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BBC News |
9:06pm PDT |
Acts from around Europe tune up for the Eurovision Song Contest |
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Summary: Pop acts from around Europe are hoping to emulate Bucks Fizz and Abba by winning the Eurovision Song Contest. |
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BBC News |
9:06pm PDT |
Scts from around Europe tune up for the Eurovision Song Contest. |
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Summary: Pop acts from around Europe are hoping to emulate Bucks Fizz and Abba by winning the Eurovision Song Contest. |
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BBC News |
9:06pm PDT |
Eurovision acts get set for final |
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Summary: Pop acts from around Europe are hoping to emulate Abba and Celine Dion by winning the Eurovision Song Contest. |
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Yahoo News |
8:42pm PDT |
UN chief in China to see quake devastation
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - UN chief Ban Ki-moon flew into China Saturday for a first-hand look at the epicentre of the devastating earthquake, which has left more than 80,000 people dead or missing. |
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BBC News |
8:35pm PDT |
Cautious response to Burma pledge |
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Summary: Aid agencies give a cautious welcome to Burma's pledge to let in all foreign aid workers to help cyclone survivors. |
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BBC News |
8:33pm PDT |
Minister sets out for Burma talks |
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Summary: International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander travels to Burma for aid talks following Cyclone Nargis. |
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Yahoo News |
8:33pm PDT |
Hip-hop pioneer 'Slick Rick' pardoned by governor
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Pioneering rapper Ricky "Slick Rick" Walters, who spent more than five years in prison on a 1991 attempted murder conviction and faced threats of deportation years after rehabilitating his life, was granted a full and unconditional pardon Friday by N |
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Yahoo News |
8:10pm PDT |
"No time to lose" after Myanmar cyclone deal
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Disaster relief officials said there was
"no time to lose" to help Myanmar's cyclone survivors after the
secretive military government promised the United Nations it
would allow in more aid workers. |
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Yahoo News |
8:04pm PDT |
Clinton draws rebuke over RFK remark
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hillary Clinton
mentioned the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy in
explaining on Friday why she had resisted calls to end her
White House bid, drawing a rebuke from Democratic front-runner
Barack Obama's campaign. |
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BBC News |
8:00pm PDT |
Brown 'can win general election' |
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Summary: Gordon Brown can still win an election for Labour, says former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett. |
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Yahoo News |
7:39pm PDT |
NY gov. pardons hip-hop pioneer 'Slick Rick'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - New York Gov. David Paterson is granting a full and unconditional pardon to rapper Ricky "Slick Rick" Walters for the attempted murders of two men in 1991. |
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BBC News |
7:14pm PDT |
Tsvangirai to return to Zimbabwe |
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Summary: Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is expected to return home on Saturday to begin his run-off campaign. |
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BBC News |
7:14pm PDT |
Homecoming |
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Summary: Can Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai bring change? |
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Yahoo News |
7:12pm PDT |
Two divers survive 20 hours drifting off Australia
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Two scuba divers, a British man and an
American woman, were rescued on Saturday after drifting for 20
hours off Australia's Great Barrier Reef after they became
separated from their dive party. |
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BBC News |
7:09pm PDT |
Clinton sorry for Kennedy remark |
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Summary: Hillary Clinton apologises for reference to Robert Kennedy's shooting while defending her ongoing presidential bid. |
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Yahoo News |
7:05pm PDT |
Halladay, Blue Jays stop Royals 7-1
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Roy Halladay won for the third time in four starts, Marco Scutaro matched a career high with four RBIs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Kansas City Royals 7-1 on Friday night, handing the Royals their fifth straight loss. |
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Yahoo News |
6:57pm PDT |
Gusty winds hinder fight against Calif. wildfire
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Fire crews struggled on Friday to maintain fire lines around a wildfire that chewed through centuries-old redwoods and pushed hundreds out of their homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains. |
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BBC News |
6:46pm PDT |
Full steam ahead for engine which saw the end of an era |
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Summary: The locomotive which hauled the last British Rail passenger steam train is restored to its former glory. |
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BBC News |
6:46pm PDT |
Mexico drug-related killings soar |
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Summary: Mexico's attorney-general says murders related to organised crime have jumped by almost 50% to 1,378. |
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Cnn.com |
6:44pm PDT |
Drugs, hookers threaten wildlife refuges |
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Cnn.com |
6:04pm PDT |
FDA warns of harmful nipple cream |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
6:02pm PDT |
12 sect couples reunited with children |
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Summary: A day after an appeals court ruled that Texas had no right to remove children from a ranch owned by a polygamist sect, the state on Friday appealed that decision to the Texas Supreme Court.
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Cnn.com |
6:02pm PDT |
Some children to be reunited with sect parents |
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Summary: Child welfare officials have agreed to return 12 children taken from a Texas polygamist sect's ranch to their parents while the courts weigh hundreds of other cases, a family spokeswoman said Friday.
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Yahoo News |
5:43pm PDT |
Mexican homicides jump 47 pct.; 1,378 die in '08
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Homicides related to organized crime jumped 47 percent in 2008, Mexico's attorney general said Friday in a rare confirmation of how bad violence has become. |
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BBC News |
5:31pm PDT |
Trouble in utopia |
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Summary: Indian community with no rules upsets neighbours |
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BBC News |
5:31pm PDT |
Warning on new anti-knife powers |
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Summary: New laws to crack down on knife crime could increase hostility among the young, the Children's Commissioner says. |
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Yahoo News |
5:23pm PDT |
Youthful Crosby leads Penguins to threshold of NHL title
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Superstar Sidney Crosby leads a youthful Pittsburgh Penguins squad into the Stanley Cup Finals against the venerable Detroit Red Wings stocked with veteran players. |
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BBC News |
5:16pm PDT |
Island strife |
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Summary: Row as Canadians to run Caribbean police force |
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Cnn.com |
5:03pm PDT |
Clinton explains RFK assassination reference |
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Summary: Sen. Hillary Clinton said today that she regretted comments that evoked the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy as part of her explanation for staying in the presidential race. Sen. Barack Obama's campaign called her remark "unfortunate."
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Yahoo News |
4:59pm PDT |
Texas appeals sect ruling, lets 3 families reunite
(AP)
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Summary: AP - State child welfare authorities on Friday appealed a stinging court ruling that said their seizure of more than 440 children from a polygamist sect's ranch was unjustified, but they also agreed to reunite 12 children with their parents while the case |
