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Female relatives of the deceased, on their way to vote, walk past the the rubble of a house destroyed by a blast in northern Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo by Hadi Mizban / AP)

Global climate battle in World Bank

The U.S. and Britain are threatening to withhold support for a $3.75 billion World Bank loan for a coal-fired plant in South Africa, expanding the global debate over who should pay for clean energy.

Reuters

Should we put a dollar value on nature?

TIME

Mexicans create jobs in the US

Pierre Gama bought his family's way into the U.S. by spending about $200,000 on a San Antonio restaurant and catering business, something a growing number of wealthy Mexican are doing.

ABC News

Special section:

Mexico

New York Times

Dot-com bust still felt 10 years later

Wednesday will be 10 years to the day that a plunge in the Nasdaq index punctured the dot-com bubble and ended the most frantic race to riches since the Gold Rush.

San Francisco Chronicle

Polls close in deadly Iraq election

Polling stations have closed in Iraq's parliamentary election, in a vote marred by violence as a series of explosions left at least 38 people dead and 89 others wounded in Baghdad.

Al Jazeera

Many Iraqis voting at Alameda fairgrounds

San Francisco Chronicle

Iraqis cast their votes amid insurgent violence

Guardian

Defectors say Scientology hides abuse

Defectors say members were repeatedly beaten by the church's chairman, David Miscavige, often during planning meetings; pressured to have abortions and forced to work without sleep on little pay.

New York Times

Starbucks sticks to its guns

The coffee-purveying giant not only has a policy that allows people to come into its U.S. shops bearing unconcealed, unloaded weapons, but found itself actually defending its stance.

The Independent

Special section:

Gun control

New York Times

Blood vessel cells are key to growing unlimited amounts of adult stem cells

Researchers have discovered that the most basic building blocks of the vascular system produce growth factors that can grow copious amounts of adult stem cells.

ScienceDaily

NATION

1-person towns to Census Bureau: Count me in

The Census Bureau estimates that there are four incorporated towns with just one person. But the residents in three of those places say they aren't the lonely souls the census says they are.

MSNBC

Arab-Americans aim to increase their count

Newsweek

Poverty is hitting the suburbs

Bastions of the middle class, Twin Cities suburbs are seeing financial pain spreading quietly among their residents. They now have more poor people than the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Star Tribune

More men file workplace sexual harassment claims

Women still file the overwhelming majority of sexual harassment claims, but lawyers say they've noticed an increase in complaints by men.

Houston Chronicle

POLITICS

Obama's message man comes under increased scrutiny

Recent news reports have cast the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, as the administration's chief pragmatist, and Mr. Axelrod, by implication, as something of a swooning loyalist.

MSNBC

GOP picks Bill Brady to challenge Ill. governor Quinn

After a month of political wrangling, Illinois State Sen. Bill Brady was named the Republican challenger for the governor’s office in the November election.

Christian Science Monitor

GOP: Dems health care bill 'must be stopped'

Yahoo! News

HEALTH

Sleep wrong and you'll feel the bad fat

Sleep's effect on fat is becoming clearer. Having too much or too little piles on the worst kind of fat.

New Scientist

Docs say right choices tough for them too

Dr. Barry Franklin, a widely respected expert on nutrition and exercise, says everyone is vulnerable to their environment, and making all of the right choices to prevent heart disease is tough.

San Francisco Chronicle

Processed meat may harm the heart

HealthDay

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Security in the cloud a top concern

Cloud computing, the role of government in securing cyberspace and a growing concern over the potential for cyber-warfare, dominated conversations at this year's RSA conference in San Francisco.

San Francisco Chronicle

Silicon Valley rules Oscars as Hollywood looks north

No matter which film gets the Oscar for best visual effects at the Academy Awards this weekend, it’s a guaranteed win for Autodesk Inc. and Nvidia Corp.

Bloomberg

Alcatraz to go solar

In its heyday, Alcatraz prison locked up mobsters such as Al Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly and Alvin "Creepy" Karpis. Now, the famous penitentiary in San Francisco Bay will capture something new: the sun's rays.

San Jose Mercury News

'Invention Nation': solar panels

HowStuffWorks

ENVIRONMENT

Once-in-a-century storm hits Melbourne

A thunderstorm swept across southern Australia, raining hailstones the size of lemons, causing flash flooding in the capital of Melbourne and leaving 100,000 homes without power.

Times Online

World's largest dead zone suffocating Baltic Sea

The Baltic is home to seven of the world's 10 largest marine "dead zones"— areas where the sea's oxygen has been used up by seabed bacteria that decompose the raining mass of dead algae.

National Geographic

Low-oxygen in oceans worries scientists

McClatchy Newspapers

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

New sex scandal rocks Vatican

The Vatican is facing allegations that one of Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers, as well as a member of the Vatican choir, were involved in a gay prostitution ring.

CBS News

Hip-hop church reaches out to youth through their own music

A passerby hearing the bass track thumping from Urban Jerusalem in Minneapolis, Minn. might conclude that it's a nightclub. But the Bibles on the chairs tell a different story.

The Tennessean

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GOOD NEWS

Trinidad surgeon helps women escape past of mutilation

Seven women, all originally from Africa, crowding a tiny Trinidad clinic have traveled a long way to get their condition fixed. They have been genitally mutilated.

Denver Post

Helmet to aid woman with cancer

A helmet worn by U.S. skier Bode Miller in the Vancouver Games is being auctioned off to help raise money for a woman who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

ESPN

WORLD

How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab

Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in the world with more than 13 million people needing food aid, but the government is offering land to rich countries to export food for their own populations.

Observer

Iceland rejects plan to repay Icesave debts: 93 percent of voters said 'No'