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11:57 AM ET 2/8/08

- Five people were fatally shot and two others wounded after a man opened fire at a City Council meeting in Kirkwood, Missouri on Thursday night.

2 studies conclude that biofuels are not so green after all

2:55 AM ET 2/8/08

- The benefits of biofuels have come under increasing attack in recent months as scientists have evaluated the global environmental cost of their production.

New poll shows deep pessimism about direction of U.S. and Europe

12:07 PM ET 2/8/08

- While Americans have been saying for more than four years that their country is headed in the wrong direction, a new poll shows that people in five major European countries share that pessimism.

Scotland Yard investigators say Bhutto died from hitting head

11:02 AM ET 2/8/08

- The investigation concluded that Benazir Bhutto died after being tossed by the blast and was not killed by an assassin's bullet, supporting the Pakistani government's explanation.

U.S. Army shifts focus to nation-building

10:59 AM ET 2/8/08

- The U.S. Army has drafted a new operations manual that makes the mission of stabilizing war-torn nations equal in importance to defeating adversaries on the battlefield.

McCain seen as Republican choice

12:04 PM ET 2/8/08

- Mitt Romney said that he wanted to fight on but that taking his campaign all the way to the Republican convention would delay a national campaign against a Democratic contender.

U.S. economy gets $168 billion injection from Congress

4:18 AM ET 2/8/08

- Government checks are on the way after Democrats agree to add only payments for senior citizens and disabled veterans to a package already approved by the House.

Gambino crime family indicted in New York sweep

11:35 AM ET 2/8/08

- Indictments unsealed Thursday charged 87 organized crime figures making up the entire upper echelon of the Gambino crime family.

Chadian president asks for peacekeepers

6:57 AM ET 2/8/08

- President Idriss D�by asked that a European peacekeeping force be deployed to protect refugees and said he was prepared to pardon the French aid workers jailed for trying to fly out children last year.

New centrifuges in Iran intensify nuclear weapons debate

11:13 AM ET 2/8/08

- The White House seized on news of the Iranian centrifuges known as IR-2s to argue that sanctions against Iran should be increased.

Archbishop says Britain should adopt aspects of Islamic law

12:16 PM ET 2/8/08

- The Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans, said such an arrangement should not deprive Muslims of access to the British court system.

In Hollywood, connections pave the way to end writers' strike

9:40 AM ET 2/8/08

- After an icy three-month standoff, crucial intermediaries and some diplomacy finally kick-start a productive bargaining process.

Styles that a Mother would love

8:21 AM ET 2/8/08

- It used to be axiomatic of powerful, risk-taking fashion that "Mother wouldn't like it." But the sad truth is that a dull and conventional Mom would recognize much of the fashion coming from young designers.

Privacy on hold in cellphone business

8:34 AM ET 2/8/08

- The same location-based service technology that can send a targeted advertisement also lets the phone company know a lot more about that client.

Gates denies a crisis in NATO

9:30 PM ET 2/7/08

- The U.S. defense secretary, continuing his self-described effort to "nag" allies for more troops in Afghanistan, said Thursday that NATO was not in crisis and that the Afghan mission was not failing.

Europe's top two central banks focus on hazards to growth

11:43 PM ET 2/7/08

- The Bank of England cut interest rates and the European Central Bank, in a reversal, signaled it might follow suit.

Whether at home or abroad, China is silent on matters of democracy

12:39 PM ET 2/7/08

- As China emerges as a leading player in the resource-rich Third World, one awaits its constructive thinking on places like Chad and Sudan. Instead, one mostly hears silence.

In Hungary, Roma get art show, not a hug

11:30 AM ET 2/7/08

- A recent exhibition of contemporary Romany art in Budapest was the latest nod to Europe's most despised, and Hungary's largest, minority.

Germany must pull its weight

4:44 PM ET 2/7/08

- Germany's decision not to deploy troops in the South of Afghanistan is a grave foreign policy blunder.

America through a lens, brightly

4:44 PM ET 2/7/08

- With anti-Americanism reaching record highs, Hollywood is not only a powerful ideological tool, but arguably a necessary one.

Hey, parents are supposed to control us

4:45 PM ET 2/7/08

- Game manufacturers cannot be blamed for the crimes committed by their players. The fault lies with the parents.

At Old Master sales aesthetic perceptions begin to shift

7:47 PM ET 2/1/08

- The robust sales of Old Masters last week in New York, while Wall Street was tumbling, grabbed headlines. But they also showed a shift of interest. The spotlight is now moving away from good or very good Dutch paintings on to top works of the German and French schools, with Neo-Classical pictures tripling their estimates.

Could social networking sites save the music industry?

6:14 PM ET 1/30/08

- The popularity of sites like Imeem and Bebo, which pay artists for the music they feature, are the talk of the industry.

Patrick Stewart: Boldly going back to playing Shakespeare

5:32 PM ET 1/28/08

- Patrick Stewart made Captain Jean-Luc Picard the moral center of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" across seven seasons. Now, he's returning to his roots as a Shakespearean actor and drawing rave reviews.

Olympians prepare for battle with Beijing's smog

11:24 AM ET 1/28/08

- Randy Wilber, an exercise physiologist, is hard at work preparing the U.S. Olympic Team to face the air pollution expected at the Beijing games.

Colombia clings to its brutal bull festivals

10:06 PM ET 1/23/08

- Looked upon in other parts of Colombia as a bizarre and even grotesque spectacle, annual mass bullfights are passionately defended by residents of Colombia's northern savannas.

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