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BBC News |
9:08am PDT |
Dutch man faces cocaine charges |
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Summary: A 24-year-old man is charged in connection with a seizure of cocaine at Belfast International Airport. |
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Cnn.com |
9:07am PDT |
Militants vow revenge after U.S. airstrike |
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Yahoo News |
9:05am PDT |
White House hopefuls leap on weak job picture
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - White House hopefuls
seized on a weak U.S. jobs picture on Friday to promote their
cures for the ailing economy amid bickering over a proposal to
suspend the federal gasoline tax. |
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BBC News |
8:53am PDT |
Texan tries to cash $360bn cheque |
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Summary: A man in Texas is arrested for trying to cash a cheque for $360bn to start a record business. |
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BBC News |
8:52am PDT |
Redknapp warrant ruling delayed |
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Summary: Judges will decide at a later date whether a police raid at the home of football boss Harry Redknapp was unlawful. |
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Yahoo News |
8:50am PDT |
Bush details $70 billion war funding request for 2009
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush sent lawmakers a $70 billion request Friday to fund U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next spring, which would give the next president breathing room to make his or her own war policy. |
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BBC News |
8:50am PDT |
Pair jailed for blackmailing royal |
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Summary: Two men are jailed for five years for blackmailing a Royal Family member over tapes featuring gay sex claims. |
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BBC News |
8:48am PDT |
Title is within reach - Ferguson |
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Summary: Sir Alex Ferguson says Manchester United are on track to win the Premier League title despite losing to Chelsea last week. |
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Cnn.com |
8:48am PDT |
Did Mariah Carey get married? |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
8:46am PDT |
Tsvangirai wins Zimbabwe election, no overall majority
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was finally declared the winner Friday of the March 29 presidential election but fell just short of toppling incumbent Robert Mugabe in the first round. |
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Cnn.com |
8:44am PDT |
Dr. Phil: Polygamist values put kids at risk |
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Summary: Dr. Phil McGraw joined "Larry King Live" on Thursday where he talked about some of the stories in the news. He touched on topics ranging from the removal of children from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sect to the Rev. Jere |
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ChristianPost |
8:40am PDT |
Zimbabwe Opposition Challenges Decision for Presidential Runoff |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's opposition challenged official results Friday that say its leader has won the first round of the presidential election with 47.9 percent of the vote — more than longtime President Robert Mugabe but not enough to avoid a ... |
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BBC News |
8:37am PDT |
Fireball killer jailed for life |
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Summary: A man is jailed for life for the murder of his former girlfriend who he kidnapped, stabbed and set alight. |
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BBC News |
8:33am PDT |
Kylie to receive French honour |
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Summary: Pop star Kylie Minogue says she is 'deeply honoured' to receive a top French honour. |
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Yahoo News |
8:26am PDT |
Major powers agree on new incentives offer to Iran
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Major powers have agreed to make a new
offer of incentives to Iran to halt its sensitive nuclear work,
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
8:26am PDT |
Two men guilty of royal blackmail |
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Summary: Two men are found guilty of blackmailing a Royal Family member over tapes featuring gay sex claims. |
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Yahoo News |
8:22am PDT |
Mideast Quartet presses Arab states, Israel
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Key world powers called Friday on Arab states to fulfil their promises of aid for the Palestinians and voiced deep concern over the humanitarian impact of a nine-month-old Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip. |
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Yahoo News |
8:21am PDT |
Obama says Clinton, McCain wrong on gas taxes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Barack Obama said Friday a summertime suspension of the federal gasoline tax could cost 6,000 jobs in next week's primary state of Indiana, and accused Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain of "reading from the same political playbook" by endor |
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ChristianPost |
8:20am PDT |
Bishop Denounces Episcopal Head for 'Rude' Letter |
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Summary: Despite protest from the head of The Episcopal Church, clergy from a diocese that is moving toward a split with the national church are meeting with Archbishop Gregory Venables, head of the conservative Anglican Province of the Southern Cone in South ... |
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Yahoo News |
8:20am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition challenges decision for presidential runoff
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Zimbabwe's opposition challenged official results Friday that say its leader has won the first round of the presidential election with 47.9 percent of the vote — more than longtime President Robert Mugabe but not enough to avoid a runoff. |
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BBC News |
8:19am PDT |
'I am innocent' says stepfather |
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Summary: The stepfather of a disabled man found dead in a suitcase says he did not murder him. |
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BBC News |
8:18am PDT |
Royal ransom |
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Summary: How a pair of blackmailers tried to extort £50,000 |
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Yahoo News |
8:11am PDT |
Government cracks down on credit card industry practices
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Federal Reserve and other regulators are moving Friday to crack down on "unfair and deceptive" practices in the credit card industry that have added billions in debt to people already struggling to cope with the economic downturn. |
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Cnn.com |
8:05am PDT |
A good week for the economy |
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Summary: The worst-case scenarios just aren't playing out.
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BBC News |
7:58am PDT |
Colombia police catch drugs twin |
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Summary: Police in Colombia say they have captured the top trafficker Miguel Angel Mejia - days after shooting dead his twin. |
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Yahoo News |
7:56am PDT |
Tsvangirai wins first round of Zimbabwe polls
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was finally declared the winner Friday of the March 29 presidential election but fell just short of toppling incumbent Robert Mugabe in the first round. |
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BBC News |
7:50am PDT |
Guerin suspect jailed for kidnap |
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Summary: A suspect in the murder of Irish journalist Veronica Guerin is among a gang jailed for a £10m "honey trap" kidnap. |
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Cnn.com |
7:45am PDT |
Jolting the brain fights deep depression |
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Summary: Imagine what a pacemaker does to your heart -- its electrical impulses regulate a heartbeat that's out of whack.
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BBC News |
7:33am PDT |
Art experts aiding Stone defence |
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Summary: Performance art experts are helping the defence team of a loyalist killer who raided the NI Assembly. |
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BBC News |
7:29am PDT |
Air crash kills Sudanese minister |
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Summary: South Sudan's defence minister is killed when a plane carrying about 20 people crashes, officials say. |
