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BBC News |
8:32am PDT |
Widow's tribute to police chief |
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Summary: The widow of Michael Todd says he was a "loving father and husband", as his inquest is opened and adjourned. |
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BBC News |
8:32am PDT |
No 10 denies Mandelson EU rethink |
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Summary: Peter Mandelson is not expected to serve another term as EU commissioner, Downing Street says. |
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Yahoo News |
8:25am PDT |
Stocks swoon as dollar falls, gold jumps
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks tumbled Thursday as investors recoiled at a further decline in the dollar, spikes in gold and oil prices and a warning that a Carlyle Group fund is near collapse. The major indexes each lost more than 1 percent; the Dow Jones industrial averag |
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Cnn.com |
8:17am PDT |
Could John Ritter have been saved? |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
8:17am PDT |
Question doctors' sleep, nipple mix-up advice |
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Summary: At some point during last month's well-baby checkup for her son Isaac, Kamila McGinnis stopped listening to her pediatrician.
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Cnn.com |
8:17am PDT |
Question doctor's sleep, nipple mix-up advice |
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Summary: At some point during last month's well-baby checkup for her son Isaac, Kamila McGinnis stopped listening to her pediatrician.
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Cnn.com |
8:17am PDT |
When your gut is better than the pediatrician |
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Summary: At some point during last month's well-baby checkup for her son Isaac, Kamila McGinnis stopped listening to her pediatrician.
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Yahoo News |
8:15am PDT |
No one votes in Florida election
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Every vote counts. But what happens when there are no votes at all? That's the situation city officials in Tamarac are facing. No voters showed up Wednesday night to cast a ballot in an annexation referendum for an unincorporated Broward County commu |
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Cnn.com |
8:15am PDT |
FBI misused letters to snoop, report says |
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Summary: The Justice Department's inspector general will release a report Thursday detailing more problems with the way the FBI used an investigative tool called national security letters.
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BBC News |
8:11am PDT |
Child rapist jailed for 11 years |
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Summary: A man who told a four-year-old girl he would kill her family if she did not perform sex acts is jailed. |
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BBC News |
8:09am PDT |
Gretna edging closer to closure |
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Summary: Gretna's administrator says the ailing club's situation has deteriorated and it may be impossible to play on Saturday. |
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BBC News |
8:09am PDT |
Football: Gretna closer to closure |
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Summary: Gretna's administrator says the ailing club's situation has deteriorated and it may be impossible to play on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:08am PDT |
AOL to pay $850M for social network Bebo
(AP)
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Summary: AP - AOL said Thursday it will pay $850 million to acquire the online hangout Bebo, giving the struggling Internet company a foothold in an expanding business. |
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BBC News |
8:07am PDT |
Proposal for 11 new NI councils |
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Summary: The Northern Ireland Executive agrees on a compromise proposal to create 11 new councils. |
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Yahoo News |
8:00am PDT |
Billy Crystal to hit leadoff for Yanks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - No joke: Billy Crystal is leading off for the New York Yankees. The comedian was put in the top spot for Thursday's exhibition game, listed as the designated hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates. |
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Yahoo News |
7:54am PDT |
Schilling placed on 60-day DL
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Boston Red Sox have placed Curt Schilling on the 60-day disabled list as he continues to rehabilitate his right shoulder. |
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Cnn.com |
7:49am PDT |
UNC suspect booked in Duke student killing |
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Summary: Police arrested a second suspect early Thursday in connection with the death of University of North Carolina student Eve Carson.
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Yahoo News |
7:49am PDT |
Paulson: Time to toughen rules on mortgage brokers
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on
Thursday issued a call for U.S. financial institutions to raise
capital quickly so they can keep lending, and pledged tougher
rules for the mortgage industry. |
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Cnn.com |
7:43am PDT |
Archbishop's body found after ransom talks stop |
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Summary: A Christian archbishop kidnapped in northern Iraq last month has been found dead, according to a Nineveh province deputy governor in the town of Mosul.
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BBC News |
7:34am PDT |
Man guilty of Krystal murder |
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Summary: A man is convicted of shooting dead a pregnant woman outside her home in south London. |
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Yahoo News |
7:32am PDT |
Bush says would veto House eavesdropping bill
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush, locked in
a battle with Congress over eavesdropping legislation, said on
Thursday the House of Representatives version of the bill was
"unwise" and he would veto it. |
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Yahoo News |
7:23am PDT |
UNC suspect charged in Duke killing
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A suspect in the slaying of a popular University of North Carolina student was charged Thursday with the killing of a graduate student at Duke University, authorities said. |
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Cnn.com |
7:21am PDT |
Stocks get battered |
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Summary: Stocks slumped Thursday morning, as investors eyed record high oil and gold prices, the dollar at an all-time low versus the euro, weak retail sales and the potential collapse of mortgage bond fund Carlyle Capital.
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Yahoo News |
7:07am PDT |
Chaldean archbishop kidnapped in Iraq 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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Yahoo News |
6:56am PDT |
String of economic woes sink stocks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks pulled back early Thursday as investors grappled with further declines in the dollar, a spike in oil and gold prices and as the investment fund Carlyle Capital appeared close to collapse. The major indexes each lost more than 1 percent, with t |
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BBC News |
6:39am PDT |
Widow in tribute to police chief |
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Summary: The widow of Michael Todd says he was a "loving father and husband", as details of his alleged affair emerge. |
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BBC News |
6:39am PDT |
Gold hits $1,000 for first time |
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Summary: The price of gold hits new heights, trading at $1,000 an ounce for the first time, spurred by a weak US dollar. |
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Cnn.com |
6:32am PDT |
Stocks sink at open |
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Summary: U.S. stocks fell at Thursday's open due to a potent mix of a weak economy and record prices for gold and oil.
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BBC News |
6:32am PDT |
Arrests over cash machine thefts |
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Summary: Thirteen people are arrested in connection with the theft of more than £2.2m from cash machines across England, police say. |
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BBC News |
6:31am PDT |
AOL acquires Bebo social network |
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Summary: Time Warner's AOL internet division is buying the social networking site Bebo for $850m (£417m). |
