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BBC News |
5:05am PDT |
Queens eye Scottish Cup surprise |
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Summary: Queen of the South aim to cause a major upset in the Scottish Cup final against Rangers. |
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BBC News |
5:05am PDT |
Teacher planned Bluewater bomb |
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Summary: A prisoner pleads guilty to making threats to blow up one of Europe's largest shopping centres. |
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BBC News |
5:04am PDT |
Methane rise points to wetlands |
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Summary: Rsing levels of the greenhouse gas methane could be caused by changes in wetlands, largely around the Arctic. |
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Cnn.com |
5:04am PDT |
NASA braces for '7 minutes of terror' on Mars |
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Summary: After the wildly successful Mar's Spirit and Opportunity rover missions, you would think NASA would be confident about Sunday's landing of the next probe to the red planet. But the planetary scientists and engineers on the Mar's Phoenix Lander team are br |
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ChristianPost |
5:04am PDT |
McCain Rejects Pastor's Endorsement |
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Summary: Republican John McCain on Thursday rejected endorsements from two influential but controversial televangelists, saying there is no place for their incendiary criticisms of other ... |
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Yahoo News |
5:03am PDT |
Russia and China condemn U.S. missile shield plan
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China and Russia on Friday condemned
the United States' plans to set up a missile defense system
that Washington says is crucial to protecting the security of
it and its allies. |
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BBC News |
4:56am PDT |
Teachers warn of strike option |
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Summary: After last month's teachers' pay strike, union leaders say they will be considering another ballot next term. |
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Yahoo News |
4:52am PDT |
SAfrican anti-immigrant violence reaches Cape Town
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A wave of anti-immigrant violence in South Africa spread to Cape Town on Friday, even as troops and police appeared to have quelled the unrest in the hotspot of Johannesburg. |
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Yahoo News |
4:52am PDT |
McCain's health good, no cancer recurrence: CBS
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Republican John McCain is in good
health and has had no signs of skin cancer since 2002, CBS
television said medical records of the presidential candidate
to be released on Friday will show. |
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Yahoo News |
4:48am PDT |
China says found radiation sources after quake
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China has found what it termed
50 "hazardous sources of radiation" due to last week's
earthquake, a senior official said on Friday, though he
insisted the situation was under control. |
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BBC News |
4:41am PDT |
Gold fever |
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Summary: Soaring prices spark new gold rush in California |
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BBC News |
4:41am PDT |
RAF Nimrod was 'never airworthy' |
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Summary: The RAF's Nimrod entire fleet has "never been airworthy", a coroner says at the inquest into 14 servicemen's deaths. |
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BBC News |
4:38am PDT |
Stolen masterpiece back on show - complete with stain |
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Summary: Edvard Munch's The Scream, damaged by armed robbers who took the masterpiece in 2004, goes back on display in Norway. |
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BBC News |
4:35am PDT |
Web worlds 'useful' for children |
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Summary: Virtual worlds can be useful places for children to learn many useful social skills, reveals research. |
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Cnn.com |
4:27am PDT |
Demand grows for remote-controlled drones |
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Summary: The demands of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are behind a new push by the Pentagon to increase the ranks of one of its most tireless fighting machines: remote-controlled attack aircraft called "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" or UAVs, for short.
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Cnn.com |
4:26am PDT |
China pleads for tents for quake victims |
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Summary: China's government has appealed for more than 2 million tents to shelter the estimated 5 million people made homeless by the huge earthquake as the death toll continued to rise.
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BBC News |
4:25am PDT |
Presidents condemn US shield |
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Summary: China and Russia condemn a US plan for a missile defence shield, saying it harms disarmament efforts. |
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BBC News |
4:23am PDT |
Paint chemicals 'may harm sperm' |
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Summary: Men regularly exposed to chemicals found in paint are more likely to have potential fertility problems, research suggests. |
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BBC News |
4:18am PDT |
Stone 'bomb to go off in minutes' |
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Summary: A security guard tells the Michael Stone trial the defendant said a bomb he had would "go off in two minutes". |
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BBC News |
4:09am PDT |
Five killed in Gaza incursions |
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Summary: Five Palestinian militants have been killed during Israeli incursions into the Gaza Strip, reports say. |
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Yahoo News |
4:07am PDT |
China, Russia condemn U.S. missile shield plan
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China and Russia on Friday condemned
the United States' plans to set up a missile defense system,
which Washington says is crucial to protecting the security of
it and its allies. |
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BBC News |
3:55am PDT |
Georgian poll landslide confirmed |
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Summary: Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili's party takes a huge majority in parliament after a landslide poll win. |
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Yahoo News |
3:49am PDT |
Report says nation's wildlife refuges underfunded
(AP)
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Summary: AP - America's wildlife refuges are so short of money that one-third have no staff, boardwalks and buildings are in disrepair, and drug dealers are using them to grow marijuana and make methamphetamine, a group pushing for more funding says. |
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Yahoo News |
3:43am PDT |
China says quake rebuild to take 3 years
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China will need to rebuild whole
towns and villages from scratch to rehouse the millions
displaced by last week's earthquake, a task which could take
three years, a top provincial official said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
3:41am PDT |
High speed crash head wins appeal |
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Summary: A former head teacher wins an appeal against a teaching ban imposed on him after a high-speed crash. |
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BBC News |
3:39am PDT |
US Open women's singles latest |
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Summary: The latest score updates from the women's singles at the US Open. |
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Cnn.com |
3:38am PDT |
Myanmar accepts help |
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Summary: Myanmar's military leaders have agreed to "allow all aid workers" into the country to help storm survivors, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said today. Aid groups have criticized the country for not accepting help after the cyclone hit three weeks ago. |
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BBC News |
3:33am PDT |
Holiday drivers face price hike |
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Summary: Bank holiday drivers face a 29% rise in diesel prices and a 17% rise in petrol compared to last year, a report says. |
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BBC News |
3:32am PDT |
Brown pledges 'clear direction' |
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Summary: Gordon Brown says can steer the economy through "difficult times" after Labour's by-election defeat. |
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BBC News |
3:31am PDT |
Cameron hails 'end of New Labour' |
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Summary: The Conservatives achieve their first by-election gain in 26 years, taking Crewe and Nantwich from Labour, with a 17.6%-vote swing. |
