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G-8 trumpets Africa aid deal as summit comes to an end

World powers pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS and other diseases ravaging Africa but development campaigners complained the Group of Eight had offered little fresh cash for the poor.

Reuters

G-8 fails to agree on Kosovo's future

International Herald Tribune

Does the G-8 Summit have a point?

TIME

U.S. suspends some border rules to ease passport backlog

The U.S. State Dept. has temporarily lifted a new rule requiring Americans to carry passports for air travel to and from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda, placating Congress.

CBC

Ottawa streamlines passport renewals

Canada announced new procedures to streamline passport renewals, and called on the United States to postpone passport requirements for Canadians going south of the border this summer.

Globeandmail.com

Special section:

Q & A on new passport rules

Boston Globe

Atlantis blasts off on first shuttle flight of the year

A patched-up Atlantis blasted off with seven astronauts on the first space shuttle flight of 2007, putting NASA back on track after a run of bad luck and scandal.

Houston Chronicle

Liftoff! Hail Atlantis

ABC News

General Pace to be replaced as Joint Chiefs chairman

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he will recommend that President Bush nominate Adm. Michael G. Mullen to replace Gen. Peter Pace as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

CNN

Gates cites 'divisive ordeal' if Pace stayed on

MSNBC

Bush to meet Pope amid protests in Rome

U.S. President George W. Bush will meet Pope Benedict for the first time. Discussions are expected to center on their differences on Iraq and their common stand against abortion.

Reuters

U.S. won't back down on Guantanamo war-crimes tribunals

The Bush administration won't dismantle the controversial war-crimes tribunals at Guantanamo Bay for alleged terrorists.

Globeandmail.com

NATION

Villages in Iran flooded in wake of Cyclone Gonu

Floods spawned by the remnants of Cyclone Gonu cut off roads, power and communications to dozens of tiny villages in the deserts of southern Iran, sending some residents into trees for safety.

CNN

Cyclone in Oman

BBC

Cocoa may be funding war in Africa

British chocoholics may have unwittingly helped fund an African conflict, with an estimated $120m from the cocoa trade being siphoned off into war chests in Ivory Coast, according to a new report.

The Independent

Cocoa trade 'fuels Ivory war'

BBC

POLITICS

'Don't ask, don't tell' split on party lines

The presidential candidates are dividing starkly along party lines on one of the signature fights of the 1990s: whether the 14-year-old policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” should be repealed.

Ledger

Dems clash on climate bill

Divisions among Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee may doom an early effort to combat global warming and develop homegrown alternative fuels.

The Hill

BUSINESS

The spring of home sellers' discontent

There was no loud burst, or even a sharp pop. Instead, the springtime aftermath of the nation's housing bubble is sounding more like a whoopee cushion.

U.S. News & World Report

Checking the engine

Economist

The real cost of offshoring

New evidence suggests that shifting production overseas has inflicted worse damage on the U.S. economy than the numbers show.

BusinessWeek

SPORTS

Busch penalized for Dover pit incident

Kurt Busch was docked 100 driver points, fined $100,000 and placed on probation until the end of the year for reckless driving and endangering a crew member on pit road.

ESPN

Spurs shut down LeBron, take Game 1

LeBron James couldn't solve San Antonio's stifling defense and the pick-and-rolling Spurs, as fundamental and selfless as ever, outclassed Cleveland in an 85-76 victory in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

Sporting News

Showdown set: Federer, Nadal to meet in French final

Top-ranked Roger Federer and nemesis Rafael Nadal dispensed with the last of the preliminaries at the French Open, winning to set up their anticipated showdown in the final.

USA Today

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Most distant black hole discovered

The most distant black hole ever found is nearly 13 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers announced.

Yahoo! News

Ask rewrites Web search rules

Ask has revamped its search engine to help distinguish itself from rivals such as Google and Microsoft.

BBC

EDUCATION

Cuomo urges stronger oversight of student loans

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo called on Congress to strengthen laws governing private student loans, arguing that inadequate regulation of the industry has allowed illegal practices to flourish.

USA Today

Incoming college freshmen get summer reading assignments

Many of next fall's college freshman have thrown their tasseled caps in the air and are ready to pick up the sunscreen, but there may be another item to put in the beach bag: a university assigned book.

U.S. News & World Report

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GOOD NEWS

Why Dutch women don't get depressed

French women, says a recent bestseller, don't get fat. Japanese women, says another, don't get old or fat. But their sisters in the Netherlands may have one up on both of them.

International Herald Tribune

Low-income Floridians get help with hurricane protection

Low-income residents in 12 Florida counties are getting a little extra help this hurricane season to protect their homes from storm damage.

Good News Network

NATION

Five tornadoes hit Wisconsin

Cleanup crews began assembling to salvage remnants of a northern Wisconsin resort demolished by one of at least five tornadoes that swept across the state.

MSNBC

Man imprisoned for cross-burning

A U.S. district court judge sentenced a 21-year-old man to two years in prison for burning a wooden cross outside a Catholic Church in northern California to threaten a priest from Rwanda.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

African logging decimating pristine forests, report warns

Unchecked logging in six central African countries is slowly chipping away at some of the world's last remaining tropical forest tracts, new satellite data show.

National Geographic

World's tigers on path to extinction

Wild tigers are on a "catastrophic" path to extinction as numbers continue to decline due to increased poaching, habitat destruction and poor conservation efforts by governments.

Reuters

The cost of bald eagle conservation

The bald eagle is officially about to become a "conservation success story" for the U.S. government, but some warn that this victory comes at a price -- loss of eagle habitat protection.

CNN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

A crying Hilton is sent back to jail

Paris Hilton, the woman famous for being famous, tearfully returned to custody and the furor continued over whether she should have been released.

Newsday

Paris ordered back to jail

CBS News

Tony Awards: Who should, who will win

USA Today theater critic Elysa Gardner surveys the top categories and predicts who will take Tony home — and who ought to.

USA Today

In Taiwan, 'Spider Lilies' fuels a small homosexual renaissance

Homosexuality is nothing new in Taiwanese cinema. Now, "Spider Lilies," by the director Zero Chou, is making it big at the local box office.

International Herald Tribune

HEALTH

New migraine drug promising

New migraine pain relief may be on the way for the 28 million American sufferers, shows a promising new study.

WebMD

Millions of children with epilepsy denied drug that costs less than $3 a year

Millions of children with epilepsy in developing countries are being denied an effective drug that costs less than $3 a year, according to an editorial in this week's British Medical Journal.

Science Daily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Interfaith gathering to focus on hunger

Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and Christians from almost every denominational stripe will gather at the Washington National Cathedral for a convocation dedicated to ending hunger.

USA Today

Pope-Patriarch parley sought

The Orthodox archbishop of Cyprus is offering himself as a mediator to try to set up a groundbreaking meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the Russian Orthodox patriarch of Moscow.

San Francisco Chronicle

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