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TODAY: ISRAEL PALESTINIANS GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israel seized control of high-rise buildings and attacked houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels as it pressed its offensive against the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers on Monday, even as a stream of European leaders headed to the region to push for a truce.

An interactive map with photos and videos from the conflict is in the international/israelgaza folder.

An interactive map with photos from protests around the world is in the international/israelgazaprotests folder.

Related stories: Israel-Palestinians, UN-Israel-Palestinians; US-Mideast GAZA PROTESTS LONDON Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in European cities on Saturday against Israel's bombardment of Gaza, including protesters who hurled shoes at the tall iron gates outside the British prime minister's residence in London and waved Palestinian flags.

An interactive map showing protests around the world will be updated today and will be available in the international/israelgaza protests folder.

Related story: Europe-Gaza Protests SRI LANKA-Civil War COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Sri Lankan forces overran another village Monday and moved closer to seizing a strategic base from the Tamil Tigers, but concerns are mounting for the hundreds of thousands of civilians living in the rebels' shrinking territory.

UPDATED: A slideshow of events in Sri Lanka is available in the international/tamilassault folder.

Related story: Sri Lanka-Civil War CONFEDERATE SUBMARINE NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. It could be one of the nation's oldest cold case files: What happened to eight Confederate sailors aboard the HL Hunley after it became the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship? Its fate has been the subject of almost 150 years of conjecture and almost a decade of scientific research since the Hunley was raised back in 2000. But the submarine has been agonizingly slow surrendering her secrets.

NEW: An audio slideshow on scientists studying the submarine is available in the national/confederatesubmarine folder.

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HOMEFRONT HAMLET-GRANDMOTHER'S DUTY HAMLET, N.C. When her son got his orders to head back to Iraq, Rosa Lamourt hatched her scheme to keep him stateside. She didn't sleep much during the four months Spc. Jobel Barbosa spent in Iraq in 2004, driving a Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle with the North Carolina National Guard. The idea of her only son, born when she was just 15, spending an entire year overseas was too much. So when Barbosa a 29-year-old single father asked his mother to care for his daughter Christian, as she'd done during his first deployment, she simply refused. "I thought that if he didn't have anyone to watch (Christian), they wouldn't send him," Lamourt said recently. "Maybe they would say no." NEW: An interactive featuring video, biographies and an audio slideshow on some of the soldiers from Hamlet, N.C., and their friends and families left behind is available in the national/homefronthamlet folder.

Related Story: Homefront Hamlet-Grandmother's Duty Japan-SPORT OF SAMURAI ZUSHI, Japan It is about as far from the Olympic sport of archery as it can get. The bow is taller than the person shooting it and looks lopsided. And it is done on horseback, at upward of 40 mph. Yabusame is the sport of the samurai, dating back almost a century.

An audio slideshow on yabusame, Japanese horseback archery, is available in the international/japanarchery folder.

Related story: Japan-Sport of Samurai INAUGURATION: OBAMA QUIZ Test your Obama knowledge with an interactive quiz, in the lifestyles/obamaquiz folder.

Related story: Obama-Geek-in-Chief OBAMA'S GIRLS A slideshow of children in the White House is available in the wdc/firstkids folder.

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WHITE HOUSE MAKEOVER An interactive with nine interior designers' suggestions for the Obama White House is in the lifestyles/whitehouseredesign folder.

NFL PLAYOFF GAMES: THE ROAD TO THE SUPER BOWL An interactive previewing the upcoming NFL playoff games, through the Super Bowl on Feb. 1, is in the sports/nfl08/playoffbracket folder and will be updated as each round is played.

COLLEGE Football BOWL GAMES: HOLIDAY BOWLS An interactive previewing the upcoming college football bowl games, through the national championship game on Jan. 8, is in the sports/fbc08/bowlpreview folder and will be updated as each game is played.

LIFESTYLES: SECRET TO CRISPY CHICKEN: SNACK FOODS If you want crunchy breaded chicken, you need to start with crunchy ingredients. That's one of the problems with most baked "fried" chicken recipes. They coat the chicken with flour- or bread crumb-based coatings that rely on you to make them crispy.

Substituting a coating that starts life crispy long before it ever meets up with the chicken removes that element of chance.

NEW: An audio slideshow with a ready-to-print recipe card on how to prepare Potato Chip and Pretzel Baked Chicken is available in the lifestyles/pretzelchicken folder.

Related story: Food-Deadline-Baked Fried Chicken.

SPECIAL FEATURES: MEASURE OF A NATION This is the latest entry in "Measure of a Nation," a yearlong series about the presidency and the 2008 election as seen through the prism of the culture. Stories in this package will continue until Inauguration Day.

MEASURE OF A NATION-VICTORY'S WORDS He spoke about posterity, and for it. But in looking forward at his finest hour, Barack Obama never forgot to look back. In a victory speech stirring not only for its content but for its journey into American yesterdays, the president-elect lionized and derided through the campaign for his speaking abilities managed to bask in party triumph even as he summoned his constituents-in-waiting to service and hope. The line between political speeches and presidential ones is usually axiomatic: They're political, or they're presidential. What Obama delivered Tuesday night was something in between an eloquent agenda built for the 21st century but crackling with the 1960s.

This story and all past installments of the Measure of a Nation series which includes stories, videos and anImations are packaged in an interactive in the national/measurenation folder.

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Related story: Measure of a Nation-Victory's Words THE WORLD IN PHOTOS: DAILY PHOTO GALLERY A daily look at the best Associated Press photos from around the country and world. Hosted Custom News subscribers can access this gallery in the dailygallery folder. FTP subscribers can find it in the PhotoGallery folder. (Monday - Friday).

PHOTO WEEK GALLERY A weekly roundup of the best Associated Press photos from around the country and world. Hosted Custom News subscribers can access this gallery in the photoweek folder. FTP subscribers can find it in the PhotoGallery folder. (Friday).

SPORTS WEEK GALLERY A weekly roundup of the best sports photos from the Associated Press. Hosted Custom News subscribers can access this gallery in the sportsweekpix/swf folder. FTP subscribers can access this gallery in the PhotoGallery folder. (Monday).

ENTERTAINMENT WEEK GALLERY A weekly roundup of the best entertainment photos from the Associated Press. Hosted Custom News and FTP subscribers can access this gallery in the entweek folder. (Monday).

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AP INSIDE BUSINESS: AP's Greg Stec gives a weekly look at the world of business. Weekly, Thursday.

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AP CELEBRITY FOCUS: Celebrity newsmakers in exclusive and uncut interviews with AP. Weekly, Monday.

AP ON BROADWAY: Conversations with the top stars on Broadway.

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