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Fire fighters work to extinguish a fire in a shop set alight in the violence that broke following a shooting at a funeral in Beirut, Lebanon, as sectarian violence continues in the Lebanese capital. (Photo by Darko Bandic / AP)

Cease-fire reached in Baghdad

Shiite militants have reached an agreement with the Iraqi government to end fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City district, according to spokesmen for both sides.

CNN

Circuit City gives up the fight

Confronted with weak sales and a U.S. consumer pummeled by recession, the electronics chain has retained Goldman Sachs to help negotiate a deal.

BusinessWeek

Journalists under siege in Zimbabwe

With no date set for a second round of voting in Zimbabwe's general election, further evidence is emerging of President Mugabe's program of wholesale repression.

TIME

Hezbollah to withdraw gunmen from Beirut

Hezbollah said it was withdrawing its gunmen from Beirut neighborhoods seized in sectarian clashes after the army ordered its troops to establish security and called on fighters to clear the streets.

MSNBC

PM urges Lebanese army to halt Hezbollah 'coup'

CNN

Lebanon crisis

BBC

Death toll from sectarian fighting in Lebanon rises

Voice of America

UN aid used by junta leaders for propaganda exercise

Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid, but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort into a propaganda exercise.

MSNBC

Myanmar holds referendum despite cyclone chaos

Reuters

Superdelegates shifting toward Obama

They are the only yardstick by which Barack Obama still trails Hillary Rodham Clinton: the 796 superdelegates, who are free to back either candidate in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Two videos, two slightly different views of Bill Clinton arguing with a voter

USA Today

NATION

US drops charges against alleged '20th hijacker' in September 11 attacks

The United States has dropped charges against the alleged "20th hijacker" in the September 11th, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.

Voice of America

Huge Texas sinkhole's appetite decreasing, officials say

Geologists said a 260-foot-deep sinkhole that grew to the length of three football fields over just two days seemed to be slowing down, but that it could take months before it's surrounding areas are safe.

MSN Money

POLITICS

Democrats hit GOP on soaring gas prices

Democrats used their weekly radio address to hammer the Bush administration and congressional Republicans on skyrocketing gas prices.

The Hill

White House leaves door open on possible housing rescue

The White House set out terms for a possible deal on a housing market rescue plan, as a sweeping package backed by the House of Representatives was on its way to an uncertain greeting in the Senate.

Reuters

Taking the strain

When Haiti’s prime minister resigned after a week of food riots, it seemed to confirm a warning that Bob Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, had given ten days before.

Economist

ENVIRONMENT

A 10-year timeout for global warming

Global warming is taking a break that could last for another 10 years or so, according to a team of climate researchers in Germany.

Christian Science Monitor

Hello Kitty harnesses the sun's energy

The tech blogosphere has been aflutter with the next, biggest thing to change our lives. Well, perhaps the lives of millions of pre-teens across the world: The Hello Kitty Solar Charger.

Environmental News Network

SPORTS

3 incidents mar Friday's practice for Indianapolis 500

In a disturbing day of practice for the Indianapolis 500, Danica Patrick's car struck another team's crew member and rookie driver Alex Lloyd hit the wall at more than 223 miles per hour.

ESPN

Safina ends Williams' winning streak

Serena Williams' 17-match winning streak is over after losing 2-6 6-1 7-6 (7/5) to Russia's Dinara Safina in the quarter-finals of the German Open.

InTheNews.co.uk

Carlos still has a conscience, 40 years after Mexico City

It isn't the borrowed black glove that matters, but the nerve and absolute courage - yeah, courage - it took to raise that fist on an Olympic medal stand in Mexico City in the early autumn of 1968.

ESPN

HEALTH

Price of blood thinner has doubled

Major U.S. dialysis centers say the price of blood-thinner heparin has doubled because of global recalls since the discovery of contaminated raw product from China.

USA Today

Tallying mental illness' costs

It's a debate with which the U.S. workplace has yet to come to grips: should employees' mental and physical health be considered equal in importance?

TIME

Fake topic

Mother's Day reaches 100th anniversary

On this 100th anniversary of Mother's Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world's most celebrated holidays probably wouldn't be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.

San Francisco Chronicle

Art collecting is not just for the rich

Real estate is in the tank and stocks are lower than they were in 2000, but oil — as in oil paintings — has remained a roaring bull market. Watercolors, too.

U.S. News & World Report

Retailers gloss over diversions of professional hair care products

Consumers who buy professional hair care products at major retailers — or at grocery and drug stores — are not getting the bargains they may think.

Consumer Affairs

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GOOD NEWS

Costa Rica plants more trees to become carbon neutral

Costa Rica will plant seven million trees in 2008 to soak up as many greenhouse gas emissions as it produces, in a bid to become the world's first carbon neutral nation, a top official said.

Yahoo! News

New class of drugs may treat many different conditions

Vaptans ease painful periods, glaucoma, depression and many other diseases, researchers say.

HealthDay

Hackers shut down Zimbabwe website

Computer hackers have attacked the website of Zimbabwe's state-owned Herald newspaper.

BBC

WORLD

Tsvangirai to run in second round

Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said he will contest a presidential run-off, despite fears of widespread poll violence.

BBC

Key dates in Zimbabwe's recent history

Guardian

Japan to scrap space weapon rules

Japanese MPs have backed plans to scrap rules restricting the use of military technology in space.

BBC

Special section:

President Hu visits Japan

chinaview.cn

In big concession, militia agrees to let Iraqi troops into Sadr City

The agreement would end six weeks of fighting in the Shiite Muslim area that's home to over 2 million residents and would mark the first time that the area would be under government control since 2003.

McClatchy Newspapers

BUSINESS

Dykstra making business his game

Former MLB all-star Lenny Dykstra hopes to help professional athletes "keep living the dream" with his new Players Club magazine.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Google to launch Friend Connect for the social Web

Google is expected to join the social network data portability crowd with "Friend Connect." It will join Facebook and MySpace, which also launched ways to port user data to partner sites.

CNET News

EDUCATION

Governor Easley supports college for illegal immigrants

Gov. Mike Easley of North Carolina told community colleges that they can set their own admission standards, which currently welcome students regardless of their immigration status.

Newsobserver

Parents rally around fired teacher

Parents have rallied around a primary school teacher who was suspended from her job after posing naked with her husband and sharing intimate details of their sex life in a women's magazine.

Daily Telegraph

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Earliest known American settlers harvested seaweed

People living in the earliest known settlement in the Americas harvested seaweed and other marine plants from a coastline more than 50 miles away, new research shows.

National Geographic

Columbia shuttle data recovered

Captured information from a data drive that fell from the space shuttle Columbia, which was destroyed in 2003, is recovered. The drive had been used to capture data from an experiment on the way xenon gas flows.

Times Online

Special section:

The space moon race

Times Online

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Romney regrets leaving non-believers out of his faith speech

Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, once criticized for excluding atheists when he delivered a speech on faith, says he missed an opportunity to discuss their role in society.

Salt Lake Tribune

Utah bishop responds to Vatican policy on Mormons

The Catholic bishop of Salt Lake City, Utah, has told local media outlets that a recent Vatican decision shielding parish records from Mormon researchers is "not an attack on any church."

Catholic World News

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