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1:11pm PDT |
Doctor Who's Bafta Cymru triumph |
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Summary: Doctor Who scoops six awards at the Bafta Cymru awards while fellow BBC Wales's Coal House also wins. |
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Yahoo News |
1:08pm PDT |
West's 3-pointer with 5.4 seconds left hands Cavs 3-1 lead
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Summary: AP - King James got his crown knocked off, was booed every time he touched the ball, went 0-for-3 in the fourth quarter and passed up a chance to take the winning shot. And his Cleveland Cavaliers still beat the Washington Wizards. |
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Yahoo News |
1:01pm PDT |
Iraq Green Zone shelled amid sandstorm
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Suspected Shiite extremists hammered the U.S.-protected Green Zone Sunday in the fiercest salvo in weeks, apparently taking advantage of a sandstorm that blanketed the capital and grounded the American aircraft that normally prowl for launching teams |
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Yahoo News |
12:55pm PDT |
Nadal beats Federer on clay for 4th straight Monte Carlo win
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Rafael Nadal won his first title of the season, defeating top-ranked Roger Federer yet again on clay to claim his fourth consecutive Monte Carlo Masters. |
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BBC News |
12:51pm PDT |
Fixers used 'instead of police' |
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Summary: "Fixers" who deal out underworld justice, are being used instead of police, a chief constable says. |
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BBC News |
12:51pm PDT |
Gang fixers 'picked over police' |
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Summary: "Fixers" who deal out underworld justice, are being used instead of police, a chief constable says. |
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Yahoo News |
12:43pm PDT |
Militants strike Green Zone as sandstorm hits Baghdad
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Summary: AFP - Militiamen bombarded the heavily fortified Baghdad Green Zone under cover of a heavy sandstorm on Sunday as a hardline Iraqi Shiite group rejected government conditions to end the fighting. |
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Yahoo News |
12:21pm PDT |
Off endangered list, wolves face new pressure from hunters
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tony Saunders stalked his prey for 35 miles by snowmobile through western Wyoming's Hoback Basin, finally reaching a clearing where he took out a .270-caliber rifle and shot the wolf twice from 30 yards away. |
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Yahoo News |
12:21pm PDT |
California wildfire forces hundreds to evacuate
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A 350-acre wildfire amid blazing
hot temperatures forced the evacuation of about 400 homes in
the hills northeast of Los Angeles on Sunday, officials said. |
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Yahoo News |
12:13pm PDT |
'Baby Mama' delivers $18.3 million at weekend box office
(AP)
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Summary: AP - "Baby Mama," Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's comedy about surrogate motherhood, delivered the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $18.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:09pm PDT |
Obama discounts race as a factor in presidential election
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Sunday that race is not the reason he is struggling to attract working-class votes and insisted he can win over uncommitted superdelegates by showing he is "best able to not just defeat John McCain, |
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Yahoo News |
12:05pm PDT |
Economist Ericq Pierre named Haiti prime minister: sources
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Haitian President Rene Preval has chosen Ericq Pierre, an official with the Inter-American Development Bank, to be the country's prime minister, sources told AFP Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:03pm PDT |
Social networking applications can pose security risks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sarah Brown is unusually cautious when it comes to social networking. The college sophomore doesn't have a MySpace page and, while she's on Facebook, she does everything she can to keep her page as private as she can. |
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Yahoo News |
11:33am PDT |
Wall Street looks for cues from Federal Reserve meeting
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Summary: AP - What a difference six weeks makes. Right before the last Federal Reserve meeting, investors were worried about the global banking system imploding. Now, investors are betting the credit markets are on the mend and Wall Street is looking forward to an |
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Yahoo News |
11:26am PDT |
3 killed in militant attack on Afghan president
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Militants firing rockets and automatic rifles attacked the Afghan president at a ceremony in Kabul on Sunday, missing their target but killing three and wounding eight others. |
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Cnn.com |
11:13am PDT |
Police: Captive woman had 6 children by father |
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Summary: Austrian police believe a 73-year-old man held his daughter captive in his cellar for the past two decades and fathered at least six children with her, according to police and state-run news reports today.
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BBC News |
11:02am PDT |
Monkeys star hits chart hat-trick |
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Summary: Arctic Monkeys star Alex Turner is celebrating his third number one album, with The Last Shadow Puppets. |
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Yahoo News |
10:58am PDT |
Private eye pulls his punches in Hollywood wiretapping trial
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Summary: AP - Anthony Pellicano handled some sticky situations during his days as a private investigator for some of the biggest names in Hollywood. |
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BBC News |
10:54am PDT |
Extra oil due to dock in Scotland |
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Summary: Additional fuel is due in Scotland to cope with the Grangemouth strike which is nearing the end of its first day. |
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Yahoo News |
10:51am PDT |
Clashes break out at Olympic torch relay in South Korea
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Chinese students clashed with anti-Beijing demonstrators at the Olympic torch relay Sunday in Seoul, throwing rocks and punches at the latest stop on the flame's troubled round-the-world journey. |
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Yahoo News |
10:44am PDT |
Wildfire creeps toward Pasadena, forcing more evacuations
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A wildfire that broke out in a popular hiking area blackened the steep slopes of the foothills near Pasadena and forced mandatory evacuations for 300 homes, authorities said Sunday. |
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BBC News |
10:27am PDT |
Iraqi cleric rejects talks terms |
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Summary: Radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr rejects government conditions for talks on ending Iraqi army attacks on his militia. |
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Yahoo News |
10:24am PDT |
New round of evacuations as Calif. wildfire creeps closer
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A wildfire that broke out in a popular hiking area blackened the steep slopes of the foothills near Pasadena and forced mandatory evacuations for 300 homes, authorities said Sunday. |
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Cnn.com |
10:24am PDT |
Thousands honor Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
10:20am PDT |
Squid thaw set for a fresh start |
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Summary: Technicians in New Zealand are to begin defrosting a rare colossal squid, following a day's postponement. |
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Yahoo News |
10:16am PDT |
Nadal defeats Federer on clay in Monte Carlo, 7-5, 7-5
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Rafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer 7-5, 7-5 Sunday to win the Monte Carlo Masters for a fourth consecutive year. |
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Yahoo News |
10:06am PDT |
Scholars run down more clues to a Holocaust mystery
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Budapest, November 1944: Another German train has loaded its cargo of Jews bound for Auschwitz. A young Swedish diplomat pushes past the SS guard and scrambles onto the roof of a cattle car. |
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Yahoo News |
10:02am PDT |
California wildfire rages in scorching heat
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A 350-acre wildfire amid blazing
hot temperatures forced the evacuation of 300 homes in the
hills northeast of Los Angeles on Sunday, officials said. |
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BBC News |
9:39am PDT |
New OFT supermarket crackdown |
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Summary: The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) targets supermarkets as part of an investigation into price fixing. |
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Yahoo News |
9:29am PDT |
Olympic torch arrives in North Korea: Chinese state media
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Summary: AFP - The Beijing Olympic flame arrived in the North Korean capital Pyongyang late Sunday, Chinese state media said, on one of the final legs of its troubled worldwide journey. |
