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Cnn.com |
8:58pm PDT |
Man rescued 179 hours after China quake |
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Summary: A man was rescued after being trapped for nearly 179 hours in a collapsed building near the epicenter of the May 12 earthquake that struck China's Sichuan province, the country's state-run news agency reported Tuesday.
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Yahoo News |
8:58pm PDT |
Spurs hold off Hornets to advance to West finals
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A title defense endures for the playoff-savvy San Antonio Spurs. Manu Ginobili scored 26 points, hitting four free throws in the final minute, sending the Spurs to the Western Conference finals with a 91-82 victory over the New Orleans Hornets on Mon |
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BBC News |
8:51pm PDT |
Clegg to outline tax policy shift |
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Summary: Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg is to signal a policy shift with plans to cut tax for low and middle income families. |
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BBC News |
8:49pm PDT |
Final straight |
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Summary: Can Kentucky and Oregon wrap up Democratic race? |
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BBC News |
8:40pm PDT |
Bad word? |
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Summary: Why are there calls to change use of the word 'asylum'? |
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Cnn.com |
8:40pm PDT |
A&P heir Huntington Hartford dies at 97 |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
8:34pm PDT |
TV forecast of big aftershock prompts panic
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A government warning of a major aftershock sent thousands of panicked survivors running into the darkened streets Monday night following an unprecedented display of mourning for more than 34,000 people killed in a powerful earthquake one week ago. |
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Yahoo News |
8:32pm PDT |
Myanmar mourns cyclone dead as aid pressure grows
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Army-ruled Myanmar started three days of
mourning on Tuesday for the 134,000 dead and missing from
Cyclone Nargis as diplomats pressed the reclusive generals to
speed up aid to 2.4 million survivors. |
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Yahoo News |
8:27pm PDT |
Explosion damages San Diego building site; 14 hurt
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An explosion rocked a hotel under construction Monday, ripping off part of the building's facade, sending debris flying and injuring 14 workers, five critically, authorities said. |
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BBC News |
8:00pm PDT |
Farc captive calls for surrender |
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Summary: A top commander in Colombia's Farc urges other rebels to follow her example and surrender. |
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Yahoo News |
7:23pm PDT |
Yamaguchi leads in `Dancing With the Stars' finale
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Kristi Yamaguchi couldn't have done any better at the "Dancing With the Stars" finals Monday. The figure-skating champ earned a perfect score of 60 for her two dances Monday, putting her far ahead of fellow finalists Cristian de la Fuente, who scored |
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7:19pm PDT |
Cheating Britain |
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Summary: Mercedes man among the big benefit 'thieves' |
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Yahoo News |
7:18pm PDT |
Cancer survivor Lester throws no-hitter vs Royals
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jon Lester can now add pitching a no-hitter to his already amazing list of accomplishments. The 24-year-old lefty, who survived cancer to pitch the World Series clincher for the Boston Red Sox last fall, shut down Kansas City 7-0 Monday night for the |
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BBC News |
7:17pm PDT |
Record level of benefits 'stolen' |
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Summary: Record levels of benefits and other public money are "stolen" or overpaid but authorities don't do enough about it, says a report. |
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BBC News |
6:51pm PDT |
Taiwan swears in Ma as president |
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Summary: The Nationalist Party's Ma Ying-jeou is sworn in as Taiwan's new president for a four-year term. |
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BBC News |
6:25pm PDT |
BA crash inquiry reveals heroics |
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Summary: A British Airways inquiry into January's crash at Heathrow reveals the crew prevented a far worse accident. |
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Yahoo News |
6:21pm PDT |
Ma Ying-jeou takes oath as Taiwan's president
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Ma Ying-jeou took the oath of office Tuesday as Taiwan's new president, two months after sweeping to victory on a pledge to repair relations with rival China. |
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Cnn.com |
6:20pm PDT |
Billionaire oilman backs wind power |
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Summary: Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens is sinking billions of dollars into a new wind farm in Texas. It is likely to become the biggest in the world, producing enough power for the equivalent of 1.3 million homes. CNN's Ali Velshi asked the oil legend why he |
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Cnn.com |
6:20pm PDT |
Billionaire oilman backing wind power |
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Summary: Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens is sinking billions of dollars into a new wind farm in Texas. It is likely to become the biggest in the world, producing enough power for the equivalent of 1.3 million homes. CNN's Ali Velshi asked the oil legend why he |
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BBC News |
6:15pm PDT |
Mbeki condemns 'shameful' attacks |
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Summary: South African President Thabo Mbeki condemns 'shameful' anti-foreigner violence that has left 22 dead. |
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Yahoo News |
6:06pm PDT |
Polygamist sect parents complain of vague custody plans
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Children from a polygamist sect were the only subjects on the docket Monday at a west Texas courthouse where five judges began handling hundreds of hearings that attorneys for the children's parents decried for their cookie-cutter approach. |
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Cnn.com |
5:53pm PDT |
Airspace violation by U.S. jet angers Venezuela |
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Summary: A U.S. anti-drug aircraft strayed into Venezuelan airspace, the United States acknowledged today, ratcheting up tensions between the two nations. A U.S. official said the Navy S-3 Viking aircraft had a "navigation error," but Venezuela's defense minister |
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BBC News |
5:50pm PDT |
Dalai Lama starts tour in London |
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Summary: The Dalai Lama is due to arrive for a visit to the UK in which he is scheduled to meet Gordon Brown. |
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BBC News |
5:40pm PDT |
Ethiopian millions 'risk hunger' |
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Summary: Millions of Ethiopian children face acute malnutrition after the failure of rains for crops, says Unicef. |
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Yahoo News |
5:28pm PDT |
Divers find combined gold toothpick, earwax spoon
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Experts found a tiny gold combined toothpick and earwax spoon, believed to be more than 385 years old, during the search for a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys. |
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Yahoo News |
5:16pm PDT |
Former Clinton campaign manager in talks with Obama
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A top strategist for Barack Obama has reached out to Hillary Rodham Clinton's former campaign manager about joining forces for the general election, the latest sign of political reconciliation between the two rivals as Obama begins consolidating his |
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BBC News |
5:10pm PDT |
Plans for phone calls database |
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Summary: Ministers are to consider plans for a database of every phone call made in the UK, as well as every e-mail sent, it emerges. |
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5:06pm PDT |
Lost dignity? |
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Summary: 'My mother should not have been on a ward with men' |
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Yahoo News |
4:50pm PDT |
Microsoft proposes to buy Yahoo search: source
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Microsoft Corp has proposed to
buy Yahoo Inc's search business and take a minority
stake in the Web pioneer, stopping short of a full-out merger,
a person familiar with the discussions said on Monday. |
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Cnn.com |
4:39pm PDT |
Photographer snaps own javelin-spearing |
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