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BBC News |
10:54am PDT |
Premier League prepares for D-Day |
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Summary: The title, Uefa Cup spots and two relegation places are all to be decided on a huge final day of the Premier League season on Sunday. |
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BBC News |
10:54am PDT |
Premier League set for D-Day |
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Summary: The title, Uefa Cup spots and two relegation places are all to be decided on a huge final day of the Premier League season on Sunday. |
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BBC News |
10:53am PDT |
The final hurdle |
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Summary: Can Fulham do the great escape? |
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BBC News |
10:52am PDT |
Hospital shut to 'risky' pregnant |
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Summary: A city hospital closes to women with high-risk pregnancies because its special care baby unit is full. |
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Yahoo News |
10:50am PDT |
Mother's Day celebration reaches 100th anniversary
(AP)
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Summary: AP - On this 100th anniversary of Mother's Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world's most celebrated holidays probably wouldn't be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts. |
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Yahoo News |
10:42am PDT |
Lebanese opposition to end west Beirut takeover
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Lebanon's Hezbollah-led opposition on Saturday said it was ending its takeover of west Beirut after the army revoked government moves against the Shiite group that sparked days of deadly fighting. |
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BBC News |
10:32am PDT |
Scots party backing for Alexander |
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Summary: The Scottish Labour leader gains the full backing of her party's ruling body in her call for an early vote on independence. |
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Yahoo News |
10:25am PDT |
U.S. looks set to offer Israel powerful new radar
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Bush administration appears set
to offer Israel a powerful radar system that could greatly
boost Israeli defenses against enemy ballistic missiles while
tying it directly into a growing U.S. missile shield. |
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BBC News |
10:25am PDT |
President Bush's daughter Jenna to marry at family ranch in Texas |
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Summary: President Bush's daughter Jenna is to marry at the family ranch in Texas |
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Yahoo News |
10:21am PDT |
Pollution brings end to mining town in Oklahoma
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Waiting in their cars or on broken sidewalks, the blue-jeaned crowd has turned out for a parade. But they could pass for mourners at a funeral. |
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Cnn.com |
10:20am PDT |
Hezbollah militants to leave Beirut streets |
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Summary: Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora today accused Hezbollah of trying to stage a "militant coup d'etat," in his first public comments since violence began three days ago in Beirut.
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Yahoo News |
10:07am PDT |
Cavs' Wallace unlikely to face Celtics in Game 3
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Cavaliers starting forward Ben Wallace is unlikely to play in Game 3 against the Boston Celtics on Saturday night after missing the morning shootaround because of an inner ear infection. |
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BBC News |
10:01am PDT |
Man detained in anti-terror probe |
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Summary: A man is being questioned on suspicion of terrorist offences after he was arrested at Manchester Airport. |
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Yahoo News |
9:59am PDT |
Nursery programs allow imprisoned moms, newborns to bond
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Three-week-old Kevin fussed in mother Melissa Lankey's arms until she started singing softly to him, "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." The newborn began dozing within seconds. |
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Yahoo News |
9:58am PDT |
Cease-fire reported with Iraqi militants in Sadr City
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Shiite groups brokered a reported cease-fire Saturday with militants fighting U.S. and Iraqi forces in Baghdad's Sadr City as the country's army launched an offensive in Mosul against al-Qaida's main bastion in Iraq. |
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Yahoo News |
9:29am PDT |
Hezbollah starts withdrawing gunmen from Beirut
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hezbollah on Saturday began withdrawing
gunmen from Beirut and handed control of the streets to the
Lebanese army, after days of gunbattles with supporters of the
U.S.-backed government. |
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Yahoo News |
9:20am PDT |
Invoking history, Bush wants court out of subpoena fight
(AP)
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Summary: AP - If there's one thing Congress and the Bush administration can agree on, it's that they've got a fight of historic proportions on their hands. |
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Yahoo News |
9:17am PDT |
Hezbollah to withdraw fighters in Beirut; 12 die in clash
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hezbollah said Saturday it was withdrawing its gunmen from Beirut neighborhoods seized in sectarian clashes after the army ordered its troops to establish security and called on fighters to clear the streets. |
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Yahoo News |
9:11am PDT |
New Carter book tells life of 'remarkable mother'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former President Jimmy Carter often sent his mother to meet with foreign dignitaries and attend state funerals, but it wasn't until he started researching a new book about her life that he learned just what the woman known as "Miss Lillian" did on th |
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Yahoo News |
8:56am PDT |
Lebanese opposition says it will end Beirut takeover
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Lebanon's Hezbollah-led opposition on Saturday said it was ending its takeover of west Beirut after the army revoked government moves against the Shiite group that sparked deadly fighting. |
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Yahoo News |
8:51am PDT |
Analysis: Good economic news something of a mirage
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The unemployment rate drops. Productivity grows. The trade deficit shrinks. Sounds great, right? Not so fast. |
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Yahoo News |
8:37am PDT |
Jenna Bush's wedding is low-key affair at ranch
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jenna Bush couldn't see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents. She and Henry Hager opted to say "I do" Saturday at President Bush's ranch in Crawford where the corn is thigh-high, r |
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Yahoo News |
8:34am PDT |
Hezbollah fighters start withdrawing from Beirut
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hezbollah fighters began withdrawing
from Beirut on Saturday after the Lebanese army overturned
government measures against the group, witnesses said. |
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BBC News |
8:33am PDT |
Youth murdered in daylight attack |
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Summary: A 16-year-old youth dies after he is found with serious wounds in south-east London. |
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Yahoo News |
8:31am PDT |
First-class stamp prices rise 1 penny to 42 cents Monday
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The cost of mailing a letter goes up a penny to 42 cents on Monday, the latest in what are expected to be annual price adjustments by the Postal Service. |
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BBC News |
8:26am PDT |
The missing link |
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Summary: Victorian 'computer' goes on display in Silicon Valley. |
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Yahoo News |
8:23am PDT |
Iraqi factions agree to end Baghdad fighting
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iraqi Shi'ite factions on Saturday
reached a deal to end fighting between militia and security
forces in the Baghdad bastion of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr
that has killed hundreds of people, officials said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:11am PDT |
Lebanese opposition to withdraw gunmen from Beirut streets
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hezbollah TV says that Hezbollah-led opposition forces will withdraw all their gunmen from Beirut in compliance with an army request. |
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BBC News |
8:07am PDT |
Sudanese rebels 'reach Khartoum' |
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Summary: Troops clash with rebels from Darfur outside the Sudanese capital Khartoum, reports say. |
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BBC News |
8:06am PDT |
Robin Gibb says a musical based on Bee Gees songs being written |
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Summary: Robin Gibb reveals a musical based on the songs of the Bee Gees is being written for the West End and Broadway. |
