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BBC News |
9:19am PDT |
US cannot ignore race - Obama |
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Summary: US presidential candidate Barack Obama speaks on race, seeking to defuse a row over his former pastor. |
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Yahoo News |
9:18am PDT |
Oscar winner Minghella dies at 54
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella, who turned such literary works as "The English Patient," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain" into acclaimed movies, died Tuesday of a hemorrhage following surgery. He was 54. |
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BBC News |
9:17am PDT |
Jail terms for death crash trio |
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Summary: Three young men are jailed for a total of nearly 20 years in connection with a fatal crash near Dumfries. |
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BBC News |
9:09am PDT |
Tolkien's Hobbit fetches £60,000 |
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Summary: A 1937 first edition of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit is sold at auction for £60,000 - twice its predicted value. |
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BBC News |
9:08am PDT |
Tibet protest hits London exhibit |
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Summary: Protesters hang pro-Tibet slogans around the Terracotta Warrior exhibits on display at London's British Museum. |
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BBC News |
9:06am PDT |
Cuba lifts farmers' supplies ban |
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Summary: The government says it is allowing farmers to buy their own supplies to boost agricultural production. |
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Cnn.com |
8:59am PDT |
Judge rips Paul McCartney's ex-wife |
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Summary: In his ruling on the divorce between Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, a British judge said Mills was "less than candid" in her dealings with the court.
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BBC News |
8:47am PDT |
Charges sought over cadet death |
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Summary: The parents of a teenage Army cadet killed in a boating accident call for criminal charges. |
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Cnn.com |
8:47am PDT |
Obama: We can move beyond racial wounds |
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Summary: Barack Obama addressed the race issue head on today, urging Americans to reject the "racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years." Obama's speech comes after spending the weekend on the defensive over racially charged statements from his former ministe |
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BBC News |
8:46am PDT |
Essay auctions 'harder to catch' |
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Summary: Students who cheat by commissioning work online from other students are worrying academics. |
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Yahoo News |
8:38am PDT |
Obama denounces preacher, says can't disown him
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Democratic presidential
candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday criticized his preacher for
racially charged rhetoric but said he could not disown the man
who baptized his children and officiated at his wedding. |
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ChristianPost |
8:34am PDT |
Russian Orthodox Leader Dies at 80 |
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Summary: Metropolitan Laurus, who played a key role in healing an 80-year schism between the Russian Orthodox Church and an offshoot set up abroad following the Bolshevik Revolution, was found dead Sunday. He ... |
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BBC News |
8:33am PDT |
Kenya MPs support power-sharing |
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Summary: Kenyan MPs pass a bill paving the way for a coalition government after a deal to end post-election violence. |
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BBC News |
8:30am PDT |
Hair rejoins ICC elite umpires |
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Summary: Umpire Darrell Hair is reinstated to the ICC elite panel of umpires. |
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BBC News |
8:30am PDT |
Cricket: Hair rejoins elite umpires |
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Summary: Umpire Darrell Hair is reinstated to the ICC elite panel of umpires. |
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Yahoo News |
8:28am PDT |
Dow jumps 270 ahead of expected rate cut
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street barreled higher Tuesday as investors found relief in better-than-expected results from Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, and anticipated a massive interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones industrial average surged more t |
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BBC News |
8:23am PDT |
Director Minghella dies aged 54 |
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Summary: The Oscar-winning British film director Anthony Minghella has died at the age of 54, his agent says. |
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Yahoo News |
8:23am PDT |
Obama confronts racial division in US
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday tried to stem damage from divisive comments delivered by his pastor, while bluntly addressing anger between blacks and whites in the most racially pointed speech yet of his presidential campaign. |
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Yahoo News |
8:22am PDT |
Fed poised to slash rates even as jitters ease
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Federal Reserve
policy-makers opened a meeting on Tuesday that was expected to
lead to the biggest one-day cut in interest rates since 1982,
as two major Wall Street firms provided some relief to markets
with better-than-expected earnings. |
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Yahoo News |
8:21am PDT |
AP Poll: Stress pains many in college
(AP)
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Summary: AP - College kids are so frazzled they can't sleep or eat. Or study. Good grief, they're even anxious about spring break. |
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BBC News |
8:16am PDT |
NHS trust's '£2m Welsh subsidy' |
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Summary: The head of an NHS trust in England tells MPs it is subsidising Welsh patients to the tune of £2m a year. |
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Yahoo News |
8:13am PDT |
China: Dalai Lama wants to sour Olympics
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Premier Wen Jiabao accused the Dalai Lama of orchestrating violent clashes to taint the Beijing Olympics, saying Tuesday that the Nobel Peace laureate was provoking violence to promote Tibetan independence. |
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Yahoo News |
8:09am PDT |
SocGen trader Kerviel leaves jail
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Jerome Kerviel, the Frenchman blamed by
his company for the world's biggest rogue trading scandal, left
jail on Tuesday after winning a legal battle against detention. |
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Yahoo News |
8:08am PDT |
Delta to offer severance to 30,000
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Delta Air Lines said Tuesday it will offer voluntary severance payouts to roughly 30,000 employees — more than half its work force — and cut domestic capacity by an extra 5 percent this year as part of an overhaul of its business plan to deal with so |
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BBC News |
8:06am PDT |
Shooting rocks main Afghan prison |
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Summary: Afghan security forces seal off the country's main high-security prison after days of unrest there. |
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Yahoo News |
8:05am PDT |
Supreme Court gun case draws protesters
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Advocates of gun rights and opponents of gun violence demonstrated outside the Supreme Court Tuesday while inside, justices heard arguments over the meaning of the Second Amendment's "right to keep and bear arms." |
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Cnn.com |
8:02am PDT |
Obama: Constitution stained by 'sin of slavery' |
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Summary: The United States Constitution "was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery," Sen. Barack Obama said today. His speech comes after spending the weekend on the defensive over racially charged statements from his former minister.
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BBC News |
7:58am PDT |
US court hearing key gun law case |
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Summary: The Supreme Court considers Washington DC's gun laws, in a landmark case about Americans' right to bear arms. |
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Cnn.com |
7:57am PDT |
Delta offers severance to 30,000 |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
7:55am PDT |
Debut A380 flight lands in London |
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Summary: The first European commercial flight of the Airbus A380 "super-jumbo" lands at Heathrow Airport. |
