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BBC News |
3:31am PDT |
A life in plants |
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Summary: Send pics of what your garden says about you |
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Yahoo News |
3:28am PDT |
AP: McCain appears cancer-free, healthy
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Three-time melanoma survivor John McCain appears cancer-free, has a strong heart and is in otherwise general good health, according to eight years of medical records reviewed by The Associated Press. |
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BBC News |
3:07am PDT |
Court favours Singapore on islet |
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Summary: The UN court in The Hague rules in favour of Singapore in a long dispute over a tiny island. |
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Yahoo News |
3:02am PDT |
China eyes three years to rebuild quake zone
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China said Friday it would take up to three years to rebuild its earthquake zone as the death toll from the nation's worst disaster in a generation surpassed 55,000. |
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BBC News |
3:01am PDT |
Murray to face wildcard in Paris |
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Summary: Andy Murray will meet French wildcard Jonathan Eysseric in the first round of the French Open, which begins on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
2:53am PDT |
Texas court rules against polygamist removals
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Texas overstepped its authority
when it removed some of about 460 children from a polygamist
compound last month, a state appeals court ruled on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
2:43am PDT |
Measles ordeal |
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Summary: An adult's misery at having a 'childhood disease' |
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ChristianToday |
2:38am PDT |
New International Programme Director for Langham Scholars |
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Summary: Langham Partnership International LPI and its US branch John Stott Ministries have announced Steve Hardy as the new International Programme Director of Langham Scholars |
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BBC News |
2:32am PDT |
Redknapp police raid was unlawful |
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Summary: Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp is awarded damages after judges rule a police raid on his home was unlawful. |
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Cnn.com |
2:30am PDT |
Myanmar to allow all aid workers |
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Summary: Myanmar's ruling junta agreed Friday to allow relief workers into the country to help cyclone survivors, according to a Myanmar government official familiar with the decision.
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Yahoo News |
2:28am PDT |
Myanmar agrees to "all" cyclone aid workers
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Myanmar's junta agreed on
Friday to admit cyclone aid workers "regardless of
nationalities" to the hardest-hit Irrawaddy Delta, a
breakthrough for delivering help to survivors, U.N. officials
said. |
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BBC News |
2:21am PDT |
New Russian leader visits China |
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Summary: Russia's President Medvedev arrives in China for talks with President Hu, on his first foreign tour. |
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ChristianToday |
2:20am PDT |
Hindu nationalists attack nuns in India |
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Summary: Nuns assaulted by Hindu nationalists in Madhya Pradesh convent in India |
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Yahoo News |
2:14am PDT |
UN chief meets Myanmar junta leader
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on a mission to open Myanmar to international disaster assistance, said the ruling junta agreed Friday to allow "all aid workers" into the country to help cyclone survivors. |
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BBC News |
2:13am PDT |
McCain drops backer over sermon |
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Summary: US White House hopeful John McCain rejects support from a preacher who said Hitler carried out "God's plan". |
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BBC News |
2:10am PDT |
SA violence spreads to Cape Town |
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Summary: Attacks against foreigners in South Africa spread to the second-largest city, Cape Town, as mines are affected. |
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Yahoo News |
2:04am PDT |
Madonna to show film at Michael Moore's festival
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Madonna's new film on the impoverished nation of Malawi has wowed another maker of documentaries: Michael Moore. |
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BBC News |
1:58am PDT |
Homes evacuated after fuel spill |
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Summary: Homes are evacuated following an oil spill from an overturned tanker in County Londonderry. |
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Yahoo News |
1:53am PDT |
Tornado kills 1, injures 13 in northern Colorado
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Residents of a devastated neighborhood grabbed what they could from their debris-strewn homes before police imposed an overnight curfew after a tornado swept through northern Colorado, killing one person and injuring 13. |
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ChristianToday |
1:46am PDT |
Steven Curtis Chapman loses youngest daughter in driveway accident |
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Summary: Christians the world over have been expressing their sympathy for Grammy Awardwinning singer Steven Curtis Chapman after his 5yearold daughter was killed in an accident on the familys driveway on Wednesday |
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Yahoo News |
1:36am PDT |
Pistons beat Celtics to steal home-court advantage
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Big Three has a big problem: The Detroit Pistons now own the home-court advantage that has meant everything to the Boston Celtics so far in the playoffs. |
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Yahoo News |
1:33am PDT |
China monitors flood threat from blocked rivers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Earthquake survivors living downstream from lakes formed by blocked rivers were being evacuated for fears that aftershocks could unleash flooding, and the death toll from the disaster rose Friday to more than 55,000. |
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BBC News |
1:33am PDT |
Migration trends |
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Summary: How best to track a changing UK population? |
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Yahoo News |
1:30am PDT |
Generals criticize Iran but see better relations
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two of the U.S. military's most prominent voices on Middle East issues are holding out the prospect of improved relations with Iran despite tensions over its nuclear and military ambitions. |
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BBC News |
1:29am PDT |
Silverjet shares suspended on AIM |
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Summary: Shares in business class airline Silverjet are suspended after it fails to get money vital to the firm's survival. |
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BBC News |
1:27am PDT |
Olmert questioned on 'corruption' |
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Summary: Police in Israel question Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a second time in an ongoing corruption investigation. |
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BBC News |
1:27am PDT |
Police quiz Olmert on corruption |
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Summary: Police in Israel question Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a second time in an ongoing corruption investigation. |
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BBC News |
1:18am PDT |
Portugal back in Eurovision final |
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Summary: Portugal return to their first Eurovision final in five years after making it through the second qualifier. |
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ChristianToday |
1:13am PDT |
Christians vow to continue prolife campaign |
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Summary: The defeat in Parliament on Tuesday for a reduction to the upper limit for abortion has only spurred Christians to work harder for the protection of the unborn child |
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BBC News |
1:11am PDT |
Harman: Labour 'behind Brown' |
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Summary: Gordon Brown has the backing of the "overwhelming majority" of the Labour Party, says Harriet Harman. |
