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Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh shakes hands with his South African counterpart Buyelwa Sonjica, China's chief climate change official Xie Zhenhua and Brazil's Minister for Environment Carlos Minc before the start of a meeting in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Mustafa Quraishi / AP)

The future of coal power will require some difficult choices

The governments of some of the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases are scheduled to announce how much they'll limit the emissions that warm the planet.

NPR

Special section:

Coal

New York Times

US involved in secret Yemeni strikes

U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops, who in the past six weeks have killed six top ranking al-Qaida members.

Washington Post

Obama's 1st State of the Union speech

President Barack Obama is expected to focus on job creation and deficit reduction in a State of the Union address that attempts to show he has not abandoned his lofty goals of a year ago.

San Francisco Chronicle

American public fed up with Washington

MSNBC

Special section:

Quiz: State of the Union

CNN

Man rescued from Haiti quake rubble after 12 days

A man has been pulled alive from the rubble in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, two weeks after the earthquake, which destroyed the city.

BBC

Children of Auschwitz recall liberation

Ahead of ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of Nazi death camp liberation, Polish survivors say they will forever remain children of Auschwitz.

Ynetnews

Liberating Auschwitz

CNN

NATION

Record number of young jobless

The U.S. economic recession has taken a particularly heavy toll on young Americans, with a record one out of five black men aged 20 to 24 neither working nor in school.

Reuters

Ford adds more jobs, at lower wages

Chicago Sun-Times

Obama to give 13 areas $8 billion for high-speed rail

President Barack Obama will give $8 billion in economic stimulus money to 13 U.S. rail corridors, mostly for high-speed passenger service, an administration official said.

Bloomberg

Oregon voters say 'yes' to tax increases

Oregon voters approved two tax-increase measures that legislators hoped would keep the state budget in balance.

Portland Tribune

Oregon voters pass tax hikes

KATU

POLITICS

Congress slows down on health care

Congressional leaders are taking health care legislation off the fast track, just as rank-and-file Democrats look to President Barack Obama for guidance, although no solution, in his State of the Union address.

ABC News

New poll shows vulnerability of Democrats

NPR

GOP firebrands elbow leaders

A group of House Republican lawmakers, frustrated with its leaders, is jockeying for position on the GOP's political stage.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Geithner: 'I had no role' in AIG cover up

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told lawmakers that he had no involvement in an apparent attempt by government regulators to withhold crucial information about AIG's bailout from the public.

CNNMoney

Verizon Wireless and AT&T competition heats up

Competition heated up in the fourth quarter between Verizon Wireless and AT&T, the largest U.S. mobile-phone service providers, new figures released show.

BusinessWeek

Whitacre has work to do at GM

The General Motors that has emerged from bankruptcy is trying hard to be a different company than the one that went begging for a handout from Washington in 2008.

MSNBC

GM finally accepts Spyker bid for Saab

USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Single photons observed at seemingly faster-than-light speeds

Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute can speed up photons to seemingly faster-than-light speeds through a stack of materials by adding a single, strategically placed layer.

ScienceDaily

Google Voice arrives on the iPhone

While Apple may still be “pondering” whether to approve Google Voice app for iPhone, Google has released an entirely Web-based version of the service.

PC World

NASA: Mars rover Spirit will rove no more

NASA's Mars rover Spirit is in its final resting place, mired in sandy soil on the edge of a small crater in the Martian hills.

ABC News

HEALTH

Use of herbal products common among pregnant women

Roughly 1 in 10 pregnant women in the U.S. expose their unborn baby to herbal products, according to a new study.

Reuters

Restoring vision damaged by disease

Researchers trying to restore vision damaged by disease have found promise in a tiny implant that sows seeds of new cells in the eye.

ScienceDaily

ENVIRONMENT

Courts as battlefields in climate fights

Tiny Kivalina, Alaska, does not have a hotel, a restaurant or a movie theater. But it has a very big lawsuit that might affect the way the nation deals with climate change.

New York Times

A Venus flytrap for nuclear waste

A new material developed at Northwestern University permanently traps only its desired prey, the radioactive ion cesium, and not other harmless ions like sodium.

esciencenews

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GOOD NEWS

Coach's incredible, blind shot nets NCAA Final Four tickets

The Kansas high school basketball coach who blasted to Internet stardom after making a dizzy, blindfolded, half-court shot will be, as promised, heading to the NCAA tournament after all.

ABC News

Watch the winning shot

BBC

Teacher, 100, gets degree

It was Harriet Richardson Ames' dream to earn her bachelor's degree in education. She finally reached that milestone, nearly three weeks after achieving another: her 100th birthday.

MSNBC

WORLD

Sri Lanka president re-elected

Mahinda Rajapaksa, the incumbent Sri Lankan president, has been re-elected, state television says.