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BBC News |
5:40am PDT |
More time to quiz Shannon suspect |
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Summary: Police investigating how a nine-year-old girl went missing for three weeks are given more time to question a man. |
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Yahoo News |
5:37am PDT |
U.S. and Russia seek progress over missile shield
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
said she hoped talks in Moscow on Monday would set a positive
tone for relations with Russia's next president and ease
differences over a planned missile defense shield. |
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BBC News |
5:29am PDT |
NI company in £90m hospital deal |
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Summary: A Belfast-based company sells the world-renowned Cromwell Hospital in west London to Bupa for £90m. |
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Yahoo News |
5:28am PDT |
Bank agony, money squeeze batter stocks, dollar
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Global stocks fell sharply and the
dollar tumbled on Monday as a fire sale of Bear Stearns and an
emergency Federal Reserve cut of a key lending rate sparked
fears that a worldwide credit crisis will claim more
casualties. |
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Yahoo News |
5:22am PDT |
Vatican to issue conciliatory note to Jews: sources
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pope Benedict has approved a
conciliatory statement for Jews upset by a Good Friday prayer
that many saw as a call for their conversion, Catholic and
Jewish sources said on Monday. |
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Cnn.com |
5:15am PDT |
ABBA drummer dies in apparent accident |
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Summary: A drummer for the Swedish pop group ABBA has died after an apparent accident at his home in Spain, a Civil Guard spokeswoman said Monday.
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BBC News |
5:09am PDT |
New Grand Slam celebration plans |
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Summary: Rugby and assembly government officials draw up plans for another celebration of Wales' latest Grand Slam. |
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BBC News |
5:08am PDT |
Gas death parents 'want justice' |
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Summary: A family says it is pleased a holiday firm's employees will stand trial over their children's deaths in Corfu. |
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Yahoo News |
5:07am PDT |
Atlanta examines tornado damage
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Many streets were closed and some traffic lights were still out Monday morning because of a tornado that ripped a path of destruction through the city's core. Commuters to downtown were encouraged to stay home. |
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BBC News |
5:02am PDT |
Admissions breaches to be probed |
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Summary: An investigation into claims schools have been acting unlawfully over admissions is ordered. |
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BBC News |
5:00am PDT |
Abba drummer found dead |
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Summary: A former session drummer for Abba, Ola Brunkert, is found dead at his home in Spain with cuts to his throat. |
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BBC News |
4:54am PDT |
Leaky gut autism theory doubted |
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Summary: Study finds no evidence to back a theory linking autism to the leaking of damaging proteins from the gut. |
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Cnn.com |
4:50am PDT |
McCartney, Mills wait on divorce ruling |
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Summary: Former Beatle Paul McCartney may learn Monday how much of his fortune he will have to give his estranged wife, Heather Mills.
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Cnn.com |
4:49am PDT |
Wanted in stores: Your rebate check |
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Summary: The government's tax rebate stimulus is weeks away from your mailbox. But retailers worried about a consumer slowdown are already planning several ways for you to spend that windfall in their stores.
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Yahoo News |
4:45am PDT |
US stocks head for sharply lower open
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. stocks headed for a sharply lower open Monday as Wall Street and other global markets reeled from JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s government-backed buyout of faltering investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. |
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Yahoo News |
4:39am PDT |
NCAA tourney field yields few complaints
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The inexact science of putting together the NCAA tournament bracket turned out to be pretty exact this time around. No big beefs with the top seeds — North Carolina, Memphis, Kansas and UCLA. |
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Yahoo News |
4:35am PDT |
Cheney says Iraq changes "phenomenal, dramatic"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Vice President Dick Cheney, an architect
of the U.S-led invasion of Iraq, on Monday hailed "phenomenal
changes" in Iraq on a visit to assess the success of a troop
build-up five years after the war began. |
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Yahoo News |
4:34am PDT |
Space robot flexes arms for 1st time
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Astronauts flexed the giant arms of the international space station's new robot for the first time, testing the brakes and maneuvering the appendages into position for a Monday night spacewalk. |
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Yahoo News |
4:33am PDT |
China blocks YouTube over Tibet videos
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the popular U.S. video Web site. |
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Yahoo News |
4:32am PDT |
McCartney-Mills divorce ruling due today
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Paul McCartney arrived at court on Monday to learn how much of his huge fortune he must hand over to estranged wife Heather Mills. The rest of the world may have to wait a bit longer. |
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Yahoo News |
4:26am PDT |
Millions of bees loose on Calif. highway
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Millions of swarming honey bees are on the loose after a truck carrying crates of the insects flipped over on a California highway. |
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BBC News |
4:22am PDT |
Spears' ex-manager ban extended |
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Summary: Britney Spears' former manager agrees to stay away from the star for a further month, his spokesman says. |
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Cnn.com |
4:11am PDT |
Stocks set for puny start |
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Summary: Traders braced for a miserable start on Wall Street today with the sale of brokerage house Bear Stearns and emergency action by the Fed deepening fears about the health of the economy. CNNMoney.com reports Nasdaq and S&P futures are sharply lower, sug |
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Yahoo News |
4:02am PDT |
New NY governor set to take reins
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Welcome to Day One, take two. |
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BBC News |
3:57am PDT |
Blair 'wanted secret IRA talks' |
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Summary: Tony Blair offered to meet masked leaders of the IRA to try to save the NI peace process, an ex-aide says. |
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Yahoo News |
3:52am PDT |
Bank woes, money squeeze batter stocks and dollar
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Global stocks fell sharply and the
dollar tumbled on Monday as a fire sale of Bear Stearns and an
emergency Federal Reserve cut of a key lending rate sparked
fears that a worldwide credit crisis will claim more
casualties. |
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Yahoo News |
3:41am PDT |
Gates cautious about Russia talks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - It is up to the Russians to show they are not pursuing a "sham game" to thwart U.S. efforts to establish missile defense sites in Europe, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday. |
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Cnn.com |
3:41am PDT |
Stocks look set for puny start |
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Summary: Stocks looked set for a miserable start Monday as the distressed sale of Bear Stearns for only a fraction of its recent value and emergency action by the Federal Reserve deepened fears about the health of the financial sector.
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Yahoo News |
3:39am PDT |
U.S. and Russia seek way out of missile shield row
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Russia and the United States will seek a
way out of a dispute over Washington's planned missile defense
shield on Monday and try to lay the foundation of a good
relationship under Russia's next president. |
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Yahoo News |
3:30am PDT |
Bear Stearns crisis batters global stocks and dollar
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Global stocks sank and the dollar
tumbled on Monday as a fire sale of Bear Stearns and a Federal
Reserve emergency cut of a key lending rate sparked fears that
worldwide credit crisis will claim more casualties. |
