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GOOD NEWS

Brain device for depression tested

It's a new frontier for psychiatric illness: Brain pacemakers that promise to act as antidepressants by changing how patients' nerve circuitry fires.

TIME

Psychiatrists offer free service to troops

Thousands of private counselors are offering free services to troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mental health problems because the military is short on therapists.

Associated Press

WORLD

IAEA says Iran nuclear arms research 'serious concern'

Iran's alleged research into nuclear warheads remains a matter of serious concern and Tehran should provide more information on its missile-related activities, said the U.N. nuclear watchdog.

International Herald Tribune

Iran says IAEA report shows nuclear work peaceful

Reuters

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister resigns over security breach

The Conservative government was shaken to the core after Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier resigned over a security breach involving classified documents.

Globeandmail.com

Peacekeepers 'abusing children'

Children in post-conflict areas are being abused by the very people drafted to help look after them, says Save the Children. The charity proposed an international watchdog be set up.

BBC

Report: Sex abuse by aid workers widespread

MSNBC

BUSINESS

YouTube suit threat to communication

A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its video-sharing site threatens how millions of people exchange information on the Internet.

Yahoo! News

Small businesses crunched by fuel prices

Many U.S. small business owners say soaring fuel costs are eating their profits at a time when the economy is already weak.

Reuters

SPORTS

Disabled groups outraged by Beijing Olympic snub

Disabled groups reacted with outrage to an official guide for assistants at the Beijing Olympic Games that describes them as unsocial, stubborn and defensive.

Times Online

Injury won't sideline banged-up Billups during East finals

Chauncey Billups probably isn't going to be healthy during the Eastern Conference finals. Billups refuses, though, to let his sore right hamstring keep him off the court.

ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA preparing Phoenix dig on Mars

After pulling off a landing on Mars, the team behind the Phoenix mission will begin making sure its equipment is ready to begin searching for the raw ingredients necessary to support life on the planet.

USA Today

Entry, descent and landing

YouTube

New chemicals may beat DEET

The study looks at another approach to find something more potent, but with less worrisome side effects, than DEET.

NPR

EDUCATION

Wake Forest University to drop ACT, SAT

Wake Forest will become the only top-30 national university in the U.S. News & World Report ranking to make the standardized tests optional.

News & Observer

Arkansas to require colleges to ask about immigration status

All Arkansas two-year and four-year colleges and universities must ask potential students if they legally live in the country, said the director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education.

Education Week

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