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British PM backs Bush on Afghanistan, Iran

President George W. Bush won much-needed support from his British counterpart in the two key theaters of the U.S.-led war on terrorism, and in reigning in Iran's nuclear ambitions.

CBS News

Bush: ‘Testy situation’ between Pakistan, Afghanistan

The Hill

Flood warning for China quake zone

Tens of thousands of survivors from last month's deadly earthquake in southern China have been evacuated as heavy rains threaten to bring floods to already devastated areas.

Al Jazeera

Crude oil rises to record $139.89 as dollar declines

Crude oil rose to a record $139.89 a barrel in New York as the dollar declined against the euro, and a fire cut North Sea output.

Bloomberg

Saudi oil output to rise in July

BBC

Floodwaters breach sandbags in Iowa

Floodwaters inundated Iowa City and the University of Iowa arts campus despite what one official called a "Herculean effort" to hold back the water with sandbags.

CNN

77,000 without power in northern Illinois

USA Today

Floodwaters in Cedar Rapids

YouTube

Judge rules for White House in missing e-mail flap

A federal judge ruled that a White House office that has records about millions of possibly missing e-mails does not have to make them public.

MSNBC

NATION

US abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases

Former guards and detainees said Bagram was a center of systematic brutality for at least 20 months, starting in late 2001. Yet the soldiers responsible have escaped serious punishment.

McClatchy Newspapers

Top US court allows Gitmo appeals

Reuters

Suicide case goes to federal court

A Missouri woman accused of taking part in a MySpace hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl's suicide has so far avoided state charges — but not federal ones.

MSNBC

California weddings one more step on long and winding road

Some county clerks in California will stay open late to start issuing marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples which will be the first of many over the coming days.

San Francisco Chronicle

When religious liberties, gay rights collide

NPR

POLITICS

McCain camp touts his appeal to Democrats, independents

Seeking to demonstrate Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) crossover appeal, his presidential campaign released a list of 30 Democratic and independent supporters.

The Hill

McCain's voting record: Bush comparison accurate?

NPR

Michelle Obama in for 'very ugly stuff'

Not unlike Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton before her, Michelle Obama is fast becoming the would-be first lady conservatives love to hate.

ABC News

Obama the delegator picks when to take reins

International Herald Tribune

SPORTS

Tiger Woods, Rocco Mediate to decide US Open title in playoff

Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate meet in an 18-hole playoff to decide the U.S. Open golf championship, a head-to-head showdown that Mediate said will be a "battle royale.''

Bloomberg

Los Angeles scripts a new ending

The Lakers defeated the Celtics 103-98, the most points L.A. has scored in the Finals, but this wasn't thought of as an offensive outbreak. All people could talk about was the gritty stuff.

ESPN

Lakers send series back east

CBS SportsLine

Earnhardt wins at Michigan, ends drought

Dale Earnhardt Jr. put the longest drought of his NASCAR Sprint Cup career behind him, winning the LifeLock 400 at Michigan International Speedway.

Sporting News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Not everyone in Hindu community laughing over new comedy

In the yet to be released movie The Love Guru, Mike Myers' portrayal of a self-help coach with an Indian accent, is rubbing some North American Hindus the wrong way.

Globeandmail.com

Gambling with science

Determined to defeat lawsuits over addiction, the casino industry is funding research at a Harvard-affiliated lab.

Salon.com

ENVIRONMENT

UN climate deal said 'daunting' as Bonn talks end

The world faces a daunting task to agree on a new deal by the end of 2009 to slow climate change, the United Nations said as 170-country talks ended with recriminations about scant progress.

Environmental News Network

How EU turned vultures into birds of prey

A 2006 European Union ruling stipulates that livestock carcasses must be incinerated, depriving vultures their normal food supply and leading them to attack living livestock.

Telegraph.co.uk

EDUCATION

Graduate has 11 degrees and counting

Benjamin Bolger, 32, received his 11th graduate degree and first doctorate from Harvard. He has also received degrees from Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth and is currently studying at Penn and Cornell.

USA Today

Angola: Government official chairs meeting on special education

Antonio Burity da Silva will preside over the opening ceremony of the first meeting on Special Needs Education.

allAfrica.com

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Christian theologians prepare for extraterrestrial life

Little green men might shock the secular public. But the Catholic Church would welcome them as brothers.

ABC News

Latin Mass to return to England, Wales

The traditional Latin Mass – effectively banned by Rome for 40 years – is to be reintroduced into every Roman Catholic parish in England and Wales.

Daily Telegraph

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GOOD NEWS

Honda makes first hydrogen cars

Japanese car manufacturer Honda has begun the first commercial production of a zero-emission, hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle. The four-seater runs on hydrogen and electricity, emitting only water vapor.

BBC

Scientists: 115-year-old's brain in perfect working order

A Dutch woman who was the oldest person in the world when she died at age 115 appeared sharp right up to the end, joking that pickled herring was the big secret to her longevity.

MSNBC

WORLD

Rice: Israeli settlement building hurting talks with Palestinians

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Israel's settlement building was harming peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

Reuters

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As Hamas' power grows, life for Gazans worsens

MSNBC

Mugabe vows MDC will ‘never rule Zimbabwe’ in speech

Robert Mugabe has vowed that the MDC party will “never rule Zimbabwe” in a speech that followed a pledge to arm war veterans and send them to fight in the event of an MDC victory.

Financial Times

Rogue nations with nuclear blueprints

A former U.N. weapons inspector has revealed that blueprints for nuclear devices were found two years ago on computers connected to an international nuclear smuggling ring.

CBS News

Afghanistan's Karzai threatens to send troops into Pakistan

Guardian

BUSINESS

'Stagflation' risk as commodities rise, growth slows

Finance ministers from the world's richest nations face another week of inflation headlines after signaling concern that the global economy risks a dose of stagflation as commodity prices soar.

Bloomberg

Corn jumps to record as floods in Midwest threaten US crops

Bloomberg

Investors hit $10 billion loss in US

Investors who backed U.S. financial companies’ drive to raise much-needed capital are sitting on nearly $10 billion in paper losses amid a continued slump in the sector’s shares, a new analysis shows.

Financial Times

Housing, inflation getting worse, economic data to show

The economy is being squeezed by higher prices and a collapsing housing market. Neither problem seems to be getting any better, economists said ahead of key economic data.

MarketWatch

HEALTH

Russert death shows massive heart attack isn't easy to predict

For all their differences, NBC newsman Tim Russert and famed marathoner Jim Fixx, have two things in common: Each died of a massive heart attack while still in his 50s. Neither saw it coming.

USA Today

Cancer doctors dodge the death talk

Many people do not get straight talk from doctors, who often think they are doing patients a favor by keeping hope alive. New research shows they are wrong.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Phoenix gets 'dirty' on Mars

To examine the soil, Phoenix uses a robotic arm that wields a small backhoe type bucket to scoop up soil and bring it aboard the lander.

Daily Tech

In spite of controversy, stem cell field continues to grow

Political controversy may have slowed the pace of stem cell science, but the field is still promising enough to attract many talented researchers, experts said.

Yahoo! News

Crushed by too many e-mails

With daily e-mail volume now at 210 billion a day worldwide, according to a market research firm, the burden of managing all that e-mail has prompted a backlash.

NPR

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