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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is flanked by Gen. Adriano Santini as he points to the pictures of the fallen soldiers in a memorial room set up at the Defense Ministry in Rome. (Photo by Livio Anticoli / Premier's Press service / AP)

Another Europe ally eyes exit from Afghanistan after attack

Italy's prime minister said Italy will try to withdraw its 3,100 soldiers soon, but with NATO input. Debate over the war has grown recently in Germany and Britain.

Christian Science Monitor

Italian soldiers killed by blast in Afghanistan

YouTube

Senior Democrat turns health care debate into fight over immigration

Sen. Robert Menendez is putting Democrats in a bind by seeking to let illegal immigrants benefit from the health care overhaul.

The Hill

Russia to drop missile deployment plan

Russia will not deploy new missiles in the Kaliningrad enclave now that the U.S. has dropped plans to build an anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Reuters

NATO proposes link with Russia's missile defense

FOX News

Chronicles of missile defence dispute

YouTube

NY transportation center likely target of terror plot

A terror plot that came to light following raids in New York may have been targeting a major transportation center.

CNN

FBI widens terror probe from NY to Colo.

Christian Science Monitor

Facebook turns a profit, triples members

While you were posting vacation photos and messaging your friends, Facebook, with a total of 300 million members, just became the world's fourth largest "nation."

ABC News

NATION

US lets go of plan for missile shield in Eastern Europe

The White House is scrapping a key irritant in the soured U.S.-Russian relationship — the Bush-era plan for a missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Detroit Free Press

'Axis of evil' missile shield scrubbed

MSNBC

Pelosi says anti-Obama talk risks inciting some to violence

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised concern that some of the heated political rhetoric against President Barack Obama’s policies may incite emotionally unstable people to acts of violence.

Bloomberg

Pelosi chokes up amid fears of political violence

ABC News

Incomes of young in 8-year nose dive

The incomes of the young and middle-aged — especially men — have fallen off a cliff since 2000, leaving many age groups poorer than they were, even in the 1970s.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Appointment measure for Kennedy seat advances in Mass.

The Massachusetts House passed and sent to the state Senate a bill that would let Democratic Governor Deval Patrick choose a short-term replacement for the late Senator Edward Kennedy.

Bloomberg

Border fence to cost $6.5B over 20 years

It will cost taxpayers $6.5 billion over the next 20 years to maintain the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a government audit.

Associated Press

BUSINESS

Euro lower against dollar

The euro was slightly lower against the dollar in European trading, though the U.S. currency — typically a safe haven for traders — remained near year lows as economic signals point to recovery.

Newsday

1.4 million Americans score tax credit

More than 1.4 million Americans have already claimed the new $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers, according to a report from the Internal Revenue Service.

CNNMoney

Fed’s assets rise on mortgage-debt purchases

Bloomberg

HEALTH

WHO: Annual H1N1 vaccine production far less than forecasted

Annual production of H1N1 vaccine will be "substantially less" than the 4.9 billion doses the World Health Organization (WHO) previously forecasted was possible.

Reuters

H1N1 expert on back-to-school scare

YouTube

Lack of health coverage tied to 45,000 deaths a year

Nearly 45,000 people die in the U.S. each year — one every 12 minutes — in large part because they lack health insurance and cannot get good care.

MSNBC

Obama urges students to rally behind health care

Baltimore Sun

EDUCATION

$40 billion expansion of federal aid to college students a step closer to law

The maximum annual Pell Grant scholarship would increase to $5,550 in 2010 and to $6,900 by 2019 under legislation passed by the House of Representatives.

New York Times

US education secretary visits Okla

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan praised Oklahoma as a national leader in efforts to improve early childhood education, saying such efforts would prove their worth in future years.

Edmonton Sun

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Christmas kept in textbooks

Christmas will stay in Texas textbooks, State Board of Education members said. while reviewing early recommendations for new social studies standards.

Houston Chronicle

Muslim groups ease fears with accreditation by Better Business Bureau

A Chicago charity credits the influx of donations to the organization becoming one of the nation's first to be accredited by the Better Business Bureau's newest charity wing tailored for Islamic nonprofits.

Examiner

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GOOD NEWS

US, Europe offer H1N1 flu vaccine to nations in need

The U.S., France and Britain are among nine countries that pledged to make 10 percent of their swine flu vaccine supply available to other nations that may need it.

Sydney Morning Herald

Ukraine crowned Milan 2009 homeless World Cup champs

Ukraine defeated Portugal 5-4 in the Milan 2009 Homeless World Cup, the annual international football tournament that gives people who are homeless the opportunity to change their own lives.

HappyNews.com

New airline ticket tax to aid poor countries

Starting in January, whenever you buy an airline ticket, you will be given the option to donate $2 to help developing countries.

Times Online

WORLD

Deadly blast in Pakistan market