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BBC News |
9:10am PDT |
Call to offer faith class choice |
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Summary: Imams, rabbis and priests could be brought into schools to offer religious instruction, the teachers' union says. |
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BBC News |
9:06am PDT |
Murder family's fresh plea |
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Summary: Murdered teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker's family are in Japan to raise awareness of the hunt for her killer. |
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BBC News |
9:06am PDT |
Hawker murder family renew appeal |
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Summary: Murdered teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker's family are in Japan to raise awareness of the hunt for her killer. |
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Yahoo News |
9:05am PDT |
Clinton proposes steps on housing crisis
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Hillary Clinton proposed
steps on Monday to boost the ailing U.S. economy and ease the
housing crisis in a pitch for support from blue-collar workers
ahead of next month's presidential showdown with Barack Obama
in Pennsylvania. |
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Cnn.com |
9:02am PDT |
Detroit mayor to face felony charges |
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Summary: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and the city's youngest elected leader, will face charges of perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide.
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BBC News |
8:58am PDT |
Community shock over 'dumped' boy |
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Summary: Members of a London community where a nine-year-old boy was abandoned express their shock. |
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BBC News |
8:54am PDT |
15mph speed limit for eco-towns |
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Summary: Roads in new eco-towns will have 15mph speed limits under plans to reduce their environmental impact. |
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BBC News |
8:53am PDT |
Pensioner dies after house fire |
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Summary: A man in his 70s dies in hospital four days after a fire at his home in Bangor, County Down. |
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Yahoo News |
8:38am PDT |
Detroit's Democrat mayor indicted in sex scandal
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was
charged with perjury, obstruction of justice and official
misconduct on Monday, stemming from a sex scandal and the
prominent Democrat's handling an $8.4 million settlement of a
whistle-blower lawsuit again |
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Yahoo News |
8:35am PDT |
Stocks climb as JPMorgan raises Bear bid
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street extended its big advance Monday as investors applauded a new agreement that will give Bear Stearns Cos. shareholders five times the payout than was outlined in a JPMorgan Chase & Co. buyout deal a week ago. Investors were also pleased by |
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Yahoo News |
8:34am PDT |
Detroit mayor charged with perjury
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and Detroit's youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages surfaced that appear to contradict his sworn denials of an affair with a top |
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BBC News |
8:28am PDT |
Football: Lampard & Rooney fit |
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Summary: Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney both train with the England squad ahead of Wednesday's friendly against France. |
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BBC News |
8:21am PDT |
Saudi king to boycott summit |
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Summary: Saudi Arabia says King Abdullah will not attend a forthcoming summit of Arab leaders in Syria. |
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BBC News |
8:21am PDT |
Iran 'behind Green Zone attack' |
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Summary: The top US general in Iraq says he has evidence Iran was behind Sunday's attack on Baghdad's Green Zone. |
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BBC News |
8:21am PDT |
MP calls for meeting over embryos |
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Summary: A Labour MP writes to Scotland's leading Roman Catholic to arrange a meeting over embryo research. |
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Cnn.com |
8:10am PDT |
Man declared dead feels 'pretty good' |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
8:08am PDT |
US home sales see surprise rise |
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Summary: US home sales unexpectedly rose in February but prices posted a record fall, industry figures show. |
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BBC News |
7:56am PDT |
Oil touches $100 on Saudi remarks |
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Summary: Crude oil prices touch $100 a barrel, as the dollar strengthens and Saudi Arabia makes reassuring comments. |
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Cnn.com |
7:55am PDT |
4,000 fallen in Iraq |
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Summary: Four U.S. soldiers died Sunday night in a roadside bombing in Iraq, military officials reported, bringing the American toll to 4,000 deaths. The grim milestone comes less than a week after the fifth anniversary of the start of the war.
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BBC News |
7:50am PDT |
Football: Beckham eyes 100-plus |
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Summary: David Beckham says he would be honoured to earn his 100th cap against France but wants to continue beyond that. |
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BBC News |
7:50am PDT |
Beckham seeks more than 100 caps |
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Summary: David Beckham says he would be honoured to earn his 100th cap against France but wants to continue beyond that. |
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Yahoo News |
7:44am PDT |
Home sales rose, prices fell in February
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After falling for six straight months, sales of existing homes posted an unexpected increase in February which may have reflected more aggressive price cutting by sellers in some parts of the country, a real estate trade group reported. |
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Yahoo News |
7:41am PDT |
Home sales rose in February
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After falling for six straight months, sales of existing homes posted an unexpected increase in February which may have reflected more aggressive price cutting by sellers in some parts of the country, a real estate trade group reported. |
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Yahoo News |
7:39am PDT |
JPMorgan raises Bear purchase price
(AP)
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Summary: AP - JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased it offer Monday for Bear Stears Cos. to $10 per share from a bargain-basement price of $2 per share, hoping to assuage shareholders of the ailing investment bank. |
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Yahoo News |
7:37am PDT |
Tiger Woods' winning streak ends
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tiger Woods' winning streak is over. The world's No. 1 golfer's run of seven straight victories worldwide ended Monday at the CA Championship, where he was unable to come back from a five-shot deficit over the final seven holes of the rain-delayed to |
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BBC News |
7:34am PDT |
Missing 10-year-old boy is safe |
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Summary: A 10-year-old boy who police were concerned about after he went missing is found safe and well. |
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Yahoo News |
7:31am PDT |
Clinton calls for panel on housing woes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton called on President Bush on Monday to appoint "an emergency working group on foreclosures" to recommend new ways to confront the nation's housing finance troubles. |
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BBC News |
7:26am PDT |
Liberians suspend Ghana protest |
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Summary: Liberian women refugees halt a five-week sit-in protest against their repatriation from a refugee camp in Ghana. |
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Yahoo News |
7:25am PDT |
World's tallest man struggles to fit in
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Leonid Stadnik's phenomenal height has forced him to quit a job he loved, to stoop as he moves around his house and to spend most of his time in his tiny home village because he cannot fit in a car or bus. |
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BBC News |
7:24am PDT |
Pakistan PM vows to free judges |
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Summary: New Pakistani PM Yusuf Raza Gillani says he will order the release of all judges detained under emergency rule. |
