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BBC News |
7:57am PDT |
Tykes fans witness FA Cup clash |
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Summary: Thousands of Barnsley football fans have travelled to Wembley for their FA Cup semi final clash with Cardiff. |
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BBC News |
7:55am PDT |
Minister defends ban on 'Boris' |
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Summary: Tessa Jowell defends an order to ministers not to refer to the Tory London mayor candidate as "Boris". |
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BBC News |
7:45am PDT |
Bidding farewell |
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Summary: Bush and Putin meet for last time as heads of state |
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BBC News |
7:33am PDT |
New York 'marriage' for Beyonce |
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Summary: Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z marry in a secret New York ceremony, US media reports claim. |
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BBC News |
7:30am PDT |
Draw extends Manchester United lead |
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Summary: Wayne Rooney earns Manchester United a draw at the Riverside, extending their lead over Chelsea to three points. |
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Yahoo News |
7:22am PDT |
Cops peacefully enter polygamist temple
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Law enforcement agents got access to an enormous temple on the grounds of a polygamist compound, but by Sunday morning they still had not found a 16-year-old girl whose initial report of abuse led to the raid. |
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Yahoo News |
7:20am PDT |
20 killed in clashes in Sadr City, Iraq
(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 20 people and wounded more than 50 despite a cease-fire between the government and the militia, officials said Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:13am PDT |
Investigators review VA credit charges
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Veterans Affairs employees last year racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in government credit-card bills at casino and luxury hotels, movie theaters and high-end retailers such as Sharper Image and Franklin Covey — and government auditors are |
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Cnn.com |
6:57am PDT |
Londoners disrupt Olympic torch relay |
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Summary: Two protesters were arrested for trying to extinguish the Olympic torch with a fire extinguisher on Sunday as demonstrators disrupted the flame's arrival in the British capital ahead of this year's Summer Games in Beijing, China.
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Yahoo News |
6:57am PDT |
Zimbabwe's opposition asks court to release result
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe's opposition went to court on
Sunday to try to force the release of presidential election
results after President Robert Mugabe's party called for a
delay and a recount. |
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BBC News |
6:53am PDT |
Brown 'backs' more school cadets |
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Summary: A government review will reportedly back calls to encourage more state school pupils to sign up for military cadet training. |
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BBC News |
6:51am PDT |
US forces clash with Iraq militia |
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Summary: Twenty people are reported killed in clashes in Baghdad between US forces and a Shia militia. |
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Cnn.com |
6:46am PDT |
UK's Prince Philip leaves hospital |
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Summary: Prince Philip, the husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, was released from the hospital on Sunday where he was admitted last week with a chest infection, Buckingham Palace said.
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BBC News |
6:45am PDT |
Clashes mar Olympic torch relay |
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Summary: Thirty arrests are made amid scuffles between pro-Tibet protesters and police along the Olympic torch relay in London. |
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BBC News |
6:38am PDT |
Massa wins as Hamilton stumbles |
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Summary: Ferrari's Felipe Massa dominates the Bahrain Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton fails to score and loses the championship lead. |
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BBC News |
6:38am PDT |
French Muslim war graves defaced |
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Summary: Vandals use a pig's head and anti-Muslim slogans to deface the graves of Muslim soldiers in a French WWI cemetery. |
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Yahoo News |
6:37am PDT |
Clashes kill 22 in Baghdad Shi'ite stronghold
(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. |
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Yahoo News |
6:35am PDT |
Mugabe's party demands Zimbabwe recount
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Robert Mugabe's ruling party demanded a vote recount and a further delay in the release of presidential election results, the state Sunday Mail newspaper reported, prompting outrage from the opposition party. |
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Yahoo News |
6:31am PDT |
US, Russia can't agree on missiles
(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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Yahoo News |
6:17am PDT |
Protesters disrupt London's Olympic torch relay
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Thousands of anti-China protesters
draped in Tibetan flags disrupted the Olympic torch relay on
Sunday through London, billed as a journey of harmony and
peace. |
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BBC News |
6:14am PDT |
Brown criticised for torch parade |
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Summary: The Olympic torch is received at Downing Street after pro-Tibet protests. |
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Yahoo News |
6:05am PDT |
Gunmen release 42 students in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iraqi police say gunmen have released the 42 college students they kidnapped earlier in the day near the northern city of Mosul. |
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Yahoo News |
5:58am PDT |
Protesters disrupt Olympic torch relay in London
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Anti-China protesters draped in Tibetan
flags disrupted the Olympic torch relay through London on
Sunday, billed as a journey of harmony and peace. |
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BBC News |
5:45am PDT |
How did Doctor Who's TV comeback do in the ratings? |
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Summary: Doctor Who's comeback attracts 8.4 million viewers, despite fears an earlier timeslot would harm the serial. |
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Yahoo News |
5:44am PDT |
Bush, Putin fail to resolve missile differences
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush and
Russia's Vladimir Putin ended their last face-to-face meeting
as heads of state on Sunday with warm words for each other but
no solution to their row over missile defense. |
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BBC News |
5:37am PDT |
'Anti-gay views' JP investigated |
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Summary: An inquiry is underway into anti-gay remarks made by a serving magistrate on a BBC Wales documentary. |
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Yahoo News |
5:33am PDT |
US-Russia summit eases tension on missile defence
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin made progress on Sunday toward resolving their dispute over a planned US missile defence system in Europe at their swansong summit by the Black Sea. |
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BBC News |
5:33am PDT |
Prince discharged from hospital |
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Summary: The Duke of Edinburgh is discharged from a London hospital after being treated for a chest infection. |
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Cnn.com |
5:24am PDT |
20 dead in Sadr City fighting, ministry says |
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Summary: Gunmen took at least 42 college students hostage in northern Iraq Sunday, according to police in Iraq's Nineveh police province.
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Cnn.com |
5:18am PDT |
Police storm temple at polygamist ranch |
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Summary: Authorities stormed the temple of a Texas ranch that's home to a rogue Mormon sect Saturday, as part of a search for victims of physical and sexual abuse, police said.
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