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BBC News |
11:35pm PST |
Corsican MP shot dead at airport |
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Summary: Corsican politician and casino boss Robert Feliciaggi is shot dead after leaving a plane at Ajaccio airport. |
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BBC News |
9:21pm PST |
Blunkett wins affair claim payout |
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Summary: A paper is to pay damages to ex-home secretary David Blunkett over false claims of an affair with an estate agent. |
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Cnn.com |
6:36pm PST |
Crikey! Is she really our queen? |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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BBC News |
4:47pm PST |
Fourth flight for biggest Ariane |
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Summary: Europe's most powerful rocket - the Ariane 5-ECA - launches from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. |
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BBC News |
4:24pm PST |
Hope for Huntington's treatment |
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Summary: A compound that blocks the progress of Huntington's disease raises hopes of a new treatment. |
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BBC News |
3:41pm PST |
Progress at Horn of Africa talks |
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Summary: Talks to end a border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea end with what diplomats say is a measure of progress. |
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BBC News |
2:29pm PST |
Jowell out of Cabinet Iran talks |
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Summary: Tessa Jowell has been absent from some Cabinet talks since 2003 due to her husband's dealings, it emerges. |
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CrossMap |
12:00pm PST |
Go and do Likewise |
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Summary: Jesus didn't intend the story to be merely entertaining. He was serious about the "Go and do likewise." |
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Yahoo News |
11:48am PST |
Michelle Bachelet sworn in as Chile's first woman president
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Michelle Bachelet was sworn in as Chile's first woman president, as socially conservative Chile moves boldly out of the shadow of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. |
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Yahoo News |
11:34am PST |
Details Emerge About U.S. Hostage's Death
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The body of an American man taken hostage with three other Christian peace activists late last year was found near a railroad line in Baghdad with gunshots to his head and chest, Iraqi police said Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:28am PST |
Memphis Tops UAB to Win Conference Crown
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Shawne Williams scored 18 points and Joey Dorsey had 10 points and 12 rebounds Saturday as No. 5 Memphis beat No. 24 UAB 57-46 in the Conference USA Tournament championship game. |
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Yahoo News |
11:14am PST |
Milosevic death robs victims of justice, foes say
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Foes of Slobodan Milosevic said on
Saturday the unexpected death in prison of the man they blamed
for the bloodshed in the Balkans in the 1990s meant justice had
been cheated. |
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Yahoo News |
11:13am PST |
Friends of murdered US hostage urge no retribution
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Friends of U.S. peace activist Tom
Fox, who was kidnapped and killed in Iraq, cited his stance
against retribution on Saturday and called for the remembrance
of all victims of violence around the world. |
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Yahoo News |
11:11am PST |
Developer Fights for WTC Rebuilding Rights
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Larry Silverstein ran the World Trade Center for just six weeks, signing a lucrative lease for the 110-story twin towers in the summer of 2001 only to watch terrorists destroy them on Sept. 11. |
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Yahoo News |
10:55am PST |
Chile Swears in First Female President
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Michelle Bachelet, a Socialist pediatrician who suffered prison, torture and exile under Chile's military dictatorship, was sworn in as the nation's first female president on Saturday. |
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BBC News |
10:42am PST |
Milosevic found dead in his cell |
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Summary: Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is found dead in his cell in The Hague, where he has been on trial on war crimes charges since 2001. |
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Yahoo News |
10:40am PST |
Milosevic dies in jail as trial neared end
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Slobodan Milosevic, branded the
"butcher of the Balkans" for the wars that tore Yugoslavia
apart in the 1990s, was found dead in his cell on Saturday,
just months before his trial was expected to conclude. |
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Theophiles |
10:34am PST |
Who Needs God? |
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Summary: From Godspy:
In 1969 Woody Allen had an hour-long television special on ABC. It featured what you'd expect—some classic stand-up shtick and a couple of skits. But toward the middle of the hour, it included something so strange I will never forget it. T |
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Theophiles |
10:34am PST |
Betting on Alpha |
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Summary: A young man with a guitar stands up and sings a Blues Traveler tune. He's off-key but enthusiastic, and people clap politely. Then a tough-looking but pleasant-spoken man takes the floor and describes a life of drug abuse, broken families, knife wounds, t |
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Theophiles |
10:34am PST |
Mega Church: Networked Special Edition (PC Game): Computer & Video Games |
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Summary: From Amazon (OK, not really):
Product Description
* Pastor a simulated church and create your own Christian empire
* Build a church from the ground up
* Hire and fire staff
* Deal with idiots, naive volunteers, and denominational ego |
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Crosswalk |
10:34am PST |
Black and White: Training Kids in a Racist Culture |
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Summary: We can't afford to let an FX reality show teach our teens about racial reconciliation, but we can certainly use it to start the conversation. |
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Crosswalk |
10:33am PST |
Shame-Free Parenting For Dummies |
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Summary: How are we supposed to tell our kids the truth about our mistakes without tempting them to follow in our footsteps? |
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Crosswalk |
10:33am PST |
Corinth, Jacinto, Shiloh |
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Summary: Good news from China and Thailand regarding An Anchor for the Soul, plus this is "get it done" day becuase tomorrow my brother Andy and I are taking a Civil War tour to Corinth, Jacinto and Shiloh. |
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BBC News |
10:28am PST |
Probes ordered into Fraser case |
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Summary: Investigations are launched after it emerged that evidence was not made available to a murder trial. |
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Yahoo News |
10:28am PST |
Slobodan Milosevic Dies in Prison Cell
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, the so-called "butcher of the Balkans" being tried for war crimes after orchestrating a decade of bloodshed during his country's breakup, was found dead Saturday in his prison cell. He was 64. |
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BBC News |
10:27am PST |
Pensioner dies in blaze at house |
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Summary: An elderly man dies in a house fire in County Armagh, despite the efforts of a neighbour to try to save him. |
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Yahoo News |
10:25am PST |
Foster Agrees to 3-Year Deal With Panthers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - DeShaun Foster agreed to a three-year, $14.5 million contract with the Carolina Panthers that finally makes him their star running back. |
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Yahoo News |
10:19am PST |
US hostage killed in Iraq
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The body of a kidnapped U.S. peace
activist was found bound and shot in Baghdad, police said on
Saturday, while President George W. Bush warned Americans of
more fighting and sacrifice before U.S. troops could come home. |
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BBC News |
10:06am PST |
Bush adviser charged with thefts |
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Summary: US President Bush says he is "shocked" as his former political adviser Claude Allen is charged with alleged theft. |
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Yahoo News |
10:05am PST |
No Word on Slain U.S. Hostage's Fellows
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The body of an American man taken hostage with three other Christian peace activists late last year was found near a railroad line in Baghdad with gunshots to his head and chest, Iraqi police said Saturday. |
