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Yahoo News |
3:10pm PDT |
Obama admits reference to Auschwitz was wrong
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama admitted on
Tuesday he was wrong to say his uncle helped liberate the
Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp after Republicans said
Soviet troops freed the camp. |
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BBC News |
3:03pm PDT |
Cambridge students get an English lesson from Amy Winehouse |
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Summary: Cambridge University students have been asked to analyse lyrics by singer Amy Winehouse in a final-year exam. |
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BBC News |
3:03pm PDT |
Why have Cambridge students been getting an English lesson from Amy Winehouse? |
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Summary: Cambridge University students have been asked to analyse lyrics by singer Amy Winehouse in a final-year exam. |
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BBC News |
2:55pm PDT |
McCann reconstruction called off |
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Summary: A reconstruction of the night Madeleine McCann disappeared will not go ahead after the "Tapas Seven" declined to take part. |
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Yahoo News |
2:52pm PDT |
Mars probe sends back new pictures of landing site
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Phoenix lander has sent back
new pictures from the arctic circle of Mars, showing for the
first time the spot where it will dig through the Red Planet's
dusty surface looking for water and assess conditions for life. |
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BBC News |
2:51pm PDT |
Experts discover why no road skill makes hedgehogs road kill |
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Summary: Hedgehogs are poor at reacting to cars, researchers find, which may help explain why the UK's population is declining. |
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2:51pm PDT |
Soaring costs |
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Summary: The impact of high oil prices around the world |
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ChristianPost |
2:47pm PDT |
UK Charity's Christian Hiring Policy Ruled Discriminatory |
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Summary: A British-based Christian charity organization dedicated to aiding those with learning disabilities lost the right to control its own hiring practices after an Employee Tribunal ruled that it was 'discriminatory.... |
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BBC News |
2:44pm PDT |
Sizewell nuclear plant shut down |
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Summary: A fault has closed Sizewell B nuclear plant in Suffolk and cut off supplies of electricity to the National Grid. |
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Cnn.com |
2:35pm PDT |
Kids forced into sex for food, group finds |
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Summary: A poor Haitian girl could get $2.80 and some chocolate, she told a European charity. All she had to do was perform a sex act on a humanitarian worker. She refused. Her impoverished friends did not. Her story is one of many in a report titled "No One To Tu |
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Cnn.com |
2:35pm PDT |
Radio problems delay Mars lander's work |
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ChristianPost |
2:33pm PDT |
Clinton Speaks of Faith in the Face of Setbacks |
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Summary: Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday offered a spiritual defense for continuing her presidential campaign, as she sought to put to rest the uproar over her comments about the assassination of Robert F. ... |
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ChristianPost |
2:24pm PDT |
Iran Arrests 12 Christian Converts |
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Summary: Police in a southern city in Iran reportedly arrested 12 Christian converts from Islam in what appears to be part of a crackdown on the country’s growing house church ... |
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ChristianPost |
2:19pm PDT |
South Africa Wages Intensified War on AIDS |
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Summary: The abused and orphaned children in Pastor Julius Bonani's church are the face of an AIDS epidemic that is killing nearly 1,000 South Africans a day and infecting even ... |
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Cnn.com |
2:16pm PDT |
Bush stumps for McCain behind closed doors |
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Summary: President Bush is in Arizona today to raise funds for Sen. John McCain, the first time in more than two months the unpopular president will appear with the man he hopes will succeed him. Sen. Barack Obama knocked him for holding the fundraiser in private. |
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BBC News |
2:12pm PDT |
Nuclear clean-up costs 'to soar' |
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Summary: The cost of decommissioning the UK's ageing nuclear facilities is set to rise above £73bn, the BBC learns. |
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Yahoo News |
2:09pm PDT |
David Cook goes on date with ex-'Idol' contestant
(AP)
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Summary: AP - David Cook says he's dating an "American Idol" alum. |
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BBC News |
2:06pm PDT |
UK submarine hits Red Sea rocks |
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Summary: A UK nuclear-powered submarine is damaged after colliding with rocks in the Red Sea. |
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Cnn.com |
1:57pm PDT |
Unprecedented ticket security for Olympics |
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BBC News |
1:57pm PDT |
Amazon tasks for Brazil minister |
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Summary: Brazil's new Environment Minister Carlos Minc takes office as economic pressure on the Amazon region rises. |
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Cnn.com |
1:53pm PDT |
Navarrette: Immigrants melt into the pot as usual |
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Summary: On the question of whether recent immigrants assimilate as quickly as previous waves, many Americans exhibit short fuses -- and even shorter memories.
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BBC News |
1:40pm PDT |
Spain twins sue over birth mix-up |
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Summary: Spanish twins separated at birth after a hospital mistake seek millions of euros in damages. |
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BBC News |
1:38pm PDT |
Jail early release plans outlined |
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Summary: Ministers reveal proposals to release about 550 prisoners early in an effort to ease overcrowding in jails. |
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BBC News |
1:38pm PDT |
Jail early-release plans outlined |
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Summary: Ministers reveal plans to release about 550 prisoners early in an effort to ease overcrowding in jails. |
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Cnn.com |
1:35pm PDT |
Bush 'troubled' by activist's detention |
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Summary: Myanmar's military rulers have extended the house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, prompting a chorus of international disapproval. President Bush called it deeply troubling, the head of the U.N. said it was regrettable, and her lawyer tol |
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Yahoo News |
1:30pm PDT |
Robbery suspect who pretended to be clerk arrested
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A suspect in a bizarre robbery has been caught. Mesa police allege Marc Antoine Stovall called a 7-11 store April 27, falsely said he was a new employee, arranged for training and then went to the store and was shown how to use the cash register. |
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Yahoo News |
1:22pm PDT |
Obesity battle among US children may have peaked
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The percentage of American children who are overweight or obese appears to have leveled off after a 25-year increase, according to new figures that offer a glimmer of hope in an otherwise dismal battle. |
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Cnn.com |
1:19pm PDT |
Study: Childhood obesity may be leveling off |
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Yahoo News |
1:19pm PDT |
Baby put up for sale on Craigslist: Canada police
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A couple has been
arrested in what Canadian police said on Tuesday was an
apparent offer to sell a seven-day-old baby girl on Craigslist
for C$10,000 ($10,100). |
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Yahoo News |
1:09pm PDT |
Wartime PTSD cases jumped roughly 50 pct. in 2007
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The number of troops diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder jumped by roughly 50 percent in 2007, the most violent year so far in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pentagon records show. |
