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BBC News |
5:45am PST |
EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn |
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Summary: The European Union fines Microsoft for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour. |
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Yahoo News |
5:41am PST |
EU fines Microsoft record $1.35 billion
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Microsoft was fined a record
899 million euros ($1.35 billion) by the European Commission on
Wednesday for using high prices to discourage software
competition in the latest sanction in their long-running
battle. |
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BBC News |
5:41am PST |
Dead man left murder confession |
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Summary: An elderly man who died of cancer left a confession to a murder unsolved for almost 38 years, police reveal. |
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BBC News |
5:40am PST |
Mother-to-be murder trial opens |
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Summary: A man goes on trial accused of killing a pregnant woman who was shot outside her home in south-west London. |
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BBC News |
5:39am PST |
Cabinet record 'should be secret' |
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Summary: The government should not release minutes of cabinet meetings, a former JIC chairman says. |
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Yahoo News |
5:39am PST |
Dutch lawmaker says anti-Koran film almost finished
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A politician making an anti-Koran
film that has stirred Muslim outrage, brought him death threats
and alarmed the Dutch government said on Wednesday the movie
would be finished this week. |
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BBC News |
5:29am PST |
US cautions Pakistan over Taleban |
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Summary: The US says any new government in Pakistan should be wary of holding talks with pro-Taleban militants. |
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BBC News |
5:25am PST |
Hayden rebuked for Harbhajan slur |
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Summary: Matthew Hayden is reprimanded by Cricket Australia after calling Harbhajan Singh an "obnoxious weed". |
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Yahoo News |
5:18am PST |
Patched up U.S. embassy reopens in Belgrade
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States embassy in Belgrade
reopened on Wednesday, its windows cracked and facade blackened
from a fire that Serbs started last week in protest against
U.S. support for Kosovo's independence. |
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Yahoo News |
5:07am PST |
Help hard to get for troubled home owners
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - As the housing crisis deepens, major
lenders say they will help borrowers avoid foreclosure, but
nonprofit groups and others say their actions are not living up
to their promises. |
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Cnn.com |
5:06am PST |
Snake eats family dog as kids watch |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
4:58am PST |
Sports execs to talk steroids in D.C.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The commissioners of the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball, the union leaders for those leagues, and other sports officials head to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a House subcommittee hearing on steroids. |
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BBC News |
4:56am PST |
Colombia hostage mission begins |
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Summary: Venezuelan helicopters take off hoping to collect four Colombian hostages set to be freed by rebels. |
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BBC News |
4:56am PST |
Parliament rooftop protest ends |
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Summary: A protest on the roof of Parliament against the expansion of Heathrow Airport ends after three hours. |
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Cnn.com |
4:48am PST |
Martin: Switching churches brought growth |
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Summary: It was a hot and muggy night in June 1999 as I drove down the nearly vacant highways of Houston. The temperature had been climbing all across the city. To my left was the eight wonder of the world, known in Space City (Houston, Texas) as the Astrodome. An |
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Yahoo News |
4:42am PST |
Oil hits record $102 as dollar tumbles
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Oil prices broke through a new intraday high of $102 a barrel Wednesday as a slide in the U.S. dollar prompted investors to pump more money into energy futures as a hedge against inflation. |
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Yahoo News |
4:41am PST |
Michael Jackson's Neverland auction set
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Want Michael Jackson's merry-go-round? How about his locomotive, or his curtains? Those items and more could hit the auction block next month as the pop star's Neverland Ranch will be put up for public sale unless he pays the more than $24 million he |
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Yahoo News |
4:41am PST |
Ore. mayor poses in underwear, loses job
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The mayor of an Oregon town who once stripped to her underwear and posed on a fire truck has been stripped of her office. |
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Yahoo News |
4:40am PST |
Turkey steps up Iraq onslaught as US calls for quick pull-out
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Turkish forces stepped up their offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, as the United States warned Wednesday that the incursion should not last more than "a week or two." |
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BBC News |
4:39am PST |
Many teenage boys fail test grade |
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Summary: Four in 10 boys aged 14 in England did not get Level 5 in English, maths and science tests last year. |
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Cnn.com |
4:36am PST |
Can you name the 11 planets? |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
4:24am PST |
Girl killed in school bus crash |
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Summary: A teenager dies and eight others are injured in a collision between a school bus and a lorry in County Tyrone. |
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BBC News |
4:15am PST |
Weaknesses ahead for UK economy |
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Summary: The UK economy grew by 0.6% in the last three months of 2007, figures confirm, but consumer spending slowed. |
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Yahoo News |
4:12am PST |
Musharraf's rivals vow to banish army from politics
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pakistani opposition parties which
inflicted a crushing defeat on President Pervez Musharraf's
allies in last week's election vowed on Wednesday to banish the
military from politics. |
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Yahoo News |
4:09am PST |
2 Polish soldiers killed in Afghanistan
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A roadside bomb killed two Polish soldiers patrolling in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, while NATO announced the seizure of $400 million in opium in the south. |
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Yahoo News |
3:53am PST |
EU fines Microsoft record $1.3 billion
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The European Union fined Microsoft Corp. a record $1.3 billion Wednesday for the amount it charges rivals for software information. |
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Yahoo News |
3:43am PST |
Turkish troops kill 77 Kurdish rebels
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Turkish troops have killed 77 Kurdish rebels in night-long clashes in northern Iraq, the military said Wednesday. Five soldiers were also killed. |
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BBC News |
3:41am PST |
MPs call for Jersey abuse inquiry |
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Summary: The government is being urged to hold an independent inquiry into alleged child abuse in Jersey. |
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BBC News |
3:39am PST |
Brothers jailed for killing woman |
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Summary: Two brothers who beat a restaurant owner to death during a burglary are jailed for a minimum of 35 years. |
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BBC News |
3:35am PST |
Drug suspect assets to be seized |
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Summary: Suspected drug dealers could have their assets seized on arrest, rather than charge, under a new 10-year plan. |
