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Pakistani security officials and local residents look belongings of the victims at the site of suicide bombing in Sherpao, a village 25 miles northeast Peshawar, Pakistan. (Photo by Mohammad Zubair / AP)

US convoys struggle to adjust to road policy change

McClatchy Newspapers

All-star holiday tour in Iraq, Afghanistan

USA Today

Baghdad shoppers venture out, even after dark

NPR

1 dead in New Zealand quake

One woman has died and a state of emergency has been declared for the center of the eastern New Zealand city of Gisborne after a powerful 6.8 earthquake flattened buildings and caused damage.

Sydney Morning Herald

Pakistan suicide bomber kills 55 at mosque

More than 50 people were killed when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb at a crowded mosque near the home of Pakistan's former interior minister on one of Islam's major holidays.

Guardian

Special section:

Profile: Aftab Sherpao

BBC

Dozens die in Pakistan blast

Reuters

White House faces CIA tapes hearing

The Bush administration has made its position clear and now gets a chance to say it to a judge: Hold off on inquiring about the destruction of CIA videotapes.

TIME

FCC targets big media

The Federal Communications Commission decided to increase regulation of the cable market and to allow some newspapers to own a radio or TV station in the same market.

Christian Science Monitor

Israel examining Hamas truce proposal

Israel is examining a Hamas truce proposal delivered by Egypt, defense officials said, but violence persisted as a Hamas militant was killed near the Israel-Gaza border.

Newsweek

NATION

New Orleans approves demolitions

New Orleans City Council has voted to demolish 4,500 public housing units despite violent protests against the development project.

BBC

New Orleans police, protesters clash

MSNBC

Violent clashes in New Orleans

CBS News

Jury deliberates case of Internet hoax that led to deadly shooting

The tragic story that began with a sick joke on the Internet is coming to a close as a Riverhead, New York, jury deliberates the fate of 53-year-old John White, on trial for killing a friend of his son.

CNN

Study: Airport security screening process is pointless

Airport security lines can annoy passengers, but there is no evidence that they make flying any safer, researchers reported.

ABC News

POLITICS

Bush says Congress wasting time, money

President Bush, successful in forcing the Democratic Congress to bend to his will, complained that lawmakers had wasted time and taxpayers' money.

Ventura Country Star

Clinton says wife a 'world-class genius'

Former President Clinton says his wife is a "world-class genius" when it comes to improving the lives of others.

Yahoo! News

In charity, Clinton donors overlap

International Herald Tribune

Critics accuse Giuliani of running a closed City Hall

When a mayor of New York leaves office, little goes out the door but memories — unless he's Rudy Giuliani. When Giuliani stepped down, he needed a warehouse.

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Bear Stearns reports first loss after mortgage writedowns

Bear Stearns Cos. reported its first loss as a public company after writedowns for home loan-related holdings and declines in the firm's three largest divisions.

Bloomberg

General Motors and Navistar enter agreement for truck lines

General Motors Corp., aiming to focus on its core light-vehicle making business and raise liquidity, will sell the business, including the related service parts business, to Navistar International Corp.

CNNMoney

SPORTS

Parcells to join Dolphins

Bill Parcells' day began with reports he would rebuild the Atlanta Falcons. It ended with him on the cusp of taking the same job with the Miami Dolphins.

Sports Illustrated

Why did Parcells choose Miami over Atlanta?

ESPN

Record 30-game suspension for N.Y. Islanders' Chris Simon

Chris Simon, a forward for the New York Islanders, was hit with a 30-game suspension, surpassing the mark of 25 he was given in March in a ban that stretched into this season.

Sporting News

HEALTH

In-house hospital doctors shorten stays, study finds

The largest study to date of the impact of "hospitalists" reveals that these in-house hospital doctors can help shorten patients' stays and reduce their costs.

San Jose Mercury News

Salmonella fears prompt basil recall

Some 5,500 pounds of basil grown in Mexico and sold in the United States has been recalled because of fears it may be infected with salmonella, a spokesman for the importer said.

Yahoo! News

RELIGION

Can religion improve peace prospects in the Middle East?

For 60 years, attempts to craft a lasting peace for the holy land have fallen woefully short. As new talks get under way, leaders are insisting that it's time to include a religious dimension in the peace process.

Christian Science Monitor

Undercover team inspects churches

Churches across the Midlands are being checked by "mystery worshippers." Normally paid to inspect stores while posing as ordinary shoppers, they now report on sermons and the warmth of welcome.

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Man reunites with birth mother at work

Steve Flaig wasn't sure how to approach his co-worker with his big news. It would seem brash to walk up and say, "Hi, I'm Steve, your son."

El Paso Times

Panda born at 1.8 ounces, healthy

A 16-month-old giant panda born at half the weight of most newborn pandas is growing into a normal, healthy animal in southwest China, state media reported.

LiveScience

WORLD

2 Guantanamo inmates released

London Independent

Russia signs central Asian pipeline deal

Desperate to meet growing domestic and European demand, Russia signed a major deal with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to build a natural gas pipeline along the Caspian Sea.

International Herald Tribune

'Enough evidence' to charge Zuma

South Africa's top prosecutor says there is enough evidence to charge the new leader of the governing party, Jacob Zuma, with corruption, a case that could derail his election as the country's next president.

BBC

Zuma calls for unity

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

EPA denies 18 states the right to fight global warming

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stunned the nation by denying California and 17 other states the right to proceed with regulations that would reduce global warming pollution from new automobiles.

Environmental News Network

California will not get US waiver on emissions

Forbes

Japan drops humpback whales

Japan has dropped its controversial plan to hunt humpback whales in Antarctic waters after strong protests led by Australia, chief government spokesperson Nobutaka Machimura said.

Earth Times

Humpback meal

National Geographic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Captain uses his fat to race

New Zealander Pete Bethune is using his fat as fuel to power his Earthrace motorboat around the world in an attempt to break a world record.

iTWire

Apple, Think Secret settlement: a mistake

Apple's lawyers have managed to use Apple's deep pockets to pay off one of the greatest Web sites for Apple rumors and information, Think Secret.

PC World

Monkeys, college kids score about the same on math test

Monkeys can add, and they're not half bad at it, researchers announced, saying two monkeys scored about as well as college students on the same basic-addition test.

National Geographic

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Nick considering teen pregnancy special

Nickelodeon is considering a special for its young audience about sex and love following the news that 16-year-old "Zoey 101" star Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant.

Hollywood Reporter

Divorced parents do a good job

New research overturns a commonly held belief that families fractured by divorced parents become inferior havens for children compared with stable homes.

LiveScience

EDUCATION

Study: Foster care boosts IQ of children in orphanages

Abandoned children in Romania who were removed from orphanages and put in foster care had far better reasoning, language and other intellectual skills, U.S. researchers said.

Reuters

7 school officials fired after administering shocks to students

Seven school officials at a Massachusetts special-needs school have been fired after mistakenly administering electric shock therapy treatment to two students.

ABC News

Woman abandons home to escape the public school system

A Utah woman who was ordered by a juvenile court judge to enroll her children in public school or lose custody of them has abandoned her home, furniture and other possessions to escape the order.

World Net Daily

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