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4:27pm PDT |
Daily caffeine 'protects brain' |
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Summary: Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests. |
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BBC News |
4:27pm PDT |
Train crush man's legs amputated |
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Summary: Paramedics amputate a man's legs after they are crushed by a train at a mainline station. |
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Yahoo News |
4:23pm PDT |
Final results in Zimbabwe parliament poll issued
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Final results of Zimbabwe's
parliamentary election have been issued after President Robert
Mugabe lost control of the assembly for the first time since
taking power after independence, the electoral commission said. |
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4:22pm PDT |
Bank urges 'new deal' on hunger |
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Summary: World Bank President Robert Zoellick calls for a 'new deal' to fight hunger, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Cnn.com |
4:18pm PDT |
Tennis player's bloody tantrum a YouTube hit |
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4:18pm PDT |
Stepfather on child porn charges |
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Summary: The stepfather of former missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews is charged with possessing indecent images of children. |
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4:08pm PDT |
United cancels flights, grounds 777s for checks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - United Airlines, a unit of UAL Corp,
became on Wednesday the latest major U.S. carrier to ground
planes and cancel flights due to a lapse in maintenance work. |
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4:06pm PDT |
Space truck's big moment arrives |
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Summary: Europe's sophisticated new space freighter, the ATV, is set to dock with the International Space Station. |
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4:06pm PDT |
Lester, Ortiz lead Red Sox past A's
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jon Lester pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning, David Ortiz broke open a scoreless game with a two-run homer and the Boston Red Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 5-0 Wednesday. |
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4:05pm PDT |
Explosion destroys Wis. church; 7 hurt
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An explosion in a Milwaukee suburb demolished a church and damaged two homes Wednesday, injuring seven people, including three firefighters, authorities said. |
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4:03pm PDT |
Blair to urge key role for faith |
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Summary: Former prime minister Tony Blair is to call for faith to be given a central role in tackling the world's problems. |
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4:03pm PDT |
Revenue tactics 'more effective' |
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Summary: HMRC has become more effective at tackling tax evasion in the hidden economy, says the NAO. |
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4:03pm PDT |
Taxing problem |
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Summary: Authorities' growing success in counter evasion work |
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3:50pm PDT |
NATO seeks solace for Ukraine and Georgia
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - NATO leaders will seek ways to
console Ukraine and Georgia at a summit on Thursday after
failing to agree to open the door of the Western military
alliance to the former Soviet republics. |
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3:42pm PDT |
Al-Qaeda deputy defends attacks |
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Summary: Al-Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman Zawahiri defends attacks on UN offices, describing the body as an enemy to Muslims. |
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Cnn.com |
3:36pm PDT |
Sotheby's to sell 1864 Lincoln letter |
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Summary: Among the rare manuscripts to be offered for sale at Sotheby's auction house Thursday is an 1864 letter in which Abraham Lincoln replies to the abolitionist pleas of 195 young boys and girls.
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3:35pm PDT |
Site safety |
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Summary: Parents strive to protect children on social networks |
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Cnn.com |
3:33pm PDT |
Cops: Girl, 7, slain while hundreds searched |
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3:26pm PDT |
TSA touts bomb arrest at Fla. airport
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Jamaican arrested after trying to check luggage containing pipe bomb-making materials onto a flight home explained that he wanted to show his friends there how to make them, authorities said Wednesday. |
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3:10pm PDT |
NATO to invite in Albania, Croatia but little hope for others
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - NATO leaders agreed late Wednesday to invite Albania and Croatia into their military alliance, but the hopes of three other aspiring nations appeared to have been put on the back-burner. |
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3:04pm PDT |
Suppan leads Brewers past Cubs 8-2
(AP)
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Summary: AP - So much for the Chicago Cubs getting off to a fast start in their quest to win the World Series for the first time in 100 years. Jeff Suppan held Chicago to two runs and six hits in 6 1-3 innings, Rickie Weeks homered on the game's first pitch and Ja |
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2:54pm PDT |
5th-grader finds mistake at Smithsonian
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Is fifth-grader Kenton Stufflebeam smarter than the Smithsonian? The 11-year-old boy, who lives in Allegan but attends Alamo Elementary School near Kalamazoo, went with his family during winter break to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum o |
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Cnn.com |
2:38pm PDT |
Autistic kids linked to same sperm donor |
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Summary: He's only 5½ years old, yet he's practically memorized the entire New York City subway grid.
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Yahoo News |
2:37pm PDT |
Zawahri says U.N. is enemy, vows attacks on Jews
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman
al-Zawahri described the United Nations as an enemy to Muslims
and vowed attacks on Jews both inside and outside Israel in a
statement posted on the Internet on Wednesday. |
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2:33pm PDT |
Experts dubious of Ga. 3rd-grader plot
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Allegations that third-graders hatched an elaborate plot to knock out, handcuff and stab their teacher were met with shock by neighbors and with doubt by psychiatry experts who said it is unlikely that children that young seriously intended to hurt a |
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Yahoo News |
2:29pm PDT |
Obama trims Clinton's lead in Pa.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Barack Obama received endorsements Wednesday from a labor union and two Democratic superdelegates, as a poll showed he has cut Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in Pennsylvania almost in half since mid-February as he strives to deny her a resou |
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2:25pm PDT |
Obama and Clinton focus on economy in Pennsylvania
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday
disputed presidential rival Hillary Clinton's claims to be a
champion of the middle class and promised to fight corporate
interests that he said rigged the economy against working
families. |
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Yahoo News |
2:22pm PDT |
Man tells FBI explosives were for show
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Jamaican accused of trying to check a bag containing pipe bomb-making materials onto a plane told the FBI he wanted to show friends how to build explosives like he saw in Iraq, according to documents released Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
2:20pm PDT |
New French force for Afghanistan |
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Summary: France has agreed to send an extra battalion of troops to Afghanistan, a Nato spokesman has said. |
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Yahoo News |
2:18pm PDT |
Senate leaders agree on housing relief
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Momentum built Wednesday for a bipartisan Senate bill designed to ease the slumping housing market and help millions of families threatened by foreclosure, though economists are skeptical that it will help much. |
