Again We Aggregate The Aggregators. Aggravating, Innit?

1. Gulf Spill May Be 5 Times Bigger Than First Thought
   With about 210,000 gallons of new oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico every day, the slick could match the Exxon Valdez disaster in less than two months.
   Read original story in BBC | Thursday, April 29, 2010
2. Man Stabs 31 Children and Teachers in Chinese Kindergarten
   The second such incident in two days has sparked calls for more measures to protect China's students.
   Read original story in Reuters | Thursday, April 29, 2010
3. GOP Will Permit Debate on Financial Reform
   As soon as Harry Reid threatened to make them spend the night on the Senate floor, Republicans agreed to stop filibustering.
   Read original story in Talking Points Memo | Wednesday, April 28, 2010
4. "Choking Game" Kills 12-Year-Old California Boy
   Found in cardiac arrest, the boy had tied a rope around his neck in an attempt to achieve a quick euphoric high.
   Read original story in The Associated Press | Thursday, April 29, 2010
5. Transgender Student Has "IT" Carved Into His Chest
   A graduate student at Cal State Long Beach was attacked in a campus restroom earlier this month. Authorities are investigating the attack as a hate crime.
   Read original story in The Los Angeles Times | Thursday, April 29, 2010
6. Obama Approves First Offshore Wind Farm
   The Cape Wind project has been planned for Nantucket Sound, but construction could be prevented by environmentalists and angry Massachusetts residents (including the Kennedys).
   Read original story in The New York Times | Wednesday, April 28, 2010
7. U.S. Navy Expected to Open Up Submarines to Women
   It would require modifications to the living quarters, but the United States Navy plans to finally follow through with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates' announcement of intention made back in February.
   Read original story in CNN | Thursday, April 29, 2010
8. Charlie Crist Will Run as Independent
   Polls showed Crist trailing Marco Rubio by 32 points in the race for the Republican nomination but by just four points in the general election.
   Read original story in The St. Petersburg Times | Wednesday, April 28, 2010
9. Democratic Republic of Congo Called Rape Capital of the World
   A senior UN official, and sexual violence in conflict specialist, told the UN Security Council that more than 8,000 women were raped during fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2009.
   Read original story in BBC | Thursday, April 29, 2010
10. Supreme Court OKs Cross on Federal Land
    The case split the Court's liberals and conservatives down the middle, but even ideological allies found little to agree on in the case of a VFW memorial cross that stands on federal land in California. The nine justices released six different opinions, and none of them spoke for the majority.
    Read original story in The Associated Press | Wednesday, April 28, 2010
11. John Deere Opens Moscow Factory 
    Because everyone in Missouri already has a tractor.
    Read original story in Reuters | Wednesday, April 28, 2010
12. That's Sir Peter Jackson To You
    The writer and director was knighted in his native New Zealand, the location where the majority of his Academy Award-winning Lord of the Rings was filmed.
    Read original story in CNN | Thursday, April 29, 2010