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Cnn.com |
6:00am PDT |
Dow looks set for another selloff |
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Summary: Stocks looked set for another selloff Thursday as nagging fears about credit and the threat of a deep recession troubled investors and sent the dollar plunging.
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Yahoo News |
5:55am PDT |
Kidnapped Iraq archbishop dead: Church officials
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Catholic
archbishop who was kidnapped in Iraq last month, has been found
dead, Church officials in Rome and Baghdad said on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
5:53am PDT |
Retail sales plunge by 0.6 percent
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Consumers, battered by plunging home prices and a credit crunch, stayed away from the malls in February, pushing retail sales down by a larger-than-expected amount. It was another worrisome sign that the country could be falling into a recession. |
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BBC News |
5:51am PDT |
Second man remanded in Goa |
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Summary: A second man arrested over the death of British teenager Scarlett Keeling in Goa is remanded in custody. |
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Cnn.com |
5:39am PDT |
Kids cleared in Skittles caper |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
5:33am PDT |
Pakistan protests at US shelling |
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Summary: Pakistan criticises US forces in Afghanistan for cross-border shelling that it says killed two women and two children. |
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Yahoo News |
5:27am PDT |
Iraq: Car bomb kills 11 in Baghdad
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad Thursday, killing 11 people and wounding 57, police said. |
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BBC News |
5:26am PDT |
UK commitment to Iraq 'absolute' |
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Summary: Defence Secretary Des Browne says the UK's commitment to Iraq remains "absolute", during a visit to Baghdad. |
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Yahoo News |
5:18am PDT |
U.S. passion for guns has roots in hunting
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The life-sized stuffed animals at
the massive Cabela's store in Fort Worth can give the
impression of being in a natural history museum. |
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BBC News |
5:13am PDT |
Hedge fund on verge of collapse |
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Summary: A unit of private equity firm Carlyle Capital faces collapse after failing to pay back lender banks. |
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Yahoo News |
5:07am PDT |
Stock futures sink ahead of opening
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street headed for a sharply lower opening Thursday, following the example of markets around the world as the dollar continued its descent and worries about the U.S. economy reasserted themselves. |
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Yahoo News |
5:05am PDT |
Rockets hit Israel after West Bank raid
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Islamic Jihad fired rockets into Israel
from the Gaza Strip on Thursday after an Israeli raid in the
occupied West Bank, in renewed violence that threatened
prospects for an Egyptian-brokered truce. |
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BBC News |
5:05am PDT |
Second man in court over Goa girl |
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Summary: A second man arrested over the death of British teenager Scarlett Keeling in Goa is remanded in custody. |
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Yahoo News |
4:57am PDT |
EU, U.S. defuse crisis over visas -- for now
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The European Union and the
United States agreed on Thursday to defuse a crisis over visa
deals by allowing talks between Washington and individual EU
states to run in parallel with EU-U.S. negotiations. |
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Yahoo News |
4:51am PDT |
Car bomb kills 8 in Baghdad
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A parked car bomb that exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad killed eight people and wounded 41 on Thursday, police said. |
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BBC News |
4:47am PDT |
Man is questioned over gun murder |
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Summary: A 34-year-old man is being questioned about the killing of Martin Morgan in Antrim last July. |
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Yahoo News |
4:45am PDT |
New color $5 bills come out today
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Abraham Lincoln is getting a little color in his cheeks. New $5 bills bearing the gaunt visage of the nation's 16th president — but with some touches of color added — are making their way to banks and cash registers near you. |
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Cnn.com |
4:44am PDT |
Boyfriend: Woman stayed in bathroom 2 years |
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Yahoo News |
4:41am PDT |
Iraqi police raid Mehdi Army strongholds
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iraqi police raided strongholds of
Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army in the southern
city of Kut on Wednesday after the militia broke a ceasefire
and clashed with security forces a day earlier. |
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BBC News |
4:41am PDT |
China admits Tibet monk protests |
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Summary: Chinese officials admit that Tibetan monks have been protesting in the city of Lhasa this week. |
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Yahoo News |
4:33am PDT |
New sales program pays Facebook members
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Facebook Inc.'s popular online hangout so far has proven to be a better place for promoting fun and games than peddling products. |
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BBC News |
4:28am PDT |
BBC releases fix for iPlayer hack |
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Summary: The BBC issues a fix to stop people downloading streamed programmes from the iPlayer website. |
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BBC News |
4:28am PDT |
Pregnant woman murder jurors out |
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Summary: A jury trying a man accused of shooting dead a pregnant woman goes out to deliberate on the verdict. |
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Yahoo News |
4:26am PDT |
Conn. school backs off candy punishment
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An eighth-grade honors student who was suspended for a day, barred from attending an honors dinner and stripped of his title as class vice president after he was caught with contraband candy in school will get his student council post back, school of |
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BBC News |
4:25am PDT |
Party leaders facing a grilling |
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Summary: Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ian Paisley, Alex Salmond and Dafydd Elis Thomas are being quizzed by School Reporters. |
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BBC News |
4:19am PDT |
Jerusalem seminary gunman buried |
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Summary: A Palestinian who attacked a Jewish seminary gets a low-key burial at the insistence of the Israeli authorities. |
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BBC News |
4:14am PDT |
Carry On script gets green light |
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Summary: A new Carry On film moves one step closer to being filmed, and could be in cinemas by the end of 2008. |
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BBC News |
4:00am PDT |
Darling defends Budget |
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Summary: Alistair Darling defends his package of tax measures which have been called a "bad news Budget" by the Tories. |
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Yahoo News |
3:54am PDT |
Study: Profanity affects PG box office
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A new study by The Nielsen Co. found that the PG-rated movies with the least profanity made the most money at the U.S. box office. |
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ChristianToday |
3:47am PDT |
Be a good egg by eating one less Easter egg |
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Summary: Turn one chocolate Easter egg into 120 real eggs and help feed someone in a developing country says Christian humanitarian charity World Emergency Relief |
