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BBC News |
11:54am PDT |
Open day two as it happened |
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Summary: Korea's KJ Choi leads two-time champion Greg Norman by one shot in the second round at the 137th Open. |
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ChristianPost |
11:48am PDT |
Calif. Homeschooling Case May Be Dismissed |
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Summary: A major legal development in a children welfare case that led to the widely criticized homeschooling ban should be grounds for the appellate court to dismiss the California homeschooling case, advocates say. In February, an appellate court in Los Angeles |
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Yahoo News |
11:25am PDT |
Iran hopes for 'constructive' US presence at nuclear talks
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Summary: AFP - Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili on Friday expressed optimism that weekend talks attended for the first time by the United States over their nuclear standoff would be constructive, provided Washington came with the right approach. |
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BBC News |
11:19am PDT |
Argentina drops disputed farm tax |
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Summary: Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner cancels tax rises on farm exports, after months of protests. |
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Yahoo News |
11:02am PDT |
U.S. and Iraq to set "time horizon" on troop cuts
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush and Iraqi
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have agreed that a security deal
under negotiation should set a "time horizon" for reducing U.S.
forces in Iraq, the White House said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
11:01am PDT |
Passport staff join strike action |
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Summary: Passport office staff in Northern Ireland become the latest public sector workers to vote for strike action over pay. |
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Cnn.com |
11:00am PDT |
Unrepentant on Facebook? Expect jail |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
11:00am PDT |
Unrepentant on Facebook? Expect jail time |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
10:57am PDT |
Cigar row minister 'to lose job' |
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Summary: Welsh Culture Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas may lose his job, amid claims he walked into a bar carrying a lit cigar. |
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BBC News |
10:40am PDT |
South Africa on top after England collapse |
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Summary: South Africa take the upper hand on day one of the second Test, bowling England out for 203 before replying with 101-3. |
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BBC News |
10:40am PDT |
S Africa on top after England collapse |
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Summary: South Africa take the upper hand on day one of the second Test, bowling England out for 203 before replying with 101-3. |
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Yahoo News |
10:30am PDT |
Jewish-Muslim spat sours Saudi interfaith meeting
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A groundbreaking interfaith conference
this week ended on a sour note, with a political spat between
Muslims and Jews that Saudi organizers wanted to avoid. |
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Cnn.com |
10:25am PDT |
No panic, financial planners say |
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Summary: Individual U.S. investors aren't happy with the current bear market, but they're not panicking, and most are sticking with their investment strategies, according to a sampling of financial planners across the country.
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BBC News |
10:22am PDT |
Crash death police officers are cleared |
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Summary: Investigators clear police drivers involved in the pursuit of a stolen car which crashed causing the death of a motorist. |
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BBC News |
10:19am PDT |
Oil spill in pond kills six swans |
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Summary: Six swans die and some ducklings are missing following an oil pollution incident near a leisure centre in Carrickfergus. |
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Yahoo News |
10:18am PDT |
Wall Street edges lower after earnings reports
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street edged lower Friday as disappointing earnings from technology companies like Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. offset upbeat results from Citigroup Inc. |
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ChristianPost |
10:09am PDT |
U.S. Senate Passes $48 Billion AIDS Plan |
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Summary: The U.S. Senate voted Thursday evening to re-authorize the multi-billion-dollar President?s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) bill that would help prevent contraction of HIV in Africa while providing treatment to the millions of people who are alrea |
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Yahoo News |
10:08am PDT |
McCain pledges to help auto industry rebuild
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain pledged Friday to help auto workers rebuild their industry and in the process jump-start the entire U.S. economy. |
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BBC News |
10:07am PDT |
Cuba reforms turn to state land |
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Summary: Cuba puts more state-owned farm land into private hands, in a move designed to increase lacklustre food production. |
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BBC News |
9:58am PDT |
Cuba leases state land to farmers |
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Summary: Cuba puts more state-owned farm land into private hands in a move designed to increase lacklustre food production. |
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Cnn.com |
9:58am PDT |
Fans pack theaters for late 'Knight' |
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Summary: As "The Dark Knight's" crusading District Attorney Harvey Dent vigorously tries to combat Gotham City's crime spree, he quotes the old saying: "The night is always darkest before the dawn."
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BBC News |
9:55am PDT |
Minister 'expecting to lose job' |
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Summary: Welsh Culture Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas tells colleagues he expects to be out of his job before the end of the night. |
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BBC News |
9:55am PDT |
MoD admits loss of secret files |
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Summary: Over 100 USB memory sticks, some with secret data, have been lost or stolen from defence officials since 2004, it emerges. |
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BBC News |
9:53am PDT |
Serious profits |
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Summary: Major money in casual gaming |
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Cnn.com |
9:52am PDT |
Lightning hits at least 12 in 2 weeks |
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Summary: Lightning has killed and injured more than a dozen people in Russia in the past two weeks, officials say, blaming widespread use of electronic gadgets such as cell phones for an increase in deadly strikes.
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Yahoo News |
9:52am PDT |
Salma Hayek, Pinault call off their engagement
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Salma Hayek has called off her engagement to businessman Francois-Henri Pinault, her representative said Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:49am PDT |
Wall Street mixed after earnings reports
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street turned mixed Friday as financial stocks rose in response to Citigroup's upbeat results and tech stocks fell on disappointing earnings at Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. |
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BBC News |
9:37am PDT |
'Work for dole' proposals leaked |
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Summary: Ministers are considering plans to force long-term jobless to work for benefits, a leaked document says. |
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Yahoo News |
9:33am PDT |
Pope: All faiths must unite against violence
(AP)
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Summary: AP - SYDNEY, Australia — Pope Benedict XVI told representatives of Islam and other faiths that they must unite to combat religion's role in "sinister and indiscriminate" violence. |
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Yahoo News |
9:30am PDT |
Iraqi troops put on show of strength in Sadr City
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iraqi soldiers took up positions on rooftops and military helicopters hovered overhead Friday in a show of strength in a Baghdad district where Shiite militiamen once ruled the streets. There were no reports of violence. |
