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BBC News |
10:37am PDT |
Racing: All the Gold Cup action |
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Summary: Stablemates Kauto Star and Denman lead the field for Friday's Cheltenham Gold Cup. |
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BBC News |
10:37am PDT |
Kauto & Denman set for Gold Cup |
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Summary: Stablemates Kauto Star and Denman lead the field for Friday's Cheltenham Gold Cup. |
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Yahoo News |
10:32am PDT |
Billy Crystal strikes out as Yanks' DH
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Summary: AP - Billy Crystal struck out on a 3-2 pitch as the Yankees' leadoff batter and designated hitter in an exhibition game against the Pittsburgh Pirates today. |
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BBC News |
10:32am PDT |
Police inspector's body washed up |
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Summary: The body of a police inspector is found washed ashore at an expensive seaside resort nicknamed 'Millionaire's Row'. |
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BBC News |
10:22am PDT |
Beirut PM invited to Syria summit |
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Summary: Damascus invites Lebanon's anti-Syrian PM to a summit, despite a row over its role in Lebanon's political crisis. |
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BBC News |
10:19am PDT |
Life for pregnant woman's killer |
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Summary: A man is jailed for life for shooting dead a pregnant woman in an "execution" after a row between neighbours. |
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BBC News |
10:12am PDT |
Iceland whaling go-ahead 'likely' |
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Summary: Iceland's government is likely to approve the commercial hunting of whales for this summer, the BBC learns. |
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Yahoo News |
10:10am PDT |
Serbia calls snap vote over EU, Kosovo dispute
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Summary: AFP - Serbian President Boris Tadic dissolved parliament Thursday and called early elections for May 11, after the ruling coalition collapsed in a rift over ties with the EU and Kosovo's independence. |
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Cnn.com |
10:08am PDT |
Florida Dems devise primary do-over plan |
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Summary: Florida Democrats want a do-over, and state party officials have a proposal for recouping the 210 delegates that the Sunshine State lost when it moved its primary ahead of the approved time frame.
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Cnn.com |
10:08am PDT |
Chrysler to shut down for 2 weeks |
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BBC News |
10:01am PDT |
Salmond's Trump action 'cavalier' |
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Summary: A Holyrood committee criticises Alex Salmond's role in the Donald Trump golf resort affair. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00am PDT |
Berlusconi depicts election rival as Obama wannabe
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Silvio Berlusconi issued his party's
candidates for April's election with guidelines on how to face
the media on Thursday, advising them to describe his rival as a
lightweight who copies Barack Obama. |
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BBC News |
9:53am PDT |
Todd inquest hears of drink level |
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Summary: Manchester's police chief did not have "huge" amounts of alcohol in his body when he died, the coroner says. |
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Yahoo News |
9:49am PDT |
Kidnapped Iraq cleric found dead and al Qaeda blamed
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean
Catholic archbishop who was kidnapped last month, was found
dead on Thursday, his body half-buried in an empty lot in the
northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said. |
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BBC News |
9:48am PDT |
Democrats mull new Florida vote |
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Summary: Democratic leaders in Florida are set to propose holding a new presidential primary amid a dispute over the initial vote. |
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Yahoo News |
9:37am PDT |
Gates predicts big technological leaps
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday he expects the next decade to bring even greater technological leaps than the past 10 years. |
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Yahoo News |
9:35am PDT |
Stocks fall as dollar slides, gold jumps
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street fell but recovered from its worst levels Thursday after Standard & Poor's forecast that financial companies are nearing the end of the massive asset write-downs that have devasted the stock and credit markets for months. |
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BBC News |
9:21am PDT |
Rockstar is EA 'primary interest' |
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Summary: EA boss says developers Rockstar and its games is the primary interest of the firm's bid for Take Two games. |
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Yahoo News |
9:17am PDT |
Jackson Lawyer: Neverland Ranch saved
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Michael Jackson has refinanced Neverland ranch in time to save his famed California spread from a public auction that was scheduled for later this month. |
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Yahoo News |
9:15am PDT |
Senate backs some tax cuts, nixes others
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Senate on Thursday gave a sweeping endorsement to some of President Bush's tax cuts but rejected renewing others as all three major presidential candidates interrupted their campaigns to cast key votes on the budget. |
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BBC News |
9:03am PDT |
Cheltenham: Drever wins again |
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Summary: Inglis Drever puts in a majestic display to win his third World Hurdle title at the Cheltenham Festival. |
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BBC News |
9:03am PDT |
Cheltenham: Drever wins title |
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Summary: Inglis Drever puts in a majestic display to win his third World Hurdle title at the Cheltenham Festival. |
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BBC News |
8:58am PDT |
Man arrested over Heathrow alert |
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Summary: A major security alert is under way at Heathrow after a man with a rucksack ran into the path of an aircraft. |
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Cnn.com |
8:55am PDT |
Man detained near Heathrow runway |
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Summary: A man was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport on Wednesday after getting onto the runway, police said.
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Cnn.com |
8:54am PDT |
106 children taken from kin to go home |
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Summary: They marshaled presidents, sparked worldwide debate, and put an international peacekeeping force in jeopardy, but the biggest concern for 103 children stranded in an orphanage in remote eastern Chad is to return home.
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BBC News |
8:47am PDT |
'Happy slap' teenagers sentenced |
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Summary: Two teenagers are sentenced for beating a man to death in West Yorkshire while their 15-year-old accomplice filmed it. |
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BBC News |
8:43am PDT |
Stocks fall on weakening dollar |
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Summary: US shares fall sharply, hit by dollar weakness and the news that a billion-dollar fund is on the verge of collapse. |
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BBC News |
8:39am PDT |
Party leaders given a grilling |
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Summary: Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ian Paisley, Alex Salmond and Dafydd Elis Thomas are being quizzed by School Reporters. |
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Yahoo News |
8:39am PDT |
Kidnapped archbishop found dead: Iraqi official
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped last month in northern Iraq was found dead on Thursday, an Iraqi official said. |
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Cnn.com |
8:38am PDT |
Cannibalism forced on troops, Liberian aide says |
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