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Red Cross rescue workers carry the body of a mudslide victim in San Miguel Eloxochitlan, Mexico. Rescuers digging through mud and rocks have recovered 32 bodies from a bus carrying up to 60 passengers that was buried on a rural road after a mountainside gave way. (Photo by Pablo Spencer / AP)

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32 bodies found after Mexico landslide

Hundreds of rescuers dug frantically to reach victims of an avalanche that swept down a Mexican mountainside and buried a bus carrying up to 60 passengers.

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Rescuers end search for victims in Mexican landslide

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CNN

Thousands attend Gaza funerals of 11 militants killed in IDF raid

Palestinians marched in Gaza for militant funerals. Nine of these militants were from the ruling Hamas, killed in an Israel Defense Forces raid into the central Gaza Strip.

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Ha'aretz

Guam becomes key U.S. military base

The U.S. is spending billions of dollars and moving troops into the Asia Pacific region to strengthen bases in U.S. territories as part of a new defense strategy.

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Al Jazeera

Mosque leader refuses to surrender

The deputy leader of the Red Mosque in Islamabad has said he would rather die than surrender to Pakistani government forces surrounding the building.

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Al Jazeera

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Shots fired at President Musharraf's plane

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Telegraph.co.uk

Iran's leader hints at rights for women

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has signaled a willingness to reinterpret Islamic law in favor of women's rights, but not following Western convention.

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London Independent

White House responds to Clinton's comments

The White House made fun of former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for criticizing President Bush's decision to erase the prison sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Easy commute

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TIME

Happy birthday, President Bush

When President Bush turned 60 last year, the milestone garnered interest around the globe. Now he turns a year older, but to much less notice.

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USA Today

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Bush's face showing demands of office

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Houston Chronicle

NATION

Countries sign up to emissions pledge

More than 150 companies around the world pledged to reduce their carbon emissions voluntarily and raise energy efficiency with targets which they will make public and report on each year starting in July 2008.

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Financial Times

British officials lower terror threat level

With eight suspects in a pair of failed car bombings now in police custody, Britain lowered its national threat level, while still urging the public to remain on guard.

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International Herald Tribune

An unexpected alliance tackles insurgents in Iraq

When Abu Ali walked into an Americans' battle-scarred combat outpost, it was the beginning of a new alliance and, American commanders hope, a portent of what is to come in the province of Diyala.

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International Herald Tribune

POLITICS

Gay family values

Some of the states that are denying same-sex couples the right to marry are allowing them to adopt kids.

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TIME

Key Republican defection on Iraq

New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Domenici said the Iraqi government is "failing" and called for a new U.S. military policy in Iraq.

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Bloomberg

Obama rains on Clintons' parade

Bill Clinton crowed that Hillary Clinton has emerged from his shadow as a new leader for America, but Barack and Michelle Obama intimated both the ex-President and former First Lady belong to the past.

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BUSINESS

Nestlé chief fears food price inflation

Food prices are set for a period of “significant and long-lasting” inflation because of demand from China and India and the use of crops for biofuels, according to the head of Nestlé.

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Financial Times

Medical tourism takes flight

Soaring U.S. medical costs are causing many Americans to take to the skies on "medical tourism" junkets, looking for high-quality yet low-priced health care at foreign clinics.

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Health Day

SPORTS

McClatchy's Pirates reign over, Nutting takes over CEO role

Kevin McClatchy, a newspaper heir who likely prevented the Pirates from leaving Pittsburgh by assembling an ownership group in 1996, will step down as the team's chief executive officer.

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Federer closes in on record

Roger Federer took another step closer to immortality when he dispatched Juan Carlos Ferrero to take his place in the Wimbledon semi-finals.

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Reuters

HEALTH

Merlot mouthwash? Wine can fight germs

Drinking wine can maintain heart health, prevent cancer and even settle a mean case of diarrhea. Research now shows it’s also good for your teeth and throat.

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MSNBC

Survey: Estimates of India's HIV cases plunge by more than half

The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India is 2.47 million, less than half of previous official estimates, according to new U.N.-backed government estimates.

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GOOD NEWS

AIDS trial proves hopeful in 2 studies

An experimental AIDS drug taken in combination with an approved medication drastically reduced the amount of virus in the blood of patients with a history of drug resistance, according to two studies.

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Baby survives being buried alive

A two-day-old baby girl in India has survived after being buried alive in a field by her maternal grandfather in the south of the country.

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BBC

NATION

West to bake in heatwave

The heat wave in the West is showing no signs of letting up. It may hit 116 in Las Vegas, which would tie a record set in 1985. Many communities across the western U.S. are expected to eclipse 116.

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ABC News

The downside of fireworks

Fireworks were blamed for several injuries and fires around the region, including a spectacular blaze that nearly destroyed two homes under construction in West Seattle.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

ENVIRONMENT

Sundried tide: silent, natural disaster

Australian researchers have studied and documented the effect of the "sundried tide," a force of nature that can silently wipe out coral reefs.

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DNA reveals Greenland's lush past

Armies of insects once crawled through lush forests in a region of Greenland now covered by more than 6,500 feet of ice.

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BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

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Live from Antarctica, the coolest band on earth

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Christian Science Monitor

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Live Earth web site

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MSN

Miss N.J. won't give in to blackmail

Miss New Jersey says she won't give in to an anonymous threat that personal photographs of her will be made public if she refuses to relinquish her crown.

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ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ancient humans in Asia survived super-eruption, find suggests

A group of rocks that could easily be mistaken for gravel suggests that modern humans were in India spearing dinner and filleting meat 76,000 years ago, according to an international team of scientists.

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National Geographic

IPhone fanciers going to camp

Exactly one week after the debut of the iPhone, hundreds of developers and enthusiasts plan to huddle to work on and play with their new favorite toy.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Video gamers try to bust lazy boy image

Matt Ringel, the commissioner of the World Series of Video Games, is eager to dispel the notion of gamers as soda-swilling, junk food-eating slackers.

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MSNBC

EDUCATION

Failing to fight fat

The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education, but an Associated Press review of scientific studies examining 57 such programs found mostly failure.

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Parents don't need lawyers to fight for special-ed help

New Supreme Court ruling strengthens the rights of parents with special-needs children: they can fight their own cases without lawyers.

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Houston Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Web offers alternative to pilgrimage

Christian pilgrims have long traveled to the boyhood town of Jesus to seek blessings. Now the Internet can save them the trip.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Shunned from society, widows flock to city to die

Ostracized by society, India's widows flock to the holy city of Vrindavan waiting to die. Currently, there are an estimated 40 million widows in India.

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CNN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Essential gear not reaching Iraq Marines

The system for delivering badly needed gear to Marines in Iraq has failed to meet many urgent requests from troops in the field, according to the Associated Press.

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Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Revelers enjoy water thrown from a balcony during the San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona, northern Spain, which attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year. (Photo by Alvaro Barrientos / AP)

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