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Thursday, March 26, 2015

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Germanwings crash: Students, singers among the victims
They were high school exchange students, heading home after a week in Spain. Opera singers fresh off a show in Barcelona. An architect from Colombia who'd gone across the Atlantic to work in Africa. An Australian nurse on vacation with her son.

North Korea's foreign mission: Bake baguettes
Well-off North Koreans really love baguettes -- and the country is dispatching citizens outside its borders to learn how to make them, says a report by a pro-North Korea newspaper based in Japan.

U.S.
New Bergdahl letter outlines torture
House Speaker John Boehner said Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is "innocent until proven guilty" after the U.S. military charged him with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, but emphasized in an exclusive interview with CNN's Dana Bash that he was more concerned about the circumstances of his release.

10 nutritionists share the McDonald's meals they'd order
The scenario goes a little something like this: You're on a long drive, the road ahead is completely bare and your stomach is making noises louder than the radio.

Blue Bell recalls ice cream cups that could contain listeria
Blue Bell ice cream has added another product to the list of items it's recalling over potential contamination with listeria.

Angelina Jolie has ovaries, fallopian tubes removed to cut cancer risk
Two years after she underwent a double mastectomy to cut her cancer risk, actress and U.N. envoy Angelina Jolie has had surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes for the same reason, she wrote in The New York Times on Tuesday.

WORLD
Report: Pilot locked out of cockpit before Germanwings plane crash
Latest developments:

Tunisian town near 'Star Wars' backdrop now features in battle against ISIS
The desert and dun-colored cliffs around the town of Tataouine were once the backdrop for the movie "Star Wars," much of which was filmed in this neglected corner of Tunisia in 1976. This struggling town on the fringes of the Sahara still draws a few fans of the movie but now finds itself part of a real conflict, as a way-station for jihadists crossing the Libyan border 60 miles to the east.

CNN exclusive: 'ISIS recruits Afghans' in chilling video
It is a strangely formal, yet troubling scene. A room in a far flung corner of Afghanistan where a serious lecture is happening, to an audience that seems part ideological, part curious; some are just impoverished, hoping for a quick job.

Why Putin's hosting Kim Jong Un
What does a world leader who's been shunned by the international community and strained relations with every major global power do to show that he still has some friends?

BUSINESS
Warning signs in the housing market
Do consumers and investors need to be worried about another housing bubble?

Dow tumbles 292 points as economy shows cracks
Wall Street is no longer cheering bad economic news.

HEALTH
Learning from Angelina Jolie's genetic testing for our own health
You may be more like Angelina Jolie than you think.

What happened to your body by skipping the gym this winter?
No matter how dedicated you are to fitness, sooner or later, it's going to happen: You're going to skip a workout ... and another ... and another. Maybe you can blame the weather, a vacation, a mile-high pile of paperwork at the office or just your run-of-the-mill funk. Whatever the reason, before you know it, you're out of shape.

TECHNOLOGY
NASA's Opportunity rover celebrates Mars marathon milestone
It certainly won't be troubling any earth-based runners' personal bests, but NASA's long-serving Mars rover Opportunity set a significant benchmark Tuesday as it clocked in 26.219 miles (42 kilometers) -- the first-ever Martian marathon.

Contact lens with built-in telescope could help people with blinding disease
Lights, mirrors, action! Scientists are developing smart contact lenses embedded with miniscule mirrors that can magnify your vision by almost three times.

ENTERTAINMENT
Zayn Malik leaving One Direction
That sound you just heard was the crash of hearts breaking all over the world.

Does 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt' go too far?
Tina Fey's follow-up to "30 Rock" is getting a lot of attention, not all of it good.

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