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Bush fires in the Blue Mountains near Sydney create ash skies. Considered the worst bush fire in decades, crews fears fires have the potential to combine and threaten Sydney’s western suburbs. (Photo by Phil Whitehouse)

Thousands flee homes as bushfires ravage Australia

Fires caused by lethal combination of high temperatures and strong winds. Firefighters hoping mild weather will help them control the raging blazes.

Daily Mail

56 fires scorch eastern Australia; state of emergency declared

CNN

Egypt denies unlawfully detaining Syrian refugees

Egypt’s foreign ministry has described as inaccurate a report that accuses the Egyptian authorities of unlawfully detaining hundreds of Syrian refugees.

BBC

Health care problems

President Obama, moving past the government shutdown and debt ceiling disputes, spends today on the problems with the rollout of his health care plan.

USA TODAY

Obama to call healthcare website glitches ‘unacceptable’ as fix sought

Reuters

Obama details website workarounds

CNN

The boom and ghost towns of the new economy

New York, Houston, Washington, D.C.—plus college towns and the energy belt—are all up, while much of the Sun Belt is (still) down. Mapping the winners and losers since the crash.

The Atlantic

China enters global vaccine marketplace for the 1st time

A Chinese-made vaccine has been given a stamp of approval by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the first time. The move could herald a step towards China becoming a global vaccine maker.

Scientific American

China’s arms industry makes global inroads

New York Times

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

The battle to convince politicians and public to give aid

The battle to convince politicians and the public to focus on philanthropy after the economic downturn has had a detrimental impact on people parting with their money.

International Business Times

Fiscal cliff, debt ceiling fight affect charitable giving

Donations to the 400 charities in the U.S. that raise the most money are slowing in 2013 after climbing 4 percent the year before, according to a new report released by the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Chicago Tribune

HUMAN RIGHTS

Polio outbreak fears in war-ravaged Syria

The World Health Organization says it has received reports of the first suspected outbreak in the country in 14 years.

BBC

Saudi Arabia under fire at UN over women’s, migrant workers rights

At the U.N. Human Rights Council, Britain called for abolition of the Saudi system of male guardianship for women and was joined by the United States in raising cases of forced labor imposed on migrant workers.

Reuters

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Mismanagement highlighted in East Timor

East Timor’s government has come under renewed public criticism after granting a contract to a Chinese state-owned company to supply furniture to Timorese schools.

Al Jazeera

A ripple begets a flood

A politically inspired surge in lending is weakening state-owned banks in Latin America’s biggest economy.

Economist

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Syria’s Assad says no obstacle to running in 2014 election

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad might consider running for re-election in 2014, he told a television interviewer, saying he saw nothing that would get in the way of doing so.

Reuters

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood facing wave of trials

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood faces a wave of trials unlike any it has seen in its history, threatening to put a large number of its senior leadership behind bars for years, even life.

USA TODAY

Syria crisis: Who is fighting in the conflict?

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Second rare sea serpent carcass found on California coast

Oarfish are rarely spotted because they do not dwell close to the surface. Oarfish are the longest bony fish in the sea and typically live at depths from the surface to 3, 000 feet deep.

Science Recorder

Oarfish five metres long found off California

Sydney Morning Herald

Scientists discover DNA body clock

A U.S. scientist has discovered an internal body clock based on DNA that measures our biological age. The mechanism could help researchers develop ways to slow down the aging process.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Iran’s mixed signals

Baltimore Sun

Editorial:

When will women rule the world?

Bloomberg

Column (Doug Saunders):

A fight over the word ‘genocide’ is no way to end the aboriginal crisis

Globeandmail.com

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GOOD NEWS

Women-only travel clubs take off in India

With growing education, employment and income, India’s women from the cities are shaking off traditional notions and seeking company from their sisterhood while traveling.

Al Jazeera

Women-only spaces grow in India

Sydney Morning Herald

UN renews commitment to adding women’s voices to peace talks

The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution renewing its commitment to promote women’s leadership and participation in all negotiations to resolve conflicts.

Detroit Free Press

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Group makes 3-D backups of world landmarks

A nonprofit named CyArk has created digital copies of more than 100 of the world’s best-known monuments, mapping Roman ruins, ancient statues and even an entire island.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

State senator says her NGOs have never misused state funds

State Treasurer John Kennedy continues to spar with a Baton Rouge lawmaker over the financial status of her husband’s nonprofit.

Times-Picayune

ENVIRONMENT

China air pollution season kicks off with a cough and a wheeze

Visibility shrank to less than half a football field and small-particle pollution soared to a record 40 times higher than an international safety standard as the region entered its high-smog season

CBS News

China smog emergency cripples city of million

NBCNews.com

Floods devastate an already bankrupt and blood-soaked Acapulco

Gangland violence and looming bankruptcy had already all but obliterated the glitter of Acapulco before catastrophic flooding last month turned much of it into a mud bath.

Reuters

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Anil Kurella, failure analysis engineer, Intel Technology and Manufacturing Group, prepares boards for corrosion testing in a pollution chamber. (Photo by Intel Free Press)

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