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President Bush hugs students Megan Parks, 17, left, and Sarah Carroll, 17, right, as he tours tornado damage at Enterprise High School in Enterprise, Ala. Thursday's tornado killed eight students from the school. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

Anti-Kremlin protesters beaten by police

Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's hometown.

CNN

Iran ready for strike in Gulf states

The Age

Major powers fail to settle differences on Iran

Reuters

Italy still wants justice from U.S. for Iraq shooting

Italy has raised the stakes in a spat with the United States over the killing by a U.S. soldier of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq, saying Washington must assume responsibility for the death.

Reuters

Afghan, U.S. reports on firefight differ

An explosives-rigged minivan crashed into a convoy of Marines that U.S. officials said also came under fire from militant gunmen. Up to 10 people were killed and 34 wounded as the convoy made a frenzied escape.

Yahoo! News

Two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Times

U.S. troops enter Shiite stronghold of Sadr City

Hundreds of U.S. soldiers entered the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in the first major push into the area since an American-led security sweep began last month around Baghdad.

MSNBC

Maliki warns insurgents of wider crackdown

Reuters

Sects slice up Iraq as U.S. troops 'surge' misfires

Observer

Beijing increases defense spending

International Herald Tribune

Suspect in dismemberment slaying arrested

A man suspected of killing and dismembering his wife was captured as he fled searchers, running through snow in northern Michigan, police said.

MSNBC

NATION

Report: Five seized with Britons are found

Several Ethiopians who were kidnapped along with five Britons touring the African country's remote northeast have been found, state media reported.

Examiner

Copenhagen rioting subsides

Copenhagen saw a third straight night of unrest as small groups of protesters threw rocks at the police and set fire to trash bins and barricades, but the clashes were not as violent as on two previous nights.

International Herald Tribune

Iran women arrested over protest

Iran's authorities have arrested more than 32 women activists protesting outside a courthouse in Tehran.

BBC

POLITICS

A mass firing puts Justice on the hot seat

The firings of eight U.S. attorneys has put the heat on top Justice Department officials — and some GOP members of Congress.

Newsweek

Coulter under fire for anti-gay slur

Prominent politicians from both parties and a gay-rights group condemned right-wing commentator Ann Coulter for her reference to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a "faggot."

CNN

Paulson optimistic on U.S. economy

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says the economy is healthy, inflation seems under control and the U.S. should not perceive China as an economic enemy.

CNBC

SPORTS

Devil's Janssen suspended for late hit

The NHL announced that New Jersey forward Cam Janssen has been suspended for three games without pay for a late hit on Toronto defenseman Tomas Kaberle.

Sports Network

Federer beats Youzhny for fourth Dubai Open title

Roger Federer won the Dubai Open for the fourth time in five years, beating Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-4, 6-3 in the final.

Sports Illustrated

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Google moves YouTube ahead

Five months after a $1.65 billion merger, Google and YouTube have been quietly trying to make the merger successful, even while wrangling with several critical issues.

San Francisco Chronicle

Museum IDs new species of dinosaur

A new dinosaur species had yard-long horns over its eyebrows, suggesting an evolutionary middle step between older dinosaurs with even larger horns and the small-horned creatures that followed, experts said.

Examiner

HEALTH

Experts weigh giving up on killing polio

Nearly 20 years ago, the World Health Organization and its partners launched an ambitious program to eradicate polio by the end of the millennium, but polio still strikes about 2,000 people a year, mostly children.

Examiner

New insight into brain disorders

The function of an enzyme in the brain - strongly linked to a number of major brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder - has been identified for the first time by researchers in the UK.

Medical News Today

Warnings sought on kids' cold medicine

Government health officials are reviewing whether popular medicines like Tylenol Plus Cold & Cough and Infant Triaminic Thin Strips are safe and effective in treating children's colds and coughs.

Forbes

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Stolen Rockwell found in Spielberg collection

Norman Rockwell paintings often resonate because of their depictions of everyday life, but the life of one of his paintings has been anything but mundane.

