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Bangladeshi villagers stand before their mud houses as a rescue worker carries the body of a mudslide victim in Chittagong, 135 miles southeast of Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Photo by Pavel Rahman / AP)

Gaza battles raise fear of full civil war

Independent Online

Violence continues in Gaza

BBC

Tribunal convicts former Croatian Serb leader Milan Martic

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted a wartime leader of rebel Serbs of a brutal ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs in Croatia.

International Herald Tribune

Serb jailed for war crimes

BBC

Top U.S. commander warns Iraq of need for progress

The top American military commander for the Mideast warned Iraq's prime minister in a closed-door conversation that the Iraqi government needs to make tangible political progress by next month.

Houston Chronicle

Risky Iraq strategy

Yahoo! News

Bombings target 3 key bridges in Iraq

Yahoo! News

Decades of military families drank highly toxic water

Marine families who lived at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina over three decades drank water contaminated with toxins as much as 40 times over today's safety standard, federal health investigators said.

NBC11

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Politics as usual

ABC News

U.S. strike kills 7 Afghan police

Afghan police mistook U.S. troops on a nighttime mission for Taliban fighters and opened fire on them, leading U.S. forces to return fire and call in attack aircraft, killing seven Afghan police, officials said.

CNN

NATION

Kenya bombing kills 1, injures 31

An explosion destroyed a hotel shop in Kenya's capital of Nairobi, killing one person and injuring at least 31 others, officials said.

Melbourne Herald Sun

Explosion rocks Kenya's capital

BBC

British man found guilty of 'honor' killing

A Kurdish man was convicted in a London court of murdering his 20-year-old daughter in a so-called "honor killing" after she left her husband and fell in love with another man.

News24

Daughter slain in 'honor' killing

CNN

POLITICS

GOP stops Gonzales no-confidence vote

Republicans blocked the Senate's no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, rejecting a symbolic Democratic effort to prod him from office, despite criticism from both parties.

Houston Chronicle

Romney puts Mormons in spotlight

Mitt Romney's bid to become president of the United States is both a proud sign of progress and a cause of trepidation.

International Herald Tribune

BUSINESS

Qwest CEO Notebaert to retire

Qwest Communications International Inc. said Chief Executive Officer Richard Notebaert, who rescued the company from the brink of bankruptcy, will retire as soon as he finds a successor.

Bloomberg

USA Today, ABC News to share 2008 election content

In a partnership both news organizations call "unprecedented," Gannett Co. flagship USA Today and ABC News announced they will share content about the 2008 election on each other's Web sites.

Editor & Publisher

SPORTS

Duke prosecutor admits doubts from start

The lead investigator in the botched rape case against three Duke University lacrosse players softly told a disciplinary panel that he knew all along that the woman who made the accusations was lying.

Newsday

U.S. should coast into quarterfinals

The U.S. soccer team was just getting warmed up in winning twice in less than a 48-hour period, the start of an odyssey which will continue into South America with the Copa America at the end of June.

ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA extends space shuttle mission

NASA's shuttle Atlantis will spend two extra days in orbit to allow its astronaut crew to repair minor heat shield damage and perform an extra spacewalk at the International Space Station.

Space.com

NASA adds fourth space walk

Reuters

Rebuilding Rome as a virtual city

Ancient Rome was reborn — as a virtual city — when a team of American and Italian academics unveiled a real-time 3-D computer reconstruction that allows visitors to navigate the ancient city.

Newsweek

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Mexico clears church of mixing in politics

Mexico's Roman Catholic Church has been cleared of accusations that its opposition to abortion violated a law banning priests from mixing in politics.

Examiner

Prisons ban religious books

Inmates at the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., were stunned by what they saw at the chapel library on Memorial Day — hundreds of books had disappeared from the shelves.

Houston Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Injured hiker rescued in Colorado

A Kansas man was rescued after spending the night on a rocky crag high in Clear Creek Canyon, west of Golden, Colorado. The man was identified as David Seals, 34, of Topeka, Kan.

Denver Post

Crews rescue injured hiker

KCNC

Yoga may help treat depression, anxiety

Yoga's postures, controlled breathing and meditation may work together to help ease brains plagued by anxiety or depression, a new study shows.

Health Day

NATION

Deadly $2 heroin aimed at young teens

A cheap, highly addictive drug known as "cheese heroin" has killed 21 teenagers in the Dallas area over the past two years, and authorities say they hope to stop the fad before it spreads across the nation.

CNN

GA judge voids teen sex sentence

A judge has ordered that Genarlow Wilson be freed from prison, where he has spent more than two years for receiving consensual oral sex from a 15-year-old girl when he was 17.

Atlanta-Journal Constitution

Wilson to be released

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Sawfish protected by trade restrictions

Trade restrictions were approved for sawfish — large rays related to sharks, found off the East Coast of the United States and other places — according to World Wildlife Fund and TRAFFIC.

Earth Times

EU streamlines environment requirements for farmers

Europe's farmers should soon have to waste less time with painstaking EU inspections that aim to check whether they are meeting a series of environment laws to qualify for subsidies, officials said.

Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'Coast of Utopia' and 'Spring Awakening' sweep Tony Awards

The 61st annual Tony Awards were dominated by two shows drawn from the 19th century: "Spring Awakening" and "The Coast of Utopia."

International Herald Tribune

'Sopranos' whack the competition, if not each other

According to early estimates from Nielsen Media Research, "The Sopranos" finale pulled in at least 8 million viewers, beating out even the 61st Annual Tony Awards on CBS.

E! Online

HEALTH

Diabetes cuts 8 years off life

A diagnosis of diabetes means losing an average of eight years from your expected life span, new research shows. In addition, diabetics are more likely to develop heart disease earlier.

Health Day

Glucose control

CNN

Breakthrough in treating heart condition

Researchers at the University of Leeds have found a mechanism to prevent a potentially fatal heart condition that can strike without warning.

Medical News Today

EDUCATION

The cruel fate for a boy named Osama

The parents of a New York teen named Osama have sued the school system claiming their son was constantly harassed by teachers.

CBS News

Hamas dominates in Palestinian schools

Children spend more of the school day studying Islam, critical jobs in public education are filled by Islamic stalwarts and a once-banned textbook, filled with hard-line rhetoric, is back in classrooms.

ABC News

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