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BBC News |
1:45am PDT |
Olympic chiefs end crisis meeting |
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Summary: Olympic officials end a week of meetings overshadowed by protests against the torch relay for the Beijing games. |
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Yahoo News |
1:41am PDT |
Desperate North Korea seeks food aid: UN official
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Impoverished North Korea is seeking
international aid to battle one of its worst food shortfalls in
years, a senior U.N. official based in Asia said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
1:37am PDT |
Nude photo of France's first lady auctioned for $91,000 |
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Summary: A nude photo of France's first lady, Carla Bruni, is auctioned for $91,000 - 20 times more than expected. |
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Yahoo News |
1:21am PDT |
Texas authorities defend sect raid
(AP)
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Summary: AP - For four frustrating years, an informant fed Sheriff David Doran information about the polygamist sect that built a compound in the West Texas desert not far from his office in Eldorado. |
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Yahoo News |
1:15am PDT |
Drug companies to reveal grant practices
(AP)
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Summary: AP - For years, the nation's largest drug and medical device manufacturers have courted doctors with consulting fees, free trips to exotic locales and by sponsoring the educational conferences that physicians attend. |
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Yahoo News |
1:03am PDT |
Clinton, Obama mostly the same on policy
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrats just can't decide whether Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton would make a better presidential nominee, and there's some good reason for that. When it comes to policy, they are closely aligned. |
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Yahoo News |
1:02am PDT |
Zimbabwe rivals prepare to lock horns at crisis summit
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai prepared Friday to lock horns at a weekend summit of southern African leaders aimed at sorting out Zimbabwe's election mess. |
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BBC News |
1:01am PDT |
Star Wars actor Baker in hospital |
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Summary: Actor Kenny Baker, who played R2-D2 in the Star Wars films, is in hospital after suffering asthma problems. |
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BBC News |
12:58am PDT |
Smith pride at Uefa Cup progress |
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Summary: Walter Smith hails his Rangers side after they reach their first European semi-final for 36 years with victory over Sporting in the Uefa Cup. |
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Yahoo News |
12:55am PDT |
Dangerous animal virus on US mainland?
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Bush administration is likely to move its research on one of the most contagious animal diseases from an isolated island laboratory to the U.S. mainland near herds of livestock, raising concerns about a catastrophic outbreak. |
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Cnn.com |
12:52am PDT |
Frontier Airlines files for bankruptcy |
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Cnn.com |
12:52am PDT |
Frontier files for bankruptcy |
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Yahoo News |
12:48am PDT |
Relief, pride in Nepal as counting starts after poll
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Porters carried ballot boxes on their
backs along mountain paths high in the Himalayas on Friday, to
trucks, tractors and helicopters waiting to take them to
counting centers after Nepal's first election in nine years. |
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Yahoo News |
12:46am PDT |
Marine killing suspect caught in Mexico
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Marine suspected of killing a pregnant colleague told police he slept in fields and survived by eating fruit that he found during a three-month manhunt that ended with his arrest in western Mexico, authorities said. |
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Yahoo News |
12:43am PDT |
Ex-Shanghai boss sentenced to 18 years for graft: official media
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Former Shanghai Communist Party boss Chen Liangyu was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Friday, state press said, the most senior Chinese official to be convicted of graft in over a decade. |
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BBC News |
12:36am PDT |
Ex-Shanghai boss jailed for graft |
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Summary: The former Communist Party chief in Shanghai, Chen Liangyu, is sentenced to 18 years in jail for corruption. |
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BBC News |
12:16am PDT |
Writers' rituals |
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Summary: Six leading authors describe their daily routines |
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Cnn.com |
12:12am PDT |
Storms pound heartland; 2 die in flooding |
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Cnn.com |
12:12am PDT |
Storms pound heartland; 2 dead |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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