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Friends of Bonnie Scott remove items from her storm-destroyed house in Oxford, Miss. At least two tornadoes hit north Mississippi, tearing through buildings and homes and ripping down powerlines as violent storms pummeled parts of the South, authorities said. (Photo by Bruce Newman / AP)

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Tornadoes tear across Southern states, killing 48

Daybreak revealed a battered landscape across the South, as crews searching communities hit by a violent line of tornadoes that killed at least 48 people.

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Houston Chronicle

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Tornadoes rip South

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Iraq's new flag raised over parliament

Iraq's temporary new national flag was raised over the country's parliament for the first time in a symbolic break with the past.

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Reuters

US fears al-Qaida extending its reach

Al-Qaida is gaining strength and steadily improving its abilities to recruit, train and position operatives to mount attacks inside the United States, the top U.S. intelligence official told a Senate panel.

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International Herald Tribune

McCain in command; Clinton, Obama battle on

Sen. John McCain seized command of the race for the Republican presidential nomination early Wednesday, winning delegate-rich primaries from the East Coast to California.

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Candidates split some big primary prizes

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Huckabee surges ahead

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Thousands flee fighting in Chad

After two days of pitched battles in which military helicopters bombarded rebels on battlewagons and both sides sprayed artillery fire, the capital of the central African nation of Chad was mostly quiet.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Peace Corps pulls Kenya volunteers

The U.S. Peace Corps is pulling its remaining 58 volunteers out of Kenya because of safety concerns stemming from the post-election violence, the agency said.

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Reuters

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Kenya crisis negotiators turn to political issues

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NATION

Federal deficits soaring higher, menacing the future

President Bush took office in 2001 with a budget surplus, but his final budget proposal envisions federal deficits of more than $400 billion a year for the next two years.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Bush's $3 trillion budget plan draws fire from opposition

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International Herald Tribune

New high sparks concern

Salvia, a legal drug more potent than LSD, has recently gained popularity among teens and young adults. Available online and in smoke shops, salvia is a plant that causes hallucinations.

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Mardi Gras 2008

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POLITICS

Poll screw-ups: Snow, 'invisible ink' and missing ballots

It wasn't quite a "hanging chad" moment, but Oprah Winfrey stepped in to resolve one of the first voting glitches of Super Tuesday.

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ABC News

Did Chelsea Clinton break the law?

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton's Election Day visit to New Haven poll workers prompted state election officials to caution that politicking within 75 feet of polling sites is against state law.

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BUSINESS

Apple hires Wal-Mart exec to run international movie and TV business

Kevin Swint, formerly Wal-Mart's head of digital media, has been appointed by Apple to run its international movie and TV interests.

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iTWire

Credit crunch changes everyday life in US

The freewheeling days of credit and risk may have run their course in the United States as a period of involuntary thrift unfolds in many households.

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International Herald Tribune

SPORTS

Bob Knight resigns as Texas Tech coach

Bob Knight left when he wanted to this time. Almost a decade after he was fired by Indiana, the school he led to three national championships, Knight walked away from college basketball.

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The General: Bob Knight

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Pettitte spends 2½ hours on Capitol Hill; Clemens next

Cy Young Award winner, Roger Clemens, is scheduled to give a deposition to lawyers from a congressional committee behind closed doors, one day after Andy Pettitte delivered sworn testimony for about 2½ hours.

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ESPN

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Experts: Clemens is safer taking the Fifth

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Houston Chronicle

HEALTH

Smokers and the obese cheaper to care for, study shows

In a paper published online, Dutch researchers found that the health costs of thin and healthy people in adulthood are more expensive than those of either fat people or smokers.

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International Herald Tribune

Law would ban serving obese diners

A Mississippi state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers — but please, don't be offended. He says he never even expected his plan to become law.

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Mississippi bill bans obesity

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RELIGION

Indian guru Maharishi Yogi dies

The Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who is credited with setting the Beatles and other stars on the path to spiritual enlightenment, has died.

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BBC

Catholic nuns and monks decline

The Vatican has reported a dramatic 10 percent fall in the number of Roman Catholic monks and nuns worldwide.

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GOOD NEWS

January homicides in Baltimore lowest in 30 years

While a homicide every other day might seem like a staggering figure to an outsider, police say the statistic marks an improvement from 2007’s January homicide tally, 28.

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Examiner

Diddy pushes youth to vote once again

Four years ago, Sean "Diddy" Combs went across the nation in an effort to get young people to vote, with the bold slogan "Vote or Die." Now the entertainer has just a simple message: Go vote.

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WORLD

Journal chronicles global migration

It has an editing staff of one and annual advertising revenue of less than $2,000. It charges its subscribers nothing and pays most contributors the same.

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International Herald Tribune

CIA chief names 3 subjected to waterboarding interrogation

The CIA director publicly named for the first time the three suspected al-Qaida detainees who were subjected to the harsh interrogation technique of waterboarding.

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Reining in China's chaos

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ENVIRONMENT

Countries eye payoffs to protect trees and climate

For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn’t save Indonesia’s rain forests. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash.

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Group: Indian law 'strangulates' biodiversity research

A group of Indian botanists say the country's stringent biodiversity laws are stifling research.

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Environmental News Network

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Rare wildcat barely surviving on Japanese island

The Iriomote wildcat is said to have roamed freely on a small island in the East China Sea for 200,000 years. But researchers completing a census worry that the wildcat population has fallen.

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International Herald Tribune

MySpace opens to developers

MySpace opened its social network to third-party developers, giving them the tools they need to build commercial applications that can run on the site for free.

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InformationWeek

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

50 Cent feels ‘normal’ next to De Niro

It’s not every day that you see Robert De Niro on the cover of Vibe with 50 Cent. They posed for the magazine to promote their new crime drama, “Righteous Kill,” which is expected to be released this fall.

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MSNBC

Oscar's light will shine

Academy president Sid Ganis vowed that the 80th Annual Academy Awards will take place as scheduled, strike or no strike, as he welcomed this year's Oscar hopefuls to the traditional nominees luncheon.

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Hollywood Reporter

EDUCATION

Deirdre Imus helps schools go green

Deirdre Imus wants you to know that your child's classroom could be dangerous. No, it's not killer tests or deadly boring lectures. Think more along the lines of things that your child can't even see.

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USA Today

Arab education 'falling behind'

The World Bank has said the quality of education in the Arab World is falling behind other regions and needs urgent reform if it is to tackle unemployment.

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BBC

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Robots get social

Dominated by home-cleaning gadgets, the consumer robotics market is expanding with new 'bots that can spy inside your home when you're away or arrange virtual meetings of family or friends.

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Pakistani street performers sit around a fire during a chilly evening in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Some parts of Pakistan are facing harsh winter weather and heavy snow fall. (Photo by B.K.Bangash / AP)

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