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Yahoo News |
9:41am PDT |
Campaigns spar over drilling as leadership issue
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Summary: AP - The different paths John McCain and Barack Obama have taken to support expanded offshore drilling for oil demonstrate how each would govern as president, their supporters said Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:37am PDT |
Burned before, fans weigh whether to believe
(AP)
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Summary: AP - So you hear about a 41-year-old swimmer making the Olympics eight years after retiring and two years after giving birth. You immediately think: |
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BBC News |
9:34am PDT |
India temple stampede 'kills 140' |
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Summary: At least 140 worshippers are reported killed in a stampede at a Hindu temple in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. |
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Yahoo News |
9:22am PDT |
Part II: Welcome to Iraq, and a long separation
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The phone call surprised Katie Kriesel, so soon after her husband, John, shipped out. |
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Yahoo News |
9:11am PDT |
Anglican leader urges ban on gay bishops
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans is urging an extended ban on consecrating another gay bishop until their troubled fellowship can be healed. |
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Yahoo News |
9:05am PDT |
Stampede kills 68 at remote Hindu temple in India
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Pilgrims stampeded at a mountaintop Hindu temple in northern India on Sunday, and at least 68 people — all of them women and children — were killed in the crush that sent worshippers plummeting to their deaths over a broken railing. |
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ChristianPost |
9:04am PDT |
Bush, China, and the Olympics |
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Summary: According to the Washington Post, President Bush ?does not see the Olympics as a good opportunity to make political points . . .? He ?has repeatedly made clear . . . that he is going to China as a sports fan.? |
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Yahoo News |
9:00am PDT |
Stampede kills 145 Hindu worshippers in India
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - At least 145 people, mostly
women and children, were crushed to death under the feet of
thousands of pilgrims in a stampede at a temple in northern
India on Sunday, police said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:54am PDT |
9 feared dead on K-2, world's 2nd-highest peak
(AP)
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Summary: AP - At least nine climbers are feared dead and five others are missing on K-2, the world's second-highest peak and long considered even more challenging than Mount Everest, officials said Sunday. |
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BBC News |
8:54am PDT |
Family believe missing man dead |
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Summary: The family of missing Armagh man Stephen King believe he is dead |
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BBC News |
8:52am PDT |
Father and son in fatal M62 crash |
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Summary: A father and son die following a crash on the M62 which involved a car seen moments earlier driven at "high speeds", police say. |
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BBC News |
8:51am PDT |
Body recovered from city marina |
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Summary: A man's body is recovered by a fire and rescue crew from a city marina on Sunday morning. |
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Yahoo News |
8:49am PDT |
Blast in Somali capital kills 14, mostly women
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A roadside explosion in Mogadishu on
Sunday killed at least 14 people, most of them women who were
sweeping a street in the Somali capital, witnesses said. Nearly
50 people were wounded. |
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Yahoo News |
8:47am PDT |
Pollution curbs turn Beijing into urban laboratory
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Like everything else done for the Olympics, China's quest to clear up notoriously polluted skies in time for opening ceremonies this week has been marked by gargantuan effort. |
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Cnn.com |
8:44am PDT |
Christina Applegate battling breast cancer |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
8:44am PDT |
SpaceX launch fails a third time |
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Summary: Engineers investigate why the Falcon 1 rocket, built by private space firm SpaceX, fails to reach orbit for a third time. |
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ChristianPost |
8:44am PDT |
Anglican Bishops to Wrap Up Global Meeting with 'Reflections' |
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Summary: Bishops at the Lambeth Conference were expected to agree Sunday on a document they hope will safeguard the future of the Anglican Communion as the once-in-a-decade gathering draws to a close. |
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BBC News |
8:39am PDT |
Watchdog 'to probe PCSO series' |
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Summary: A fly-on-the-wall documentary about police community support officers faces an Ofcom investigation, it is reported. |
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Cnn.com |
8:36am PDT |
9 feared dead after K-2 avalanche |
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Summary: Nine climbers trying to scale Pakistan's K-2 mountain are feared dead and three others are missing, an employee for a tour company said Sunday.
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BBC News |
8:30am PDT |
TB hampers HIV treatment - study |
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Summary: Some patients being treated for tuberculosis may not get the full benefits from HIV therapy, researchers say. |
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Cnn.com |
8:25am PDT |
140 killed in India temple stampede |
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Summary: A stampede in a crowded mountaintop Hindu temple killed at least 140 people today, a health official said in northern India said. The stampede was caused by rumors of fighting near the temple, Deputy Police Commissioner C.P. Verma said.
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Yahoo News |
8:17am PDT |
Therapist: Anthrax suspect tried to poison people
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Bruce E. Ivins, the late microbiologist suspected in the 2001 anthrax attacks, told his psychotherapist after learning he was about to be indicted that "he was going to go out in a blaze of glory, that he was going to take everybody out with him," sh |
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BBC News |
8:14am PDT |
Tadic vows hunt for war criminals |
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Summary: Serbian President Boris Tadic says Belgrade will continue to search for war crime suspects wanted by a UN tribunal. |
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ChristianPost |
8:05am PDT |
Number of New U.S. HIV Cases Underestimated by 40 Percent |
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Summary: The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic. |
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BBC News |
8:03am PDT |
Nine climbers feared dead on K2 |
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Summary: At least nine climbers are feared to have died on K2, the world's second-highest peak, expedition organisers say. |
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Yahoo News |
7:51am PDT |
Climbing catastrophe as 9 perish on K-2
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - At least nine climbers have
perished on K-2 in Pakistan in the worst day for mountaineering
on the world's second-highest peak, and the toll could rise
further, expedition organizers said on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:50am PDT |
Daschle criticizes FBI's handling of anthrax probe
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, whose office was a target of the anthrax attacks in 2001, said Sunday the suicide of the government's main suspect does not mean the case is over. |
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ChristianPost |
7:50am PDT |
Major Korean Mission Conference Ends |
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Summary: A quadrennial Korean mission conference that drew 5,000 people from over 80 countries came to a closing Friday with hope for future global mission and fulfilling the unfinished tasks of evangelizing the whole world. |
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Cnn.com |
7:49am PDT |
Al Qaeda confirms death of weapons expert |
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Summary: Al Qaeda ended days of speculation today by confirming that one of its chemical weapons experts was killed last week along with three other "heroes," according to a statement posted on a radical Islamist Web site.
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BBC News |
7:49am PDT |
Al-Qaeda confirms fighter's death |
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Summary: A message said to be from al-Qaeda confirms the death of top chemical weapons expert, Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar. |
