How McCain and Obama match up on top issues (Independent Online)
Here are the positions of Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain on some of the main issues in the US presidential campaign...

Inequities Are Killing People On A "Grand Scale" Reports WHO's Commission (Medical News Today)
A child born in a Glasgow, Scotland suburb can expect a life 28 years shorter than another living only 13 kilometers away. A girl in Lesotho is likely to live 42 years less than another in Japan. In Sweden, the risk of a woman dying during pregnancy and childbirth is 1 in 17,400; in Afghanistan, the odds are 1 in 8. Biology does not explain any of this.

Was Superman born in Cleveland? A new plot twist in superhero's origins (Detroit Free Press)
On the night of June 2, 1932, the world's first superhero was born -- not on the mythical planet of Krypton but from a little-known tragedy on the streets of Cleveland.

A brave man takes on a lonely peace mission in 1758 (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
On Aug. 31, 1758, Christian Frederick Post was the loneliest man in Pennsylvania. Post was a humble 48-year-old furniture joiner and Moravian missionary in the middle of a life-defining challenge.