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Workers paint a banner to hang where a World Cup soccer game between Mexico and South Africa will be displayed in Mexico City's main Zocalo plaza. The 2010 World Cup soccer tournament in South Africa starts when Mexico plays South Africa. (Photo by Eduardo Verdugo / AP)

What's eating you? 8 terrible and common parasites

Bloodsucking parasites can invade the scalp, eye or foot in the U.S. or abroad. Learn how to protect your body from attack by common parasites.

ABC News

Abby Sunderland found alive

A 16-year-old Southern California girl who was feared lost at sea while sailing solo around the world has been found alive and well, adrift in the Indian Ocean with rescue boats headed toward her, officials said.

Detroit Free Press

Teen sailor found alive in Indian Ocean

YouTube

World Cup: South Africa set for historic event

South Africa is preparing for the start of the biggest football tournament on earth, the World Cup, which gets under way in Johannesburg.

BBC

World Cup attractive for terrorists

ABC News

Top 10 players to watch in the World Cup

Christian Science Monitor

Numbers grow more grim in Gulf oil disaster estimates

The numbers on every front of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster keep their steady march upward to staggering proportions.

CNN

Discussion:

Map: oil cleanup concentration sites

Los Angeles Times

Gulf of Mexico spill

Baltimore Sun

Pope on abuse: begs for forgiveness, promises action

Pope Benedict XVI begged forgiveness from abuse victims and promised to "do everything possible" to ensure that clerics never rape or molest children again.

Houston Chronicle

NATION

Detainee is wrongly held, judge says

A federal judge has put Yemeni citizen Mohammed Mohammed Hassan Odaini on the path to freedom after eight years of incarceration at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

US arrests over 400 in 16 states in Mexican drug cartel sweep

More than 400 people accused of having ties to trafficking for Mexican drug cartels were arrested in 16 U.S. states.

Reuters

Census suggests 'majority minority'

The census shows that Whites are on the verge of becoming a minority among newborn children in the U.S., marking a demographic shift that is already reshaping the nation's politics and economy.

Wall Street Journal

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Census in America

CNN

Holder on border shooting

YouTube

POLITICS

Rep. Clyburn alleges Senate nominee Alvin Greene was a 'plant'

U.S. Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn said the winner of his party’s South Carolina U.S. Senate primary is “someone’s plant” and called on authorities to investigate.

Greeneville News

Alvin Greene interview

live5news.com

Resolution on greenhouse gases fails, could boost energy bill

Democrats and environmentalists took satisfaction in the defeat in the U.S. Senate of a resolution that would have stripped the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases.

Christian Science Monitor

HEALTH

Bringing comparison shopping to the doctor’s office

Americans comparison-shop for items as small as groceries and as big as cars. But how do you compare prices on health care?

New York Times

More workers alleging bias against caregivers

NPR

Birth control pill for men still a ways off

For half a century, women have had access to birth control pills. Men? Still waiting. To date, no one has come up with an equivalent product for men.

USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Dvorkovich, chess robot go 1-1

Playing alongside an international grandmaster and a 7-year-old prodigy, the smart money would not have been on Arkady Dvorkovich to score the only victory against Russia's chess robot.

Moscow Times

4th 'Twilight' film to be split in 2

Why make one "Twilight" film when you can charge moviegoers to see two of them? The fourth movie in the vampire franchise will be split in two, distributor Summit Entertainment confirmed.

ABC News

EDUCATION

Graduation rate falls across the US

The national graduation rate was 68.8 percent in 2007, according to a new study. But the report also identifies 21 big-city ''overachievers'' that posted higher-than-expected graduation rates.

Christian Science Monitor

Pressured teachers tamper with scores

Investigations in Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Virginia and elsewhere this year have pointed to cheating by educators.

New York Times

SPORTS

Celtics claw back vs. Lakers in game 4

The finals are tied at 2-2 after Boston's 96-89 win against the defending champion Lakers, ensuring a return to Los Angeles.

USA TODAY

USC is handed harsh penalties

Citing major violations by the University of Southern California’s football and men’s basketball programs, the NCAA barred the Trojans football program from bowl games in the 2010 and 2011 seasons.

New York Times

Coach's comments

ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

More than $4 million donated in response to Gulf Coast oil spill

In the wake of the drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, donors have contributed more than $4 million to support relief efforts.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Fewer people have myocardial infarctions, more survive

Fewer people appear to be having heart attacks in recent years, and the number of patients who do seem to be surviving them has increased, researchers have found.

MedPage Today

WORLD

Bloody Sunday inquiry 'to rule killings unlawful' after 38 years

The long-awaited official inquiry into the deaths of 13 protesters shot dead by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday will conclude that several of them were unlawfully killed.

Telegraph.co.uk

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