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A pair of construction workers embrace as rescue crews work at the scene of a crane collapse on New York's Upper East Side in New York. (Photo by Mary Altaffer / AP)

Pentagon, veterans face off over education benefit

A move in the U.S. Congress to expand education benefits for troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has hit a snag that veterans groups say they find surprising- opposition from the Pentagon.

Reuters

Europe fuel protests spread wider

Fuel protests triggered by rising oil prices have spread to more countries across Europe, with thousands of fishermen on strike.

BBC

Scott McClellan apologizes for bashing Richard Clarke

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan apologized for denouncing a former White House colleague, Richard Clarke, after Clarke wrote a book highly critical of the Bush administration in 2004.

ABC News

Scott McClellan interview

CBS News

Second construction worker dies in New York crane collapse

Two construction workers died when a construction crane collapsed in Upper Manhattan during the morning rush hour, city officials said.

New York Daily News

Crane collapses in Manhattan

Yahoo! News

Rare tribe found in Amazon

Amazon Indians from one of the world's last uncontacted tribes have been photographed from the air, with images released showing them painted bright red and brandishing bows and arrows.

Reuters

In pictures: rare Amazon tribe

BBC

China military dodges landslides to drain quake lake

Chinese military engineers and soldiers are working in 24-hour shifts to drain a lake formed by the earthquake in Sichuan that is threatening to burst and inundate Mianyang, a city of 5 million people.

Bloomberg

Photos: dams under pressure

International Herald Tribune

Goverment discloses investigation of crude-oil market

Federal regulators are six months into a wide-ranging investigation of U.S. oil markets, with a focus on possible price manipulation.

CNNMoney

NATION

Food prices to stay high for a decade

The era of cheap and plentiful food was declared at an end as a key international report issued a warning that high world food prices will continue for at least a decade.

Times Online

CIA chief: al Qaeda in retreat

The head of the CIA has said al Qaeda is essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and on the defense elsewhere.

BBC

Army tallies record number of suicides

USA Today

Court: Sect kids must be returned home

The Texas Supreme Court ruled that the children taken from a polygamist sect's ranch should be returned to their parents.

CBS News

Texas appeal says FLDS families are flight risks

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POLITICS

Taste of Senate set McCain on new path

A turning point was 1981, when he turned down an admiral’s star to make a run for Congress.

MSNBC

Obama: General election campaign to start

Sen. Barack Obama said that Democrats will know their presidential nominee after the final two primary states vote, and then, in his view, the general election campaign officially will begin.

CNN

California's Democrats shift into Obama's camp, Field Poll finds

Sacramento Bee

Democratic leaders lean on superdelegates

International Herald Tribune

Another pastor problem for Obama

CNN

BUSINESS

Imports fall, improving US trade balance

America's long-insatiable demand for imported goods is cooling. It's seen in everything from clothing, furniture and even imported oil.

Christian Science Monitor

Coffee lovers get a break

Reuters

Bear Stearns shareholders approve JPMorgan buyout

A majority of Bear Stearns Cos. shareholders approved the sale of the company to JPMorgan Chase & Co. at a brief shareholder meeting.

CNNMoney

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Cosby's famous sweaters up for auction

Some of Bill Cosby's patterned sweaters worn in his long-running hit "The Cosby Show" will be auctioned off next month to benefit a charity set up in memory of the actor's late son, organizers said.

MSNBC

Louis Vuitton drops Sharon Stone from Chinese Dior ads on quake remark

Louis Vuitton dropped actress Sharon Stone from Dior ads in China after she suggested the earthquake that killed more than 68,000 may have been "karma" for the nation's treatment of Tibet.

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

He 'cons' them into learning

Alvin Schroeder doesn't give formal lessons on numbers. That's not his style. Instead, he uses shop to inspire children who would otherwise have problems learning, slipping information in bits and pieces.

USA Today

South Carolina to train 10,000 in sex abuse prevention program

The South Carolina Department of Education is launching a statewide effort to prevent sex abuse in schools.

Education Week

HEALTH

Bacteria may be linked to SIDS

Bacterial infection has long been suspected of playing a role in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and now new research from the U.K. appears to bolster the theory.

WebMD

Active social life may keep memory loss at bay, study finds

People 50 years and older who were single, didn't have weekly contact with family and neighbors or volunteer had twice the memory loss as those who engaged in those activities.

Bloomberg

San Francisco, fittest big city in America

San Francisco edged out Seattle for the title of the fittest big city in America, according to a new report released by the American College of Sports Medicine.

WebMD

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GOOD NEWS

World Bank's rapid $1.2 billion fund to feed the poor

The World Bank President Robert Zoellick unveiled a $1.2 billion rapid response fund to help developing countries deal with the food price crisis.

Guardian

Youngest speller ever hits bee stage

Sriram Hathwar, 8, competes at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. He is the youngest speller in the history of the competition.

ABC News

WORLD

Myanmar starts mass evictions from cyclone camps

Myanmar's junta started evicting destitute families from government-run cyclone relief centres, apparently out of concern the "tented villages" might become permanent.

Reuters

Southern Iceland shaken by 6.1 magnitude earthquake

A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 has hit southern Iceland, 30 miles from Reykjavik.

BBC

Initial response and damage evaluation

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Quest for clean coal smolders

It is clear that the effort to develop a desperately needed technique that takes the carbon dioxide, which spews from coal-burning power plants and pump it back into the ground, is lagging badly.

International Herald Tribune

Stonehenge yields one of its secrets

At least part of the mystery of Stonehenge may have now been solved: It was, from the beginning, a monument to the dead.

International Herald Tribune

History of Stonehenge

BBC

Creepy or cute? Robot creature allows scientists to study touch

Steve Yohanan, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, has crafted a robotic creature to figure out how humans communicate through touch.

CNN

SPORTS

Canucks' Luc Bourdon killed in motorcycle crash

Luc Bourdon, a promising rookie defenseman with the Vancouver Canucks, was killed when his motorcycle struck a tractor-trailer in a crash near his hometown. He was 21.

USA Today

Bryant's 39 points lead Lakers into finals

Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers dispatched the defending champions, and are headed to the NBA finals for the first time in four years.

Sporting News

Track coach Graham convicted of lying in BALCO case

Trevor Graham, the track coach who blew the whistle on the BALCO steroids scandal was convicted of one count of lying to federal investigators about his contacts with an admitted steroids dealer.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Buenos Aires citizens seek cleanup of Shell refinery

Following a scathing audit of the Argentine affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell and an unprecedented closure of its Buenos Aires refinery, local groups filed an international complaint against the company.

Environment News Service

Peru guards its guano as demand soars

The worldwide boom in commodities has come to this: Even guano, the bird dung that was the focus of an imperialist scramble on the high seas in the 19th century, is in strong demand once again.

International Herald Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Vatican decree says it will excommunicate female priests

The Vatican issued its most explicit decree so far against the ordination of female priests, punishing them and the bishops who try to ordain them with automatic excommunication.

MSNBC

Southern Baptists face wide-open leadership race

At their annual convention in Indianapolis, Southern Baptists will have the opportunity to cast ballots for the highest number of contenders for president in the last three decades.

Religion News Service

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