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Incredible photo, plus article "Lax safety in Congo makes river travel dangerous"

EU money helps Roma get jobs and fight stereotypes

AP: In addition to success stories, "US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq "

'Pregnant nun' ice cream ad faces ban in Catholic outcry

Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons

China bets future on inland cities

Court orders 'Bookseller of Kabul' author Aasne Seierstad to pay damages

BP chief executive Tony Hayward will walk away with a payoff of up to 18.5 million dollars

Gadget makers forced to look at links to Congo war

Women's empowerment fuel economic hopes and fashionable dreams in Pakistan's turbulent Baluchistan

Help Gulf Coast Animal Shelters

The Coming Birth Control Battle: Health-care reform spurs conservative activists to fight against coverage

Presbyterians: End Israel aid over settlements. "Israel's peace will not come until they seek peace with Palestinians"

How Postal Rate Hikes Foretell America's Future

"Marmaduke" movie has dog groups prepping for dumped Great Danes

U.S. Is Richest Nation, But Not Happiest

Tycoon trio wins control of France's Le Monde

China's young college grads toil in 'ant tribes' as they "run up against the realities of China's rapid economic ascent"

Opinion article: "Art Is Fundamental -- and Fundamental to Support" by Maria Shriver

Congress considers cracking down on 'puppy mills'

TIME article: Is Germany's Government Headed for a Breakdown?

$75M mansion near Orlando selling 'as is' -- no carpet, tiles or interior walls

Luciole Press friend and contributor, author and publisher Ami Kaye, has a new book and a new website to check out!

Little Maddison wants to raise money for operation for her 'disfigured' foal Diego: "He is my best friend and I don't care what he looks like, to me his face makes him special"

VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to toxic water on Camp Lejeune

Israel agrees to ease Gaza land blockade

At spill hearing, BP CEO says he's 'deeply sorry'

Modigliani sculpture sets artist record in Paris

Massive space storms forecasted as sun awakens from 'deep slumber'

More than 12 million are modern slaves — trapped in forced labor, bonded labor or forced prostitution

Historic Polaroid collection going to NYC auction

Obama faces rare defeat on health help for jobless

Louisiana leaders want Gulf drilling to resume

Hispanics abandon Arizona, fleeing economy, immigration law

Chinese farmer uses homemade cannon to fight eviction; "China has witnessed a surge of violent confrontations triggered by land seizures as officials and businesses seek to cash in by evicting residents"

London art auctions target Russian middle class

Photo: Sotheby's technicians pose with pair of Nicholas I Imperial Porcelain Vases, created in 1841

Simon & Schuster hires new publisher, Jonathan Karp

Sickening new images of the helpless wildlife dying in the muck of the BP spill

Egypt opens Gaza border -- for those already cleared (pre-cleared patients with medical emergencies and students with visas to study abroad)

Blair: Gaza blockade counterproductive but hard to ease

Upper Delaware River most endangered in U.S. -- source of drinking water for 17 million people one of 10 rivers on list, threatened due to natural gas drilling, mining and poor flood management

Activists send new boat to challenge Gaza blockade as Egypt lifts its side of blockade for aid

West Poised for Worst Grasshopper Outbreak in 30 Years

Q&A: Aid and Israel's Gaza blockade

Bloody Israeli raid on flotilla sparks crisis

Photo: a cyclone survivor takes part in a demonstration in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Hawaii first in nation to ban possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins (plus article "A sad shark's tale: Shocking images show scale of fin trade")

Democrat James Carville Slams Obama's Response to BP Oil Spill and 'Political Stupidity'

Blackfeet Elouise Cobell sees end to 14-year government fight: "Cobell's class-action lawsuit represents as many as 500,000 Indians who own property that the government holds in trust for them"

Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible

How Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's civil-rights views escaped media scrutiny

Heavy oil hits Louisiana shore

Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years, UN warns, "unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover"

Oil spill to shut down 19 percent of Gulf fishing. Photos of a pelican being cleansed of oil, and a ship passing through oil patch

Africa's Lake Tanganyika warming fast, and wildlife is dying

Thousands of nonprofits may lose tax-exempt status because they haven't filed a new form with the IRS

An oil platform towers in the background as a pelican flies past a surfer off the coast of Carpenteria, California

High-risk patients may be stuck paying high rates

Photo: a Somali boy carries fish to the market in Mogadishu

Photo: French artist Christain Boltanski's "No Man's Land," composed of 30 tons of discarded clothing

Brothel owners transported women around British suburbs in a cage

Obama says health care law already helps millions

Deep beneath the Gulf, oil may be wreaking havoc

Zettabytes Now Needed to Describe Global Data Overload

94% of fish stocks have vanished from British waters

Attention shoppers: Gulf spill could affect you

2 Articles: "Gulf of Mexico oil spill 'the bad one' — recipe for disaster" and "Many endangered turtles dying on Texas Gulf Coast "

Photo: the new high-tech design of the $100 bill is unveiled in Washington

Meltdown, volcano: Weary Icelanders ask, what next

Iceland volcano: Amazing pictures show apocalyptic scene as wall of black fog covers the country in darkness

Painting, "Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness," could be lost work of Michelangelo -- now worth over $200 million

Ash may hover for days over uncertain Europe; new mini-eruptions "raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade"

George Washington racks up late fees at NY library

Quake in mountainous Tibetan area of western China kills 400, buries more

Cyclone packing winds of more than 100 mph demolished ten of thousands of mud huts in northeastern India, killing at least 85 people

Photo: locals of the Qiang ethnic minority pick tea leaves at a tea plantation in Yaan, Sichuan province

Stranded, oil-leaking ship is a "time bomb" for the Great Barrier Reef

Thousands of vets missing out on better benefits

Would partners of gay troops get benefits, too?

America's daring ironworkers walk the girders just like their forefathers as they rebuild at Ground Zero

Rep. Randy Neugebauer "apologizes for 'baby killer' remark during health care debate, but turns moment into a campaign fundraiser"

Congress approves historic health care legislation

Picasso's "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto," once center of dispute, for sale

Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

Senate rejects $250 checks for elderly, which "would have made up for social security benefits not increasing this year"

Tsunami warning to every nation around the Pacific after massive 8.8 earthquake strikes Chile

Decaying apartments symptom of housing crisis, as landlords let maintenance go in effort to avoid foreclosure and bankruptcy

Britain at risk of worse deficit crisis than Greece, sparking serious fears over the economic stability of the country

Disillusioned Sen. Bayh advocates electoral “shock” to broken system, encourages voters to remove Congressional incumbents in mass

US debt will keep growing even with recovery

More Homeless Americans Living in Cars and Campers

A worthy cause!! S.A. Griffin, creator of The Poetry Bomb, has posted an appeal for his project

Fantastic Art!! Take a look at Diana Bonebrake's online studio sale and drink in the lovely skies...

Never-before seen photos of Marilyn Monroe with poet Carl Sandburg go up for sale (shot by Len Steckler)

Middle Class No More, Families Struggle to Fight off Homelessness

Photo: villagers remove petioles of red chili at Shertha village in India where they earn 7 rupees (US$ 0.14) for 44pounds

Winter blasted Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in need of HELP!

Mystery of missing painting by Rolf Harris now center of court battle over its possession

Haiti's children on their own on shattered streets