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A supporter of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is taken away by Pakistani police in front of a barbed-wire barricade outside of her home in Islamabad. (Photo by Wally Santana / AP)

Md. prison to release George Wallace shooter

Arthur H. Bremer, who has spent the past 35 years behind bars for shooting and paralyzing former Alabama Gov. George Wallace in 1972, was scheduled to be released from prison.

Baltimore Sun

George Wallace shot in 1972

WJZ

U.S. frees 450 Iraqis

U.S. authorities in Iraq have freed 450 Iraqi prisoners in one of the largest such releases this year. The men were released following a ceremony at Camp Victory on the outskirts of Baghdad.

Al Jazeera

U.S. frees nine Iranians in Iraq

CNN

Suicide attack in Afghanistan killed 59 schoolchildren

A suicide attack in northern Afghanistan this week killed 59 schoolchildren and wounded 96 others, the Education Ministry said. The children were lined up to greet a group of visiting lawmakers.

International Herald Tribune

Pakistan: Bhutto under house arrest

Pakistani police placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest, uncoiling barbed wire in front of her Islamabad home and reportedly rounding up 5,000 of her supporters.

ABC News

Bhutto addresses supporters

BBC

Merck agrees to pay $4.85 billion in Vioxx drug settlement

The maker of the painkiller Vioxx has agreed to pay $4.85 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits in one of the largest civil cases ever, according to reports.

Yahoo! News

Brazil announces new oil reserves

The Brazilian government says huge new oil reserves discovered off its coast could turn the country into one of the biggest oil producers in the world.

BBC

Senate confirms Mukasey as AG

The Senate confirmed retired judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general to replace Alberto Gonzales, who was forced from office in a scandal over his handling of the Justice Department.

MSNBC

Failing to serve America's heroes

Americans answering appeals to help wounded veterans have donated more than $464 million to charities that have received a failing grade in a new report card from a watchdog group.

ABC News

Better treatment for veterans

CBS News

NATION

'Race' signs hung over water fountain

The handmade signs were only posted on the wall at Hightower High School in Missouri City, Texas, for a matter of minutes, but many here feel that being posted for only a matter of seconds is far too long.

ABC13

'Race' signs hung over high school fountains

CNN

Ex-NYC police commissioner Kerik indicted for conspiracy

Bernard Kerik, the former police commissioner under New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, was accused in a 16-count federal indictment by prosecutors for fraud, tax evasion and lying.

Bloomberg

Kerik faces the music

WCBS

Can Florida's tax revolt stay alive?

When Florida lawmakers gathered to overhaul a tax system that critics claimed had run amok, they weren't modest in their professed goals: nothing less than a property tax revolution.

TIME

POLITICS

Immigrants in detention

Responding to a high risk of immigration law violators vanishing before they can be deported, the government is putting thousands behind bars in facilities public and private, even town jails.

Baltimore Sun

Justice Department returns to enforcing voter laws

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is reversing course and has begun taking steps to enforce a 1993 law that's intended to make it easier for poor minorities to register to vote.

McClatchy Newspapers

BUSINESS

Trade gap narrowed in September

The U.S. trade deficit fell to the lowest level in 28 months as a falling dollar spurred U.S. exports to an all-time high.

BusinessWeek

British Airways staff shortage

British Airways was forced to cancel some flights, including one transatlantic service, due to staff shortages.

ITN

BA transatlantic flights grounded

Marketplace

HEALTH

Relationship between environmental stress and cancer elucidated

Science Daily

Drug-resistant tuberculosis could lead to global disaster

The world is at risk of a tuberculosis crisis if killer drug-resistant strains of the disease are not contained, a senior World Health Organization official warned.

MSNBC

SPORTS

Kyle Busch aims for a 1-2-3 sweep

Given how a potentially good run had quickly spoiled in a matter of laps at Atlanta last month, few would've begrudged Kyle Busch a day or two to brood over a 20th-place finish.

USA Today

Michael Jordan to son: Don't be like Mike

His last name is Jordan and his father’s first name is Michael, which means that when Jeff Jordan takes the court as a freshman with the University of Illinois basketball team, all eyes will be on him.

MSNBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Cloistered nuns reach far via Internet

The "Pink Sisters," who seldom leave the Convent of God's Love in Philadelphia, will receive a national award for their "cutting-edge" ways and their "insightful use of technology."

Philadelphia Inquirer

The creation museum

A $27 million museum that counters the Big Bang and Darwin's theory of evolution with exhibits based on the Bible's book of Genesis was recently unveiled in Petersburg, Ky.

Beliefnet

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GOOD NEWS

Carnegie Museum celebrates 100 years

This year, the Carnegie Museum of Art's Hall of Architecture is celebrating its centennial, and an exhibit focusing on the museum's extensive collection is drawing attention to this art form.

Associated Press

$1 million painting found in trash

WCBS

2 meerkat kits draw curious crowds at California zoo

Two meerkat babies are the newest buzz at San Jose's Happy Hollow Park and Zoo, where visitors are doing whatever they can to catch a glimpse of the nearly 4-week-old kits.

San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

Aung San Suu Kyi 'optimistic' over U.N.-backed talks

The detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is "very optimistic" about the U.N.-promoted process for reconciliation between the military junta and pro-democracy forces.

Guardian

Suu Kyi meets party members

BBC

Dozens of corpses litter Mogadishu after battles with insurgents

Corpses lay on Mogadishu streets as Ethiopian forces backed by tanks and artillery fought Islamist-led insurgents in a new round of fighting that has killed more than 40 people.

Canada.com

Chavez meets with FARC representative

President Hugo Chavez met with a representative of Colombia's largest guerrilla group, saying they are attempting to negotiate a swap of rebel-held hostages for jailed guerrillas.

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

Seawater treatment plants could combat climate change

The seas themselves might be modified to combat global warming by absorbing climate-altering carbon dioxide from the air, research now reveals.

LiveScience

Massive oil slick shuts down miles of California shoreline

Oil that leaked from a cargo ship that collided with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has washed up on beaches as far as 40 miles north of San Francisco, the Coast Guard said.

KTVU

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

WGA strike enters fourth day

With the writers strike now in its fourth day, WGA West president Patric Verrone's insisting that he wants to get back to the bargaining table.

Variety

Picketers hit the Disney studios

KCAL

O.J. Simpson back in court over Vegas robbery case

O.J. Simpson, surrounded by a contingent of lawyers and about a dozen uniformed officers, looked stoic as he arrived at a Las Vegas courthouse for a pretrial hearing on armed robbery charges.

San Jose Mercury News

O.J. in Las Vegas court

Yahoo! News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Progress on 'collapsing' beehives

Some warned of crop disaster when honeybees started to disappear. Crops didn't fail, but farmers and beekeepers aren't out of danger yet.

Christian Science Monitor

New dandruff research head & shoulders above the rest

The genetic code of a fungus that causes dandruff has been discovered, which should lead to more effective ways to eliminate dandruff and maintain a clean head of hair.

iTWire

EDUCATION

School girls who got detention for hugging decry ban

Leery of being sued under laws that make schools liable for not stopping sexual harassment between students, some schools have declared their campuses to be no-hug zones.

MSNBC

School detention for hugging

CNN

Students in developing nations learn a lot thanks to small loans

Microloans, often used to help small businesses, are now helping private schools in Ghana and elsewhere.

Christian Science Monitor

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