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BBC News |
5:36pm PDT |
Spears child custody deal agreed |
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Summary: Pop star Britney Spears and her former husband Kevin Federline reach a financial agreement in their child custody case. |
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Yahoo News |
5:34pm PDT |
Obama wraps up foreign tour with London visit
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Presidential candidate Barack Obama, on
a tour abroad where he has got a rock star reception, will wrap
up his trip on Saturday with talks in London on the Middle East
conflict, Iran and Afghanistan. |
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BBC News |
5:22pm PDT |
Clenching 'affects blood checks' |
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Summary: A UK expert has warned people who take blood not to allow patients to tightly clench their fists as it can confuse results. |
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BBC News |
5:22pm PDT |
Warning over blood-taking method |
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Summary: A UK expert has warned people who take blood not to allow patients to tightly clench their fists as it can confuse results. |
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Yahoo News |
5:10pm PDT |
AG accuses Mo. funeral home of mishandling bodies
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The attorney general's office on Friday accused a mid-Missouri funeral home of improperly handling bodies, including storing one body in an electrical room for 10 months without being embalmed or refrigerated. |
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Yahoo News |
5:07pm PDT |
Nady pulled from Pirates' lineup, trade imminent
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Pittsburgh Pirates pulled Xavier Nady after the first inning Friday night and announced they agreed to a trade involving the outfielder and reliever Damaso Marte. |
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BBC News |
5:02pm PDT |
Five die in Gaza City explosion |
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Summary: Four Hamas militants and a five-year-old girl die in an explosion targeting a car on Gaza City's beachfront, medics say. |
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BBC News |
4:48pm PDT |
Two thousand books owned by Gladstone to go under hammer |
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Summary: A large collection of books owned by William Gladstone and his family are due to be auctioned in Angus. |
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BBC News |
4:48pm PDT |
Two thousand books owned by William Gladstone to go under the hammer |
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Summary: A large collection of books owned by William Gladstone and his family are due to be auctioned in Angus. |
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BBC News |
4:45pm PDT |
Concerns for battlefield heritage |
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Summary: Scotland's largest conservation charity says proposed legislation may not protect battlefield sites like Bannockburn. |
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Yahoo News |
4:29pm PDT |
Spears and Federline settle custody case
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Britney Spears and Kevin Federline finalized their child-custody settlement Friday, including a $5,000-per-month increase in child support for the pop singer's ex-husband. |
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BBC News |
4:09pm PDT |
Unexpected fall in puffin numbers |
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Summary: The puffin population on England's biggest colony falls by a third in five years, a survey shows. |
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Cnn.com |
3:58pm PDT |
Forest fires in Greece force mass evacuations |
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Summary: Greek police on Friday evacuated more than 2,000 European vacationers from a strip of holiday resorts on Rhodes as fierce forest fires swept through the Greek island and thick plumes of smoke choked its most popular hotels.
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Yahoo News |
3:38pm PDT |
French fries helped calm bin Laden driver: witnesses
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hot
McDonald's french fries and a call home encouraged Salim Hamdan
to cooperate under interrogation but Osama bin Laden's driver
did not like cold fries and isolation upset him, witnesses said
at his Guantanamo war crimes trial on Friday. |
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BBC News |
3:34pm PDT |
Obama to meet Brown on UK visit |
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Summary: White House hopeful Barack Obama is to hold talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown after flying into London. |
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Cnn.com |
3:34pm PDT |
Teens charged in immigrant's fatal beating |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
3:30pm PDT |
Karadzic expected to appeal over war crimes transfer
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A deadline for Radovan Karadzic to appeal his transfer to the UN war crimes tribunal expired Saturday, but it remained unclear whether his lawyer has lodged a complaint. |
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Yahoo News |
3:26pm PDT |
Pentagon auditors request probe after criticism
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The agency that audits Pentagon
contracts said on Friday it had asked for an investigation into
allegations that its supervisors pressured employees to alter
audits in favor of contractors. |
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Yahoo News |
3:24pm PDT |
Obama camp cites Pentagon in scrapping troop visit
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An aide to Sen. Barack Obama said Friday the Democratic presidential contender believed he could visit wounded troops at a military hospital in Germany without involving them in a campaign controversy and scrapped his plans after the Pentagon raised |
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Yahoo News |
3:18pm PDT |
McCain meets Dalai Lama, presses China on rights
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Republican presidential
candidate John McCain urged China on Friday to address human
rights concerns and free Tibetan prisoners after he met with
the Dalai Lama in Colorado. |
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Yahoo News |
2:52pm PDT |
U.S. house prices overvalued by up to 20 percent: IMF paper
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The downward spiral of U.S. housing
prices still has a way to go and homes were overvalued by
between 8 percent to 20 percent in the first quarter of this
year, according to research by an International Monetary Fund
economist published on F |
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Cnn.com |
2:52pm PDT |
Salmonella warning limited to Mexican peppers |
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Summary: Only Mexican-grown jalapeņos and serrano peppers have been linked to the salmonella outbreak, a spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
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Yahoo News |
2:33pm PDT |
Military says US troops killed Iraqi editor's son
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The U.S. military said Friday that bullets fired by American soldiers killed the 14-year-old son of the chief editor of a U.S.-sponsored newspaper during a gunbattle this week in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. |
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Yahoo News |
2:32pm PDT |
Favre must file letter to show for Packers camp
(AP)
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Summary: AP - If Brett Favre plans to show for the Green Bay Packers' training camp, he'll need permission from the NFL. And as of Friday afternoon there was no sign he had petitioned the league for reinstatement. |
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Yahoo News |
2:30pm PDT |
Phoenix police: College shooter was punched first
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The most seriously wounded of three people shot in a community-college computer lab had punched the gunman in the face before he opened fire, police said Friday. |
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BBC News |
2:29pm PDT |
Body found in search for swimmer |
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Summary: Police searching for a 26-year-old swimmer feared drowned in the Caledonian Canal recover a man's body. |
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Yahoo News |
2:26pm PDT |
Halle Berry pushes back against 'backyard' paps
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Halle Berry says a paparazzi photographer went too far to get a shot of the actress holding her infant daughter, trespassing onto her private property and snapping them hanging out in the backyard. |
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Yahoo News |
2:22pm PDT |
U.S. firms push back against immigration sanctions
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Arizona steel fabricator Sheridan
Bailey was frustrated by a state law that punished employers
who hire illegal immigrants so he joined local employers and
business owners to change it. |
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BBC News |
2:22pm PDT |
Rebecca voted out of Big Brother |
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Summary: Nursery nurse Rebecca Shiner leaves Channel 4's Big Brother show after getting the most votes from the public. |
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ChristianPost |
2:17pm PDT |
So. Calif. Prepares for Big Dose of Urban Gospel Music |
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Summary: Rising urban Gospel music artists from around the nation will be taking the stage this weekend at an inner city concert that?s drawing believers throughout southern California. |
