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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.

Telegraph

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.

Reuters

Iraq probe raises blackwater toll

MSNBC

Security Council to meet to consider action against Myanmar

Faced with mounting world outrage over violence in Myanmar, the U.N. Security Council was to meet under pressure to quickly condemn the military regime for crushing pro-democracy protests.

AFP

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.

Reuters

Worst Vietnam floods in decades kill dozens

MSNBC

Animated guide: Typhoon

BBC

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.

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.

Reuters

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.

Yahoo! News

See the tear

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.

CNN

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

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.

Ledger

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

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.

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.

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.

CNET News

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

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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

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.

ESPN

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

Hope for southern Iraq as rival militias call a truce

Sydney Morning Herald

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.

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.

International Herald Tribune

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

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.

ABC News

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

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.

CBS News

'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

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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