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Yahoo News |
4:49am PDT |
Study: Restaurant kids' meals loaded with calories
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Parents looking for healthy meal choices for their children are likely to find slim pickings on the menus of the nation's top restaurant chains, according to a report released Monday by a nonprofit public health group. |
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Yahoo News |
4:42am PDT |
Wall Street heads for slightly lower open
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street headed for a moderately lower open Monday as investors awaited key government readings on personal income and spending as well as a report on factory orders. |
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Yahoo News |
4:37am PDT |
July planned layoffs rise 26 pct vs. June: survey
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Planned layoffs at U.S. companies
jumped 26 percent in July from June, depicting further
deterioration in the labor market, a report showed on Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
4:33am PDT |
Police killed in western China ahead of Games
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Attackers with home-made bombs and
knives killed 16 police in a restive western region of China on
Monday, state media said, in just the sort of violence Beijing
had hoped to avoid four days before the Olympics. |
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Cnn.com |
4:29am PDT |
Bear Stearns CEO fought fatal illness |
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Summary: In the early morning hours last Sept. 11, a black Town Car pulled up to the entrance of New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. Inside the sedan Jimmy Cayne, the CEO of Bear Stearns, was close to death.
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BBC News |
4:17am PDT |
TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson apologises for poison plant error |
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Summary: Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson apologises after recommending use of a poisonous plant in recipes. |
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BBC News |
4:16am PDT |
Fritzl could face slavery charge |
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Summary: Slavery may be added to the charges against the Austrian man who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years. |
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BBC News |
4:11am PDT |
Cabinet 'may go to West Midlands' |
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Summary: Gordon Brown will hold his first cabinet meeting after the summer break outside London - most likely in the West Midlands. |
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BBC News |
4:09am PDT |
Film censor defends Batman rating |
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Summary: The BBFC justifies giving The Dark Knight a family-friendly certificate after cinema-goers complain about its disturbing content. |
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Cnn.com |
4:09am PDT |
K2 climbers rescued after deadly avalanche |
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Summary: Two Dutch climbers who survived a deadly ice avalanche on K2, the world's second highest mountain on the Pakistan-China border, were airlifted to a Pakistani hospital on Monday, the team's spokesman told CNN.
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Yahoo News |
4:06am PDT |
Rhythmic croaking of frogs heard on new CD
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An animal expert at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has released a CD of the rhythmic stylings of Nebraska's native frogs. |
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BBC News |
4:05am PDT |
Walters 'was assaulted aged 10' |
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Summary: Actress Julie Walters tells a newspaper she was sexually assaulted at the age of 10 by a man who tried to abduct her. |
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BBC News |
4:04am PDT |
Tories attack school poverty gap |
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Summary: The Conservatives say that the school system in England is failing to close the gap between rich and poorer pupils. |
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Yahoo News |
4:04am PDT |
Obama ad calls for return of windfall profits tax
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama's campaign will begin running a television ad Monday that attacks Republican John McCain's energy policies. |
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BBC News |
4:03am PDT |
The flat-earthers |
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Summary: Is this photo fake? Meet the people who say it is... |
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BBC News |
3:58am PDT |
Bystander killed in pub shooting |
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Summary: Police say a 47-year-old man killed in a shooting outside an east London pub was an innocent bystander. |
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Yahoo News |
3:52am PDT |
Tropical Storm Edouard moving toward Texas coast
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Emergency teams were activated as residents along the Gulf of Mexico prepared to get hit with another strong storm for the second time in less than a month. |
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BBC News |
3:52am PDT |
Court blocks Philippine land deal |
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Summary: The Supreme Court blocks a territorial deal between the Philippine government and Muslim separatists in the south. |
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BBC News |
3:44am PDT |
Eight more deaths linked to bug |
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Summary: The Clostridium Difficile bug is linked to eight more deaths in hospitals in the Northern Trust area. |
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Yahoo News |
3:44am PDT |
Tehran says it won't stop nuclear work, talks to EU
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iran and the representative of six world
powers talked by telephone on Monday over Tehran's disputed
nuclear program but the Islamic Republic said it would press
ahead despite a demand to halt the work. |
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BBC News |
3:31am PDT |
Funeral plan for honeymoon couple |
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Summary: Arrangements are being made for the funerals of a newlywed couple shot during their honeymoon in Antigua. |
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ChristianToday |
3:27am PDT |
India Christians mourn stampede victims |
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Summary: Christians have expressed their shock at the deaths of around 150 Hindu pilgrims in one of Indias worst ever temple stampedes on Sunday |
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BBC News |
3:20am PDT |
Parents to get child weight data |
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Summary: Children's weight measurements taken at schools in England are set to be sent automatically to their parents. |
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Yahoo News |
3:12am PDT |
Longtime Braves broadcaster Skip Caray dies at 68
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Skip Caray, a voice of the Atlanta Braves for 33 years and part of a family line of baseball broadcasters that included Hall of Famer Harry Caray, died in his sleep at home on Sunday, the team said. He was 68. |
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BBC News |
3:11am PDT |
Radcliffe confident for marathon |
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Summary: Paula Radcliffe says she will race unless her "leg breaks down" as her battle to run the Olympic marathon continues. |
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BBC News |
3:11am PDT |
Radcliffe set for marathon fight |
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Summary: Paula Radcliffe says she will be "in there fighting" as her battle to run the Olympic marathon continues. |
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BBC News |
3:05am PDT |
Israeli airport staff find four-year-old forgotten by her parents |
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Summary: Staff at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel find a small girl alone after her parents accidentally take a plane without her. |
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BBC News |
3:02am PDT |
Troops patrolling Italian cities |
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Summary: Italian troops begin patrolling cities as part of a government campaign to combat crime and boost security. |
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BBC News |
2:51am PDT |
Microsoft sees end of Windows era |
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Summary: Details have emerged of the software that could take over after Windows has been retired. |
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ChristianToday |
2:51am PDT |
ChristianMuslim statement among first fruits of Common Word gathering |
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Summary: Following a major fourday conference last week Christian and Muslim leaders from around the world have announced the first fruits of the Common Word exchange through a joint statement affirming their support for religious freedom and further interfaith di |
