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BBC News |
4:40pm PDT |
Water competition proposed |
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Summary: Watchdog Ofwat is recommending that the water and sewerage sector be opened to competition. |
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ChristianPost |
4:38pm PDT |
CityReachers to Distribute 250,000 New Testaments in Pittsburgh |
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Summary: PITTSBURGH (AP) — A religious group plans to distribute 250,000 Pittsburgh-themed copies of the New Testament in advertising pouches delivered with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ... |
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BBC News |
4:31pm PDT |
Luke Mitchell appeal ruling due |
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Summary: Convicted killer Luke Mitchell is to learn whether an appeal lodged in a bid to clear his name has been successful. |
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ChristianPost |
4:28pm PDT |
Their Own Private Apocalypse |
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Summary: With each passing day, the news from Myanmar—that is, Burma—gets worse: As of Sunday, May 11, nearly 300,000 people were reported as dead or missing. The United Nations estimated “that between 1.2 million and 1.9 million were struggling to survive in the |
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Yahoo News |
4:25pm PDT |
New bin Laden message coming on Israel: monitor
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - An impending message from al Qaeda
leader Osama bin Laden was announced on Islamist Web sites and
discusses the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel,
U.S.-based terrorism monitors said on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
4:24pm PDT |
Kazmir shines as Rays beat slumping Yankees 5-2
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Scott Kazmir sparkled in his first start since agreeing to a $28.5 million contract extension, and the surprising Tampa Bay Rays dropped the New York Yankees into last place with a 5-2 victory Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
4:16pm PDT |
China races to bury quake dead and manage survivors
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China struggled on Friday to
bury the dead and offer relief to those left injured, homeless
and without food and water by the earthquake that may have
killed more than 50,000 people. |
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Cnn.com |
4:09pm PDT |
Iranian Embassy employees shot in Iraq |
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Summary: Iranian Embassy employees and their driver were shot Thursday in a Baghdad incident that some reports said involved Iraqi troops.
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BBC News |
4:07pm PDT |
'$100 laptop' embraces Windows XP |
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Summary: Microsoft joins forces with the makers of the "$100 laptop" to make Windows XP available on the low-cost computers. |
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BBC News |
4:05pm PDT |
NHS IT 'at least four years late' |
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Summary: It will be at least 2014 before the NHS in England has a single electronic records system, say auditors. |
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Yahoo News |
4:03pm PDT |
Reports: Cheney's assets nearly triple Bush's
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The millions of dollars in assets reported by Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynn, nearly triple those held by President Bush and the first lady, Laura Bush, according to newly released financial disclosure forms. |
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BBC News |
4:01pm PDT |
Asbestos cancer chemo questioned |
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Summary: Chemotherapy does not help people with asbestos-related cancer, according to UK researchers. |
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ChristianPost |
4:01pm PDT |
Muslim 'Numbers Game' Proving Deadly for Christian Converts, Says Expert |
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Summary: Inflated accounts of how many Muslims are converting to Christianity are putting the lives of these vulnerable followers of Jesus Christ at risk, warns an expert on Islam and ... |
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Yahoo News |
3:57pm PDT |
House rejects bill funding Iraq, Afghanistan wars
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush's Iraq war funding request collapsed in the House Thursday as anti-war Democrats and Republicans unhappy about added domestic funding combined to kill — for now — $163 billion to support U.S. troops overseas. |
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Cnn.com |
3:57pm PDT |
Site: New bin Laden message coming soon |
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Summary: Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will address the West in a new message, according to a banner ad from the group's production wing posted on Islamist Web sites known to carry messages from al Qaeda and bin Laden.
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Cnn.com |
3:57pm PDT |
Web site: New bin Laden message coming soon |
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Summary: Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will address the West in a new message, according to a banner ad from the group's production wing posted on Islamist Web sites known to carry messages from al Qaeda and bin Laden.
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Yahoo News |
3:54pm PDT |
DNA tests exonerate 'Lizard Man' in van attack
(AP)
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Summary: AP - DNA testing has shown an attack on a family van some blamed on the legendary Lizard Man appears to have been actually done by a domestic dog. Something chewed up the front fender of Bob and Dixie Rawson's van in February. Bite marks were left on the |
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Yahoo News |
3:51pm PDT |
Country star Shania Twain, husband splitting up
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Shania Twain and husband-producer Robert "Mutt" Lange are splitting up after 14 years of marriage. The 42-year-old Canadian country superstar and 59-year-old Lange married in 1993 and have a 6-year-old son named Eja. Her publicist provided no further |
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Yahoo News |
3:47pm PDT |
Top California court rules gays may marry
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The California Supreme Court
overturned a ban on same-sex marriages on Thursday in a major
victory for gay rights advocates that will allow homosexual
couples to marry in the most populous U.S. state. |
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CTI News |
3:27pm PDT |
Review: 'The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian' |
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Summary: It's a reasonably entertaining popcorn flick and has some good spiritual themes, even if it loses some of the book's most important ideas.
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Yahoo News |
3:20pm PDT |
Bush to press Saudi king on oil prices and Iran
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush heads for
Saudi Arabia on Friday to renew his appeal to help tame record
oil prices and try to shore up Arab support for containing
Iran's growing regional clout. |
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Cnn.com |
3:17pm PDT |
Mom indicted in deadly MySpace hoax |
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Summary: A Missouri mother was indicted Thursday in the case of a teen who killed herself after being taunted on the social networking site MySpace.com.
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Yahoo News |
3:08pm PDT |
China: Quake death toll could reach 50,000
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Troops dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere in central China as priorities began shifting Thursday from the hunt for survivors to dealing with the dead. Officials said the final toll |
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Yahoo News |
3:03pm PDT |
California's top court legalizes gay marriage
(AP)
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Summary: AP - California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the nation's biggest state can marry — a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the gay rights movement Thursday that was greeted with tears, hugs, kisses and at least one instant proposal of |
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BBC News |
3:01pm PDT |
Dunlop dies after motorbike crash |
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Summary: Motorcyclist Robert Dunlop dies in a crash in Thursday's practice at the North West 200 racing festival. |
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ChristianPost |
2:51pm PDT |
Town Debates Proposed Cross Outside Interfaith Center |
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Summary: A rift is growing over a proposed 16-foot cross in a town that was designed to build community — including interfaith centers in place of individual ... |
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Yahoo News |
2:46pm PDT |
Democrats outraged by Bush "appeasement" remark
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrats erupted in outrage on
Thursday after President George W. Bush suggested a pledge by
the party's presidential front-runner Barack Obama to meet
Iran's leader was akin to appeasement of Nazi Germany. |
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BBC News |
2:37pm PDT |
Failing the people |
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Summary: Natalia Antelava meets angry survivors in Burma |
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ChristianPost |
2:35pm PDT |
New Effort Gives Hope to Abortion Victims |
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Summary: Michaelene Fredenburg has launched a new outreach effort to combat what she describes as “the biggest and most serious plague in America” – ... |
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BBC News |
2:30pm PDT |
Husband arrested after body found |
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Summary: The husband of a missing make-up artist is arrested following the discovery of a body. |
