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"All efforts of the Afghan government to avoid civilian casualties have not yielded any positive results and our innocent countrymen are still killed in anti-terrorism operations."
Afghan President Hamid Karzai
Karzai was condemning the killing of 76 civilians, mostly children, by a US airstrike in western Afghanistan.

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Space
  • Computer virus in space - NASA astronauts get hit
  • Minimum mass for galaxies discovered to be 10 million times the mass of the sun
  • Collision of galaxy clusters provides striking evidence for dark matter
  • Now, computer bugs in space!

    Tennessee State
  • Bill Frist, Cressey & Co. open Nashville office
  • Double A partners with Lane Co. on $45M East Nashville mixed-use community
  • Perry named president of Civic Bank & Trust
  • Humana leases 13,000 square feet at Highwoods Seven Springs
  • 2 Injured In West Nashville Shooting

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    Former Memphis School Teacher Accused of Stealing from Students
    Booking Photo: Carolyn Green MEMPHIS, TN - A former Memphis City Schools teacher is accused of stealing money from a senior class fund.Carolyn Green is facing theft and forgery charges after an MCS...

    Fight with bus driver gets closer look
    Accounts of a confrontation between two students and a bus driver are so varied that the director of Rutherford County schools has started his own investigation into the Friday incident, a school...

    Memphis hot on charter schools
    During the 2006-2007 school year, there were an estimated 2,200 students in charter schools across the state of Tennessee. In the 2008-09 school year, there will be an estimated 3,322 students in...

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    World Headlines
    No charges for Obama assassination plotters
    Three white supremacists with a sniper rifle and high on drugs who were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver will not face charges even though officials believe that they wanted to assassinate Barack Obama....

    Two teenage boys hanged in Iran
    Iran has executed two youths who were convicted of murder when they were fifteen years of...

    Obama speech expected to focus on economics
    Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has insisted that he does not want to dazzle a TV audience estimated to be in the tens of millions with "a bunch of a high-flying rhetoric", but instead, intends to focus on the kitchen-table economic issues facing American...

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    20 oil basins discovered in Indonesia
    At least 20 new basins of oil and gas have been found in eastern...

    Australian banks reduce interest rates
    Australia's big four banks have dropped their fixed interest rates as the pressure on funding costs...

    Religious holy month brings roster changes
    Bahraini authorities have issued a new order specifying the working hours at government offices and other establishments during the Islamic holy month of...

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  • Kroger to sponsor Memphis NASCAR race
  • FedEx introduces next-day service in Mexico
  • Memphis company to manage Crossings of Bellevue
  • Nearly 100 companies will present at annual Morgan Keegan equity conference

    The Nation
  • Obama voted in by delegates
  • 10 million take pain killers in US every week
  • US soldiers increasingly exposed to migraine
  • Obama - candidate of change offers continuity to India
  • One of the most rapid rises in US political history

    Health
  • US college students not so aware of HIV testing
  • Black raspberries slow cancer growth
  • Researchers develop toy-tool to distract infant burn victims from pain
  • Asian health officials vow to intensify HIV-prevention campaign
  • Doctors team visit Encephalitis-hit Gorakhpur

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    Music
  • Nicole Scherzinger writes song for lover Lewis Hamilton
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  • Nicole Scherzinger pens song for boyfriend
  • Protest to hit Israeli concert
  • All set for P-Square concert