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Yahoo News |
5:40am PDT |
Inflation pressures ease despite food price jump
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Inflation pressures eased a bit in April despite the biggest jump in food prices in 18 years. |
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BBC News |
5:39am PDT |
Can red, white and blues enhance the taste of wine? |
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Summary: Playing a certain type of music can enhance the way wine tastes, research by psychologists suggests. |
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BBC News |
5:36am PDT |
Eta blamed for Spain bomb death |
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Summary: One policeman is killed after a car bomb explodes outside barracks in the Basque region of Spain. |
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BBC News |
5:35am PDT |
Performance pay for NHS hospitals |
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Summary: Ministers plan to ramp up competition in the NHS by linking hospital funds to the quality of services they provide. |
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Yahoo News |
5:33am PDT |
Bush in Israel as scandal clouds peace hopes
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush arrived
in the Middle East on Wednesday to celebrate Israel's 60th
birthday and try to energize peace efforts complicated by a
corruption scandal that could topple Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert. |
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BBC News |
5:32am PDT |
First Burma aid plane to leave UK |
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Summary: The first flight carrying aid from the UK to Burma is due to leave East Midlands airport. |
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Yahoo News |
5:26am PDT |
Clinton presses ahead in long shot campaign
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hours after being routed by Hillary Rodham Clinton in West Virginia, Barack Obama picked up two more of the party leaders who are key to settling the Democratic presidential nomination. |
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BBC News |
5:20am PDT |
Pakistan accused of truce breach |
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Summary: India says Pakistani troops fired across Kashmir's Line of Control in a what would be a rare breach of a ceasefire. |
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Yahoo News |
5:17am PDT |
Bush links optimism for Mideast reform to democratic Israel
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush said Wednesday that 60 years of democracy in Israel is cause for optimism for democratic change throughout the Middle East. "What happened here is possible everywhere," Bush said in a trip where he'll make a new push for Israeli-Palest |
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BBC News |
5:13am PDT |
LIVE: Key points from Commons |
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Summary: The key points as Gordon Brown takes prime minister's questions and sets out his draft "Queen's Speech". |
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Cnn.com |
5:13am PDT |
Deadly child virus hits Beijing |
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Summary: The death toll in China's outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease has risen to 42 children, with the capital Beijing reporting its first case Wednesday, state media said.
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Yahoo News |
5:12am PDT |
More Americans are taking prescription medications
(AP)
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Summary: AP - For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems, a study shows. |
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Cnn.com |
5:11am PDT |
Analysis: Clinton crushes Obama in W. Va. |
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Summary: After enduring a week of political obituaries, Hillary Clinton's campaign proved that it still has life. Clinton trounced fellow Democrat Barack Obama in the West Virginia primary. In the process, she underscored Obama's weakness with blue-collar, working |
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BBC News |
5:08am PDT |
Brown sets out future programme |
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Summary: Gordon Brown has set out his legislative plans for next year as he seeks to regain the political initiative. |
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BBC News |
5:07am PDT |
Coal prices set to rise by 25% |
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Summary: As the price of coal is set to rise by 25%, the NI government sets up a task force to tackle fuel poverty. |
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BBC News |
5:05am PDT |
Staff to be given training rights |
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Summary: Workers are to be given the right to ask employers for training, the Prime Minister has announced. |
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Yahoo News |
4:57am PDT |
Over 50,000 dead, missing or buried in China quake
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - More than 50,000 people are dead, missing or buried under rubble after China's devastating earthquake, officials said Wednesday as the full horror of the disaster began to emerge. |
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BBC News |
4:54am PDT |
Parliament attack appeal rejected |
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Summary: India's Supreme Court rejects a fresh appeal by a man convicted of involvement in the 2001 parliament attack. |
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Yahoo News |
4:43am PDT |
China quake toll hits 15,000 as aid arrives
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Military helicopters dropped food and medicine to Chinese earthquake survivors who remained cut off Wednesday in remote mountain villages behind roads clogged by landslides. The official death toll rose to nearly 15,000, and state media said tens of |
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Yahoo News |
4:37am PDT |
China quake toll rises to nearly 15,000
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The toll from China's most
deadly earthquake in decades climbed to nearly 15,000 on
Wednesday as troops, firefighters and civilians raced to save
more than 25,000 people buried under rubble and mud. |
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Yahoo News |
4:37am PDT |
3 in 10 get all or most calls on cell phones
(AP)
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Summary: AP - For nearly three in 10 households, don't even bother trying to call them on a landline phone. They either only have a cell phone or seldom if ever take calls on their traditional phone. |
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Yahoo News |
4:36am PDT |
`Christine,' `How I Met Your Mother' back on CBS
(AP)
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Summary: AP - CBS has given a new lease on life to Julia Louis-Dreyfus' comedy "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and, perhaps thanks to Britney Spears, the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother." |
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Yahoo News |
4:35am PDT |
New indictment against Barry Bonds unsealed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal prosecutors have unveiled a revamped indictment against Barry Bonds, but the career home run leader's lawyers say nothing has changed. |
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BBC News |
4:32am PDT |
Aero firm's £103m research boost |
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Summary: The future of an Airbus plant and its employees should be secured by the development of new wing technology. |
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Yahoo News |
4:30am PDT |
10-year-old scholar takes Calif. college by storm
(AP)
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Summary: AP - With the end of another school year approaching, college sophomore Moshe Kai Cavalin is cramming for final exams in classes such as advanced mathematics, foreign languages and music. |
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Yahoo News |
4:26am PDT |
China quake toll hits 15K; 26K believed buried
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Military helicopters dropped food and medicine to Chinese earthquake survivors who remained cut off Wednesday in remote mountain villages behind roads clogged by landslides. The official death toll rose to nearly 15,000, and state media said tens of |
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Cnn.com |
4:19am PDT |
26,000 buried under China quake debris |
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Summary: China's deadly earthquake killed more than 7,700 people in the town of Yingxiu -- about three-quarters of everyone who lived there, state media reported.
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BBC News |
4:15am PDT |
Extreme challenge |
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Summary: Nasa spacecraft set for nail-biting descent to Mars |
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Yahoo News |
4:07am PDT |
New storm head toward cyclone-devastated Myanmar
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Another powerful storm headed toward Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta, where so little aid has reached that the U.N. warned on Wednesday of a "second wave of deaths" among an estimated 2 million survivors. |
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BBC News |
4:01am PDT |
Ruane says test call 'difficult' |
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Summary: The education minister says keeping academic selection for another three years was a 'difficult move'. |
