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Lawyers again clashed with police as Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government considered when to hold elections amid growing international pressure to end emergency rule. (Photo by Khalid Tanveer / AP)

Police beat anti-Musharraf protesters

Police in Pakistan used batons and tear gas to push back supporters of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who rallied near the parliament to protest the imposition of martial law.

NPR

With news banned from TV, Pakistanis find it on the Web

Christian Science Monitor

Pakistan election turmoil

CBS News

House Republicans join vote to override Bush veto

Democrats escalated a confrontation with President George W. Bush over federal spending as the House overrode Bush's veto of a popular water projects measure and approved a $215 billion bill.

International Herald Tribune

Afghans mourn victims of suicide attack

Afghans began three days of mourning for 52 people killed in the country's worst suicide attack. The blast has shaken public confidence in the ability of the government to provide security.

Reuters

Afghan bomb funerals

BBC

Weather looks good for shuttle landing

Discovery's astronauts aimed for an early touchdown to end their mission that saved a space station wing and allowed construction to continue at the outpost.

Houston Chronicle

As oil nears $100, look out below

Oil prices are soaring, sparked by bad weather in the North Sea, the dollar's fall, violence in the Middle East, and fears that U.S. crude supplies are low.

BusinessWeek

Oil prices continue to rise

ABC News

Tear gas, water cannon used by police on protestors in Georgia

Georgian riot police used tear gas and a water cannon to disperse thousands of anti-government protestors in the capital Tbilisi, an Agence France-Presse correspondent said.

Forbes

NATION

Congress running out of time to patch the Alternative Minimum Tax

It’s not clear that Congress will pass an annual “patch” in time to prevent the creeping Alternative Minimum Tax from forcing up tax payments for millions of unsuspecting middle-class taxpayers.

McClatchy Newspapers

CPSC acting head defends herself

As concerns grow about potentially deadly toys, Congress is looking for reform, and is leaning on the acting head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission to get it.

WTHR

Pelosi demands resignation of safety chief

NECN

POLITICS

Mukasey nomination moves to full Senate

A U.S. Senate panel cleared Michael B. Mukasey's nomination to be President Bush's third attorney general, setting the stage for confirmation in what will probably be a sharply divided vote.

Bloomberg

Longshot White House hopeful Paul takes in $4.3 million

Republican presidential longshot Ron Paul became an Internet fundraising sensation this week by bringing in $4.3 million in 24 hours through a Web drive by supporters.

Reuters

BUSINESS

General Motors hits $39 billion net loss

General Motors Corp. posted a $39 billion loss, as a charge involving unused tax credits brought an abrupt end to a string of three profitable quarters for the nation’s largest automaker.

MSNBC

Google steals march on mobile rivals

Google's long-awaited cell phone strategy, “Android,” involves an international alliance of more than 30 handset makers and communications companies.

Financial Times

HEALTH

Bayer pulls heart surgery drug

The German pharmaceutical company Bayer has voluntarily suspended worldwide marketing of its heart surgery drug Trasylol following consultation with various country health authorities.

Medical News Today

Age-related worries vary by country

Faced with the prospect of getting older, Germans worry most about losing their memory. The Dutch fear gaining weight, and Thais worry about fading eyesight, according to an international survey.

International Herald Tribune

Aging well: eating right for longevity

WebMD

SPORTS

MLB general managers recommend use of instant replay

General managers recommended for the first time that instant replay be used to help umpires on boundary calls.

Sporting News

Maddux earns 17th Gold Glove

Greg Maddux now stands alone among Rawlings Gold Glove winners after earning his record-setting 17th defensive award.

ESPN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Fmr. Gov. Huckabee: a conservative with a social gospel

The former Arkansas governor and ordained Baptist minister Mike Huckabee speaks the language of Christian Evangelicals, but he's willing to spend more than conservatives would like.

Christian Science Monitor

Senate panel probes 6 top televangelists

Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa is investigating six prominent televangelists for possible financial misconduct.

CBS News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Andrew Sullivan):

Why Obama matters

Atlantic Online

Editorial:

A lazy, simplistic analogy

International Herald Tribune

Column (Jonah Goldberg):

Hollywood overreaches with anti-war films

USA Today

Editorial:

Zip along with shared cars, bikes

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Fred Kaplan):

The freedom agenda fizzles

Slate

Editorial:

Wrong target

Houston Chronicle

Editorial:

Don't take revenge, be happy

Christian Science Monitor

Column:

Licenses, in-state tuition for illegal immigrants?

USA Today

Editorial:

Cut U.S. aid to Musharraf

International Herald Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

8-limbed girl has successful surgery

Doctors in southern India completed a grueling 24-hour operation on a girl born with four arms and four legs that surgeons said will give her a chance at a normal life.

ABC News

Complex surgery explained

CBS News

Miracle dog survives 9 days in car

A dog survived an incredible nine days in the boot of a car by going into hibernation. Distressed owner Tamar Jones feared her dog had been killed or dog-napped after it had disappeared.

Daily Mail

WORLD

'7 killed' in Finnish high school

At least seven people died when a gunman opened fire at a school in southern Finland, hours after a video was posted on the video-sharing Web site YouTube predicting a school massacre.