Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/most-popular/recommended/top-stories Most Recommended Top Stories en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:38:02 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/most-popular/recommended/top-stories http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/healthdrinkcancer afp/20100209/healthdrinkcancer AFP topstories Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:36:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/healthdrinkcancer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265652814100-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=MFXlhkuHkw.O4oukpJTyUg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A Cambodian scavenger (L) collects empty cans of soft drink and bottles of drinking water as a school child (R) sits next to her drinking a soft drink in 2008. People who drink at least two sugary soft drinks a day have an increased risk of contracting cancer of the pancreas, a study published Monday shows.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)" border="0" /></a>AFP - People who drink at least two sugary sodas a week have an increased risk of developing cancer of the pancreas, and researchers suspect the culprit is sugar, a new study shows.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/healthdrinkcancer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265652814100-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=MFXlhkuHkw.O4oukpJTyUg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Cambodian scavenger (L) collects empty cans of soft drink and bottles of drinking water as a school child (R) sits next to her drinking a soft drink in 2008. People who drink at least two sugary soft drinks a day have an increased risk of contracting cancer of the pancreas, a study published Monday shows.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_singapore_religion nm/20100209/us_singapore_religion Reuters topstories Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:48:08 GMT Reuters - Singapore has warned a Christian pastor that his online videos are offensive to Buddhists and Taoists, underlining the city-state's concerns that religion is a potential faultline for its multicultural society. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_taiwan_submarines nm/20100209/us_taiwan_submarines Reuters topstories Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:25:39 GMT Reuters - Taiwan has effectively dropped a request for U.S. submarines to help shore up the balance of power with political rival China, a military source said on Tuesday, dissolving what could be a new rift in tense Sino-U.S. ties. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/ukrainevote afp/20100209/ukrainevote AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:34:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/ukrainevote"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265740382669-7-0.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=aG8EDZOFxDDqY2V56pnNOw--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Ukraine's Prime Minister and the presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko makes a statement for the results of exit-pols after the second round of Presidential elections in her headquarters in Kiev on February 7. Tymoshenko will challenge the results of the bitterly contested election, aides said Tuesday, intensifying fears the country is heading for political turmoil.(AFP/File/Viktor Drachev)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Ukraine's defeated presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko will challenge the results of the bitterly contested election, aides said Tuesday, intensifying fears the country is heading for political turmoil.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/ukrainevote"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265740382669-7-0.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=aG8EDZOFxDDqY2V56pnNOw--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="photo" title="Ukraine's Prime Minister and the presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko makes a statement for the results of exit-pols after the second round of Presidential elections in her headquarters in Kiev on February 7. Tymoshenko will challenge the results of the bitterly contested election, aides said Tuesday, intensifying fears the country is heading for political turmoil.(AFP/File/Viktor Drachev)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_ukraine_election nm/20100209/us_ukraine_election Reuters topstories Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:26:51 GMT Reuters - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko launched action on Tuesday to call rival Viktor Yanukovich's election into question, ignoring international endorsement of the poll and threatening a lengthy legal battle. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/279093 csm/20100209/279093 The Christian Science Monitor topstories Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:07:25 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped below 10000 for the first time since early November. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/australiachinaresourcesminingcoalhongkong afp/20100209/australiachinaresourcesminingcoalhongkong AFP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:01:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/australiachinaresourcesminingcoalhongkong"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265703646076-4-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=0EnMxWNFs_fuXQMzLWHAHw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="A BHP Billiton-issued photo shows the Illawarra coal mine in New South Wales. Australian mining company Resourcehouse Tuesday admitted giving the wrong name for a Chinese firm involved in a 60-billion-US-dollar coal deal, but insisted the agreement was genuine.(AFP/BHP Billiton/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - An Australian mining company Tuesday admitted giving the wrong name for a Chinese firm involved in a 60-billion-US-dollar coal deal, but insisted the agreement was genuine.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/australiachinaresourcesminingcoalhongkong"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265703646076-4-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=0EnMxWNFs_fuXQMzLWHAHw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="A BHP Billiton-issued photo shows the Illawarra coal mine in New South Wales. Australian mining company Resourcehouse Tuesday admitted giving the wrong name for a Chinese firm involved in a 60-billion-US-dollar coal deal, but insisted the agreement was genuine.(AFP/BHP Billiton/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_weather_usa nm/20100210/us_weather_usa Reuters topstories Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:38:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_weather_usa"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r4040336112.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=9JKhnsJ4jFzL7Ahf1cYbmA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Cars drive in single file down the normally four lane-wide 18th Street NW in downtown Washington, February 8, 2010. The federal government announced it would remain closed on Monday and most schools planned to shut down as residents of the mid-Atlantic struggled to dig out from a blizzard that dumped two feet of snow on the region. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The second major snowstorm in less than a week hit the U.S. East Coast on Tuesday, with predictions of 12 inches or more stretching from Washington, D.C., to New York City, forcing schools to close and the U.S. Congress to sharply curtail legislative action.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_weather_usa"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r4040336112.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=9JKhnsJ4jFzL7Ahf1cYbmA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Cars drive in single file down the normally four lane-wide 18th Street NW in downtown Washington, February 8, 2010. The federal government announced it would remain closed on Monday and most schools planned to shut down as residents of the mid-Atlantic struggled to dig out from a blizzard that dumped two feet of snow on the region. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_iran_nuclear nm/20100209/us_iran_nuclear Reuters world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:54:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_iran_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265755364196-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=7mhgBkCn5vI2csbSPsk94A--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="An Iranian security guard stands in front of the building housing the nuclear reactor in the Iranian port town of Bushehr. US President Barack Obama warned Iran on Tuesday that he would isolate the Islamic republic with a "significant regime of sanctions" if it continued to set its stall on developing nuclear weapons.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the international community was moving "fairly quickly" toward imposing broader sanctions on Iran, as the Islamic Republic defiantly expanded its nuclear program.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_iran_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265755364196-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=7mhgBkCn5vI2csbSPsk94A--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="An Iranian security guard stands in front of the building housing the nuclear reactor in the Iranian port town of Bushehr. US President Barack Obama warned Iran on Tuesday that he would isolate the Islamic republic with a "significant regime of sanctions" if it continued to set its stall on developing nuclear weapons.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_healthcare nm/20100209/us_usa_healthcare Reuters politics Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:02:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_healthcare"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r1079045888.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=I4eknlKT2zuikywWyUDiew--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at Democratic National Committee winter meeting in Washington February 6, 2010. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas" border="0" /></a>Reuters - President Barack Obama's call for a healthcare summit including both his fellow Democrats and Republicans sets the stage for a final push to get stalled legislation through Congress, but skeptical Republicans said on Monday the only solution is to start over.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_healthcare"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r1079045888.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=I4eknlKT2zuikywWyUDiew--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at Democratic National Committee winter meeting in Washington February 6, 2010. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)