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Yahoo News |
4:51am PDT |
DNC chairman under Bill Clinton: Unite behind Obama
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A leader of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton has switched his allegiance to Barack Obama and is encouraging fellow Democrats to "heal the rift in our party" and unite behind the Illinois senator. |
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BBC News |
4:47am PDT |
LA salutes Britain |
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Summary: British stars celebrate success in America |
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Yahoo News |
4:47am PDT |
Nine dead in Egypt tourist coach inferno
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - At least nine people were killed and 28 injured when a coach carrying European and North Americans overturned and caught fire in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Thursday, a security official said. |
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Yahoo News |
4:45am PDT |
Pittsburgh surpasses Los Angeles as nation's sootiest city
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A city outside California has for the first time been named the sootiest in the nation, one of the categories the American Lung Association uses to determine the most polluted cities in the country. |
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BBC News |
4:44am PDT |
GCSE and A-level papers stolen |
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Summary: An exam board is re-setting some GCSE and A-level papers after some went missing. |
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Cnn.com |
4:37am PDT |
Incest dad reportedly spent days in cellar |
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Summary: A 73-year-old man accused of holding his daughter captive in his cellar for 24 years often spent many hours in the cellar during the day, his sister-in law said in an interview published Thursday.
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4:28am PDT |
Austrian 'spent nights in cellar' |
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Summary: The Austrian man held for imprisoning his daughter for 24 years spent nights in the cellar, his sister-in-law says. |
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Cnn.com |
4:22am PDT |
Spate of 'detergent suicides' hits Japan |
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Summary: A 24-year-old Japanese man killed himself by mixing laundry detergent and cleaning fluids, releasing noxious fumes into the air and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people from their homes.
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4:10am PDT |
Mission creep |
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Summary: Five years on from Iraq's 'Mission Accomplished' |
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4:10am PDT |
Local election voting under way |
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Summary: Millions of people are voting in local elections which are taking place across England and Wales. |
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Yahoo News |
4:08am PDT |
Butler's late basket helps Wizards win Game 5 in Cleveland
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Summary: AP - Caron Butler saved Washington's season. Butler made a layup with 3.9 seconds left and the Wizards held their breath as LeBron James missed a potential series-ending layup at the horn, giving Washington an 88-87 victory Wednesday night and adding at l |
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4:07am PDT |
Shell pulls out of big wind farm |
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Summary: Energy firm Shell wants to sell its stake in a project to build the world's largest wind farm in the Thames Estuary. |
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Yahoo News |
4:05am PDT |
At least nine dead in Egypt tourist coach inferno
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - At least nine people were killed and 28 injured when a coach carrying European and North Americans overturned and caught fire in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Thursday, a security official said. |
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BBC News |
3:57am PDT |
Burmese urged to support charter |
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Summary: Junta leader Than Shwe calls on Burmese workers to back the new constitution, which critics say is deeply flawed. |
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Yahoo News |
3:53am PDT |
Rice returns to Mideast amid few signs of progress
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
this weekend makes her fourth visit to Israel and the
Palestinian territories since the November Annapolis peace
conference with little to show for the U.S. effort. |
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BBC News |
3:52am PDT |
Haiti facing 'major food crisis' |
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Summary: Haiti faces a "major crisis" unless the international community increases food aid to offset rising prices. |
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Cnn.com |
3:30am PDT |
Pittsburgh tops L.A. as sootiest city |
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Cnn.com |
3:30am PDT |
Sootiest city? This time it's not L.A. |
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BBC News |
3:28am PDT |
Retrial for boy death babysitter |
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Summary: A babysitter wins an appeal against her conviction for murdering a two-year-old boy and now faces a retrial. |
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3:27am PDT |
Image problem |
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Summary: Incest case fuels fears for Austria's standing |
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3:26am PDT |
Al-Qaeda leader among 10 killed in Somalia airstrike
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - An air strike in Somalia on Thursday, which insurgents blamed on the United States, killed at least 10 people, including Al-Qaeda's military leader in the war-torn country, a rebel spokesman and residents said. |
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3:26am PDT |
Police: Car bomb kills at least 9 in Baghdad
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A car bomb aimed at a U.S. patrol in Baghdad on Thursday killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 26, police said. |
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BBC News |
3:14am PDT |
Electronics' 'missing link' found |
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Summary: Details of a new kind of electronic device, which could make chips smaller, is outlined by scientists. |
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3:14am PDT |
Acid brain |
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Summary: Vegeburgers, posh chocolate... how LSD changed eating |
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ChristianToday |
3:13am PDT |
New Zealand Canada join this years Back to Church Sunday |
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Summary: Thousands of churchgoers across the UK and in New Zealand and Canada to invite their friends to return to church as Back to Church Sunday expands abroad |
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3:05am PDT |
Extra Russian troops arrive in Georgian rebel zones: agencies
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Extra Russian troops deployed Thursday in the Georgian separatist zone of Abkhazia, despite Georgia's objections and concern in NATO, news agencies quoted the Russian Defence Ministry as saying. |
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Cnn.com |
3:04am PDT |
Mugabe stays if no run-off vote, official says |
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Summary: President Robert Mugabe will win re-election by default if opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai declines to participate in a runoff, the head of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission told CNN on Thursday.
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2:53am PDT |
Lesbian islanders battle for Lesbos name |
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Summary: Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos try to prevent a gay rights group from calling itself "lesbian". |
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Yahoo News |
2:50am PDT |
Maine river crests after surging to record high
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The rain-swollen St. John River crested early Thursday after hitting a new record high, forcing residents to flee to higher ground as more than 100 homes flooded. |
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BBC News |
2:48am PDT |
Tomorrow's world |
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Summary: Inside the world famous Xerox Parc lab in Silicon Valley |
