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Yahoo News |
1:17pm PDT |
Study: Restaurant tobacco bans influence teen smoking
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Massachusetts study suggests that restaurant smoking bans may play a big role in persuading teens not to become smokers. Youths who lived in towns with strict bans were 40 percent less likely to become regular smokers than those in communities with |
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1:16pm PDT |
Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds engaged
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Scarlett Johansson and her boyfriend, Ryan Reynolds, are engaged. The 23-year-old actress and the 31-year-old actor have not set a wedding date, Johansson's publicist, Marcel Pariseau, said Monday. |
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1:15pm PDT |
Eight Belles' trainer defends jockey
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The trainer of euthanized filly Eight Belles adamantly defended the way jockey Gabriel Saez handled the Kentucky Derby runner-up. In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Larry Jones said Saez applied the whip only to prevent Eight Belles |
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Cnn.com |
1:02pm PDT |
Laura Bush pushes Myanmar on cyclone aid |
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Summary: The U.N. and international relief groups are scrambling to get aid to Myanmar as an official there said the cyclone death toll will top 10,000. U.S. first lady Laura Bush urged Myanmar to allow a U.S. team into the country and blasted the military governm |
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Cnn.com |
12:45pm PDT |
Aid groups scramble with 10,000 feared dead |
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Summary: The United Nations and international relief organizations scrambled to get aid to Myanmar as a government minister said the count of those killed in Friday's cyclone will top 10,000.
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Yahoo News |
12:39pm PDT |
Yahoo investors seek Microsoft return
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Yahoo Inc's shares tumbled on
Monday as investors punished the company for rejecting
Microsoft Corp's $47.5 billion bid, though the fall
was cushioned by hopes a deal may still be possible. |
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BBC News |
12:38pm PDT |
O'Sullivan wins third world title |
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Summary: Ronnie O'Sullivan secures third World Championship after beating Ali Carter 18-8 at the Crucible. |
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Yahoo News |
12:20pm PDT |
Deliberations at NYC trial for accused Uma Thurman stalker
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A former mental patient "terrified" Uma Thurman by stalking and harassing her for more than two years, a prosecutor said in closing arguments at his trial. |
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12:13pm PDT |
Police: Motorcyclist flipped bird, popped wheelie, crashed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Long Island man who flipped his finger at a police cruiser and then popped a wheelie on his motorcycle is recovering from injuries after crashing. |
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BBC News |
11:58am PDT |
Rescue operation to save teenager |
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Summary: A major search begins after a teenage boy fishing in County Donegal was swept into the River Foyle. |
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11:47am PDT |
Care children back with parents |
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Summary: Three NI children taken into temporary care by the Portuguese authorities are back with their parents. |
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11:43am PDT |
Arms firm ethics report due |
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Summary: A review into business practices at BAE Systems is set to be released soon, the BBC understands. |
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11:43am PDT |
Lord Woolf's BAE review imminent |
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Summary: A review into business practices at BAE Systems is set to be released soon, the BBC understands. |
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Cnn.com |
11:35am PDT |
Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Reynolds engaged |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
11:22am PDT |
U.S. says Iran will get incentives "very quickly"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - World powers very soon will present
Iran with a revised package of incentives to give up its
sensitive nuclear work, U.S. officials said on Monday, but
expectations for a positive response are low. |
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Cnn.com |
11:11am PDT |
More secrets of horror cellar revealed |
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Summary: The Austrian who reportedly admitted holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering seven children with her will plead insanity, his lawyer said.
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Cnn.com |
11:11am PDT |
Secrets of horror cellar revealed |
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Summary: The Austrian who reportedly admitted holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering seven children with her will plead insanity, his lawyer said.
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Cnn.com |
11:08am PDT |
D.C. Madam's note: 'There was no way out' |
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Summary: Convicted "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey railed against what she called a "modern-day lynching" in notes to her mother and sister before hanging herself at her mother's Florida home, police disclosed today. "I cannot live the next 6 to 8 years behind |
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Yahoo News |
11:04am PDT |
Myanmar death toll could top 10,000, foreign minister says
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The death toll from a devastating cyclone in Myanmar could reach more than 10,000 in the low-lying area where the storm wreaked the most havoc, the country's foreign minister warned Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:54am PDT |
NYC jury gets case of man accused of stalking Uma Thurman
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Manhattan prosecutor says a former mental patient "terrified" actress Uma Thurman by stalking and harassing her for more than two years. |
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Cnn.com |
10:53am PDT |
Wal-Mart expands drug discounts |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
10:50am PDT |
Oil jumps $4 to record over $120 on weak dollar
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Oil jumped $4 to record highs over
$120 a barrel on Monday on the weaker U.S. dollar and supply
concerns from OPEC members Nigeria and Iran. |
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Yahoo News |
10:49am PDT |
Yahoo shares fall 14 percent after Microsoft withdraws bid
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Yahoo shares fell 14 percent Monday as hopes for the once-dominant Internet icon dimmed following Microsoft's withdrawal of a $47.5 billion takeover bid. |
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Yahoo News |
10:43am PDT |
Asia calls for funding to fight food shock
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Over a billion Asians may sink back into
extreme poverty without extra aid to counter soaring food
prices, the region's development bank warned on Monday as a
battle brewed over who would fund its spending. |
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Yahoo News |
10:35am PDT |
Myanmar believes 13,000 dead, missing from cyclone
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Myanmar's military junta believes at
least 10,000 people died in a cyclone that ripped through the
Irrawaddy delta, triggering a massive international aid
response for the pariah state in southeast Asia. |
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Cnn.com |
10:34am PDT |
D.C. Madam: 'There was no way out' |
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Summary: Convicted "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey railed against what she called a "modern-day lynching" in notes to her mother and sister before hanging herself at her mother's Florida home, police disclosed Monday.
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Yahoo News |
10:17am PDT |
U.S. monitors to study West Bank roadblocks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States said on Monday it
would send monitors to study whether the removal of Israeli
roadblocks was making life easier for Palestinians in the
occupied West Bank. |
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BBC News |
10:12am PDT |
Anger in Pakistan at poll delays |
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Summary: The main parties in Pakistan's new government condemn the postponement of by-elections for two months. |
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Cnn.com |
10:11am PDT |
Americans fear $5 gas is near |
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Summary: Americans are already paying through the nose for gasoline, and they think it's only going to get worse.
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BBC News |
10:10am PDT |
Newcastle-Chelsea as it happened |
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Summary: Chelsea beat Newcastle 2-0 to keep their Premier League title hopes alive. |
