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Residents wade through a flooded street in Manila following heavy rains brought about by Typhoon Fengshen to the Phillipines. (Photo by Bullit Marquez / AP)

Saudis push for compromise at oil summit

Senior officials from more than 30 nations were gathering at a hastily arranged conference in Saudi Arabia in a bid to find solutions to rocketing oil prices.

Financial Times

Saudi increase oil output to cut prices

CNN

Marines extend stay in Afghan region

U.S. Marines are trading gunfire and artillery shells with Taliban militants in the volatile southern province of Helmand, the world's largest poppy growing region.

MSNBC

Afghan fatalities rise; deadlier than Iraq

CBS News

Marines see progress in Afghanistan

Fox News

Typhoon kills at least 155 in Philippines

Typhoon Fengshen has killed at least 155 people in the Philippines in a torrent of flashfloods and landslides, the head of the Philippines Red Cross, Richard Gordon, told local radio.

MSNBC

More than 700 hundred missing as ferry capsizes in Philippines storm

Times Online

Typhoon Fengshen batters Philippines

YouTube

Worst seen over for Midwest floods, cleanup starts

The worst Midwest flooding in 15 years eased after the swollen Mississippi River crested in St. Louis, but the toll was still rising as billions of dollars in damage to crops and communities were assessed.

Reuters

Floods wipe out US crops

The Independent

Zimbabwe opposition leader pulling out of presidential election

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is pulling out of the presidential runoff because of mounting violence and intimidation, opposition party sources said.

Yahoo! News

NATION

Firefighters wrestle with blazes in Calif.

Thunderstorms sparked as many as 75 wildfires in a wilderness area in far Northern California as officials farther south got close to containing a blaze that forced thousands to evacuate.

NPR

California wildfire nearly contained

YouTube

Inside a 9/11 mastermind's interrogation

The story of an analyst who interrogated Khalid Shaikh Mohammed without harsh tactics offers the closest look to date at the CIA's interrogation program.

International Herald Tribune

Special section:

Profile: key 9/11 suspects

BBC

POLITICS

Ron Paul's Montana supporters refuse to give up

Supporters of Ron Paul were in full force at the Montana GOP convention, failing to shake things up to secure the state's 22 national convention delegates for him.

CNN

Cindy McCain visits charity for cleft palate children in Vietnam

Cindy McCain, wife of the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee John McCain, visited Vietnam with a charity that provides surgery to children born with facial deformities.

Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

NYC getting 'Waterfalls' off shore of Manhattan

"The New York City Waterfalls" designed by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, is the city's largest public project since 2005. It will feature four gigantic waterfalls that pour into the East River and New York Harbor.

Newsday

Study: Having 6,141 friends you don't know may be beneficial

University of Minnesota researchers say they have discovered educational benefits of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

The 'big sort'

Americans are increasingly choosing to live among like-minded neighbours, making the culture war more bitter and politics harder.

Economist

HEALTH

Official warning: Measles endemic in UK

Britain's Health Protection Agency advised that due to the large number of unvaccinated children, measles has become endemic in the country.

The Independent

Anti-vaccine activists vs. Gardasil

Gardasil has been a shot in the arm for Merck, but the drug is coming under increasing fire from anti-vaccine activists who are concerned about the effects of Merck's drug on young girls.

TIME

Parents behaving badly on the sidelines

Have you ever felt like yelling at the referee at your child's soccer game? Researchers say those angry feelings on the sidelines are similar to road rage and can be tied to the size of your ego.

WebMD

ENVIRONMENT

Hunted, rammed, poisoned, whales may die from heartbreak too

More than two decades after the start of a leaky moratorium on whale hunting, the most majestic of sea mammals have made little headway in recovering their once robust populations, say experts.

Yahoo! News

Mississippi River reclaims its natural floodplain

Environmentalists say the relatively rapid repeat of record floods should come as little surprise, adding that squeezing rivers inevitably forces floodwater higher.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Opposition mounts to clean air change affecting parks

Many environmentalists fear the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will adopt a rule that will make it easier to construct power plants that operate on coal near national parks.

Orlando Sentinel

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Teen from faith-healing family dies

A 16-year-old boy whose family relies on faith rather than medical treatment has died after suffering from stomach pain and shortness of breath, police said.

ABC News

Are the Anglicans about to split?

The schism long forecast for the Anglican Communion over the church's liberal stand on homosexuality may be getting closer.

TIME

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GOOD NEWS

$325,000 in grants available to promote literacy in New Jersey

Thanks to Verizon customers who participated in the company's Check Into Literacy program, nonprofit literacy organizations in New Jersey are eligible to receive $325,000 in grants.

PNN

New Board of Trade chairman pushes corporate philanthropy

Canadian Donald Rix, Board of Trade's new chairman, says that Vancouver businesses have to become more philanthropic in order "to be successful over the long term."

Vancouver Sun

WORLD

Female bomber kills 16 near Iraqi government complex

A female suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded 40 when she detonated her explosives in a crowded area of central Baquba, police said.

CNN

Iran presses on with nuclear enrichment

Iran is pressing on with uranium enrichment "non-stop," its envoy to the U.N. nuclear agency said, despite a world powers' offer of economic incentives to coax Tehran into halting such activities.

Reuters

Special section:

Iran and the nuclear issue

BBC

BUSINESS

New crisis threatens healthy banks

Increasing struggles by consumers and businesses to make payments on a variety of loans, not just mortgages, are setting off a new wave of trouble in the financial sector.

MSNBC

US and South Korea strike beef deal

South Korea and the U.S. government have agreed to restrict exports of U.S. beef to products from cattle less than 30 months old, officials said.

International Herald Tribune

SPORTS

Comfort is key, says Trickett

Libby Trickett, an Australian swim champion says that she's tired of the controversy over new-age swimsuits and stresses that athletes should swim in what they feel comfortable wearing.

Daily Telegraph

Sonics attorneys focus on city's 'poisoned well' plan

Attorneys for the Seattle Supersonics disclosed a "poisoned well" plot that allegedly links the city and potential local buyers of the Sonics in a conspiracy to force the owners in Oklahoma City to sell.

Seattle Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Google Trends now works for Web sites

Google Trends, a service Google started two years ago to track searched-for keywords, has unveiled a new tool for inquiring minds looking to find out more on any given site.

Webware

Top sustainable energy prize awarded for energy-efficient stove

An Indian firm has won the top prize for its design of a simple, energy-efficient stove at this year's Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.

VOA

Race on to make home robot

A South Korean robot law that passed earlier this year motivated four of Japan's leading robot startups to team up to prevent South Korea from advancing in the competition to commercialize robots.

New Zealand Herald

EDUCATION

Colleges battling bite of the bedbugs

Universities and colleges nationwide are trying to figure out how to keep the biting insects out of dormitories — no easy task when it comes to creatures that can survive pesticides.

San Jose Mercury News

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