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British police officers cordon off a street in Birmingham, England after counter-terrorism police arrested suspected terrorists in pre-dawn raids. Eight men are accused of planning a kidnapping and committing, preparing or instigating terrorism. (Photo by Simon Dawson / AP)

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British police raids target 'terror plot,' arrest nine

Nine people have been arrested in Birmingham under the Terrorism Act, after a "significant" operation involving police and the British security service MI5.

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BBC

Ex NYTimes reporter contradicts Libby

A former New York Times reporter testified that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told her the identity of a CIA operative weeks before Libby told investigators he had learned of the agent's identity.

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CNN

More vigorous Castro seen in video

Fidel Castro said his recovery from an intestinal ailment was "far from a lost battle" as state television showed a video of him meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

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International Herald Tribune

General: U.S. has proof Iran is arming Iraq militias

The U.S. has proof that Iran is supplying Iraqi militias with a variety of weapons, including Katyusha rockets, the No. 2 U.S. general in Iraq said.

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USA Today

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Pentagon stops F-14 parts sales to Iran

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MSNBC

Padilla terror count reinstated by court

A federal appeals court reinstated the most serious terrorism charge against accused Al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla, overturning an earlier lower court decision.

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Chicago Tribune

Investigators: Millions in Iraq reconstruction aid wasted

The U.S. government wasted tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction aid, including scores of unaccounted-for weapons and a never-used camp for housing police trainers.

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Yahoo! News

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U.S. may have botched training of Iraqis

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U.S. News & World Report

NYSE, Tokyo exchange announce alliance

The New York Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange announced an alliance that could point the world's two largest financial markets toward an eventual combination.

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Forbes

NATION

Palestinian truce holds despite sporadic attacks

A ceasefire between the governing Hamas movement and the once-dominant Fatah faction largely held in the Gaza Strip for a second day, despite sporadic incidents of violence.

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Reuters

Norwegian cruise is stranded in Antarctic

Nearly 300 passengers, including 119 Americans, were awaiting rescue from a Norwegian cruise ship that ran aground off a remote Antarctic island, damaging its hull.

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Day

Russia piracy crackdown targets the little guy

When high school principal Alexander Ponosov took delivery of 16 computers, he must have felt it was a big accomplishment for a tiny village school — except that what he was doing was criminal.

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CBS

POLITICS

Chairman: Bush officials misled public on global warming

The Democratic chairman of a House panel said there is evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought repeatedly "to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming."

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CNN

Does Congress have power to stop war?

A panel of constitutional scholars said that Congress clearly has the power, if it chooses to use it, to stop the war in Iraq.

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Army Times

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Democrats' budget ups student aid, cuts foreign aid

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SPORTS

Super Bowl: Show me the money

Like the Olympic Games and World Cup, the U.S. football championship is a big-money game, the apex of ostentatious wealth, held this year in one of America's poorest cities.

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Reuters

Kobe suspended vs. Knicks

Kobe Bryant was so angered by his one-game suspension, he asked NBA commissioner David Stern to convene an immediate appeal hearing, but his request was quickly denied by the league.

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ESPN

HEALTH

France takes step toward smoking ban

Part one of a French ban on smoking in public places takes effect this week, setting the clock ticking for smoke-filled cafes and bars that have until next January to kick the habit.

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Yahoo! News

One in four natural births causes brain hemorrhage

Giving birth naturally increases the risk of minor brain hemorrhages in newborn babies, according to a study.

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MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sweden opens virtual embassy in Second Life

Sweden is to be the first country to open up diplomatic relations with the online community by setting up a virtual embassy in Second Life.

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Spiegel

Hubble telescope loses its most popular camera

NASA announced Monday that its key instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope, the Advanced Camera for Surveys, has become unusable because of an electrical short circuit.

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International Herald Tribune

EDUCATION

Spitzer plan would tie education funds to school performance

Gov. Eliot Spitzer introduced a series of what he called "Contracts for Excellence" as a way to improve public schools in New York state and the education they are providing students.

