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Yahoo News |
8:37am PDT |
US, Iraq seek 'general time horizon' on troop cuts
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Summary: AP - The United States and Iraq have agreed to seek "a general time horizon" for deeper reductions in American combat troops in Iraq. |
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BBC News |
8:32am PDT |
US seeks 'time horizon' on Iraq |
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Summary: Iraq and the US call for an agreement on a "general time horizon" for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. |
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BBC News |
8:29am PDT |
Man jailed for killing wife's dog |
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Summary: A Coleraine man is jailed for torturing and killing his partner's golden retriever dog in October 2006. |
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BBC News |
8:26am PDT |
Gun briefing backfires in China |
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Summary: Reporters called to a Chinese police briefing on the success of an anti-gun drive are accidentally shot. |
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Yahoo News |
8:25am PDT |
Wall Street turns 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 |
8:23am PDT |
Canoe wife denies 'pathetic' lies |
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Summary: The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin denies repeatedly lying in a "last-ditch" attempt to escape justice. |
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Yahoo News |
8:21am PDT |
McCain talks with auto workers about economic woes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - John McCain promised auto workers at General Motors to help make the company's long-range electric car a success as he outlined ways to help a state and industry hit hard by the economy. |
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BBC News |
8:20am PDT |
Unsafe chargers 'flooding' the UK |
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Summary: Trading Standards says hundreds of thousands of unsafe chargers for mobiles and games consoles could have come into the UK |
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Cnn.com |
8:11am PDT |
Israel: Terror suspect may have targeted Bush |
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Summary: Israeli authorities have arrested six Arabs suspected of trying to build an al Qaeda-linked cell -- including one person who allegedly asked about targeting President Bush's helicopter.
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Cnn.com |
8:00am PDT |
Does your bank have problems? |
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Summary: The federal takeover of IndyMac Bank last week left many Americans wondering whether their bank was safe. It put a spotlight on a relatively obscure list published quarterly by the FDIC called the "problem list."
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Cnn.com |
7:57am PDT |
Hostage ruse's fake Web site irks group |
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Summary: Colombian military intelligence apparently set up a Web site for a fake humanitarian group as part of a ruse to dupe leftist rebels into giving up 15 hostages this month.
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BBC News |
7:55am PDT |
EU's 'spare 1bn euros' for Africa |
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Summary: The European Commission backs a plan to give 1bn euros of unspent EU farm subsidies in aid to African farmers. |
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BBC News |
7:52am PDT |
Mourners wear fancy dress for Ben |
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Summary: Friends of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella, who was stabbed to death in north London, turn up to his funeral wearing fancy dress. |
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Cnn.com |
7:51am PDT |
Man counted calories, subtracted pounds |
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Summary: Sujit Bhattacharya that knew he felt sluggish and had trouble putting on his socks and shoes. One day, when he tried on a pair of size 30 shorts, his wife pointed out that they fit only under his belly.
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ChristianPost |
7:37am PDT |
It's Time to Drill |
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Summary: I have got to admit: As each day goes by, I am growing angrier over the debate about oil prices. |
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BBC News |
7:29am PDT |
West Brom snap up England keeper Carson |
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Summary: West Bromwich Albion sign England international keeper Scott Carson from Liverpool for £3.25m. |
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BBC News |
7:27am PDT |
MoD admits loss of 'secret' files |
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Summary: Over 100 USB memory sticks, some with "secret" data, are lost or stolen from defence officials. |
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DJ Chuang |
7:25am PDT |
Should I get an iPhone 3G or iTouch? |
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Summary: Having been an AT&T customer for years, way back to when it was AT&T Wireless, became Cingular, then becoming the new AT&T (formerly known as SBC), my current mobile phone of choice is a Blackberry Curve 8300. I’ve had it for just ov |
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Yahoo News |
7:24am PDT |
Wall Street falls after earnings reports
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street retreated Friday after disappointing results from technology companies and higher oil prices offset a more upbeat report from Citigroup Inc. |
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Cnn.com |
7:23am PDT |
Zakaria: A long way from peace in Darfur |
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Summary: The International Criminal Court announced this week it is seeking an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
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ChristianPost |
7:18am PDT |
S. Dakota Docs Told to Comply with Abortion Law |
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Summary: Starting Friday, doctors in South Dakota must tell women seeking abortions that the procedure ends a human life and may cause them psychological harm, the state attorney general said. Planned Parenthood challenged the 2005 law that requires those statemen |
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Yahoo News |
7:15am PDT |
McCain talks to auto workers hit hard by economy
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is seeking to bolster his appeal to voters on economic issues by speaking to some of those hardest hit in the recent downturn: auto workers. |
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BBC News |
7:14am PDT |
Malaysian Anwar in 'sodomy alibi' |
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Summary: Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim tells the BBC he has an alibi to prove sodomy claims against him are false. |
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Cnn.com |
7:09am PDT |
'It's gonna be a bloodbath' |
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Summary: Cpl. Gunnar Zwilling suspected his days were numbered last week, while he and his band of brothers in the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team prepared for a mission near Wanat, Afghanistan. "It's gonna be a bloodbath," he told his father, Kurt Zwilling, on |
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Yahoo News |
7:04am PDT |
NATO force denies Afghan civilian casualty report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The NATO-led international force in
Afghanistan rejected on Friday reports from Afghan officials
that it killed more than 50 civilians in air strikes the
previous day in the west of the country. |
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BBC News |
6:48am PDT |
Airport jobs could be 'at risk' |
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Summary: Jobs at City of Derry Airport could be put at risk by further strike action by council employees, the head of Derry City Council warns. |
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ChristianToday |
6:46am PDT |
Lambeth Archbishop expresses grief over absent bishops |
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Summary: The Archbishop of Canterbury has expressed his regret at the decision of a quarter of the Anglican Communions bishops to stay away from the Lambeth Conference |
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Cnn.com |
6:45am PDT |
Stocks head lower at open |
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Summary: U.S. stocks turned lower after Friday's open, as some negative quarterly results - particularly in the tech sector - weighed on the markets
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BBC News |
6:32am PDT |
Driver killed in motorway chase |
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Summary: A motorist is killed when a vehicle being pursued by police flips into the path of his car on the A1(M) in County Durham. |
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Yahoo News |
6:13am PDT |
Freddie Mac mulling $10 billion share offer: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Mortgage giant Freddie Mac is
considering raising capital by selling as much as $10 billion
in new shares to investors, The Wall Street Journal reported,
citing people familiar with the matter. |
