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10:39am PDT |
College field trip visits legal brothel |
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10:30am PDT |
Driver, 93, quits after £60,000 crash with two Porsches |
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Summary: An ex-church minister who caused £60,000 damage to two Porsches speaks of his "miracle" escape. |
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10:15am PDT |
Grain prices up 120%; hungry people riot |
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Summary: Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the forefront of the world's attention, the head of an agency focused on global development said Monday.
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10:11am PDT |
Call for cleaning staff guarantee |
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Summary: Minimum cleaning staff quotas should be imposed on hospitals to help in the fights against infections, unions say. |
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10:04am PDT |
Berlusconi leads in Italian vote |
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Summary: Centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi looks set to win Italy's elections, early projections suggest. |
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10:00am PDT |
Rowling testifies in Potter case |
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Summary: JK Rowling tells a US court that plans to publish an unofficial Harry Potter guide amount to "wholesale theft". |
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9:57am PDT |
AP poll: Mortgage payments worry many
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Summary: AP - One in seven mortgage holders worry they may soon fail to make their monthly payments and even more fret that their home's value is shrinking, according to a poll showing widespread stress from the nation's housing crisis. |
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9:49am PDT |
Gerrard 'fixer' goes on the run |
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Summary: A robber who once worked for footballer Steven Gerrard goes missing before the end of his trial. |
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9:48am PDT |
Ecuador crash parents pay tribute |
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Summary: The parents of two gap-year students killed in a bus crash in Ecuador pay tribute to their daughters. |
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9:29am PDT |
Police deny claims of McCann leak |
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Summary: Portuguese police investigating Madeleine McCann's disappearance deny leaking statements by her parents. |
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9:28am PDT |
Beasley to decide today on NBA draft
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Summary: AP - Kansas State freshman Michael Beasley plans to announce whether he will enter the NBA draft at a Monday news conference on campus. |
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9:27am PDT |
Brown says economy sole focus |
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Summary: Gordon Brown says keeping the economy on track is Labour's "sole focus" as the Tories attack his record. |
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9:25am PDT |
Parry keen for talks with Benitez |
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Summary: Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry is set to hold discussions with boss Rafa Benitez to clear up any problems. |
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Cnn.com |
9:24am PDT |
Small-ish town handles whopping polygamy case |
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Summary: A judge needs to determine what will happen to more than 400 children removed from a polygamist sect in central Texas. But that means a small town must find a way to accommodate lawyers, journalists, church members and activists. A lawyer took the last ro |
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9:09am PDT |
Supreme Court turns down boy killer's appeal |
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Summary: An imprisoned killer who was 12 years old when he committed a double murder, and then was given a 30-year sentence, was denied a hearing by the Supreme Court Monday.
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9:06am PDT |
Harry Potter author testifies in lawsuit
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Summary: AP - J.K. Rowling said Monday that her efforts to halt a publisher's "Harry Potter" lexicon have been crushing her creativity. |
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9:05am PDT |
White House: Bush concerned about food shortages
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush is very
concerned about global food shortages and has asked senior
aides to look into how the United States can help alleviate the
problem, the White House said on Monday. |
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8:53am PDT |
Berlusconi projected to win Italian elections
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Summary: AFP - Self-made billionaire Silvio Berlusconi looked set to win a third term as Italian prime minister Monday, with early projections giving him a wide margin of victory in the all-important Senate. |
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8:52am PDT |
Bush scolds Congress on Colombia trade
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Summary: AP - President Bush stepped up pressure Monday on Congress to approve a controversial free-trade pact with Colombia, saying the deal is "dead" unless House Speaker Nancy Pelosi schedules a vote. |
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8:51am PDT |
Bombings in northern Iraq kill 13 people
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Summary: AP - Iraqi officials say 13 people have been killed and nearly 20 wounded in two separate bombings in northern Iraq. |
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8:49am PDT |
Wachovia posts surprise loss, raises $7 billion
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Summary: Reuters - Wachovia Corp posted a surprise
first-quarter loss on Monday as credit problems from mortgages
and other debt soared, prompting the fourth-largest U.S. bank
to raise $7 billion of capital, slash its dividend and cut
jobs. |
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Cnn.com |
8:40am PDT |
Colbert: 'I don't need to be president' |
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8:40am PDT |
Carter wants US talks with Hamas
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Summary: AP - Former President Jimmy Carter said he hoped to help open talks between Hamas and U.S. leaders, saying Washington's policy of not meeting with people it labeled terrorists was counterproductive. |
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8:39am PDT |
CyberCarpet opens way to Pompeii |
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Summary: A virtual walk around the ancient city of Pompeii will be made possible this week thanks to an omni-directional treadmill. |
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Yahoo News |
8:32am PDT |
March retail sales unexpectedly rise 0.2 percent
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. retail sales unexpectedly rose
in March as consumers had to dig deep to cover record high
gasoline costs, according to a government report on Monday that
did little to dispel the gloom hanging over the economy. |
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Cnn.com |
8:25am PDT |
Torch might not leave UK during 2012 relay |
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8:25am PDT |
General strike looms as Zimbabwe court rejects result bid
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe's post-election crisis intensified on Monday after a high court judge threw out an opposition demand for the immediate release of results from the March 29 presidential polls. |
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Yahoo News |
8:24am PDT |
Obama defends "bitter" remarks as McCain attacks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama spent a fourth day on Monday defending himself for
calling people in small towns with economic blight "bitter" in
a controversy that rival Hillary Clinton is trying to use for a
comeback. |
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Cnn.com |
8:20am PDT |
When your spouse is a slob -- or a neat freak |
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Summary: Some couples battle over the dirty dish divide. Others fight over doing laundry. There are even more battlefields when one spouse is a neat freak and the other is a slob. Here are some tips for survival.
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Cnn.com |
8:16am PDT |
Commentary: Killer's bullet took 80% of my blood |
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Summary: On February 11, a group of renegade soldiers invaded my home. As I walked toward my house, I was not aware that they had disarmed my guards and broken into the house, knocking down doors looking for me. But as I walked up the street -- ironically, Robert |
