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Thousands riot over food in Somalia |
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Man is charged over headless body |
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Twelve new GP practices planned |
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Summary: Twelve new GP practices and extended opening hours are planned by Health Secretary Alan Johnson. |
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Ministers rallying round Brown |
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Summary: The PM considers how to deal with backbencher grumbles after Labour's disastrous showing in the local elections. |
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Ministers rally round Gordon Brown |
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Summary: Labour ministers rally round the PM as backbenchers hit out following disastrous local elections. |
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3:23am PDT |
Weather threatens Everest torch ascent |
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Summary: Heavy snow and high winds have delayed climbers from carrying the Olympic flame to the top of the world's highest peak. Their window of opportunity is likely to close by the end of May, when annual monsoon rains normally arrive.
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Bangladesh companies in food move |
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Summary: Factory owners in Bangladesh start subsidising food for thousands of their lowest paid workers. |
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3:22am PDT |
China virus toll continues to rise |
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Summary: The death toll from an intestinal virus affecting thousands of children in China continues to rise. |
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3:06am PDT |
1,000 tourists stranded on cruise ship |
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Babies' bodies found in German freezer |
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Summary: Police have discovered the bodies of three dead babies in a freezer of a family home in western Germany, authorities said Monday.
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Angry Keane prepares to wield axe |
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Iron Man battles to $100m debut |
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Summary: Iron Man proves its box office mettle by taking an estimated $101m in its opening weekend. |
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2:30am PDT |
Hundreds of thousands without shelter in Myanmar: U.N.
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Summary: Reuters - Hundreds of thousands of people have
been left without shelter and drinking water in military-ruled
Myanmar after a devastating cyclone tore through the Irrawaddy
delta, a United Nations official said on Monday. |
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Mass evacuation from Baltic ship |
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Summary: Latvian authorities prepare to evacuate nearly 1,000 people from a cruise ship stuck on a sandbank.
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2:28am PDT |
Barbara Walters puts life on display with book `Audition'
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Summary: AP - No one doubts she's hard-driving. But she has never learned to drive, Barbara Walters reveals in her new memoir, "Audition." |
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Buffett to investors: Think small |
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Summary: In the Q&A session Saturday morning at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, CEO Warren Buffett and vice chairman Charlie Munger repeatedly warned investors to lower their expectations.
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2:24am PDT |
China and Dalai Lama aides agreed to talk again
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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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2:23am PDT |
No let up in India farm suicides |
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Summary: The rate of farmer suicides in India's Maharashtra state has gone up in recent years despite relief schemes, a government report says. |
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Idaho team readies artificial beak for wounded bald eagle
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Summary: AP - She has been named Beauty, though this eagle is anything but. Part of Beauty's beak was shot off several years ago, leaving her with a stump that is useless for hunting food. A team of volunteers is working to attach an artificial beak to the disfigu |
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Microsoft exit hits Yahoo shares |
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Summary: Yahoo shares plunge in trading in Frankfurt after Microsoft drops its bid for the internet firm. |
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Fists and kicks |
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Summary: Why are teen girls fighting each other like boys? |
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Children's bodies found in German freezer |
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UN suspends food aid to Gaza |
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Summary: The UN is to suspend its distribution of food aid to Gaza because of fuel shortages, officials say. |
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Five knifed in Leeds fracas |
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Summary: Five people are being treated for knife wounds after a public disorder incident in the centre of Leeds. |
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Equal pay challenge for councils |
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Summary: A deal on equal pay is set to become one of the first tests for newly elected councillors. |
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1:18am PDT |
Secretary of State Rice presses Israel on roadblocks
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Summary: AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wound up a weekend trip to spur Israeli-Palestinian talks with a one-on-one meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Monday morning, and Olmert was scheduled to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas later |
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1:10am PDT |
1,000 passengers stuck on stranded cruise ship |
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1:08am PDT |
Murdered boys' 'father' critical |
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Summary: A man who is thought to be the father of two boys found dead in a car park remains in a critical condition in hospital. |
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1:04am PDT |
Cole refuses to give up title bid |
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Summary: Chelsea's Joe Cole is determined to take the title race to the final day of the season with victory over Newcastle on Monday afternoon |
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1:01am PDT |
Cyclone plunges Myanmar into primitive existence
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Summary: AP - Residents of Myanmar's largest city were plunged into a primitive existence Monday, using candles instead of electricity, lining up to buy shrinking supplies of water and hacking their way through streets blocked by trees felled in a cyclone that kil |
