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BBC News |
3:57am PDT |
BSkyB's Champions League rights |
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Summary: Satellite operator BSkyB wins the right to show most Champions League football matches from 2009 to 2012. |
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BBC News |
3:57am PDT |
BSkyB gets Champions League |
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Summary: Satellite operator BSkyB wins the right to show most Champions League football matches from 2009 to 2012. |
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Yahoo News |
3:55am PDT |
Dalai Lama appeals for Tibet calm, offers to quit
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The Dalai Lama on Tuesday appealed for calm in Tibet and said he wanted "good relations" with China, offering to quit as head of the exile movement if unrest in the region worsens. |
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BBC News |
3:53am PDT |
London mayoral race under way |
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Summary: Ken Livingstone launches his campaign for a third term as nominations open for London's 2008 mayoral election. |
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BBC News |
3:53am PDT |
Livingstone opens re-election bid |
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Summary: Ken Livingstone launches his campaign for re-election, promising to cut crime and improve transport and housing. |
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Cnn.com |
3:49am PDT |
Young Tibetans reject Dalai Lama's lead |
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Summary: While the Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibet, many younger Tibetans do not follow him on a crucial question -- whether Tibet should have genuine autonomy or independence from China.
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BBC News |
3:40am PDT |
Man remanded over Shannon kidnap |
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Summary: A man appears in court charged with the kidnap and false imprisonment of nine-year-old Shannon Matthews. |
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ChristianToday |
3:39am PDT |
Cast your burdens online say Catholic creators of new Passion resource |
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Summary: Visitors to a Holy Week and Easter web page are being offered the chance to virtually hand over their fears and emotional burdens to Jesus Christ |
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BBC News |
3:39am PDT |
Northern Rock to cut 2,000 jobs |
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Summary: Nationalised bank Northern Rock will cut about 2,000 jobs by 2011 as part of restructuring plans. |
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Cnn.com |
3:35am PDT |
Dalai Lama 'to resign' if violence worsens |
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Summary: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao blamed supporters of the Dalai Lama on Tuesday for violence in Tibet. He also said Chinese forces exercised restraint in confronting unrest there.
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ChristianToday |
3:28am PDT |
Baptists and Ascension Trust to hold violent crime conference |
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Summary: The growing problem of violent crime is to be discussed at a one day conference in Brixton this July that is being organised by the Baptist Union of Great Britain BUGB and Ascension Trust |
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ChristianToday |
3:22am PDT |
Pope tells Iraq honour dead archbishop with peace |
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Summary: Pope Benedict on Monday asked Iraqs Catholics to work for peace in honour of the memory of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop who was kidnapped by gunmen and found dead last week |
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Cnn.com |
3:16am PDT |
Poll: McCain, Obama, Clinton in dead heat |
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Summary: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would both statistically tie Republican John McCain in a general election matchup, a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll indicates.
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ChristianToday |
3:12am PDT |
Kids bear weight of Easter rite in changing Spain |
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Summary: A hush falls over the children before 14yearold Spaniard Araceli Garca Maldonado commands Up to the sky with her Then they hoist the shrine of Christ weighing more than one tonne onto their shoulders |
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ChristianToday |
3:07am PDT |
India tries new ways to reach its underfed children |
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Summary: Born underweight and then underfed during the crucial early stages of development millions of Indian children grow up shorter weaker and less smart than their better fed peers |
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Yahoo News |
3:02am PDT |
World markets attempt rebound before Fed decision
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - World stock markets aimed higher on Tuesday before a widely-expected sharp cut in US interest rates as the Federal Reserve seeks to ease the global credit crisis that sank Bear Stearns, dealers said. |
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ChristianToday |
3:00am PDT |
The heros journey a path to transformation |
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Summary: Being someones hero is a good thing to aspire to |
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BBC News |
2:45am PDT |
Naked Liberians to be sent home |
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Summary: Ghana is to deport hundreds of Liberian women refugees arrested for holding naked protests. |
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BBC News |
2:45am PDT |
Ghana to deport naked protesters |
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Summary: Ghana is to deport hundreds of Liberian women refugees arrested for holding naked protests. |
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ChristianToday |
2:42am PDT |
Deuteronomy 15 Gods justice |
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Summary: Gods justice is not just about what is right and fair but is also about overwhelming generosity |
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BBC News |
2:42am PDT |
UK consumer inflation hits 2.5% |
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Summary: UK consumer inflation hit 2.5% in February, the sharpest rise in nine months, official figures show. |
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BBC News |
2:31am PDT |
Ukrainian officer dies in Kosovo |
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Summary: A Ukrainian policeman injured in clashes between Kosovo Serbs and international forces dies of his wounds. |
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Yahoo News |
2:29am PDT |
Astronauts to attach robot to station
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Now that the space station's new robot is fully assembled, astronauts prepared to attach the giant machine directly to the orbiting outpost for the first time on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
2:22am PDT |
Iraq reconciliation meeting off to shaky start
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A conference to reconcile Iraq's
warring political groups began to unravel even before it got
under way on Tuesday, with the main Sunni Muslim Arab bloc
pulling out and protesting it had not been properly invited. |
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BBC News |
2:20am PDT |
Court orders rogue trader release |
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Summary: A French court orders the release of rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, accused of losing billions of euros. |
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Yahoo News |
2:19am PDT |
Dalai Lama says will quit if violence out of control
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Dalai Lama said on
Tuesday he would resign as Tibetan leader if the situation went
out of control in Tibet, and he denied accusations from China
that he was inciting violence. |
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ChristianToday |
2:17am PDT |
Obama keen to distance from pastors controversial comments |
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Summary: US presidential candidate Barack Obama will use a speech on Tuesday to distance himself from inflammatory race comments from his former pastor |
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Yahoo News |
2:15am PDT |
Dalai Lama offers to resign if Tibet situation worsens
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The Dalai Lama said Tuesday he would resign as Tibet's spiritual leader if the unrest in his homeland worsened, and rejected Chinese allegations he was behind the violence. |
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Yahoo News |
2:14am PDT |
Dalai Lama to resign if violence worsens
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Dalai Lama says he will step down if violence by Tibetans in his homeland spirals out of control. |
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BBC News |
2:11am PDT |
Tail 'key' for gecko acrobatics |
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Summary: High-speed video shows a gecko's tail is crucial to the creature's acrobatic ability, scientists report. |
