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Yahoo News |
6:17pm PDT |
Bush to head for Egypt talks with Palestinians
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush flies to Egypt
on Saturday for talks with Palestinian leaders who will be
looking for signs they will not be neglected after he lavished
praise on Israel during a visit to the Jewish state. |
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BBC News |
6:12pm PDT |
Windsor ready for royal wedding |
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Summary: Princess Anne's son, Peter Phillips, is to marry Canadian management consultant Autumn Kelly at Windsor Castle. |
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6:08pm PDT |
China urges quake rescuers not to give up hope
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao
urged rescuers in the southwestern province of Sichuan to race
against time to save lives, days after the most destructive
earthquake to hit modern China, state media said on Saturday. |
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Cnn.com |
6:02pm PDT |
In-suit device solves Air Force's No. 1 problem |
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Summary: Where do fighter pilots traveling faster than the speed of sound go when they really need to "go"?
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5:36pm PDT |
Robert Mondavi, California wine pioneer, dies at 94
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Robert Mondavi, the vintner who built his career and helped an iconic Northern California industry blossom by insisting that Napa Valley wines can compete with the best in the world, died in the valley Friday. He was 94. |
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BBC News |
5:17pm PDT |
Deadline looms for Gretna bidders |
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Summary: The deadline approaches for a buyer to declare an interest in struggling Gretna Football Club. |
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BBC News |
5:15pm PDT |
Brown gives Kirk assembly speech |
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Summary: Gordon Brown addresses the Kirk's General Assembly 20 years after Mrs Thatcher's sermon on the mound. |
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Cnn.com |
5:08pm PDT |
MySpace sexual assault suit dismissed |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
5:02pm PDT |
Age of pregnant FLDS 'girls' disputed |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
4:59pm PDT |
France angered by Burmese delays |
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Summary: France's UN envoy accuses Burma of being on the verge of a crime against humanity by not accepting aid. |
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BBC News |
4:54pm PDT |
Cord blood cancer therapy boost |
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Summary: Immune cells grown from cord blood may one day be used to improve leukaemia treatment, say US researchers. |
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4:50pm PDT |
Killer stabbed 81-year-old victim |
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Summary: A woman of 81 who was killed in her own home died of multiple stab wounds, police reveal. |
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BBC News |
4:50pm PDT |
Killer stabbed 81-year-old woman |
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Summary: A woman of 81 who was killed in her own home died of multiple stab wounds, police reveal. |
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Yahoo News |
4:40pm PDT |
Signs point to imminent Simpson-Wentz wedding
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Though Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are keeping a tight lid on their nuptuals, it's looking like a wedding is imminent. |
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4:40pm PDT |
Signs point to imminent Ashlee Simpson wedding
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Though Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are keeping a tight lid on their nuptuals, it's looking like a wedding is imminent. |
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BBC News |
4:13pm PDT |
Make-up artist's husband charged |
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Summary: The husband of TV make-up artist Diane Chenery-Wickens is charged with her murder, four months after she went missing. |
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Yahoo News |
3:59pm PDT |
CDC: Syringe reuse linked to hepatitis C outbreak
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A hepatitis C outbreak affecting more than 80 people and exposing tens of thousands more was caused by workers reusing syringes at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said Friday. |
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Cnn.com |
3:58pm PDT |
Obama rips Bush, McCain over 'attacks' |
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Summary: The gloves were off Friday. Barack Obama slammed President Bush for launching "the kind of appalling attack that's divided our country." He also took a shot at John McCain for embracing the president's attacks on Democrats. McCain, speaking to the NRA, ac |
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Yahoo News |
3:54pm PDT |
NFL owners may opt out of labor deal next week
(AP)
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Summary: AP - NFL owners could opt out of their agreement with the players union next week, leaving open the possibility of a 2010 season without a salary cap. The labor agreement is on the agenda for the league meetings in Atlanta on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
3:53pm PDT |
Robert Mondavi, Calif. wine patriarch, dies at 94
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who helped put California wine country on the map, died at his Napa Valley home Friday. He was 94. Mondavi died peacefully at his home in Yountville, Robert Mondavi Winery spokeswoman Mia Malm said. |
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BBC News |
3:52pm PDT |
Carey makes new Iraq hostage plea |
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Summary: Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey urges those holding five British men in Iraq to free them. |
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Cnn.com |
3:50pm PDT |
Iraqi police beat photographer, officials say |
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Summary: An Iraqi photographer working for Reuters was hospitalized Friday after police beat him at the scene of a bombing, officials told CNN.
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Yahoo News |
3:43pm PDT |
Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai to return for second round
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai restarts his campaign to oust Robert Mugabe at home
on Saturday after seeking support abroad in his risky standoff
with the president. |
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Yahoo News |
3:34pm PDT |
U.S. military lawyers want September 11 charges dropped
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Charges against five Guantanamo prisoners
accused of plotting the September 11 attacks should be thrown
out because they were improperly influenced by a Pentagon legal
adviser, U.S. military lawyers said in documents filed on
Friday. |
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AgapePress |
3:29pm PDT |
DOJ draws protest from decency advocates |
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Summary:
Decency advocates are planning an early morning demonstration outside of the U.S. Justice Department headquarters today. Participants will be calling for more aggressive enforcement of federal obscenity laws.
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Yahoo News |
3:28pm PDT |
McCain courts NRA, makes gun shop visit
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Courting his sometime critics within the gun lobby, John McCain told the National Rifle Association on Friday that Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton would both undermine the rights of gun owners. |
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Cnn.com |
3:20pm PDT |
U.S. will bypass junta to get aid to Myanmar |
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Summary: After concerns that Myanmar authorities improperly took some previous relief supplies, Myanmar is now allowing U.S. government aid workers to give aid directly to private aid groups.
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BBC News |
3:19pm PDT |
Carey in fresh Iraq hostage plea |
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Summary: A former Archbishop of Canterbury urges the kidnappers of five British hostages in Iraq to free them. |
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Yahoo News |
3:15pm PDT |
Saudis slightly boost oil output as Bush visits
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Saudi Arabia announced a modest increase
in oil output on Friday after an appeal from visiting President
George W. Bush but the news did little to douse prices that hit
a new record earlier in the day. |
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Yahoo News |
3:12pm PDT |
Aftershock rattles China quake zone
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A powerful aftershock knocked out roads and communications in some of the most quake-ravaged parts of central China on Friday, as emergency crews rescued more than 30 people who had survived up to 100 improbable hours trapped in the ruins. |
