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Yahoo News |
10:18am PDT |
Twins separated at birth suing hospital for millions
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Summary: AP - Spanish twins who were separated at birth through a hospital error — then reunited as adults through a fluke — are suing for millions in damages, as is a third woman who grew up thinking, erroneously, that she was one of the twins, a lawyer said Tues |
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BBC News |
10:15am PDT |
Man Utd could report Real Madrid to Fifa |
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Summary: Man Utd say they are considering reporting Real Madrid to Fifa over their interest in Cristiano Ronaldo. |
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Yahoo News |
10:10am PDT |
World failing to monitor biotech trade: U.N.
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Summary: Reuters - The world is failing in efforts to control
an international biotechnology trade ranging from genetically
modified crops to the building blocks of biological weapons, a
U.N. University study said on Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
10:09am PDT |
Fifa suspends altitude match ban |
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Summary: Football's governing body suspends restrictions on the playing of internationals at altitude after South American lobbying. |
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Yahoo News |
9:56am PDT |
May consumer confidence falls to near 16-year low
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Soaring gas prices and weakening job prospects left shoppers gloomier about the economy in May, sending a key barometer of consumer sentiment to its lowest level in almost 16 years. |
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CTI News |
9:56am PDT |
The Making of an Evangelist |
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Summary: The Weinstein Co. follows FoxFaith as another major player in Hollywood now making movies targeted to the burgeoning Christian market.
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CTI News |
9:56am PDT |
Poll: Have you ever 'hit bottom?' |
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Summary: Poll: Have you ever 'hit bottom?'
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CTI News |
9:56am PDT |
Yancey: Brokenness |
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Summary: Why I sometimes wish I was an alcoholic.
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ChristianPost |
9:51am PDT |
Creation Museum Prepares Anniversary Celebration |
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Summary: This weekend, the founders of the Creation Museum will celebrate the anniversary of their one year opening with much fanfare and ... |
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Yahoo News |
9:34am PDT |
New aftershocks bring terror to quake-hit China
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - New aftershocks toppled 420,000
houses and injured dozens in southwest China on Tuesday,
heaping destruction and fear on a region struggling to recover
from the country's worst earthquake in decades. |
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Yahoo News |
9:28am PDT |
Martin Sheen opens up about son Charlie's drug use
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Martin Sheen became "fanatic" when his son Charlie was using drugs. "When a life is at stake and it's your child, you become fearless in a lot of ways. I mean, you just become fanatic," the 67-year-old actor says in the July/August issue of AARP The |
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BBC News |
9:27am PDT |
Seven arrests over park killing |
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Summary: A total of seven males are arrested over the murder of a teenager in a park in West Yorkshire. |
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BBC News |
9:26am PDT |
China aftershocks demolish homes |
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Summary: Two further aftershocks destroy about 420,000 homes in the Chinese area hit by the recent quake, state media say. |
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Cnn.com |
9:26am PDT |
Boy on bike used to warn cops |
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Summary: The boy rode up on his bike as Mexican cops approached and music blared from speakers tied to his bike. The tune was an ode to a recently slain son of a drug kingpin. And it was a warning to cops: The drug lords are watching Mexico's intensifying turf bat |
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Cnn.com |
9:26am PDT |
Drug cartel uses boy to warn to cops |
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Summary: The boy rode up on his bike as Mexican cops approached and music blared from speakers tied to his bike. The tune was an ode to a recently slain son of a drug kingpin. And it was a warning to cops: The drug lords are watching Mexico's intensifying turf bat |
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ChristianToday |
9:25am PDT |
Straw says theres no contest to replace Brown |
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Summary: Justice Secretary Jack Straw one of the ministers touted as a possible replacement for Gordon Brown said on Tuesday there was no contest for the leadership and backed the prime minister |
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ChristianToday |
9:24am PDT |
A day in the life of Americas last lighthouse keeper |
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Summary: The sole remaining lighthouse keeper in the United States may be the last one but she isnt about to disappear |
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ChristianToday |
9:24am PDT |
Rediscovered Goya sketches set for London auction |
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Summary: Three sketches by Spanish master Goya that have been missing for 130 years will go on sale in London in July for an expected price of up to 3 million pounds |
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ChristianToday |
9:23am PDT |
Bid for freefall record threatened by rogue balloon |
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Summary: A French parachutists bid to set a world freefall record was in doubt on Tuesday after the balloon that was to carry him 40 km 25 miles above the prairie of Western Canada left without him |
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ChristianToday |
9:22am PDT |
Myanmar junta unmoved and extends Suu Kyi arrest |
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Summary: Myanmars junta extended the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday a move likely to dismay Western nations who promised millions of dollars in aid after Cyclone Nargis |
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BBC News |
9:20am PDT |
Bomb found in city centre store |
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Summary: A bomb left at a shop in Belfast city centre partially exploded during the night, according to police. |
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BBC News |
9:20am PDT |
Bomb explodes in city centre shop |
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Summary: A bomb left at a shop in Belfast city centre partially exploded during the night, according to police. |
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Yahoo News |
9:12am PDT |
Supreme court: anti-bias laws cover reprisal claims
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Employees who complain of racial
bias in the workplace and then face retaliation can sue under a
post-Civil War-era law barring discrimination, the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:06am PDT |
McCain edges away from Bush on policy
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Republican candidate John McCain edged
farther away from President George W. Bush on foreign policy on
Tuesday even as he prepared to accept Bush's help in raising
much-needed campaign dollars for his White House bid. |
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Yahoo News |
8:59am PDT |
Single-family home prices tumble
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Prices of single-family homes
plunged a record 14.1 percent in the first quarter from a year
earlier, marking a pace five times faster than the last housing
recession, data showed on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:55am PDT |
Japan urges limiting kids' cell phones
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Japanese youngsters are getting so addicted to Internet-linking cell phones that the government is starting a program warning parents and schools to limit their use among children. |
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Yahoo News |
8:53am PDT |
Duo tries to break world handshaking record
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Kevin Whittaker and Cory Jens deserved a hand after their record-setting attempt, but they probably didn't want to shake it. The pair sought to set a new world record Monday by shaking hands with one another for 9 1/2 hours, apparently beating the pr |
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Yahoo News |
8:45am PDT |
Director and actor Sydney Pollack dies at age 73
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sydney Pollack was remembered by some of the elite actors he directed in films such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "Absence of Malice," not only for his Academy Award-winning direction, but also for his acting talents. |
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Cnn.com |
8:40am PDT |
Thousands flee China's 'quake lake' zone |
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Summary: Authorities on Tuesday evacuated thousands of people in southwestern China's Sichuan province, as engineers prepared to dynamite a potentially dangerous lake formed when landslides, triggered by this month's earthquake, dammed a river.
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Yahoo News |
8:35am PDT |
Kuznetsova, Safina advance at French Open
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Russian players Svetlana Kuznetsova and Dinara Safina advanced to the second round of the French Open on Tuesday before rain again disrupted play at Roland Garros. |
