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4:24am PST |
Virus immunity 'created in lab' |
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Summary: Scientists find a way to make cells effectively immune to flu and other viruses. |
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4:17am PST |
Final go-ahead for M74 extension |
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Summary: Work on extending the M74 in Glasgow is expected to begin in May after a £445m contract award. |
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4:17am PST |
Pleas for Saudi 'witch' to be saved |
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Summary: A rights group urges Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft. |
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4:16am PST |
Justice Dept: Waterboarding not legal
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Summary: AP - A senior Justice Department official says laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded has eliminated the technique from what is now legally allowed, going a step beyond what CIA Director Michael Hayden has said. |
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Yahoo News |
4:10am PST |
Myanmar rebel leader shot dead in Thai town
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A leader of Myanmar's biggest
rebel group was shot dead at his home in a Thai border town on
Thursday in an assassination immediately blamed on troops loyal
to the former Burma's military junta. |
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Cnn.com |
4:08am PST |
Housing stocks catch fire |
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Summary: The hard-charging homebuilding stocks are making believers of some investors.
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ChristianPost |
4:04am PST |
Pastor: IRS Probes Huckabee Endorsement |
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Summary: BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) — Southern Baptist pastor Wiley Drake said Wednesday that he is being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service for his endorsement of GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee in a press release written on church ... |
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3:54am PST |
'Happy slap' attack girl guilty |
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Summary: A teenage girl admits filming a "happy slap" attack that led to the death of a man in West Yorkshire. |
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3:54am PST |
'Happy slap' death girl guilty |
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Summary: In a landmark case, a teenage girl admits filming a "happy slap" attack that led to the death of a man. |
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3:52am PST |
Detectives try to identify woman |
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Summary: Police looking for a missing mother-of-four have yet to identify a woman's body found on wasteground. |
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3:51am PST |
Burmese rebel leader is shot dead |
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Summary: The secretary general of Burma's largest rebel group, the Karen National Union, is killed at his Thailand home. |
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3:48am PST |
Tension high for Beirut memorials |
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Summary: Tensions are high in Beirut as rival camps take to the streets to mark ex-PM Rafik Hariri's death and a Hezbollah funeral. |
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3:44am PST |
Somalia is 'the forgotten crisis' |
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Summary: The UN says Somalia is the world's forgotten crisis, with 15,000 children in need of urgent aid. |
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Huge food price rises for Africa |
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Summary: African countries will pay 49% more for imported cereals this year, causing "major global concern", the UN says. |
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3:42am PST |
Doctor: Billy Graham Alert After Surgery |
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Summary: Evangelist Billy Graham underwent successful surgery Wednesday to update a shunt that controls excess fluid in his brain, and was expected to remain in the hospital for several ... |
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BBC News |
3:38am PST |
Prince sees climate fight as war |
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Summary: Prince Charles tells Euro MPs the biggest ever public-private partnership is needed to tackle climate change. |
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ChristianToday |
3:09am PST |
Communist Cuba says ties excellent with Vatican |
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Summary: The Cuban Government said on Wednesday that it maintains excellent ties with the Vatican 10 years after the late Pope John Paul IIs visited the communistruled island |
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3:09am PST |
Ex-Met chief seeks Diana apology |
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Summary: Lord Stevens seeks an apology for criticisms of his inquiry into the death of Princess Diana at her inquest. |
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3:08am PST |
Astronauts work on Columbus lab
(AP)
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Summary: AP - With two of their three spacewalks completed, the astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex focused Thursday on getting the new Columbus lab up and running. |
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Cnn.com |
3:05am PST |
Strong quake rattles southern Greece |
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Summary: A strong earthquake struck southern Greece just after midday Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on its Web site.
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BBC News |
3:01am PST |
Dead drug dealer's assets taken |
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Summary: The family of a murdered County Londonderry drug dealer agrees to pay back assets worth £750,000. |
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2:54am PST |
Uganda boycotts Church meeting |
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Summary: The Anglican Church in Uganda is to stay away from the Lambeth Conference, a meeting of the world's Anglican bishops. |
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Cnn.com |
2:47am PST |
Valentine's Day brings out hard-liners |
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Summary: Ah, Valentine's Day! That time of the year when the pressure's on to show you really, really care.
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Yahoo News |
2:47am PST |
Hezbollah to bury slain commander, Israel on alert
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Lebanon's Hezbollah holds a mass funeral
for its assassinated commander Imad Moughniyah, one of the
United States' most wanted men, in Beirut on Thursday amid
calls for revenge against its sworn enemy Israel. |
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ChristianToday |
2:38am PST |
Vatican to tighten rules on saint making |
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Summary: The Vatican next week will issue a document tightening the rules for creating Roman Catholic saints a Vatican source said on Wednesday |
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Yahoo News |
2:35am PST |
Love in the air from Bondi to Bangkok to Beijing
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Australians seeking love on Valentine's
Day speed-dated in deckchairs on Bondi Beach, while Japanese
trekked through snow in search of romance and Filipinos sang
syrupy ballards. |
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ChristianToday |
2:30am PST |
Anglican Covenant will unite not divide Sentamu |
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Summary: The Anglican Covenant is not erecting a great Anglican wall of exclusion the Archbishop of York tells the Church of England General Synod |
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Yahoo News |
2:25am PST |
Tests indicate Georgian's death natural
(AP)
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Summary: AP - British police said Thursday that interim tests indicate Georgian billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili, a presidential candidate in the ex-Soviet republic who claimed he was targeted for assassination, had died of natural causes. |
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Yahoo News |
2:21am PST |
Thousands gather for rival memorials in Lebanon
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Summary: AFP - Tens of thousands of pro-government supporters converged on central Beirut on Thursday for the third anniversary of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's assassination, just miles from where Lebanon's opposition group Hezbollah prepared to bury a top commander |
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2:08am PST |
British police find Georgian tycoon died of natural causes
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Georgian opposition leader Badri Patarkatsishvili died of natural causes, according to initial post mortem tests released by British police Thursday. |
