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BBC News |
9:12am PST |
UK gets new immigration system |
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Summary: The government launches the first stage of a new points-based system for migrants from outside the EU. |
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CTI News |
9:11am PST |
Poll: What kind of book do you read most often? |
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Summary: Poll: What kind of book do you read most often?
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CTI News |
9:11am PST |
Review: 'Chicago 10' |
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Summary: This evocative docu-drama blends motion capture animation with archival footage to capture the frenetic zeitgeist of 1968 Chicago.
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CTI News |
9:11am PST |
Review: 'Bonneville' |
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Summary: A widow takes the ashes of her husband, and her two best friends, on a road trip across the American West in a 1966 Bonneville convertible.
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CTI News |
9:11am PST |
Review: 'Semi-Pro' |
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Summary: Will Ferrell stars as the owner/coach/player of an ailing pro basketball team, circa 1976, in this vulgar, brain dead and surprisingly unfunny comedy.
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CTI News |
9:11am PST |
Review: 'Penelope' |
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Summary: Christina Ricci stars is this quirky and likeable fairytale about a girl cursed with the nose of a pig in search of a prince to set her free.
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CTI News |
9:11am PST |
Colson: The Evangelical Agenda |
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Summary: Recent reports of our demise betray the media's ignorance about who we are.
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CTI News |
9:11am PST |
Review: 'How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind' |
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Summary: Thomas Oden reminds us of classical Christianity's debt to Africa in 'How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind.'
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CTI News |
9:11am PST |
Scot McKnight: A More Robust Gospel |
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Summary: Reviving forgotten chapters in the story of redemption.
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BBC News |
9:06am PST |
Treatment for ill baby after plea |
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Summary: An ill baby will receive vital treatment despite the drug not being sanctioned for funding in Scotland. |
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Yahoo News |
8:56am PST |
Treasury secretary wants to dump pennies
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A penny for your thoughts? Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson thinks the answer to that question should be not much. In fact, if he had his way, he would like to get rid of the penny. |
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Cnn.com |
8:55am PST |
Killer poison, low-budget hotel mystify cops |
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Summary: Police in Las Vegas are investigating the discovery of what they said is the deadly poison ricin in a hotel room. Preliminary tests show the substance is ricin, authorities said, but other tests to confirm it are under way.
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BBC News |
8:52am PST |
Anger over grubby nurses 'slur' |
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Summary: A hospital and a government minister attack a peer who said nurses at Bath's RUH are grubby, drunken and promiscuous. |
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Yahoo News |
8:51am PST |
Stocks decline amid economic worries
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks fell sharply Friday after a series of economic and earnings reports and a further rise in oil prices stoked concerns about the health of economy. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 200 points, or more than 1.5 percent. |
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Cnn.com |
8:48am PST |
Mission hits press, prince pulled from duty |
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Summary: Prince Harry is being withdrawn from Afghanistan immediately because of fear for his safety after news of his deployment was made public, the British defense ministry said today. The prince, third in line to the British throne, has been deployed to Afghan |
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BBC News |
8:46am PST |
Party leaders declared gifts late |
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Summary: David Cameron and Nick Clegg are among MPs criticised by the Electoral Commission for declaring donations late. |
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BBC News |
8:45am PST |
Gazprom to reduce Ukraine's gas |
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Summary: Gazprom, Russia's gas monopoly, says it will cut supplies to Ukraine by 25% on Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:40am PST |
Winehouse cleared of witness tampering
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police are no longer investigating Amy Winehouse on suspicion of attempting to interfere with a court case involving her husband, her spokesman said Friday. |
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BBC News |
8:36am PST |
Football: Grant blasts media 'lies' |
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Summary: Chelsea boss Avram Grant launches a stinging attack on the media following criticism of his side's Carling Cup final defeat by Tottenham. |
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Cnn.com |
8:33am PST |
Rape allegation against Marine dropped |
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Summary: Japanese authorities on Friday released an American Marine accused of raping a teenager in Okinawa after the girl dropped the allegations, the U.S. military said.
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Yahoo News |
8:33am PST |
Gunmen kidnap Iraqi Chaldean Catholic archbishop
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Gunmen kidnapped the Chaldean
Catholic archbishop of Mosul on Friday from the northern Iraqi
city and killed his driver and two companions, police said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:25am PST |
US: PKK must still be 'dealt with'
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The White House on Friday called Turkey's just-completed ground incursion in northern Iraq "targeted and relatively short" and vowed sustained US support against Kurdish rebels based there. |
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Cnn.com |
8:24am PST |
Slain girl cried 'I'm sorry' in final moments |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
8:23am PST |
U.S. Marine in Okinawa rape case released
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A U.S. Marine arrested earlier this month
on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl was released by
Japanese authorities on Friday, a spokesman for the U.S.
military on the southern island of Okinawa said. |
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Cnn.com |
8:20am PST |
Michael Jackson late on house payments |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
8:12am PST |
Clinton may challenge Texas vote rules
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign has raised the possibility of a challenge to Texas' primary and caucus rules just days before the contest, drawing a warning against legal action from the state's Democratic Party. |
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BBC News |
8:11am PST |
Vitamin E linked to lung cancer |
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Summary: Taking high doses of vitamin E supplements can increase the risk of lung cancer, research suggests. |
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Cnn.com |
8:10am PST |
Make debt collectors back off -- or else |
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Summary: If you've faced a financial catastrophe -- an illness or job layoff -- and you've fallen behind on some bills, you're well aware that debt collectors are eager to collect those payments.
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BBC News |
8:08am PST |
Vote Mugabe, prison staff ordered |
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Summary: The head of Zimbabwe's prison service orders his staff to vote for President Robert Mugabe in next month's poll. |
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Yahoo News |
8:08am PST |
Israeli official warns Palestinians of "shoah"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A senior Israeli defense official
said on Friday that Palestinians firing rockets from the
Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip would bring upon themselves what he
termed a "shoah," the Hebrew word for holocaust or disaster. |
