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Cnn.com |
10:49am PDT |
100,000 may have died in cyclone |
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Summary: The death toll from the cyclone that ravaged Myanmar may exceed 100,000, the U.S. Charge D'Affaires in Yangon said today. "The information we are receiving indicates over 100,000 deaths," Shari Villarosa said. Villarosa heads the U.S. embassy in the capit |
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Yahoo News |
10:42am PDT |
R. Kelly pornography trial set to begin in Chicago
(AP)
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Summary: AP - It seemed for a while as if R. Kelly's day in court might never come. |
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BBC News |
10:42am PDT |
Thaksin leaves Eriksson in limbo |
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Summary: Man City owner Thaksin Shinawatra says he has not made a decision about Sven-Goran Eriksson's future. |
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Yahoo News |
10:40am PDT |
Hillary Clinton says she'll stay in the presidential race
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton says she will remain in the presidential race "until there's a nominee." The former first lady declined to say whether that meant through the roll call of the states at the Democratic National Convention this summer. |
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Yahoo News |
10:38am PDT |
U.S. diplomat in Myanmar: may be over 100,000 deaths
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. diplomats in Myanmar are
receiving information that there may be over 100,000 deaths in
the delta area because of the cyclone that devastated the
Southeast Asian nation, one of them said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:38am PDT |
AP Interview: Paulson says credit crisis may be fading
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday the worst of the credit crisis may have passed but acknowledged that rising gas prices will blunt the effect of 130 million economic stimulus checks. He ruled out a second stimulus package for now. |
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BBC News |
10:32am PDT |
Nepal king 'to meet top Maoist' |
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Summary: Nepal's Maoist leader says he believes the king is willing to meet him to discuss the monarchy's future. |
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Cnn.com |
10:29am PDT |
6.8 earthquake shakes Tokyo |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
10:25am PDT |
Winehouse arrested in drugs probe |
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Summary: Singer Amy Winehouse is arrested in connection with alleged drug offences. |
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Cnn.com |
10:22am PDT |
Clinton fights on as prospects dim |
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Summary: Desperately trying to convince Democrats that she still has a chance of winning the White House, Hillary Clinton today is in West Virginia, working to rejuvenate her campaign. Barack Obama took a big step toward securing his party's nomination on Tuesday, |
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Cnn.com |
10:17am PDT |
Unlocked and pricey, iPhone is coveted in Israel |
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Summary: In Tel Aviv's wholesale fashion headquarters, where textile merchants follow in the legacy of fathers and grandfathers, many Israelis are looking for the latest in tech fashion: the iPhone.
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BBC News |
10:06am PDT |
Platypus genetic code unravelled |
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Summary: The genetic blueprint of one of the world's strangest mammals - the duck-billed platypus - is deciphered. |
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BBC News |
10:06am PDT |
Genetic secrets of 'world's strangest mammal' are revealed |
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Summary: The genetic blueprint of one of the world's strangest mammals is deciphered. |
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BBC News |
10:06am PDT |
Gene secrets of 'world's strangest mammal' are revealed |
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Summary: The genetic blueprint of one of the world's strangest mammals is deciphered. |
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BBC News |
9:57am PDT |
Alexander stands firm in vote row |
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Summary: Wendy Alexander denies her position is untenable after her call for an early independence vote. |
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Yahoo News |
9:55am PDT |
US: Ex-Guantanamo prisoner carried out Iraq suicide attack
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The U.S. military is confirming that a former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern Iraq. |
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BBC News |
9:53am PDT |
Mandelson attacks 10p tax policy |
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Summary: Former Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson says the scrapping of the 10p tax rate was "a very big mistake". |
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BBC News |
9:36am PDT |
Dorset landslip 'worst in 100 years' |
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Summary: A landslip on Dorset's Jurassic coastline is described by police as the "worst seen for 100 years". |
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BBC News |
9:35am PDT |
Live - Murray v Wawrinka |
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Summary: British number one Andy Murray takes on Stanislas Wawrinka in the second round of the Rome Masters. |
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BBC News |
9:31am PDT |
Zimbabwe killings |
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Summary: Wounds from Matabeleland masscre still show |
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BBC News |
9:28am PDT |
BA 'failed to foresee' T5 chaos |
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Summary: BA boss Willie Walsh says the airline failed to predict the chaos that hit Heathrow's Terminal 5 on its opening. |
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Yahoo News |
9:21am PDT |
Atlanta Hawks GM Billy Knight to step down in July
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Billy Knight will resign as general manager of the Atlanta Hawks in July, despite leading the team to its first playoff appearance in nine years. |
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BBC News |
9:18am PDT |
Police watchdog probes rape case |
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Summary: The IPCC is to look at a South Wales Police investigation into claims a woman was raped by her stepfather. |
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Yahoo News |
9:17am PDT |
WTO says cannot solve food price crisis
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The World Trade Organization cannot
conjure up a short-term solution to soaring food prices but a
successful end to global trade talks would help in the longer
term, the organization's chief said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:17am PDT |
Obama narrows in on Democratic crown
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Barack Obama closed in on the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday, as Hillary Clinton refused to abandon her fading White House hopes after pumping 6.4 million dollars into her campaign. |
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BBC News |
9:15am PDT |
Maths teacher gap 'to worsen' |
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Summary: The shortage of qualified maths teachers in England seems set to worsen, a survey suggests. |
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Yahoo News |
8:52am PDT |
Philly officers taken off street after videotaped beating
(AP)
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Summary: AP - More than a dozen police officers will be taken off the street as authorities investigate a video showing three suspects being kicked, punched and beaten after they were pulled out of a car during a traffic stop, the mayor's office said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:48am PDT |
Obama plans for Nov. election; Clinton lends her campaign $6.4M
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama's campaign on Wednesday weighed ways to bring the drawn-out Democratic nominating process to a close while mapping out a strategy that will involve campaigning in battleground states where primaries have already been held. |
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Cnn.com |
8:46am PDT |
D.C. sniper: 'Murder this innocent Black man' |
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Summary: John Allen Muhammad, who is on Virginia's death row in connection with the 2002 Washington-area sniper spree, has written to Virginia prosecutors saying he wants to waive all rights to appeal.
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Yahoo News |
8:39am PDT |
Aid trickles in for Myanmar cyclone victims
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Aid trickled into Myanmar on Wednesday
for an estimated one million victims of Cyclone Nargis in
military-ruled Myanmar, with the death toll rising to nearly
23,000 and expected to go higher. |
