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Cnn.com |
4:29am PDT |
Al Franken to pay 17 states $70K in taxes |
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Cnn.com |
4:29am PDT |
Al Franken to pay 17 states $70K in back taxes |
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BBC News |
4:28am PDT |
Angry Drogba hits back at Benitez |
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Summary: Chelsea's Didier Drogba hits back at suggestions he is a diver ahead of the Champions League semi-final, second leg with Liverpool. |
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BBC News |
4:25am PDT |
US Fed ready to cut interest rate |
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Summary: The US central bank is likely to cut rates to 2% later, but inflation risks mean this may be the last cut for a while. |
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Cnn.com |
4:24am PDT |
Huge squid has soccer ball-sized eyes |
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Summary: Scientists studying the carcass of what they call the heaviest squid ever found have discovered it has eyes as big as soccer balls -- reportedly the largest in the world.
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BBC News |
4:24am PDT |
Baghdad clashes 'leave 400 dead' |
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Summary: More than 400 people have been killed in fighting in Baghdad in April, say officials at hospitals in Iraq's capital. |
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4:04am PDT |
Pastor trouble |
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Summary: Matt Frei on Barack Obama and his former pastor |
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4:03am PDT |
Iraq kidnap |
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Summary: A British journalist recalls how Iraqi militia snatched him |
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Yahoo News |
4:00am PDT |
Torch back in China, 100-day countdown starts
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China began counting down 100
days to the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday with songs, a mass
run and prayers, as the torch arrived back on Chinese soil
after a tumultuous world tour. |
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3:57am PDT |
Austria plans image campaign after incest horror
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Austrian Chancellor Alfred
Gusenbauer said on Wednesday the government planned to launch
an image campaign to restore its reputation abroad after an
incest case that shocked the world. |
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Yahoo News |
3:52am PDT |
US troop deaths hit 7-month high in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September. |
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Yahoo News |
3:51am PDT |
Austrian teen held captive since birth in critical condition
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The young woman whose hospitalization triggered the discovery that her family had been imprisoned and terrorized for decades was struggling for her life Wednesday, as authorities weighed the future of her five siblings. |
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BBC News |
3:44am PDT |
Cellar father faces medical tests |
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Summary: A lawyer for the Austrian man who held his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, says he needs psychiatric tests. |
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Cnn.com |
3:41am PDT |
Girl thrown on fire for being 'low class' |
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Summary: A man, incensed that a six-year-old girl chose to walk through a path reserved for upper caste villagers, pushed her into burning embers, police in north India said Wednesday. She was seriously burned.
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BBC News |
3:31am PDT |
Terror charge student on remand |
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Summary: Teenager Andrew Ibrahim, who is accused of planning acts of terrorism, is remanded in custody. |
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Yahoo News |
3:30am PDT |
Study: Giant squid has biggest animal eyes in world
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Marine scientists studying the carcass of a rare colossal squid said Wednesday they had measured its eye at about 11 inches across — bigger than a dinner plate — making it the largest animal eye on Earth. |
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BBC News |
3:27am PDT |
Election campaign hits final day |
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Summary: Political parties in England and Wales are on their final day of campaigning ahead of local elections. |
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BBC News |
3:25am PDT |
Art of innuendo |
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Summary: Almost anything can sound really quite filthy |
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BBC News |
3:11am PDT |
Two US soldiers dead in Baghdad |
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Summary: Two American soldiers are killed in Baghdad, making April the worst month for US fatalities in Iraq since September. |
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BBC News |
3:05am PDT |
Kenya cabinet cash shortfall |
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Summary: Kenya may use funds for resettling the displaced to find the $300m needed for the expanded coalition cabinet. |
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BBC News |
3:03am PDT |
NI house prices face £75,000 drop |
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Summary: The average price of an NI home will have slumped by £75,000 from its peak by December, an economist says. |
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BBC News |
2:58am PDT |
Teen remanded over terror charges |
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Summary: Teenager Andrew Ibrahim, accused of planning acts of terrorism, is remanded in custody. |
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Cnn.com |
2:58am PDT |
Bare-bottomed prom invite nets suspensions |
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Cnn.com |
2:57am PDT |
Incest family holds 'astonishing' reunion |
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Summary: In an "astonishing" scene, members of an Austrian family terrorized by decades of incest and imprisonment met for the first time at a clinic where psychiatrists are helping them recover, authorities said.
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Cnn.com |
2:55am PDT |
Gas prices hit 16th record high |
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BBC News |
2:50am PDT |
Chinese police find child slaves |
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Summary: Chinese police rescue more than 100 children sold to work as slave labourers in Guangdong. |
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Cnn.com |
2:50am PDT |
Gunfire reported in Florida college dorm |
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Summary: Authorities at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton issued an emergency alert for the campus at 2 a.m. Wednesday.
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BBC News |
2:45am PDT |
Colossal squid's big eye revealed |
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Summary: The world's largest squid possesses the biggest animal eye, say scientists dissecting a rare specimen. |
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BBC News |
2:45am PDT |
Scientists dissect the huge eye of world's largest squid |
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Summary: The world's largest squid possesses the biggest animal eye say scientists |
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Yahoo News |
2:41am PDT |
Militants targeted in Kabul gunbattle
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Afghan security forces raided the Kabul hide-out of militants with suspected links to a weekend attack on President Hamid Karzai, sparking a clash Wednesday that left at least seven people dead, officials said. |
