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BBC News |
12:27pm PDT |
Woman jailed for beheading rival |
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Summary: A jealous girlfriend is jailed for life for murdering and dismembering a young Chinese graduate in London. |
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Cnn.com |
12:24pm PDT |
Patient reads aloud during brain surgery |
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Summary: It's called "awake craniotomy with mapping." It's much like standard brain surgery, with one critical difference: The patient is awake. If a tumor is located in a crucial part of the brain, the surgery is performed on an awake patient so that doctors can |
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Yahoo News |
12:15pm PDT |
Man charged in Canadian bus beheading stays silent
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A 40-year-old man was
charged on Friday with second degree murder after a fellow
passenger was stabbed to death aboard a Greyhound bus on the
Canadian Prairies and then beheaded. |
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Cnn.com |
12:13pm PDT |
Judge taken off remaining 'Jena 6' cases |
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Summary: A Louisiana appeals court has removed a Lasalle Parish judge from the remaining "Jena Six" cases, court officials told CNN Friday.
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DJ Chuang |
12:12pm PDT |
Saddleback Civil Forum 8/16 watch it online |
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Summary: [update 8/11] Now the saddlebackcivilforum.com website is saying, “All general admission tickets have been distributed.” Apparently, public tickets were never available, b/c tickets (up to $2,000 each) were already sold out to church members/ |
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DJ Chuang |
12:12pm PDT |
Saddleback Civil Forum 8/16, ticket info on 8/4 |
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Summary: Rick Warren and Saddleback Church (with others) are hosting a Saddleback Civil Forum on August 16th, that’ll bring presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain onto the same stage! Huge media event and associated junket. The event will be li |
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DJ Chuang |
12:12pm PDT |
Saddleback Civil Forum 8/16, ticket info on 8/13 |
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Summary: Rick Warren and Saddleback Church (with others) are hosting a Saddleback Civil Forum on August 16th, that’ll bring presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain onto the same stage! Huge media event and associated junket. The event will be li |
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Yahoo News |
12:08pm PDT |
Man arrested in river ambush on 3 Wis. swimmers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A dragnet ended Friday with the arrest of a man accused of emerging from woods in camouflage and opening fire with an assault rifle on a group of young swimmers who had gathered at a river. Three were killed and another wounded. |
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Yahoo News |
12:04pm PDT |
McCarthy: Marketing deal good for Favre, Packers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy says a potential marketing contract for Brett Favre could benefit the star quarterback and the team. More importantly, it also could resolve their standoff over Favre's retirement. |
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Yahoo News |
12:00pm PDT |
Woman, 97, says cat's yowling saved her from fire
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A 97-year-old woman says her cat's early morning yowling saved her from a house fire. Grace George, of Independence, said her cat Boo Boo's yowling from an open bedroom window early Wednesday woke her up from a sound sleep. |
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ChristianToday |
11:51am PDT |
Nigeria Churches damaged in religious violence ordered to vacate premises |
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Summary: The congregations of two churches that were extensively damaged last year during religious violence in the TudunWada area of Kano State northern Nigeria have been ordered to vacate their premises to make way for the construction of a court house reports C |
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ChristianToday |
11:42am PDT |
Franklin Graham Begins North Korea Visit |
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Summary: Franklin Graham arrived in North Korea on Thursday for a historic fourday visit to meet with highlevel government officials visit relief projects and preach at a newly constructed church in the capital city of Pyongyang |
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Yahoo News |
11:31am PDT |
In Florida, Obama pitches $1,000 energy rebates
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday pushed for a windfall profits tax to fund $1,000 emergency rebate checks for consumers besieged by high energy costs, a counter to Republican rival John McCain's call for more offshore drilling |
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Yahoo News |
11:30am PDT |
U.S. scientist in anthrax case said to kill himself
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A U.S. Army scientist who apparently
committed suicide this week was close to being charged in
connection with a series of deadly anthrax attacks in 2001,
federal law enforcement officials said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
11:27am PDT |
Stranded sick whale put to sleep |
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Summary: A 26ft (8m) whale that beached on a mudflat off the south coast of England is put to sleep with a lethal injection, rescuers say. |
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Cnn.com |
11:24am PDT |
Pakistan denies 'malicious' bomb charge |
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Summary: Pakistan on Friday strongly denounced a report that the country's spy service helped plan the July 7 bombing of the Indian Embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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Cnn.com |
11:23am PDT |
Chevron profit soars, shares dip |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
11:23am PDT |
Super Collingwood revives England |
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Summary: Paul Collingwood rescues England and resurrects his international career with an unbeaten 101 on day three at Edgbaston. |
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Yahoo News |
11:20am PDT |
Iran heading to nuclear breakthrough: Mofaz
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iran is heading toward a major
breakthrough in its nuclear program, an Israeli official said
on Friday, as the White House warned Iran could face new
sanctions if it ignores an international freeze offer. |
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CrossMap |
11:17am PDT |
Walking with God |
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Summary: [Book Review] Walking with God moves through a year in the life of John Eldredge showing and teaching what an intimate relationship with God.. |
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BBC News |
11:17am PDT |
Honeymoon attack 'link' to death |
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Summary: Police investigate a possible link between the murder of newly-wed Catherine Mullany and the shooting of her husband with a murder in Antigua two months ago. |
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BBC News |
11:17am PDT |
Antigua attacks link investigated |
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Summary: Police investigate a possible link between the murder of newly-wed Catherine Mullany and the shooting of her husband with a murder in Antigua two months ago. |
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Yahoo News |
11:11am PDT |
"You don't understand al Qaeda," 9/11 plotter says
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The
accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks told a U.S. war
crimes court at Guantanamo on Friday that Osama bin Laden's
driver had no role in al Qaeda attacks and was unfit to carry
them out. |
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BBC News |
11:10am PDT |
Council's new bid to cut salt intake - shakers with fewer holes |
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Summary: A council sends salt shakers with few holes to fish and chip shops in an attempt to curb salt consumption. |
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Yahoo News |
11:08am PDT |
Attacks kill 5 NATO soldiers and 4 Afghan civilians
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Two improvised explosive devices (IED)
killed five soldiers from NATO-led forces and one civilian in
Afghanistan on Friday, the NATO force said in a statement, and
a young suicide bomber killed three civilians in the south. |
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ChristianPost |
11:06am PDT |
Christian Groups, Federal Aid Assist Dolly Victims |
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Summary: After a week of damage assessments across Hurricane Dolly-affected areas, the White House approved on Thursday federal money to help residents rebuild their lives. The approval was made days after Christian aid groups moved in to provide relief. |
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Yahoo News |
11:06am PDT |
Chinese cheered by eclipse a week before Olympics
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Finally, China had an act of nature it could celebrate. After an Olympic year of freakish natural disasters, crowds of Chinese watched a total solar eclipse along the country's ancient Silk Road on Friday, one week before the start of the Summer Game |
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ChristianToday |
11:02am PDT |
Anglicans seek balance between autonomy and communion |
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Summary: Anglican bishops at the onceinadecade Lambeth Conference in Canterbury said today that they were positive about the process towards an Anglican Covenant |
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Cnn.com |
10:55am PDT |
Mom on YouTube begs ex to return girl |
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Summary: The mother of an abducted 7-year-old girl is using YouTube to beg her former husband to return the child.
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Yahoo News |
10:38am PDT |
U.S. held terrorism suspects at British island: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States imprisoned and
interrogated one or more terrorism suspects at the British
Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia in 2002 and possibly 2003,
a former senior U.S. official has told Time magazine. |
