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BBC News |
8:30am PDT |
Hair rejoins ICC elite umpires |
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Summary: Umpire Darrell Hair is reinstated to the ICC elite panel of umpires. |
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Yahoo News |
8:28am PDT |
Dow jumps 270 ahead of expected rate cut
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street barreled higher Tuesday as investors found relief in better-than-expected results from Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, and anticipated a massive interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones industrial average surged more t |
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BBC News |
8:23am PDT |
Director Minghella dies aged 54 |
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Summary: The Oscar-winning British film director Anthony Minghella has died at the age of 54, his agent says. |
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Yahoo News |
8:23am PDT |
Obama confronts racial division in US
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday tried to stem damage from divisive comments delivered by his pastor, while bluntly addressing anger between blacks and whites in the most racially pointed speech yet of his presidential campaign. |
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Yahoo News |
8:22am PDT |
Fed poised to slash rates even as jitters ease
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Federal Reserve
policy-makers opened a meeting on Tuesday that was expected to
lead to the biggest one-day cut in interest rates since 1982,
as two major Wall Street firms provided some relief to markets
with better-than-expected earnings. |
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Yahoo News |
8:21am PDT |
AP Poll: Stress pains many in college
(AP)
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Summary: AP - College kids are so frazzled they can't sleep or eat. Or study. Good grief, they're even anxious about spring break. |
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BBC News |
8:16am PDT |
NHS trust's '£2m Welsh subsidy' |
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Summary: The head of an NHS trust in England tells MPs it is subsidising Welsh patients to the tune of £2m a year. |
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Yahoo News |
8:13am PDT |
China: Dalai Lama wants to sour Olympics
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Premier Wen Jiabao accused the Dalai Lama of orchestrating violent clashes to taint the Beijing Olympics, saying Tuesday that the Nobel Peace laureate was provoking violence to promote Tibetan independence. |
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Yahoo News |
8:09am PDT |
SocGen trader Kerviel leaves jail
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Jerome Kerviel, the Frenchman blamed by
his company for the world's biggest rogue trading scandal, left
jail on Tuesday after winning a legal battle against detention. |
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Yahoo News |
8:08am PDT |
Delta to offer severance to 30,000
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Delta Air Lines said Tuesday it will offer voluntary severance payouts to roughly 30,000 employees — more than half its work force — and cut domestic capacity by an extra 5 percent this year as part of an overhaul of its business plan to deal with so |
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BBC News |
8:06am PDT |
Shooting rocks main Afghan prison |
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Summary: Afghan security forces seal off the country's main high-security prison after days of unrest there. |
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Yahoo News |
8:05am PDT |
Supreme Court gun case draws protesters
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Advocates of gun rights and opponents of gun violence demonstrated outside the Supreme Court Tuesday while inside, justices heard arguments over the meaning of the Second Amendment's "right to keep and bear arms." |
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Cnn.com |
8:02am PDT |
Obama: Constitution stained by 'sin of slavery' |
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Summary: The United States Constitution "was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery," Sen. Barack Obama said today. His speech comes after spending the weekend on the defensive over racially charged statements from his former minister.
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BBC News |
7:58am PDT |
US court hearing key gun law case |
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Summary: The Supreme Court considers Washington DC's gun laws, in a landmark case about Americans' right to bear arms. |
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Cnn.com |
7:57am PDT |
Delta offers severance to 30,000 |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
7:55am PDT |
Debut A380 flight lands in London |
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Summary: The first European commercial flight of the Airbus A380 "super-jumbo" lands at Heathrow Airport. |
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BBC News |
7:49am PDT |
Officer unlawfully killed family |
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Summary: A police inspector unlawfully killed his wife and mother-in-law before killing himself, an coroner rules. |
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Yahoo News |
7:45am PDT |
Dalai Lama denies Chinese charges over Tibet riots
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China accused the Dalai Lama on Tuesday
of orchestrating Tibetan riots to wreck Beijing's Olympic
Games, but the exiled spiritual leader denied the charge and
vowed to stand down if the violence spiraled out of control. |
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Yahoo News |
7:41am PDT |
McCain: Iran's influence on the rise
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting, expressed fresh concern Tuesday about Iran's influence in Iraq and rising sway in Mideast. |
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BBC News |
7:21am PDT |
UN officer dies after Kosovo riot |
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Summary: A Ukrainian policeman injured in clashes between Kosovo Serbs and international forces dies of his wounds. |
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BBC News |
7:21am PDT |
'Toxic cycle' of family breakdown |
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Summary: Underachievement and increasing family breakdown is holding society back, teachers say. |
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Yahoo News |
7:19am PDT |
Russia, U.S. fail to agree on missile shield
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Russia and the United States failed on
Tuesday to agree on Washington's plans to deploy parts of a
missile defense shield in eastern Europe. |
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Yahoo News |
7:10am PDT |
Paulson admits U.S. economy in sharp decline
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson on Tuesday described the economy as being in "sharp
decline," the closest he has come yet to conceding an
election-year recession has set in. |
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Yahoo News |
7:09am PDT |
Dow jumps 200 in opening minutes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks rallied Tuesday as investors, relieved by better-than-expected results from Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, also anticipated a massive interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones industrial average surged more than 200 points. |
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BBC News |
7:04am PDT |
'Happy slap' girl sentenced |
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Summary: A girl who filmed a man being kicked to death in a so-called "happy slapping" incident is sentenced. |
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Yahoo News |
7:04am PDT |
McCartney divorce judge berates Heather Mills
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The judge in Paul McCartney's divorce
settlement berated the former Beatle's estranged wife Heather
Mills for giving "inconsistent and inaccurate" evidence,
according to details of his ruling released on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
6:55am PDT |
Oscar-winning director Minghella dies
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Oscar winning director Anthony Minghella, who turned such literary works as "The English Patient," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain" into acclaimed movies, has died. He was 54. |
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Cnn.com |
6:47am PDT |
Judge rips McCartney's ex-wife in ruling |
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Summary: In his ruling on the divorce between Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, a British judge said Mills was "less than candid" in her dealings with the court.
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Cnn.com |
6:46am PDT |
High court gun-control case gets personal |
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Summary: Shelly Parker wants to keep a handgun in her house. She's single, been threatened by drug dealers, and violent crime is on the rise. But her home is in Washington, D.C., which does not allow residents to have handguns. The Supreme Court is hearing argumen |
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Yahoo News |
6:41am PDT |
Fed poised to slash rates as jitters ease
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Federal Reserve
policy-makers opened a meeting on Tuesday that was expected to
lead to the biggest interest rate cut since 1982 as two major
Wall Street firms provided some relief to investors with
better-than-expected earnings. |
