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BBC News |
1:56pm PDT |
Three men killed in M5 collision |
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Summary: Three men die when a van crashes into a car after going through the central reservation on the M5 in Gloucestershire. |
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Yahoo News |
1:41pm PDT |
Home at center of 50 Cent lawsuit destroyed by fire
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Summary: AP - A multimillion-dollar home at the center of a bitter dispute between 50 Cent and the mother of his son was destroyed by a suspicious fire early Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
1:33pm PDT |
Williams sisters ousted at French Open
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Summary: AP - With twilight descending, Venus Williams watched one final shot land out of reach, ending a bad day for her family — and for U.S. tennis. Williams and her sister Serena were eliminated in third-round matches Friday at the French Open. |
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BBC News |
1:28pm PDT |
M5 stretch closed all night after crash |
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Summary: Both carriageways of the M5 in Gloucestershire will be closed all night after a collision involving five vehicles. |
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Cnn.com |
1:24pm PDT |
2nd person dies from NYC crane collapse |
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Summary: At least one person was killed today and two others were critically injured when a construction crane collapsed in Upper Manhattan, city officials said. The cab and the arm of the crane crashed more than 20 stories, smashing the penthouse on a building ac |
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Yahoo News |
1:15pm PDT |
Opposition mounts to US-Iraq security deal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tens of thousands rallied in several cities Friday against a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, raising doubts that negotiators can meet a July target to finalize a pact to keep U.S. troops in Iraq after the current U.N. mandate expires. |
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1:14pm PDT |
Liberals Again Dominate Commencement Ceremonies |
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Summary: President Bush is one of a small number of conservatives who was invited to speak at commencement ceremonies for university graduates. But his invitation has been met with protest by hundreds at a Baptist liberal-arts ... |
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Yahoo News |
1:10pm PDT |
Crane collapse in NYC kills 2 construction workers
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Summary: AP - A construction crane collapsed Friday on New York's Upper East Side, smashing into a 23-story apartment building as it fell to the ground, killing two construction workers and seriously injuring another. |
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Yahoo News |
1:02pm PDT |
Indicted Chicago cop shines light on corruption
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A former Chicago police officer charged
with being part of a ring that falsely arrested and stole from
drug dealers has detailed how the operation led to a plot to
kill two colleagues, according to interview excerpts released
on Friday. |
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BBC News |
1:01pm PDT |
Skynet military launch postponed |
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Summary: The third Skynet military satellite - part of Britain's single biggest space project - is held on the pad because of a fault on its rocket. |
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Yahoo News |
12:51pm PDT |
Brazil says uncontacted Amazon tribe threatened
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Summary: AP - Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few tribes still living in near-total isolation from civilization, officials sa |
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Yahoo News |
12:48pm PDT |
Crane collapses in New York City; at least 2 dead
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A construction crane collapsed Friday on New York's Upper East Side, smashing into a 23-story apartment building as it fell to the ground, killing two construction workers and seriously injuring another. |
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Yahoo News |
12:46pm PDT |
Dems, GOP squabble over McCain's troop numbers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican John McCain's estimate of U.S. troop levels in Iraq touched off squabbling with Democrat Barack Obama on Friday, the latest turn in the presidential rivals' escalating disagreement over the war. |
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Cnn.com |
12:43pm PDT |
Skydivers leap from crashing plane in Spain |
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Yahoo News |
12:38pm PDT |
Texas, polygamists reach tentative deal on kids
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Summary: AP - Texas authorities and a polygamist sect have reached a tentative agreement to begin returning children taken by the state starting Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:37pm PDT |
Clinton expects superdelegates to decide next week
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton says she expects her marathon Democratic race against Barack Obama to be resolved next week. In a conference call with Montana reporters, Clinton said Friday: "I think that after the final primaries, people are going to start m |
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Yahoo News |
12:31pm PDT |
Angelina Jolie birth reports contradicted
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Two weeks after actress Angelina
Jolie publicly acknowledged she was expecting twins with actor
Brad Pitt, conflicting reports circulated on Friday about
whether she had given birth to the couple's fifth and sixth
children. |
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Yahoo News |
12:21pm PDT |
Japanese woman caught living in man's closet
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Summary: AP - A homeless woman who sneaked into a man's house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing. |
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Yahoo News |
12:08pm PDT |
Crane collapses in New York City, two dead
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A large crane collapsed in New York
City on Friday, killing two people and damaging an apartment
building on Manhattan's Upper East Side -- a day after city
officials investigated the crane's operations. |
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Cnn.com |
12:07pm PDT |
Sex-tape trial focuses on R. Kelly's mole |
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Yahoo News |
12:03pm PDT |
Paulson says will work to improve housing bill
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on
Friday he has some problems with the housing rescue plan under
consideration in the U.S. Senate, but will work to craft a bill
that President George W. Bush can sign. |
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Yahoo News |
11:47am PDT |
Conflicting reports emerge on Angelina Jolie birth
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Has the Brangelina brood increased by two? There were conflicting reports Friday about the impending birth of Angelina Jolie's twins. |
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BBC News |
11:36am PDT |
Toxicology tests on dead toddler |
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Summary: Police say further tests will be carried out on a boy of two who collapsed at his home and died in hospital. |
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Yahoo News |
11:35am PDT |
Vatican: Excommunication for female priests
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Vatican insisted Friday that it is properly following Christian tradition by excluding females from the priesthood as it issued a new warning that women taking part in ordinations will be excommunicated. |
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Yahoo News |
11:31am PDT |
Plane skids off runway in Honduras, 3 dead
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A passenger plane skidded off a
runway at Tegucigalpa airport in Honduras on Friday on landing,
veered onto a road and smashed into cars and a building,
killing at least three people. |
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Yahoo News |
11:31am PDT |
Families reunited in China's quake zone
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Most of the 8,000 children found alone after China's devastating earthquake have been reunited with their parents, Chinese officials said Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:28am PDT |
Austrian abductee Kampusch turns TV chat show host
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian who
spent eight years locked in a windowless cell after being
abducted in Vienna, turns TV chat show host on Sunday when her
debut program airs on national television. |
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Yahoo News |
11:28am PDT |
U.S. emissions bill a "first step": U.N. climate chief
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A bill going to the U.S. Senate next week
seeking deep cuts in U.S. greenhouse gases by 2050 is a "first
step" but not enough to avert damaging climate change, the head
of the U.N. Climate Panel said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:27am PDT |
Bahamian drug kingpin gets 35 years in U.S. prison
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Bahamian designated by the White House
as an international drug kingpin was sentenced to 35 years in
prison on Friday by a federal court judge. |
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Yahoo News |
11:21am PDT |
Passenger jet overshoots runway in Honduras
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Grupo TACA airplane overshot a runway and slammed to a stop on a city street Friday in the Honduran capital, leaving a pilot and a passenger dead and injuring several others. |
