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GOOD NEWS

Political prisoner, detained in 1973, finally returns home to Chile

A man detained in 1973 during Chile's "dirty war" and declared dead in 1995 showed up in his old hometown very much alive, a Santiago human rights group announced.

CNN

Famed Lincoln letter found in Texas

A Texas museum hopes a document found in its archives turns out to be an authentic copy of Abraham Lincoln's eloquent letter consoling a mother thought to have lost five sons in the Civil War.

CBS News

WORLD

UN confirms DR Congo pullback

United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed that rebel fighters have started withdrawing around two eastern towns.

Al Jazeera

UN head fears over Gaza blockade

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert he is deeply concerned about humanitarian conditions in the blockaded Gaza Strip.

BBC

Hu signs China-Cuba trade deals

China's president has signed a range of trade deals with Cuba and pledged millions of dollars in aid to the Caribbean nation as it struggles to recover from the impact of three hurricanes.

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

NYSE may de-list Fannie Mae stock

The New York Stock Exchange notified Fannie Mae that its stock failed to satisfy price-related requirements, and may lose its listing on the exchange.

CNNMoney

Shelby favors changing automaker management teams

The senior Republican on the Banking Committee said he doesn't believe there will be a turnaround in the auto industry until it revamps manufacturing operations.

Yahoo! Finance

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Supercomputers transforming science

The latest crop of supercomputers is breaking speed barriers and pushing high-performance computing into previously unimagined realms.

Wired

World wide tangled web

The spiders found on the space station are welcome guests, though one of them is missing at the moment.

ABC News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Italian nuns refuse to carry out court order in 'right-to-die' case

Despite a court order, a hospice in Milan has refused to discontinue life support for Eluana Englaro, a disabled woman whose father won legal permission to end her life.

LifeSiteNews.com

Leading the black church: Can it be a woman’s place?

Black women activists say change is long overdue for equality in their church.

Religion News Service

ENVIRONMENT

Dow CEO calls for comprehensive US energy policy

Dow Chemical Co. called on the incoming administration to implement a new national energy policy.

Reuters

Environmental leaders to meet as emissions rise

Emissions from industrialized countries reached a peak in 2006 after six years of growth, the United Nations said.

San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

Risk of lung, other cancers soars for people living with HIV

Twenty-five years ago, an AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence. Now that patients with the AIDS virus live longer, doctors are discovering a new complications.

Baltimore Sun

Woman gets unique trachea transplant

A Colombian woman received the world's first tailor-made trachea transplant grown from her own stem cells to prevent her body from rejecting it.

Reuters

Woman gets windpipe transplant

BBC

Photo of the Day

Astronaut Stephen Bowen maneuvers down the cargo bay of the space shuttle Endeavour to store an empty nitrogen tank in the shuttle's cargo bay. (Photo by NASA TV / AP)

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