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A detainee sits alone inside a fenced area during his daily outside period, at Guantánamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The Supreme Court is scheduled to consider whether the 300-plus prisoners, most of whom have never been charged with a crime, can go to U.S. courts to challenge their confinement. (Photo by Brennan Linsley / AP)

New data, new methods, new conclusion on Iran

A report that says Iran is no longer actively pursuing nuclear weapons contains more specific intelligence than did a murkier report in 2005, say officials who have read both.

International Herald Tribune

Special section:

Nuclear weapons proliferation timeline and map

PBS

Iran sparks fireworks at Democratic debate

NPR

New CAFE standards wouldn't push SUVs off the road

The House is poised to pass a stricter set of efficiency rules that would require automakers to achieve a fleet average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020.

Christian Science Monitor

Guantánamo Cases at Supreme Court

TIME

Special section:

Profiles: Odah and Boumediene

BBC

Supreme Court hears Gitmo case

Reuters

General Electric recalls microwaves

General Electric recalled 92,000 combination wall and microwave ovens after at least 35 incidents of fire that damaged property.

Houston Chronicle

Are Rio's police public enemy No. 1?

Public trust in Rio de Janeiro's police force has reached dismal lows, as accounts of police abuse and corruption multiply daily. Many say that the police have become indistinguishable from the drug gangs.

McClatchy Newspapers

8 killed as Gates visits Iraq

Three car bombs in Iraqi cities have killed at least eight people, including one in Mosul soon after the U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived on a visit.

BBC

NATION

Guard evacuates flooded Oregon town

National Guard troops evacuated residents in a flooded Oregon town and tens of thousands remained without power after back-to-back storms pounded the Pacific Northwest, killing five people.

ABC News

Bush to visit Middle East region

President George W. Bush, who hosted a summit aimed at jump-starting Israeli and Palestinian peace talks, will visit the Middle East in January, the White House said.

Reuters

Mom: 'Carol Sue would be alive today' if not for Huckabee

A mother says she will do "whatever it takes" to stop former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee from becoming president, because he freed the man who went on to rape and murder her daughter.

ABC News

Who is Mike Huckabee?

CBS News

POLITICS

Will Clinton's Obama attacks backfire?

It started in earnest when Hillary Clinton questioned how much Barack Obama's time spent living in Indonesia as a child could actually help him make foreign policy decisions as a president.

TIME

Senator Hutchison will not seek GOP’s No. 3 position

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has told Senate colleagues that she will not seek the No. 3 spot in the Republican caucus, according to two Senate aides.

The Hill

Romney hopes to ease qualms about his religious values

Fighting to save his faltering presidential campaign, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he will reassure Republican voters that his religious values are the same as theirs.

CBS News

BUSINESS

Crude oil futures fall below $88 ahead of OPEC meeting

Crude-oil futures fell nearly $2 to just below $88 a barrel, as the market focus remained on whether the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would raise production.

MarketWatch

Congress vs. credit cards

Lawmakers want to know why some credit card companies raise customers' interest rates when those same customers have a solid payment history.

Forbes

Warning for credit card users

CBS News

SPORTS

College football coaches average pay hits $1 million

At least 50 college football coaches are making seven figures, seven more than a year ago. At least a dozen are pulling down $2 million or more, up from nine in 2006.

USA Today

Grand jury IDs shooter in Taylor slaying

A 17-year-old suspect in the death of Sean Taylor was accused of firing the shot that killed the Washington Redskins safety.

ABC News

Patriots continue to prevail

After a a 27-24 comeback victory over the Baltimore Ravens, most Patriots players weren't exactly certain how they had remained unbeaten after 12 games.

ESPN

Sixers replacing GM with Nets' Stefanski

The Philadelphia 76ers fired General Manager and team President Billy King and replaced him with New Jersey Nets' General Manager Ed Stefanski.

Sporting News

HEALTH

Vaccines ruined by poor refrigeration

Every year, thousands of children go through the tearful, teeth-gritting ordeal of getting their vaccinations, only to be forced to do it all over again. The vaccines were duds, ruined by poor refrigeration.

Yahoo! News

Pretty is as pretty does

A new study states that if you want to appear more physically attractive to the opposite sex, you may want to give your personality a makeover.

WebMD

Are you a perfectionist?

International Herald Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Southern Baptist preacher uses prayer and humor to defuse hospital tension

National Guard First Lt. Kurt Bishop is one of five chaplains at this forward operating base of 1,500 soldiers and contractors in Afghanistan. During intense hours, Bishop provides help and humor to medics.

Christian Science Monitor

Sufism: antidote to Islamic extremism

With its spiritual tradition, "the Sufi way" is an age-old alternative for radicals and modernists alike.

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

'Anonymous friend' donates $100 million to Penn. town

Mike Batchelor invited the heads of 46 charities to share the good news: A donor had given a staggering $100 million to the Erie Community Foundation, and all of the charities would receive a share.

CNN

Gorillas snatched illegally finally returned to wild

Four rare gorillas caught up in a five-year international tug-of-war are expected to finally be flown back to the wilds of Cameroon, their home.

Good News Network

WORLD

Relieved and apologetic 'teddy' teacher back home

Gillian Gibbons was met at London's Heathrow Airport by her son John and daughter Jessica, where she apologized for allowing a teddy bear to be named after the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

ABC News

Teacher tells of Sudan captivity

MSNBC

Critics blast fairness of Russian election

A day after President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party crushed opponents in parliamentary elections, the guessing has begun over the future of the 55-year-old, two-term president.

Globeandmail.com

ENVIRONMENT

Proposal stirs environmentalist at Bali

In an opening gambit, Japan has proposed that the Bali climate conference in Indonesia pursue a broad "least common denominator" approach to negotiating new controls on global-warming gases.

International Herald Tribune

Court asked to block Alaska oil drilling

Associated Press

New fuel cell cleans up pollution and produces electricity

Scientists are reporting development of a fuel cell that uses pollution from coal and metal mines to generate electricity, solving a serious environmental problem while providing a new source of energy.

Science Daily

EPA orders cleanup at Air Force base

The Environmental Protection Agency says it is taking "a major step" toward cleaning up Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Fla., by compelling the Air Force to properly conduct the cleanup.

Environment News Service

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Bra has held up famously for 100 years

The brassiere turns 100 this year, after Vogue magazine was said to be the first to write about it in 1907.

USA Today

Siegfried and Roy may be back soon

Illusionists Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn say they may just reappear. Their highly-successful Las Vegas production ended four years ago when Horn was critically injured on stage by a tiger.

CNN

Tiger at animal sanctuary bites and critically injures man

San Jose Mercury News

Is photography dead?

Digitalization has made much of art photography's vast variety possible. But it's also a major reason that the medium seems to have lost its soul.

Newsweek

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

More than a game

Vivendi, a French entertainment conglomerate, announced that it will merge its video-games division with a subsidiary of Activision, an American counterpart.

Economist

Chimps outdo humans in remembering

Chimpanzees could be useful as assistants in casinos, according to research. They may also make good spies, say scientists, who found that young chimps are better at recalling numbers than adult humans.

Times Online

Chimp's memory

Dailymotion

EDUCATION

Finland stays top of global class

Finland and South Korea remain among the superpowers of education, according to a major international study.

BBC

Neat writing could cut your exam scores, young pupils are warned

Children who concentrate on keeping their handwriting neat tend to do worse in exams, a study warns. They are better off learning to write quickly, say researchers.

Daily Mail

Photo of the Day

Released Palestinian prisoners wave from atop a bus as they arrive at Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' headquarters in the West Bank after their release from an Israeli jail. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus / AP)

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