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BBC News |
8:22pm PDT |
Italians hold second day of polls |
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Summary: Italians vote in polls pitting centre-right Silvio Berlusconi against centre-left Walter Veltroni for prime minister. |
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Yahoo News |
8:04pm PDT |
Clinton, Obama focus on faith at forum
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that the potential for life begins at conception as she and presidential rival Sen. Barack Obama answered questions about faith and religion in both their personal lives and the public discourse. |
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Yahoo News |
7:46pm PDT |
Nepal voters give Maoists a chance
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Successful on the battlefield, Nepal's Maoists appear to have confounded predictions they would fail at the ballot box -- taking a stunning early lead in the count from last week's elections. |
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BBC News |
7:40pm PDT |
TV host's family to identify body |
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Summary: Tests are to take place on the body of a man, believed to be TV host Mark Speight, found at Paddington station. |
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Yahoo News |
7:39pm PDT |
Vessels collide on Mississippi; 18 hurt
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A boat carrying state prison employees collided with a barge on the swollen Mississippi River upstream from Baton Rouge on Sunday, injuring 18 people. |
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Yahoo News |
7:23pm PDT |
Zimbabweans await ruling on presidential result
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabweans awaited Monday a court ruling that could finally mean they will find out whether Robert Mugabe or opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai won the presidential election more than two weeks ago. |
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Yahoo News |
7:14pm PDT |
Obama turns tables on Clinton
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama lashed out Sunday at rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, mocking her vocal support for gun rights and saying her record in the Senate and as first lady belied her stated commitment to working class voters and their concerns. |
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Yahoo News |
6:56pm PDT |
Barack Obama lashes out at rivals
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama
accused his rivals for the U.S. presidency on Sunday of
twisting his words for political gain when they branded him an
elitist for saying embittered small-town voters were clinging
to guns or religion. |
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Yahoo News |
6:49pm PDT |
Barack Obama lashes out at rivals who say he's elitist
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama
accused his rivals for the U.S. presidency on Sunday of
twisting his words for political gain when they branded him an
elitist for saying embittered small-town voters were clinging
to guns or religion. |
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Yahoo News |
6:44pm PDT |
2 boats collide on Mississippi; 18 hurt
(AP)
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Summary: AP - At least 18 people are injured after a boat carrying Louisiana prison employees collided with another vessel on the Mississippi River. |
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Cnn.com |
6:43pm PDT |
18 arrested in Darfur protest at White House |
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Summary: A group of student protesters were arrested Sunday after they called on President Bush to end the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan, and refused to leave the front gates of the White House.
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Yahoo News |
6:24pm PDT |
Report: Wachovia to get $7B investment
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wachovia Corp. said Sunday it will move up the release of its first-quarter financial results, an announcement that closely followed a report that the nation's fourth-largest bank is about to get a multibillion-dollar cash infusion. |
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Yahoo News |
6:17pm PDT |
Vt. mother evades rescuers, and 3 die
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A woman reported missing with her two daughters waded into a brook carrying one of them and eluded a rescue attempt before mother and child were swept downstream to their deaths, police said Sunday. The second child's body was found later. |
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BBC News |
6:16pm PDT |
Dhaka-Calcutta train link resumes |
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Summary: Passenger trains resume between Dhaka in Bangladesh, and the Indian city of Calcutta after 43 years. |
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BBC News |
6:11pm PDT |
Injured Ecuador bus crash Britons moved |
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Summary: The 12 Britons injured in a bus crash in Ecuador in which five UK tourists died are being moved to the capital Quito for treatment. |
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Cnn.com |
6:10pm PDT |
Clinton, Obama take fight to faith forum |
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Summary: In a tumultuous campaign season where religion -- both rumor and reality -- has had a starring role, the two Democratic White House hopefuls venture again onto terrain that has been dominated by the GOP. Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama answered que |
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BBC News |
5:48pm PDT |
Tories pin economic woes on PM |
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Summary: Shadow Chancellor George Osborne pins the blame for the present economic crisis on Gordon Brown. |
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BBC News |
5:48pm PDT |
Tories pin economic woes on Brown |
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Summary: Shadow Chancellor George Osborne pins the blame for the present economic crisis on Gordon Brown. |
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Yahoo News |
5:38pm PDT |
Obama turns table on Clinton
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama lashed out Sunday at rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, mocking her sudden vocal support for gun rights and saying he understands the concerns of working class people. |
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Yahoo News |
5:24pm PDT |
A green jacket for Trevor Immelman
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Trevor Immelman has never felt better. |
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Yahoo News |
5:20pm PDT |
Hillary Clinton tours working-class area
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential
hopeful Hillary Clinton toured a working-class neighborhood on
Sunday and kept up the attack on rival Barack Obama's remarks
about small-town voters. |
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Cnn.com |
5:12pm PDT |
Bush personally picking up pope from airport |
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Cnn.com |
4:41pm PDT |
Yanks foil stadium 'curse,' dig up Sox jersey |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
4:38pm PDT |
A green jacket for Immelman
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Trevor Immelman has never felt better. |
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BBC News |
4:33pm PDT |
Immelman crowned Masters champion |
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Summary: South African Trevor Immelman secures his maiden major title with a three-shot victory in the Masters at Augusta. |
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BBC News |
4:23pm PDT |
Self-harm 'on the rise' in jails |
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Summary: A prison reform charity warns the rates of self-harm in jails have soared by 37% in the last four years. |
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BBC News |
4:12pm PDT |
Crime in Glasgow 'worse than NY' |
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Summary: Glasgow could learn lessons from New York about how to tackle crime, according to a report. |
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BBC News |
4:05pm PDT |
Union fears train contract loss |
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Summary: The Scottish Government is urged not to award a train carriage contract to a foreign company. |
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BBC News |
4:04pm PDT |
Pneumococcal bug poses new threat |
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Summary: A strain of bacteria which can cause pneumonia and meningitis in children is on the rise in England and Wales, figures suggest. |
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Yahoo News |
3:55pm PDT |
Zimbabwe to hold partial vote recount
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Authorities said Sunday they would recount the votes from nearly two dozen parliamentary races as Zimbabwe's ruling party sought to overturn election results that cost it control of the legislature for the first time in the nation's history. |
