The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

This edition was published on 02/06/08 at 3:12 p.m. [ Go to the front page ]

Home

About us

Our Team

Volunteer

Ways to help

Opinion

Friends of Bonnie Scott remove items from her storm-destroyed house in Oxford, Miss. At least two tornadoes hit north Mississippi, tearing through buildings and homes and ripping down powerlines as violent storms pummeled parts of the South, authorities said. (Photo by Bruce Newman / AP)

Email_icon

Tornadoes tear across Southern states, killing 48

Daybreak revealed a battered landscape across the South, as crews searching communities hit by a violent line of tornadoes that killed at least 48 people.

Email_icon

Houston Chronicle

Symbol_video

Tornadoes rip South

Email_icon

MSNBC

Iraq's new flag raised over parliament

Iraq's temporary new national flag was raised over the country's parliament for the first time in a symbolic break with the past.

Email_icon

Reuters

US fears al-Qaida extending its reach

Al-Qaida is gaining strength and steadily improving its abilities to recruit, train and position operatives to mount attacks inside the United States, the top U.S. intelligence official told a Senate panel.

Email_icon

International Herald Tribune

McCain in command; Clinton, Obama battle on

Sen. John McCain seized command of the race for the Republican presidential nomination early Wednesday, winning delegate-rich primaries from the East Coast to California.

Email_icon

MSNBC

Symbol_story

Candidates split some big primary prizes

Email_icon

CNN

Symbol_video

Huckabee surges ahead

Email_icon

ABC News

Chad president 'in total control'

Chad's president has appeared in public for the first time since an attempted coup, saying the government had successfully repulsed the rebels.

Email_icon

BBC

Peace Corps pulls Kenya volunteers

The U.S. Peace Corps is pulling its remaining 58 volunteers out of Kenya because of safety concerns stemming from the post-election violence, the agency said.

Email_icon

Reuters

Symbol_story

Kenya crisis negotiators turn to political issues

Email_icon

Voice of America

NATION

Farmland more valuable than ever

While home prices continue to slide nationwide, demand for grains, low interest rates and a weak dollar have raised farmland prices by double digits in the past two years.

Email_icon

USA Today

New high sparks concern

Salvia, a legal drug more potent than LSD, has recently gained popularity among teens and young adults. Available online and in smoke shops, salvia is a plant that causes hallucinations.

Email_icon

CNN

Symbol_slideshow

Mardi Gras 2008

Email_icon

CBS News

POLITICS

Poll screw-ups: Snow, 'invisible ink' and missing ballots

It wasn't quite a "hanging chad" moment, but Oprah Winfrey stepped in to resolve one of the first voting glitches of Super Tuesday.

Email_icon

ABC News

Did Chelsea Clinton break the law?

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton's Election Day visit to New Haven poll workers prompted state election officials to caution that politicking within 75 feet of polling sites is against state law.

Email_icon

ABC News

BUSINESS

Oil falls on inventory reports

Crude-oil futures fell for a second day, losing more than $1 to below $87 a barrel, after a government report showed U.S. crude inventories rose much more than expected.

Email_icon

MarketWatch

Apple hires Wal-Mart exec to run international movie and TV business

Kevin Swint, formerly Wal-Mart's head of digital media, has been appointed by Apple to run its international movie and TV interests.

Email_icon

iTWire

SPORTS

Shaq headed for Suns?

The fastest, flashiest team in the NBA could be getting a lot slower — but much larger — because of a blockbuster trade few could have seen coming.

Email_icon

Associated Press

Bob Knight resigns as Texas Tech coach

Bob Knight left when he wanted to this time. Almost a decade after he was fired by Indiana, the school he led to three national championships, Knight walked away from college basketball.

Email_icon

Symbol_story

The General: Bob Knight

Email_icon

HEALTH

Some prescribed drugs tainted

The first warning sign came when a sharp-eyed worker sorting pills noticed that the odd blue flecks dotting the finished drug capsules matched the paint on the factory doors.

Email_icon

Houston Chronicle

Heavy cannabis use 'damages gums'

Heavy cannabis smoking is a major cause of gum disease, research suggests. A research team found heavy cannabis smoking was responsible for more than one-third of the new cases of gum disease

Email_icon

BBC

RELIGION

Temple demo stokes Malaysian tensions

Police arrived to move out devotees and pave the way for demolition of a Hindu temple on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, which local ethnic Indians say has stood in the area for more than three generations.

Email_icon

Asia Times

Symbol_audio

Temple demolitions anger Malaysia Indians

Email_icon

Christian Science Monitor

Indian guru Maharishi Yogi dies

The Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who is credited with setting the Beatles and other stars on the path to spiritual enlightenment, has died.

