- Attack kills 16 police days before the Olympics (AP)
- Ohio inmate says he's too fat for execution (AP)
- Soil on Mars may contain substance detrimental to life (AP)
- MDs urged to quit prostate screens in elderly men (AP)
- Official: Olsen seeks immunity in Ledger probe (AP)
- Cliff Lee wins 15th game as Indians beat Rays 5-2 (AP)
- Torch finally heads for Beijing (Reuters)
- U.S. adds 30 days to Marines' tours in Afghanistan (Reuters)
- Bush gives mixed appraisal of China ahead of visit (Reuters)
- Frostbitten Italian hobbles, aided down K2 (Reuters)
- Fed seen holding rates steady as growth stumbles (Reuters)
- Plane crashes into Oregon house, kills 3 children (Reuters)
- Tropical storm looms off Texas-Louisiana coast (Reuters)
- Pentagon closes controversial intelligence unit (Reuters)
- Attackers hacked Chinese police with machetes: witnesses (AFP)
- World leaders salute Russia's 'conscience' Solzhenitsyn (AFP)
- Poll: McCain's attack strategy paying dividends (AP)
- Obama makes bid in 7 longtime Republican states (AP)
- Obama says give Fla. and Mich. delegates full vote (AP)
- Obama: Seat Florida, Michigan (Politico)
- Pelosi pushes Texas lawmaker as Obama running mate (AP)
- POW status was key factor in McCain's first race (AP)
- Daschle criticizes FBI's handling of anthrax probe (AP)
- Fed likely to hold rates steady amid crosscurrents (AP)
- Mexican facing execution in US appeals to Supreme Court (AFP)
- UN vote OKs Darfur peacekeeping, but US abstains (AP)
- No One Religion Is Better Or Worse Than Another (The Chattanoogan)
- God's OK, it's just the religion bit we don't like (Collie Mail)
- Religion Briefs (SouthtownStar)
- Religion News in Brief (The Morning News)
- Favre to be added to Packers' active roster Monday (AP)
- Favre set to return to Packers on Monday: NFL Network (Reuters)
- Al-Qaida: Explosives expert wanted by US killed (AP)
- Tropical Storm Edouard moves toward Texas (AP)
- Scientist: DNA led agents to anthrax suspect (AP)
- Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of Soviet gulag, dies (AP)
- 9 climbers feared dead after avalanche on K-2 (AP)
- South Korea says U.S. killed large groups of civilians during war (AP)
- Christina Applegate treated for breast cancer (AP)
- Stampede kills 145 Hindu worshippers in India (Reuters)
- China warns protesters, allows Tiananmen music (Reuters)
- Soviet dissident writer Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 (Reuters)
- Bush's China hurdle: Keeping sports, politics apart (Reuters)
- U.N. council must increase sanctions on Iran: U.S (Reuters)
- Climbing catastrophe as 9 perish on K-2 (Reuters)
- Blast in Somali capital kills 14, mostly women (Reuters)
- Russian Gulag writer Solzhenitsyn dies aged 89 (AFP)
- Up to 150 dead in India temple stampede: police (AFP)
- McCain vetting Va. congressman as possible veep (AP)
- Obama backs away from McCain's debate challenge (AP)
- Obama accuses McCain camp of cynicism, not racism (AP)
- McCain and N.Y. Times continue a long-running bout (AP)
- McCain is vetting Cantor (Politico)
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life (AP)
- Platform writers draw ideas from Obama, Clinton (AP)
- Democrats: Congress overcoming GOP neglect (AP)
- Anthrax attacks changed mail handling (AP)
- Mexican citizen asks high court to block execution (AP)
- Small jet crashes in Minnesota; at least 8 killed (AP)
- Religion Calendar: 08/02/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
- Amarnath row is a 'religion-based' politics: BJP (New Kerala)
- Access Religion: Saturday, August 2, 2008 (The Oklahoman)
- Religion News (The Meridian Star)
- Muslims protest against linking religion with terrorism (New Kerala)
- Review: The End of Religion (The Daily Sentinel)
- N.Y. Amish case headed to trial (USA Today)
- NJ court: Religion slurs created hostile workplace (Burlington County Times)
- Transcript of an interview with Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley (Boston Globe)
- His language is religion: Hudson priest celebrates bilingual Mass (The MetroWest Daily News)
- Report: Therapist 'scared to death' of scientist (AP)
- Ahmadinejad: Iran won't give up nuclear rights (AP)
- After long Iraq deployment, GIs readjust to lives back home (AP)
- Kidnapped girl found in Baltimore; Father charged (AP)
- CDC understated number of new HIV infections in US (AP)
- Tug repeatedly warned before Miss. River collision (AP)
- Madonna returns to Michigan roots to show her film (AP)
- Palestinian infighting in Gaza escalates, 9 killed (AP)
- Olympic torch reaches earthquake-ravaged Sichuan (AP)
- Beijing protesters must give 5 days' notice (Reuters)
- Obama says McCain campaign cynical, not racist (Reuters)
- U.S. mulls what do to with any Guantanamo convict (Reuters)
- Iran, on deadline day, vows no nuclear retreat (Reuters)
- More than 56,000 in U.S. infected with AIDS each year (Reuters)
- Beijing bathes in blue skies as pollution falls (Reuters)
- Brazil's Lula to seek rapid revival of trade talks (Reuters)
- Pakistani Taliban deny Zawahri death report (Reuters)
- At least 15 civilians killed in Mogadishu blast (AFP)
- South Asian summit set to push terror fight, food security (AFP)
- Obama says Republicans trying to scare voters (AP)
- Analysis: McCain tries to sow doubts about Obama (AP)
- Ron Paul followers pose danger for McCain in West (AP)
- McCain camp compares Obama to Spears, Hilton (AP)
- GOP's celeb-Obama message gains traction (Politico)
- Obama's convention crowd: Biggest phone bank ever (AP)
- Obama campaign rejects rapper Ludacris' rhymes (AP)
- Wide-ranging bill aims to rein in college costs (AP)
- FDA finds salmonella strain at second Mexican farm (AP)
- Did WTO's failed Doha round try to do too much? (Reuters)
- Religion 'may have helped halt spread of disease', says controversial scientific report (Daily Mail)
- CALL FOR REPORTING ON ISLAM OR RELIGION BE TAUGHT TO JOURNALISM STUDENTS (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)