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The authors present preliminary results of the analyses of B[sup+][yields] h[sup+][pi][sup 0] (with H[sup+]=[pi][sup+], K[sup+]) and B[sup 0][yields] K[sup 0][pi][sup 0] decays from a sample of approximately 88 million b[bar B] pairs collected by the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC. They measure the[pi][sup+][pi][sup 0] branching fraction and they obtain[Beta](B[sup+][yields][pi][sup+][pi][sup 0])= (5.5[sub -0.9][sup+1.0][+-] 0.6) x 10[sup -6] with a significance of 7.7[sigma] including systematic uncertainties. The measure the K[sup+][pi][sup 0] and K[sup 0][pi][sup 0] branching fractions to be[Beta](B[sup+][yields] K[sup+][pi][sup 0])= (12.8[sub -1.1][sup+1.2][+-] 1.0) x 10[sup -6] and[Beta](B[sup 0][yields] K[sup 0][pi][sup 0])= (10.4[+-] 1.5[+-] 0.8) x 10[sup -6]. At the same time, the direct CP-violating asymmetries are investigated and they find[Alpha][sub[pi][sup+][pi][sup 0]]= -0.03[sub -0.17][sup+0.18][+-] 0.02, [Alpha][sub K[sup+][pi][sup 0]]= -0.09[+-] 0.09[+-] 0.01and[Alpha][sub K[sup 0][pi][sup 0]]= 0.03[+-] 0.36[+-] 0.09, where the errors are statistical and systematic, respectively.