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An activist disguised as German Chancellor Angela Merkel is being pulled between activists representing good and evil as they protest for a better climate policy in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Maya Hitij / AP)

Demonstrations on climate change staged around the world

From seabeds to mountaintops, people around the world were staging a day of demonstrations to call for urgent action on climate change.

CNN

Danish PM says climate talks painfully slow

Reuters

Optional public option enters Senate health care talks

Senate Democratic leaders met with White House officials to consider including a public health insurance option, along with a provision allowing states to opt out of it, in a health care overhaul bill.

CNN

Reid closed in on 60 votes for health option

Politico

Obama calls on banks to help small businesses obtain credit

President Barack Obama called small businesses the "engine" of the U.S. economy and said too many are still struggling to get needed credit to operate.

Bloomberg

Banks that failed in 2009 top 100

CBS News

Special section:

Where the banks are failing

CNNMoney

NATO considers troops for Afghan war

Top NATO and U.N. officials signaled they may request more international troops to join American forces in Afghanistan as President Barack Obama is supposedly far from deciding on a shift in war strategy.

Kansas City Star

NATO backs McChrystal

BBC

NATO endorses Afghan strategy

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Facebook and MySpace socially divided

The online social world is dividing up into neighborhoods, and Facebook is taking over more and more of the social networking space in the U.S.

NPR

NATION

Okla. abortion laws spark court battles

Abortion rights supporters have challenged two new Oklahoma laws that would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws in the country.

ABC News

Death row may go private in Ariz.

In a first in the criminal-justice world, Arizona's death row inmates could become the responsibility of a private company.

Seattle Times

Death row in private hands

New York Times

US tsunami shelter planned

Residents of the small Oregon town of Cannon Beach are preparing to build the first tsunami-resistant shelter in the U.S.

National Geographic

POLITICS

Debt threatens security, health care

CIA Director Leon Panetta warned that the nation's ballooning federal debt threatens resources available for national security as well as education and health care.

San Francisco Chronicle

White House fires back in feud with FOX

After taking incoming fire from the prime-time stars of FOX News, the Obama White House is firing back, charging that FOX News is different from all other news.

CBS News

When artifacts become political pawns

Globalization, it turns out, has only intensified, not diminished, cultural differences among nations. The forces of nationalism love to exploit culture because it’s symbolic.

New York Times

BUSINESS

Rebate cards are a better present for retailers than for consumers

Millions of consumers intent on grabbing holiday deals by way of mail-in rebates are likely to see fewer checks this year and more plastic designed to lure them back into the store, retail experts say.

Denver Post

Hand sanitizer in short supply

Demand for hand sanitizer has gone through the roof since swine flu broke out, and some makers of the germ-fighting gels are scrambling to keep up.

CNNMoney

EDUCATION

University of Calif. launches $1B fundraising drive for students

University of California President Mark Yudof announced an ambitious plan that would guarantee that students who are accepted into the system would have the money to pay for their education.

San Jose Mercury News

Special section:

College cost calculator

New York Times

Parents rally for public education

The closure of 256 public schools statewide isn't sitting well with a lot of parents. A few dozen parents brought their kids to Noelani Elementary School to stage a small rally against furloughs.

KHON2.COM

ENVIRONMENT

Hawaii regulators approve 1st US tuna farm off the big island

Hawaii Oceanic Technology aims to create an environmentally friendly open ocean farm for bigeye tuna, a favorite source for sushi and sashimi that's overfished in the wild.

Arizona Republic

China looks to check massive emissions

Seeking to transform an economy heavily dependent upon coal, China's government has closed down old cement and coal plants, subsidized row upon row of new wind turbines and taken other measures.

MSNBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Clergy celibacy may be deal-breaker for some Anglicans

While Pope Benedict XVI hopes to encourage conversions by disaffected Anglicans, the Catholic tradition of celibate clergy may be an insurmountable obstacle for some potential converts.

USA TODAY

Africans told to either repent or resign

Declaring that Africa needed more "saints" in public life, African bishops issued a strong statement calling on corrupt Catholic politicians on that continent to "repent" or leave office.

New York Times

Religion defies easily identified patterns

The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago released what it described as "the most comprehensive analysis to date of global religious trends," with no clear directions identified.

New York Times

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GOOD NEWS

Airliner lands safely after damage report

A Russian airliner with 279 people aboard landed safely in the Russian capital following reports of possible damage to its landing gear.

Houston Chronicle

Weight Watchers offers food donation

The local chapter of Weight Watchers have lost 4,600 pounds, and collected 1,300 pounds of donated food for charity as part of the Lose For Good campaign.

Springfield News-Ledger

WORLD

Nuclear inspectors head to Iran

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency are travelling to Iran ahead of a visit to a newly revealed nuclear site.

BBC

Iranian site prompts US to rethink nuclear plan