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You forgot the part where you get all ready to post the article and you get a message telling you that what you posted under news can only be posted in bloggers or chat. So you have to start all over.
Oshkalaboomboom is correct in #3. Search one or more major words in the title box. Currently if you search “kabul”, you will find different headlines from different news sources about the same story of troops being sent into Afghanistan. Whole titles do not work well.