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People holding pictures of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi demonstrate in support for democracy in Myanmar on the Trocadero plaza in Paris. (Photo by Michael Sawyer / AP)

U.N. peace envoy meets detained leader

Reuters

Unrest in Myanmar

International Herald Tribune

Meeting impact

Yahoo! News

Obama remains stuck in 2nd place

Barack Obama is the campaign rock star, but Hillary Clinton is still the woman to beat. Despite leading all of his rivals in the race for money, Obama is still far back in second place.

NY Daily News

Draft plan reached on North Korean nuclear reactor and fuel plants

Talks on dismantling the North Korean nuclear program broke off for a two-day recess so that delegates could consult their governments on a proposed draft plan.

International Herald Tribune

Iraqi parties denounce splitting country

Iraq's major political parties denounced a U.S. Senate proposal calling for a limited centralized Iraqi government with the bulk of the power given to the country's ethnically divided regions.

San Jose Mercury News

Iraq

Yahoo! News

21.7 million pounds of meat recalled

The Topps Meat Co. expanded its recall of frozen hamburger patties that may be contaminated with the E. coli bacteria and sickened people in eight states.

CBS News

Topps expands beef recall

CNN

Ahmadinejad promises tighter control of Iraq border

Sydney Morning Herald

Teams ramp up search for missing millionaire Steve Fossett

Dozens of searchers set off into the rugged Nevada backcountry after analysts scanning radar and satellite images spotted possible clues to the missing adventurer Steve Fossett's whereabouts.

CNN

NATION

Wounded vets also suffer financial woes

Gamal Awad, the American son of a Sudanese immigrant, exemplifies an emerging group of war veterans: the economic casualties.

Examiner

Wounded soldiers: the price of war

Yahoo! News

Duke president apologizes

Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead apologized for the school’s lack of full support for the three lacrosse players falsely accused last year of raping an escort service dancer.

News & Observer

Ruling could slow the pace of executions

Seattle Times

POLITICS

Gingrich rules out Republican presidential run

Ending months of speculation, former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich said he would not run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

Reuters

Bill Clinton hosts celebs for NYC talk

After getting hundreds of pledges to tackle the world's problems at his philanthropic summit this past week, former President Bill Clinton did what any good host would: He threw a party.

San Jose Mercury News

BUSINESS

Payrolls for September expected to bounce back

The Federal Reserve's next big decision on interest rates is a month away, but we're only days away from the most important economic data on which the Fed will base its decision.

MarketWatch

The power of the sun

The search for renewable-energy sources is making clean-tech jobs hot.

Newsweek

HEALTH

FDA cracks down on cough medicine ingredient hydrocodone

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it intends to take enforcement action against companies marketing unapproved prescription drugs containing hydrocodone.

MarketWatch

6 swimmers die of brain-eating amoeba

It sounds like science fiction but it’s true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.

MSNBC

SPORTS

Efficient Germany tames Brazil to win World Cup

A ruthlessly efficient Germany tamed Brazil to win the World Cup final 2-0 with goals from Birgit Prinz and Simone Laudehr making them the first nation to successfully defend their title.

AFP

Maine's near no-hitter helps Mets stay in playoff race

John Maine flirted with the first no-hitter in Mets history before allowing an infield single to Paul Hoover with two outs in the eighth inning, and New York routed the Florida Marlins 13-0 in a fight-filled game.

ESPN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Women bishops on the way in Australia

The first female Australian bishops could be ordained within a year after the Anglican Appellate Tribunal found there was nothing in the church's constitution to stop their elevation.

The Australian

Group plans rival branch to represent Anglicanism in North America

Bishops from 13 Anglican and Episcopal groups in North America announced that they had formed a partnership as the first step to creating a rival to the Episcopal Church.

Ledger

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GOOD NEWS

First-of-its-kind college consumer information Web site debuts

Potential college students and their parents have gained a new and distinctive resource for exploring and comparing private colleges and universities.

PNN

Report: foundations still giving on the Gulf Coast

Foundations and corporations in the United States committed more than $1 billion in cash and in-kind giving for relief, recovery and rebuilding in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The Nonprofit Times

WORLD

Hurricane Lorenzo hits Mexico, 3 dead

Hurricane Lorenzo crashed into Mexico's Gulf coast, hitting the coastal fishing town of Nautla and killing three people in a mudslide that knocked out power to 85,000 homes.

Environmental News Network

Tropical Storm Melissa whirls in Atlantic

Reuters

Darfur attack kills peacekeepers

An attack on an African Union army base in the Sudanese region of Darfur has killed at least 10 peacekeepers.

BBC

Bomb injures tourists in the Maldives

The Maldives police arrested two men after a homemade bomb exploded in the capital, Male, wounding 12 foreign tourists in the remote Indian Ocean island chain.

International Herald Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Ethanol, schmethanol

Everyone seems to think that ethanol is a good way to make cars greener. Everyone is wrong.

Economist

Bush's EPA pursues fewer criminal cases

The Environmental Protection Agency's pursuit of criminal cases against polluters has dropped off sharply during the Bush administration.

San Francisco Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Winfrey tops Forbes' list of richest celebs on TV

For the third year in a row, talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey took a top spot on a Forbes list of the rich and famous. This year, it is "The 20 Richest Celebrities on Television."

Hollywood Reporter

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Forbes

Lust, caution

After making the definitive gay-cowboy romance in Hollywood history, what do you do next? With "Lust, Caution," protean Taiwanese director Ang Lee does something unexpected and truly daring.

Slate

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Learning to live with Big Brother

Surveillance and privacy: a closer look at the new technologies for collecting personal information, and the dangers of abuse.

Economist

How Sputnik changed the world

Just after the sun set on a nation meeting the Cleavers, many real-life families stepped outside and gazed up at a dark, disturbing reality: A “baby moon” roamed the skies, and it belonged to the Russians.

Kansas City Star

Asia could win next 'Space Race', US scientists fear

Yahoo! News

EDUCATION

Innovative teaching to involve students in science

Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom, a pharmacology professor at Duke University who left the lab bench to focus on science education, created a tactic to keep students' hands in the air at the end of class.

Medical News Today

Girl allegedly stripped at school

Indian authorities have ordered a probe into a incident where a 6-year-old girl was made to strip and stand on her desk in her classroom for not doing her homework.

Independent Online

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