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GOOD NEWS

Homeless couple finds thousands of dollars, turns it in

A homeless Brazilian couple that lives under the bridges of Sao Paulo found a garbage bag filled with $10,000 on a sidewalk — and promptly turned it to the police.

Emirates247

Injured hiker saves rescuer hit by helicopter blades

An Air Force doctor who broke his leg while hiking in Northern California ended up saving the life of one of his rescuers after the man was struck by a helicopter’s rotor blade.

Daily Herald

A fashionista’s India dream: Indrani changes the fate of forgotten girls

Model and photographer Indrani spent her childhood in a 300-room palace in India. She’s turned that ancestral home into a school — and is fighting to give girls a better future.

Daily Beast

WORLD

The search for photos of China’s past

Historical photographs are rare in China, mostly destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. But now, the beautiful country’s pictured past is being reclaimed.

BBC

Time capsule of a country’s past

China Daily

Libyan Islamists refuse to concede poll defeat, condemn tricks

Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood refused to concede defeat at the hands of a U.S.-educated academic and accused opponents of campaign trickery.

Bloomberg

Salvaging the history of South Sudan from dust and termites

The Daily Star

POLITICS

In courting black support, Romney faces familiar barriers

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will make his case to the African-American community, attempting to establish a dialogue with black voters.

CBS News

Mitt Romney defends his finances

Mitt Romney took to the defensive after a series of Democratic attacks on his finances, stating he has no knowledge of the specifics of his holdings because they’re in a blind trust.

CBS News

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Romney helps out at Colorado food bank

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Politicalticker

Obama and Romney ignoring climate change issue

Although climate change is a partisan issue in the U.S., political scientists doubt that an increasing belief in the phenomenon will have an effect on all of the elections in November.

Discovery News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New keyboard layout easy as ABC

We have been using QWERTY since 1878, and now most of us carry it around with us every day in the form of a smartphone. But is it time to end our love affair with the QWERTY keyboard?

The Age

Law and order: Blame it on the brain

Advances in neuroscience could transform our criminal justice systems. But the jury is out as to whether “my brain made me do it” will ever be accepted in court.

BBC

HEALTH

Obesity found in rats consuming sugar solution, study says

New research suggests that not only the amount and type of food eaten but the time of day it is eaten is important in contributing to obesity.

ScienceDaily

Bird flu vaccine now? More than a shot in the dark

Chickens, turkeys and ducks spreading bird flu outbreaks rarely make headlines, but the outbreaks are a worryingly common event as the deadly virus continues its flight across the globe.

Chicago Tribune

A dog a day keeps the doctor away

A new Pediatrics journal study has found that exposure to pets in early life can help prevent infections.

Discovery News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Health care options for the young, healthy and broke

They’re young, healthy, and flat broke, and now the government says they have to buy thousands of dollars of medical insurance. What should tapped-out twenty-somethings do?

Philadelphia Inquirer

‘Breaking Bad’ barrels to a brutal final run

After emerging from the ground with his employer, the meth-cooking high school teacher, played by Bryan Cranston, seems destined to become the kingpin he once loathed as AMC’s “Breaking Bad” returns.

USA TODAY

Viacom nets go dark on DirecTV

Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central, some of the cable channels owned by Viacom, went dark on DirecTV as the companies failed to hammer out a new distribution agreement.

Variety

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