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BBC News |
6:43am PDT |
Youths held over Bebo fight plans |
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Summary: Six teenagers are arrested for allegedly using a social networking site to arrange gang fights in Derby. |
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BBC News |
6:43am PDT |
Cartoonist to sue over Islam film |
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Summary: A controversial Danish cartoonist says he will sue the Dutch maker of an anti-Islam film over copyright. |
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Yahoo News |
6:39am PDT |
Cuba allows unrestricted cellular phone service
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Cuba announced on Friday that it will
allow Cubans the unrestricted use of mobile telephones for the
first time in the latest step by new President Raul Castro to
improve access to consumer goods. |
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BBC News |
6:38am PDT |
Football: Liverpool co-owners split |
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Summary: Liverpool co-owner George Gillett reveals his relationship with partner Tom Hicks has become "unworkable". |
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Yahoo News |
6:36am PDT |
Dean says attacks getting too personal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic Party chief Howard Dean says Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and their supporters should beware of tearing each other down, demoralizing the base and damaging the party's chances of winning the White House in November. |
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Yahoo News |
6:24am PDT |
Raul Castro: Cubans can have cell phones
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Raul Castro's government is allowing ordinary Cubans to have cell phones. |
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6:20am PDT |
WWII pilot to apologise to city |
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Summary: A German Luftwaffe pilot is to apologise to one of the cities he helped to bomb during World War II. |
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6:13am PDT |
Husband let wife starve to death |
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Summary: A 71-year-old is jailed after letting his mentally ill wife starve to death while he went to the pub and bookmakers. |
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BBC News |
6:10am PDT |
Pesticide 'raises Parkinson's risk' |
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Summary: Evidence that exposure to pesticides significantly raises the risk of Parkinson's disease is strong, say experts. |
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6:09am PDT |
Alexander says she's a perfect 10 |
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Summary: Wendy Alexander has given herself a perfect score in her performance as Scottish Labour Leader. |
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6:09am PDT |
Personal income rises, inflation moderates
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. personal income rose more than
expected in February as the economy teetered on the brink of a
recession, while both personal spending and a key price measure
increased only slightly, a government report showed on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
6:06am PDT |
U.S. says N.Korea missile tests "not constructive"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The White House urged North Korea
not to conduct any further missile tests, calling such action
"not constructive," after Pyongyang test-fired a battery of
short-range missiles on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
6:00am PDT |
Cuba lifting restrictions on mobile phones
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Cuba announced on Friday that it would
allow unrestricted use of mobile telephones by all Cubans for
the first time in the latest step by new President Raul Castro
to improve access to consumer goods. |
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BBC News |
5:55am PDT |
Italy to withdraw tainted cheese |
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Summary: The Italian government says it is ready to recall mozzarella cheese linked to dioxin contamination. |
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5:40am PDT |
Consumer spending weak in February
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Consumers, jolted by a credit crisis, job cuts and soaring energy costs, turned in the weakest spending performance in 17 months in February, further evidence that the risks of a recession are increasing. |
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Cnn.com |
5:37am PDT |
Fresh fighting flares in al-Sadr stronghold |
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Summary: Clashes erupted Friday in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya, a stronghold of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said
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Yahoo News |
5:34am PDT |
Personal income up more than expected
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. personal income rose more than
expected in February as the economy teetered on the brink of a
possible recession, while both personal spending and a key
price measure increased only slightly, a government report
showed on Friday |
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Cnn.com |
5:31am PDT |
Obama: Had pastor not retired, I'd have left |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama says in an interview scheduled to air on TV Friday that he would have left his church if his pastor had not retired and had not acknowledged making comments that "deeply offended people."
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Cnn.com |
5:24am PDT |
Asperger's: My life as an Earthbound alien |
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Summary: Recently, at 48 years of age, I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. For most of my life, I knew that I was "other," not quite like everyone else. I searched for years for answers and found none, until an assignment at work required me to research auti |
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5:19am PDT |
More Arab leaders boycott summit |
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Summary: Two more Arab states say their leaders will not attend the Arab League summit in Damascus. |
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Yahoo News |
5:14am PDT |
Police close off Lhasa's Muslim quarter
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police closed off Lhasa's Muslim quarter on Friday, two weeks after Tibetan rioters burned down the city's mosque during the largest anti-Chinese protests in nearly two decades. |
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BBC News |
5:03am PDT |
Rig tragedy vessel 'not suitable' |
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Summary: A tug was not suitable for the job it was performing when it sank with the loss of eight lives, a report finds. |
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Yahoo News |
5:03am PDT |
US jets drop bombs in Basra
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A British military spokesman in Basra says U.S. warplanes have carried out at least two airstrikes overnight in Iraq's southern oil port. |
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Yahoo News |
4:59am PDT |
Dean: Bickering Democrats may hurt party
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic Party chief Howard Dean says Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and their supporters should beware of tearing each other down, demoralizing the base and damaging the party's chances of winning the White House in November. |
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Yahoo News |
4:58am PDT |
North Korea tests short-range missiles
(AP)
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Summary: AP - North Korea underscored its anger over South Korea's tough new stance toward the communist country with the test-firing of short-range missiles. |
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Yahoo News |
4:56am PDT |
Memphis takes on Michigan St. tonight
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The NCAA men's basketball tournament resumes tonight with Memphis, the top seed in the South, taking on Michigan State and Texas going against Stanford. In the Midwest, top-seed Kansas plays Villanova and Wisconsin takes on Davidson. |
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BBC News |
4:45am PDT |
Zimbabwe forces 'on full alert' |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's security chiefs say forces are on full alert amid fears of violence after Saturday's election. |
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Yahoo News |
4:44am PDT |
Clinton walks tightrope on strength and emotion
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Be strong or show
some emotion? Stick to policy or share your private life? |
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BBC News |
4:42am PDT |
Football: Keane slams managers |
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Summary: Sunderland manager Roy Keane hits out at the "hypocrisy" of his colleagues over their demand for respect for referees. |
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Yahoo News |
4:40am PDT |
Senator Casey endorses Obama
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania
endorsed on Friday Barack Obama's campaign for the Democratic
nomination for president in a boost for the Illinois senator. |
