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Sisters Caycee, left, and Caytie Ribble are reunited with their pets, a cat and a rabbit, in Cedar Rapids, Mo. Their mother and her boyfriend returned to their house through waist-high water for the first time since Wednesday to rescue the animals. (Photo by Seth Wenig / AP)

How Guantanamo backfired on US

An eight-month investigation of the detention system created after Sept. 11 has found that the U.S. imprisoned innocent men, abused them and allowed militants to turn the prison into a school for jihad.

McClatchy Newspapers

Karzai: attacks into Pakistan justified, may send troops

Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened to attack Taliban insurgents on Pakistani soil, saying his war-torn country had a right to do so out of "self-defense."

Agence France-Presse

Unfulfilled promises haunt Afghanistan

BBC

15 militants killed in search for Afghan prisoner escapees

CNN International

Iowa floodwaters soaking Cedar Rapids moving south

The water that is beginning to recede in Cedar Rapids is moving south to Iowa City, where the Iowa River's depth broke a 15-year record.

USA Today

Officials order mandatory evacuation of Des Moines

NPR

In photos: Midwest storms

Yahoo! News

Levees breached in Iowa

CNN

Get Osama Bin Laden before I leave office, orders Bush

President George W. Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before his term in the White House ends.

Times Online

Bush arrives in UK amid huge security operation

Guardian

Free-trade era may be nearing end amid food, growth concerns

After six decades of ever-expanding international commerce, the high tide of free trade is ebbing.

Bloomberg

NATION

3 men face life in plot to train terrorists to kill US troops

Three Toledo-area men were convicted of plotting to recruit and train terrorists to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The case relied on help from an ex-soldier who posed as a radical.

Detroit Free Press

San Diego drivers appreciate Mexico's cheap gas

If there's pain at the pump in the U.S., Mexico may just have a remedy. A gallon of gas a few miles south, in Tijuana, is about $2.54 — less if you pay in pesos.

Yahoo! News

POLITICS

Obscenity-laden e-mail shows Florida delegate fight lingers

After Democrats thought they mostly had put the debacle over Florida's delegates behind them, party faithful are bickering over who will get to attend the national convention at Denver in August.

McClatchy Newspapers

McCain blasts detainee ruling

Republican presidential candidate John McCain denounced the U.S. Supreme Court decision granting broader legal rights to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay as "one of the worst . . . in history."

Philadelphia Inquirer

Obama sends out army of volunteers

Although there are still 143 days left before the election, Obama is to send thousands of campaign volunteers across the U.S. in the hope that he will out-organize his rival John McCain.

Guardian

Black conservatives conflicted on Obama campaign

NPR

SPORTS

Managers would not initiate instant replay under current plan

Major League Baseball is attempting to institute instant replay on home run calls before the end of this season, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

ESPN

Tiger takes Torrey — on one leg

Playing through intense pain from a surgically repaired knee, Tiger Woods' play announced what we already knew: Woods isn't giving up his dance with destiny without a fight to the last.

Golf.com

HEALTH

Children more vulnerable to swimming-related illness

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, children age 10 and younger are more susceptible to sicknesses related to swimming in bacteria-infested water.

Vancouver Sun

Synapses may prove key to brainpower

A cross-species study looking at the interconnections between neurons, known as synapses, reveals a whole new dimension to the evolution of our complex brain overlooked by previous studies.

International Herald Tribune

Wii Fit finding its way into rehab

Wii Fit is being used to rehabilitate injured athletes since it has "great potential" to strengthen the core and increase compliance with rehabilitation exercises.

New Zealand Herald

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Heavy bandwidth users face limits on Internet use

Some people use the Internet simply to check e-mail and look up phone numbers; others are online all day, downloading big video and music files. Should they pay the same price for access?

International Herald Tribune

Using video games in the classroom

Learning how neutrophils attack infection isn't the most gripping topic for your average high school student, but the Federation of American Scientists hopes to change all that — with video games.

ABC News

Ultraviolet glow betrays impending supernova

In the latest in a series of supernova firsts, scientists report that they pinpointed a star that flared in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum for several hours.

Scientific American

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

This old, very expensive, house

If you have $100-million-plus you could own one America’s costliest homes.

MSNBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Compromise in Muslim dispute not working out in Indonesia

Indonesia is bracing for renewed religious violence as a government attempt to be even-handed in a dispute between radical and moderate Muslims has only served to inflame passions.

Vancouver Sun

Camps teach creation science

According to the Christian Camp and Conference Association, 50 percent of its member camps offer a science curriculum about God's creation.

Newsweek

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GOOD NEWS

US teen sailor takes on the world

A 16-year-old from Los Angeles is hoping to become the youngest person to sail round the world alone. Zac Sunderland will make the historic year-long journey in a boat bought with his own savings.

BBC

Explorers find 1780 British warship in Lake Ontario

A sunken British warship that was lost during a gale in 1780 has been found at the bottom of Lake Ontario, making it the oldest shipwreck ever found in the Great Lakes.

Google News

WORLD

More secret documents discovered on London train

A second set of confidential papers on British terrorism policies were found on a train in less than a week, a British newspaper reported.

CNN

New batch of terror files left on train