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Yahoo News |
6:26am PDT |
Consumers retrench in February as recession looms
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Consumers clammed up on spending in
February and the labor market continued to weaken as the
economy teeters on the brink of recession, government data on
Thursday showed. |
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Cnn.com |
6:22am PDT |
Grip a pediatrician's facts, let the opinions go |
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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 |
6:22am PDT |
Skip church; confess on ivescrewedup.com |
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Summary: If you can pay for your bills online, why not pay for your sins?
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Cnn.com |
6:22am PDT |
Forgive us father, we'd rather go online |
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Summary: If you can pay for your bills online, why not pay for your sins?
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BBC News |
6:22am PDT |
Kidnapped Iraqi archbishop dead |
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Summary: The Chaldean Catholic archbishop in Iraq who was kidnapped last month, Paulos Faraj Rahho, is found dead. |
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Yahoo News |
6:17am PDT |
Consumers retrench in Feb as recession looms
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Consumers clammed up on spending in
February and the labor market continued to weaken as the
economy teeters on the brink of recession, government data on
Thursday showed. |
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Yahoo News |
6:13am PDT |
Warplanes, rockets end Gaza lull
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Israeli warplanes hit Hamas-run Gaza Thursday after militants rattled the Jewish state with rocket fire, ending a five-day lull and threatening efforts to push forward Middle East peace talks. |
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Yahoo News |
6:12am PDT |
Shuttle and station crews meet, greet and get to work
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Astronauts from space shuttle Endeavour
and the International Space Station greeted one another with
hugs and smiles on Thursday to begin a joint 12-day mission to
install a Japanese laboratory and Canadian robotic system. |
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BBC News |
6:11am PDT |
Canoe man admits deception |
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Summary: Canoeist John Darwin, who was missing presumed dead for five years, admits seven charges of deception. |
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BBC News |
6:11am PDT |
Bravery boy recalls stab ordeal |
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Summary: A nine-year-old boy tells how he went to his mother's aid as an armed intruder tried to stab her to death. |
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Cnn.com |
6:05am PDT |
Archbishop found dead in Iraq, official says |
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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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Cnn.com |
6:00am PDT |
Dow looks set for another selloff |
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Summary: Stocks looked set for another selloff Thursday as nagging fears about credit and the threat of a deep recession troubled investors and sent the dollar plunging.
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Yahoo News |
5:55am PDT |
Kidnapped Iraq archbishop dead: Church officials
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Catholic
archbishop who was kidnapped in Iraq last month, has been found
dead, Church officials in Rome and Baghdad said on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
5:53am PDT |
Retail sales plunge by 0.6 percent
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Consumers, battered by plunging home prices and a credit crunch, stayed away from the malls in February, pushing retail sales down by a larger-than-expected amount. It was another worrisome sign that the country could be falling into a recession. |
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BBC News |
5:51am PDT |
Second man remanded in Goa |
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Summary: A second man arrested over the death of British teenager Scarlett Keeling in Goa is remanded in custody. |
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Cnn.com |
5:39am PDT |
Kids cleared in Skittles caper |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
5:33am PDT |
Pakistan protests at US shelling |
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Summary: Pakistan criticises US forces in Afghanistan for cross-border shelling that it says killed two women and two children. |
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Yahoo News |
5:27am PDT |
Iraq: Car bomb kills 11 in Baghdad
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad Thursday, killing 11 people and wounding 57, police said. |
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BBC News |
5:26am PDT |
UK commitment to Iraq 'absolute' |
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Summary: Defence Secretary Des Browne says the UK's commitment to Iraq remains "absolute", during a visit to Baghdad. |
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Yahoo News |
5:18am PDT |
U.S. passion for guns has roots in hunting
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The life-sized stuffed animals at
the massive Cabela's store in Fort Worth can give the
impression of being in a natural history museum. |
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BBC News |
5:13am PDT |
Hedge fund on verge of collapse |
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Summary: A unit of private equity firm Carlyle Capital faces collapse after failing to pay back lender banks. |
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Yahoo News |
5:07am PDT |
Stock futures sink ahead of opening
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street headed for a sharply lower opening Thursday, following the example of markets around the world as the dollar continued its descent and worries about the U.S. economy reasserted themselves. |
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Yahoo News |
5:05am PDT |
Rockets hit Israel after West Bank raid
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Islamic Jihad fired rockets into Israel
from the Gaza Strip on Thursday after an Israeli raid in the
occupied West Bank, in renewed violence that threatened
prospects for an Egyptian-brokered truce. |
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BBC News |
5:05am PDT |
Second man in court over Goa girl |
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Summary: A second man arrested over the death of British teenager Scarlett Keeling in Goa is remanded in custody. |
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Yahoo News |
4:57am PDT |
EU, U.S. defuse crisis over visas -- for now
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The European Union and the
United States agreed on Thursday to defuse a crisis over visa
deals by allowing talks between Washington and individual EU
states to run in parallel with EU-U.S. negotiations. |
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Yahoo News |
4:51am PDT |
Car bomb kills 8 in Baghdad
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A parked car bomb that exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad killed eight people and wounded 41 on Thursday, police said. |
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BBC News |
4:47am PDT |
Man is questioned over gun murder |
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Summary: A 34-year-old man is being questioned about the killing of Martin Morgan in Antrim last July. |
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Yahoo News |
4:45am PDT |
New color $5 bills come out today
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Abraham Lincoln is getting a little color in his cheeks. New $5 bills bearing the gaunt visage of the nation's 16th president — but with some touches of color added — are making their way to banks and cash registers near you. |
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Cnn.com |
4:44am PDT |
Boyfriend: Woman stayed in bathroom 2 years |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
4:41am PDT |
Iraqi police raid Mehdi Army strongholds
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iraqi police raided strongholds of
Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army in the southern
city of Kut on Wednesday after the militia broke a ceasefire
and clashed with security forces a day earlier. |
