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People line up for food in the tent-camp set up after a major earthquake in L 'Aquila central Italy. A powerful earthquake in mountainous central Italy knocked down whole blocks of buildings as residents slept, killing more than 100 people. (Photo by Pier Paolo Cito / AP)

Italy earthquake toll rises

The toll from a powerful earthquake in central Italy rose to at least 150 people and is likely to rise further as rescuers scramble in the dark to find survivors.

Al Jazeera

Dozens dead in Italy

TIME

Special section:

Earthquake epicenter

Guardian

Cuomo sues Merkin for shifting $2.4 billion to Madoff

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sued J. Ezra Merkin, the former GMAC Financial Services chairman, over the financier’s placing assets in funds he controlled with Bernard Madoff.

Bloomberg

Gates axes costly weapons programs

In a dramatic departure from tradition, Defense Secretary Robert Gates unveiled a Pentagon budget that aims to help the United States fight a hybrid form of warfare.

Christian Science Monitor

Congress fights Gates' aim at arms programs

Reuters

Speech:

Gates announces budget

C-Span

Divisions emerge in international response to N. Korean rocket launch

The U.N. Security Council entered a second day of emergency deliberations, debating whether to impose punitive measures in retaliation for the launch.

Guardian

North Korea a problem for Obama

BBC

Experts: N. Korea launch not a total bust

CBS News

Crackdown on housing scams

Treasury chief Geithner leads an effort to stop foreclosure and mortgage fraud as Feds worry that mortgage rescue will bring out bad guys. FBI: 2,100 open cases.

CNNMoney

NATION

US war dead media blackout lifted

The media were allowed to witness a dead U.S. soldier returning home for the first time since the Obama administration lifted an 18-year ban.

BBC

Airlines improve for 1st time in 5 years

Airline performance improved in 2008 for the first time in five years, according to an annual airline quality report.

CNNMoney

Special section:

How to eliminate flight delays

TIME

POLITICS

Obama says US is not at war with Islam

President Barack Obama told the Muslim world the United States was not at war with Islam. Overall, his first international tour was a start on the repairs of America's damaged image abroad.

Reuters

Obama reaches out to the Muslim world

BBC

Mass murders drive delegate's gun amendment opposition

A gun amendment attached to the bill granting Washington a congressional vote could lead to sporadic shootings like the ones that left 17 dead in New York and Pennsylvania.

The Hill

HEALTH

Eating broccoli may ward off serious stomach ailments

Eating 2.5 ounces a day of broccoli sprouts appeared to reduce the risk of stomach ulcers and probably stomach cancer in a trial.

Forbes

Rocket fuel chemical found in formula

CDC scientists found perchlorate — a chemical in rocket fuel — in samples of powdered infant formula.

WebMD

EDUCATION

Hard math: 39,000 for 8,500 charter spots

Interest in New York City charter schools led Democracy Preparatory Charter School in Harlem to tout its acceptance rate of 100 students out of 1,500 applicants as more competitive than Harvard's.

New York Post

Advocate: Stop guns in all city schools

Citing weapons in elementary schools, advocate Jack Stollsteimer calls for metal detectors at all buildings, not just high schools.

Philadelphia Inquirer

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Whoopi: Patrick Swayze 'doesn't have an expiration date'

Patrick Swayze is taking life a day at a time, said his friend and "Ghost" costar Whoopi Goldberg.

People

Metallica, Run-DMC, Jeff Beck join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

One of the most diverse classes in history, which included Metallica, Run-DMC, 1950s rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson and guitar legend Jeff Beck, were inducted into the Hall at a wild four-hour show.

Rolling Stone

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's class of 2009

NY Daily News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Group warns Nevada capital not to fund Twain church

A group that advocates the separation of church and state is warning a Nevada city that it will sue if the city gives anymore money to a church that Mark Twain helped build in his twenties.

Associated Press

Rare Jewish blessing to take place

Rabbi Levi Rivkin will face the heavens and for the first time in his life, thank God for the sun with a blessing so rare it happens only once every 28 years.

Tampa Tribune

Birchat hachama (blessing the sun)

Examiner

Columns And Op-Ed

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Bankers to refocus their talents

Financial Times

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Taliban preys on Pakistani fears

Guardian

Editorial:

Cash in on clean cars

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

'Sexting' overkill

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column:

Concealment of torture memos

Salon.com

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Five reasons MSU or UNC will win

ESPN

Column:

From the G20 to the G2

Forbes

Column:

Planning for a sustainable human future: conservation, population and economy

Mother Earth News

Column:

The end of Christian America

Newsweek

Column:

Underdog Spartans hungry for upset of talented North Carolina Tar Heels

Detroit News

Column:

The jobs solution

The Nation

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GOOD NEWS

Scientists prove human heart can regenerate cells

Scientists showed that the human body regenerates heart cells at about one percent a year, a discovery that could one day reduce the need for transplants.

Reuters

Economy causes drop in highway deaths

As the economy slid deeper into recession and gas prices reached $4 a gallon last year, the number of people killed in auto accidents hit its lowest level in five decades.

TIME

WORLD

Series of bombings in Baghdad Shiite areas kill 37

Anger boiled over in Baghdad streets at Iraqi soldiers and police who failed to prevent a stunning series of coordinated bombings across the city that left 37 dead and more than 100 wounded.

Associated Press

Baghdad car bombs

Times Online

Pirates hijack British-owned cargo ship in Gulf of Aden

Somali pirates hijacked a British-owned cargo ship after 48 hours of plunder in the Gulf of Aden.

Times Online

BUSINESS

Sun falls most since 2002 as IBM talks said to crash

Sun Microsystems Inc. slumped as much as 25 percent in Nasdaq Stock Market trading after reports that takeover negotiations with International Business Machines Corp. fell apart.

Bloomberg

Estimated taxpayer cost for bailout jumps

Congressional budget analysts raised their estimate of the taxpayers' cost for the financial rescue program to $356 billion, $167 billion higher than before.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

US seeks restrictions on tourism to Arctic-Antarctic region

The United States will push for more restrictions on tourism to the North and South Poles to protect the regions' natural environment.

Earth Times

Guantanamo other side: huge snakes, 'banana rats,' more

Detainees may be leaving Guantanamo, but rare inhabitants — giant snakes, "banana rats," nesting sea turtles — are there to stay, protected by the razor-wire fences.

National Geographic

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

YouTube, Sony Pictures in talks over feature films

YouTube is in talks to acquire licensing rights to full-length content from Sony Pictures, home of such films as "The International" and "Spider-Man," sources familiar with the negotiations said.

CNET News

Russia to unveil spaceship plans

The Russian space agency will unveil development plans for a next-generation manned spacecraft, which should enter into service sometime towards the end of the next decade.

BBC

SPORTS

Rays-Red Sox opener pushed back to Tuesday by rain in Boston

The Red Sox announced that Monday's game against the defending American League champions is rescheduled for Tuesday, which was to be an off day.

CBS SportsLine

Special section:

SI's 2009 MLB scouting reports

Sports Illustrated

North Carolina vs. Michigan State

The Spartans (31-6) know a win in the NCAA title game on a court 90 miles from their campus won't fix Michigan's economic freefall, won't put anybody back to work.

CBS SportsLine

Photo of the Day

Air Force personnel salute the casket of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers, of Hopewell, Va., at Dover Air Force Base, in Delaware. (Photo by Evan Vucci / AP)

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