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Yahoo News |
11:58pm PST |
Bomb kills 18 on bus in central Sri Lanka
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A bomb exploded on a civilian bus in
the central Sri Lankan town of Dambulla on Saturday, killing at
least 18 people and wounding 50, the military said. |
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Yahoo News |
11:53pm PST |
Bus bombing kills 20 as Sri Lanka prepares for freedom day
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels detonated a bomb on a crowded bus in northern Sri Lanka on Saturday, killing at least 20 people two days ahead of celebrations marking independence day, officials said. |
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BBC News |
11:50pm PST |
Rescue of ship captain restarts |
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Summary: A fresh operation has begun to rescue a ship's captain who was badly injured in a gale near the Isles of Scilly. |
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Yahoo News |
10:55pm PST |
Goodell defends destroying Pats' tapes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Spygate sure has touched a nerve. If Roger Goodell wasn't acutely aware of that before Friday, he certainly has no doubt now. Not after repeatedly having to defend his decision to destroy notes and videotapes linked to the New England Patriots' cheat |
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Yahoo News |
10:39pm PST |
Microsoft eyes Yahoo to topple Google
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Unable to topple Google Inc. on its own, Microsoft Corp. is trying to force crippled rival Yahoo Inc. into a shotgun marriage, with a wager worth nearly $42 billion that the two companies together will have a better chance of tackling the Internet se |
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BBC News |
10:37pm PST |
China warns of more bad weather |
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Summary: China's authorities warn that the bad weather which has crippled parts of the country could last several more days. |
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10:37pm PST |
China weather crisis 'to worsen' |
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Summary: China's authorities warn that more of the bad weather which has crippled the country is on its way. |
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BBC News |
10:10pm PST |
Problems persist after heavy snow |
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Summary: Thousands remain without power and some roads are still blocked after high winds and heavy snow hit the UK. |
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BBC News |
9:34pm PST |
Russia launches race for Kremlin |
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Summary: Russia's presidential election campaign is set to begin, with Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev the clear favourite. |
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9:12pm PST |
2m 'wrongly getting benefit' |
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Summary: Fewer than a third of those receiving incapacity benefit are legitimate claimants, a government adviser says. |
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Yahoo News |
9:09pm PST |
Mets give Santana $137.5 million deal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Johan Santana is a money pitcher, and the New York Mets are paying for it. Santana and the Mets agreed Friday to a $137.5 million, six-year contract, a record for a pitcher and the last major step needed to complete the team's blockbuster trade with |
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Yahoo News |
9:01pm PST |
Bomb kills 20 on bus in central Sri Lanka
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A bomb exploded on a civilian bus in
the central Sri Lankan town of Dambulla on Saturday, killing at
least 20 people and wounding 50, the military said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:51pm PST |
Van der Sloot denies Holloway connection
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Dutch student Joran van der Sloot denied Friday that he had anything to do with Natalee Holloway's disappearance, saying he lied when he told someone privately he was involved. |
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Yahoo News |
8:46pm PST |
U.S. nuclear power plants to get more Russia uranium
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. nuclear power reactors will be
able to obtain more supplies of Russian enriched uranium for
fuel, under a trade deal signed by the two countries late on
Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:21pm PST |
Mets, Santana agree at $137.5M
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Johan Santana is a money pitcher, and the New York Mets are paying for it. |
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Yahoo News |
8:00pm PST |
Romney aims for a split in California
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican Mitt Romney is conceding the bulk of the Northeast to rival John McCain, counting instead on his home state of Massachusetts, a split in California and wins in a series of caucus states to extend his presidential campaign beyond Super Tues |
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Yahoo News |
7:55pm PST |
Bomb hits civilian bus in central S.Lanka, 20 dead
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A bomb exploded on a civilian bus in
the central Sri Lankan town of Dambulla on Saturday, killing at
least 20 people and wounding 50, the military said. |
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Yahoo News |
7:52pm PST |
Russia tells U.S. plutonium plants to shut sooner
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Two Russian weapons-grade plutonium
production reactors are ahead of schedule for shutting down and
will stop operating before this December's deadline, the U.S.
Energy Department said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
7:43pm PST |
Cloning consent change planned |
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Summary: Scientists may be allowed to clone embryos from donated tissues without the need for "express" consent. |
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Yahoo News |
7:27pm PST |
Wesley Snipes faces 3 years for tax conviction
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Actor Wesley Snipes, star of the
"Blade" movie series, was found guilty of three misdemeanors by
a U.S. court on Friday for failing to file tax returns but was
acquitted of more serious charges. |
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Yahoo News |
7:09pm PST |
Romney cedes Northeast to McCain
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican Mitt Romney is conceding the bulk of the Northeast to rival John McCain, counting instead on his home state of Massachusetts, a split in California and wins in a series of caucus states to extend his presidential campaign beyond Super Tues |
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Yahoo News |
7:07pm PST |
Student says he lied in Holloway case
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Dutch student Joran van der Sloot denied Friday that he had anything to do with Natalee Holloway's disappearance, saying he lied when he told someone privately he was involved. |
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Yahoo News |
7:07pm PST |
Street dancers open Rio's crazy carnival
(AP)
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Summary: AP - To the sound of blasting samba, men dressed as nuns swilled beer and danced down the cobblestoned streets of a Rio hillside Friday night to kick off five days of uninhibited carnival madness. |
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BBC News |
7:02pm PST |
Briton jailed over HIV infections |
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Summary: A British man is jailed for 14 years in Sweden after infecting two under-age girls with HIV. |
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Yahoo News |
6:49pm PST |
What a nasty letter for a $16.96 debt!
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A collection agency tried to collect a $16.96 debt with an letter that addressed its recipient with a four-letter word for excrement. "Dear S---," began the letter attempting to collect from an old record club membership. The word was spelled out in |
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Cnn.com |
6:40pm PST |
Michelle Obama: 'Black enough' questions silly |
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Summary: Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, Friday called questions early in the campaign about whether her biracial husband was "black enough" to appeal to African-American voters "silly."
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Yahoo News |
6:34pm PST |
McCain upbeat on Super Tuesday, woos conservatives
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Presidential candidate John McCain
urged skeptical conservatives on Friday to rally behind him and
said he might clinch the Republican nomination in crucial
"Super Tuesday" coast-to-coast voting. |
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Yahoo News |
6:30pm PST |
CDC: Drug sickens dialysis patients
(AP)
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Summary: AP - More than 50 dialysis patients in 12 states have come down with allergic reactions that are being blamed on recalled batches of a blood thinner, federal health officials said Friday. |
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BBC News |
6:26pm PST |
Egg acts over 'risky' customers |
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Summary: Egg is to withdraw credit cards from 161,000 customers it considers pose "unacceptably high risks". |
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Cnn.com |
5:38pm PST |
Officer's death shocks New Orleans |
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Summary: Hundreds of officers, some from as far away as Colorado, turned out Friday along with New Orleans residents to mourn slain police officer Nicola Cotton -- whose violent death has shaken the city.
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