Headlines from July 16, 2007

Powerful earthquake strikes northwest Japan, killing seven, injuring hundreds, and releasing "a small amount" of nuclear waste.
Israel to release 250 Fatah prisoners later this week as Middle Eastern good feelings grow.
IHOP to buy Applebee's, Olive Garden looks sheepishly at shoes.
Chicago journalist fired after being spotted at a subject's pool party.
"My home island will sink under the water, and there will be no place for me to live." Tuvaluans facing climate change like no one else.
Related: National Geographic's interactive climate change map.
With Sweden accepting more Iraqi refugees than the U.S., the town of Sodertalje struggles to carry the burden.
Presumed extinct echidna rediscovered, found to be delicious.
CNN and Michael Moore go at it, probably for longer than you care to read.
Möbius strips solved.
Clay Risen steers readers to the other Washington monuments--the ones for muppets, lobstermen, Buchanans, and Bonos.
Attempted Capitol Hill robbery ends with fine wine, camembert, and groups hugs.
A British call to ban the "racist" Tintin in the Congo cartoon leads to a 4,000 percent increase in book sales.
Wired calmly throws up their hands six months into Assignment Zero, their crowd-sourced journalism project.
Apparently, Apu offensive, not funny.
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.