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Turkish PM says 4 dead in Diyarbakir bomb blast

Four people were killed and 52 injured when a bomb ripped through a military vehicle in a southeastern Turkish city, television channels quoted Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan as saying.

Reuters

Chaos in aftermath of bombing

CNN

Kibaki 'open to opposition talks'

BBC

Kenyan opposition calls off protest

Reuters

Iowans hear barrage of final pleas for votes

A year-long prelude to the presidential election drew to a close as Iowans absorbed a final torrent of campaign arguments before the state's caucuses formally opened the race.

International Herald Tribune

Dirty tricks bloom in Iowa

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Des Moines Register

CIA to face full criminal probe

The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA videotapes believed to show the use of torture during the interrogation of two al-Qaida suspects.

Times Online

Justice Department to investigate CIA tapes

NPR

US warms to Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif

With Pakistan's elections postponed and turmoil continuing, the United States is reviewing its options — including a warming toward former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the top opposition leader.

Christian Science Monitor

Why Pakistan matters

Pakistan is a long way from democracy. The rage of Bhutto's supporters is directed not at her presumed assassins, but at President Pervez Musharraf, a man the Bush administration deems a vital ally.

TIME

NATION

Hunt on for those sitting near American Airlines TB traveler

Health authorities have launched a search for 44 airplane passengers who were sitting near a California woman who flew from India to the United States with infectious multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Houston Chronicle

US falls behind Iraqi resettlement

U.S. admissions of Iraqi refugees are nose-diving amid bureaucratic in-fighting despite the Bush administration's pledge to boost them to roughly 1,000 per month.

San Jose Mercury News

Storm threatens to freeze South

A wintry system that added inches to record snow accumulations in some northern states sent temperatures plummeting in the South, where farmers scrambled to protect their crops.

MSNBC

Florida citrus growers brace for cold spell

Yahoo! News

POLITICS

Clock running on Bush presidency

President Bush's final-year agenda is a stripped down list of what he can realistically hope to get done, since the clout he once touted is fading away.

MSNBC

Democrats say Bush can’t pocket veto defense bill

House Democrats and the Bush administration appear on the verge of a new constitutional fight over whether President Bush can pocket-veto the defense authorization bill.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Economists: Odds of recession rising

MSNBC

Weather Channel up for possible sale

The Weather Channel, one of the pioneering 24-hour cable news networks, could be for sale, its parent company, Landmark Communications, confirmed.

MarketWatch

UK airport strikes are called off

A threatened strike against airport operator BAA over pensions that would have hit all of its seven U.K. airports, including Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Edinburgh, has been called off.

BBC

SPORTS

WVU hires Stewart after Fiesta Bowl win

West Virginia University dropped the interim tag on Bill Stewart and hired him as its football coach a day after he directed a 48-28 win over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl.

Bloomberg

Fiesta Bowl fullfills Stewart's dream

MSNBC

Torre won't pick sides in Clemens drama

Joe Torre won't pick sides between Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee, the former New York Yankees strength coach who accused the Rocket of using performance-enhancing drugs.

AOL News

Report: McNamee's lawyer says he may sue Clemens

ESPN

HEALTH

Smiles rate higher by people than dentists

People rate their smiles higher than dentists do, according to a new study. Teeth and eyes rated as the most important features of an attractive face, and people younger than 50 were most satisfied with their smiles.

Science Daily

Colon cancer gene in America traced back to early settlers

A couple who sailed to America from England around 1630 took with them a gene that has put their thousands of descendants at an increased risk of colon cancer.

Times Online

Patients and staff flee wards as blaze hits top cancer hospital

Scores of patients face delays to their life-saving treatment after a massive fire swept through the Royal Marsden Hospital, Britain’s leading cancer treatment center.

Times Online

In pictures: Royal Marsden fire

BBC

RELIGION

Deadly temple stampede in India

At least five people have been killed and 15 others injured in a stampede at a Hindu temple in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

BBC

A handbook for Muslim teens

Being a young Muslim in the United States got much tougher after 9/11, so a brother-sister team came up with a book to help peers in their faith.

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Self-publishing now a snap

Getting a book published isn't the rarefied literary feat it once was. New printing technologies and on-demand publishing are letting thousands realize the ambitions of generations of would-be writers.

BusinessWeek

2007: safest year to fly since 1963

Last year was one of the safest in more than four decades to fly, with just 136 serious accidents occurring around the world, the Aircraft Crashes Record Office (ACRO) said.

ABC News

WORLD

Experts see no relief from rising temperatures in 2008

This year is forecasted to be among the top 10 hottest years on record, Britain's weather office said, despite a strong cooling effect predicted from the tropical weather phenomenon known as La Niña.

Houston Chronicle

Bhutto inquiry 'unsatisfactory'

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has said he is "not fully satisfied" with the investigation into the killing of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.

BBC

Indonesia flood death toll climbs as waters recede

At least 112 people have been killed and nine are still missing after landslides and floods hit Indonesia's Java Island over the past week, officials said.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Opening of Alaska to drilling blasted

Environmental groups teed off on the federal decision to open up nearly 46,000 square miles off Alaska's northwest coast to oil and natural gas leases.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Sugarcane ethanol: Brazil's biofuel success story

Years ago, when ethanol was three times the price of gasoline, most nations would not have considered investing in it as a biofuel. But Brazil did, and now produces the cheapest ethanol in the world.

Environmental News Network

Brazil's oil 'blessing' is no energy panacea

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Study shows cell users slow commuters

U.S. psychologist David Strayer concludes that motorists using cell phones slow down the flow of commuters, because they drive slower and have slower reactions.

iTWire

Honk if you're stuck behind a cellphone

Toronto Star

New set-top box will bring Internet video to HDTVs

Video-rental services Netflix and LG Electronics said they'll develop a set-top box that lets consumers stream video from the Internet to HDTVs.

USA Today

Big Brother gets bigger, says international privacy study

According to a new international privacy report, governments around the world are increasingly monitoring citizens with surveillance, identification systems and archiving private data.

CNET News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Third time charms in record $9.62 billion box office year

It was the year of the thrilling "threequel." Half of this year's 10 biggest films were sequels, with four of them representing third installments in money-machine franchises.

Hollywood Reporter

Leno and Letterman pay homage to strike on air

The kings of late night went back to work, some with and others without their regular writing staff.

CTV

Letterman's back, and the crowd loves it

CNN

EDUCATION

Students turn writing into a labor of love

Teaching students to write can stump even the best teachers. But a new method of teaching writing is making a huge difference in several Seattle schools.

Seattle Times

Mass. high school suicide prevention program focuses on teens

In a double-period class, students watched a video on depression and suicide, and left class with a handout that encouraged them to "ACT," if one of their friends had a problem.

Christian Science Monitor

Purdue University students sniff manure for science

Purdue University students are making some extra cash through a project that might turn some of their classmates' stomachs -- by sniffing livestock excrement.

CBS News

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