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GOOD NEWS

World views US 'more positively'

A BBC World Service poll suggests a slightly more positive view of the United States around the world.

BBC

Fasting reduces chemo side-effects

A few days of fasting might help protect patients from some of the unpleasant and dangerous side-effects of cancer chemotherapy, researchers reported.

Yahoo! News

Vets pay tribute to fallen comrades at virtual Vietnam wall

Digital Vietnam wall memorial lets users search, leave tributes, add photos. The wall was a collaboration between National Archives and Footnote.com.

CNN

WORLD

Sadr City mourns its dead, injured

In Baghdad's Shiite Muslim slum of Sadr City, U.S. airstrikes aimed at militants plague the population.

McClatchy Newspapers

Iraqi death toll climbs sharply

BBC

Ahern to resign as Irish premier

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has announced he is to resign in May.

BBC

Castro reforms: DVDs, farms for Cubans

Shoppers snapped up DVD players, motorbikes and pressure cookers as a slew of consumer products went on sale to all Cuban citizens for the first time.

Google News

ENVIRONMENT

Japan courts poorer nations in bid to end whaling ban

Anti-whaling countries, led by Australia and New Zealand, say the marine mammals still number too few to make commercial harvesting sustainable.

National Geographic

New York City Council passes congestion toll plan

City Council members passed an $8 fee for entry to large part of Manhattan to save on emissions and raise mass transit funds.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Controversy continues over Air Force and Northrop Grumman contract

The U.S. Air Force surprised many observers by awarding one of the largest procurement contracts in history to Northrop Grumman over its favored rival Boeing.

Forbes

Dow closes up nearly 400 points

Wall Street began the second quarter with a big rally as investors rushed back into stocks, optimistic that the worst of the credit crisis has passed and that the economy is faring better than expected.

ABC News

Lehman offering helps lift global stock markets

International Herald Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

More leave doomsday cult bunker

Fourteen more members of a Russian doomsday cult emerged from the remote underground bunker where they had been holed up for six months awaiting the end of the world.

AOL News

Russian cult members emerge

Yahoo! News

When did April Fools' Day begin?

Though pranksters and joke-lovers in many countries now gleefully prepare to dupe friends and loved ones on April Fools' Day, no one knows exactly when or why, or even where, this tradition began.

Yahoo! News

RELIGION

Dutch lawmaker to remove Danish cartoon from anti-Quran film

A Dutch lawmaker whose anti-Quran film drew worldwide condemnations will edit out a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad after complaints of copyright infringement.

Star Tribune

Ted Turner comments on religion

Turner, who once called Christianity a "religion for losers," launched a $200 million partnership with Lutherans and Methodists to fight malaria. Now, he called faith a "bright spot" in the world.

Rocky Mountain News

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