Email_icon

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Collegiate challenges

Email_icon

USA Today

In Chad, put refugees first

Email_icon

Christian Science Monitor

Fallout of FDA neglect

Email_icon

Houston Chronicle

Obama's double bubble trouble

Email_icon

Slate

Super Tuesday finally gives California its electoral due

Email_icon

San Jose Mercury News

War without borders in central Africa

Email_icon

Economist

Column (James Kirchick):

Obama: the new Princess Diana?

Email_icon

Commentary

It wasn't supposed to go like this

Email_icon

USA Today

We're on information overload

Email_icon

Christian Science Monitor

Conservatives vs. McCain

Email_icon

Denver Post

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Yagmur Guller, Rachel Barrus, Ashley Nawn, Samantha Floyd and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

January homicides in Baltimore lowest in 30 years

While a homicide every other day might seem like a staggering figure to an outsider, police say the statistic marks an improvement from 2007’s January homicide tally, 28.

Email_icon

Examiner

Diddy pushes youth to vote once again

Four years ago, Sean "Diddy" Combs went across the nation in an effort to get young people to vote, with the bold slogan "Vote or Die." Now the entertainer has just a simple message: Go vote.

Email_icon

WORLD

A breach in North Korea's iron curtain

Tourist exchange between the two Koreas began 10 years ago, when the Kumgang mountains were opened for South Korean tourists. However, the project is not a good example of tourist exchange.

Email_icon

Asia Times

Italy's president dissolves parliament

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved parliament, opening the way for elections three years ahead of schedule that opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi is favored to win.

Email_icon

Bloomberg

Symbol_video

Italy elections may see Berlusconi back

Email_icon

CNN

CIA chief names 3 subjected to waterboarding interrogation

The CIA director publicly named for the first time the three suspected al-Qaida detainees who were subjected to the harsh interrogation technique of waterboarding.

Email_icon

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

China snows may foretell future disasters

China's devastating snowstorms and cold of the past months show that the world must prepare for new types of disasters caused by what was once called freak weather, United Nations experts said.

Email_icon

Environmental News Network

Countries eye payoffs to protect trees and climate

For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn’t save Indonesia’s rain forests. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash.

Email_icon

MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Open source software and the future of the world

During a wide-ranging interview, the Linux founder speculated on the future of hardware and the control that open source offers vendors. The ramifications of this are remarkable.

Email_icon

iTWire

Rare wildcat barely surviving on Japanese island

The Iriomote wildcat is said to have roamed freely on a small island in the East China Sea for 200,000 years. But researchers completing a census worry that the wildcat population has fallen.

Email_icon

International Herald Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

It's finally Kanye West's year for his Grammy 'Graduation'

Notorious for reacting angrily to award-show snubs, Kanye West likely will go from sore loser to sure winner in his third bid for the best-album Grammy.

Email_icon

USA Today

Striking writers to debate labor deal

The Writers Guild of America plans to brief its members this weekend on a deal taking shape to end their 3-month-old strike.

Email_icon

Reuters

EDUCATION

Primary school children to be taught philosophy lessons

Young children are pondering the meaning of life in new philosophy lessons for primary school pupils.

Email_icon

Daily Mail

Deirdre Imus helps schools go green

Deirdre Imus wants you to know that your child's classroom could be dangerous. No, it's not killer tests or deadly boring lectures. Think more along the lines of things that your child can't even see.

Email_icon

USA Today

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Robots get social

Dominated by home-cleaning gadgets, the consumer robotics market is expanding with new 'bots that can spy inside your home when you're away or arrange virtual meetings of family or friends.

Email_icon

Photo of the Day

Lion dancers perform at the opening ceremony of the annual fair at the Temple of the Earth, on the eve of the Chinese New Year. Thousands of Chinese are expected to flock to temple fairs across the city to celebrate the Spring Festival, the annual holiday which marks the arrival of the Lunar New Year. (Photo by Greg Baker / AP)

Email_icon

DailySource Most Popular

Most viewed

Most recent

Connect with Us

Nonprofitdonate

Or enter Amazon via the box below and they will donate 4-7% of all purchases you make in the next 24 hours to us.

Amazon.com Widgets

Take a Quick Tour

Tour

The Daily Quote

Email Newsletters

Browse Past Content

Scroll through recent items from your favorite sections:

Columns and Op-ed

The Daily Quote

Photo of the Day

Browse past editions

Makehomepage

Ways to Help

Spread the word

Other ways

Copyright © 2006-2025 The Daily Source. All rights reserved. Terms of Service

Website monitoring for The Daily Source provided for free by Nimsoft