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Yahoo News |
8:31am PDT |
Yahoo shares fall 16 percent after Microsoft withdraws bid
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Yahoo shares fell more than 16 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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BBC News |
8:29am PDT |
Man detained over double murder |
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Summary: A 49-year-old man is detained in custody following the deaths of a woman and her young brother in Fife. |
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BBC News |
8:17am PDT |
Wartime hideout |
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Summary: France opens caves that housed 24,000 British WWI troops |
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BBC News |
8:10am PDT |
Babies' bodies in German freezer |
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Summary: The bodies of three babies are found in a basement freezer in Germany and their suspected mother is arrested. |
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Cnn.com |
8:09am PDT |
Arrest warrant against FLDS member dropped |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
8:06am PDT |
Food costs alter school lunch menus |
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Summary: Rising food prices are making it harder for schools to cook up ways to give kids the nutrition they need.
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BBC News |
8:04am PDT |
Russia gives fans visa reprieve |
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Summary: Russia is to waive visa requirements for English football fans travelling to Moscow for the Champions League final - if they are visiting for the day. |
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Yahoo News |
7:47am PDT |
Myanmar cyclone kills nearly 4,000
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A devastating cyclone killed nearly
4,000 people and left thousands more missing in army-ruled
Myanmar, state media said on Monday as the ruling generals gave
a "careful green light" to offers of international aid. |
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Cnn.com |
7:40am PDT |
Border-fence dispute snares rare jaguar |
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Summary: The jaguar, an endangered species, has a breeding population in northern Mexico. In recent years, however, the big cats have been spotted in southern Arizona, and that has raised hopes that they will establish breeding grounds there. But that could be sto |
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BBC News |
7:38am PDT |
Austria cellar plan 'from 1978' |
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Summary: Austrian police say Josef Fritzl may have planned his daughter's dungeon in 1978, when she was just 12. |
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Cnn.com |
7:37am PDT |
Ex-follower: 'Messiah' wanted to bed 7 virgins |
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BBC News |
7:26am PDT |
Obama attacks Clinton over Iran |
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Summary: Barack Obama accuses Hillary Clinton of "sabre-rattling" over Iran as the next US electoral contests loom. |
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BBC News |
7:22am PDT |
Labour 'not afraid' of Scots referendum |
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Summary: One of the prime minister's closest allies says he is not afraid of a referendum on Scottish independence. |
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Cnn.com |
7:19am PDT |
Driver's cancer 'blindsided' NASCAR widow |
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Summary: At 33, Lori Hamilton is young and healthy. So what is she doing at an oral, head and neck cancer screening at an Atlanta, Georgia, hospital?
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Yahoo News |
7:17am PDT |
Iran rules out nuclear halt despite new incentives
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iran said on Monday it would not
consider any incentives offered by world powers that violated
its right to nuclear technology, ruling out a precondition to
halt atomic work the West believes is aimed at making bombs. |
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Yahoo News |
7:15am PDT |
Yahoo shares fall 17 pct after Microsoft withdraws bid
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Yahoo shares fell 17 percent in early trading Monday as hopes for the once-dominant search engine dimmed following Microsoft's withdrawal of a $47.5 billion takeover bid. |
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Cnn.com |
7:11am PDT |
Service sector in surprise rebound |
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Summary: Encouraging news for the slumping U.S. economy came Monday as a key survey of non-manufacturing business executives showed unexpected growth in the service sector in April.
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BBC News |
7:09am PDT |
'My boys did not deserve to die' |
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Summary: The mother of two young boys found dead in a car park says in a statement her sons "did not deserve to die". |
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Cnn.com |
7:00am PDT |
Cyclone death toll could hit 10,000 |
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Summary: Almost 4,000 people have died after a weekend cyclone hit Myanmar, state media report. Diplomats said the country's foreign minister acknowledges as many as 10,000 could be dead.
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Cnn.com |
6:58am PDT |
Glenn Beck: Obama's odd timing on Wright |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama is moving away from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright so fast he may claim to be an atheist by next weekend. The ongoing sprint from such a polarizing figure is far from a surprise, it's just the timing of it that is so odd.
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Yahoo News |
6:53am PDT |
Myanmar says nearly 4,000 dead from cyclone
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Myanmar said Monday that nearly 4,000 people had been killed in the cyclone that tore into the impoverished and secretive Asian nation at the weekend, and that tens of thousands more could also be dead. |
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Yahoo News |
6:37am PDT |
Death toll from cyclone in Myanmar could reach 10,000
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Myanmar's foreign minister says the death toll from the cyclone that ripped through the country could reach 10,000. |
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BBC News |
6:24am PDT |
World Championship latest updates |
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Summary: Ronnie O'Sullivan and Ali Carter continue their tussle in the World Championship final at The Crucible. |
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BBC News |
6:24am PDT |
Elaborate Austria cellar revealed |
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Summary: Police in Austria detail the elaborate lengths Josef Fritzl took to create the dungeon in which he kept his daughter. |
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Yahoo News |
6:24am PDT |
China, Dalai Lama aides agreed to talk again
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Envoys of the Dalai Lama and
Chinese officials agreed to further contact during a day of
talks aimed at mending fences following a wave of unrest that
pushed Tibet to centre stage ahead of the 2008 Olympics. |
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BBC News |
6:12am PDT |
Man remanded over headless body |
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Summary: A man is charged with the murder of a traveller whose headless body was found in Hertfordshire. |
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Yahoo News |
6:12am PDT |
Austrian police: Suspect's dungeon plans date back to 1978
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police say the Austrian man accused of holding his daughter captive for 24 years planned to build his secret cell as early as 1978, when she was just 12 years old. |
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Yahoo News |
5:45am PDT |
Cyclone kills nearly 4,000 in Myanmar
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A devastating cyclone killed nearly
4,000 people and left thousands more missing in army-ruled
Myanmar, state media said on Monday, a dramatic increase in the
toll from Saturday's storm. |
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Cnn.com |
5:42am PDT |
Trapped sea lions shot |
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Cnn.com |
5:41am PDT |
Country star, 34, finishes high school |
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