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4:03pm PDT |
Vitamin C 'slows cancer growth' |
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Summary: An injection of a high dose of vitamin C may be able to hold back the advance of cancers, US scientists say. |
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BBC News |
4:01pm PDT |
Spy plane intelligence 'lacking' |
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Summary: Military drones are not being used effectively because of a lack of skilled personnel, MPs have warned. |
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BBC News |
4:00pm PDT |
Clampdown plan on rogue employers |
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Summary: The government launches a helpline to report mistreatment of workers or illegal pay rates as it clamps down on rogue employers. |
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Cnn.com |
3:50pm PDT |
Morgan Freeman in hospital after flipping car |
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Summary: Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman is in serious condition at a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital after being involved in a car accident Sunday night, according to hospital officials. CNN affilliate WMC-TV of Memphis reports Freeman was in a wreck in Tallahatc |
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Cnn.com |
3:47pm PDT |
Bin Laden driver's case goes to jury |
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Summary: The jury in the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War II began deliberating Monday at Guantanamo Bay, according to a Pentagon spokesman.
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ChristianPost |
3:43pm PDT |
Attorney: Winkler Takes Custody of 3 Children |
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Summary: Mary Winkler, the woman convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting death of her minister husband, has taken custody of her three daughters, one of her lawyers said Monday. |
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3:41pm PDT |
Clinton addresses Aids conference |
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Summary: Former US President Bill Clinton warns that the battle against HIV/Aids is far from over, in a speech to Mexico conference. |
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Yahoo News |
3:27pm PDT |
Man pleads guilty in Las Vegas ricin case
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Summary: AP - An unemployed graphic designer who authorities say poisoned himself with toxic ricin in his Las Vegas motel room has pleaded guilty to possessing a biological toxin. |
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Yahoo News |
3:23pm PDT |
Soil on Mars may contain substance detrimental to life
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Summary: AP - Scientists say the Phoenix spacecraft has found a substance in the Martian soil that might be detrimental to possible life. |
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ChristianPost |
3:21pm PDT |
Portugal Closes Case of Missing British Girl |
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Summary: Portugal's attorney general ordered police Monday to halt their investigation into the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann because detectives uncovered no evidence of a crime during their 14-month probe. |
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Cnn.com |
3:20pm PDT |
Slain minister's wife gets kids after days in jail |
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ChristianPost |
3:15pm PDT |
12-Year-Old with HIV Applauded at AIDS Conference |
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Summary: Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus ? and so did she. Now the 12-year-old is one of the most prominent AIDS activists in Latin America. |
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3:07pm PDT |
Titanic metaphor |
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Summary: Prescott comes to support of the prime minister |
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3:07pm PDT |
Sinking feeling |
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Summary: John Prescott's Titanic metaphor examined |
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Cnn.com |
3:04pm PDT |
Psychiatrists talking less, pushing more pills |
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ChristianPost |
3:02pm PDT |
Clinton in Africa Says Nutrition Key to AIDS Fight |
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Summary: Former President Clinton said Sunday that keeping HIV-infected children in the developing world well-fed amid the pressures of skyrocketing global food and fuel prices will be crucial to fending off the deadly virus. |
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Yahoo News |
2:56pm PDT |
U.S. must charge or release Reuters Iraq cameraman: CPJ
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. military must charge or
immediately release a Reuters cameraman detained in Iraq, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
2:49pm PDT |
Official: Olsen seeks immunity in Ledger probe
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Summary: AP - Federal investigators want to question Mary-Kate Olsen about how Heath Ledger got two powerful painkillers that contributed to his accidental overdose death, but she's refusing to talk without immunity, a law enforcement official said Monday. |
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BBC News |
2:47pm PDT |
Man held over Sinn Fein assault |
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Summary: A 21-year-old man is arrested in connection with an assault on two Sinn Fein members in Ballymena. |
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Yahoo News |
2:35pm PDT |
Jury begins deliberations at first Gitmo trial
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Summary: AP - America's first war crimes trial since World War II went to the jury Monday as a panel of six U.S. military officers began deliberating whether to send Osama bin Laden's former driver away for life. |
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ChristianPost |
2:33pm PDT |
Evangelical Group Enlists New Technology to Communicate Good News |
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Summary: ?If we are to present Christ as good news, we need to take advantage of every tool at our disposal,? says Joel Edwards, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance UK. |
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BBC News |
2:25pm PDT |
Northern Rock to reveal £500m loss |
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Summary: Results from Northern Rock bank are to show a £500m loss but that its government loan is being repaid faster than expected. |
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BBC News |
2:17pm PDT |
McCann DNA evidence 'exaggerated' |
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Summary: The parents of Madeleine McCann accused police in Portugal of exaggerating DNA evidence before naming them suspects in her disappearance. |
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BBC News |
2:17pm PDT |
McCann DNA sample 'inconclusive' |
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Summary: The DNA sample cited by Portuguese police as grounds for suspecting the McCanns in the disappearance of Madeleine was 'not unique to her'. |
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Yahoo News |
2:14pm PDT |
Ancient moss, insects found in Antarctica
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Summary: AP - Mosses once grew and insects crawled in what are now barren valleys in Antarctica, according to scientists who have recovered remains of life from that frozen continent. Fourteen million years ago the now lifeless valleys were tundra, similar to part |
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BBC News |
2:11pm PDT |
Northern Rock makes a £500m loss |
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Summary: Northern Rock is set to announce a loss of £500m but is paying off the government faster-than expected. |
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ChristianPost |
2:11pm PDT |
Top Hamas Leader?s Son Converts to Christianity |
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Summary: The son of a top Hamas leader has converted to Christianity and prays someday his family will also accept Jesus Christ as their savior, an Israeli newspaper reported. ?I consider Islam a big lie,? said the son of one of Hamas? founders. |
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BBC News |
2:10pm PDT |
US Gulf states prepare for storm |
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Summary: Tropical Storm Edouard could gain near-hurricane strength winds before reaching Texas or Louisiana, US forecasters say. |
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Cnn.com |
2:07pm PDT |
Putting Obama's energy plan to the test |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama said today he feels Americans' pain from rising energy costs and laid out his plan to break the country's "addiction" to oil. Some of his ideas -- such as tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and allowing a "limited amount" of offshor |
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Yahoo News |
1:56pm PDT |
Attack kills 16 police days before the Olympics
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Summary: AP - In an audacious and deadly attack just days ahead of the Beijing Olympics, two men from a mainly Muslim ethnic group rammed a truck and hurled explosives at jogging policemen in China's restive far west Monday, killing 16. |
