• Three European scientists share the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine.  [Associated Press]

• The Board of New York City Opera is slightly taken aback by news that Gerard Mortier is also seeking a directorship in Germany.  [New York Times]

• Across New York, nonprofit organizations are anxiously tracking the demise of longtime donors.  [Washington Post]

• The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America is pushing to revoke the charter of its Rhode Island chapter.  [Boston Globe]

• Pilot of plane carrying humanitarian workers reports trouble before crashing in Guatemala.  [Associated Press]

• Stanford University to severely restrict industry financing of doctors' continuing education at its medical school.  [New York Times]

• Farmers markets nationwide accept food stamps.  [Associated Press]

• Clinton's Foundation to focus efforts on fighting AIDS in the United States.  [Associated Press]

• Coach Pat Summitt will donate $600,000 to the University of Tennessee.  [Associated Press]

• Citgo, the Venezuelan-owned oil company, is making a $1.5 million donation to the nonprofit group CASA to help fund programs for low-income workers.  [Washington Post]

• New York City's Health & Hospitals Corporation has signed a ten-year, $100 million contract with a profit-making medical school in the Caribbean.  [New York Times]

• Bill Gates and Mike Bloomberg announce a $500 million pledge to stop people around the world from smoking.  [New York Times]

• A lively debate in the arts world begins about just what cultural equity means.  [New York Times]

• The ACLU announces the largest fundraising campaign in its 88-year history.  [Associated Press]

• UN says that the numbers of people newly infected with HIV are outpacing the numbers beginning antiretroviral drug treatments.  [Associated Press]

• New York State is investigating the charitable foundation of Anne Hathaway's boyfriend.  [Associated Press]

• Forty thousand people - including Condoleezza Rice and Cynthia Nixon - participate in Washington's Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.  [Washington Post]

• A federal audit of Teach for America finds that the organization did not properly account for $775,000 in government money.  [New York Times]

• The number of smaller private foundations continues to grow.  [New York Times]

•   The U.N. Secretary General flies to Myanmar at a "critical moment" in the delivery of relief to the devastated country.  [New York Times]

•   At Virginia Commonwealth University, research money from Philip Morris comes with strings.  [New York Times]

•  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation honors the Aravind Eye Care System in India with a $1 million prize - the largest such prize in international health.  [Associated Press]

• David Rockefeller donates $100 million to Harvard University.  [Associated Press]

• Olympic sponsors respond to Mia Farrow's Dream for Darfur group, which recently issued a report card criticizing corporate progress in confronting China's human rights policies.  [New York Times]

• UN announces a global initiative to fight malaria.  [Associated Press]

• Sharply rising food prices threaten UN-backed feeding programs for 20 million children.  [Washington Post]

• The Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, Connecticut unveils a nine-month, $1.5 million restoration project.  [New York Times]

• Midlife and older adults explore internships in nonprofits as a way to try something new.  [New York Times]

• A new nonprofit institution plans to build a $115 million stem cell research facility in San Diego.  [Associated Press]

• Verna Dautervive donates $25 million to USC in memory of her husband.  [Los Angeles Times]

• AT&T gives $100 million to address the problem of high school dropouts.  [New York Times]

• Diana and Stephen Goldberg donate $25 million to the Children's National Medical Center in Washington.  [Washington Post]

• The financial director of Guggenheim Bilbao is fired after embezzling more than $775,000.  [New York Times]

• Dorothy and Herbert Vogel will distribute 2,500 contemporary artworks throughout the country, with 50 pieces going to a selected art institution in each state.  [Los Angeles Times]