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3:04am PDT |
Turner apologises for Cage libel |
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Summary: Actor Nicolas Cage accepts a public apology from Kathleen Turner over claims made in her autobiography. |
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BBC News |
3:02am PDT |
Nigerian rebel appears in court |
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Summary: A leader of a Nigerian oil-militant group appears in court to be formally charged with treason |
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Cnn.com |
2:55am PDT |
Tornado hits Little Rock |
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Summary: A tornado ripped through central Arkansas Thursday evening, hitting a mobile home park and sending National Weather Service forecasters into a bunker. The tornado destroyed hangars at an airport.
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2:54am PDT |
In for the kill |
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Summary: Louis Theroux on why people shoot lions for a holiday |
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Yahoo News |
2:53am PDT |
Tornado hits central Arkansas
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Gregory Greene has lived in this part of Tornado Alley for all of his 39 years and had never seen a tornado. |
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BBC News |
2:47am PDT |
German police scandal over Libya |
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Summary: Eight elite German police commandos are under investigation for allegedly training Libyan police. |
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BBC News |
2:45am PDT |
Brown fights backbench tax revolt |
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Summary: Gordon Brown pledges to look at the impact of tax changes on poor families in a bid to calm backbench Labour anger. |
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BBC News |
2:45am PDT |
Grand National runners and riders |
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Summary: Pinstickers' guide to the big race at Aintree |
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BBC News |
2:45am PDT |
Grand National runners and riders: Pinstickers' guide to the big Aintree race |
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Summary: Pinstickers' guide to the big race at Aintree |
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Yahoo News |
2:43am PDT |
France waiting on FARC in Colombia hostage mission
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - France is still awaiting a response from
Colombian FARC guerrillas about its mission to aid hostage
Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician held since
2002, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
2:39am PDT |
Warning over spiralling debts |
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Summary: A quarter of people taking out a loan to consolidate their debts go on to borrow more, a survey says. |
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2:33am PDT |
Zanu-PF discusses Mugabe future |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's ruling party is holding talks that could decide the political future of President Robert Mugabe. |
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Yahoo News |
2:28am PDT |
Memphis hopes to light up UCLA
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Should be easy to tell who wins the UCLA-Memphis game. Just look at the scoreboard. If Memphis puts up 80 points, the Tigers are in good shape. At 90, they're pretty much set. At 100, it's a virtual lock. |
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BBC News |
2:23am PDT |
Man charged over crossing death |
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Summary: A man is charged with killing a woman hit by a train when her foot apparently got trapped on a level crossing. |
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Yahoo News |
2:21am PDT |
Drivers anxious after freeway shootings
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Until a few weeks ago, Jeffrey Mines thought the freeway was the best way to cover the 20 miles from Compton to his sick uncle's house in Hollywood. |
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Yahoo News |
2:17am PDT |
Marches to honor legacy of MLK
(AP)
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Summary: AP - On the 40th anniversary of his assassination, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is to be honored as a champion of peace in the city where he died. |
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Yahoo News |
2:07am PDT |
Spears' ex-husband spent big in Vegas
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Kevin Federline might play the part of the pauper to his pop princess ex-wife Britney Spears, but in Las Vegas he is king. |
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Yahoo News |
2:07am PDT |
New global push sought to scrap chemical weapons
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A treaty verification body called on
Friday on 12 nations including Syria, Iraq and Israel to join a
landmark pact for destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons. |
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Yahoo News |
2:02am PDT |
Iran helped end Iraq fighting: Iraq party adviser
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iran helped end last week's fighting
between Iraqi government troops and a Shi'ite militia in Iraq's
oil-rich south, an adviser to a leading Iraqi Shi'ite
politician was quoted as saying on Friday. |
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BBC News |
2:01am PDT |
Madonna 'should be able to adopt' |
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Summary: Madonna should be allowed to adopt Malawian child David Banda, the country's government recommends. |
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1:59am PDT |
Food prices drive India inflation |
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Summary: India's inflation rate accelerates to a three-year high because of rising food and fuel costs, officials say. |
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Cnn.com |
1:57am PDT |
Americans think U.S. is off track, poll says |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
1:57am PDT |
Most Americans say U.S. off track, poll says |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
1:49am PDT |
Bomb-making items found in wood |
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Summary: Police investigating dissident republican activity in Donegal find bomb-making equipment in a wood. |
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BBC News |
1:47am PDT |
Labour MPs angry over tax changes |
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Summary: Labour is facing a revolt from its own backbenchers over the abolition of the 10p starting rate for income tax. |
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Yahoo News |
1:41am PDT |
Some superdelegates more super than rest
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Some of those presidential superdelegates Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are pursuing are more super than others. |
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BBC News |
1:31am PDT |
'Mass animal grave' found at farm |
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Summary: A "mass grave" of more than 40 animals is discovered by the USPCA on a County Down farm. |
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Yahoo News |
1:29am PDT |
Mugabe's men huddle as presidential run-off looms
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Robert Mugabe gathered his inner circle Friday for a make-or-break meeting to decide whether the veteran Zimbabwean strongman pursues a presidential run-off. |
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BBC News |
1:29am PDT |
Dead marines will be repatriated |
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Summary: The bodies of two marines killed while on patrol in Afghanistan are due to be flown home. |
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Yahoo News |
1:27am PDT |
Tibet's courts vow swift and harsh punishment for unrest
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Tibetans accused of rioting and
protesting against Chinese rule will face swift trials and
harsh sentences, state media said on Friday, vowing that
Communist Party-run courts will back a campaign against the
Dalai Lama. |
