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BBC News |
3:59am PDT |
Breaking the bank |
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Summary: Zimbabwe - where a drink costs Z$200m |
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BBC News |
3:57am PDT |
Live - Scottish Cup semi-final |
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Summary: Queen of the South meet Aberdeen in the first of the Scottish Cup semi-finals on Saturday. |
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BBC News |
3:55am PDT |
Historic China-Taiwan talks held |
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Summary: China's President Hu holds a historic meeting with Taiwan's vice-president-elect, amid hopes of improved ties. |
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BBC News |
3:43am PDT |
Baghdad clashes 'kill 13 gunmen' |
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Summary: US and Iraqi forces kill 13 militants in fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City, as a two-week blockade is lifted. |
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BBC News |
3:34am PDT |
Benitez urges his squad to focus |
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Summary: Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez says his players must focus on football, not the ongoing boardroom conflict. |
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BBC News |
3:09am PDT |
Wombles warning over TV imports |
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Summary: The Wombles get a make-over to highlight the threat from US imports to children's TV in Britain. |
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Yahoo News |
3:07am PDT |
Chinese, Taiwanese in historic meeting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A meeting between Taiwan's vice president-elect and Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday marked the highest-level political contact between the sides in more than half a century. |
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Yahoo News |
3:05am PDT |
Battles kill 13 in Sadr City, blockade eased
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed at least
13 gunmen in heavy battles overnight around Baghdad's Sadr
City, the U.S. military said on Saturday, but authorities went
ahead and eased a two-week-old blockade of the slum. |
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Yahoo News |
3:04am PDT |
South Africa leader arrives in Zimbabwe
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Zimbabwean official says South African President Thabo Mbeki has arrived in Harare for an urgent meeting with President Robert Mugabe. |
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Cnn.com |
3:02am PDT |
Taiwan, China hold historic meeting |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
2:56am PDT |
Historic China-Taiwan talks open |
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Summary: China's President Hu Jintao begins a historic meeting with Taiwan's Vice-President-elect, amid hopes of improved ties. |
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Yahoo News |
2:47am PDT |
Mbeki in Harare for crisis talks with Mugabe
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - South African President Thabo Mbeki
arrived in Zimbabwe on Saturday for talks with President Robert
Mugabe on the country's election deadlock, before regional
leaders meet in Zambia to discuss the crisis. |
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BBC News |
2:38am PDT |
Irate gran's bid to demolish Tesco boss's mansion |
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Summary: Gran wants to retaliatr |
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BBC News |
2:38am PDT |
Irate gran submits plans to demolish Tesco boss's mansion |
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Summary: Gran wants to retaliatr |
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ChristianToday |
2:28am PDT |
Mugabe to meet Mbeki before Zimbabwe crisis summit |
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Summary: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will meet South African leader Thabo Mbeki on Saturday before a southern African summit called to discuss Zimbabwes election stalemate the Harare government said |
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BBC News |
2:28am PDT |
Mugabe in talks ahead of summit |
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Summary: Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe meets South Africa's president ahead of a summit on Zimbabwe's poll crisis. |
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ChristianToday |
2:28am PDT |
China says unity at stake over Tibet |
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Summary: Chinas conflict with the Dalai Lama was purely a question of national unity and nothing to do with ethnicity religion or human rights Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Saturday |
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ChristianToday |
2:27am PDT |
G7 cuts growth view |
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Summary: Finance chiefs from rich nations offered a gloomier assessment of the global economy on Friday and vowed to act swiftly on wideranging reforms aimed at moving beyond a credit crisis that threatens world growth |
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ChristianToday |
2:27am PDT |
Nepal Maoists take surprise lead in early vote count |
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Summary: Nepals Maoist former rebels took a surprising early lead on Saturday in an election aimed at cementing a peace deal that ended a decadelong civil war |
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ChristianToday |
2:26am PDT |
Battles kill 13 in Sadr City |
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Summary: US and Iraqi forces killed at least 13 gunmen in heavy battles overnight around Baghdads Sadr City the US military said on Saturday but authorities went ahead and eased a twoweekold blockade of the slum |
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ChristianToday |
2:25am PDT |
French and Canadian foreign ministers in Afghanistan |
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Summary: Afghan President Hamid Karzai met French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Saturday days after France promised to send an extra 700 soldiers to help battle the Taliban |
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ChristianToday |
2:25am PDT |
Obama under fire after fundraiser remarks |
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Summary: US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama came under fire on Friday for saying smalltown Pennsylvania residents were bitter and cling to guns or religion in comments his rivals said showed an elitist view of the middle class |
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ChristianToday |
2:24am PDT |
Thailand says Merchant of Death treated well |
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Summary: Suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is being treated well in a Thai prison and there are no plans yet to extradite him to the United States Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama said on Saturday |
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ChristianToday |
2:24am PDT |
Macedonian parliament votes for early election |
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Summary: Macedonian legislators voted to dissolve parliament on Saturday clearing the way for an early election after months of political stagnation and rejection of the countrys NATO membership bid |
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ChristianToday |
2:15am PDT |
Brown says world losing patience with Mugabe |
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Summary: Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday he was appalled by signs Zimbabwes government was resorting to violence in an election standoff and warned President Robert Mugabe the world was losing patience |
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ChristianToday |
2:14am PDT |
Prince William awarded Royal Air Force wings |
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Summary: Prince William watched by his admiring girlfriend Kate Middleton received his Royal Air Force wings from Prince Charles on Friday
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ChristianToday |
2:13am PDT |
Rights warning issued on troop equipment |
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Summary: Sending troops on patrol or into battle with defective equipment could be a breach of human rights a High Court judge ruled on Friday |
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Yahoo News |
2:08am PDT |
Obama counting on Indiana
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama sees himself with a disadvantage in Pennsylvania and with an advantage in North Carolina. "So Indiana may end up being the tiebreaker," he said this week. |
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BBC News |
2:06am PDT |
Naked model Sue reveals all about her £17m Freudian sleep |
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Summary: The subject of a painting by Lucien Freud - expect to break records at auction next month - tells the BBC it's a "bit of a shock". |
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Yahoo News |
2:03am PDT |
More Catholic schools closing across US
(AP)
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Summary: AP - For 46 years, crime, recessions and hurricanes proved no threat to the daily ritual of St. Monica School, where the entire blue-and-white uniformed student body gathered outside each morning to join in prayer. |
