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BBC News |
2:52am PDT |
Iron Man battles to $100m debut |
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Summary: Iron Man proves its box office mettle by taking an estimated $101m in its opening weekend. |
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ChristianToday |
2:45am PDT |
Send a Cow celebrate 20 years of passing on hope |
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Summary: If we all passed on a little of what we have the world would be very different Thats the message from Send a Cow which is celebrating 20 years of passing on hope in Africa this year |
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Yahoo News |
2:30am PDT |
Hundreds of thousands without shelter in Myanmar: U.N.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hundreds of thousands of people have
been left without shelter and drinking water in military-ruled
Myanmar after a devastating cyclone tore through the Irrawaddy
delta, a United Nations official said on Monday. |
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BBC News |
2:29am PDT |
Mass evacuation from Baltic ship |
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Summary: Latvian authorities prepare to evacuate nearly 1,000 people from a cruise ship stuck on a sandbank.
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Yahoo News |
2:28am PDT |
Barbara Walters puts life on display with book `Audition'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - No one doubts she's hard-driving. But she has never learned to drive, Barbara Walters reveals in her new memoir, "Audition." |
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ChristianToday |
2:28am PDT |
US lawmakers want Olympic opening ceremony boycott |
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Summary: Conservative and liberal members of Congress banded together on Thursday to urge a US government boycott of the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in China accusing Beijing of gross human rights violations |
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Cnn.com |
2:27am PDT |
Buffett to investors: Think small |
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Summary: In the Q&A session Saturday morning at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, CEO Warren Buffett and vice chairman Charlie Munger repeatedly warned investors to lower their expectations.
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Yahoo News |
2:24am PDT |
China and Dalai Lama aides agreed to talk again
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Envoys of the Dalai Lama and
Chinese officials agreed to further contact during a day of
talks aimed at mending fences following a wave of unrest that
pushed Tibet to centre stage ahead of the 2008 Olympics. |
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BBC News |
2:23am PDT |
No let up in India farm suicides |
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Summary: The rate of farmer suicides in India's Maharashtra state has gone up in recent years despite relief schemes, a government report says. |
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ChristianToday |
2:20am PDT |
Hundreds of thousands without shelter in Burma |
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Summary: Hundreds of thousands of people have been left without shelter and drinking water in militaryruled Burma after a devastating cyclone tore through the Irrawaddy delta a United Nations official said on Monday |
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Yahoo News |
2:20am PDT |
Idaho team readies artificial beak for wounded bald eagle
(AP)
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Summary: AP - She has been named Beauty, though this eagle is anything but. Part of Beauty's beak was shot off several years ago, leaving her with a stump that is useless for hunting food. A team of volunteers is working to attach an artificial beak to the disfigu |
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ChristianToday |
2:19am PDT |
Bolivias richest region votes yes on autonomy |
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Summary: Bolivias richest region of Santa Cruz voted overwhelmingly for autonomy on Sunday in a referendum widely seen as a rejection of President Evo Morales leftist reforms exit polls showed |
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ChristianToday |
2:18am PDT |
Yemen army warns rebels to heed truce |
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Summary: Yemens army has warned rebels led by AbdulMalik alHouthi that it will move to subdue them if they fail to implement a truce brought to the verge of collapse by a mosque bombing and days of clashes |
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ChristianToday |
2:17am PDT |
Turkish PM reportedly to form new party if AKP closed |
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Summary: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will form a new party if his ruling AK Party is closed down by the Constitutional Court for Islamist activities local media reported on Monday |
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ChristianToday |
2:17am PDT |
Three children killed by blast in Afghan capital |
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Summary: Three children were killed in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday by an explosion of ordnance left over from in the countrys long civil war the Interior Ministry said |
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ChristianToday |
2:16am PDT |
WHO says childkilling virus no threat to Olympics |
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Summary: A virus that has killed 25 children and infected thousands across China will not threaten Beijings Olympic Games in August the World Health Organisation WHO said in comments published on Monday |
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ChristianToday |
2:15am PDT |
Malaysia drops idea of travel restriction for women |
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Summary: Malaysias home ministry rejected on Monday a proposal to impose restrictions on women travelling overseas on their own following an outcry from womens groups |
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ChristianToday |
2:14am PDT |
Manila scraps rice purchases |
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Summary: The Philippines scrapped its largest rice tender of the year on Monday and said it preferred to hold back importing until prices fall sending a signal to world grain markets that rice prices might have peaked |
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ChristianToday |
2:14am PDT |
At least 16 people killed in Mexican massacres |
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Summary: Heavily armed men killed at least 16 people all members of a ranchers association in two different massacres in southern Mexico over the weekend Mexican media said on Sunday |
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ChristianToday |
2:13am PDT |
World can reach climate change deal in 2009 UN |
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Summary: The world can reach a significant new climate change pact by the end of 2009 if current talks keep up their momentum the head of the United Nations climate panel said on Sunday |
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BBC News |
2:09am PDT |
Microsoft exit hits Yahoo shares |
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Summary: Yahoo shares plunge in trading in Frankfurt after Microsoft drops its bid for the internet firm. |
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BBC News |
2:06am PDT |
Fists and kicks |
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Summary: Why are teen girls fighting each other like boys? |
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ChristianToday |
2:03am PDT |
Pope absent from Time most influential list Vatican not alarmed |
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Summary: The Vatican says it is happy that Pope Benedict was left off Time magazines list of the worlds 100 most influential people which included the Dalai Lama and the spiritual head of Orthodox Christians |
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Cnn.com |
1:52am PDT |
Children's bodies found in German freezer |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
1:50am PDT |
UN suspends food aid to Gaza |
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Summary: The UN is to suspend its distribution of food aid to Gaza because of fuel shortages, officials say. |
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BBC News |
1:47am PDT |
Five knifed in Leeds fracas |
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Summary: Five people are being treated for knife wounds after a public disorder incident in the centre of Leeds. |
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ChristianToday |
1:46am PDT |
US urged to put Vietnam back on religion blacklist |
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Summary: A US religious freedom watchdog group urged the United States on Friday to put Vietnam back on a religious rights blacklist two years after the communist country was removed from the list |
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BBC News |
1:45am PDT |
Equal pay challenge for councils |
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Summary: A deal on equal pay is set to become one of the first tests for newly elected councillors. |
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ChristianToday |
1:24am PDT |
Muslim rebels expel Christians in southern Philippines |
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Summary: Muslim rebels have forced hundreds of mainly Christian families off their farms in the southern Philippines escalating tensions in the region ahead of the withdrawal of Malaysian peace monitors next week |
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Yahoo News |
1:18am PDT |
Secretary of State Rice presses Israel on roadblocks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wound up a weekend trip to spur Israeli-Palestinian talks with a one-on-one meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Monday morning, and Olmert was scheduled to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas later |
