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BBC News |
5:16am PDT |
Police attacked at raid arrests |
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Summary: Police are attacked as they arrest two people following an armed robbery in County Armagh. |
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Cnn.com |
5:01am PDT |
London protests 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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BBC News |
4:44am PDT |
Centrica 'eyeing British Energy' |
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Summary: British Gas parent Centrica talks to European firms about a possible joint bid for British Energy, say reports. |
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BBC News |
4:44am PDT |
Npower suspends 17 staff |
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Summary: Utility firm Npower suspends 17 staff following allegations in a Sunday newspaper over sales tactics. |
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Yahoo News |
4:41am PDT |
Sri Lanka bombing kills 12; dozens hurt
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A suicide bomber attacked the opening ceremony of a marathon outside Sri Lanka's capital Sunday, killing a government minister and 11 other people, authorities said. Dozens were wounded. |
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Yahoo News |
4:32am PDT |
Rescuer: Victim fell from helicopter
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A crewman who died at the site of a sinking fishing boat in the Bering Sea fell from a rescue basket being pulled into a helicopter, a rescuer has testified. |
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Yahoo News |
4:26am PDT |
Iraq students freed after mass kidnapping
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A group of at least 40 students
kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday near the northern city of Mosul
have been freed by Iraqi security forces, police said. |
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BBC News |
4:25am PDT |
Abducted Iraqi students are freed |
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Summary: A group of 42 university students abducted near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul are released, police say. |
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Yahoo News |
4:20am PDT |
Afghan forces arrest Taliban commander
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Afghan police have arrested a Taliban
commander in the southern province of Kandahar while 15
insurgents have been killed in clashes with Afghan and NATO
troops, the government said on Sunday. |
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4:19am PDT |
Fire prevents residents returning |
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Summary: Residents are not allowed home after a massive blaze destroys a block of flats under construction. |
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BBC News |
4:16am PDT |
Officers attacked during trouble |
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Summary: Police are attacked during a disturbance in Londonderry which involved up to 100 youths. |
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Yahoo News |
4:11am PDT |
Zimbabwe court postpones MDC vote hearing
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Zimbabwean judge has postponed until
later on Sunday his hearing of an opposition application for
presidential elections results to be released immediately, an
opposition lawyer said. |
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Yahoo News |
4:06am PDT |
Arrests mar London's Olympic torch relay
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police scuffled with protesters as Olympians and celebrities carried the Olympic torch through snowy London during a chaotic relay Sunday. |
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4:03am PDT |
Johnson must be coach - Woodward |
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Summary: World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward says Martin Johnson is the man to lead England's revival - but only if he is a hands-on coach. |
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4:02am PDT |
Glastonbury ticket sale under way |
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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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4:01am PDT |
Tykes fans head for FA Cup clash |
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Summary: Thousands of Barnsley football fans head to Wembley for their FA Cup semi final clash with Cardiff. |
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3:48am PDT |
Bahrain GP as it happened |
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Summary: Felipe Massa claims an easy victory as Lewis Hamilton struggles in Bahrain. |
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3:48am PDT |
Live - Bahrain Grand Prix |
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Summary: Title contenders Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen bid for supremacy at the Sakhir circuit. |
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BBC News |
3:41am PDT |
Scuffles mar Olympic torch relay |
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Summary: The London leg of the Olympic torch relay to Beijing begins as small scuffles break out along the route. |
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3:41am PDT |
'No rethink' on tax rate - Hutton |
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Summary: Business Secretary John Hutton says there will be no rethink on the decision to scrap the 10p starting rate of income tax. |
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Yahoo News |
3:41am PDT |
Bush, Putin agree to cooperate on missile defence
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush hailed a "breakthrough" Sunday at his final summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin after they agreed to consider a joint anti-missile defence system with Europe. |
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BBC News |
3:27am PDT |
Scores of Iraqi students abducted |
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Summary: Gunmen kidnap 42 university
students near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police say. |
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Cnn.com |
3:24am PDT |
42 students kidnapped by Iraqi gunmen |
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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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Yahoo News |
3:15am PDT |
More than 50 percent chance of U.S. recession: Greenspan
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - There is more than a 50 percent chance
the United States could go into recession, former Federal
Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan told El Pais newspaper in an
interview published on Sunday. |
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BBC News |
3:13am PDT |
Buoyant Barnsley target Cup final |
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Summary: Manager Simon Davey is confident his Barnsley side can beat Cardiff in Sunday's FA Cup semi-final. |
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Cnn.com |
3:13am PDT |
Mugabe's party calls for vote recount |
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Summary: An official with Zimbabwe's ruling party said they have rejected an offer by the opposition party to form a national unity government, saying such a coalition would be "like mixing water with fire," according to Zimbabwe's state newspaper, The Daily Mail. |
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BBC News |
3:10am PDT |
Kenyan leaders hold cabinet talks |
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Summary: Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and
would-be PM Raila Odinga hold talks to form a coalition government. |
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BBC News |
2:55am PDT |
'Candid' Clegg acknowledges risk |
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Summary: Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg says that politicians who are "candid" about their private lives "run some risks". |
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Yahoo News |
2:50am PDT |
More than 50 pct chance of U.S. recession: Greenspan
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - There is more than a 50 percent chance
the United States could go into recession, former Federal
Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan told El Pais newspaper in an
interview published on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
2:49am PDT |
Bush, Putin bury hatchet over anti-missile defence
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush announced a "breakthrough" Sunday after persuading his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to soften opposition to a planned US missile defence shield at the leaders' swansong summit by the Black Sea. |
