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6:29am PDT |
Shares steady after bank worries |
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Summary: Europe's stock market indexes steady although worries continue about the worldwide credit crunch. |
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6:26am PDT |
Queen, Irish president in meeting |
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Summary: The Queen has a private meeting with Irish President Mary McAleese at Queen's University in Belfast. |
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6:26am PDT |
US stocks heading for flat open
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. stocks headed for a mostly flat open Wednesday as investors digested better-than-expected results at Morgan Stanley and news that the government plans to free up billions of dollars at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that could help struggling homeow |
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6:24am PDT |
ABC to air prostitution news special
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's call girl scandal prompted ABC News to give the go-ahead to a two-hour prime-time special on prostitution that includes Diane Sawyer's visit to a legal brothel in Nevada. |
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6:23am PDT |
Coroner's suicide strategy calls |
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Summary: Calls for a national strategy to prevent young suicides are made by a coroner hearing inquests into five people. |
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Cnn.com |
6:13am PDT |
Sci-fi guru Clarke to have secular funeral |
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6:06am PDT |
Bush speech to mark 5 years of Iraq war
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Five years after launching the U.S. invasion of Iraq, President Bush is making some of his most expansive claims of success in the fighting there. Bush said last year's troop buildup has turned Iraq around and produced "the first large-scale Arab upr |
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5:38am PDT |
Hoax caller 'put lives at risk' |
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Summary: Cheshire fire chiefs appeal for help in identifying a hoax caller who claimed people were dying in a burning house. |
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5:35am PDT |
Choice expands to all hospitals |
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Summary: Patients in England can choose to have non-emergency treatment in any hospital from April. |
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5:32am PDT |
Rain routs hundreds from homes |
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5:31am PDT |
Brown planning to meet Dalai Lama |
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Summary: Gordon Brown tells MPs he will meet Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama when he visits the UK. |
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5:24am PDT |
Bush speech marks 5 years of war in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Five years after launching the U.S. invasion of Iraq, President Bush is making some of his most expansive claims of success in the fighting there. Bush said last year's troop buildup has turned Iraq around and produced "the first large-scale Arab upr |
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5:21am PDT |
Brown promises to meet Dalai Lama |
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Summary: Gordon Brown tells MPs he will meet Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama when he visits the UK. |
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5:17am PDT |
Mother disturbed son's murderer |
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Summary: A woman who found her son murdered in her own home disturbed the killer, police say. |
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5:13am PDT |
Serbia's neighbours recognise Kosovo
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Summary: AFP - Bulgaria, Croatia and Hungary recognised Kosovo's independence on Wednesday in a new blow to Serbia's efforts to resist the province's breakaway. |
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5:11am PDT |
Indonesia 'needs bird flu help' |
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Summary: The UN expresses concerns that Indonesia is failing to cope with its rising bird flu death toll. |
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5:08am PDT |
2 dead, 2 missing in central US floods
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Airlines prepared for passenger backlogs Wednesday from hundreds of flights grounded by storms that chased people from flooded homes and deluged roads in the nation's midsection, killing at least two people in Missouri and sweeping a teen down a drai |
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5:05am PDT |
Quad bike film MP called to court |
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Summary: An MP has been summoned to court over footage allegedly showing him riding a quad bike on a public road. |
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Cnn.com |
5:04am PDT |
McCanns win $1M from UK papers |
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Summary: Two British newspapers apologized Wednesday to the parents of missing Madeleine McCann for suggesting the couple was responsible for the death of their daughter.
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5:03am PDT |
UK-Bangladesh wedding 'illegal' |
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Summary: The Court of Appeal says a marriage recognised in Bangladesh under Sharia law is not legal in the UK. |
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5:02am PDT |
'Bitter-sweet' Minghella premiere |
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Summary: Anthony Minghella's final film premieres in London, hours after it was announced that the revered director had died. |
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4:58am PDT |
US stocks heading for lower open
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Summary: AP - U.S. stocks were poised to open lower Wednesday as investors prepared to take profits following Tuesday's pop on Wall Street. |
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4:57am PDT |
More parents lie to get schools |
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Summary: Local councils are reporting an increase in people found trying to cheat to get places at popular schools. |
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4:56am PDT |
Nurse graduates fail to find jobs |
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Summary: Hundreds of newly-qualified nurses and midwives are struggling to find work in the NHS months after graduating. |
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4:51am PDT |
Woman bomber kills 3 in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A female suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest packed with ball bearings Wednesday near a bus terminal northeast of Baghdad, killing at least three people, police said. |
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4:47am PDT |
Italy judge clears way for CIA "rendition" trial
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - An Italian judge on Wednesday ordered the
resumption of a trial against U.S. and Italian spies accused of
abducting a terrorism suspect, in a blow to efforts to halt a
case that Rome says violates state secrecy rules. |
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4:47am PDT |
Serbia neighbours accept Kosovo |
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Summary: Three of Serbia's neighbours - Bulgaria, Croatia and Hungary - have announced they will recognise Kosovo. |
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4:36am PDT |
John McCain holds talks in Israel |
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Summary: Republican presidential hopeful John McCain holds talks with Israeli officials at the start of a Middle East tour. |
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4:34am PDT |
Greece gripped by pensions strike |
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Summary: Greece's civil servants hold a general strike against pension reforms, paralysing transport and closing public offices. |
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4:33am PDT |
Russia receives U.S. missile shield plan: agencies
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Russia received written U.S. proposals
on Wednesday which Washington hopes will allay Moscow's
concerns over plans to deploy elements of a missile shield in
Europe, Russian news agencies reported. |
