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2:06pm PDT |
Half EU migrants 'have left UK' |
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Summary: About one million Eastern European migrants have come to the UK since 2004 but half have gone home, research suggests. |
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Cnn.com |
2:00pm PDT |
Dems may try to add conditions to war funding |
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Summary: House Democrats are discussing a proposal to add money and conditions to a war funding bill despite President Bush's specific objections.
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Yahoo News |
1:59pm PDT |
Rescuers amazed that 6 twisters caused no deaths in Va.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - It was a scene of haphazard destruction that stretched for 25 miles: Row upon row of homes reduced to sprays of splintered lumber, shopping centers stripped to bare metal, parking lots turned into junk yards. And yet no one died. |
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BBC News |
1:56pm PDT |
Carter hits historic Crucible 147 |
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Summary: Ali Carter fires a superb 147 to become the second player in this year's World Championship to claim a maximum break. |
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BBC News |
1:53pm PDT |
Brazil's Ronaldo caught in cross-dressing sex scandal |
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Summary: The Brazilian footballer Ronaldo is caught up in a sex scandal involving three cross-dressing prostitutes. |
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BBC News |
1:40pm PDT |
Scholes fires Man Utd into final |
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Summary: Man Utd beat Barcelona 1-0 to reach the Champions League final thanks to Paul Scholes' goal. |
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BBC News |
1:32pm PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition makes UN plea |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's opposition urges the UN to act as the Security Council meets to discuss the post-election crisis. |
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BBC News |
1:16pm PDT |
Man, 68, charged in Jersey probe |
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Summary: Police investigating allegations of abuse in Jersey have charged a 68-year-old man with rape and sexual assault. |
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Cnn.com |
1:02pm PDT |
Ronaldo in hiding after transvestite run-in |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
12:54pm PDT |
Alleged Jimi Hendrix sex tape to be released
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix. The Los Angeles-based adult entertainment company said they obtained the sex tape from a memorabilia collector. |
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Yahoo News |
12:53pm PDT |
Michael Jordan hires nomadic Larry Brown to coach Bobcats
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Larry Brown wanted to resurrect his vagabond, Hall of Fame coaching career. Michael Jordan needed a veteran teacher and a big hire to rescue his sinking reputation as an NBA executive. |
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Yahoo News |
12:52pm PDT |
Family in Austrian incest case united
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The family of an Austrian
man who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven
children with her have been united for the first time in what
doctors described as an "astonishing" gathering. |
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Yahoo News |
12:49pm PDT |
Families of contaminated heparin victims tell stories of deaths
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The widow of a man who died after receiving contaminated heparin told a congressional subcommittee Tuesday "we have a false sense of security" in a land where people expect to be protected and safe. |
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Yahoo News |
12:42pm PDT |
Bush says no magic wand to lower fuel prices
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush said
on Tuesday there was no "magic wand" to bring down record-high
fuel prices but would consider a proposal to suspend federal
gasoline taxes this summer -- an idea that has divided the 2008
presidential candi |
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Yahoo News |
12:38pm PDT |
Bud the cat OK after being stuck in drain pipe for 4 days
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Bud the cat is back home safe and sound after spending more than four days stuck in a drain pipe in his family's yard in Harrisburg. |
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Yahoo News |
12:37pm PDT |
Obama says he's outraged by former pastor's comments
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Tuesday he was outraged by the latest divisive comments from his former pastor and rejected the notion that he secretly agrees with him. |
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Cnn.com |
12:34pm PDT |
Under guard, sect teen goes into labor |
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Cnn.com |
12:32pm PDT |
Obama 'outraged' by Wright's remarks |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama said today he is "outraged" by comments his former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, made this week at the National Press Club and "saddened by the spectacle."
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Yahoo News |
12:28pm PDT |
Army recruits who get in despite bad conduct promoted faster
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Soldiers who need special waivers to get into the Army because of bad behavior go AWOL more often and face more courts-martial. But they also get promoted faster and re-enlist at a higher rate, according to an internal military study obtained by The |
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Yahoo News |
12:24pm PDT |
Teen FLDS mother giving birth while state officials stand by
(AP)
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Summary: AP - One of hundreds of young polygamist-sect members taken into custody by the state was giving birth Tuesday while child welfare officials and state troopers stood watch outside the maternity ward. |
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BBC News |
12:20pm PDT |
Ronaldo in transvestite scandal |
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Summary: The Brazilian footballer Ronaldo is caught up in a sex scandal involving three cross-dressing prostitutes. |
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BBC News |
12:17pm PDT |
Police in child sex ring inquiry |
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Summary: A BBC investigation leads police in West Yorkshire to investigate a child sex ring which may involve up to 50 girls. |
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11:48am PDT |
Colossal squid goes under knife |
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Summary: Scientists are set to begin dissecting New Zealand's rare, intact colossal squid specimen. |
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Yahoo News |
11:28am PDT |
Obama strongly denounces former pastor
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama denounced his former pastor
in his strongest language to date on Tuesday, saying he was
outraged by Rev. Jeremiah Wright's assertions about the U.S.
government and race. |
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Yahoo News |
11:20am PDT |
Iraq's Tareq Aziz goes on trial
(AFP/Al-Iraqiya TV)
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Summary: AFP/Al-Iraqiya TV - Tareq Aziz, the international face of hanged Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's regime, went on trial on Tuesday on charges of executing 42 Baghdad businessmen in 1992 that could see him sentenced to death. |
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Yahoo News |
10:54am PDT |
McCain seeks tax credit to help buy health insurance
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican John McCain wants to change how people get their health insurance, shifting away from job-based coverage to an open market where people can choose from competing policies. |
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Yahoo News |
10:53am PDT |
Hornets' Scott voted NBA coach of year
(AP)
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Summary: AP - When Chris Paul arrived for a workout before the 2005 NBA draft, Byron Scott took him to lunch and said the Hornets wanted the point guard if he was still available at the fourth pick. |
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Yahoo News |
10:53am PDT |
Families tell lawmakers of heparin deaths
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A man who said he lost his wife and
a son to reactions from tainted heparin made with ingredients
from China urged U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday to protect patients
from other unsafe drugs. |
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Yahoo News |
10:41am PDT |
Bush says no magic wand to lower gas prices
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush said
on Tuesday there was no "magic wand" to bring down record-high
fuel prices but would consider a proposal to suspend federal
gasoline taxes this summer -- an idea that has divided the 2008
presidential candi |
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BBC News |
10:37am PDT |
US ordered to act on polar bear |
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Summary: A federal judge tells the US government to decide within weeks whether to list the polar bear as endangered. |
