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Taiwanese people inspect cars crushed by fallen electric poles and huge debris caused by Typhoon Krosa. (Photo by Chiang Ying-ying / AP)

Pakistanis indifferent to tenuous Musharraf victory

Pakistan's military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf won the recent election, but it's unknown whether he'll get to keep the job.

NPR

Timeline: Pakistan's political rivals

BBC

Bid to break Burma's held monks

The first details of the treatment of Burma's monks in detention reveal they are being held in primitive, humiliating conditions designed to break them down physically, emotionally and spiritually.

The Age

Talking to fleeing monks

ABC News

Krosa storms into China's southeast

A powerful storm drenched China's southeast coast after killing five people in Taiwan and prompting the mainland to evacuate more than 1 million people, the government announced.

Associated Press

Worst Vietnam floods in decades kill dozens

MSNBC

Animated guide: Typhoon

BBC

Bush, Texas face off over execution

Texas wants President Bush to get out of the way of the state's plan to execute a Mexican for the brutal killing of two teenage girls.

CBS News

Why Texas is #1 in executions

PBS

Gas explosion rocks Harlem building

An apparent gas leak caused a Manhattan apartment building to explode, injuring 20 people, four of them children who were critically burned, officials said.

MSNBC

Gas leak eyed in Harlem

Yahoo! News

NATION

At least 5 killed in Wisconsin shooting

At least five people were killed in a small town in the northern state of Wisconsin after a man, possibly a sheriff's deputy, went on a shooting rampage there, news reports said.

AFP

Medicare recipients ripped off

Tens of thousands of Medicare recipients have been victimized by deceptive sales tactics and had claims improperly denied by private insurers.

Columbus Dispatch

Virginia Rep. Jo Ann Davis succumbs to breast cancer

Rep. Jo Ann Davis, Virginia's first female Republican member of Congress, died at age 57 after a long battle with cancer.

Baltimore Sun

An army of women against breast cancer

ABC News

POLITICS

Approval rating of Congress plummets

Public support for the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate fell again in the United States, according to a review of four public opinion polls.

Angus Reid Global Monitor

Sen. Craig to join Idaho Hall of Fame

Sen. Larry Craig has been chosen for induction into the Idaho Hall of Fame, despite his well-publicized arrest and guilty plea in an airport sex sting, officials said.

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Fed: U.S. economic growth slowing

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that the rate of U.S. economic growth was slowing, but the odds of a recession are less than 50 percent.

Reuters

U.S. jobs report eases recession fears

International Herald Tribune

Chrysler targeted for contract talks

Chrysler LLC was chosen as the next target for union contract talks as the United Auto Workers seeks to extend terms of last month's accord with General Motors Corp.

Bloomberg

12 cars that made Chrysler

CNNMoney

Costa Rica to decide fate of U.S. free-trade agreement in Latin America

Costa Ricans are casting votes to decide whether to back a free-trade accord with the U.S. in a national referendum.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

Study shows promise for antibiotic anti-inflammatory to treat strokes

Administering the antibiotic minocycline within 24 hours after a stroke significantly reduces brain damage and physical impairment, Israeli researchers report.

San Francisco Chronicle

5 alternative medicines that work

Americans spend billions of dollars each year on alternative medicine, everything from chiropractic care to hypnosis. Doctors say alternative medicine can work wonders on the body.

CNN

SPORTS

1 dead, 250 hospitalized as Chicago marathon is cut short

A Michigan man died while running the Chicago Marathon as stifling heat and smothering humidity forced organizers to halt the race after four hours, authorities said

Toledo Blade

Jimenez breathes like a winner

The Rockies got about as much out of starting pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez as they could have hoped for in what turned out to be Colorado's 2-1 victory in Game 3 of the National League division series.

Denver Post

Quick exit leaves Phillies unfulfilled

ESPN

Glavine eligible for free agency

Mets pitcher Tom Glavine declined his $13 million option with New York, making himself eligible for free agency.

ESPN

EDUCATION

Bush softens insurance stance

President Bush may be willing to accept an increase for a children's health insurance program than the one he has proposed, but he defended his veto of the expansion of coverage approved by Congress.

Baltimore Sun

To catch a cheat

The pressure is on for schools to raise test scores. Some, it seems, are willing to resort to anything.

Newsweek

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GOOD NEWS

Canada to give $25 million in food aid

International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda announced a $25 million program to help feed people in southern Afghanistan.

Globe and Mail

Macy's back-to-school promotion raises $2.5 million for reading program

Reading Is Fundamental Inc. announced that Macy's stores has raised a record $2.5 million, which will be used to fund new books for underserved children in a multicultural literacy campaign.

Good News Network

WORLD

Petraeus: Iran still fueling war

Although America's top general in Iraq called al-Qaida "the wolf closest to the shed," he said sectarian fighting among militias fueled by Iran could be the biggest long-term challenge for Iraq.

CNN

Bush defends CIA detentions, says U.S. does not torture

ABC News

Hope for southern Iraq as rival militias call a truce

Sydney Morning Herald

Many killed in Cuban train crash

The worst accident in Cuba for years happened in Granma province in the east of the island. At least 28 people have been killed and more than 70 injured in Cuba after a train collided with a bus.

BBC

Myanmar threatened with sanctions amid global protest

The U.S. said it may seek United Nations sanctions against Myanmar as a worldwide show of support for pro-democracy demonstrators got under way.

Bloomberg

Sanctions focus of U.S. protests

United Press International

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

World moves into the ecological red

The world has moved into "ecological overdraft," the point at which human consumption exceeds earth's ability to sustain it and goes into the red, the New Economics Foundation think-tank said.

Reuters

Melting ice pack displaces Alaska walrus

Thousands of walrus have appeared on Alaska's northwest coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming melting the Arctic sea ice.

El Paso Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Fatherhood 2.0

As dads have begun to act more like moms, old notions of masculinity have come into question.

TIME

Radiohead album bets on fast release

The release of popular rock group Radiohead's new album next week is the latest wake-up call for a music industry still struggling to deal with the advent of digital music, experts say.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientist 'weeks from creation of artificial life' in laboratory

An American researcher has claimed he is just weeks away from realizing a science-fiction dream: the creation of artificial life.

Scotsman

'Earthquake rocks' see daylight

For the first time, rocks have been extracted from California's San Andreas Fault by scientists drilling almost two miles below the surface.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catty view of pope's life

When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope in April 2005, a slew of biographies soon flooded bookstores around the world. The latest one, however, is recounted by a cat.

ABC News

Vicars should remove white collars when off-duty

A church safety group suggests Catholic and Anglican vicars should remove their clerical collars while off-duty because criminals often target clergymen since they are perceived to have money.

International Herald Tribune

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