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Cnn.com |
11:32am PDT |
Blast hits Yemen housing for foreigners |
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11:24am PDT |
Fall girl's family thank rescuers |
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Summary: The parents of a girl who fell 100ft from an escalator thank shoppers, store workers and medical staff. |
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11:23am PDT |
Snow hits flights at new T5 |
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Summary: Heathrow's Terminal 5 is hit by more than 100 cancellations as snow causes further disruption to its service. |
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11:23am PDT |
Protesters crash Olympic torch party in London
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Thousands of protesters waving Tibetan
flags and shouting "Shame on China" disrupted the Olympic
torch's marathon relay through London on Sunday, billed as a
journey of harmony and peace. |
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Yahoo News |
11:21am PDT |
McCain says will seek votes Republican often ignore
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. presidential candidate John
McCain plans a wide-ranging campaign that would go after voters
often ignored by his Republican party, which in the past has
focused on getting conservatives to the polls. |
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11:02am PDT |
REM's Accelerate races to the top |
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Summary: US rock band REM's first studio album for four years, Accelerate, shoots to the top of the UK chart. |
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10:52am PDT |
Police use tear gas on party near campus |
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10:51am PDT |
22 killed in Sadr City clashes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iraqi troops backed by U.S. forces battled Shiite fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood in clashes that killed 22 people and wounded dozens despite a cease-fire between the government and the militia, officials said Sunday. |
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10:49am PDT |
McCain says will seek votes Republicans often ignore
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. presidential candidate John
McCain plans a wide-ranging campaign that would go after voters
often ignored by his Republican party, which in the past has
focused on getting conservatives to the polls. |
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BBC News |
10:47am PDT |
Ben-Hur star Charlton Heston dies |
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Summary: Charlton Heston, who won a best actor Oscar for his performance in the Hollywood epic Ben-Hur, dies aged 84. |
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Yahoo News |
10:32am PDT |
Investors await 1Q earnings, home sales
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The fear of the unknown that has rattled the stock market for months appears to be fading. The question now is whether upcoming corporate financial reports and readings on the housing market will further calm Wall Street's anxieties or rekindle them. |
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10:20am PDT |
No deal in Kenyan cabinet talks |
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Summary: Talks between Kenya's president and PM-designate to end political deadlock break up without agreement. |
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10:05am PDT |
Jowell defends torch parade role |
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Summary: Minister Tessa Jowell says taking part in the Olympic torch parade is no endorsement of China's human rights record. |
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9:58am PDT |
London protesters disrupt Olympic torch relay |
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Summary: Protesters scuffled with police and made attempts to grab the Olympic torch and douse it with a fire extinguisher today as it arrived in London. The event triggered angry demonstrations over China's human rights record and recent unrest in Tibet ahead of |
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9:53am PDT |
Zimbabwe court delays election ruling
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Zimbabwe court delayed until Monday a
ruling on whether it could order the release of presidential
election results which President Robert Mugabe is trying to
hold up. |
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9:53am PDT |
Cardiff set up FA Cup final with Portsmouth |
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Summary: Joe Ledley scores the only goal to end Barnsley's FA Cup run and send Cardiff through to a final against Portsmouth. |
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9:51am PDT |
Fiery reception |
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Summary: Olympic torch relay brings Tibet debate to London |
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9:33am PDT |
Crash dead remembered |
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Summary: A special church service is held in Farnborough a week after an air crash which killed five people. |
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9:33am PDT |
Iraqi widows, orphans left stranded
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The car exploded near a popular ice cream parlor, sending flames and shrapnel through the busy square and killing 17 people. |
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9:25am PDT |
Zimbabwe High Court delays ruling on MDC appeal
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe's High Court delayed until
Monday a ruling on whether it has jurisdiction to hear an
opposition application to force the release of presidential
election results. |
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BBC News |
9:16am PDT |
'Internet used' to plan city riot |
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Summary: Police believe a riot in Londonderry involving up to 100 youths was organised on the internet. |
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9:13am PDT |
Rescue team find missing aircraft |
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Summary: A rescue team finds the wreckage of an aircraft which went missing in bad weather in the Cairngorms. |
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8:57am PDT |
US, Russia disagree on missile defense
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to overcome sharp differences over a U.S. missile defense system, closing their seven-year relationship Sunday still far apart on an issue that has separated them from the beginning. |
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BBC News |
8:51am PDT |
Glastonbury tickets on sale |
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Summary: Thousands of Glastonbury Festival fans are jamming phone lines and its website after tickets went on sale. |
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BBC News |
8:40am PDT |
'Progress' in Kenya cabinet talks |
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Summary: Kenya's president and future PM say they have made "substantial progress" in their talks to end political deadlock. |
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Yahoo News |
8:34am PDT |
Pitched contest for Pa. youth vote
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are hustling for the youth vote in Pennsylvania as if they've never heard this is a state where the old hold sway. |
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BBC News |
8:26am PDT |
Clashes along Olympic torch route |
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Summary: Thirty five arrests are made amid clashes between pro-Tibet protesters and police along the Olympic torch relay in London. |
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Yahoo News |
8:24am PDT |
Driver climbs on roof of van, crashes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Reading man whose minivan crashed after he climbed on its roof while driving about 55 miles per hour is in fair condition this weekend. |
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Cnn.com |
8:21am PDT |
Modern black church shuns King's message |
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Summary: The contemporary white church has largely accepted the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.as a religious hero. Yet some observers say there is one religious community that continues to shun King -- the black church.
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Yahoo News |
8:03am PDT |
Fighting erupts in Baghdad after week of calm
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Twenty-two people were killed and 55
wounded in clashes in Baghdad, police said on Sunday, the worst
eruption of violence in the capital since Shi'ite cleric
Moqtada al-Sadr called his fighters off the streets a week ago. |
