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BBC News |
6:56am PDT |
Chelsea & Man Utd head to Moscow |
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Summary: Chelsea and Manchester United players and officials leave for Moscow ahead of Wednesday's Champions League final. |
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Cnn.com |
6:44am PDT |
DNA cleared them, but they'll never feel free |
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Summary: Wiley Fountain is homeless just five years after he walked out of prison an innocent man. He is one of the 17 men wrongfully convicted in Dallas County, Texas, then cleared by DNA evidence. Now he's nowhere to be found. What happens to these men after the |
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Yahoo News |
6:42am PDT |
Hello Kitty is named Japan tourism ambassador
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hello Kitty — Japan's ubiquitous ambassador of cute — has built up an impressive resume over the years. Global marketing phenom. Fashion diva. Pop culture icon. Now the moonfaced feline can add "government envoy" to the list. The tourism ministry on |
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Cnn.com |
6:39am PDT |
China mourns: 'Farewell, friends!' |
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Summary: Crowds gathered in the devastated city of Chengdu shouted "Farewell, friends!" and "Rebuild!" as China began three days of mourning to honor the tens of thousands killed by last week's massive earthquake. Authorities estimate the death toll could reach 50 |
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BBC News |
6:33am PDT |
Cameron 'will seek to reduce tax' |
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Summary: David Cameron says a Conservative government would be committed to "long-term tax reduction". |
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Yahoo News |
6:33am PDT |
China pauses to mourn quake victims
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - From tent cities in Sichuan
province to Beijing's Tiananmen Square, sirens wailed and
millions of Chinese stood for three minutes on Monday to mourn
the tens of thousands who died in last week's earthquake. |
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BBC News |
6:27am PDT |
Eton to enter state partnership |
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Summary: Eton College is to take part in a £4m state-private school partnership to improve support for gifted pupils. |
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Yahoo News |
6:25am PDT |
Three days of mourning in Myanmar, ASEAN to lead cyclone aid effort
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Myanmar on Monday declared three days of mourning for cyclone victims after agreeing to an international aid effort led by its Southeast Asian neighbours to help two million survivors in dire need. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
6:17am PDT |
Christian doctor safe behind bars |
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Summary:
Robin Sardar, a 55-year-old successful Christian doctor in Pakistan, is in jail, being accused of blasphemy against Mohammed and the Quran.
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Yahoo News |
6:14am PDT |
Obama eyes media with promise of antitrust push
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama said on
Sunday he would pursue a vigorous antitrust policy if he
becomes U.S. president and singled out the media industry as
one area where government regulators would need to be watchful
as consolidation increases. |
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Cnn.com |
6:06am PDT |
Iraq party: Punish U.S. soldier who shot at Quran |
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Summary: Iraq's most powerful Sunni Arab political party on Monday said a U.S. soldier's desecration of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, requires the "severest of punishments," not just an apology and a military reassignment.
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Yahoo News |
6:00am PDT |
14 tons of spilled Oreo cookies snarl Ill. traffic
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police say a trailer loaded with 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos has overturned, spilling the cookies still in their plastic sleeves into the median and roadway. |
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Yahoo News |
5:59am PDT |
Anti-foreigner violence escalates in South Africa
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A wave of xenophobic attacks
escalated in South Africa's seething townships on Monday, with
mobs beating foreigners and setting some ablaze in scenes
reminiscent of apartheid era violence. |
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Yahoo News |
5:59am PDT |
Yahoo-Microsoft pact could lead to merger: analysts
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A potential partnership deal between
Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc the companies
revealed over the weekend may prove to be a stepping stone to
an outright acquisition, analysts said on Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
5:58am PDT |
Myanmar: 3 days of mourning for cyclone victims
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Myanmar's military government on Monday announced a three-day mourning period for victims of the cyclone that left at least 130,000 people dead or missing earlier this month. |
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BBC News |
5:56am PDT |
Burma to mourn cyclone's victims |
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Summary: Burma declares three days of mourning for victims of Cyclone Nargis - 17 days after the deadly storm struck. |
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Cnn.com |
5:52am PDT |
Ted Kennedy undergoing more tests |
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Summary: Sen. Ted Kennedy was undergoing more tests Monday as doctors tried to figure out what caused his seizure.
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BBC News |
5:48am PDT |
Neapolitans torch rubbish piles |
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Summary: Naples firefighters battle blazes overnight as Italy's prime minister prepares to address the city's lingering rubbish crisis. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
5:47am PDT |
Is polar bear endangered? |
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Summary:
Marc Morano, a prominent global-warming skeptic on Capitol Hill, believes the decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the polar bear as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act is "based on what may, might, could happen in 2040."
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BBC News |
5:41am PDT |
Malaysia's Mahathir quits party |
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Summary: Malaysia's ex-PM Mahathir Mohamad resigns from the ruling party in protest at its poor election result. |
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Yahoo News |
5:38am PDT |
La. evacuees return home after acid spill cleared
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Residents forced to flee a toxic chemical spill returned home, but a narrow evacuation perimeter remained around the site of a freight train derailment. |
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Cnn.com |
5:34am PDT |
Myanmar agrees to let neighbors help |
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Summary: Myanmar has allowed neighboring nations to send medical personnel and an assessment team to the cyclone-ravaged country. The U.N. now estimates that Cyclone Nargis has killed more than 100,000 people and affected some 2.5 million, although the Myanmar's g |
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BBC News |
5:29am PDT |
Duchess defends her "fit and healthy" daughter Beatrice |
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Summary: Sarah Ferguson accuses parts of the media of making "outrageous" claims that her teenage daughter is overweight. |
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BBC News |
5:25am PDT |
Roman Abramovich's latest big money signings revealed |
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Summary: Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich spent £60m on two record-breaking paintings, reports say. |
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BBC News |
5:17am PDT |
Police target Uefa troublemakers |
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Summary: Police launch an operation to stop troublemakers flying to Moscow for the Uefa Champions League final. |
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Cnn.com |
5:16am PDT |
Men Taser each other in 'bonehead' dispute |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
5:07am PDT |
Boys to men |
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Summary: Do you have to go away to war to become a hero? |
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Cnn.com |
5:04am PDT |
China mourns |
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Summary: Crowds gathered in the devastated city of Chengdu shouted "Farewell, friends!" and "Rebuild!" as China began three days of mourning to honor the tens of thousands killed by last week's massive earthquake. Authorities estimate the death toll could reach 50 |
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BBC News |
5:03am PDT |
Rare pygmy hogs head for the Indian wild |
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Summary: Pygmy hogs, the world's smallest and rarest species of wild pig, are being released in the wild in Assam, reports the BBC's Subir Bhaumik. |
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Yahoo News |
5:02am PDT |
Myanmar says ASEAN can lead cyclone aid effort
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Myanmar agreed Monday to an international relief effort led by its regional allies to help more than two million cyclone victims still critically short of life-saving food, shelter and medicines. |
