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Hundreds gathered Tuesday to watch flames burn from rows of makeshift furnaces at cremation ceremonies for the young children and others who died in last week's killings at a day care center.

Melissa Block speaks with Dora Jones, director of the Cheaha Regional Head Start in Talladega, Alabama, to gauge the effect of a recent $10 million private donation to the National Head Start Association.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 6.8 magnitude earthquake centered just off the Pacific Coast, about 50 miles south of Guayaquil, Ecuador's second-largest city.

Companies from IBM to GM have opened stores in the three-dimensional online gaming world, but they have yet to see any virtual profits. Eli Noam, director of the Columbia Center for Tele-Information at Columbia University talks with Steve Inskeep about a recent conference hosted by the center on business opportunities in the virtual world.

U.S. officials say the terror scheme disrupted in London is "suggestive" of al-Qaida. British authorities arrested 21 people in what they describe as an ongoing investigation. John Brennan, former head of the National Counterrorism Center, speaks with Renee Montagne.

American Special Operations personnel in Iraq have been instrumental in shaping U.S. military strategy in the country, say experts. Michele Norris talks with Michael Vickers, director of Strategic Studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Vickers, a former captain in the Special Forces, was an operations officer in the CIA.

No-kill animal shelters across the southern U.S. are overcrowded and have few alternatives to find more space or staff. Much of the problem is due to pandemic pets that people don't want anymore.

Elections workers are counting votes cast in Thursday's Afghan presidential election. Early reports suggest voting in the south's largest city, Kandahar, was light. Hardin Lang, an election observer in Kandahar, says that starting at about 3 a.m., gunfire, rocket fire and mortar fire could be heard, adding to an overall sense of tension in the area.

Spring is a busy time for the people charged with rehabilitating animals that are injured or orphaned. Right now, it's baby squirrel season across much of the country.

Italy has opened a detention center for migrants in Albania to discourage others from crossing the Mediterranean Sea.