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World Bank President Robert Zoellick addresses the IMF World Bank 2010 Annual Meetings’ plenary session in Washington. (Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP)

Nobel Peace Prize goes to Liu Xiaobo

China’s best-known dissident won the prestigious Nobel peace prize from the prison cell where he is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power.

Guardian

Prize winner‘s wife on Liu Xiaobo’s ‘duty’

BBC

Bio warfare scientists help solve mystery of dying bees

The cause of the mysterious decline of the honey bee in the United States — and elsewhere in the world — may have been found in the form of a “double whammy” infection with both a virus and a fungus.

The Independent

IMF warns against currency wars

The head of the International Monetary Fund warned global finance ministers that they should not use the value of their currencies as an economic weapon.

Houston Chronicle

Geithner: rebalancing ’not progressing’ enough

FRANCE24

Should the US and others risk a trade war with China over the valuation of the yuan?

Wall Street Journal

Key to long life may be in your ZIP code

Your neighborhood, specifically your neighborhood’s income, is dramatically correlated to longevity.

Star Tribune

Study: Neighborhoods can harm health

Medical News Today

Employers in US cut more jobs

The U.S. lost more jobs than forecast, reflecting a decline in government payrolls that shows the damage being done by rising budget deficits. Employers cut staffing by 95,000 workers.

Bloomberg

US economy sheds 95,000 jobs

MSNBC

NATION

Senate report: Afghan security contracts aid Taliban

U.S. reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line the pockets of the Taliban because contractors often don’t vet local recruits and wind up hiring warlords and thugs.

MSNBC

US, Taliban claim momentum in Afghan war

YouTube

1st buyers of Nissan Leaf get perks

Thousands of Americans are already learning that going electric can come with perks like no other car purchase.

New York Times

POLITICS

US national security adviser quits

President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser Jim Jones will resign from the White House and will be replaced by Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon.

The Hill

NJ governor kills plans for Hudson River tunnel project

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie killed plans for a new train tunnel to connect his state with New York’s Manhattan island saying billions of dollars in possible cost overruns made the project “completely unthinkable.”

CNN

Prospects of new train helps Tampa bond rating

Tampa Bay Review

BUSINESS

Holiday shopping recovery on track

Stores like Abercrombie & Fitch, Macy‘s and Limited Brands enjoyed better than expected sales as consumers spent big for back-to-school items, making for merrier forecasts.

Forbes

Adobe Systems shares surge on report Microsoft’s Ballmer discussed merger

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen to discuss closer collaboration. Two people familiar with the matter confirmed that the meeting took place.

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

No more marriage gap for white women with college education

White women with college degrees are now just as likely to get married as their less-educated counterparts, ending what researchers once thought of as a “marriage penalty.”

Washington Post

7 candidates seeking 3 seats on Santa Clara County Board of Education

The candidates for county school board say they would like to steer it back toward its education mission and away from the politics that landed the board in the public’s eye.

San Jose Mercury News

HEALTH

Bingers may also be cutters

If a young patient has an eating disorder, chances are he or she is also engaging in other forms of self-harm, like cutting, researchers say.

MedPage Today

Ribbons and bracelets show true colors

When Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation supporters were doing a superb job associating pink with their cause, other advocacy groups took notice. Soon ribbon campaigns went crazy.

Houston Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

A look at the 4 ways Americans view God

According to a new book called “America’s Four Gods” by Paul Froese and Christopher Bader, the way Americans view of God falls into four categories.

ABC News

Faith-based exercise works for Grandma

The Bible is not customarily listed among the great fitness manifestos, but researchers found that for religious people, exercise as a form of prayer may motivate the elderly to stay fit.

ABC News

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Patrick Cockburn):

Is Pakistan falling apart?

The Independent

Editorial:

A fall classic

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Froma Harrop):

Apathetic Latino voters may regret not going to polls

Houston Chronicle

Column (Marc Ambinder):

Race of the day: Will local or national politics win out in Ariz.?

The Atlantic

Editorial (Madison Shockley):

The Tea Party: It’s worse than you think

Truthdig

Column (Jon Carroll):

People of Oz, we salute you

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog (Andrew Bacevich):

The long war: year 10 lost in the desert with the GPS on the fritz

Huffington Post

Column (Steve Kornacki):

Finally, a Hillary rumor that makes sense

Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Doctors close to cure for diabetes

While 23 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, researchers say there are nearly 60 million who will likely develop the disease. For the first time, scientists believe they’re nearing a cure.

WNDU.com

Happiness more than gene deep

The idea that happiness is a genetic trait influenced by early life experiences has been challenged by new research from Germany.

CBC News

WORLD

Iraqi government’s future remains unclear

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appeared to win an important victory — a key Shiite faction agreed to allow Maliki to continue leading the country — but political figures say the logjam is not yet broken.

NPR

Invest in Iraq now or miss out, says US envoy