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11:44am PST |
Cannibal killer convicted in minutes |
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11:19am PST |
Reds' Alex Gonzalez has broken knee
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Summary: AP - Cincinnati Reds shortstop Alex Gonzalez has a broken knee. Team physician Dr. Timothy Kremchek examined Gonzalez on Friday and said the infielder has a compression fracture on his left knee. Gonzalez will be evaluated again in three weeks. |
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11:11am PST |
Ranger: Even baby elephants to die |
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11:07am PST |
Gas prices straining budgets, readers say |
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Summary: Rising gas prices are hitting CNN.com readers in the wallet, and many say they are staying in and scaling back spending to try to keep up.
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10:56am PST |
Bomb kills 35 at Pakistan funeral
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Summary: AP - A suicide bomber attacked the funeral for a slain police officer in Pakistan's volatile Swat Valley, killing at least 35 people and wounding 62 others, police said. |
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10:55am PST |
Stocks lose ground amid economic woes
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Summary: AP - Stocks fell sharply Friday after a series of economic and earnings reports and a further rise in oil prices stoked concerns about the health of economy. The major stock indexes fell more than 1.5 percent, with the Dow Jones industrials giving up more |
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10:54am PST |
Study finds dogs, robots cheer elderly
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Summary: AP - Dogs may have a hard time wrapping their paws around this one: Robotic competition is nipping at their heels in the man's-best-friend department. |
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10:40am PST |
Man in coma after ricin exposure |
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Summary: Police in Las Vegas are investigating the discovery of what they said is the deadly poison ricin in a hotel room. Preliminary tests show the substance is ricin, authorities said, but other tests to confirm it are under way.
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10:38am PST |
Pakistan: Scores dead in funeral explosion |
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Summary: An explosion at the funeral Friday of a district police officer killed earlier in the day in northwest Pakistan has killed 30 people and injured between 50 and 55, province police said.
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10:38am PST |
Jury takes minutes to convict cannibal killer |
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10:26am PST |
Football: Fifa block Cousin move |
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Summary: Football's governing body Fifa blocks Rangers striker Daniel Cousin's proposed £3m move to Fulham. |
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10:24am PST |
Clinton hits Obama with ad questioning experience
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton questioned rival Barack Obama's experience in
handling a national security crisis on Friday as polls showed
her losing ground to Obama ahead of Tuesday's contests in Texas
and Ohio. |
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10:11am PST |
Mugabe dubs poll rivals 'witches' |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe launches election campaign by calling his rivals a group of "witches and charlatans". |
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10:03am PST |
Sewer workers are poisoned by gas |
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Summary: Safety at the Belfast sewers project is reviewed after four workers are treated for carbon monoxide poisoning. |
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9:59am PST |
Clintons bank on '70s alliances to win Texas |
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Summary: Garry Mauro will never forget that night in 1972 when he says Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham ignored the post-election party surrounding them in Austin, Texas, and huddled in a corner to talk about changing the future. It was in Texas that the New York s |
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9:55am PST |
Berlin gallery in Islam art row |
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Summary: A Berlin art gallery closes an exhibition where one poster made fun of Islam's holiest shrine. |
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9:54am PST |
Suicide bomb at Pakistan funeral |
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Summary: At least 27 people are reported killed in a suicide attack on a police funeral in Pakistan. |
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9:49am PST |
Bomb kills 30 at Pakistan funeral
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Summary: AP - A suicide bombing at a funeral for a police officer killed at least 30 people and wounded 62 others Friday in northwestern Pakistan, a police official said. |
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9:40am PST |
Jury hears John Ritter's final message |
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9:40am PST |
AT&T pays for 'free' ringtones |
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9:40am PST |
Toxin ricin found in Las Vegas hotel room
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Summary: Reuters - Ricin, a deadly poison, was
discovered in a hotel room in Las Vegas but is not thought to
be terrorism related, police and FBI officials said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
9:34am PST |
'Genius' exam cheat spared jail |
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Summary: An ex-banker and the student he helped to cheat in exams at York University are given suspended jail sentences. |
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9:29am PST |
Hiker's killer faces death penalty in new case |
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Summary: Florida prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against Gary Michael Hilton, who already is serving a life sentence in Georgia for killing a young woman he met hiking on New Year's Day.
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9:28am PST |
Space shuttle Endeavour cleared for March 11 launch
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Summary: Reuters - NASA managers on Friday
cleared the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour for lift-off on March
11 on the first of three flights to deliver a huge Japanese
research complex to the International Space Station. |
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9:12am PST |
UK gets new immigration system |
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Summary: The government launches the first stage of a new points-based system for migrants from outside the EU. |
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9:06am PST |
Treatment for ill baby after plea |
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Summary: An ill baby will receive vital treatment despite the drug not being sanctioned for funding in Scotland. |
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8:56am PST |
Treasury secretary wants to dump pennies
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Summary: AP - A penny for your thoughts? Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson thinks the answer to that question should be not much. In fact, if he had his way, he would like to get rid of the penny. |
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8:55am PST |
Killer poison, low-budget hotel mystify cops |
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Summary: Police in Las Vegas are investigating the discovery of what they said is the deadly poison ricin in a hotel room. Preliminary tests show the substance is ricin, authorities said, but other tests to confirm it are under way.
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BBC News |
8:52am PST |
Anger over grubby nurses 'slur' |
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Summary: A hospital and a government minister attack a peer who said nurses at Bath's RUH are grubby, drunken and promiscuous. |
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8:51am PST |
Stocks decline amid economic worries
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Summary: AP - Stocks fell sharply Friday after a series of economic and earnings reports and a further rise in oil prices stoked concerns about the health of economy. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 200 points, or more than 1.5 percent. |
