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Cnn.com |
7:47am PDT |
Buyers stuck with HD-DVDs offered gift cards |
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BBC News |
7:46am PDT |
Next Bond film gets early release |
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Summary: Quantum of Solace, the next James Bond film, is to be released earlier than expected, at Hallowe'en. |
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Yahoo News |
7:38am PDT |
U.S. and Palestinians sign $150 million agreement
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Summary: Reuters - The United States agreed on
Wednesday to transfer $150 million in budgetary support to the
Palestinian Authority as part of past pledges to boost
President Mahmoud Abbas' government. |
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Yahoo News |
7:38am PDT |
Bush: We can't jeopardize gains in Iraq
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Summary: AP - President Bush says he won't accept additional troop withdrawals from Iraq beyond those already planned if they would jeopardize recent security gains. |
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Yahoo News |
7:37am PDT |
Court rejects La. murder conviction
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Supreme Court threw out the death sentence and conviction in a Louisiana murder case Wednesday, citing racial prejudice in the actions of a prosecutor who called the murder trial his "O.J. Simpson case" and kept blacks off the jury. |
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Yahoo News |
7:35am PDT |
Clinton releases her 1st lady schedules
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Thousands of pages of Hillary Clinton's schedules as first lady were released to the public today after months of pressure and criticism that the Clintons were delaying the disclosure. |
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BBC News |
7:34am PDT |
Bush speech hails Iraq 'victory' |
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Summary: President George W Bush marks the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion with a speech hailing its success. |
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Yahoo News |
7:33am PDT |
Fannie, Freddie cleared to pump $200 billion into market
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The regulator of Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac on Wednesday eased capital requirements
for the two biggest housing finance agencies, allowing them to
pump up to $200 billion into the distressed U.S. mortgage
market. |
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Cnn.com |
7:32am PDT |
Tourist video reveals Tibet riots |
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Summary: The world got its first independent look at rioting in the streets of Tibet's capital in video shot by an Australian tourist last week.
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Yahoo News |
7:27am PDT |
Five years on, Bush says no regrets on Iraq war
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush said on
Wednesday he had no regrets about the unpopular war in Iraq
despite the "high cost in lives and treasure" and declared that
the United States was on track for a major victory there. |
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Yahoo News |
7:25am PDT |
Stocks waffle after Morgan Stanley earns
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks hovered around the unchanged mark Wednesday as investors digested better-than-expected results at Morgan Stanley and news that the government plans to free up billions of dollars at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a move that could help struggling |
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BBC News |
7:23am PDT |
US stocks lifted by bank results |
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Summary: US stocks rise in early trading as sentiment is lifted by better than expected results from Morgan Stanley. |
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Yahoo News |
7:19am PDT |
Japan appoints cartoon ambassador
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Summary: AP - Japan has created an unusual government post to promote animation, and named a perfect figure Wednesday to the position: a popular cartoon robot cat named Doraemon. |
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Yahoo News |
7:11am PDT |
Iraqi provincial elections law approved
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Summary: AP - Iraq's presidential council withdrew its objection to a provincial elections law on Wednesday, giving a major boost to U.S.-backed efforts to promote national reconciliation on the fifth anniversary of the war. |
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Cnn.com |
6:53am PDT |
Poll: Most think Iraq spending hurts economy |
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Summary: More than 7 out of 10 Americans think government spending on the war in Iraq is partly responsible for the economic troubles in the United States, according to results of a recent poll.
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Yahoo News |
6:50am PDT |
Paulson says GSE changes to aid mortgage market
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson said on Wednesday that changes to regulatory capital
requirements for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will allow the two
government housing finance enterprises to strengthen the U.S.
mortgage market. |
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Yahoo News |
6:40am PDT |
4 dead, 3 missing in central US floods
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Flooding forced hundreds of people to flee their homes and closed scores of roads Wednesday across a wide swath of the nation's midsection as a huge storm system poured as much as 10 inches of rain on the region. |
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Cnn.com |
6:37am PDT |
Homes, roads, flights washed out |
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Yahoo News |
6:33am PDT |
U.S. to scour India jungles for lost WW2 planes, men
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States will search for
remains of several World War Two aircraft and airmen lost over
the forested mountains of India's northeast, a U.S. commander
said on Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
6:29am PDT |
Shares steady after bank worries |
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Summary: Europe's stock market indexes steady although worries continue about the worldwide credit crunch. |
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BBC News |
6:26am PDT |
Queen, Irish president in meeting |
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Summary: The Queen has a private meeting with Irish President Mary McAleese at Queen's University in Belfast. |
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Yahoo News |
6:26am PDT |
US stocks heading for flat open
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. stocks headed for a mostly flat open Wednesday as investors digested better-than-expected results at Morgan Stanley and news that the government plans to free up billions of dollars at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that could help struggling homeow |
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Yahoo News |
6:24am PDT |
ABC to air prostitution news special
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's call girl scandal prompted ABC News to give the go-ahead to a two-hour prime-time special on prostitution that includes Diane Sawyer's visit to a legal brothel in Nevada. |
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BBC News |
6:23am PDT |
Coroner's suicide strategy calls |
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Summary: Calls for a national strategy to prevent young suicides are made by a coroner hearing inquests into five people. |
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Cnn.com |
6:13am PDT |
Sci-fi guru Clarke to have secular funeral |
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ChristianPost |
6:12am PDT |
Zimbabwean Presidential Contender Relies on God to Defeat Mugabe |
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Summary: A teacher and businessman turned presidential candidate in Zimbabwe said his Christian faith led him to run for office to repair a country suffering from intense economic woes, including the world’s highest inflation ... |
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Yahoo News |
6:06am PDT |
Bush speech to mark 5 years of Iraq war
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Five years after launching the U.S. invasion of Iraq, President Bush is making some of his most expansive claims of success in the fighting there. Bush said last year's troop buildup has turned Iraq around and produced "the first large-scale Arab upr |
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ChristianToday |
6:01am PDT |
Easter egg giveaway says thank you to seafarers |
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Summary: Foreign and UK seafarers visiting Falmouth Docks this Easter each had an Easter egg delivered to them to mark the occasion |
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ChristianToday |
5:54am PDT |
Paintbynumbers Easter story could smash world record |
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Summary: The greatest story ever told could become the biggest paintingbynumbers picture ever made
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ChristianToday |
5:43am PDT |
Trans World Radio surpasses 225 languages with new programmes to Africa |
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Summary: Trans World Radio has surpassed broadcast in 225 languages and dialects with its expansion into West Africa |
