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A poster of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf hung up over his effigy is burned by lawyers during a rally in Multan, Pakistan. (Photo by Khalid Tanveer / AP)

Russia tightens grip in Georgia

Although Russia pledged to begin withdrawing its forces from Georgia, U.S. officials said that the Russian military is moving launchers for short-range ballistic missiles into South Ossetia.

International Herald Tribune

Scant sign of Russian withdrawal

Al Jazeera

Russia blamed for Georgia forest fires

BBC

Fay skims Cuba, moves toward Florida

Tropical Storm Fay spared Havana as it sped across Cuba's Bay of Pigs and took aim at Florida. Forecasters said it could likely reach hurricane strength before hitting the U.S. mainland.

CBS News

Fay hits Dominican Republic

CNN

Musharraf will resign

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation after weeks of pressure to relinquish power — nearly nine years after he seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999.

CNN

Key moments for Musharraf

BBC

Hundreds flee after dam break near Grand Canyon

A rain-soaked earthen dam near the Grand Canyon broke, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of residents from a flooded village in a downstream Indian reservation, a National Park Service spokeswoman said.

Reuters

Corporations use a legal tax loophole that costs US treasury $20 billion a year

Many corporations drastically reduce their tax liability to the federal government through a perfectly legal practice known as transfer pricing, costing the treasury more than $20 billion a year.

ABC News

Dollar falls against yen, euro before housing, inflation data

The dollar fell from a seven-month high versus the yen and the euro, anticipating U.S. government housing and inflation reports that suggests the Federal Reserve will delay raising interest rates.

Bloomberg

NATION

US pushes to expand icebreaker fleet

American military leaders, Arctic experts and lawmakers say the U.S. is losing its ability to patrol and safeguard Arctic waters.

International Herald Tribune

Special section:

How much will that trip cost you?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Calif. base homes to be demolished

A Travis Air Force Base spokeswoman says a wind-fueled fire destroyed or damaged at least 230 vacant homes at the Fairfield facility, nearly three times as many as originally thought.

San Jose Mercury News

Forces align against Republicans in Senate races

With President Bush's low ratings, fewer Republicans signing up to vote, and voters gravitating toward Democrats, the GOP is bracing for defeats in that will expand Democrats' majority in the Senate.

Newsweek

POLITICS

Congress to vote on drilling ban

Nearly 40 years after some 80,000 barrels of oil washed up on the beaches of Santa Barbara and launched a move to ban offshore drilling, Congress is heading toward a vote to end that moratorium.

Christian Science Monitor

Time running out for candidates to make US vice president pick

Time is running out for presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain to name their running mates with their respective conventions approaching, the Democrats in Denver and Republicans in St. Paul, Minn.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Retailers may get schooled this season

Retailers, struggling in one of the most difficult economic environments in recent memory, are hoping to salvage what's been a pretty dismal year.

MarketWatch

How to lure Gen Y workers? Do good

Young people entering the job market today want to work for companies that care about the world, and employers are picking up on this trend.

CNNMoney

Qwest, unions extend labor negotiations past deadline

Qwest Communications International Inc., the third-largest U.S. local phone company, and two unions extended a deadline on labor contract talks to avert a strike of more than half its employees.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Jump on agritourism wave on a farm

It's a chance to spend a night or two on a working farm or ranch and enjoy the comforts of an inn or guest home while you learn about your hosts' approach to agriculture.

San Jose Mercury News

Lost whale intrigues Germany

Germans have been treated to the rare sight of a lone and wayward humpback whale swimming in the Baltic Sea, but marine biologists said it may be doomed.

TIME

More photos of an unusual visitor

Spiegel International

EDUCATION

Study: Suicidal thoughts 'common' among college students

A comprehensive study of suicidal thinking among college students found more than half of the 26,000 surveyed had suicidal thoughts at some point during their lifetime.

USA Today

Students face a hit as private college loans dry up

A retreat by private-sector lenders from the market for education loans is threatening to keep thousands of students out of college in the coming academic year.

Kansas City Star

Paying for college: Where to go for a loan

News & Observer

HEALTH

The good mood diet

Studies have shown that snacking on readily digested carbohydrates, can raise the brain's level of the chemical serotonin, the very same target of modern antidepressant medication.

WebMD

Moisturizers spur skin cancer in mice

Common moisturizing creams helped skin cancers spread and tumors grow in mice exposed to UV radiation, researchers at Rutgers University reported.

BusinessWeek

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GOOD NEWS

Teaching through technology

Chicago Heights is investing more than $200,000 in the high-tech equipment as part of a strategy to teach through technology.

Neighborhood Star

World food crisis spurs $17.6M grant from Gates Foundation

Citing rising costs for food across the world, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is granting $17.6 million to nonprofits in response to the crisis.

Portland Business Journal

WORLD

Baghdad suicide blast kills 15

A suicide bombing killed 15 people, including a leader of a U.S.-backed militia, and wounded nearly 30 others in a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad, Iraqi authorities said.

CNN

Sudanese court sentences 8 rebels to death over capital attack