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Yahoo News |
6:01am PST |
At least 68 dead in Baghdad market bombs
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Summary: AP - Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up Friday in separate attacks on Baghdad pet bazaars, killing at least 68 people and wounding dozens, police said. The attacks were the deadliest in the Iraqi capital since 30,000 more American troops floode |
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Cnn.com |
5:52am PST |
Surprise drop in jobs in January |
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Summary: Employers trimmed jobs from their payrolls in January, according to a much anticipated government jobs report Friday that showed the first decline in employment in four years and raised new concerns about the risk of recession for the weakening U.S. econo |
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5:47am PST |
Payrolls drop for 1st time since 2003
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Summary: AP - Nervous employers cut 17,000 jobs in January — the first such reduction in more than four years and a fresh trouble sign that the economy is in danger of stalling. |
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5:46am PST |
Microsoft unveils hostile bid for Yahoo at $44.6 bln
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Summary: AFP - Microsoft Friday unveiled a hostile bid of 44.6 billion dollars for Yahoo in an effort to merge the world's biggest software company with a major Internet player to take on the Google juggernaut. |
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BBC News |
5:42am PST |
Public spectrum to be auctioned |
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Summary: Public organisations will be able to trade valuable radio spectrum under new plans, announces Ofcom. |
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Yahoo News |
5:39am PST |
Microsoft offers $44.6B for Yahoo
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Microsoft Corp. has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo Inc. with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion in its boldest bid yet to challenge Google Inc.'s dominance of the lucrative online search and advertising markets. |
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5:37am PST |
Yahoo says to consider Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Yahoo Inc confirmed on
Friday that it had received an unsolicited bid from Microsoft
Corp to acquire the company and that its board of
directors would consider the $44.6 billion deal. |
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BBC News |
5:31am PST |
Author 'murdered for wealth' |
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Summary: A reclusive millionaire author was killed by a man who stole his identity, the Old Bailey hears. |
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Yahoo News |
5:20am PST |
Exxon Mobil posts record profits
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Exxon Mobil Corp. on Friday posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company — $40.6 billion — as the world's largest publicly traded oil company benefited from historic crude prices at year's end. |
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Cnn.com |
5:18am PST |
Giant storm pounds Midwest |
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5:18am PST |
Electability seen as key to McCain's rising support
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - John McCain has vaulted from long shot
to the front-runner to win the Republican nomination for U.S.
president. The reason? Voter confidence he can beat the
eventual Democratic candidate in November's election, according
to interviews with s |
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Yahoo News |
5:13am PST |
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 bln
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Microsoft said Friday it had offered to buy struggling Internet firm Yahoo for 44.6 billion dollars (30.0 billion euros) in a bid to take on Google in the crucial battle for online revenues. |
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BBC News |
5:09am PST |
Ahern visit is new dawn - Paisley |
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Summary: Ian Paisley describes Irish PM Bertie Ahern's historic visit to his constituency as a "good day for Ireland". |
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BBC News |
5:07am PST |
Football: Benjani confusion |
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Summary: Portsmouth contact the Premier League to see whether a late deal to sell striker Benjani to Manchester City can still go ahead. |
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Yahoo News |
5:06am PST |
Two bombs at Baghdad pet markets kill 72: police
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Summary: Reuters - Bomb blasts ripped through two popular
pet markets in Baghdad on Friday, killing 72 people in the
deadliest attacks in the city in six months and dealing a
bitter blow to Iraqi hopes that security is getting better. |
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BBC News |
5:05am PST |
Rugby: All set for Six Nations |
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Summary: The 2008 Six Nations, which starts on Saturday, promises to be one of the most open tournaments in years. |
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Yahoo News |
5:00am PST |
Pakistan strike ends lean time in al Qaeda hunt
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Summary: Reuters - A missile strike that killed senior
al Qaeda leader Abu Laith al-Libi in Pakistan this week marked
the first big success the United States has notched in the
region against Osama bin Laden's group for over two years. |
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BBC News |
4:59am PST |
Rebels battle near Chad capital |
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Summary: Chad rebels say they clashed with government forces on their advance to the capital, as extra French troops fly in. |
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4:58am PST |
Suffolk victims' blood 'on coat' |
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Summary: Blood from two of five women a man is accused of killing was found on a jacket in his Ipswich home, a court hears. |
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Cnn.com |
4:57am PST |
Britney Spears now in hands of doctors |
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4:43am PST |
Official: Bombers were mentally disabled |
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Summary: A roadside bomb exploded at an animal market in Baghdad on Friday, killing at least five people and wounding 14 others, police said.
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BBC News |
4:43am PST |
MPs urged to declare family staff |
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Summary: Labour, Tory and Lib Dem MPs are all urged to declare family members working for them by their party leaders. |
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Yahoo News |
4:37am PST |
Snowstorm blankets Midwest, heads east
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Summary: AP - A huge storm that stretched from Texas to the Great Lakes blanketed the nation's midsection with snow, tying up air travel and making roads treacherous, and headed for the Northeast on Friday. |
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BBC News |
4:34am PST |
Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo |
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Summary: Microsoft offers to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn in cash and shares. |
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Yahoo News |
4:33am PST |
India works to resume Internet services
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Bandwidth providers shifted India's Internet traffic to cables under the Pacific Ocean on Friday and said that by day's end they expected service to be back to about 80 percent of its speed before two cables were cut beneath the Mediterranean Sea. |
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Yahoo News |
4:33am PST |
Tornado victims billed for cable damage
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Having a tornado demolish her home was bad enough. But weeks later when Ann Beam received a $2,000 cable bill for destroyed equipment, she was floored. |
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Yahoo News |
4:32am PST |
Knoblauch to testify at Congress today
(AP)
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Summary: AP - At least one person has been interviewed privately by congressional lawyers looking into Roger Clemens' denial of allegations in the Mitchell Report. Now the parade of players is set to begin. |
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Yahoo News |
4:30am PST |
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for 44.6 bln dlrs
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Microsoft said Friday it had offered to buy struggling Internet firm Yahoo for 44.6 billion dollars (30.0 billion euros) in cash and stock. |
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BBC News |
4:29am PST |
Teenager, 14, stabbed at school |
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Summary: Police investigate after a 14-year-old boy is stabbed at a school in Leeds. |
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Yahoo News |
4:24am PST |
Bombs kill at least 64 in bustling Baghdad markets
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Powerful bombs, one set off by a female suicide attacker, ripped through two bustling Baghdad markets on Friday and killed at least 64 people, scattering crowds and leaving a trail of body parts, officials and witnesses said. |
