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Yahoo News |
8:00am PDT |
Bermuda issues storm watch for Hurricane Bertha
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Bermuda has issued a tropical storm watch as Hurricane Bertha approaches. |
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Yahoo News |
7:59am PDT |
Software problems bug Apple's launch of new iPhone
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Apple Inc.'s new iPhone went on sale Friday to eager buyers worldwide, but there were problems getting the phones to work. |
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BBC News |
7:59am PDT |
Adults give young 'bad example' |
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Summary: Adults too often set a bad example for young people, says a head teacher who is to report on tackling bad behaviour. |
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Yahoo News |
7:53am PDT |
Stock decline as Fannie, Freddie fall sharply
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks tumbled Friday as investors focused on troubles at mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and watched oil prices climb further into record territory. The Dow Jones industrials fell more than 180 points and neared the 11,000 mark for the |
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BBC News |
7:52am PDT |
US mortgage firms' shares slump |
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Summary: Shares in US mortgage firms Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae open 44% lower amid concerns for their future. |
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Cnn.com |
7:48am PDT |
Female soldier missing, home burned |
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Summary: Authorities are searching for a female soldier missing after a fire burned her apartment near Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
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ChristianPost |
7:45am PDT |
Australia Prepares for Pope's Visit |
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Summary: Thousands of pilgrims converged on Sydney as it braced Friday for the weekend arrival of the pope and the start of World Youth Day, the biggest event held in Australia since the 2000 Olympics. After five years of planning, the massive Roman Catholic festi |
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BBC News |
7:44am PDT |
Lib Dem whip broke postage rules |
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Summary: A senior Lib Dem MP broke Commons rules by sending party political letters at the taxpayers' expense. |
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BBC News |
7:42am PDT |
Policeman 'pestered prostitutes' |
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Summary: A police sergeant who left a colleague answering a 999 call so he could visit prostitutes appears in court. |
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BBC News |
7:42am PDT |
Software glitch hits iPhone fans |
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Summary: UK Apple fans struggle to get their hands on the updated model of the popular smartphone. |
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Yahoo News |
7:33am PDT |
Germany denies Bush thwarted Obama speech
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The German government denied on Friday
that Washington had put any pressure on Chancellor Angela
Merkel to block a proposed speech by U.S. presidential
candidate Barack Obama in Berlin in late July. |
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BBC News |
7:32am PDT |
Train driver cleared of assault |
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Summary: A Translink driver from Belfast is cleared of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in the cabin of his train. |
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BBC News |
7:31am PDT |
Cave warning on Uganda bat virus |
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Summary: The WHO warns people not to enter Ugandan caves after a tourist dies from Marburg virus. |
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Cnn.com |
7:21am PDT |
Two mortgage giants sinking fast |
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Summary: The anxiety over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which support $5 trillion in home loans, reached fever pitch on Friday as shares of the mortgage finance giants plunged in early trading.
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BBC News |
7:20am PDT |
'Rubbish ideal' |
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Summary: The Japanese community living with 'zero waste' |
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Cnn.com |
7:20am PDT |
Apple iPhone lovers line up for upgrade |
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BBC News |
7:13am PDT |
Adults misjudge weight problems |
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Summary: Britons are getting worse at judging when they are overweight, a study suggests. |
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Yahoo News |
7:05am PDT |
Key US mortgage lenders in shares meltdown
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Shares of US mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in a freefall Friday on heightened concerns the trillion-dollar firms may face insolvency or a government takeover. |
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Yahoo News |
7:01am PDT |
New Apple iPhone goes on sale with lines worldwide
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Apple Inc.'s new iPhone went on sale Friday to eager buyers worldwide, many of whom lined up for hours for the morning launch. |
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BBC News |
7:01am PDT |
Consortium up for Sellafield job |
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Summary: A group, including the UK's Amec, is named as the preferred choice to run the Sellafield nuclear site. |
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Yahoo News |
7:01am PDT |
Lebanon forms unity government with Hezbollah
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Lebanon formed a unity government on
Friday in which Hezbollah and its allies hold effective veto
power, as agreed under a deal that ended a paralyzing political
conflict in the country. |
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Cnn.com |
6:56am PDT |
Youssif: 'I can do more' |
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Summary: Youssif is in his bright orange Spiderman shirt -- and he's speaking in English. "Look I can jump, it's very scary," he says.
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Cnn.com |
6:55am PDT |
Holocaust siblings meet after 66 years |
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Summary: A frail Irene Famulak clutched her brother on the airport tarmac, her arm wrapped around him in a tight embrace, tears streaming down their faces. It was the first time since 1942 they had seen each other, when she was 17 and he was just 7.
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Cnn.com |
6:53am PDT |
Zakaria: Perfect storm hitting economy |
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Summary: Between the mortgage crisis, record high oil prices and a lackluster stockmarket, Americans are not exactly confident about the economy. CNN spoke with world affairs analyst and author Fareed Zakaria about his view of the situation.
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BBC News |
6:51am PDT |
Councils 'happy not to sell data' |
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Summary: Councils say they are "more than happy" not to sell voters' details after a report condemns the practice. |
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Yahoo News |
6:51am PDT |
Freddie, Fannie shares sink on bailout concerns
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Shares of Freddie Mac plummeted Friday as Wall Street and Washington became more convinced that the government is likely to bail out the nation's key mortgage financiers. |
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BBC News |
6:48am PDT |
Queen marks RAF's 90th birthday |
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Summary: The Queen attends the largest RAF ceremony in over 30 years to mark its 90th anniversary. |
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Yahoo News |
6:48am PDT |
EU voices concern over Iranian missile tests
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The European Union voiced concern on
Friday over Iranian missiles tests in the Gulf and stepped up
calls on Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment within its
disputed nuclear program. |
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Cnn.com |
6:40am PDT |
Supply fears send oil to new heights |
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Summary: Oil hit a record trading high Friday as tensions with Iran, the possibility of renewed violence in Nigeria and a planned labor strike in Brazil threatened already tight crude supplies.
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Cnn.com |
6:37am PDT |
Bodies of 2 soldiers found in Iraq |
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Summary: The bodies of two U.S. soldiers kidnapped more than a year ago during an ambush in Iraq were found by the U.S. military Wednesday, according to the family of one of the soldiers. Information from an informant led investigators to the remains of Sgt. Alex |
