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  • Genetic sleuths unmask secrets of big tomatoes (Reuters)   - 

    A farmer tends organic tomatoes at a greenhouse in Langfang, Hebei province, near Beijing, China, February 6, 2007. (Claro Cortes IV/Reuters)Reuters - The secret behind growing large tomatoes lies not in the fertilizer or the perfect soil conditions, but in just a few genetic changes that over time have resulted in tomatoes 1,000 times bigger than their wild ancestors, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.


  • VW, Sanyo to develop lithium-ion battery: paper (Reuters)   - 

    Journalists talk in front of a Volkswagen TDI Hybrid car during the first media day of the 78th Geneva car show at the Palexpo in Geneva March 4, 2008. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)Reuters - German carmaker Volkswagen and Japan's Sanyo Electric Co will jointly develop a lithium-ion battery to be used in hybrid and electric cars, the Nikkei financial daily reported on Sunday.


  • US military orders court-martial for contractor in Iraq (AP)   - AP - The U.S. military on Sunday ordered a court-martial for a civilian contractor charged with aggravated assault while working as an Army translator in Iraq ? the first such military prosecution since the Vietnam War.
  • Tornadoes kill at least 22 across US (AFP)   - 

    A man walks his dog past a road sign which was knocked down by a tornado in April 2008. Rescue crews searched through rubble Sunday for survivors of tornadoes which tore across the United States the previous day, killing at least 22 people and shattering homes and businesses, officials said.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - Rescue crews searched through rubble Sunday for survivors of tornadoes which tore across the United States the previous day, killing at least 22 people and shattering homes and businesses, officials said.


  • Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear (AP)   - 

    Elmore County High School students gather in the parking lot in Eclectic, Ala., after riding bikes to school on Tuesday, May 6, 2008. The students have begun riding bikes to school, one as much as 6 1/2 miles one way, as a way to save on gas money. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, Lloyd Gallman)AP - Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is good for business ? if you run a bike shop. Commuters around the country are dusting off their old two-wheelers ? or buying new ones ? to cope with rising fuel prices, bicycle dealers say.


  • California man losing nine homes in mortgage mess (Reuters)   - 

    Shawn Forgaard poses with his wife Shauna, infant son Chase and their dog Hudson in front of their Santa Cruz, California home in this self-portrait photo released to Reuters May 10, 2008. Forgaard, a 37-year-old software company manager, bought one home for his family to live in and nine more as investments. He stands to lose all the investment houses in the mortgage meltdown but says he has come away wiser from the experience. (Shawn Forgaard/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A California man who has defaulted on nine homes and expects banks to foreclose on all of them, forcing him into bankruptcy, says he now considers it a mistake to have invested in the real estate market.


  • Republican convention chief quits after Myanmar ties revealed (AFP)   - 

    US Republican presidential candidate Arizona Senator John McCain arrives at Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World dinner on May 8, 2008 in New York. The coordinator of the Republicans' 2008 presidential convention has resigned after revelations that he was paid to bolster the dismal US image of Myanmar's military junta.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)AFP - The coordinator of the Republicans' 2008 presidential convention has resigned after revelations that he was paid to bolster the dismal US image of Myanmar's military junta.


  • China forms company to make regional, jumbo jets (Reuters)   - Reuters - China has established a company to build regional commercial jets, with an eye to eventually reducing the country's reliance on Boeing and Airbus for jumbo jets, official media said on Sunday.
  • High demand, price of rice good news to US farmers (AP)   - AP - Dipping its left wing, a canary-yellow biplane makes a sharp turn and dives over a flooded field, showering rice on the shallow water 15 feet below.
  • Bloated bodies litter Myanmar, forgotten after the cyclone (AP)   - 

    A dead body, right rear, floats in the river in Pyapon, a town in the Irrawaddy delta of Myanmar, on Sunday, May 11, 2008, a week after devastating cyclone Nagris slammed into the low-lying region and Yangon. (AP Photo)AP - As the bloated bodies rise and fall with the current, women scrub clothes along the river bank, villagers bathe to cool themselves and a lone child sits on a dock staring aimlessly into the water.