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Business Review

School to test for students' weekend drinking

Teens who drink alcohol could be caught three days later under a high school's new testing policy for students.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Politics still going strong on YouTube

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Center for Media and Democracy

A victory, of sorts

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Economist

Global economy: Uneasy statistics

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Hysteria at Herzliya

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Rea Clear Politics

Coverage should be priority for Bush

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San Jose Mercury News

President Bush was unqualified to run the country, just as Obama is now

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Chicago Tribune

See no dissent, call it science

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San Francisco Chronicle

This is Miami, Senor Tancredo

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Denver Post

Celebrity 'rehab' clinics are a joke

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Michigan Journal

Greed doesn't explain high salaries of CEOs

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Pasadena Star-News

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GOOD NEWS

Paris to roll out free bicycles

Paris City Hall announced it has selected French outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux SA to operate a new free bicycle service in the capital.

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Happy News

Babies born along the highway

Chad Williams was just trying to catch up on a little paperwork while parked on a freeway offramp near Boeing Field, when a man leapt from his sport utility vehicle and flagged him for help.

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NATION

Astronauts begin first of three spacewalks

Astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams started the first of three spacewalks over a nine-day period outside the international space station.

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Houston Chronicle

Sheriff's wife among four dead in shooting

Investigators are trying to determine why two people shot and killed a sheriff's wife and a deputy before officers killed the suspects at the sheriff's home.

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Yahoo! News

Wife found guilty in poisoning death of Marine husband

A California woman was convicted of poisoning her Marine husband with arsenic to cash in his $250,000 life insurance policy and pay for breast implants and a party lifestyle.

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San Diego Union-Tribune

BUSINESS

U.S. economy grows faster than expected

The U.S. economy grew at a faster- than-forecast annual pace of 3.5 percent last quarter, propelled by a rebound in consumer spending as gasoline prices fell and wages grew.

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Bloomberg

Oil rises most in 16 months on cold weather, economic growth

Crude oil surged to its biggest gain in 16 months on speculation that colder weather and an improving economy will spur U.S. fuel consumption.

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Bloomberg

PlayStation 3 losses weigh down Sony

Sony has suffered a 5 percent fall in quarterly net profit as PlayStation 3 losses outweighed a pre-Christmas recovery in its struggling consumer electronics and mobile phone operations.

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Times Online

ENVIRONMENT

Best-selling author Sidney Sheldon dies

Sidney Sheldon, who won awards in three careers — Broadway theater, movies, television — then at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels, has died. He was 89.

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MSNBC

Black leaders cry foul on Brandy manslaughter charges

Black civil rights leaders in Los Angeles are laying claim that the California Highway Patrol has made Brandy "a political trophy," and is unfairly targeting her.

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Monsters and Critics

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Feds to take wolves off endangered list

Once hunted to near extinction, gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region and the northern Rocky Mountains have rebounded so successfully they no longer need federal protection, officials said.

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Boston Globe

Algae may fuel our future

U.S. biochemistry scientists at Utah State University are using an innovative approach that takes oil from algae and converts it to biodiesel fuel.

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Monsters and Critics

USDA seeks land reserve of 6,250 acres in Arkansas

Officials will spend $9.4 million to enroll up to 6,250 acres of land in northeast Arkansas into a program to restore hardwood forests, boost animal populations and improve the environment.

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Reuters

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

He calls himself God

A Puerto Rican minister says Christ 'integrated' with him. Others call him a cult leader and a charlatan.

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Newsweek

Rabbi's legacy of spirituality and activism is guiding light

This year at the centennial of Rabbi Heschel's birth, Jews and gentiles alike are remembering him as one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century, and also as an enduring role model.

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USA Today

IN DEPTH

Islam and the West: What's the real difference

Gudrun Krämer examines current and historical causes behind conflicts and misunderstandings between the West and Islam.

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Spiegel International

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Boy gets rare shot of California condor

A 5-year-old boy has taken a photograph of what experts say may be the first California condor to fly in Topanga Canyon's skies in more than a century.

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CBS News

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A boy rows his boat through River Ganges polluted with offerings of flowers and food cast into the water by pilgrims during the Ardh Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)

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