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BBC News |
2:53am PDT |
Having fat friends may raise your own risk of obesity |
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Summary: People are subconsciously influenced by the weight of those around them, researchers suggest. |
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Yahoo News |
2:51am PDT |
Seven blasts hit Indian IT city of Bangalore
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Seven low-intensity bombs
exploded across the Indian IT city of Bangalore on Friday,
killing one person and wounding at least 15, police said. |
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BBC News |
2:29am PDT |
Boy, 10, slashes woman over cigarette |
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Summary: Police are looking for a 10-year-old boy who slashed a woman's arm after she refused to him a cigarette. |
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BBC News |
2:29am PDT |
Boy slashes woman over cigarette |
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Summary: Police are looking for a 10-year-old boy who slashed a woman's arm after she refused to him a cigarette. |
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Yahoo News |
2:15am PDT |
Obama swipes McCain before heading to France
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - White House hopeful Barack Obama fired back at Republican foe John McCain in a new row over Iraq, as his Europe and Middle East tour Friday took him to France, after a massive campaign event in Berlin. |
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Cnn.com |
2:10am PDT |
Foreclosure filings soar 120 percent |
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Summary: Foreclosures continue to soar, with 220,000 homes lost to bank repossessions in the second quarter of this year, according to the latest statistics from RealtyTrac, an online marketer of foreclosed homes. That's nearly triple the number from the same peri |
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Yahoo News |
2:08am PDT |
Foreclosures rise 14 pct in Q2: RealtyTrac
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Home foreclosure filings rose 14
percent in the second quarter, the eighth consecutive quarterly
climb, and more than doubled from the same period a
year-earlier, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
2:02am PDT |
Pakistani PM expected to hear price of U.S. support
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - New Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf
Raza Gilani can expect U.S. demands for action against
militants in tribal lands on the Afghan border, along with
usual statements of support, when he visits Washington next
week. |
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BBC News |
1:59am PDT |
UK economic growth slows sharply |
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Summary: The UK economy has grown at its lowest quarterly rate for three years, as the credit crunch takes its toll. |
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BBC News |
1:59am PDT |
I'll get on with job, says Brown |
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Summary: Gordon Brown says he understands people's concerns after Labour's by-election defeat, but insists he will "get on with the job". |
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BBC News |
1:56am PDT |
Scrum for last Olympic tickets |
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Summary: Thousands of people descend on ticket booths in Beijing, to get their hands on the last batch of Olympic tickets. |
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Yahoo News |
1:54am PDT |
Qantas jumbo lands with 'gaping hole' in fuselage
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A Qantas Boeing 747 flying to Melbourne made an emergency landing in Manila on Friday after a dramatic mid-air rupture that left a "gaping hole" in its fuselage, officials and passengers said. |
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BBC News |
1:53am PDT |
US hails SA judge as rights chief |
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Summary: The US welcomes the nomination of a South African judge as the new UN human rights head. |
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BBC News |
1:46am PDT |
Bombings hit Gaza Strip targets |
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Summary: A bombing outside a cafe in Gaza City kills one person, while a second attack appears to target the home of a Hamas official. |
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Yahoo News |
1:45am PDT |
Holed Qantas plane in emergency landing at Manila
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Qantas Airways plane made an emergency
landing in Manila on Friday after part of its undercarriage
blew off, triggering a loss in cabin pressure during a flight
from Hong Kong to Melbourne. |
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BBC News |
1:45am PDT |
Game On |
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Summary: How LittleBigPlanet turns PS3 players into creators |
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ChristianToday |
1:40am PDT |
Ecumenical leaders welcome Zimbabwe power sharing talks |
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Summary: Ecumenical leaders have welcomed the announcement of power sharing talks in Zimbabwe but condemned continuing political violence |
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BBC News |
1:39am PDT |
Demand for food drives pub trade |
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Summary: British pubs company Mitchells & Butlers said trading had picked up over the past ten weeks, helped by strong demand for food. |
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ChristianToday |
1:28am PDT |
Catholic critics ask pope to lift contraception ban |
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Summary: More than 50 dissident Catholic groups published an unusually frank open letter to Pope Benedict on Friday saying the Churchs ban on contraception has been catastrophic and urging him to lift it |
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BBC News |
1:16am PDT |
Russell Brand to host MTV Awards |
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Summary: Comedian Russell Brand is to present this year's MTV Video Music Awards show, which will be held in Los Angeles in September. |
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ChristianToday |
1:15am PDT |
Stop Climate Chaos urges PM to ditch coal plants |
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Summary: The leaders of the UKs largest coalition dedicated to stopping climate change warned the Prime Minister on Tuesday not to go ahead with plans for a new coal plant at Kingsnorth |
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Yahoo News |
1:12am PDT |
Olympian PR bout under way in Washington
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In an air-conditioned room in the Chinese Embassy, a vice minister from Beijing chastises Americans for their "very limited" understanding of violent anti-government protests in Tibet. |
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Yahoo News |
1:05am PDT |
Allies of Phoenix mayor fight recall effort
(AP)
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Summary: AP - It's a political oddity: a TV commercial extolling the public safety record of a sitting mayor, except the spot isn't soliciting votes and the politician's name isn't scheduled to appear on the November ballot. |
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Yahoo News |
12:57am PDT |
Analysis: GOP stroked base in housing vote
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush pulled the rug out from under Republicans this week when he abruptly dropped his opposition to a massive housing rescue. Their reaction? Good riddance. |
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Yahoo News |
12:53am PDT |
Obama beats McCain in Europe donations
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama's campaign has received roughly 10 times more money from declared U.S. donors living in Germany, France and Britain than his Republican rival, reflecting his popularity in Europe as he makes his first tour of the continent as the presume |
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Yahoo News |
12:52am PDT |
Election loss deals bitter blow to UK's Brown
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Britain's ruling Labor Party lost one
of its safest parliamentary seats, results showed on Friday,
deepening doubts within the party about Prime Minister Gordon
Brown's ability to win the next election. |
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Yahoo News |
12:51am PDT |
AP: Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
(AP)
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Summary: AP - One of the worst outbreaks of foodborne illness in the U.S. is teaching the food industry the truth of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for because you might get it." |
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BBC News |
12:50am PDT |
Cameron issues election challenge |
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Summary: Conservative leader David Cameron urges Gordon Brown to call a general election after Labour's defeat in Glasgow East. |
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Yahoo News |
12:47am PDT |
Report urges overhauling how passports are issued
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The State Department urgently needs to overhaul the way it handles passport applications to avoid a repeat of the massive backlogs last summer that frustrated countless travelers, congressional investigators concluded. |
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Yahoo News |
12:46am PDT |
South Texas begins cleanup after Dolly
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley. |
