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5:39pm PDT |
Brown sends out warning to Mugabe |
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Summary: Gordon Brown warns Robert Mugabe that he is "appalled" at the latest developments in Zimbabwe. |
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Cnn.com |
5:36pm PDT |
Lawsuit says Ledger used cocaine |
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Yahoo News |
5:16pm PDT |
Immelman leads Masters; Tiger 7 behind
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Anyone who thought this Masters might be the start of something grand must have struggled to stay awake Friday while watching another performance from Tiger Woods that hardly matched the hype. And even after he scrambled from the opposite fairway for |
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5:11pm PDT |
Second round as it happened |
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Summary: South Africa's Trevor Immelman leads Brandt Snedeker by one shot after day two of the Masters. |
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4:58pm PDT |
Immelman maintains Masters lead |
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Summary: South Africa's Trevor Immelman leads American Brandt Snedeker by one shot after day two of the 72nd Masters at Augusta. |
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Yahoo News |
4:58pm PDT |
Raul's Cuba tweaks housing, wage rules
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Thousands of Cubans will be able to get title to state-owned homes under regulations published Friday — a step that might lay the groundwork for broader housing reform. |
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4:48pm PDT |
Unions urge action on tax change |
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Summary: Trade unions urge ministers to compensate low-paid workers affected by the abolition of the 10p tax rate. |
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4:48pm PDT |
Dalai Lama does not support Olympics boycott
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled
spiritual leader, said on Friday he did not support a boycott
of the Beijing Olympic Games. |
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Cnn.com |
4:34pm PDT |
Mom saw warning signs of massacre plans |
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Summary: Two and half years ago, Elaine Sonnen found out her son, Richard, was planning a Columbine-style attack at his high school. It would have been payback for classmates who Richard says bullied him. "I always wanted to strangle them," he said. But this attac |
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4:34pm PDT |
Teachers 'hit by credit crunch' |
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Summary: A support group says teachers are being hit by the credit crunch as they struggle with their mortgages. |
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4:29pm PDT |
Lawsuit: Ledger used cocaine at party
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A lawsuit against the photo agency and two paparazzi who allegedly filmed Heath Ledger in a hotel room where drugs were being taken claims that the late actor was also using cocaine that night. |
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Cnn.com |
4:29pm PDT |
Rare 'war birds' fly over Washington |
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Summary: It was a truly unusual sight as three vintage "war birds" flew over the U.S. Air Force Memorial near the Pentagon to help honor Americans lost in World War II during combat missions from airfields in England.
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4:24pm PDT |
Rowling demands action in Darfur |
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Summary: Harry Potter author JK Rowling and fellow children's writers call on politicians to protect children in war-torn Darfur. |
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4:21pm PDT |
Colombian blocks US extradition |
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Summary: A Colombian court temporarily blocks the extradition to the US of former paramilitary boss Carlos Jimenez. |
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4:15pm PDT |
G7 passes plan to ease credit woe |
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Summary: The G7 group of most industrialised nations passes a plan aimed at easing the global credit crisis. |
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4:14pm PDT |
Clinton attacks Obama for small-town voter remarks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Hillary Clinton
criticized presidential rival Barack Obama on Friday for
describing small-town Pennsylvania residents as bitter and said
she would help economically struggling communities, not look
down on them. |
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Yahoo News |
4:13pm PDT |
Car pins man on NYC courthouse steps
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A car hurtled up the courthouse steps made famous by "Law & Order" on Friday, injuring six people, one of whom was pinned beneath the vehicle and had to be freed by firefighters. |
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4:08pm PDT |
Stem cell hope for osteoarthritis |
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Summary: Stem cells offer a potential way to repair cartilage damaged by osteoarthritis, say scientists. |
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Yahoo News |
3:35pm PDT |
Legally blind golfer, 85, gets ace
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An 85-year-old legally blind golfer from southern Arizona made a hole-in-one this week on a par-3 course. Robert Dunham accomplished the feat on the third hole at Tortuga in Green Valley. |
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Yahoo News |
3:30pm PDT |
G7 finance chiefs give bleaker view on growth
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Finance chiefs from rich nations
offered a gloomier assessment of the global economy on Friday
as persistent market turmoil curbs lending and spending, and
vowed swift action to tighten banking oversight and improve
cross-border cooperation. |
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Yahoo News |
3:16pm PDT |
Legally blind golfer makes hole-in-one
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An 85-year-old legally blind golfer from southern Arizona made a hole-in-one this week on a par-3 course. Robert Dunham accomplished the feat on the third hole at Tortuga in Green Valley. |
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BBC News |
3:08pm PDT |
Italy poll rivals make final push |
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Summary: Election campaigning wraps up in Italy with little to distinguish the main rivals - Silvia Berlusconi and Walter Veltroni. |
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Yahoo News |
2:35pm PDT |
Accidents at disease lab acknowledged
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The only U.S. facility allowed to research the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease experienced several accidents with the feared virus, the Bush administration acknowledged Friday. |
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BBC News |
2:35pm PDT |
American cancels 595 more flights |
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Summary: Thousands more passengers endure cancelled flights as American Airlines continues aircraft safety checks. |
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Cnn.com |
2:31pm PDT |
Fighting rages in Sadr City |
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Summary: Coalition airstrikes in Baghdad and Basra targeting insurgents over the last 24 hours have killed 12 people, U.S. and British officials said, and a top aide to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was assassinated in Najaf.
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2:23pm PDT |
Rick Astley fans descend on London train station for "flashmob" |
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Summary: Rick Astley fans descend on London's Liverpool Street train station in a "flashmob" |
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BBC News |
2:19pm PDT |
Argentine torch relay unhindered |
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Summary: Protesters target the latest leg of the Olympic torch's relay in Argentina, but do not hinder its progress. |
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2:15pm PDT |
Man charged after death of baby |
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Summary: A man has been charged in connection with the death of a baby in hospital in Edinburgh last year, police say. |
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2:07pm PDT |
CORRECTED: No signs of Qaeda at US-Mexican border
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Authorities have seen no signs of al
Qaeda trying to insert operatives into the United States from
Mexico, but the militant group has considered doing so, a U.S.
intelligence official said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
2:02pm PDT |
Polygamist sect encouraged fear
(AP)
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Summary: AP - All their lives, the girls in the polygamist sect in the West Texas desert were told that the outside world was hostile and immoral, and that venturing beyond the brilliant white limestone walls of their compound would consign them to eternal damnati |
