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BBC News |
3:29am PDT |
Markets slump on banking worries |
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Summary: European and Asian stock markets slump in reaction to the emergency sale of US bank Bear Stearns. |
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BBC News |
3:24am PDT |
China 'holds Tibetan dissidents' |
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Summary: Security forces in Tibet are rounding up dissidents, exiled Tibetans say, as Beijing steps up its rhetoric. |
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BBC News |
3:20am PDT |
UN police hurt in Kosovo blast |
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Summary: UN police withdraw from a Serb stronghold in Kosovo after violent clashes with protesters. |
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BBC News |
3:15am PDT |
Shannon relative still being held |
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Summary: Police investigating how a schoolgirl went missing for three weeks continue to question a distant relative. |
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BBC News |
3:10am PDT |
Poll suggests Iraqis 'optimistic' |
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Summary: A majority of Iraqis think their lives are good, more than at any time in the last three years, a survey indicates. |
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BBC News |
2:57am PDT |
Tories plan waste deals for firms |
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Summary: Major firms should be asked to sign up to voluntary "responsibility deals" to cut waste, the Tories say. |
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Yahoo News |
2:41am PDT |
Baghdad rocked as McCain, Cheney visit
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Explosions rocked Iraq's capital on Monday as Vice President Dick Cheney and Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain visited ahead of the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion. |
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BBC News |
2:40am PDT |
Private funeral for Carol Barnes |
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Summary: The funeral of former ITV newsreader Carol Barnes is due to take place in Sussex later, her agent says. |
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Yahoo News |
2:39am PDT |
China warns Tibetans, denies using deadly force
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China on Monday warned Tibetans involved in anti-Chinese protests to quickly surrender, and insisted it had not used deadly force in quelling the unrest, blaming rioters for murdering 13 people. |
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BBC News |
2:38am PDT |
Dollar slides to fresh euro low |
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Summary: The dollar hits another record low against the euro amid continued fears over the state of the US currency. |
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BBC News |
2:32am PDT |
Arrests after child's drug death |
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Summary: A two-year-old boy dies and his brother is being treated in hospital after consuming the drug methadone. |
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Yahoo News |
2:25am PDT |
JPMorgan to buy Bear, Fed opens lending to Wall St
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - JPMorgan Chase & Co set a deal to buy
stricken rival Bear Stearns for a rock-bottom price, while the
U.S. Federal Reserve expanded lending to securities firms for
the first time since the Great Depression to prop up the
financial system. |
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Yahoo News |
2:23am PDT |
Paterson to become 55th NY governor
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Welcome to Day One, take two. |
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Yahoo News |
2:18am PDT |
FBI presence in bombed Pakistan diner adds to murk
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pakistani police carried out a
dragnet following a bomb attack on Saturday night that killed a
Turkish woman and wounded four FBI agents among several other
people dining at a Italian restaurant in Islamabad. |
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BBC News |
2:16am PDT |
Mother's plea after party chaos |
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Summary: The mother of a girl whose 18th birthday was invaded by 2,000 revellers urges the BBC to review its "shout out" policy. |
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Yahoo News |
2:12am PDT |
Official: 16 dead in Tibet riots
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tibet's governor promised leniency to anti-Chinese protesters who turned themselves in before the end of Monday — and harsh consequences for those who don't — while troops fanned out to quell sympathy protests that have spread to three neighboring pr |
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Yahoo News |
2:04am PDT |
No real surprise in tourney field
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The coach of the most aggrieved team to miss the NCAA tournament refused to play the victim card. |
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Yahoo News |
2:03am PDT |
Hundreds dead in Tibet unrest: parliament-in-exile
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Hundreds of Tibetans have died in unrest in Lhasa and elsewhere in the Chinese-ruled Himalayan region, the India-based Tibetan parliament-in-exile said in a statement Monday. |
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BBC News |
1:50am PDT |
Markets plummet on banking woes |
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Summary: European and Asian stock markets slump in reaction to the emergency sale of US bank Bear Stearns. |
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Yahoo News |
1:37am PDT |
China says using restraint to quell Tibet unrest
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China said on Monday it had shown great
restraint in the face of violent protests by Tibetans, which it
said were orchestrated by followers of the Dalai Lama seeking
to wreck the Beijing Olympics in August. |
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BBC News |
1:34am PDT |
Rescue for troubled Wall St bank |
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Summary: JPMorgan Chase is to acquire ailing US bank Bear Stearns for $2 a share, a fraction of its previous value. |
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BBC News |
1:29am PDT |
Kenya poll violence 'was planned' |
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Summary: Kenya's post-election violence was meticulously planned by local leaders, says Human Rights Watch. |
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Yahoo News |
1:17am PDT |
Landlords find deals in housing crisis
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. housing crisis and
credit crunch may end the American dream of property ownership
for millions of people, but for landlords seeking bargain
investment properties the market is looking up. |
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BBC News |
1:16am PDT |
Football: Owen 'can keep us up' |
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Summary: Newcastle boss Kevin Keegan believes striker Michael Owen is the key to his side's Premier League survival hopes. |
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BBC News |
1:16am PDT |
Football: Magpies' 'biggest' game |
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Summary: Newcastle's Premier League match with fellow strugglers Birmingham is the biggest in the club's recent history, says keeper Steve Harper. |
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Yahoo News |
1:13am PDT |
Pakistan parliament hostile to Musharraf meets
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Pakistan's new parliament met on Monday, setting the stage for a showdown between key US ally President Pervez Musharraf and a coalition government that immediately vowed to take him on. |
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Yahoo News |
1:12am PDT |
Rio Grande hand ferry evokes lost age on U.S. border
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A trip across the Rio Grande
on a hand-operated ferry is a brief one. It covers about 70
yards but it takes you back 70 years to a different era on the
U.S.-Mexico border. |
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Yahoo News |
1:02am PDT |
Serbs clash with U.N. and NATO in north Kosovo
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hundreds of Serbs in north
Kosovo clashed with U.N. police and NATO peacekeepers on Monday
in the worst violence in the territory since the Albanian
majority declared independence last month. |
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Cnn.com |
12:42am PDT |
Cheney to talk with Iraqi leaders on surprise visit |
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Summary: Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Baghdad on Monday on an unannounced visit, the Iraqi prime minister's office said.
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Yahoo News |
12:40am PDT |
Brother: Man blames ricin for illness
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A man who has been hospitalized since Valentine's Day with respiratory ailments and failing kidneys told his brother he believes he was contaminated by the deadly ricin poison found in his Las Vegas motel room. |