  • Tornadoes kill 22, injure hundreds (Reuters)   - Reuters - Tornadoes killed at least 22 people and injured hundreds as they ripped through communities in the central and southeastern United States over the weekend.
  • Debt woes drive thousands of Indian farmers to suicide (AP)   - 

    Sanjay Devkar, center, holds a photograph of his father Ramchandra Devkar, a farmer who committed suicide, as his mother Anusya Devkar, right, looks on outside their house in village Bothbodan, India, Wednesday, April 23, 2008. India's cotton belt, a land of searing temperatures and backbreaking work, has been hit hardest by an epidemic of suicides. Life has never been easy in this swath of central India, but the current generation of farmers say it has become unbearable. With debts larger than their incomes, these steadiest of workers have become gamblers of the highest stakes, betting their land ? and their lives ? on one more good crop. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)AP - On the last night of his life, the farmer walked into his dusty fields, choked down pesticide and waited to die.


  • Medical helicopter crash in Wis. kills doctor, nurse, pilot (AP)   - 

    Debra H. Amesqua, left, chief of the Madison (Wis.) Fire Department, Mark Hanson, director of University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Med Flight Services, Donna Katen-Bahensky, CEO of UW Hospital and Clinics and Margaret Van Bree, right, COO of UW Hospital and Clinics pause during a news conference Sunday, May 11, 2008, in Madison, Wis. where it was announced that a medical helicopter returning from La Crosse, Wis., crashed killing a surgeon, a nurse and the pilot. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - A medical helicopter dropped off a patient and then crashed shortly after it took off on its return flight to Madison, killing the surgeon, nurse and pilot on board, officials said Sunday.


  • Gospel singer Dottie Rambo dies in tour bus wreck in Mo. (AP)   - AP - Joyce "Dottie" Rambo, an influential gospel singer and songwriter, died early Sunday when her tour bus ran off the highway and struck an embankment. She was 74.
  • Myanmar cyclone shatters homes and dreams of families (AP)   - 

    Myanmar family members, who survived last week's destructive cyclone Nargis, stand outside their broken house at Mangalay village in Pyapon, Delta region of Myanmar, Sunday, May 11, 2008. (AP Photo)AP - As the cyclone raged around him, Ko Zaw Min clung to a tree with one arm while clutching his newborn son with the other.


  • Mother's Day celebration reaches 100th anniversary (AP)   - 

    Cindi Mason, director of the International Mother's Day Shrine, poses at the shrine in Grafton, W. Va., on April 22, 2008. The shrine is the former Andrew's Methodist Church where the first Mother's Day service was held 100 years ago. Former Grafton resident Anna Jarvis started the holiday. (AP Photo/James J. Lee)AP - On this 100th anniversary of Mother's Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world's most celebrated holidays probably wouldn't be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.


  • 'Honeyboy' Edwards, Delta bluesman, outlasts them all (AP)   - 

    Although he was simply to receive an award and not perform at the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame banquet in Jackson, Miss., Friday, May 9, 2008, bluesman David 'Honeyboy' Edwards checks on the conditions of his guitar pics. Edwards, 92, is the last living Blues artist to play with the legendary Robert Johnson. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ? With his 93rd birthday a month away, David "Honeyboy" Edwards admits it's getting hard to walk long distances.


  • Behind the food riots: a debate on how best to farm (AP)   - AP - Sitting in a Mexico City office, dressed in a pressed white shirt, Gerardo Sanchez seems a world away from his herds of goats and fields of beans.
  • Key al Qaeda member killed in Afghanistan: Web (Reuters)   - 

    A U.S. soldier looks through a pair of binoculars on his rifle as he patrols the Jaji district of the southeastern Paktia province, near the Afghan-Pakistan border January 28, 2008. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)Reuters - A prominent member of al Qaeda was killed in fighting with U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, the group said in a statement posted on an Islamist website on Sunday.


  • Hamas militant killed in Gaza explosion (AP)   - 

    Palestinian security force officers from Hamas, right and left, stand in front of Palestinians waiting to cross into Egypt for medical treatment at the Rafah border crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Egyptian authorities ordered a three-day opening of the Rafah border crossing on Saturday to allow Palestinians to cross into Egypt from the Gaza Strip for medical treatment, said a security official at the terminal. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - A member of the militant group Hamas has been killed in an explosion along Gaza's fence with Israel, the group said Sunday.
 
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