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Yahoo News |
1:55am PDT |
Ludacris' Obama song unlikely to alienate voters
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Summary: AP - Ludacris' new song, "Politics as Usual," may have cost him one of his biggest fans, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. |
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BBC News |
1:54am PDT |
Taylor's ill health played down |
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Summary: Actress Dame Elizabeth Taylor is 'fine' and a hospital stay is a 'precautionary' measure, her publicist has said. |
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BBC News |
1:51am PDT |
Sadly missed |
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Summary: You might not know the name, but you'll know the face |
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ChristianPost |
1:35am PDT |
Christopher Laurie Memorial Service Set for Live Webcast |
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Summary: A memorial service will be held today for the son of megachurch pastor Greg Laurie. |
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Yahoo News |
1:35am PDT |
Speed a 'gutsy' tactic in Stevens corruption case
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Under indictment and watching some Republican colleagues tiptoe away from him, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is counting on speed to keep corruption allegations from lingering until Election Day and ending his storied political career. |
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BBC News |
1:31am PDT |
Zimbabwe diary |
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Summary: "Last night I was a trillionaire, today I'll be using coins" |
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BBC News |
1:30am PDT |
Man survives US skydiving plunge |
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Summary: A father tells how his son survived a 100 ft fall after his parachute became twisted during a 14,000 ft skydive in California.
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BBC News |
1:23am PDT |
Turkish school collapse kills 13 |
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Summary: A girls' dormitory collapses in southern Turkey, killing at least 13 students and injuring 20, after a gas canister exploded. |
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BBC News |
1:18am PDT |
China lifts more internet curbs |
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Summary: China unblocks more websites, in a move aimed at defusing a row over internet access for Olympic journalists. |
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Yahoo News |
1:08am PDT |
Phoenix lander discovers ice in Martian soil
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Phoenix spacecraft has tasted Martian water for the first time, scientists reported Thursday. |
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BBC News |
1:01am PDT |
Thousands face sack in California |
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Summary: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is to lay off 22,000 state workers and put 200,000 on low pay amid a cash crisis. |
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BBC News |
12:54am PDT |
Top Fatah officials held in Gaza |
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Summary: A number of top representatives of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas are arrested in Gaza, officials from his Fatah party say. |
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Yahoo News |
12:54am PDT |
Pakistan denies spies behind Indian embassy attack
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pakistan angrily rejected a New York
Times report on Friday that said U.S. intelligence agencies
have concluded members of Pakistan's spy agency helped plan the
suicide bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul this month. |
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Yahoo News |
12:53am PDT |
Japan's beleaguered PM reshuffles cabinet
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Japan's embattled Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was reshuffling his cabinet on Friday in a last-ditch bid to revive waning public support as elections loom against a rising opposition. |
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Yahoo News |
12:52am PDT |
Record Afghan unrest hampering aid: NGOs
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan have hit record highs this year with hundreds of civilians killed, including 19 aid workers, and spreading insecurity cutting back relief work, aid groups said Friday. |
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BBC News |
12:52am PDT |
Home to roost |
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Summary: Why are ex-battery hens increasingly popular as pets? |
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BBC News |
12:49am PDT |
Rooney questioned over spit claim |
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Summary: Footballer Wayne Rooney is questioned by police after allegedly spitting at a photographer. |
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ChristianToday |
12:38am PDT |
African church leader accuses Rowan of betrayal |
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Summary: The Archbishop of Uganda the Most Rev Henry Orombi has accused the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Williams of betraying biblically faithful churches by inviting bishops involved in the consecration of the openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson to the Lambeth Confer |
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BBC News |
12:37am PDT |
Volatile market hits A&L results |
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Summary: Half-year profits at Alliance & Leicester are nearly wiped out after the bank writes down the value of its assets. |
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Cnn.com |
12:20am PDT |
Train fire in India kills 20 |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
12:19am PDT |
McCain, Obama square off over racial politics
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Summary: AP - John McCain accused Barack Obama of playing politics with race on Thursday, raising the explosive issue after the first black candidate with a serious chance of winning the White House claimed Republicans will try to scare voters by saying he "doesn' |
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BBC News |
12:17am PDT |
Aid warning over Afghan violence |
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Summary: Aid agencies in Afghanistan say the country's growing violence may force them out of areas previously seen as safe. |
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BBC News |
12:14am PDT |
British Energy rejects takeover |
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Summary: A deal that would have involved the sale of most of the UK's nuclear power stations to a French energy firm has been rejected. |
