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Cnn.com |
6:12am PST |
If you get hit by a bus tomorrow ... |
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Summary: Mark Balduzzi isn't old. He isn't sick. He isn't paranoid, either. But he's seen enough shootings, car accidents, and 52-car pile ups to know his life could end at any moment.
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BBC News |
6:09am PST |
'Time running out' for Oscar deal |
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Summary: Oscars bosses say they are "running out of time" in the race to stop the event being hit by the writers' strike. |
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Yahoo News |
6:07am PST |
Jobless claims decline
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The number of newly laid off workers filing applications for unemployment benefits dropped last week, but not enough to indicate that strains on the labor market are easing. |
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BBC News |
5:59am PST |
E.On to lift UK gas prices by 15% |
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Summary: E.On becomes the latest of the big energy firms to increase prices of gas and electricity. |
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Yahoo News |
5:57am PST |
Rice: Tough effort a must in Afghanistan
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has seen progress in Afghanistan during the past few years, despite a determined Taliban insurgency that has disrupted security and prompted concerns that the NATO-led military campaign is failing |
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Yahoo News |
5:53am PST |
Election monitors' boycott overshadows Kremlin race
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Russian President Vladimir Putin's chosen successor Thursday pledged to battle against corruption if he takes over the Kremlin, but his campaign was overshadowed by European monitors deciding to boycott next month's poll. |
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BBC News |
5:51am PST |
Sharia law in UK is 'unavoidable' |
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Summary: The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of Sharia law is "unavoidable" in the UK. |
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Yahoo News |
5:46am PST |
2 suspects arrested in Bhutto killing
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police arrested two more suspects Thursday in the suicide attack that killed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, an official said, as a team from Scotland Yard returned to Pakistan to report the conclusions of their probe into the assassination. |
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Yahoo News |
5:46am PST |
Police: Officer killed in LA standoff
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A man barricaded himself in a house after telling police he had killed three relatives, then exchanged gunfire with a SWAT team, police said Thursday. One officer was killed and another wounded. |
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Cnn.com |
5:30am PST |
SWAT officer killed during standoff |
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BBC News |
5:28am PST |
Murder accused 'deceived partner' |
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Summary: A man accused of murdering five women deceived his partner by paying for sex, a court hears. |
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BBC News |
5:25am PST |
Woman recalls model's body find |
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Summary: A court hears the moment the body of murdered teenage model Sally Anne Bowman was found. |
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BBC News |
5:23am PST |
Pregnant wife sees husband killed |
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Summary: A man was murdered in his bed in west Belfast in front of his pregnant wife, who later gave birth. |
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Cnn.com |
5:20am PST |
Families die together in night of twisters |
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BBC News |
5:17am PST |
Presenter acquitted of assault |
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Summary: BBC radio presenter Nigel Wrench is acquitted of two assault charges, but is still being tried for rape. |
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BBC News |
5:10am PST |
Rooftop protester cleared by jury |
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Summary: A protester who went on trial to air his grievances in a planning row is cleared of causing £30,000 damage. |
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Yahoo News |
5:10am PST |
Rice, Miliband in Afghanistan, urge more troops
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband met the Afghan
president and NATO commanders in Afghanistan on Thursday, in a
joint visit to press reluctant allies to share the combat
burden. |
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Yahoo News |
5:05am PST |
Southern towns look to cleanup, recovery
(AP)
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Summary: AP - County Mayor Shelvy Linville could only shake his head at the horrific toll left by a deadly series of tornadoes that pounded across the South. |
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Yahoo News |
4:54am PST |
Senate can't agree on stimulus package
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The fate of $600-$1,200 rebate checks for more than 100 million Americans is in limbo after Senate Republicans blocked a bid by Democrats to add $44 billion in help for the elderly, disabled veterans, the unemployed and businesses to the House-passed |
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Yahoo News |
4:42am PST |
Jolie in Iraq for UN refugee mission
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Angelina Jolie brought her star power to Baghdad Thursday on a mission as a U.N. goodwill ambassador to highlight the plight of Iraqi refugees. |
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Yahoo News |
4:41am PST |
Rice, Miliband push for more troops for Afghanistan
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Afghanistan warned Thursday of catastrophe if NATO abandoned its mission as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart flew into the heart of the Taliban insurgency. |
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Yahoo News |
4:41am PST |
Consumers can scan bank deposits at home
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Online banking service provider CheckFree Corp. is rolling out technology that could mean consumers will no longer have to go to a bank branch to deposit checks. |
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BBC News |
4:39am PST |
Top clubs consider overseas games |
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Summary: The English Premier League is considering playing some matches overseas, BBC Sport can reveal. |
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Yahoo News |
4:38am PST |
Google software makes it easier to share
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Google Inc. is introducing an online business software package designed to make it easier for people in the same organization to share documents and information. |
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BBC News |
4:36am PST |
Bank cuts interest rates to 5.25% |
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Summary: The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee cuts interest rates to 5.25% from 5.5%. |
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Yahoo News |
4:35am PST |
Chad calls for EU deployment as rebels regroup
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Chad's President Idriss Deby called
on the European Union on Thursday to deploy a peacekeeping
force urgently to the east after rebels who raided his capital
pulled back halfway towards the Sudan border. |
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Yahoo News |
4:32am PST |
McNamee's lawyers: Evidence backs client
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Brian McNamee and Roger Clemens both planned to be on Capitol Hill for a day of separate meetings and vastly different stories. |
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Cnn.com |
4:31am PST |
McCain to make his case with conservatives |
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Summary: GOP front-runner John McCain is heading to Washington to try to convince a conservative-rich conference that he's their man.
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BBC News |
4:27am PST |
Presenter is acquitted of assault |
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Summary: A BBC radio presenter is acquitted of two assault charges but is still being tried for raping a man. |
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Yahoo News |
4:25am PST |
Pakistan makes "important arrests" in Bhutto slaying
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pakistani authorities announced two
"important arrests" in the assassination of opposition leader
Benazir Bhutto on Thursday, as her husband issued a rallying
call to supporters ahead of an election his wife should have
fought. |
