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Yahoo News |
4:38am PDT |
Amazon launches text-message shopping
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Amazon.com Inc.'s brick-and-mortar competitors have yet another reason to fear the Web: a new service that lets shoppers compare prices and buy things with a few quick taps on their cell phones. |
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BBC News |
4:19am PDT |
Autograph fraudsters found guilty |
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Summary: Two business partners accused of cheating their customers by forging and selling sports stars' signatures are found guilty. |
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BBC News |
4:10am PDT |
Soap comeback attracts 9.7m |
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Summary: Ricky Butcher and Bianca Jackson's return to EastEnders is seen by 9.7 million viewers. |
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BBC News |
4:04am PDT |
Diana jury deliberates verdicts |
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Summary: The jury in the Princess Diana inquest retires to begin considering its verdicts. |
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ChristianToday |
4:02am PDT |
Salvation Army African Instituted Churches welcomed at ecumenical forum |
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Summary: Theologians from The Salvation Army and the African Instituted Churches joined together with the representatives of Christian World Communions for the first time at a forum to discuss an ecumenical vision of unity earlier in the month |
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Yahoo News |
3:55am PDT |
CBS reduce TV stations' news staffs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - CBS-owned TV stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago are reducing their news staffs. The cuts include two well-known anchors in Los Angeles, five on-air veterans in San Francisco and one of Chicago's highest-paid anchors. |
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BBC News |
3:51am PDT |
First footage of 'tsunami' hurtling through the Sun's atmosphere |
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Summary: The first footage of a "tsunami" hurtling through the Sun's atmosphere at millions kilometres an hour, is captured by astronomers. |
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Cnn.com |
3:48am PDT |
Vaccine-autism link divides parents, scientists |
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Summary: At 13, Michelle Cedillo can't speak, wears a diaper and requires round-the-clock monitoring for seizures. Michelle has no idea she is at the center of a court case over the vaccines she was given for measles, mumps and rubella. Her parents say their only |
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Yahoo News |
3:41am PDT |
Beijing pollution risky for endurance athletes
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Endurance events at the Beijing
Olympics could pose a health risk if they are staged on heavily
polluted days, the International Olympic Committee said on
Wednesday, although it was prepared to reschedule such events. |
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Cnn.com |
3:40am PDT |
Parents tell stories of autistic kids |
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BBC News |
3:35am PDT |
Computers to merge with humans |
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Summary: People will become ever more reliant on machines says a report on the future of human-computer interaction. |
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BBC News |
3:27am PDT |
Turkey 'kills 16 Kurdish rebels' |
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Summary: Turkey says its troops have killed seven more members of the Kurdish guerrilla group the PKK. |
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Yahoo News |
3:27am PDT |
Yankees win final opener at Stadium
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Right after the final out, Mariano Rivera grabbed the ball and handed it to his new manager. Here you go, Joe, a souvenir to treasure. |
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BBC News |
3:13am PDT |
Shannon stepfather in porn arrest |
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Summary: Detectives in the Shannon Matthews case arrest her stepfather on suspicion of possessing child porn. |
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BBC News |
3:08am PDT |
Sally Anne's killer in appeal bid |
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Summary: A man sentenced to life for the murder of Sally Anne Bowman is appealing against his conviction. |
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BBC News |
3:03am PDT |
Diana jury to consider verdicts |
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Summary: The jury in the Princess Diana inquest is expected to retire to begin considering its verdicts. |
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BBC News |
2:59am PDT |
Ahern to resign as Irish premier |
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Summary: Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern announces he is stepping down from the post in May. |
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ChristianToday |
2:49am PDT |
NI evangelicals concerned over Bill of Rights recommendations |
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Summary: Overly restrictive recommendations made by the Bill of Rights Forum could damage community relations instead of allowing rights and freedoms to flourish the Evangelical Alliance Northern Ireland has warned |
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BBC News |
2:47am PDT |
Police find second hand on beach |
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Summary: Police reveal that a second hand was found on a beach where a woman's head was discovered. |
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BBC News |
2:47am PDT |
Foster through to fifth Olympics |
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Summary: Veteran Mark Foster qualifies for his fifth Olympic Games after winning the 50m freestyle final in Sheffield. |
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BBC News |
2:30am PDT |
The ice has it |
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Summary: Why the igloo is a classic of house design |
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Yahoo News |
2:29am PDT |
Bush tries to salvage legacy on world stage
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush sought to
salvage his legacy on the world stage on Wednesday by defending
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and appealing to Russia to
drop opposition to a U.S. missile defense shield. |
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BBC News |
2:26am PDT |
Obsessed by eggs |
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Summary: Why would anyone climb cliffs to steal rare birds' eggs? |
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BBC News |
2:20am PDT |
Climate hotspot |
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Summary: Antarctic drillers looking for evidence of a warmer past |
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ChristianToday |
2:17am PDT |
Russian artist critical of Orthodox Church was targeted says husband |
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Summary: In the latest twist in a series of art world scandals that have gone to the heart of ChurchState relations a Russian artist who had been critical of and was criticised by the Russian Orthodox Church has disappeared without a trace |
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ChristianToday |
2:06am PDT |
Secondhand car sales in cemetery reveal struggles of Sudans Christians |
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Summary: In Khartoum the capital city of Sudan it is hard for Christians to have their own place even after they have died |
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Yahoo News |
2:05am PDT |
Athletes safe in Beijing air for up to an hour: IOC
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - International Olympic Committee
scientists have proved that Beijing's air will present no
health risk to athletes competing for up to an hour at the 2008
Games, IOC chief inspector Hein Verbruggen said on Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
2:01am PDT |
EU launches probe of Rock bailout |
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Summary: The EU says it will launch a full investigation of the state bailout plan of mortgage firm Northern Rock. |
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Cnn.com |
2:01am PDT |
Judge: Kicking whites out of court a 'mistake' |
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Summary: An Atlanta, Georgia, judge who ordered white lawyers out of his courtroom so he could lecture African-American defendants called that decision a "mistake" Tuesday night.
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ChristianToday |
1:57am PDT |
Nearly 20000 Celebrate PEACE in Rwanda |
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Summary: Nearly 20000 people gathered to join American Pastor Rick Warren and Rwandan President Paul Kagame to launch the first national 40 Days of Purpose campaign in Rwanda pn Sunday |
