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Yahoo News |
9:10am PDT |
Malawi government backs Madonna on adoption
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Malawi's government has recommended
that its High Court approve Madonna's adoption of David Banda,
the child she met in a Malawian orphanage a year and a half
ago. |
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9:09am PDT |
Bengals release Chris Henry after arrest
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Cincinnati Bengals have released wide receiver Chris Henry after his fifth arrest since 2005. |
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9:09am PDT |
Bush wins NATO nod on missile defense
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush won NATO's endorsement Thursday for his plan to build a missile defense system in Europe over Russian objections. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called it a "breakthrough agreement" for the military alliance. |
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9:01am PDT |
Tottenham's King out for season |
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Summary: Tottenham captain Ledley King is ruled for the rest of the season to fully recover from a knee injury. |
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Cnn.com |
9:00am PDT |
Study: 1 in 50 U.S. babies abused, neglected |
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Yahoo News |
8:54am PDT |
Police say 8 dead in Pa. fire
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An overnight house fire Thursday killed at eight people and two others were missing and presumed dead, state police said. There were two survivors, including one who jumped from the second floor. |
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8:49am PDT |
FIA to hold Mosley crisis meeting |
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Summary: Under-fire motorsport boss Max Mosley calls for an extraordinary general assembly of the FIA amid accusations about his private life. |
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Cnn.com |
8:48am PDT |
Is the nanny power-washing my kid? |
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Summary: I have to admit, that is all I thought about when I first saw the video and reported on the story of Nikki Ramirez.
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Yahoo News |
8:47am PDT |
U.N. court clears Kosovo's former 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 charges of
torturing and murdering Serbs in a 1998-99 war, but sentenced
his uncle to six years in jail for mistreating prisoners. |
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8:47am PDT |
In setback for Bush, NATO keeps Georgia, Ukraine in the cold
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - European leaders kept Georgia and Ukraine waiting at NATO's doorstep Thursday in a major setback for US President George W. Bush at his last summit of the transatlantic alliance. |
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Cnn.com |
8:46am PDT |
Spaceship drives itself to space station |
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BBC News |
8:45am PDT |
Nato to back US missile defence |
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Summary: Nato member states say they will endorse controversial US plans for a missile defence shield based in Europe. |
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BBC News |
8:40am PDT |
Nato meets Canada's troop demands |
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Summary: Canada will continue its frontline role in Afghanistan, after the commitment of more troops at a Nato conference. |
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8:39am PDT |
More deaths linked to C. Diff bug |
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Summary: Three more deaths are linked to the hospital bug Clostridium difficile in hospitals in the Northern Trust area. |
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BBC News |
8:39am PDT |
Head on beach was migrant worker |
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Summary: The severed head and hands found on a beach in Angus were of an eastern European migrant worker. |
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8:37am PDT |
OAP, 70, 'sold heroin in garden' |
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Summary: A pensioner faces jail for dealing heroin from his back garden to supplement his pension. |
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8:37am PDT |
New Kids on the Block to Reunite
(AP)
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Summary: AP - They may be pushing 40, but the New Kids are returning to the block. The Boston boy band New Kids on the Block, which sold 70 million albums in the 1980s and early 1990s, has reunited and plans to release a new album and go on tour. The reunion comes |
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8:36am PDT |
MySpace announces online music venture
(AP)
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Summary: AP - News Corp.'s MySpace says it's launching an online music service as part of a joint venture with three of the largest recording companies. Users will be able to listen to music and watch videos for free and purchase music downloads directly from the |
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BBC News |
8:36am PDT |
Hague court acquits Kosovo ex-PM |
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Summary: The international tribunal in The Hague acquits ex-KLA commander Ramush Haradinaj of war crimes. |
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BBC News |
8:34am PDT |
Extradition blow for drug accused |
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Summary: A court approves the extradition of a couple accused of supplying crystal meth ingredients. |
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Yahoo News |
8:24am PDT |
McCain says he knows economy better than Democrats
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - John McCain on Thursday rejected
criticism from his Democratic opponents over his experience on
economic issues, saying that he understands the subject better
than they do. |
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Cnn.com |
8:22am PDT |
Lone MLK sibling to reveal 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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Cnn.com |
8:22am PDT |
Lone MLK sibling pressed to reveal his other side |
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Summary: 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, she |
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Yahoo News |
8:16am PDT |
Jobless claims shoot up to 2-year high
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The number of new people signing up for unemployment benefits last week shot up to the highest level in more than two years, fresh evidence of the damage to a national economy clobbered by housing, credit and financial crises. |
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Yahoo News |
8:15am PDT |
U.S. envoy says caught off guard by Basra battle
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. ambassador to Baghdad said on
Thursday he was caught off guard when a big battle broke out
between Iraqi forces and militias in Basra last week, saying
U.S. troops were only able to give support after fighting
began. |
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Yahoo News |
8:13am PDT |
Al-Maliki vows crackdown in Baghdad
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday he planned to launch more security crackdowns like the one in Basra against "criminal gangs" in Baghdad. |
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Cnn.com |
8:07am PDT |
Obama raked in over $40 million last month |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama raised more than $40 million from more than 442,000 donors in March, his presidential campaign announced Thursday.
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BBC News |
7:59am PDT |
Robot space truck docks with ISS |
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Summary: Europe's sophisticated new space freighter, the ATV, attaches itself to the International Space Station. |
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BBC News |
7:57am PDT |
Wet and warm UK summer forecast |
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Summary: The UK faces a wet and warm summer but no repeat of last year's exceptional rainfall, the Met Office says. |
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Cnn.com |
7:53am PDT |
CEOs say they had to save Bear |
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Summary: Federal regulators and top executives at JPMorgan Chase and Bear Stearns told lawmakers Thursday that the 11th-hour deal between the two firms prevented a collapse that could have inflicted serious damage to the American financial system and the broader e |
