Headlines from July 18, 2007

Libya commutes death sentences for six foreign medical workers accused of deliberately infecting children with HIV.
Optimists hope discovery of huge underground lake in Sudan may help ease Darfur conflict.
Atlanta Falcons quarterback accused of playing host to Bad Newz Kennels, a vicious dogfighting enterprise.
More on the fundamentally disturbing "sport."
Today's long read: Critics have been on the lookout for any systemic failure of women to perform well in Iraq--and have found little to point to.
The disappearing world of the Mumbai rat catcher.
The unknown world of Ethiopian donkey welfare activism.
Cocaine trade invades tiny Guinea-Bissau, where shipments worth 10x the GDP pass through each year.
Op: All our best presidents were rich, so who cares how much Romney has stashed away?
Give a hand for Norman Borlaug, America's great forgotten (Nobel prize-winning) hero.
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Wannabe seller sues the Andy Warhol Art Authentication board, accusing them of rejecting pieces to drive up prices.
Britain considers revising pot policy--to make the drug more illegal.
This week in People We Like: Will Chiapella, as photographed by Mai Le.
Plastic bags terribly horribly passé.
Failed digital photos find an online home.
Pulling an all-night Iraq debate, Senate can't agree on troop pullout--around 8:30, they considered having Trent Lott arrested.
"I am convinced based on everything I have read it won't be a hell of a lot worse than it is now." U.S. lawmakers discover no backup plan if troop pullout results in an upsurge of violence.
In what is thought to be the worst plane crash in Brazilian history, Airbus skids off Sao Paulo runway, 200 believed dead.
Bloomberg's traffic plan finds little traction--despite "ads on cable television" and "a video on YouTube."
Staten Island ferry captain who piloted 2003 wreck that killed 11 and injured 165 released from jail.
In Brooklyn, suit filed against oil companies to clean up the 1950 spill that poisoned Greenpoint's soil.
IAEA confirms four more nuclear closings in North Korea.
Scholastic isn't fooling around with leaked Potter pages.
The debate over republishing Mein Kampf in Germany.
Digitally changing the way we watch movies.
Vitamin C won't stop colds; fruits and vegetables won't prevent cancer return.
Support for abstinence education has gone absent.
Man in liberal D.C. neighborhood gets his Hummer hammered; Austin vandals attack restaurants that serve foie gras.
Scotland's richest man vows to give away £1 billion before he dies.