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A U.S. Marine and an Afghan soldier sit against a wall during a break in a foot patrol in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. Ten years have passed since the attack of Sept. 11, 2001 led the United States to wage war in Afghanistan. (Photo by Brennan Linsley / AP)

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to 3 women

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to three women: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman of Yemen.

BBC

Blog:

A Nobel Peace Prize for the Arab Spring?

The two-way (NPR)

Top 10 Nobel Prize controversies

TIME

Brutal winter predicted for US

The AccuWeather.com Long-Range Forecasting Team is predicting another brutally cold and snowy winter for a large part of the country, thanks in large part to La Nina ... yet again.

Scientific American

War in Afghanistan: a decade-long fight

The counterinsurgency strategy that a coalition of nations rallied behind, relies on Afghans standing up for themselves against their former overlords and terrorists.

USA TODAY

Special section:

10 years in Afghanistan: how the country has changed

Guardian

A decade of war in Afghanistan

Telegraph.co.uk

Merkel-Sarkozy divided on Greek default

Whether to allow Greece to default and how to manage the fallout may finally require answers as European officials turn to fortifying banks and consider ways of easing Greece’s debt load.

Bloomberg

‘This has destroyed us’: Near-daily protests cripple Greece

MSNBC

Job gains ease recession fears but unemployment stuck at 9.1 percent

Employers hired more workers than expected in September and job gains for the prior two months were revised higher, easing recession fears.

Reuters

Job training grows for transgender workers

Daily Herald

NATION

Need of prostate cancer screenings for men questioned

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force will soon recommend that men not get screened for prostate cancer, according to a source privy to the task force deliberations.

CNN

Blog:

Answering questions about the P.S.A. test

Well (New York Times)

Obama says his jobs bill could prevent double-dip recession

President Barack Obama directly challenged Republicans to explain their opposition to his new jobs bill, arguing the $447 billion package could prevent a double-dip recession.

MSNBC

Blog:

Obama to Congress: Pass my jobs bill — or explain yourself

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

POLITICS

‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters disgusted with both parties

Although their main concern is Wall Street practices and economic inequality, some demonstrators in New York and across the U.S. say politicians from both major parties are to blame.

ABC News

GOP congressman: Wall Street protests are ‘attack upon freedom’

(The Hill)

Hill Tube

Leon Panetta: The Pentagon’s unlikely protector criticizes budget cuts

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived at the Pentagon as a man who matched the times, a shrewd insider Democrats viewed as possessing the will and the weight to tame the sprawling defense budget.

Politico

BUSINESS

Mortgage rates at all-time lows, but very few qualify

Mortgage rates hit historic lows, falling below 4 percent for the first time since Freddie Mac started keeping track in 1971.

San Francisco Chronicle

Key regulator calls for limits on speculation in commodities markets

Having failed to impose congressionally mandated limits on excessive speculation in commodities markets, a key regulator called for temporary limits on commodity futures investments.

McClatchy Newspapers

China ploughs a new corn furrow

The world‘s major seed companies are trying to outrun skepticism and bad economics to dominate the world’s seed supply with expensive proprietary products.

Asia Times Online

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Astronomers: Crab Nebula’s powerful beams ‘jaw-dropping’

When astronomers detected intense radiation pumping out of the Crab Nebula, one of the most studied objects in space, they were nothing short of stunned.

MSNBC

Canadian satellite malfunction leaves thousands without communications

A satellite malfunction left thousands of people across parts of rural northern Canada without communications services and grounded dozens of flights, according to Canadian press reports.

SPACE.com

Rare flame brocade moth is established in the UK

The charity Butterfly Conservation says that the rare moth typically found in the Mediterranean has become established in the south coast of England.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Jews and Latinos seek common ground

It was billed as a broad coming together of two of Los Angeles’ most important ethnic communities: a recent “summit” between Jewish and Latino groups.

Forward

On Yom Kippur, Jews split on which shoes to choose

It is a delicate debate: To wear or not to wear leather when the Talmud — the ancient commentary on Jewish law — expressly forbids wearing leather on the most sacred day of the Jewish year.

Religion News Service

ENVIRONMENT

Monkeys learned to ‘move and feel’ objects using their brains

Monkeys trained at Duke’s Center for Neuroengineering learned to employ brain activity alone to move an avatar hand and identify the texture of virtual objects.

ScienceDaily

Is thorium the future of nuclear?

With the nuclear industry in a bit of a post-Fukushima funk right now, advocates of clean energy are saying that the metal thorium can be used as an alternative to fossil fuels.

Discovery News

Plants may have genetic flexibility to respond to climate change

In the face of climate change, animals have an advantage over plants: They can move. But a new study led by Brown University researchers shows that plants may have some tricks of their own.

ScienceDaily

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Nita Lowey):

International family planning saves lives. So why is the GOP cutting it?

Grist

Column (Yu Yongding):

The ‘asset crisis’ of emerging economies

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

Steve Jobs remains a visionary for the ‘regular guy’

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Louis Klarevas):

Locked up abroad: what Americans need to know

Star Tribune

Column (Zoltan Grossman):

Why recognize Kosovo but not Palestine?

Al Jazeera

Column (David Wiley):

Winning the battle against teen pregnancy starts with adults

Houston Chronicle

Column (Libby Copeland):

Sarah Palin’s improbable gift to women

Slate

Blog (Nicholas Thompson):

The next Steve Jobs (and the last one)

(The New Yorker)

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GOOD NEWS

US troops increase military aid to Mexico in drug war

Extensive training of the Mexican marines is one of several ways in which the U.S. military machine has quietly escalated its role in Mexico’s ultraviolent drug war in the past two years.

NPR

Mobile schools bring learning to low-income kids

If students can’t get to school, school must come to them. That’s the idea behind a UNICEF-sponsored project in New Delhi that’s turning old school buses into mobile classrooms.

GOOD

Christmas comes early: Zappos hires 1,000s in Ky.

Some of the most relieved workers in America are at the Zappos distribution center in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. Relief is finding a job in a town where the unemployment rate is 10.3 percent.

CBS News

WORLD

Libya at a standstill until Sirte falls