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An Afghan family leaves Hyderabad village to the city of Gereshk after a U.S.-led coalition did air strikes on their village in Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Abdul Khaleq / AP)

Afghan civilians, Taliban killed in air strike

An air strike in southern Afghanistan has killed at least eight civilians and 39 armed Taliban, the Helmand province police chief said.

Al Jazeera

U.S. probes Afghan civilian deaths

BBC

Israel kills 6 in Gaza air strikes

Israel launched two air strikes in the Gaza Strip, killing six Palestinians, including three senior Islamic Jihad militants it long sought for firing rockets and orchestrating other attacks.

Reuters

2 U.S. soldiers charged with murder

Two U.S. soldiers were charged with the premeditated murder of three Iraqis, while 26 people died in American raids in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood.

CBS News

U.S. troops kill terror suspects

Reuters

Iraq Sunnis to boycott government

BBC

Flaming SUV rams U.K. airport; 2 arrests

Two men rammed a flaming Jeep Cherokee into the main terminal of Glasgow airport, crashing into the glass doors at the entrance witnesses said.

Guardian

Special section:

Q&A: Car bomb investigation

BBC

Apple's iPhone makes it to stores

Apple's much-hyped iPhone has finally gone on sale. Some people had been waiting for days outside Apple and AT&T stores to ensure they got hold of one of the devices.

BBC

Devil's Advocate View of iPhone

Reuters

NATION

Bush bans 'anti-Lebanese' officials

President George W. Bush banned Syrian and Lebanese officials whom Washington accuses of undermining the Lebanese government from entering the United States, the White House said.

Sydney Morning Herald

Bomb alert evacuates Spain's Ibiza airport

Ibiza airport was evacuated after a bomb warning upset the start of the peak holiday season on the Mediterranean island, Spanish police said.

Reuters

HK marks first decade with China

Ceremonies have been taking place in Hong Kong to mark the 10th anniversary of its return to China, with Chinese President Hu Jintao as guest of honor.

BBC

Special section:

Facts: How Hong Kong has and hasn't changed

International Herald Tribune

POLITICS

Presidential race becomes a cash dash

Crunch time is coming for all the U.S. presidential candidates as they prepare to file their second-quarter fund-raising results.

The Age

McDermott says to Cheney: ‘Resign or face impeachment’

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) told Vice President Dick Cheney to “resign or face impeachment” as three more House Democrats lent their support to a plan to impeach the vice president.

The Hill

It's the people vs. the government, new poll suggests

How do people think the Democratic Congress is doing after six months? Lousy, but better than the alternative.

CNN

BUSINESS

What if everything is ‘Made in China?’

A one-week attempt to avoid products from there meets with little success.

MSNBC

WSJ editorial line-up deal thrashed out

If Dow Jones is sold to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, The Wall Street Journal’s managing editor and the head of the paper’s editorial page would keep their jobs under a proposal drafted by the companies.

Financial Times

SPORTS

Swiss get a second wind

Defending champions Alinghi have won the sixth flight in the America's Cup, 28 seconds ahead of Team New Zealand.

Sydney Morning Herald

Rematch dead ahead?

Justine Henin and Serena Williams moved closer to another Grand Slam quarterfinal, each easily advancing to the fourth round at Wimbledon.

Sports Illustrated

Federer reaches fourth round at Wimbledon

Sports Network

Blaney earns Toyota its first NASCAR Nextel Cup pole

Toyota's entry into Nextel Cup has mostly been a series of small steps this season, but every big one has involved Dave Blaney.

USA Today

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DNA traces 5 matriarchs of 600 million domestic cats

Five subspecies of wildcat spread across the Old World. The DNA of all house cats and fancy cats falls within the Near Eastern wildcat cluster, making clear that this subspecies is their ancestor.

International Herald Tribune

Scientists claim breakthrough in creating synthetic life

Scientists reported that they have successfully transplanted the genome of one species of bacteria into another, an achievement they see as a major step toward creating synthetic forms of life.

