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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, makes his opening remarks as he attends the first meeting of the day of the G20 Finance Ministers Meeting in central London. (Photo by Geoff Caddick / Pool / AP)

At Venice Film Festival, bleakness and a comic edge

"Life During Wartime'' wraps guilt and forgiveness into a tragi-comic tale, while "The Road" is a menacing drama and "Ehky ya Schahrazad" explores attitudes to women in contemporary Egypt.

New York Times

In pictures: Venice Film Festival premieres

Monsters and Critics

China ousts regional leader

The top Communist official in Urumqi in western China was dismissed as a large deployment of military police appeared to have brought a measure of peace to the city.

New York Times

G-20 to stick with stimulus, little move on bank pay

G-20 finance leaders pledged to keep economic life support packages in place until a recovery is firmly secured, but reached no deal on putting limits on bankers' pay.

ABC News

Gordon Brown warns G-20 countries against reining in spending

Telegraph.co.uk

Special section:

G-20: economic summit snapshot

BBC

Christian evangelists target Dearborn's large Islamic population

An ongoing effort by at least eight Christian groups across the U.S. seeks to spread the gospel in Dearborn, Michigan — a city known for its sizeable Islamic population.

Detroit Free Press

Jobless rate in US climbs to 9.7 percent

The U.S. unemployment rate surged to 9.7 percent, signaling that joblessness and financial anxiety are likely to endure in millions of American homes.

Houston Chronicle

Special section:

Tracking US monthly unemployment

NPR

NATION

Ashcroft could be sued for jailing 'witnesses', court rules

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be sued for damages for ordering Muslims jailed as material witnesses in criminal cases, a federal appeals court ruled.

San Francisco Chronicle

A magnet no more: the population of Florida now on the decline

The unthinkable has happened: Demographers report that Florida's population shrank last year for the first time in more than 60 years.

NPR

Gibbs on squabble over Obama's speech

The White House dismissed as pointless the furor over President Obama's plan to deliver a televised back-to-school speech to the nation's students.

Google News

Obama's school address

CBS News

POLITICS

White House to open visitor logs to public

President Obama announced that he will open up White House visitor logs to the public on a regular basis for the first time in modern history.

New York Times

Special section:

Inside the White House

MSNBC

New member of the family

It's not that the justices aren't welcoming Sonia Sotomayor as one of The Nine. But it sounds as if the prospect of a third new justice in four years is a bit traumatic — even to one of the new justices.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Health care bill expected relatively soon from Senate panel

Signaling it's time for action, the Senate's chief negotiator on a health care bill told his colleagues he won't wait much longer for a Republican compromise.

USA TODAY

White House ready to draft health care bill

CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

UA and NASA release photographs of Mars

The University of Arizona and NASA released thousands of new, high-quality pictures of Mars. The images show craters and basins, dunes and rocky areas and many more geological features.

Arizona Daily Star

Mars orbiter's abstract impressions

CNET News

Astronauts talk about life in space

After a full week in space, the crews from Discovery and the international space station — 13 astronauts in all — took a few moments to reflect on their experiences orbiting the Earth.

Houston Chronicle

Google Chrome's 1st year

In the year since Google's Chrome browser first shipped, it is still a technology triumph. But early hopes that it would be a Microsoft-killer now seem remote.

InformationWeek

EDUCATION

Colleges brace for swine flu assault

With thousands of college students flooding New England campuses this week, universities are taking measures to contain possible outbreaks of influenza.

EducationNews.org

Bridgepoint shares ail on Wall Street

San Diego-based Bridgepoint Education was among Wall Street's top losers yesterday after it announced that it might face fines and penalties for possibly misusing federal student aid.

San Diego Union Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change in the Arctic

Climate change is progressing the most quickly in the Arctic, where annual temperatures in the far North are warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe.

TIME

Severe drought hurting Austin's springs and salamanders

The most severe drought in the nation is drying up one of Austin's most treasured natural resources, the spring-fed Barton Creek Pool where more than 400,000 visitors from around the world flock each year.

MSNBC

Environmental groups challenge US State Department oil pipeline permit

A coalition of environmental groups has filed a lawsuit challenging a U.S. State Department permit that allows an oil pipeline to be built in three Midwestern states.

Forbes

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GOOD NEWS

Space junk misses astronauts

A big piece of space junk safely sped by the international space station and shuttle Discovery, missing by less than a mile.

CBS News

Food bank donations up, need growing

This year, the Braxton County food bank has worked harder to bring in donations, which are at their highest point — but so is the demand.

The Charleston Gazette

WORLD

New Afghan 'poll frauds' emerge

One tribal elder has admitted that he tampered with hundreds of ballots in favor of incumbent President Hamid Karzai.

BBC

NATO begins investigation into Afghanistan bombing