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BBC News |
10:02am PST |
Ledger's ex-fiancee 'heartbroken' |
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Summary: Michelle Williams, ex-partner of late actor Heath Ledger, asks to grieve in private, saying: "My heart is broken." |
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BBC News |
9:59am PST |
Football: Benjani faces wait |
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Summary: Portsmouth will have to wait until next week before they discover whether the Premier League will sanction Benjani's transfer to Man City. |
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Yahoo News |
9:56am PST |
Kenya's parties agree plan to stop violence
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Kenya's feuding parties agreed on
Friday to a four-point framework for talks they expect will
resolve a violent political crisis within 15 days, chief
mediator and former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said. |
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BBC News |
9:54am PST |
Alexander 'should list' donations |
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Summary: A Holyrood watchdog says Wendy Alexander needs to declare Labour leadership campaign donations. |
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Cnn.com |
9:54am PST |
Report hints at confession in Holloway case |
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BBC News |
9:44am PST |
Germany rejects troops appeal |
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Summary: Germany turns down a US appeal to send more troops to Afghanistan, amid signs of strain in the Nato mission. |
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BBC News |
9:44am PST |
Germany rejects US troops appeal |
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Summary: Germany turns down a US appeal to send more troops to Afghanistan, amid signs of strain in the Nato mission. |
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Yahoo News |
9:44am PST |
Bush sees 'troubling signs' for economy
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush prodded Congress to pass an economic stimulus package Friday, pointing to "troubling signs" in a new report that ended a 52-month streak of national job growth. |
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Yahoo News |
9:40am PST |
Bush sees serious signs U.S. economy is weakening
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush
on Friday said there were troubling signs of economic weakening
and urged Congress to move on a stimulus package to help prop
up the economy, which has been hit by a housing slump and
credit crisis. |
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Cnn.com |
9:34am PST |
3rd undersea Internet cable cut in Mideast |
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Summary: Repair ships are going to the site of two undersea cables which were damaged this week, snarling Internet and phone traffic across the Middle East and parts of Asia, the cables' owner said Friday.
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Yahoo News |
9:29am PST |
Obama and Clinton say jobs drop shows need for jolt
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential candidates
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama called on Friday for Congress
to broaden its planned stimulus package after new data showed a
drop in U.S. employment. |
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ChristianPost |
9:27am PST |
U.S. Kids Send Love Letters to Comfort Kenya |
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Summary: American children are sending “Letters of Love” to orphans in Kenya to remind them that there are people who care about them as they live amid the country’s emotionally-charged post-election ... |
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Yahoo News |
9:26am PST |
Payrolls drop for first time since 2003
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Nervous employers cut 17,000 jobs in January — the first such reduction in more than four years and a fresh sign that the economy is in danger of stalling. |
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BBC News |
9:15am PST |
PM's boost for school sports |
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Summary: Prime minister Gordon Brown announces an initiative to encourage children to do more sport in school. |
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BBC News |
9:15am PST |
Text driver faces jail over death |
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Summary: A woman is convicted of causing death by dangerous driving after she drove into a cyclist while texting. |
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Cnn.com |
9:12am PST |
Bush: 'Troubling signs' for economy |
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OneNewsNowPress |
9:04am PST |
Calif. school board decides church volunteer work now 'community service' |
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Summary:
A California school board has settled a lawsuit by amending its policies and accepting a student's community service hours at church.
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BBC News |
9:02am PST |
Twin bombs kill scores in Baghdad |
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Summary: Two mentally disabled women were used to carry bombs that were detonated remotely in Baghdad, officials say. |
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BBC News |
9:00am PST |
Liberia in record cocaine seizure |
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Summary: About 2.5 tonnes of cocaine - Liberia's largest ever haul - is seized from a ship off the Atlantic coast. |
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BBC News |
8:56am PST |
Burglar jailed for widow attack |
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Summary: A man who beat a 76-year-old widow unconscious in her own home will spent at least eight years in jail. |
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Cnn.com |
8:55am PST |
Official: Mentally disabled women blown up |
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Summary: Two mentally disabled women were strapped with explosives today and sent into busy Baghdad markets, where they were blown up by remote control, a top Iraqi government official said. The bombs killed at least 98 people and wounded more than 200 at two popu |
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Yahoo News |
8:48am PST |
Female bombers strike markets in Baghdad
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Remote-controlled explosives strapped to two mentally retarded women detonated in a coordinated attack on Baghdad pet bazaars Friday, police and Iraqi officials said, killing at least 73 people in the deadliest day since the U.S. sent 30,000 extra tr |
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Yahoo News |
8:46am PST |
U.S. loses jobs for first time in 4-1/2 years
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. employers cut payrolls for the
first time in 4-1/2 years in January, the government said on
Friday, though a later report showing a modest revival in
manufacturing activity took some sting from the job losses. |
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Cnn.com |
8:37am PST |
U.S. to pay $50,000 to immigrant in drugging suit |
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Summary: Amadou Diouf, an African immigrant, says U.S. agents injected him with drugs against his will as he faced deportation. The U.S. government this week reached a settlement with Diouf, agreeing to pay him $50,000. "What happened here is really awful by any m |
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Cnn.com |
8:37am PST |
U.S. to pay $50K to immigrant in drugging suit |
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Summary: Amadou Diouf, an immigrant from Senegal, says U.S. agents injected him with drugs against his will as he was about to be deported in February 2007.
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Cnn.com |
8:37am PST |
U.S. settles immigrant drugging suit |
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Summary: Amadou Diouf, an immigrant from Senegal, says U.S. agents injected him with drugs against his will as he was about to be deported in February 2007.
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Cnn.com |
8:19am PST |
U.S.: 'Demonic' militants used women as bombs |
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Summary: A roadside bomb exploded at an animal market in Baghdad on Friday, killing at least five people and wounding 14 others, police said.
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BBC News |
8:15am PST |
Abolish selection say academics |
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Summary: Grammar schools should be abolished to create an education system that is fairer to all, says a report. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
8:09am PST |
Al Gore called 'prophet' at liberal Baptist meeting |
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Summary:
Al Gore has used a speech to hundreds attending Jimmy Carter's liberal Baptist meeting in Atlanta to sell his global warming campaign.
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Yahoo News |
8:02am PST |
Female bombers kill 72 at Baghdad pet markets
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Female suicide bombers killed 72 people
in attacks blamed on al Qaeda at two popular Baghdad pet
markets on Friday, the city's worst attacks in six months,
dealing a blow to Iraq's hopes that security is getting better. |
