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ChristianPost |
2:40pm PDT |
A Witness to Unity |
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Summary: As anyone who has read my new book, The Faith, knows, I have a deep passion to help the Church know what it believes, why it believes it, and how to defend the basic truths all Christians have held since the Apostolic ... |
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BBC News |
2:39pm PDT |
Jazz legend Lyttelton dies at 86 |
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Summary: Humphrey Lyttelton, the veteran jazz musician and chairman of BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, dies at the age of 86. |
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ChristianPost |
2:06pm PDT |
Scanning World's Every Book, Including Oldest Bible |
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Summary: In a dimly lit back room on the second level of the University of Michigan library's book-shelving department, Courtney Mitchel helped a giant desktop machine digest a rare, centuries-old ... |
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Yahoo News |
1:59pm PDT |
Rats from infested house offered up for adoption as pets
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Summary: AP - Rats from a heavily infested house here are being trapped to be offered for adoption as pets. |
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Yahoo News |
1:56pm PDT |
Obama presses on gas prices, Clinton highlights energy bill
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama on Friday blamed high gasoline prices on Washington and a political establishment, including his rivals for the presidency, that he says hasn't stood up to oil companies. Hillary Rodham Clinton highlighted his vote for an energy |
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ChristianToday |
1:49pm PDT |
UNHCR deplores Turkeys deadly refugee expulsions |
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Summary: The United Nations refugee agency reprimanded Turkey on Friday for forcibly expelling 18 Syrian and Iranian migrants across a river to Iraq four of whom were swept away and drowned |
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ChristianToday |
1:46pm PDT |
Zimbabwe police raid opposition HQ scores held |
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Summary: Armed riot police raided the headquarters of Zimbabwes main opposition party on Friday and detained scores of people in the biggest crackdown on the MDC since disputed elections last month officials said |
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ChristianPost |
1:44pm PDT |
Pro-Family Groups Call Review On Abstinence 'Biased' |
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Summary: Christians and proponents of federal abstinence programs cried foul over what they claimed was a biased attempt to write off federal abstinence until marriage programs as ineffective and damaging to the health of ... |
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ChristianToday |
1:39pm PDT |
Sri Lanka bus bomb kills 25 military blame Tigers |
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Summary: At least 25 people were killed and more than 40 wounded when a suspected Tamil Tiger bomb ripped through a packed commuter bus on the outskirts of the Sri Lankan capital on Friday the military said |
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Yahoo News |
1:36pm PDT |
Woods leaves no timetable for return from knee surgery
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tiger Woods is no longer on crutches since surgery last week on his left knee, but he said Friday in his monthly newsletter that he does not know when he will return. |
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ChristianToday |
1:35pm PDT |
Police release two held over disabled mans murder |
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Summary: Detectives released a man and youth on Friday held on suspicion of murder after the discovery of the body of missing disabled man James Hughes |
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ChristianPost |
1:33pm PDT |
Evangelicals 'Hijacked' Day of Prayer, Critics Accuse |
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Summary: Non-Christian critics are accusing evangelicals of taking over the upcoming National Day of Prayer, which they complain excludes faithfuls from other ... |
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Cnn.com |
1:30pm PDT |
Shark suspected in swimmer's death |
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Summary: A 66-year-old man died early Friday after being attacked by what authorities suspect was a great white shark off the southern California coast.
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Cnn.com |
1:27pm PDT |
Teller's unborn twins die after shooting |
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Yahoo News |
1:26pm PDT |
Oil prices up on word US ship fired on boats in Persian Gulf
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Summary: AP - Oil prices rose sharply Friday on news that a ship under contract to the U.S. Defense Department fired warning shots at two boats in the Persian Gulf. Retail gas prices as expected rose further into record territory, nearing $3.60 a gallon. |
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Yahoo News |
1:25pm PDT |
Iraq militia leader: `open war' threat only against US
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for an end to Iraqi bloodshed on Friday and said his threat of an "open war" applies only to U.S.-led foreign troops — stepping back from a full-blown confrontation with the government over a crackdown aga |
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Yahoo News |
1:22pm PDT |
Madonna shows her documentary on Malawi at Tribeca festival
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Madonna's harrowing new documentary on Malawi is clearly designed to draw attention to the poverty-stricken nation's plight and help to its people. But the superstar doesn't think much about enlisting aid from the U.S. government. |
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Cnn.com |
1:22pm PDT |
One-word blog post helps to free man from jail |
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Summary: After being detained by Egyptian authorities, James Karl Buck took out his cell phone and sent a message to his friends and contacts using the micro-blogging site Twitter. The message only had one word, "Arrested." Buck's entry set off a chain of events t |
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Cnn.com |
1:22pm PDT |
Man gets out of jail with one-word blog |
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Summary: With a one-word cell phone message, James Karl Buck, a University of California-Berkeley grad student, told friends of his arrest. Within seconds, colleagues in the U.S. and blogger-friends in Egypt were alerted, leading to his eventual release by Egyptia |
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Yahoo News |
1:21pm PDT |
U.S. chides China, Russia for piracy in annual list
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Piracy and counterfeiting of
American goods remain serious problems in China and Russia,
despite some progress in both countries, the U.S. Trade
Representative's office said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
1:11pm PDT |
Stocks mostly up as investors overcome economic worries
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street has ended a wobbly session mostly higher after earlier slumping on concerns about consumer confidence and inflation. |
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Cnn.com |
1:01pm PDT |
Singer Winehouse arrested again, report says |
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BBC News |
12:51pm PDT |
Angola allows arms ship to dock |
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Summary: Angola authorises a Chinese ship to dock, but arms on board will not be allowed passage to Zimbabwe. |
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BBC News |
12:51pm PDT |
Angola to allow arms ship to dock |
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Summary: Angola authorises a Chinese ship to dock, but arms on board will not be allowed passage to Zimbabwe. |
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Yahoo News |
12:47pm PDT |
Obama says he will fine-tune his campaign
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama said on
Friday he would fine-tune his presidential campaign pitch and
remind voters of his humble roots after a defeat in
Pennsylvania fueled in part by his failure to win working-class
voters. |
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BBC News |
12:47pm PDT |
Chasing Amy |
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Summary: Covering the singer and her husband's appearances |
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Yahoo News |
12:47pm PDT |
Bush says rebates going out Monday will boost economy
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Summary: AP - President Bush said tax rebates will start going out Monday, earlier than previously announced, and should help Americans cope with rising gasoline and food prices, as well as aid a slumping economy. |
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BBC News |
12:44pm PDT |
Importing comedy |
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Summary: Will rerun of 'Allo 'Allo! make Germans laugh? |
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Yahoo News |
12:42pm PDT |
Hansbrough returns; Ellington, Lawson declare for NBA draft
(AP)
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Summary: AP - North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough — The Associated Press national player of the year last season — will return for his senior year, the school said Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:23pm PDT |
Report: Amy Winehouse arrested on suspicion of assault
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Amy Winehouse was arrested on suspicion of assault Friday following reports that she scuffled with two men during a wild night out, Sky News television reported. |
