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Yahoo News |
11:23am PDT |
Bankruptcy overhaul fades from Senate housing bill
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Senate on Thursday moved toward
rejecting a Democratic proposal to give bankruptcy judges the
power to ease mortgage payment terms for distressed borrowers
as it started debating a housing market rescue plan. |
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Cnn.com |
11:22am PDT |
Naomi Campbell arrested at airport |
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11:18am PDT |
Striking Argentine pilots cause havoc
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Pilots at Argentina's flagship air carrier have walked off the job, suspending international and domestic flights by the airline. |
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11:14am PDT |
Police remove Naomi from BA plane |
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Summary: Supermodel Naomi Campbell is arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of assaulting a police officer. |
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11:09am PDT |
Baby injured by falling utensil |
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Summary: A baby's skull is fractured by a kitchen utensil which accidentally fell from a third floor window in Dundee. |
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11:07am PDT |
1 in 3 kids abused first week of life, study finds |
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11:04am PDT |
Germs in soil find antibiotics tasty
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Antibiotics for breakfast? The drugs are supposed to kill bacteria, not feed them. Yet Harvard researchers have discovered hundreds of germs in soil that literally gobble up antibiotics, able to thrive with the potent drugs as their sole source of nu |
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Cnn.com |
11:00am PDT |
Lone MLK sibling revealing his other side |
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Summary: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. borrowed money from his sister to buy engagement rings, and he liked playing pool. The world knew him as peacemaker, activist and preacher, but to his family, he was just "Tweed." And before King's 80-year-old sister dies, |
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10:56am PDT |
Report says 90,000 infants maltreated a year
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - More than 90,000 babies were
physically abused or neglected and about 500 were killed in the
United States in 2006, health officials said on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
10:53am PDT |
London's Mayor has five children |
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Summary: Ken Livingstone dismisses claims that revelations that he has five children will affect his London mayoral campaign. |
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BBC News |
10:53am PDT |
London mayor is father of five |
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Summary: Ken Livingstone dismisses claims that revelations that he has five children will affect his London mayoral campaign. |
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Cnn.com |
10:51am PDT |
Volt electric car's batteries tested |
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Summary: The lithium-ion batteries to be used in General Motors' Chevrolet Volt electric car will soon be installed and tested in specially-equipped versions of the Chevrolet Malibu, the company said.
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10:46am PDT |
Regulators defend Bear Stearns rescue
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Bear Stearns could not be allowed to
collapse because it could have shattered confidence in
financial markets and caused lasting damage to the economy, top
regulators said on Thursday in defending the rescue of what was
once the fifth-larges |
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10:45am PDT |
MySpace, record cos. launch new service
(AP)
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Summary: AP - News Corp.'s MySpace said Thursday it will launch an online music venture designed to turn the social networking site's trove of musician profile pages into portals for selling everything from concert tickets and band merchandise to the music itself. |
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Cnn.com |
10:41am PDT |
Inspector: FAA failures put passengers in danger |
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Summary: A cozy relationship between Southwest Airlines and the manager of an FAA office put passengers in danger, an FAA whistle-blower told Congress today. "Allowing an airline to fly passengers in an aircraft with a known unsafe condition puts the lives of the |
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BBC News |
10:31am PDT |
Lethal import |
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Summary: How US is coping with a violent gang from El Salvador. |
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Yahoo News |
10:19am PDT |
Police: As many as 10 dead in Pa. fire
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A fire engulfed a house in rural Pennsylvania early Thursday, state police said, killing as many as 10 people and forcing one of the survivors to jump naked from the second floor. |
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10:14am PDT |
McCain sees many problems facing next president
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Republican candidate
John McCain on Thursday outlined a litany of problems that the
next president will inherit from President George W. Bush and
said Washington needs a new approach to solving them. |
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Cnn.com |
10:12am PDT |
Dengue outbreak hits 55,000 in Brazil |
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Summary: More than 55,000 cases of dengue -- a sometimes deadly mosquito-borne virus -- have been reported in a southeastern Brazilian state in the last four months, Brazilian authorities said Thursday.
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10:04am PDT |
Pregnant man tells Oprah: It's a miracle
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A transgender man who is six months
pregnant said in an interview aired by Oprah Winfrey on
Thursday that he always wanted to have a child and considers it
a miracle. |
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Yahoo News |
9:57am PDT |
Census returns to paper count
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Technology problems will force the government to count all of the nation's 300 million residents the old-fashioned way in the 2010 census — with paper and pencil. |
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Yahoo News |
9:51am PDT |
U.N. court clears ex-Kosovo PM of war crimes
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.N. war crimes tribunal cleared
Kosovo's former prime minister on Thursday of all charges of
persecuting Serbs in a 1998-99 separatist war, but sentenced
his uncle to six years jail for mistreating prisoners. |
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9:50am PDT |
The Orange Order unveils a new "superhero" |
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Summary: The Orange Order aims to win a new generation of fans with a cartoon superhero. |
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BBC News |
9:49am PDT |
'Eco-town' plans |
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Summary: What is planned for the 15 sites on the shortlist? |
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Yahoo News |
9:41am PDT |
Zimbabwe election results delayed further
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe's election results were further
delayed on Thursday as President Robert Mugabe called a meeting
of his top leadership to discuss how to face the biggest crisis
of his 28-year rule. |
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Cnn.com |
9:41am PDT |
Eight in one house die in fire |
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Summary: Eight people were killed and two were missing Thursday after fire swept through a house outside Brockway, Pennsylvania, authorities said.
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Cnn.com |
9:38am PDT |
Beer money: Wife's fortune aids McCain |
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BBC News |
9:36am PDT |
PM 'stands by stance on cannabis' |
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Summary: Cannabis may still be reclassified as a Class B drug, despite reports that an advisory body will urge against it, Downing Street signals. |
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Yahoo News |
9:32am PDT |
Bankruptcy revamp fades from Senate housing bill
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Senate on Thursday was moving
toward rejecting a Democratic proposal to let judges ease
mortgage payment terms for distressed borrowers in bankruptcy
court, Senate aides said. |
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BBC News |
9:10am PDT |
Men 'planned airliner explosions' |
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Summary: Eight men planned to detonate bombs aboard planes from London across the Atlantic, a court hears. |