International Herald Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope urges Catholics in China to unite

Pope Benedict XVI invited all Roman Catholics in China to unite under his jurisdiction and urged Beijing to restore diplomatic ties and permit religious freedom.

MSNBC

TV ministries aren't just for the big names

Television ministry used to be the province of a few prominent preachers like Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell. But the business -- and it is a business -- has definitely come of age.

Beliefnet

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Garrett Epps):

Free speech for the rich and powerful

Salon.com

Column (Jonathan Hari):

Iraq from another point of view

The Australian

Column (Chris Patten):

Hong Kong will not sleep

Guardian

Column (Janice Min):

Forget Paris

Slate

Editorial:

Eating the iPhone

International Herald Tribune

Column:

As Clinton flip-flops, where does she stand?

Times-Union

Column:

America could do with a few feral beasts

London Independent

Editorial:

A tooth and a little DNA

Baltimore Sun

Editorial:

United around racial diversity

Christian Science Monitor

Column:

On Murdoch

Huffington Post

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GOOD NEWS

Missing Igloolik elder found alive

An 81-year-old elder and hunter from Igloolik was found alive, after four weeks of air and ground searches.

CBC

2,000 years later, global vote to pick world's new 7 Wonders of the World

A worldwide vote lets the people decide on the globe's most awe-inspiring structures.

Christian Science Monitor

NATION

Police flood New York City streets after Brit terror scare

Cops in riot gear were dispatched to key spots around the city, while others set up vehicle checkpoints; the number of officers in subways dramatically increased.

New York Daily News

Campfire led to Tahoe blaze, officials say

An illegal campfire caused the wildfire that burned more than 200 homes just south of Lake Tahoe, the U.S. Forest Service said.

MSNBC

Woman killed on amusement park ride in N.Y. on which 7-year-old girl died in 2004

A New York state amusement park worker was thrown off a ride and killed. Park officials acknowledged that a precaution put in place after a fatal accident on the same ride in 2004 was not followed.

International Herald Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

Indian plan to lease degraded forests sparks anger

A plan to lease out India's degraded jungles to paper companies has sparked criticism from activists who say the scheme will leave millions of poor forest dwellers homeless and with no livelihood.

Environment News Network

2007 is second-warmest year on record

This year is on track to be the second warmest since records began in the 1860s and floods in Pakistan or a heatwave in Greece may herald worse disruptions in store from global warming, experts said.

USA Today

Huge sowings ease ethanol crunch on U.S. corn

U.S. farmers are on track to grow their biggest corn crop ever, an astonishing 12.8 billion bushels, a government report said, enough for livestock feeders and the booming fuel ethanol industry.

Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Wedding trashers

America may be in the midst of full-on wedding mania, but a new craze for gown wrecking has tapped into a rich vein of bride rage.

Salon.com

Special of the day: Remy's 'Ratatouille'

Like the best French cuisine, Ratatouille is ambitious and delightful. It blends a savory stew of ingredients that, when whisked together, create a wondrously tasty and visually stunning dish.

USA Today

'Ratatouille' trailer

YouTube

Painting, mathematics, and the work of Piero della Francesca

After his death in 1492, Piero della Francesca was better remembered as a mathematician than as a painter; a new exhibition is bringing many of his works together for the first time.

International Herald Tribune

HEALTH

Designer enzyme cuts HIV from cells

Scientists have constructed an enzyme that reverses the process by which the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) inserts its genetic material into host DNA.

Scientific American

Bogus toothpaste found in Canada

Counterfeit Colgate toothpaste has now turned up in Canada, where testing has found dangerous bacteria but not the poisonous chemical previously detected in four states, a health official said.

Houston Chronicle

Free of trans fats in NYC, but it’s not all good news

New York City begins its ban of artificial trans fats in fried foods. Already 83 percent of restaurants are reporting the switch, but to what?

iTWire

EDUCATION

Can schools still achieve diversity?

Race could be out as a factor in assigning students to public schools, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, leaving educators to ponder less reliable alternatives for creating racially diverse classrooms.

TIME

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