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4:34pm PDT |
Online ads 'to beat TV' by 2009 |
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Summary: Advertisers will spend more online than on TV adverts by 2009, the Internet Advertising Bureau says. |
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4:32pm PDT |
'Clearer' student access demanded |
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Summary: England's universities must have "transparent" admissions policies to show they are not biased, the government says. |
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4:31pm PDT |
Dad says 'Crocodile Hunter' suffered
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Summary: AP - Late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin concealed pain and suffering behind his enthusiastic public persona, his father said in an interview broadcast Monday. |
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4:31pm PDT |
Stem cells from skin treat brain disease in rats
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Skin cells re-programmed to act like
embryonic stem cells eased symptoms of Parkinson's disease in
rats, researchers reported on Monday in a first step toward
tailored treatments for people that bypass concerns about using
human embryos. |
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4:30pm PDT |
MacAskill dismisses custody plans |
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Summary: The Scottish Government dismisses suggestions that police custody services could be privatised. |
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4:12pm PDT |
NY blocks mayor's congestion plan |
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Summary: New York's state assembly blocks a plan to ease Manhattan gridlock with a congestion charge. |
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4:11pm PDT |
Intel 'will survive US recession' |
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Summary: Intel will ride out any US recession, the firm's chief executive Paul Otellini tells BBC News. |
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Cnn.com |
3:56pm PDT |
401 kids from polygamist sect in state custody |
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Summary: Authorities said today they have taken legal custody of 401 children who lived on an isolated West Texas polygamist retreat built by imprisoned "prophet" Warren Jeffs. The children are joined at a shelter by 133 women, most of them mothers, who were taken |
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Cnn.com |
3:41pm PDT |
Clinton: Bush should skip Olympic ceremonies |
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Summary: Sen. Hillary Clinton called on President Bush Monday to boycott the opening of this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
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3:38pm PDT |
Diana unlawfully killed, inquest rules
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Princess Diana and her lover Dodi
al-Fayed were unlawfully killed by the grossly negligent
driving of their chauffeur and paparazzi photographers pursuing
them into a Paris road tunnel 10 years ago, an inquest ruled. |
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3:23pm PDT |
400+ kids taken from polygamist compound
(AP)
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Summary: AP - More than 400 children, mostly girls in pioneer dresses, were swept into state custody from a polygamist sect in what authorities described Monday as the largest child-welfare operation in Texas history. |
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3:20pm PDT |
Hundreds flee fight in Shiite stronghold
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hundreds of people fled fighting in Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold Monday as U.S. and Iraqi forces increased pressure on anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who faces an ultimatum to either disband his Mahdi Army or give up politics. |
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3:15pm PDT |
Police seek IDs of girls abused in sex tapes |
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Summary: Police in Hallandale Beach, Florida, are looking for at least two victims of underage sexual abuse seen in videotapes found in the apartment of a man arrested last week on child pornography charges.
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Cnn.com |
3:03pm PDT |
Polls: Democratic race tightens in key state |
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Summary: The Democratic presidential race is tightening in Pennsylvania ahead of its April 22 primary, according to a new CNN analysis of recent polls in the key campaign state.
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3:02pm PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition leader meets SAfrica's Zuma
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai met South African ruling party leader Jacob Zuma on
Monday after appealing for help from outside powers to end the
28-year rule of President Robert Mugabe. |
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2:55pm PDT |
Red-faced |
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Summary: Jailbreak is setback to Morocco's anti-terror profile |
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Cnn.com |
2:40pm PDT |
Texas takes custody of 401 sect kids |
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Summary: Authorities on Monday are still questioning some of the more than 200 women and children taken from the compound of a polygamist sect.
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Cnn.com |
2:27pm PDT |
Phone company testing scent downloads |
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2:26pm PDT |
Postal workers attacked by wild turkeys
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Rather than rain or snow, or even dogs, postal workers in a West Side neighborhood near Owen Conservation Park are being pestered by wild turkeys this spring. Mara Wilhite, manager of the Hilldale Station Post Office, said she expected to deal with a |
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2:18pm PDT |
Shannon mother remains in custody |
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Summary: The mother of Shannon Matthews remains in custody after being arrested over the nine-year-old's disappearance. |
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2:09pm PDT |
McCain raises more than $15M in March
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. John McCain raised more than $15 million in March for his presidential campaign, a top performance for the likely Republican nominee that still falls far short of the cash gathered by rival Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinto |
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2:07pm PDT |
Olympic torch relay in chaos in Paris
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Paris' Olympic torch relay descended into chaos Monday, with protesters scaling the Eiffel Tower, grabbing for the flame and forcing security officials to repeatedly snuff out the torch and transport it by bus past demonstrators yelling "Free Tibet!" |
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Cnn.com |
2:03pm PDT |
Babies' lack of sleep boosts obesity risk |
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1:57pm PDT |
Protests snuff out Olympic torch in Paris
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Olympic torch relay descended
into chaos in Paris on Monday with officials having to
extinguish the flame and carry it by bus when pro-Tibet
protesters tried to seize it. |
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Yahoo News |
1:54pm PDT |
400 kids taken from polygamist compound
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Authorities say more than 400 children have been taken from a polygamist compound and placed in state custody as they continue to investigate whether one of them had been an underage bride. |
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Yahoo News |
1:51pm PDT |
Thief breaks into 'ketchup' railcar
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police called to investigate a theft at a private railyard in Galesburg encountered a gory-looking scene when they climbed into the burglarized railcar, but it wasn't blood. It was ketchup — a lot of ketchup. |
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1:49pm PDT |
Jury says driver, paparazzi killed Diana
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A coroner's jury returned the most serious verdict within its power Monday, ruling that Princess Diana and her boyfriend were unlawfully killed because their driver and pursuing paparazzi were reckless — behavior tantamount to manslaughter. |
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Cnn.com |
1:48pm PDT |
McCain: No signs Rice wants on ticket as VP |
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Summary: Sen. John McCain said Sunday he hasn't seen signals Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is interested in running as vice president.
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Yahoo News |
1:39pm PDT |
Babies' sleep tied to childhood obesity
(AP)
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Summary: AP - When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. And when babies sleep less, they may gain too much weight. A new Harvard study finds that babies and toddlers who sleep fewer than 12 hours daily are at greater risk for being overweight in preschool, startl |
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Yahoo News |
1:39pm PDT |
Ancient tools unearthed in Australia
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tools dating back at least 35,000 years have been unearthed in a rock shelter in Australia's remote northwest, making it one of the oldest archaeological finds in that part of the country, archaeologists said Monday. |
