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Yahoo News |
12:38pm PDT |
Pro-Tibet vigil held in Beijing
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Ethnic Tibetan students staged a
candle-lit vigil in Beijing on Monday, saying it was to pray
for the dead, after warning anti-Chinese rioters in the Tibetan
capital to surrender. |
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Yahoo News |
12:37pm PDT |
Obama, Clinton cite economic distress
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama urged the government Monday to cut middle class taxes this year to ease the spreading economic crisis, as he and rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized President Bush for failing to take the lead in addressing the n |
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Yahoo News |
12:36pm PDT |
Paterson: New York must move forward
(AP)
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Summary: AP - David Paterson was sworn in as New York's governor on Monday, becoming the state's first black chief executive and vowing to move past the prostitution scandal that has rocked the state Capitol. |
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Yahoo News |
12:33pm PDT |
Spears must pay $375,000 for K-Fed fees
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Britney Spears was ordered by a court commissioner Monday to pay ex-husband Kevin Federline $375,000 to cover his attorney fees in their child-custody dispute. |
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Yahoo News |
12:22pm PDT |
New York governor sworn in amid financial woes
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - New York Gov. David Paterson was sworn
in on Monday following the sex scandal that forced predecessor
Eliot Spitzer to resign, and he confronted a state budget
shortfall worsened by a faltering U.S. economy. |
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Cnn.com |
12:17pm PDT |
Paterson sworn in as New York governor |
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Summary: David Paterson was sworn in Monday as New York's 55th governor, following Eliot Spitzer's resignation amid his alleged connection to a prostitution ring.
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BBC News |
12:08pm PDT |
France honours last WWI veteran |
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Summary: President Sarkozy leads a national ceremony to honour France's last WWI veteran, who died last week. |
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Yahoo News |
12:04pm PDT |
Bomb attack kills more than 40 near Iraq Shiite shrine
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A bomb blast near a Shiite shrine in the central Iraq city of Karbala killed at least 43 people on Monday, the city's police chief said. |
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Yahoo News |
11:50am PDT |
Toll from NYC crane collapse hits 7
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The last of seven bodies has been pulled from the rubble at the site of a crane collapse in Manhattan. |
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Yahoo News |
11:42am PDT |
Female suicide attack kills 41 near Iraq Shiite shrine
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives-laden vest near a Shiite shrine killing at least 41 people on Monday in the central Iraqi city of Karbala, police and health officials told AFP. |
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Yahoo News |
11:35am PDT |
Bear fire sale sparks rout, Bush tries to calm
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A fire sale of Bear Stearns Cos Inc
stunned Wall Street and pummeled global financial
stocks on Monday on fears that few banks are safe from
deepening market turmoil. |
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Cnn.com |
11:33am PDT |
Online campus gossips won't show faces |
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Summary: Most people like gossip. Come on! You do too. Don't you glance every once in a while at US Weekly, In Touch, Page Six? And how about that Spitzer scandal -- even I can't get enough of that one.
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Yahoo News |
11:32am PDT |
Bear Stearns' demise sinks stocks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Stocks fell on Monday after JPMorgan
Chase agreed to buy Bear Stearns at a bargain
price and the Federal Reserve provided emergency cash to Wall
Street as the global credit crisis worsened. |
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BBC News |
11:22am PDT |
Minister in soldier inquests plea |
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Summary: Defence Secretary Des Browne asks that strongly-worded criticisms of the MoD be outlawed from inquests on soldiers. |
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Yahoo News |
11:20am PDT |
Zoo beasts must battle the bulge, too
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Gorillas on Weight Watchers? Polar bears slurping sugar-free Jell-O shots? Giraffes nibbling alfalfa biscuits? |
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Cnn.com |
11:17am PDT |
7th body pulled from crane collapse site |
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Summary: A fifth body has been pulled from the site where a crane collapsed Saturday on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, New York police said Monday.
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Cnn.com |
11:17am PDT |
6th body pulled from crane collapse site |
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Summary: A fifth body has been pulled from the site where a crane collapsed Saturday on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, New York police said Monday.
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BBC News |
11:16am PDT |
Dozens killed near Iraqi shrine |
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Summary: A female suicide bomber kills at least 42 people in the Iraqi city of Karbala, home to Shia Muslim shrines. |
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BBC News |
11:14am PDT |
Call to close offenders' centre |
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Summary: A controversial secure children's training centre should temporarily close, according to a watchdog. |
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Cnn.com |
11:07am PDT |
Wall Street timid after big bank sale |
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Summary: Stocks tumbled Monday afternoon as investors continued to mull Bear Stearns' fire sale and emergency moves by the Federal Reserve exacerbated fears about the fallout in financial markets.
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BBC News |
10:46am PDT |
France rejects right-to-die plea |
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Summary: A French woman with a severely disfiguring and incurable facial tumour has been refused the right to die. |
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Yahoo News |
10:40am PDT |
Pro-Tibet vigil held in Beijing as deadline nears
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Ethnic Tibetan students staged a
candle-lit vigil in Beijing on Monday, saying it was to pray
for the dead, hours before a midnight deadline warning
anti-Chinese rioters in the Tibetan capital to surrender. |
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BBC News |
10:33am PDT |
Markets rattled by bank worries |
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Summary: Stock markets across the globe slump after the emergency rescue of one of Wall Street's biggest banks. |
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Yahoo News |
10:21am PDT |
Paterson sworn in as NY governor
(AP)
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Summary: AP - David Paterson has become New York's first black governor. The Harlem Democrat took the oath of office just after 1 p.m. Monday in a ceremony at the state Capitol in Albany. Lawmakers in attendance cheered and chanted his name as he prepared to give |
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BBC News |
10:19am PDT |
New York's new governor sworn in |
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Summary: David Paterson is sworn in as New York state's governor, replacing Eliot Spitzer, who quit amid a sex scandal. |
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Yahoo News |
10:17am PDT |
Bomb kills 39 in Iraqi city of Karbala
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A female suicide bomber attacked a group of Shiite worshippers near a mosque in Karbala on Monday, killing at least 39 people and wounding 54, officials said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:14am PDT |
Female suicide attack kills 36 near Iraq Shiite shrine
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives-laden vest near a Shiite shrine killing at least 36 people on Monday in the central Iraqi city of Karbala, police and health officials told AFP. |
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Cnn.com |
10:12am PDT |
American film crew kept from China protests |
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Summary: Chinese authorities sequestered an American film crew in their hotel rooms so they would not see anti-government protests outside a Buddhist temple last week, a member of the crew said.
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Cnn.com |
10:07am PDT |
Female bomber detonates near Iraq shrine |
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Summary: An explosion killed at least 33 people and wounded at least 20 in Karbala on Monday, according to an interior ministry official.
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BBC News |
9:49am PDT |
Phorm 'illegal' says policy group |
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Summary: Controversial online advert system Phorm is illegal in the UK, a digital rights group argues. |
