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Democratic presidential hopeful, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, shakes hands after a rally at the United Steel Workers' union hall in Des Moines, Iowa. (Photo by Chris Carlson / AP)

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

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

Kenya official calls for vote probe

Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako has called for an independent investigation into vote results that led to President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.

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

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

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

NATION

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

Md. inmate who fled hospital is killed

An inmate who escaped from a hospital, briefly taking a worker hostage and stealing two getaway cars, died after a shootout with police, authorities said.

Yahoo! News

POLITICS

Lantos ill, announces retirement

California Democrat Rep. Tom Lantos, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, will be retiring at the end of his term after receiving a recent diagnosis that he has cancer.

CBS News

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

The coming Apple versus Research In Motion battle

Some analysts predict a brawl between iPhones and BlackBerrys; others say the real fight pits the smartphones against open-source handsets.

BusinessWeek

US stocks decline after manufacturing unexpectedly contracts

U.S. stocks dropped, led by banks and computer companies, after a decline in manufacturing heightened concern the economy will shrink and sent shares to their worst start to any year since 2001.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

Flagrant foul leads to Odom suspension

Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom was suspended for one game without pay for committing a flagrant foul in the fourth quarter of his team's 110-91 loss to the Boston Celtics.

Sporting News

Peterson named top NFL rookie

After a record-setting first NFL season, Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson won USA TODAY's NFL Rookie of the Year award for 2007.

USA Today

HEALTH

FDA approves 2-hour staph blood test

Becton, Dickinson and Co. said it received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for a test to identify the presence of MRSA.

Reuters

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

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

Priest lied in court about mob ties

A Roman Catholic priest was arrested on perjury charges, accused of lying about his relationship with a mobster in testimony to a grand jury investigating a casino owner's possible ties to organized crime.

TIME

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GOOD NEWS

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

Vick's pit bulls go to Utah sanctuary

Twenty-two pit bulls seized from suspended NFL star Michael Vick's dogfighting operation boarded a chartered flight for a new home at a no-kill sanctuary in Kanab, Utah.

Sporting News

WORLD

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

Sri Lanka ends cease-fire with rebels

Sri Lanka's government has decided to formally withdraw from a Norway-brokered cease-fire with Tamil Tiger rebels amid escalating violence, an official said.

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

16 states challenge US on car emissions

California and 15 other U.S. states sought to overturn a Bush administration decision that denied California's attempt to set tough new standards for auto emissions.

Reuters

Climate set to alter California landscape

As scientists try to forecast how global warming might affect the nation's most geographically diverse state, they envision a landscape that could look quite different by the end of this century.

AOL News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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

'Laughs' not exclusive to humans

The basis for laughter may have originated in an ancient primate ancestral to both humans and modern apes, a study suggests.

BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Paul McCartney undergoes heart surgery

Britain's Sun newspaper says the former Beatle has undergone a coronary angioplasty after complaining of not feeling well.

ABC News

Gay Muslims party in Berlin, nervously

Most of the people filling the dance floor at the club SO36 in Berlin were gay, lesbian or bisexual, and of Turkish or Arab background. They were there for the monthly club night known as Gayhane.

International Herald Tribune

Male belly dancing makes comeback in Egypt, defying suppression

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

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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