14 years, the star of such movies as "Footloose" and "Apollo 13" has sung alongside his older brother Michael as a member of the Bacon Brothers, a six-member rock group.

Reuters

HEALTH

Shortage of flu shots as more kids die from swine flu infections

Even as swine flu infections are causing an unprecedented amount of illness and deaths for this time of year, supplies of the vaccine to protect against it will be delayed, said government health officials.

MSNBC

The H1N1 swine flu: a look inside

YouTube

Can you shed pounds on the cookie diet?

After trying dozens of pills and programs that didn't work, Josie Raper found Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet online. Six months later, her size 24 frame was down to a 6.

ABC News

SPORTS

Sabathia dominates Halos in Game 1

Sabathia's seventh strikeout highlighted a show-stealing performance as the Yankees posted a 4-1 victory over the Angels, securing Game 1 of the American League Championship Series.

MLB.com

Playoffs day 8

MSNBC

FIFA investigates Maradona tirade

Argentina coach Diego Maradona is to be investigated by FIFA following his furious outburst after Argentina's World Cup qualifier victory in Uruguay.

BBC

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Muslims lack allies in concerns about FBI undercover program

When a local Muslim activist told Chuck Warpehoski that the FBI was using undercover informants to collect information on people attending mosques, he knew the issue couldn’t be ignored.

Religion News Service

Hikers share in American Indian spirituality and find community

Hikers from Ohio walked in sun and rain and across many days. Though they started the journey for many reasons, most said they found something more important along the way: community.

Columbus Dispatch

EDUCATION

States continue to feel fiscal squeeze despite stimulus

Despite the nearly $40 billion to help steady state education budgets under the federal economic-stimulus package, some states remain in dismal fiscal straits, forcing further cuts to K-12 programs.

Education Week

Harvard’s bet on interest rate rise cost $500M to exit

Harvard University’s failed bet that interest rates would rise cost the world’s richest school at least $500 million in payments to escape derivatives that backfired.

Bloomberg

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GOOD NEWS

Scientists remove amyloid plaques from brains of live animals with Alzheimer's

A breakthrough discovery by scientists from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, may lead to a new treatment for Alzheimer's Disease that actually removes amyloid plaques from patients' brains.

ScienceDaily

Seattle club donates eyeglasses to children in Afghanistan villages

Children in remote Afghanistan villages will see more clearly thanks to a Seattle club which mailed off 760 donated eyeglasses to an Air Force optometrist for distribution to civilians, mostly children.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

WORLD

Afghans await vote fraud report

Election officials in Afghanistan will announce whether President Hamid Karzai is the winner of August's disputed election or must face a second vote against rival candidate Abdullah Abdullah.

Al Jazeera

Obama administration to roll out new Sudan policy