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Electoral workers sit in front of piles of ballot boxes at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq. The conclusion of the vote does not spell an immediate end to Iraq's political uncertainty, as it could be days until results come in and months to form a government. (Photo by Karim Kadim / AP)

Iraq vote turnout down from 2005

Millions of Iraqis defied the barrage of mortars, rockets and other blasts to cast ballots in elections to choose a new Parliament — a vote widely seen as a test of Iraq’s stability.

New York Times

Iraq: A day after the national vote

YouTube

Nigeria violence 'leaves hundreds dead'

Hundreds of people, including many women and children, were killed in ethnic violence near the city of Jos in Nigeria, officials say.

BBC

World marks International Women's Day

International Women's Day is an annual celebration that highlights their economic, political and social achievements.

CNN

Is a woman's place in the home? 1 in 4 say yes

Reuters

Special section:

Celebrating a century of International Women's Day

Deutsche Welle

FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list is 60

For 6 decades, the list has hosted some of the biggest, baddest names in crime, from serial killer Ted Bundy, to Martin Luther King's assassin James Earl Ray, to terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.

ABC News

Joel Osteen: the new face of Christianity

Guardian

NATION

US and Canada battle over boundary of oil-rich Arctic sea

The conflict is over who owns a pie-shaped wedge of the Beaufort Sea off the Alaska-Yukon coast. It appears that what lies to the north of the wedge is the biggest wild card of all.

Anchorage Daily News

45 years after march, priest remembers Bloody Sunday

Standing on the steps of Alabama's "black" Catholic church, a young white priest was about to witness one of the most iconic days of the civil rights era. It would come to be known as Bloody Sunday.

CNN

Obama remembers 'Bloody Sunday'

USA TODAY

Historic ship adrift, on the block

The SS United States, America's greatest ocean liner and the fastest ship of its kind ever to cross the Atlantic, is in "imminent danger" of being sold and ripped up for scrap, according to a preservation group.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

'Waste' mail is part of the rising cost of the 2010 US Census

The 2010 Census is costing taxpayers $15 billion and the total is rising. Much of the price is due to what some call "waste" mail.

Kansas City Star

Senators wrestle with Fed bank oversight

The Federal Reserve could retain oversight of large bank holding companies under a scaled-back regulatory reform plan being considered by key senators, but important questions remained unanswered.

Reuters

HEALTH

Inflammation linked to illness in overweight or obese people

Researchers are beginning to understand the ways in which being overweight or obese contributes to a downward spiral of inflammation that can trigger heart disease, diabetes and other ailments.

USA TODAY

Gene therapy still holds promise

Twenty-five years ago, it seemed as if gene therapy was going to revolutionize medicine. But that revolution never occurred, and scientists wondered how quickly they could develop such therapies.

NPR

HIV hides out in bone marrow cells

Medicine can reduce the level of the AIDS virus in the blood to zero, but HIV doesn't disappear and often roars back. Now, scientists have new insight into how the virus manages to avoid medicinal powers.

HealthDay

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

3-D: Soon coming at you, at home

3-D technology is already transforming the movies, and you don't need any high-tech glasses to see its impact.

CBS News

Humans driving extinction faster than species can evolve

For the first time since the dinosaurs disappeared, humans are driving animals and plants to extinction faster than new species can evolve, one of the world's experts on biodiversity has warned.

Guardian

5-year race to save vanishing tigers

Observer

EDUCATION

Duncan to increase enforcement of civil rights in US schools

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will call for stepped up enforcement of civil rights laws in America’s schools and colleges as part of the overhaul of the nation’s education system.

BusinessWeek

Defending education

CNN

Top home-school texts dismissive of Darwin and evolution theories

Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old's biology lessons.

EducationNews.org

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Jade Buddha arrives in Tampa

The Jade Buddha for Universal Peace, which is traveling the world, is stopping in Tampa before being enshrined in its permanent home in Australia.

Tampa Bay Online

China says missing Panchen Lama is living In Tibet

A boy who disappeared after being named Tibetan Buddhism's second-highest figure by the Dalai Lama is living with his family somewhere in Tibet, the Himalayan region's Chinese-appointed governor said.

NPR

100 US Anglican parishes convert to Roman Catholic Church

An offer made by Pope Benedict XVI permits vicars and their entire congregations to defect to the Roman Catholic Church while keeping many of their Anglican traditions, including married priests.

Telegraph.co.uk

Scientology in the spotlight amid fresh allegations

ABC News

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GOOD NEWS

Injured boy hailed as 'hero' for translating for paramedics

An 11-year-old bilingual boy hurt in a horrific bus accident is being hailed as a hero after he helped paramedics communicate with injured passengers who could not speak English.

NY Daily 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

WORLD

Dozens dead from earthquake in Turkey

A pre-dawn earthquake collapsed homes and killed more than 50 people in a mountainous region of southeastern Turkey, government officials said.

CNN

Earthquake hits eastern Turkey