Austrian university honors Nazi victims (AP)

<img src=”http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.d07033ba84814c629054b727bdc28d08.austria_expelled_by_nazis_ls504.jpg?x=130&y=66&q=85&sig=ejHf9SsiHCIUDrfZVOt6zA–” align=”left” height=”66″ width=”130″ alt=”This June 26, 2009 picture taken in the festival room of the University of Vienna, in Austria, shows a memorial book which contains the names of expelled lecturers and <a href=”http://www.mynextcollege.com”>students at the university during the Nazi era. An online database was launched this week containing the names of <a href=”http://www.mynextcollege.com”>students and <a href=”http://www.mynextcollege.com”>teachers — many of them Jewish — who were forced to leave the University of Vienna after Adolf Hitler annexed Austria in March 1938. The database also contains the names of people who were stripped of their academic titles — including famous author Stefan Zweig, whom the Nazis in 1941 deemed ‘unworthy’ of the philosophy degree he earned in 1904. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss)” border=”0″ />AP - Kurt Elias vividly remembers the day in 1938 when the Nazis barred him from entering the University of Vienna because he was Jewish.

Obama keeps door open for NKorean nuclear talks (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama says the United States is trying to “keep a door open” for North Korea to return to international nuclear disarmament talks, even as Washington pursues sanctions against the North.

US vice president in Iraq (AP)

Iraqi security forces secure the site of a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood, Iraq, Thursday, July 2, 2009. The attack was the first in Baghdad since US troops withdrew from Iraqi cities in the first step toward winding down the American war effort by the end of 2011. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Thursday to visit U.S. troops and meet with Iraqi leaders, including President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Britain braces for 100,000 swine flu cases a day (AP)

AP - Britain faces a projected 100,000 new swine flu cases a day by the end of August and must revamp its flu strategy to cope, the nation’s health minister said Thursday.

Comoros crash survivor welcomed back home in Paris (AP)

In this picture made from video broadcast, Thursday, July 2, 2009 by France 2/20 Minutes,  Bahia Bakari, aged 14, believed to be the only survivor of the Yemenia Airbus 310 crash is brought back to France on a French Government plane.  Bahia was a passenger on a Yemenia Airbus 310 jet which crashed flying the last leg of a journey taking passengers from Paris and Marseille to the remote Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros via Yemen when it crashed into the Indian Ocean.  (AP Photo/Faustine Vincent/France 2/20 Minute)AP - A severely bruised young girl believed to be the only survivor of an Indian Ocean plane crash flew back Thursday to Paris, where she was embraced gently by her father, who tried to lift her spirits with a joke.

Police probe possible gas pipeline sabotage (Reuters)

Reuters - Canadian police investigated on Thursday if a leak at a natural gas pipeline in northeast British Columbia was linked to incidents of sabotage on energy facilities in the area last year.

Diplomats reach for solution to Honduras coup (AP)

Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya raises their fists during a protest in Tegucigalpa, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Honduras' interim leader, Roberto Micheletti, warned that the only way ousted President Zelaya will return to office is through a foreign invasion but a potential showdown was postponed when Zelaya delayed his plans to return to Honduras.(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - International diplomats who have threatened and isolated Honduras’ coup-spawned government said Thursday they would travel to Honduras in an attempt to persuade the interim leaders to restore the president they ousted.

Marines exchange fire with Taliban in searing heat (AP)

U.S Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines guards a road after landing by helicopter in an overnight air assault near the Taliban stronghold of Nawa in Afghanistan's Helmand province Thursday July 2, 2009.  Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize the country.  (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - U.S. Marines hiked through searing heat and took fire from small pockets of militants Thursday after landing in this Taliban-controlled southern region of tree-lined fields, mud homes and crisscrossing waterways in the first major operation under President Barack Obama’s strategy to stabilize Afghanistan.

French: Air France plane hit the sea belly first (AP)

Navy officers hold wreaths that will throw into the sea in memory of the victims of the Air France Flight 447, at the frigate Bosisio, 19 miles off the coast of Recife, in northeastern Brazil, Monday, June 29, 2009. Brazilian and French searchers have recovered large chunks of debris and 51 bodies from the airplane, which disappeared with 228 people on board last May 31. (AP Photo/Otavio de Souza)AP - An intact Air France Flight 447 slammed belly first into the Atlantic Ocean at a very high speed, a top French investigator said Thursday, adding that problems with the plane’s speed sensors were not the direct cause of the crash.

Conspiracy Theories in Iran Flourish (Time.com)

Iranian police beat a demonstrator with batons during a protest against the election results in Tehran on June 14. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has likened events in Iran to the oppression at the hands of the Stasi secret police in communist East Germany.(AFP/File)Time.com - On a propaganda drive, Tehran blames foreigners for unrest after the disputed election. But millions of Iranians remain angry and unconvinced