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People hang out around a destroyed house in Kashiwazaki city, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. A 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Japan's northwest coast, killing at least five people. (Photo by Koji Sasahara / AP)

Japanese nuke plant leaks after earthquake

A strong earthquake struck northwestern Japan, causing a radioactive water leak and fire at one of the world's most powerful nuclear power plants and turning buildings into piles of lumber.

CNN

Major quake rocks Japan

ABC News

Expert: Marine may have had brain injury

Repeated exposure to bomb blasts may have impaired the judgment of a Marine corporal charged with kidnapping and murdering an Iraqi civilian, an expert in war-related brain injuries told a military court.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Israel 'is breaking law with Gaza ban'

Telegraph.co.uk

Kirkuk bombs kill at least 85

A suicide truck bomb killed at least 85 people in the volatile Iraqi city of Kirkuk, some of them trapped on a bus where they burned to death, according to a witness.

Reuters

Iraq bombs kill at least 80

BBC

U.S. may be numb to terror threats as real evil lurks

New York Daily News

Cheney pushes Bush to act on Iran

The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favor of military action before President George Bush leaves office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned.

Guardian

Israel detains Darfur refugees in 'prison'

A detention camp in a remote, desert prison complex will hold survivors of the genocide in Darfur who are seeking refuge in Israel.

Telegraph.co.uk

U.N. warns it can no longer afford to feed the world

The United Nations program fighting famine in Africa and other regions said it can no longer afford to feed the 90 million people it has helped for each of the past five years on its budget.

Financial Times

NATION

Somali peace meeting delayed again

Somalia's reconciliation conference has been postponed immediately after opening amid tight security in the capital, Mogadishu.

Al Jazeera

N. Korea claims to have shut down nuclear reactor

North Korea, the secretive, nuclear-armed “hermit kingdom,” claimed that it had shut down the atomic reactor in Yongbyon where it produced plutonium for use in weapons.

Times Online

France stages European Bastille Day festivities

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has led a parade for Bastille Day that was joined for the first time by military contingents from all 27 countries of the European Union.

Sydney Morning Herald

French celebrate Bastille Day

Yahoo! News

POLITICS

Anti-war forces take aim at GOP

Christian Science Monitor

White House threatens children's health insurance veto

The Bush administration said senior advisers would recommend the president veto Senate legislation that would substantially increase funds for children's health insurance.

Houston Chronicle

McCain still steadfast in backing of war

Appealing for patience with the war in Iraq, Sen. John McCain argued that a hasty withdrawal from the 4-year-old effort would lead to greater dangers for the U.S. in years to come.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

BUSINESS

Ford weighs sale of Volvo

Ford Motor is considering the sale of its Swedish-based Volvo car division, a move that would mark the final dismemberment of its luxury car business outside North America.

Financial Times

A reprieve for Web radio

Web radio will keep playing, rather than play dead. The music industry won't impose higher royalty rates, which were to take effect Sunday, but the good news for Webcasters may prove fleeting.

BusinessWeek

SPORTS

Venus Williams beats Petrova, ties Fed Cup between U.S., Russia 1-1

Venus Williams overcame a terrible second set to beat Nadia Petrova 7-6, 0-6, 6-4 and give the United States a split of the opening singles in its Fed Cup semifinal against Russia.

International Herald Tribune

Rasmussen wins eighth stage, takes overall lead from Gerdemann

Michael Rasmussen of Denmark won the eighth stage of the Tour de France to take the overall lead after a second day of grueling climbs in the Alps.

CBS SportsLine

HEALTH

Trimming the waist may trim diabetes, heart risks

People who manage to reduce their waistlines may also lower their risk for diabetes and heart disease, a study suggests.

Reuters

A drug-resistant bacteria breakthrough?

Several common antibiotics are no longer useful in treating some very bad infections. But scientists in North Carolina say they may have at least a partial solution.

CBS News

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GOOD NEWS

'Good cholesterol' may help Alzheimer's

Boosting your levels of good cholesterol might help protect you from Alzheimer's disease, according to a landmark study of older Australians.

Herald Sun

Intel joins $100 laptop cause

The One Laptop Per Child program and Intel said that the chip maker would join the board of the nonprofit and contribute funding.

Forbes

NATION

Cardinal sorry in abuse case

Following a weekend of negotiations and a public apology, Cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, is set to formalize a $660 million settlement for sex abuse cases.

CNN

L.A. diocese apologizes for sex abuse

MSNBC

Praising the poise of Lady Bird Johnson

At Lady Bird Johnson's funeral at the Riverbend Centre church, representatives of first families stretching back half a century came to pay their condolences.

San Jose Mercury News

Texas memorial

Yahoo! News

New York reviving idea to limit cars

New York's mayor remains hopeful he can create congestion pricing to reduce the number of people driving in Manhattan.

Danbury News Times

Can a driver outsmart a traffic jam?

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Governor signs Florida greenhouse gas reduction plan

The Republican governors of California and Florida gave the Bush administration the cold shoulder as they charged ahead on plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Reuters

Coral reef fish need decades to recover

In a long-running study, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and others have found that the fish can recover, but they need lots of time.

Science Daily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Burns adds to war documentary

In the world of PBS, Ken Burns is like a god, so it must have been a shock to the system when Latinos complained that his upcoming World War II opus overlooks their contributions to the war effort.

San Jose Mercury News

Rapper arrested on murder charge

Grammy-nominated rap star Remy Ma has been arrested on charges of attempted murder, police in New York have said.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

View from E3: lines drawn between Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo

This week's video-game convention in Santa Monica, the invitation-only E3 Media and Business Summit, showed the differences between Nintendo and its rivals, Sony and Microsoft.

San Jose Mercury News

Cows get along fine with robot

At a Harford County dairy, an automated system has taken over the time-consuming job of milking.

Baltimore Sun

EDUCATION

California's students get into college, but not always out

For most of history, higher education has been reserved for a tiny elite. For a glimpse of a future where college is open to all, visit California — the place that now comes closest to that ideal.

USA Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Last Rites in the Holy Land?

According to the World Council of Churches, the Middle East's Christian population has plunged from 12 million to 2 million in the past 10 years.

Newsweek

Sect leader indicted on sexual conduct with minor, incest charges

Polygamist sect leader Warren Steed Jeffs, who is awaiting trial in southern Utah, was charged with eight additional felony counts from Arizona in two separate cases, authorities said.

CNN

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