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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks in Raleigh, N.C., after winning the North Carolina Democratic presidential primary. (Photo by Gerry Broome / AP)

Aid arriving in cyclone-hit Burma

Foreign aid is beginning to arrive in Burma, devastated by a cyclone that left more than 22,000 people dead.

BBC

Editorial:

Burma's Katrina moment

Christian Science Monitor

Burmese prisoners 'executed after cyclone hit'

Telegraph.co.uk

Philadelphia police chief 'disappointed' by officers' actions

Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey expresses his disappointment with the police officers' beating of three suspects.

Philadelphia Daily News

Ramsey: Police beating 'certainly does not look good'

WTFX

Obama nears finish line, but can Clinton rebound?

Sen. Barack Obama not only scored a convincing victory in North Carolina, but he also made Hillary Clinton's path to the nomination even more difficult by finishing closely behind her in Indiana.

CNN

Race crucial, but Wright's impact mixed

NPR

FBI raids Bush official's office

FBI agents raided the D.C. offices of Scott Bloch. The Office of Special Counsel was created to protect whistle-blower rights and investigate improper political activity by government employees.

ABC News

OPEC to earn over $1 trillion from oil exports according to estimate

OPEC members will likely earn over $1 trillion from oil exports due to crude oil prices.

Globeandmail.com

Clashes as strike grips Lebanon

Explosions and gunfire rang out across the Lebanese capital Beirut as opposition supporters held a one-day general strike calling for higher pay.

BBC

NATION

US drops charges against alleged '20th hijacker' in September 11 attacks

The United States has dropped charges against the alleged "20th hijacker" in the September 11th, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.

Voice of America

3,500 US soldiers head home from Iraq despite increase in recent attacks

Times Online

Georgia death row inmate executed

A man in the U.S. state of Georgia is the first convict to be executed since lethal injection was ruled constitutional.

BBC

POLITICS

Cheney's chief of staff subpoenaed

A House of Representatives committee has subpoenaed Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff as part of its investigation into the treatment of suspected terrorists.

CNN

McCain courts blue-collar Democrats

With the other party still waist-deep in its presidential nomination fight, John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, has been quietly courting the support of white working-class Democrats.

Christian Science Monitor

McCain lambastes judicial activism

The Hill

Blog:

Did McCain vote for Bush?

Atlantic Online

BUSINESS

Sprint, Clearwire to build national Wi-Max wireless network

Sprint and Clearwire are building a "WiMax" wireless network to provide advanced wireless Internet services.

USA Today

Analyst warns of oil at $200 a barrel

Crude oil prices could surge to $200 a barrel in the next two years, according to the Goldman Sachs analyst who three years ago correctly predicted a price “super-spike” above $100 a barrel.

Financial Times

SPORTS

Celtics hold James to 12 points to edge Cavs in Game 1

LeBron James couldn't make a basket down the stretch and the Boston Celtics eked out a 76-72 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

San Francisco Chronicle

Ex-Vikings D-lineman Scott charged with domestic assault

Darrion Scott was charged with assault for holding a plastic dry cleaning bag over his 2-year-old son's head.

CBS SportsLine

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Apple strikes first non-exclusive iPhone deals in Italy

Two mobile service providers, U.K.-based Vodafone and Telecom Italia, reached separate deals with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone in Italy.

Computerworld

Yahoo search to 'battle spyware'

Yahoo is introducing new technology to its search engine which will warn users if they are about to click on a website that hosts viruses, spyware and spam.

BBC

EDUCATION

LA school district removes 2 administrators over sex case

The L.A. school district has removed two senior administrators as part of its investigation into how an employee was transferred to a middle school despite facing sexual misconduct allegations.

San Jose Mercury News

American and German students take cross-ocean class on the Holocaust

Students at Vassar College in the U.S. and the University of Potsdam in Germany share ideas and cultural differences on Germany's "darkest hour".

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Costa Rica plants more trees to become carbon neutral

Costa Rica will plant seven million trees in 2008 to soak up as many greenhouse gas emissions as it produces, in a bid to become the world's first carbon neutral nation, a top official said.

Yahoo! News

Scientists find something good about a big bottom

A type of fat that accumulates around the hips and bottom may actually offer some protection against diabetes, U.S. researchers said.

Reuters

WORLD

Japan, China leaders to take up oil rights, climate change in talks

Visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao met Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in summit talks that were expected to address long-disputed oil and gas rights in the East China Sea as well as climate change.

Monsters and Critics