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Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, center, receives Saudi King Abdullah, left,and Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, upon their arrival at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut. (Photo by Bilal Hussein / AP)

Mars rocks may contain evidence of life

Scientists hope to find fossilized remains in the Nili Fossae rocks after discovering they are almost identical to rocks found in Australia where some of the earliest evidence of life on Earth was recorded.

Telegraph.co.uk

US a spicier nation (literally) since 1970s

The consumption of spices in the United States has grown almost three times as fast as the population over the past several decades. Much of the growth is attributed to the changing demographics.

NPR

Beirut talks seek to defuse tension

Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah have held talks with Lebanese leaders in Beirut in an effort to quell rising tensions in the country.

Al Jazeera

Hezbollah sees plot behind Hariri tribunal

Asia Times Online

July deadliest month for US in Afghanistan

Three U.S. service members were killed in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly nine-year-war.

MSNBC

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Afghanistan

CBS News

House to take up offshore drilling reform

The U.S. House of Representatives began debating legislation to reform the oil industry's offshore drilling practices in response to the BP oil spill.

Reuters

Incoming BP chief to outline Gulf recovery

MSNBC

NATION

Ariz. will appeal ruling on immigration law, governor says

Arizona sought an expedited hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco to reinstate provisions requiring police to determine the immigration status of people stopped for questioning.

Bloomberg

Parts of Ariz.'s immigration law still breed confusion

Arizona Republic

Blog:

Congress passed an Arizona-like immigration law in 1996

Thomas Jefferson Street

(U.S. News & World Report)

Obama refuses to budge on Race to the Top education reforms

President Barack Obama went to bat for his signature education initiative, the Race to the Top competition among states for $4.3 billion in grants tied to education reforms.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Could state exams replace the SAT?

(Education Week)

Inside School Research

Obama: Education is the key economic issue

YouTube

The 'dangerous' border: actually one of America's safest places

The fact is, despite the murderous mayhem raging across the border in Mexico, the U.S. side, from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, is one of the nation's safest corridors.

TIME

US border violence: myth or reality?

BBC

POLITICS

Obama making sales pitch for auto bailouts to skeptical voters

President Barack Obama flies to the heart of the U.S. auto industry on a mission to convince taxpayers that their investment in the bailouts of General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC will bring a return.

Bloomberg

President Obama heads to Michigan to hail auto industry recovery

ABC News

Ethics brings 13 counts against Rangel

After a week-long media frenzy, Rangel’s peers somberly announced serious charges against Rangel, a veteran of 20 House terms.

The Hill

Afghanistan war: how USAID loses hearts and minds

In the Afghanistan war for hearts and minds, the U.S. Agency for International Development lost its battle in Badakshan Province.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Car makers' profits soar

A strong crop of results from car makers Nissan Motor Co., Hyundai Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG failed to dispel fears of slowing demand from major markets such as China and the United States.

Reuters

Disney to sell Miramax for $660 million

The Walt Disney Co. said that it agreed to sell its Miramax Films to an investor group for about $660 million, ending the company's association with the studio.

CBS News

Imports slow 2nd-quarter growth

Economic growth slowed in the second quarter as a capital investment increased imports at the fastest pace since the first quarter of 1984.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Google games pitted against Facebook

Google is ready for a fight with Facebook over the growing market for online games, part of the search engine giant's attempt to build a social networking business.

The Independent

Blog:

Android apps caught collecting personal data

(Wall Street Journal)

Digits

Joints grown in body

Scientists have for the first time regrown a joint inside a body, cultivating thigh joints that were fully functioning.

Sydney Morning Herald

ENVIRONMENT

Chernobyl zone's decline in biodiversity

The largest wildlife census of its kind conducted in Chernobyl has revealed that mammals are declining in the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant.

BBC

China's environmental disasters on the rise — quietly

A massive explosion in a southern Chinese city is only the latest in a series of industrial accidents that have hit China.

Time

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Mormons see potential in online proselytizing

The nearly 14 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is attempting to revolutionize the way Mormons find converts — and it’s all online.

Religion News Service

Indonesia mob attacks Muslim sect

The Ahmadiyah sect, which claims 500,000 followers in Indonesia, believes that its founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was the final prophet and not Mohammad, contradicting a central tenet of mainstream Islam.

Al Jazeera

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Evan Hill):

Portrait of an occupied country

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

Senate wilts on warming

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Jury's still out on Obama's auto policies

Detroit News

Column (Ben Craw and Jason Linkins):

WikiLeaks media reaction: a frenzy of frantic yawning over war

Huffington Post

Column (Boris Epshteyn):

Ariz. decision will hand Dems November surprise

FOX News

Column (Michael Smerconish):

Head strong: Andrew Breitbart fooled America — again

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Andrew Bacevich):

US, Israel, and the failure of the Western way of war

Huffington Post

Blog (Alex Pareene):

Reid's sad 'Clean Energy' probably doomed

(Salon)

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GOOD NEWS

Scouts out in force for Jamboree

Onis Lentz of Merced, Calif., remembers receiving his Cub Scout pin in 1939 right after his father signed him up for what he calls "the greatest youth organization in the world."

USA TODAY

'Emotional' reunion: Mom embraces baby she thought died in Haiti quake

A mother broke down in tears as she was reunited with her baby girl six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti.

MSNBC

WORLD

Pakistan flood death toll rises

The death toll in Pakistan has reached 430, as rescue workers struggled to reach people stranded by the flooding, thought to be the worst since 1929.

Al Jazeera

Cameron pitches for Indian investment