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A supporter of president and candidate for presidential elections Mahmoud Ahmadinejad holds the president's poster during the final rally in front of the Sharif university mosque in west Tehran. (Photo by Kamran Jebreili / AP)

Iran row fires campaign's end

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ended his re-election campaign with a TV appearance accusing his opponents of trading in lies and insults.

BBC

Iran's electors hope to oust Ahmadinejad

McClatchy Newspapers

US clears 10 big banks to repay funds

JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and eight other top U.S. banks won clearance to repay $68 billion in taxpayer money, a step that may help them escape government curbs on executive pay.

Reuters

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10 US banks to repay TARP money

Christian Science Monitor

CEO: Confident automaker will succeed

Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said he has "no doubt" that the automaker will succeed.

Reuters

Chrysler-Fiat finale

USA TODAY

Fiat: Chrysler's Italian style

CNNMoney

Nearly 800 dealers closing

MSNBC

China, Russia agree to back US on curbing loans to North Korea

China and Russia have agreed on a U.N. draft resolution backed by the U.S. and Japan that would seek to curb loans and money transfers to North Korea.

Bloomberg

Envoy: North Korea claims on US aggression 'groundless'

CNN

Administration takes aim at executive pay

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that the Obama Administration will take several new steps to reform the ways executives are paid on Wall Street.

Politico

NATION

Craigslist clean-up: Is it really working?

It's been nearly a month since Craigslist promised improvements to clean the Web site of prostitution and graphic images, but it still takes just seconds to find illegal activities advertised on the site.

ABC News

Pacific state Palau to take Uighur detainees from Guantanamo

The Pacific island nation of Palau will accept up to 17 Chinese Muslims held in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay despite a Pentagon determination that they are not "enemy combatants."

San Francisco Chronicle

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Palau? Here's a cheat sheet

NPR

Gitmo terror suspect moved to NYC

ABC News

POLITICS

Obama pushes healthcare timeline

In an unannounced meeting at the White House, President Obama pushed key senators from both sides of the aisle to stick to their deadline for bringing healthcare reform to the Senate floor.

The Hill

Fidel Castro calls spy case against US couple 'ridiculous'

A retired State Department employee and his wife accused of spying for Cuba for three decades will appear in federal court for a detention hearing, a case that Fidel Castro described as "quite ridiculous."

McClatchy Newspapers

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Genetic difference found in wild versus tame animals

A study of nasty and nice lab rats has scientists on the verge of knowing the genes that separate wild animals like lions and wolves from their tame cousins, cats and dogs.

LiveScience

Hospitals test hand-washing detectors

Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a system that could save thousands of lives every year just by insuring that health care workers pay more attention to washing their hands.

ABC News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

David Letterman's company to extend deal with CBS through 2012

David Letterman and CBS are close to a deal that would keep the late-night comic on the "Late Show" through at least the spring of 2012.

NY Daily News

Hollywood actors agree to pay deal

The main U.S. actors' union has agreed to a deal with the major Hollywood studios after a year of acrimonious pay talks which almost led to strike action.

BBC

EDUCATION

Kids reap benefits of long school year

Many consider a 11-month-school year to be a "blessing for these urban school kids and their parents."

EducationNews.org

Unions set sight on high-profile charter-network schools

What started as a ripple in the charter community shows signs of becoming a wave as major charter school networks scramble to respond to an unfamiliar phenomenon: teach unionization.

Education Week

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Anglican-Catholic dialogue examines contraception

Debt relief and contraception were the two topics of the latest session of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue in the United States (ARC-USA).

Catholic World News

Survey examines megachurchgoers

Compared to attendees of a typical Protestant church, people who attend megachurches are more likely to be young, single, more educated and wealthier, a new survey reveals.

Christian Post

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GOOD NEWS

It pays to shop around for prescriptions

A study of prices of common diabetes drugs showed that buying by mail or from big-box stores can save consumers thousands of dollars a year compared to the local pharmacy.

ABC News

Kid caught in gang fire swaps wheelchair for walker to get diploma

The 5-year-old was caught in gang crossfire in May 2008, and badly injured. After nearly a year of physical therapy, Martrell swapped his wheelchair for a walker to accept his kindergarten diploma.

Chicago Sun-Times

WORLD

Aid workers among 9 dead in Pakistani hotel blast

Investigators searched a wrecked luxury hotel in northwestern Pakistan for evidence after a deadly suicide bombing the U.N. condemned as a "heinous terrorist attack."

NPR

CCTV shows how bombers attacked