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Yahoo News |
1:39pm PDT |
Ancient tools unearthed in Australia
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Summary: AP - Tools dating back at least 35,000 years have been unearthed in a rock shelter in Australia's remote northwest, making it one of the oldest archaeological finds in that part of the country, archaeologists said Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
1:28pm PDT |
Perez says sex scene was 'very awkward'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Rosie Perez says shooting a steamy sex scene with her good friend John Leguizamo for their new movie, "The Take," was "very awkward." |
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Yahoo News |
1:23pm PDT |
Protests lead Olympic torch from Paris to San Francisco
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Summary: AFP - The Beijing Olympic flame relay was cut short in Paris Monday due to disruption by pro-Tibet activists, while protesters in San Francisco scaled the Golden Gate Bridge ahead of the next leg. |
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Cnn.com |
1:07pm PDT |
Protesters hoist banner on Golden Gate |
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Summary: Three protesters have scaled the Golden Gate Bridge and four others were arrested in what is likely a precursor to large protests planned for the arrival of the Olympic torch Wednesday in San Francisco. Those scaling the bridge unfurled a "Free Tibet" ban |
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Yahoo News |
1:05pm PDT |
Olympic flame falters on chaotic Paris visit
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Chinese officials cut short a relay of
the Olympic torch through Paris on Monday after thousands of
pro-Tibet protesters forced it to be extinguished and turned
the event into a shambles. |
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Cnn.com |
1:02pm PDT |
Bob Dylan wins a Pulitzer |
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BBC News |
1:01pm PDT |
Too diplomatic? |
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Summary: Thabo Mbeki's Zimbabwe strategy called into question |
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Yahoo News |
1:01pm PDT |
Washington Post wins 6 Pulitzers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Washington Post won six Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the public service medal for exposing shoddy treatment of America's war wounded at Walter Reed hospital, and the breaking-news award for coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre. |
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Cnn.com |
12:57pm PDT |
'I thought that was the end of my life' |
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Summary: CNN's Christiane Amanpour is working on a major documentary focusing on people who stood up and spoke out against genocide. She interviewed a survivor of the murderous Pol Pot regime in Cambodia who recounted the torture and screams he heard as a prisoner |
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Cnn.com |
12:57pm PDT |
Genocide survivor: 'I thought that was the end' |
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Summary: CNN's Christiane Amanpour is working on a major documentary focusing on people who stood up and spoke out against genocide. She interviewed a survivor of the murderous Pol Pot regime in Cambodia who recounted the torture and screams he heard as a prisoner |
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Yahoo News |
12:56pm PDT |
Growth in consumer borrowing slows
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Summary: AP - Consumers, battered by a credit crunch and prolonged housing slump, significantly slowed their pace of borrowing in February. |
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Yahoo News |
12:37pm PDT |
Reuters wins Pulitzer for breaking news photography
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Reuters won the Pulitzer Prize for
breaking news photography on Monday for a picture of a Japanese
videographer killed during a demonstration in Myanmar. |
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Cnn.com |
12:35pm PDT |
Bob Dylan wins a Pulitzer Prize |
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Yahoo News |
12:30pm PDT |
It's Kansas vs. Memphis for NCAA crown
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Kansas plays Memphis tonight for the NCAA men's college basketball championship. It's once-beaten Memphis against a Kansas team that was able to open a 28-point lead on top-ranked North Carolina Saturday in easily winning its national semifinal. |
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BBC News |
12:27pm PDT |
Fire rips through rollercoaster |
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Summary: Up to 80 firefighers battle a blaze which severely damaged a listed rollercoaster at the Dreamland amusement park. |
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Yahoo News |
12:24pm PDT |
Vacant airwaves spur TV-tech turf battle
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Ten months before the nation flips to digital television, technology companies and TV broadcasters are fighting over the virtual remote, with different ideas of what to do with the unused airwaves. |
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Yahoo News |
12:23pm PDT |
Protesters scale Golden Gate Bridge
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Three people protesting China's human rights record and the impending arrival of the Olympic torch climbed up the Golden Gate Bridge Monday and tied the Tibetan flag and two banners to its cables. |
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Cnn.com |
12:22pm PDT |
Protesters hoist banner on Golden Gate Bridge |
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Summary: Three protesters have scaled the Golden Gate Bridge and four others were arrested in what is likely a precursor to large protests planned for the arrival of the Olympic torch Wednesday in San Francisco. Those scaling the bridge unfurled a "Free Tibet" ban |
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Yahoo News |
11:49am PDT |
Arrest made in Texas polygamy case
(AP)
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Summary: AP - State police made an arrest as they searched a sprawling rural compound built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs in their investigation into a possible underage marriage, an official said Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:45am PDT |
Mugabe under fire over Zimbabwe poll results
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe came under enormous international pressure on Monday to release presidential election results as rival Morgan Tsvangirai made his first foreign trip since the March 29 polls. |
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BBC News |
11:35am PDT |
Odinga snubs Kibaki over meeting |
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Summary: Kenya's PM-designate Raila Odinga shuns a meeting with President Mwai Kibaki on forming a coalition cabinet. |
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BBC News |
11:35am PDT |
Kenya's Kibaki snubbed by Odinga |
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Summary: Kenya's PM-designate Raila Odinga shuns a meeting with President Mwai Kibaki on forming a coalition cabinet. |
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ChristianPost |
11:32am PDT |
Planned Parenthood Registers Record Abortions, Profits |
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Summary: Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading provider of surgical abortions, registered the largest number of abortions on record last year, according to its latest ... |
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Cnn.com |
11:32am PDT |
Israel warns Iran before emergency drill |
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Summary: A day before Israel implements a "routine" emergency drill, an Israeli official Monday said the entire country is at risk of Hezbollah rocket attacks and blamed Iran for "provoking us" by backing the terrorist group.
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BBC News |
11:28am PDT |
FBI insider |
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Summary: How US intelligence is hitting al-Qaeda where it hurts |
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Yahoo News |
11:28am PDT |
Life on the street gets tougher
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The young caller's voice is high-pitched and trembling. |
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BBC News |
11:28am PDT |
After the inquest |
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Summary: Will prosecutions follow the Diana and Dodi verdict? |
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Yahoo News |
11:26am PDT |
Clinton urges Bush to boycott Beijing Olympics
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton urged President George W. Bush on Monday to
boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies this summer
unless China improves human rights. |
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Yahoo News |
11:24am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition leader meets S.Africa's Zuma
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai met South African ruling party leader Jacob Zuma on
Monday after appealing for help from outside powers to end the
28-year rule of President Robert Mugabe. |
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Yahoo News |
11:12am PDT |
No quick end for cloning product moratorium: USDA
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. Agriculture Department said
on Monday it will not lift a voluntary moratorium on selling
meat and milk from cloned animals to consumers any time soon. |
