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Fears of new war in Sudan's troubled Nuba Mountains (AFP)

AFP - Air raids may no longer target the highlands of central Sudan, but heads still turn sharply to scan the skies at the sound of an aeroplane engine overhead.

Pakistan military closes in on Taliban stronghold (AP)

AP - Pakistani forces killed two dozen militants in 24 hours and were closing in on a prominent insurgent stronghold in the mountains of South Waziristan, the army said Friday.

3 bodies found in US plane wreckage in Afghanistan (AP)

AP - NATO-led forces say they have recovered the remains of three civilian crew from the wreckage of a U.S. Army plane that crashed two weeks ago in the rugged mountains of northeastern Afghanistan.

Afghan official says aircraft crashes (AP)

AP - Security forces searched a remote area of northern Afghanistan on Thursday after villagers reported an unidentified aircraft crashed into the towering Hindu Kush mountains.

Pakistan soldiers killed in capital ambush: hospital (AFP)

AFP - Gunmen riding a motorbike ambushed a military jeep in Pakistan's capital, unleashing a hail of bullets that killed two soldiers in a brazen daylight raid on Thursday, officials said.

Suspicions over latest probe into Armstrong team (AP)

AP - There is something fishy about France's latest probe into the former team of seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong.

An Astronomer's Astronomer: Kepler's Revolutionary Achievements in 1609 Rival Galileo's

Four hundred years ago this year, two events marked what scientists and historians today regard as the birth of modern astronomy. The first of them, the beginning of Galileo's telescopic observations , has been immortalized by playwrights and authors and widely publicized as the cornerstone anniversary for the International Year of Astronomy . Through his looking glass , the Italian astronomer saw the mountains and valleys of the moon, the satellites of Jupiter, and sunspots --observations that would play a huge role in discrediting the prevailing, church-endorsed view of an Earth-centered cosmos.

Former nurse's aide in U.S. becomes Ugandan king (AP)

AP - For years, Charles Wesley Mumbere worked as a nurse's aide in Maryland and Pennsylvania, caring for the elderly and sick. No one there suspected that he had inherited a royal title in his African homeland when he was just 13.

In Afghanistan, Army cook transforms rations into a mean burrito (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - The anticipation is palpable on Mexican night at this tiny US base in the mountains of Paktika Province in eastern Afghanistan. Every Thursday, soldiers start lining up an hour early as Spc. Jose Flores hand-rolls more than 200 made-to-order burritos for the base. The creative cook has earned something of a cult following in his unit for his ability to transform military rations into tasty meals.

Leaving Iraq ends US mission veiled in ambivalence (AP)

AP - EDITOR'S NOTE — Since January, AP correspondent Hamza Hendawi has embedded at regular intervals with a U.S. infantry company in Baghdad to gauge how the military mission in Iraq is changing. Here, Hendawi accompanies the unit on its journey back to the United States.

A nurse's aide in US to be crowned African king (AP)

AP - An African man who worked for years as a nurse's aide in the United States, caring for the elderly and sick, is back in his homeland to be crowned king of his people in the mountains of western Uganda.

Looming storm prompts Philippines evacuation call (AP)

AP - Officials told residents still reeling from mudslides that recently buried hundreds in the northern Philippine mountains to be ready to abandon their homes again if a storm approaching Friday becomes the third typhoon in a month to hit the country.