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Cnn.com |
10:22am PDT |
Clinton fights on as prospects dim |
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Summary: Desperately trying to convince Democrats that she still has a chance of winning the White House, Hillary Clinton today is in West Virginia, working to rejuvenate her campaign. Barack Obama took a big step toward securing his party's nomination on Tuesday, |
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Cnn.com |
10:17am PDT |
Unlocked and pricey, iPhone is coveted in Israel |
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Summary: In Tel Aviv's wholesale fashion headquarters, where textile merchants follow in the legacy of fathers and grandfathers, many Israelis are looking for the latest in tech fashion: the iPhone.
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BBC News |
10:06am PDT |
Platypus genetic code unravelled |
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Summary: The genetic blueprint of one of the world's strangest mammals - the duck-billed platypus - is deciphered. |
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BBC News |
10:06am PDT |
Genetic secrets of 'world's strangest mammal' are revealed |
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Summary: The genetic blueprint of one of the world's strangest mammals is deciphered. |
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BBC News |
10:06am PDT |
Gene secrets of 'world's strangest mammal' are revealed |
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Summary: The genetic blueprint of one of the world's strangest mammals is deciphered. |
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BBC News |
9:57am PDT |
Alexander stands firm in vote row |
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Summary: Wendy Alexander denies her position is untenable after her call for an early independence vote. |
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Yahoo News |
9:55am PDT |
US: Ex-Guantanamo prisoner carried out Iraq suicide attack
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The U.S. military is confirming that a former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern Iraq. |
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BBC News |
9:53am PDT |
Mandelson attacks 10p tax policy |
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Summary: Former Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson says the scrapping of the 10p tax rate was "a very big mistake". |
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DJ Chuang |
9:46am PDT |
keeping a finger on the pulse of culture |
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Summary: Culture is always changing, some faster, some slower. I’m one who loves ideas, not as an avoidance of real world real-time life, I hope that’s an accurate assessment. I find myself often thinking about interplay between Gospel and culture. I c |
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BBC News |
9:36am PDT |
Dorset landslip 'worst in 100 years' |
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Summary: A landslip on Dorset's Jurassic coastline is described by police as the "worst seen for 100 years". |
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BBC News |
9:35am PDT |
Live - Murray v Wawrinka |
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Summary: British number one Andy Murray takes on Stanislas Wawrinka in the second round of the Rome Masters. |
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BBC News |
9:31am PDT |
Zimbabwe killings |
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Summary: Wounds from Matabeleland masscre still show |
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BBC News |
9:28am PDT |
BA 'failed to foresee' T5 chaos |
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Summary: BA boss Willie Walsh says the airline failed to predict the chaos that hit Heathrow's Terminal 5 on its opening. |
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Yahoo News |
9:21am PDT |
Atlanta Hawks GM Billy Knight to step down in July
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Billy Knight will resign as general manager of the Atlanta Hawks in July, despite leading the team to its first playoff appearance in nine years. |
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BBC News |
9:18am PDT |
Police watchdog probes rape case |
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Summary: The IPCC is to look at a South Wales Police investigation into claims a woman was raped by her stepfather. |
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Yahoo News |
9:17am PDT |
WTO says cannot solve food price crisis
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The World Trade Organization cannot
conjure up a short-term solution to soaring food prices but a
successful end to global trade talks would help in the longer
term, the organization's chief said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:17am PDT |
Obama narrows in on Democratic crown
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Barack Obama closed in on the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday, as Hillary Clinton refused to abandon her fading White House hopes after pumping 6.4 million dollars into her campaign. |
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BBC News |
9:15am PDT |
Maths teacher gap 'to worsen' |
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Summary: The shortage of qualified maths teachers in England seems set to worsen, a survey suggests. |
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Yahoo News |
8:52am PDT |
Philly officers taken off street after videotaped beating
(AP)
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Summary: AP - More than a dozen police officers will be taken off the street as authorities investigate a video showing three suspects being kicked, punched and beaten after they were pulled out of a car during a traffic stop, the mayor's office said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:48am PDT |
Obama plans for Nov. election; Clinton lends her campaign $6.4M
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama's campaign on Wednesday weighed ways to bring the drawn-out Democratic nominating process to a close while mapping out a strategy that will involve campaigning in battleground states where primaries have already been held. |
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Cnn.com |
8:46am PDT |
D.C. sniper: 'Murder this innocent Black man' |
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Summary: John Allen Muhammad, who is on Virginia's death row in connection with the 2002 Washington-area sniper spree, has written to Virginia prosecutors saying he wants to waive all rights to appeal.
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Yahoo News |
8:39am PDT |
Aid trickles in for Myanmar cyclone victims
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Aid trickled into Myanmar on Wednesday
for an estimated one million victims of Cyclone Nargis in
military-ruled Myanmar, with the death toll rising to nearly
23,000 and expected to go higher. |
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ChristianPost |
8:37am PDT |
Chinese Orchestra to Make Landmark Performance at Vatican |
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Summary: The conductor leading the China Philharmonic Orchestra in a landmark concert Wednesday at the Vatican said he feels honored to perform for the pope, saying music breaks down cultural ... |
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BBC News |
8:26am PDT |
Gazza's family 'feel powerless' |
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Summary: The daughter of troubled ex-football star Paul Gascoigne says his family feel powerless to help him. |
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ChristianPost |
8:19am PDT |
It's 1984 in the Academy |
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Summary: Freedom of speech and inquiry have long been cherished principles in America. They are especially important in the world of academia where they have been viewed as the basis of "academic freedom." For years scholars have advanced the proposition that acad |
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Yahoo News |
8:17am PDT |
Clinton struggles to hang on in Democratic race
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Barack Obama moved into a commanding
lead in the Democratic presidential race on Wednesday, and
Hillary Clinton's campaign said she loaned her struggling bid
$6.4 million over the last month to stay alive. |
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BBC News |
8:16am PDT |
Masked man |
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Summary: How can CCTV spot suspects by their clothing logos? |
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Yahoo News |
8:06am PDT |
Too much, too little sleep tied to ill health in CDC study
(AP)
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Summary: AP - People who sleep fewer than six hours a night — or more than nine — are more likely to be obese, according to a new government study that is one of the largest to show a link between irregular sleep and big bellies. |
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BBC News |
8:04am PDT |
Pakistan girls' school burnt down |
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Summary: Militants in north-west Pakistan destroy a girls' school in the second attack of its kind since Sunday. |
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BBC News |
7:48am PDT |
EU's sat-nav pioneer calls home |
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Summary: A demonstrator satellite for the European Galileo system begins transmitting navigation signals back to Earth. |
