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BBC News |
10:07am PDT |
Deal seeks to end Lebanon strife |
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Summary: Arab League mediators broker a deal aimed at ending fighting in Lebanon that raised fears of a new civil war. |
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BBC News |
9:58am PDT |
Ruane plans 'need DUP's support' |
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Summary: Caitriona Ruane's plans to reform academic selection cannot go ahead without DUP and executive support, says Ian Paisley. |
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Yahoo News |
9:23am PDT |
Bush envisions Middle East free of oppression
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush feted Israel on Thursday in honor of the 60th anniversary of its founding and predicted that its 120th birthday would find it alongside a Palestinian state and in an all-democratic neighborhood free of today's oppression, restrictions |
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Cnn.com |
9:22am PDT |
Myanmar warns against hoarding cyclone aid |
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Cnn.com |
9:22am PDT |
Myanmar warns against hoarding aid |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
9:15am PDT |
Reading hands |
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Summary: Fidgety, nail bitten, ink-stained - what do hands tell us? |
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BBC News |
9:12am PDT |
Zimbabwe bank issues $500m note |
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Summary: Zimbabwe issues a Z$500m banknote, worth US$2, as the opposition calls for an emergency summit. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
9:08am PDT |
'Gay marriage' attempts more media infiltration |
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Summary:
Kristen Fyfe of the Culture and Media Institute claims ABC made some rather shady history in the season finale of the popular television series Brothers and Sisters.
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Yahoo News |
9:05am PDT |
Arab mediators announce deal to end Lebanon violence
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Arab League mediators announced a deal
on Thursday to end Lebanon's worst internal fighting since the
civil war after the U.S.-supported government backed down in
its conflict with Hezbollah. |
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ChristianPost |
9:02am PDT |
UC Berkeley Staff Face Lawsuit Over Pro-Evolution Bias |
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Summary: Staff members at the University of California-Berkeley are being sued in court over a pro-evolution Web site, hosted by the school’s science program, that ridicules religious denominations that do not agree with ... |
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Cnn.com |
9:01am PDT |
McCain predicts Iraq war won by 2013 |
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Summary: John McCain envisions that by 2013, the Iraq War will be won but the threat from the Taliban in Afghanistan won't yet be eliminated, even though Osama bin Laden will have been captured or killed. McCain's speech was unusual -- and somewhat risky -- in tha |
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BBC News |
8:57am PDT |
Chambers to deliver drugs dossier |
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Summary: Dwain Chambers will reveal his Balco drugs regime in a meeting with Britain's anti-doping agency on Friday, BBC Sport learns. |
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Yahoo News |
8:57am PDT |
McCain outlines vision of Iraq victory
(AP)
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Summary: AP - John McCain, looking through a crystal ball to 2013 and the end of a prospective first term, sees "spasmodic" but reduced violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden dead or captured and government spending curbed by his ready veto pen. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
8:56am PDT |
Free speech turns costly in Toledo |
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Summary:
An administrator at the University of Toledo who was recently suspended for publicly expressing her viewpoint has now been fired. Crystal Dixon has filed suit against the school.
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BBC News |
8:54am PDT |
Tory donations 'cover up' claim |
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Summary: Senior Tory MPs have tried to cover up "potential conflicts of interests", says Labour's Hazel Blears. |
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Yahoo News |
8:52am PDT |
Icahn vows to oust Yahoo directors in shareholder revolt
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is setting out to oust Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors for "irresponsible" and "unconscionable" actions that led Microsoft Corp. to withdraw a $47.5 billion offer to buy the slumping Internet pioneer. |
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Yahoo News |
8:50am PDT |
Sharapova to become No. 1 in tennis rankings
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Maria Sharapova will assume the No. 1 ranking in tennis because of Justine Henin's retirement. |
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BBC News |
8:48am PDT |
Obama attacks Bush over Iran barb |
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Summary: US presidential hopeful Barack Obama interprets a speech by President Bush as an attack on his foreign policy. |
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Cnn.com |
8:46am PDT |
Myanmar warns against hording cyclone aid |
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Cnn.com |
8:43am PDT |
China gives rare transparent look at disaster |
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Summary: Graphic footage of death and destruction has been shown on China's state-run news networks in the days following the massive earthquake that hit southwest Sichuan province earlier this week.
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BBC News |
8:42am PDT |
Photo released of 'tombstoner' |
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Summary: The family of a man left paralysed after a jump from a pier release a picture of him in hospital. |
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BBC News |
8:42am PDT |
Photo shows injured 'tombstoner' |
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Summary: The family of a man left paralysed after a jump from a pier release a picture of him in hospital. |
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CrossMap |
8:42am PDT |
The Lion, the Donkey, and Doubt |
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Summary: The story in 1 Kings chapter 13 is about a man of God who hears the word of the Lord. He receives a command from God and sets out to perform his task.. |
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BBC News |
8:42am PDT |
Vietnam drugs haul 'largest ever' |
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Summary: Police in Vietnam say they have found nearly nine tons of cannabis in a shipment of blue jeans from Pakistan. |
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BBC News |
8:41am PDT |
Body link to make-up artist hunt |
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Summary: Detectives investigating the disappearance of a make-up artist probe the discovery of a body in woodland. |
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Cnn.com |
8:38am PDT |
Glenn Beck: Why Harvard should be free |
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Summary: There is an industry in this country that is making billions in profit while average Americans are struggling to fill up their gas tanks.
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Cnn.com |
8:37am PDT |
Madonna faces adoption decision delay |
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ChristianPost |
8:30am PDT |
California's Top Court to Rule on Gay 'Marriage' |
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Summary: Both sides in the gay 'marriage' debate will be watching California's highest court Thursday to see if the nation's biggest state goes the way of Massachusetts and legalizes same-sex 'marriage.... |
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BBC News |
8:28am PDT |
Warnings of problems hitting Sats |
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Summary: Schools and markers highlight problems around the administration of this year's tests. |
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Yahoo News |
8:18am PDT |
Bush stirs up U.S. campaign with "appeasement" remark
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush
stirred up the campaign to replace him by suggesting on
Thursday that Democratic front-runner Barack Obama's pledge to
talk to Iran's leader amounted to "the false comfort of
appeasement." |
