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Iraqi kids look at what remained from a car that was used in a attack in neighborhood of Mansour in western Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo by Khalid Mohammed / AP)

Craig resigns over sex sting

Idaho Sen. Larry Craig resigned over a men's room sex sting, bowing to pressure from fellow Republicans worried about a scandal dimming their election prospects.

Yahoo! News

Extortion bomb threat plot widens

The widening investigation involving bomb threats called into stores and banks demanding that money be sent to overseas bank accounts has expanded to include about 24 incidents in 17 states.

ABC News

Scam scares pants off shoppers

CNN

More than 1,800 Iraqis killed in August

Detroit Free Press

U.S. report to call for overhaul of Iraqi police force

International Herald Tribune

Judge issues stay in gay marriage ruling

An Iowa district judge issued a stay of his ruling that Iowa's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional, but not until two male college students became the first same-sex couple to marry in Iowa.

USA Today

Same-sex marriage issues

Yahoo! News

Swiss deportation policy draws criticism

The nationalist Swiss People's Party is proposing a deportation policy that anti-racism campaigners say evokes Nazi-era practices.

Yahoo! News

Swiss party accused of racist campaigning

Guardian

NATION

Mexico's trucks get OK to roll in U.S.

Mexican truckers can begin hauling goods over the border into the U.S. after a federal appeals court refused a request from the Teamsters union and others to block the vehicles.

Houston Chronicle

Mexico prepares to allow U.S. trucks to cross border

Bloomberg

California enters steamy heat wave

Cloudbursts laced with lightning unleashed downpours in California's mountains and deserts amid sweltering, unstable weather.

San Jose Mercury News

POLITICS

Joint Chiefs meeting likely to be sobering

President Bush will meet with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon to begin preparing a pivotal report on the Iraq war.

Baltimore Sun

Warner to retire from Senate

Sen. John Warner, R-Virginia, the respected former Navy secretary and outspoken critic of the current state of affairs in Iraq, will not seek re-election to a sixth term, he announced.

CNN

BUSINESS

Toyota plans global sales of 10.4 million vehicles in 2009

Toyota plans to sell 10.4 million vehicles globally in 2009, well above the auto industry's current 30-year-old record and another sign of the automaker's momentum toward displacing General Motors.

Yahoo! Finance

Toyota's big idea

CNBC

China starts new food recall system

China has officially put in place systems to recall unsafe food and toys, one of its strongest steps yet to deal with recurring quality problems.

ABC News

SPORTS

Ankiel's grand slam leads Cardinals to win over Reds

Maybe St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa was right and not just hopeful when he predicted Rick Ankiel had a big future as a power-hitting outfielder.

ESPN

Kobe and Co. march over Argentina into FIBA semis

The much anticipated game between the United States and Argentina turned out to be the Kobe Bryant show as much as anything.

USA Today

HEALTH

WHO confirms 5 human bird flu cases

The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed five human bird flu cases in Vietnam, four of them fatal, the U.N. agency said in a statement.

Reuters

Growing number of U.S. kids not getting needed vaccinations

As many as 2.1 million American children aren't getting timely vaccinations because of holes in the public health system, according to Amy Pisani, executive director of Every Child By Two.

HealthDay

Malnutrition in Darfur an emergency

Malnutrition is on the rise in Darfur as a surge in violence prevents aid workers from reaching more people in need, a senior U.N. official said.

Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

New Chinese rules on Dalai Lama

Communist China has introduced new rules that appear aimed at controlling the selection of the next Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's spiritual head.

BBC

Pope attends eco-friendly youth festival

Pope Benedict XVI is taking a step in the Vatican's environmental campaign, leading a youth festival where participants will use recycled prayer books and backpacks made from reused nylon.

Google News

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GOOD NEWS

Hokie healing

Virginia Tech promises to be a solemn and serious place when tens of thousands of football fans return home to prove that this school and its spirit can't be silenced by even the sickest of events.

Yahoo! Sports

WORLD

Israelis extend mixed welcome to Sudanese refugees

Israelis weigh concerns about their moral responsibility and the refugees' economic and demographic impact.

Christian Science Monitor

Welcome to the new U.S. embassy

It’s bigger than Saddam’s palace and, with a cinema, gym and pool, is the safest and smartest place to live in Iraq.

Times Online

Cafferty: $592 million embassy?

CNN

Inside the nuclear underworld: deformity and fear

CNN's Matthew Chance was given rare access to Kazakh villages where above-ground nuclear tests have left generations scarred.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Entrepreneurs see 'green' in ocean power, methane, old tires and more

As policymakers promote alternative energy sources to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, entrepreneurs are becoming increasingly inventive about finding novel ways to power the economy.

MSNBC

Indonesia proposes rainforest nations climate group

Indonesia has proposed that eight countries home to some 80 percent of the world's tropical rainforests join diplomatic ranks amid rising climate change concerns, a senior official said.

Google News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

China dishes up menu translations

China is taking action on the English translations of its restaurant menus in its campaign to brush up the country's image for next year's Olympics.

BBC

Who said print is dead?

Beyond the core dailies, competition heats up among alt-weeklies, new mainstream tabs and specialty publications.

Editor & Publisher

For Tinseltown, a shining movie season

Moviegoers, flocking to sequels, broke the summertime box-office record and buoyed a sagging industry.

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Apple won't sell NBC programs on iTunes this fall

Apple Inc. escalated a dispute with NBC Universal over the pricing of television shows by announcing it would not sell any of NBC's programs for this fall season on iTunes.

Forbes

Lost city of Mu 'found'

A Japanese explorer claims to have uncovered the ruins of the lost city of Mu. For years, adventurers have searched for the mysterious city, which is said to have sunk in the Pacific Ocean.

Channel 4

'Underwater city' uncovered

BBC

EDUCATION

Report: Gulf Coast schools shortchanged

Thousands of Gulf Coast students are still displaced two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region, according to a report.

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