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BBC News |
1:01pm PDT |
Gavin and Stacey scoops TV Baftas |
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Summary: Some of the biggest stars in British television are attending this year's Bafta TV Awards ceremony in London. |
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Cnn.com |
12:54pm PDT |
Pope celebrates Mass at Yankee Stadium |
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Summary: On the final day of his U.S. visit, Pope Benedict XVI is celebrating Mass at Yankee Stadium before a crowd of about 60,000 people. Earlier, he prayed at New York's Ground Zero, asking God to bring healing and strength to grieving families, and direction f |
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Yahoo News |
12:43pm PDT |
Pope prays at Ground Zero and Yankee Stadium
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pope Benedict on Sunday made an
emotionally charged visit to Ground Zero, where he prayed at
the site of the felled World Trade Center, and later wrapped up
his American visit with a triumphant Mass at Yankee Stadium. |
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Cnn.com |
12:42pm PDT |
Obama, Clinton attack negative ads |
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Summary: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama haven't crossed paths yet during their weekend barnstorming across Pennsylvania, but they have invoked each other's names at virtually every whistle-stop during the final blitz before Tuesday's primary.
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Yahoo News |
12:40pm PDT |
City dogs discovering sheep, cattle, hidden talent
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The sun is shining, the fields are clear, and the sheep — a jittery trio of fluff — are just getting comfortable. |
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Yahoo News |
12:39pm PDT |
Clinton, Obama say the other is being negative
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - With two days to go
before a crucial U.S. presidential vote, Democrats Barack Obama
and Hillary Clinton campaigned through Pennsylvania on Sunday
as the former first lady got the support of one of her fiercest
critics. |
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Yahoo News |
12:19pm PDT |
Food price hikes may hit world growth, security: Ban
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Higher food prices risk wiping out
progress towards reducing poverty and, if allowed to escalate,
could hurt global growth and security, United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday. |
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BBC News |
12:18pm PDT |
Third arrest after pub explosion |
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Summary: Two people have been arrested following an explosion at a pub in which several people were burned. |
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Yahoo News |
12:16pm PDT |
Trade breakthrough achievable in weeks: WTO head
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A breakthrough in global trade talks is
achievable in the next few weeks, World Trade Organisation
(WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy said on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:55am PDT |
Pope concludes US trip with Mass at Yankee Stadium in Bronx
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Pope Benedict XVI arrived in storied Yankee Stadium on Sunday for his final Mass in America, cheered by a joyous crowd after making a solemn stop at the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. |
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BBC News |
11:45am PDT |
Greek farmers clash with migrants |
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Summary: Fighting breaks out in southern Greece between strawberry farmers and striking migrant workers. |
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Yahoo News |
11:43am PDT |
Pope Benedict XVI arrives to celebrate Yankee Stadium mass
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Pope Benedict XVI arrived Sunday to a deafening roar from a crowd of tens of thousands who had packed into New York's Yankee Stadium to hear the pope celebrate mass. |
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Yahoo News |
11:32am PDT |
al-Sadr's followers refuse to disband militia in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Followers of hardline cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raised the stakes Sunday in the showdown with Iraq's government, refusing to disband their militia as the U.S. military reported an "uptick" of fighting in the Iraqi capital. |
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Yahoo News |
11:22am PDT |
Investors eye more earnings, including BofA, Apple, Yahoo
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The stock market has reacted well to the recent stream of glum earnings. But this week, Wall Street faces an even bigger flood of first-quarter results, and as General Electric Co.'s bleak report earlier this month showed, bad earnings can even hurt |
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Yahoo News |
11:12am PDT |
Obama back on campaign trail in Pennsylvania
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania. He greeted parishioners after church Sunday morning in Lebanon, then dropped by a family-style restaurant in Robesonia, where he chatted up diners and bought pies. |
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BBC News |
11:08am PDT |
Madonna claims UK singles crown |
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Summary: Madonna's latest single 4 Minutes, featuring Justin Timberlake, goes to the top of the UK singles chart. |
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Cnn.com |
11:05am PDT |
Report: Mogadishu battles leave 81 dead |
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Summary: Two days of fighting between government and Ethiopian troops and Islamic militants in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, have left 81 civilians dead and more than 100 wounded, a local human rights group reported today. "We are condemning the warring sides in t |
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Yahoo News |
11:03am PDT |
World map of metabolism finds blood pressure clues
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Researchers creating a map of human
metabolism around the world have found compounds in urine that
point to some surprising differences affecting blood pressure,
based not on genes but on what people eat and their gut
bacteria. |
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BBC News |
10:43am PDT |
Pennsylvania contest gains pace |
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Summary: Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaign ahead of a key primary. |
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Yahoo News |
10:31am PDT |
Clinton wins backing from former critic
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - With two days to go
before a crucial U.S. presidential vote, Democrats Barack Obama
and Hillary Clinton campaigned through Pennsylvania on Sunday
as the former first lady got the support of one of her fiercest
critics. |
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Cnn.com |
10:28am PDT |
Iraq leader: We can't become new Somalia |
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Summary: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is calling on political parties to unite against armed groups in Iraq, a spokesman said Sunday, warning that "Iraq cannot be the new Somalia."
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Yahoo News |
10:27am PDT |
Black colleges seeking more financial support from alumni
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Making money, administrators at Virginia State University have learned, takes money. |
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Yahoo News |
10:27am PDT |
Federer wins first title of season at Estoril Open
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Top-ranked Roger Federer won his first title of the season at the Estoril Open when second-seeded Nikolay Davydenko retired with a leg injury while trailing 7-6 (5), 1-2 Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:26am PDT |
Food price crisis could harm global security: Ban
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The surge in global food prices risks
setting back the world's anti-poverty efforts and, if not
properly handled, could harm global growth and security, United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:24am PDT |
'Forbidden Kingdom' fights to top of box office with $20.9M
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A martial arts dream team — Jackie Chan and Jet Li — won the weekend as their movie matchup "The Forbidden Kingdom" debuted at No. 1 with $20.9 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:53am PDT |
Rice in Iraq, violence surges after Sadr threat
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice backed Iraq's crackdown on militias in a visit on Sunday
to Baghdad, where the worst fighting in weeks erupted after
Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr threatened all-out war. |
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Yahoo News |
9:45am PDT |
Boy flees Islamic school that makes beggars of African kids
(AP)
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Summary: AP - On the day he decided to run away, 9-year-old Coli awoke on a filthy mat. |
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BBC News |
9:40am PDT |
TV stars revel in Bafta spotlight |
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Summary: Some of the biggest stars in British television are attending this year's Bafta TV Awards ceremony in London. |
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Yahoo News |
9:29am PDT |
Colt's grip on military rifle market called bad deal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - No weapon is more important to tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan than the carbine rifle. And for well over a decade, the military has relied on one company, Colt Defense of Hartford, Conn., to make the M4s they trust with their |
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Yahoo News |
9:25am PDT |
Undecided superdelegates don't feel bound by primaries
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Many of the Democratic superdelegates who are still undecided say the most important factor in their decision is simple — they just want a winner in November. |