CNN

Comedy fest names Colbert person of year

Stephen Colbert, a faux conservative who often honors himself on his Comedy Central show, was lauded by the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival as their "Person of the Year."

USA Today

Whitaker, Hudson win NAACP awards

Oscar winners Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson kept their winning streaks alive, while "Grey's Anatomy" star Isaiah Washington claimed a best actor prize at the 38th annual NAACP Image Awards.

Forbes

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Robert Fisk):

How easy it is to put hatred on a map

London Independent

Editorial:

How to end the assault on liberties

International Herald Tribune

Column (Ira Chernus):

Beware the Iraqi boomerang

Asia Times

Editorial:

Pentagon up-armors its budget

Boston Globe

Column:

When awards become politicized

San Francisco Chronicle

Column:

The purge of U.S. attorneys (partially) explained.

Slate

Column:

Party tensions rise as 2008 race nears

Christian Science Monitor

Column:

The sky isn't falling in China

Newsweek

Column:

Immigration reform fight not going away

Chicago Sun-Times

Column:

The people's choice

TIME

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GOOD NEWS

Heart transplant patient conquers Andes climb

Kelly Perkins, a 45-year-old Californian who had a heart transplant more than a decade ago, has added a dangerous free climb in the Andes to a string of mountaineering feats.

MSNBC

Is it Blackbeard's ship? Archaeological booty says aye

A shipwreck off the North Carolina coast believed to be that of notorious pirate Blackbeard could be fully excavated in three years, officials working on the project said.

CNN

NATION

Bush offers comfort to towns devastated by storms

Bush hands out hugs to residents who survived killer tornadoes that ripped through Alabama and Georgia.

ABC News

Cherokees vote out slaves' descendants

Cherokee Nation members voted to revoke the tribal citizenship of an estimated 2,800 descendants of the people the Cherokee once owned as slaves.

ABC News

Military faces growing ranks of bereaved

One of the first sights visitors to Fort Hood see is a daycare center's playground, evidence of the Army's commitment to be family friendly.

CBS News

BUSINESS

Employment growth slowed in February: U.S. economy preview

U.S. employers hired fewer workers in February than a month earlier as the economy struggled to overcome declines in housing and manufacturing, economists say a government report will show.

Bloomberg

EMI spurns $4.1 billion bid proposal from Warner Music

Britain's EMI Group rejected a $4.1 billion cash takeover proposal from Warner Music Group saying the price was inadequate and not in the best interests of its shareholders.

CNBC

Beauty and the Geek

A number of studies have found that "ugly" people earn less in many walks of life. The beauty premium seems to apply even in professions where there is no reason to expect that beauty counts.

Slate

ENVIRONMENT

U.S. projects 19 percent emissions rise

By 2020, the United States will emit almost one-fifth more gases suspected to contribute to global warming than it did in 2000, increasing the risks of drought and scarce water supplies.

Examiner

EPA proposes new regulations for trains, marine vessels

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to impose new regulations to control emission of particulates as a result of burning diesel in locomotives and marine vessels.

Earth Times

EDUCATION

The measure of learning

Can you test what colleges teach? Academics are appalled that the government wants to try.

U.S. News & World Report

Bush prods Congress on education law

President Bush, who wants his legacy engraved with his education policy, lobbied Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind law — and do it this year.

Yahoo! News

'Cat in the Hat' birthday parties celebrate Seuss, reading

Pajama-clad preschoolers didn't think twice about devouring green eggs and ham in honor of "The Cat in the Hat." Fifty years after the book hit the bookshelves, readers of all ages are still mesmerized.

Springfield News-Leader

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

The Gospel of Prothero

A Boston University professor argues that Americans, though 'spiritual,' are woefully ignorant about religion.

Newsweek

Christian school loses lawsuit over religious discrimination

Alameda County did not commit religious discrimination when officials rejected a Christian school's plan to build a campus on county land near Castro Valley, a federal jury ruled.

San Jose Mercury News

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