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Cnn.com |
1:17pm PDT |
250K get by on 30-day rations in cloth huts |
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Summary: The woman walked into the sprawling camp outside the Somali capital last month carrying her one-month-old baby, with her other seven children in tow.
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Yahoo News |
1:13pm PDT |
Cueto fans 10 as Reds top D'Backs 3-2
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Johnny Cueto allowed nothing more than Justin Upton's solo homer in seven innings Thursday, striking out 10 in an overpowering debut while leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks. |
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Yahoo News |
1:11pm PDT |
Zimbabwe senate race results coming in
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission on
Thursday started issuing election results of the country's
upper house of parliament election. |
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Yahoo News |
1:04pm PDT |
In rebuff to Bush, NATO keeps Georgia, Ukraine in the cold
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - European leaders kept Georgia and Ukraine waiting at NATO's doorstep Thursday, dealing George W. Bush a rebuff at the last summit of the transatlantic alliance he will attend as US president. |
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Yahoo News |
12:23pm PDT |
Police raid Zimbabe opposition offices
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police raided opposition party offices late Thursday in what a top party official called the start of a government crackdown in the wake of Zimbabwe's elections. |
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BBC News |
12:22pm PDT |
Ancient faeces hint at origins of first Americans |
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Summary: Fossilised excrement found in a cave may settle the debate about how and when humans came to the Americas. |
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12:21pm PDT |
Web Site Equips Churches for Volunteer Month |
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Summary: A resource-packed Web site recently launched a campaign to equip churches for national volunteer month in April and for volunteer week later this ... |
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Yahoo News |
12:20pm PDT |
Republicans feel good about Obama match-up
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hillary Clinton may be the Democrat
who Republicans love to hate, but some Republican strategists
say they have no fear of a match-up with her rival Barack Obama
in November's presidential election. |
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BBC News |
12:04pm PDT |
Blair urges bigger role for faith |
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Summary: Former PM Tony Blair says the world would be poorer without faith but says politicians find it hard to talk about. |
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Yahoo News |
12:00pm PDT |
Carter hints at support for Obama
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former President Carter wouldn't quite say it, but he left little doubt this week about who he'd like to see in the White House next year. |
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ChristianPost |
11:56am PDT |
Conservative Presbyterians Contest Soliciting Churches Claim |
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Summary: A group of conservative Presbyterian churches say accusations made by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s Mississippi Presbytery are based on ... |
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BBC News |
11:47am PDT |
Naomi arrested after row on plane |
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Summary: Supermodel Naomi Campbell is arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of assaulting a police officer. |
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Yahoo News |
11:36am PDT |
Low-cost computers get XP until 2010
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will keep selling a version of Windows XP for use on a new breed of low-cost computers for at least two years longer than the system will be available for mainstream PCs. |
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Cnn.com |
11:35am PDT |
Airport suspect just returned from Iraq |
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Summary: The man accused of trying to sneak bomb-making materials onto a flight from Orlando, Florida, to Jamaica recently had returned from a contract job in Iraq, a spokesman for his former employer said Thursday.
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Yahoo News |
11:28am PDT |
Sky: Naomi Campbell arrested at Heathrow
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Supermodel Naomi Campbell was arrested at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 Thursday for allegedly spitting at a police officer, Sky News television reported. |
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Yahoo News |
11:23am PDT |
Bankruptcy overhaul fades from Senate housing bill
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Senate on Thursday moved toward
rejecting a Democratic proposal to give bankruptcy judges the
power to ease mortgage payment terms for distressed borrowers
as it started debating a housing market rescue plan. |
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Cnn.com |
11:22am PDT |
Naomi Campbell arrested at airport |
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Yahoo News |
11:18am PDT |
Striking Argentine pilots cause havoc
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Pilots at Argentina's flagship air carrier have walked off the job, suspending international and domestic flights by the airline. |
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BBC News |
11:14am PDT |
Police remove Naomi from BA plane |
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Summary: Supermodel Naomi Campbell is arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of assaulting a police officer. |
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BBC News |
11:09am PDT |
Baby injured by falling utensil |
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Summary: A baby's skull is fractured by a kitchen utensil which accidentally fell from a third floor window in Dundee. |
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Cnn.com |
11:07am PDT |
1 in 3 kids abused first week of life, study finds |
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Yahoo News |
11:04am PDT |
Germs in soil find antibiotics tasty
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Antibiotics for breakfast? The drugs are supposed to kill bacteria, not feed them. Yet Harvard researchers have discovered hundreds of germs in soil that literally gobble up antibiotics, able to thrive with the potent drugs as their sole source of nu |
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Cnn.com |
11:00am PDT |
Lone MLK sibling revealing his other side |
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Summary: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. borrowed money from his sister to buy engagement rings, and he liked playing pool. The world knew him as peacemaker, activist and preacher, but to his family, he was just "Tweed." And before King's 80-year-old sister dies, |
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Yahoo News |
10:56am PDT |
Report says 90,000 infants maltreated a year
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - More than 90,000 babies were
physically abused or neglected and about 500 were killed in the
United States in 2006, health officials said on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
10:53am PDT |
London mayor is father of five |
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Summary: Ken Livingstone dismisses claims that revelations that he has five children will affect his London mayoral campaign. |
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BBC News |
10:53am PDT |
London's Mayor has five children |
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Summary: Ken Livingstone dismisses claims that revelations that he has five children will affect his London mayoral campaign. |
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Cnn.com |
10:51am PDT |
Volt electric car's batteries tested |
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Summary: The lithium-ion batteries to be used in General Motors' Chevrolet Volt electric car will soon be installed and tested in specially-equipped versions of the Chevrolet Malibu, the company said.
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Yahoo News |
10:46am PDT |
Regulators defend Bear Stearns rescue
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Bear Stearns could not be allowed to
collapse because it could have shattered confidence in
financial markets and caused lasting damage to the economy, top
regulators said on Thursday in defending the rescue of what was
once the fifth-larges |
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Yahoo News |
10:45am PDT |
MySpace, record cos. launch new service
(AP)
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Summary: AP - News Corp.'s MySpace said Thursday it will launch an online music venture designed to turn the social networking site's trove of musician profile pages into portals for selling everything from concert tickets and band merchandise to the music itself. |
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Cnn.com |
10:41am PDT |
Inspector: FAA failures put passengers in danger |
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Summary: A cozy relationship between Southwest Airlines and the manager of an FAA office put passengers in danger, an FAA whistle-blower told Congress today. "Allowing an airline to fly passengers in an aircraft with a known unsafe condition puts the lives of the |
