16 July 2007: Morning

  • As violence escalates, truce between Pakistan and tribal leaders along Afghanistan border appears to dissolve.
  • Coordinated car bombs in northern Iraq kill at least 80, wound 136 more.
  • In the 10-square-mile district of West Rashid, the Mahdi Army also controls the housing market, the gas stations and the loyalty of many of the residents.
  • For the first time, a U.S. military officer confirms nearly half of foreign fighters in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia.
  • John Edwards Vows to End All Bad Things by 2011.
  • Democrat hopefuls outpace Republicans in donations; interactive map: Who's donating to whom, and where.
  • IAEA verifies that North Korea has shut down its main nuclear reactor.
  • Flooding in China triggers mice invasion two billion strong.
  • Japan holds mock trials to overcome cultural mores, give citizens their first taste of jury duty.
  • Doctors learn a new technique in saving cardiac-arrest patients: cooling their body temperature.
  • Summer in Maine: Scientists say warming waters could cook lobsters too soon; lobstermen soup up boats in "a Kentucky Derby for the trapping set."
  • One looter bolted from a pet store with a bowl full of goldfish, which he dropped to the sidewalk in his hurry to escape. Covering the looters during the 1977 NYC blackout. (More from the Daily News archives.)
  • Philadelphia Phillies become the first team in any sport to lose 10,000 games.
  • "It's innovative, it serves a particular function, and it does specific things that you can't duplicate with other quotatives." In defense of like.