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BBC News |
5:05pm PDT |
French serial killer trial starts |
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Summary: Michel Fourniret goes on trial in France charged with killing seven young women between 1987 and 2001. |
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BBC News |
4:56pm PDT |
Terminal 5 to open to passengers |
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Summary: London Heathrow's newest terminal will open to the public when the first flight arrives on Thursday morning. |
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Yahoo News |
4:45pm PDT |
Space shuttle heads home to Florida
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. space shuttle
Endeavour left orbit on Wednesday and began an hour-long glide
back to Florida, capping a mission that delivered the first
part of a Japanese laboratory to space. |
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Yahoo News |
4:40pm PDT |
More passport reviews found at State
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Summary: AP - State Department workers viewed passport applications containing personal information about high-profile Americans, including the late Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith, at least 20 times since January 2007, The Associated Press has learned. |
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BBC News |
4:26pm PDT |
US charges man 'on Saddam's pay' |
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Summary: A US man who sent three lawmakers to Iraq in 2002 is charged with working for Saddam Hussein's regime. |
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Cnn.com |
4:18pm PDT |
Feds: Iraq paid for U.S. lawmakers' trip in '02 |
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Summary: Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency funded a U.S. congressional delegation's trip during the buildup to the Iraq war, according to a federal indictment unsealed in the case of an Iraqi-born U.S. citizen charged with spying for the Iraq. U.S. sources said |
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BBC News |
4:17pm PDT |
MSP wants right to end own life |
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Summary: Independent politician Margo MacDonald, who has Parkinson's disease, wants the right to assisted death. |
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DJ Chuang |
4:08pm PDT |
eavesdrop on Eugene Cho and Gideon Tsang |
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Summary: It is indeed a rare occasion to get Eugene Cho and Gideon Tsang in the same room, and this recent Asian American Leadership Conference pulled it off. Both of them are being the church in a new way within their local context, often asking the question: |
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BBC News |
4:06pm PDT |
Comoran rebel seeks asylum |
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Summary: The ousted renegade leader of the Comoran island of Anjouan reportedly flees to a French-run island. |
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Yahoo News |
4:06pm PDT |
Obama seeks to quell flap over pastor
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday sought to quell concerns over anti-American remarks by his former pastor, saying people are paying too much attention to a small number of "stupid" comments. |
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ChristianPost |
4:05pm PDT |
State Rep. Kern, Openly Gay Pastor Spar Over Homosexual Lifestyle |
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Summary: Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern (R-Oklahoma City), who said that the homosexual lifestyle is a bigger threat to American than terrorism, faced off against an openly gay pastor Easter Sunday in a debate on homosexuality that delved into politics and ... |
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Yahoo News |
4:00pm PDT |
Robin Williams, wife are divorcing
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After nearly 19 years of marriage, Robin Williams and his wife are getting divorced. Marsha Garces Williams filed a petition for dissolution of marriage on March 21 in San Francisco Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences. |
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Cnn.com |
3:54pm PDT |
Anti-missile system pushed for commercial jets |
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Summary: Military planes have them. Major airlines don't want them.
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Cnn.com |
3:52pm PDT |
Shuttle heads home after long 'adventure' |
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Yahoo News |
3:38pm PDT |
Rancher arrested for selling snake vodka
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A rattlesnake rancher who calls himself Bayou Bob found a new way to make money: Stick a rattler inside a bottle of vodka and market the concoction as an "ancient Asian elixir." But Bayou Bob Popplewell's bright idea appears to have landed him on the |
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ChristianPost |
3:38pm PDT |
A Storm of Unity |
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Summary: For two weeks now, a political firestorm has been raging over the tragically racist and anti-American statements uttered by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Wright, as everyone knows, was Barack Obama’s pastor for some 20 years. Trying to quell the storm, Senato |
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Yahoo News |
3:35pm PDT |
More passport review found at State
(AP)
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Summary: AP - State Department workers viewed passport applications containing personal information about high-profile Americans, including the late Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith, at least 20 times since January 2007, The Associated Press has learned. |
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Yahoo News |
3:29pm PDT |
US: Saddam paid for lawmakers' Iraq trip
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
3:22pm PDT |
A-Rod won't address Canseco's claims
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Alex Rodriguez refused to address allegations by Jose Canseco, who claims he introduced the three-time MVP to a steroids dealer. "It's over as far as I'm concerned," Rodriguez said Wednesday after his New York Yankees lost 4-0 to the Philadelphia Phi |
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Cnn.com |
3:15pm PDT |
Study: Big belly can boost dementia risk |
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Cnn.com |
3:15pm PDT |
Study: Big belly can increase dementia risk |
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Yahoo News |
3:09pm PDT |
Bush confronts China on Tibet crackdown
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush sharply confronted China's President Hu Jintao on Wednesday about Beijing's harsh crackdown in Tibet, joining an international chorus of alarm just months before the U.S. and the rest of the world parade to China for the Olympics. |
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BBC News |
3:07pm PDT |
Bush calls Hu to urge Tibet talks |
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Summary: US President George W Bush calls his Chinese counterpart to urge him to begin talks with Tibet's Dalai Lama. |
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Yahoo News |
3:03pm PDT |
Obama's ex-pastor cancels speeches
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, presidential candidate Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, canceled plans Wednesday to receive an award at a summit on black churches. |
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BBC News |
2:54pm PDT |
Poor England pay penalty |
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Summary: Franck Ribery scores a penalty for France as England suffer their first defeat under coach Fabio Capello. |
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Yahoo News |
2:53pm PDT |
New-home sales slowest in 13 years, durables down
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Sales of new U.S. single-family
homes fell to the slowest pace in 13 years while orders for
durable goods tumbled unexpectedly last month, according to
government data that added to signs the economy has stalled. |
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Yahoo News |
2:39pm PDT |
Space shuttle skips first Florida landing chance
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. space shuttle
Endeavour skipped its first opportunity for a Florida landing
at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT) on Wednesday because of clouds
around the Kennedy Space Center, NASA officials said. |
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Yahoo News |
2:25pm PDT |
A's top Red Sox 5-1 for split in Japan
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Split two games, get back on a plane. Rich Harden struck out nine over six innings and Emil Brown hit a three-run homer, leading the Oakland Athletics to a 5-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night in the finale of their season-opening s |
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Yahoo News |
2:21pm PDT |
Human ancestor fossil found in Europe
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much earlier than previously believed, scientists say. |
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Yahoo News |
2:19pm PDT |
Military tells Bush of troop strains
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Behind the Pentagon's closed doors, U.S. military leaders told President Bush Wednesday they are worried about the Iraq war's mounting strain on troops and their families. But they indicated they'd go along with a brief halt in pulling out troops thi |
