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Yahoo News |
8:52am PDT |
Candidates mark King anniversary
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Summary: AP - Republican Sen. John McCain says Martin Luther King Jr. "seems a bigger man" than he did 40 years ago on the day of his death. |
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Yahoo News |
8:50am PDT |
Mugabe to contest presidential run-off: ruling party
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will definitely contest a presidential election run-off after failing to defeat his opposition rival in the first round, a senior party official said Friday. |
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BBC News |
8:49am PDT |
Football: Pompey must be focused - Campbell |
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Summary: Captain Sol Campbell tells his Portsmouth colleagues they cannot underestimate West Brom in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final. |
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BBC News |
8:43am PDT |
Build on this? |
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Summary: Your views on the shortlist of 15 so-called 'eco-towns' |
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Yahoo News |
8:41am PDT |
Chinese police fire warning shots in Tibetan 'riot': official media
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Chinese police fired warning shots during a "riot" in a Tibetan-populated area of southwest China, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, the latest in three weeks of deadly unrest. |
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BBC News |
8:31am PDT |
School bans boy, 3, over haircut |
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Summary: A three-year-old boy is banned from his Tyneside nursery school class for his trendy "tramlines" haircut. |
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BBC News |
8:26am PDT |
China confirms new Tibetan riots |
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Summary: Fresh violence breaks out in a Tibetan area of China, weeks after a government crackdown, state media says. |
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BBC News |
8:22am PDT |
Sweet wrapper killers are jailed |
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Summary: Two youths are sentenced for killing a man during a row over a chocolate bar wrapper. |
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BBC News |
8:17am PDT |
Eyes on glory |
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Summary: Croatian star on Portsmouth's FA Cup ambitions |
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BBC News |
8:17am PDT |
Trademark trolls |
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Summary: A scam that caused havoc in the US reaches Scotland. |
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BBC News |
8:16am PDT |
Zanu-PF backs Mugabe for run-off |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's ruling party gives its backing to President Robert Mugabe's participation in a possible run-off vote. |
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BBC News |
8:16am PDT |
More US troops for Afghan force |
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Summary: The US says it plans to send a "significant" number of extra troops to Afghanistan next year. |
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BBC News |
8:13am PDT |
Phones on planes |
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Summary: Isn't flying bad enough already, asks Clive James |
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Yahoo News |
8:10am PDT |
Bush pledges more troops for NATO Afghan force
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush pledged at a
NATO summit to provide a "significant" number of extra U.S.
troops to the alliance mission in Afghanistan at a summit, U.S.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:09am PDT |
Clinton discusses gay rights with Ellen
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told Ellen DeGeneres that she will work to ensure that same-sex couples such as the talk show host and her partner Portia de Rossi are treated fairly. |
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Yahoo News |
8:00am PDT |
U.S. looks to send more troops to Afghanistan in 2009
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States expects to
add a "significant" number of extra troops to NATO's mission in
Afghanistan next year, President George W. Bush has told fellow
alliance leaders. |
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BBC News |
7:58am PDT |
Women arrested over Shannon case |
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Summary: Two women are arrested by police investigating the disappearance of nine-year-old Shannon Matthews. |
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Yahoo News |
7:56am PDT |
Jobs slashed, pointing to recession
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Employers buffeted by talk of recession slashed 80,000 jobs in March, the most in five years and the third straight month of losses. |
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Cnn.com |
7:49am PDT |
Navajo Nation likely to lose Internet service |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
7:48am PDT |
Family 'watched TV as girl died' |
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Summary: The mother and half-sister of a girl who lay dying of a heroin overdose watched TV instead of helping, a jury hears. |
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Yahoo News |
7:47am PDT |
Hansbrough selected player of the year
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tyler Hansbrough, who topped the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring and rebounding and led North Carolina to the Final Four, was selected The Associated Press college basketball player of the year Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:43am PDT |
No Cold War, but no deals at NATO-Russia summit
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - President Vladimir Putin said Friday there would be no return to the Cold War, but warned NATO at a summit of alliance leaders against expanding deeper into former Soviet territory. |
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BBC News |
7:34am PDT |
Girl critical after Primark fall |
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Summary: A three-year-old girl is in a critical condition after falling from an escalator in Liverpool's Primark store. |
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Cnn.com |
7:21am PDT |
MLK murder witnesses recount blood, pointing |
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Summary: The moment of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death is being remembered on the anniversary of his death. Friends remember the jokes before the assassin's shot, the medical examiner describes the fatal wound, Sen. Robert Kennedy appeals for calm and a re |
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Cnn.com |
7:21am PDT |
MLK assassination -- a moment frozen in time |
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Summary: The moment of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death is being remembered on the anniversary of his death. Friends remember the jokes before the assassin's shot, the medical examiner describes the fatal wound, Sen. Robert Kennedy appeals for calm and a re |
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Cnn.com |
7:21am PDT |
Moment frozen in time |
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Summary: The moment of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death is being remembered on the anniversary of his death. Friends remember the jokes before the assassin's shot, the medical examiner describes the fatal wound, Sen. Robert Kennedy appeals for calm and a re |
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BBC News |
7:17am PDT |
MPs' expenses claims are revealed |
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Summary: MPs' taxpayer-funded spending on items such as food, cleaning, mortgages and even TV licences is revealed. |
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Cnn.com |
7:07am PDT |
Girl says jail guards hurt her |
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Summary: Erica was 16 when she was jailed after running away from home. She says guards picked on her and forced her to play soccer in shackles. "They made you feel like you were nothing,'" said Erica, one of 10 girls suing Mississippi for alleged abuse.
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Cnn.com |
7:07am PDT |
Sex abuse, violence alleged at teen jails |
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Summary: Girls as young as 13 say they were shackled for weeks at a time in Mississippi.
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BBC News |
7:03am PDT |
'Fresh Tibetan riots' in China |
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Summary: Fresh violence breaks out in a Tibetan area of China, weeks after a government crackdown, state media says. |
