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Police monitor an anti-war protest march along a central London street, near the Houses of Parliament. The demonstration was organized to call for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq. In an announcement to parliament, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Britain plans to withdraw nearly half its troops from Iraq beginning next spring. (Photo by Lefteris Pitarakis / AP)

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Britain 'on board' for U.S. strikes on Iran

British defense officials have held talks with their Pentagon counterparts about how they could help out if America chose to bomb Iran.

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Telegraph

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Britain to cut deployment to Iraq to 2,500 next year

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Bloomberg

Iraq says Blackwater killed 17, shooting was 'deliberate'

Iraq said security guards from the U.S. firm Blackwater "deliberately killed" 17 Iraqis in last month's shooting incident in Baghdad and that it would take legal steps against them.

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Reuters

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Iraq probe raises blackwater toll

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Typhoon hits China, then weakens

Typhoon Krosa crashed into the Chinese coast, forcing the evacuation of 1.4 million people, after killing five in Taiwan as it lashed the island with heavy rain and high winds.

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Reuters

Iowa poll puts Clinton atop in key state

Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken the lead among Democratic presidential candidates in an Iowa poll, an encouraging sign of progress toward overcoming a big hurdle in the race.

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ABC News

Report: war on terror fueling al-Qaida

Six years after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, the "war on terror" is failing and instead fueling an increase in support for extremist Islamist movements, a British think-tank said.

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Reuters

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U.S. renews bid to destroy opium poppies in Afghanistan

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International Herald Tribune

Monet painting vandalized

Intruders entered the Orsay Museum and punched a hole in a renowned work by Impressionist painter Claude Monet, the French culture minister said.

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Yahoo! News

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See the tear

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Yahoo! News

NATION

Deputy fired 30 shots from rifle in killing 6, officials say

An off-duty sheriff's deputy used a police-style AR-15 rifle to kill six people at an early morning party in a small Wisconsin town, officials said.

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CNN

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Town mourns 6 killed by cop

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MSNBC

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.

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Columbus Dispatch

POLITICS

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Obama: GOP doesn't own faith issue

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CNN

Democrats see wedge issue in health bill

Democrats say the willingness of House Republicans to stick with President Bush in the battle over a public health insurance program for poor children will prove costly on Election Day.

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Ledger

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Leavitt seeks deal on children's health

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Associated Press

BUSINESS

Business under pressure over CEO pay

U.S. companies are facing fresh pressure from regulators and shareholders to rein in excessive executive pay as research shows chief executives have been paid up to 10 times more than their top lieutenants.

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Financial Times

Investors ask Supreme Court to sanction securities-fraud claims

Investors will confront corporations when the Supreme Court considers the highest-profile business case of the year.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Sprint Nextel is said to seek a new chief

Sprint Nextel's board is seeking a new chief executive to battle the company's less-than-stellar performance, according to people apprised of the executive search.

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CNET News

HEALTH

Study: Black women get less breast cancer treatment

Black women with breast cancer are less likely to undergo supplemental, potentially lifesaving, therapies than white women with the same level of disease are, a new study finds.

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HealthDay

FDA to alert doctors about imaging drugs

U.S. regulators will soon alert doctors about reports of deaths and serious reactions following the use of certain imaging agents to help diagnose heart problems, FDA officials said.

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Reuters

SPORTS

Jones returns 5 medals from Sydney

Marion Jones has given up the five medals she won at the Sydney Olympics, days after admitting she used performance-enhancing drugs.

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MSNBC

Three men arrested in connection to Memphis football player slaying

Three men have been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death last week of a University of Memphis football player, Memphis police announced.

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CNN

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

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Toledo Blade

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

U.S. tries rehab for religious extremists

A counseling program that employs Muslim clerics to rebut extremist views of detainees has steadily reduced their numbers over the past four years.

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Christian Science Monitor

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.

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GOOD NEWS

Twins thrive 4 years after surgery

With bright smiles and energy to spare, formerly conjoined twins Mohamed and Ahmed Ibrahim of Egypt have returned to Dallas, four years after a marathon operation to separate them.

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San Jose Mercury News

Agassi's charity event raises $9 million for students

Andre Agassi's Grand Slam for Children netted $9 million for the 580 students that attend the school his charity is helping to build.

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ESPN

WORLD

Costa Rica president says U.S. trade deal passes

Costa Ricans appeared to narrowly vote in favor of joining the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., and President Oscar Arias declared victory for the pact.

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ABC News

Muted memorials for slain journalist

The one-year anniversary of the execution-style slaying of journalist Anna Politkovskaya was marked by a series of memorial events in Moscow that drew scant crowds but droves of police.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Rape has morphed from tool of war into societal epidemic in Congo

Eastern Congo is going through another one of its convulsions of violence, and this time it seems that women are being systematically attacked on a scale never before seen there.

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International Herald Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Researchers say plants communicate to warn against danger

Plants chatter amongst themselves to spread information, a lot like humans and other animals, new research suggests.

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LiveScience

Congo rebels seize gorilla habitat

Rebels have seized an area in eastern Congo that serves as a wildlife habitat for endangered mountain gorillas, threatening one of the last known populations of the animals, conservationists said.

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ABC News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The Police to release new album?

Andy Summers, guitarist in the recently reformed band The Police, has hinted that the band may enter the studio to record a new album.

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Yahoo! News

Seeking Columbus's origins, with a swab

Five centuries after he opened the door to the New World, Columbus's revisionist biographers have found a new hope for vindication: The Age of Discovery has discovered DNA.

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International Herald Tribune

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Nobel Prize goes to DNA engineers

Americans Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies and Briton Martin J. Evans won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine for developing a technology for manipulating genes in mice.

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CBS News

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2 Americans, 1 Briton share Nobel

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Woman hit by file-sharing verdict vows to fight back

The Minnesota woman ordered to pay $220,000 after being found guilty of illegally downloading music is loudly voicing her own opinion about the case including plans to appeal the decision.

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InformationWeek

EDUCATION

Graduation exams test states' will

A coalition of groups has come out against requiring the tests for the Class of 2009, saying too many students don't seem to be ready.

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To catch a cheat

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

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Newsweek

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Bionic eyes plug directly into the brain

Researchers have set their sights on bypassing the normal routes of bionics to hook video cameras deep into the brain, allowing the blind to see.

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Indonesians struggle to board an overcrowded train leaving for East Java at Senen train station leaving for East Java in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Photo by Dita Alangkara / AP)

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