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Yahoo News |
4:51am PDT |
Delta reports $6.4B loss in first quarter on fuel costs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Delta Air Lines Inc., the nation's third-largest carrier, said Wednesday its loss widened in the first quarter to a whopping $6.39 billion because of soaring fuel prices and the steep decline in the company's market value. |
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Yahoo News |
4:44am PDT |
Clinton wins most delegates in Pennsylvania primary
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the most delegates in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary. |
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BBC News |
4:38am PDT |
Brown defends 'U-turn' on 10p tax |
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Summary: Gordon Brown defends moves to compensate those hit by the 10p tax rate's axing, as he is accused of "weakness". |
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BBC News |
4:30am PDT |
No apparent link on baby deaths |
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Summary: The deaths of four babies in the same hospital don't appear to be linked, say medical experts. |
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Yahoo News |
4:17am PDT |
Israel braces for fallout from U.S. spy case
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Israel was tightlipped on Wednesday
over the arrest in the United States of an 84-year-old American
suspected of providing it with U.S. military secrets in the
1980s, a new case that has opened old wounds. |
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BBC News |
4:08am PDT |
Family food shop up '£15 a week' |
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Summary: Steep increases in food costs add £15 to a weekly shop for an average family in the UK, new research shows. |
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BBC News |
4:01am PDT |
Boy or girl |
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Summary: Can you really influence a baby's gender? |
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BBC News |
3:54am PDT |
Slump in bank mortgage approvals |
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Summary: The global credit crunch has led to a further slump in mortgage lending by the UK's major banks. |
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BBC News |
3:53am PDT |
Hleb season over following FA ban |
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Summary: Arsenal's Alexander Hleb admits a FA charge of violent conduct and will miss Arsenal's final three games of the season. |
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Yahoo News |
3:42am PDT |
WTO should pressure food exporters: Mandelson
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The World Trade Organization (WTO) should
push food-producing countries to maintain exports to prevent a
worsening of the international food crisis, EU Trade
Commissioner Peter Mandelson said on Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
3:39am PDT |
Mugabe's party wins first recount |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's ruling party wins the first of 23 parliamentary seats to complete a recount from March's election. |
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ChristianToday |
3:36am PDT |
Zimbabwean bishops fear genocide CAFOD |
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Summary: CAFOD today called for peace with an end to all violence and intimidation in Zimbabwe and demanded urgent action from the United Nations as bishops spoke of their fear of genocide |
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BBC News |
3:34am PDT |
Darling 'U-turn' on 10p tax rate |
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Summary: People losing out as a result of the abolition of the 10p tax rate are to be compensated, Alistair Darling says. |
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Yahoo News |
3:33am PDT |
Yahoo profit rises, but Microsoft bid likely to stand pat
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Yahoo Inc.'s first-quarter performance was a little like Goldilocks' favorite soup — not too hot and not too cold, and that has set the table for a bitter battle over Microsoft Corp.'s bid to take over the Internet pioneer. |
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Yahoo News |
3:32am PDT |
Microsoft's Tellme launches BlackBerry voice search
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Microsoft Corp.'s Tellme subsidiary launched an application for the BlackBerry on Tuesday that lets people speak commands into their smart phones to search for businesses, look up movie times, check traffic and make other queries. |
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BBC News |
3:29am PDT |
Strike to hit one in four schools |
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Summary: The teachers' strike, planned for Thursday, is to affect more than 500 schools across Wales. |
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Yahoo News |
3:27am PDT |
Philadelphia Flyers, San Jose Sharks win NHL playoff series
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Philadelphia Flyers and San Jose Sharks don't have much time to rest up for the NHL's conference semifinals, but at least they made it with Game-7 victories. Joffrey Lupul scored a power-play goal at 6:06 of overtime to give the Flyers a 3-2 win |
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BBC News |
3:24am PDT |
Eastwood film tops Cannes line-up |
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Summary: Movie icon Clint Eastwood will premiere his latest film, Changeling, at the Cannes Film Festival. |
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Yahoo News |
3:23am PDT |
Call for unity govt in Zimbabwe as Mugabe wins first recount
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A unity government led by President Robert Mugabe may be the best way to break Zimbabwe's post-election deadlock, state media said Wednesday, as the first result from a recount of votes was declared. |
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BBC News |
3:18am PDT |
Mother had 'ligature' around neck |
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Summary: Police searching for a disabled man after his mother's body was found say she had a ligature around her neck. |
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Cnn.com |
3:11am PDT |
Gas climbs 2 cents to record $3.53 |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
3:06am PDT |
Clinton clinches key Pennsylvania primary
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A victorious Hillary Clinton has kept her White House quest alive, triumphing over Barack Obama in Pennsylvania's rancorous Democratic primary. |
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Cnn.com |
3:04am PDT |
Georgia: Russia is harassing us |
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Summary: Former Soviet state Georgia Wednesday accused Moscow of "harassment" for allegedly shooting down of one its spy planes, escalating tensions between the two countries ahead of a U.N. Security Council meeting.
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BBC News |
3:03am PDT |
Alitalia loan stirs rescue hopes |
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Summary: Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's next Prime Minister, says an emergency loan to Alitlia may save the problem-hit airline. |
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Yahoo News |
2:59am PDT |
Experts fear nation's waterways need rescuing — from us
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Rosemary Lowe scoops up a shovel of dirt and dumps it into a hole around the base of a slender cottonwood tree. |
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Yahoo News |
2:58am PDT |
U.S. committed to WTO outcome by year end: official
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States is fully committed to
an outcome to the Doha round of global trade talks by the end
of the year, a senior U.S. Treasury Department official said on
Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
2:57am PDT |
Situations vacant |
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Summary: Astronauts wanted, must have 'right stuff'. What is that? |
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Yahoo News |
2:56am PDT |
Iran's leader to visit India to deepen energy ties
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
will make his first official visit to India next week in a sign
of the two countries' ambitions to deepen energy ties despite
opposition from the United States. |
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BBC News |
2:55am PDT |
Gold leaf |
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Summary: A tree worth £750,000, how do you calculate that? |
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BBC News |
2:50am PDT |
'Heavy losses' in S Lanka clashes |
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Summary: At least 52 Tamil Tigers and 15 soldiers are reported killed in clashes in Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. |
