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Yahoo News |
4:36am PDT |
Chinese team takes Olympic torch to top of Mount Everest
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Summary: AP - A Chinese mountaineering team took the Olympic flame to the top of the world Thursday, a spectacular feat dreamed up to underscore China's ambitions for the Beijing games. The Mount Everest climbers could be heard struggling for breath in a live tele |
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BBC News |
4:35am PDT |
Scots leaders clash on independence |
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Summary: Alex Salmond and Wendy Alexander clash over the independence referendum at Holyrood. |
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BBC News |
4:30am PDT |
UN aid flights to Burma under way |
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Summary: The UN says its first flight bringing relief to Burma cyclone victims has landed, but the US says its aid is still blocked. |
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BBC News |
4:27am PDT |
Malaysian woman can leave Islam |
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Summary: In a landmark ruling, a religious court in Malaysia decides that a Muslim convert can leave the faith. |
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4:13am PDT |
Level of breached Asbos increases |
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Summary: The proportion of people breaching Asbos in England and Wales goes up, but the overlal number issued falls. |
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Yahoo News |
4:11am PDT |
Official: UN plane lands in Myanmar with aid after cyclone
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Myanmar's isolationist regime allowed the first plane of a major international airlift to land Thursday with aid for cyclone survivors, a U.N. official said, amid fears that lack of safe food and drinking water could push the death toll above 100,000 |
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BBC News |
4:03am PDT |
Future farming |
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Summary: Why organic, outdoor, 'natural' farming can be bad |
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BBC News |
4:02am PDT |
Jaffa stories |
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Summary: Residents of Israel's mixed city on coexistence |
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BBC News |
4:00am PDT |
Interest rates unchanged at 5% |
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Summary: UK interest rates are held at 5% by the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, as inflation concerns persist. |
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BBC News |
3:57am PDT |
Fresh fears over Chilean volcano |
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Summary: More activity is detected in Chile's Chaiten volcano as the last people leave the area after Friday's eruption. |
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Cnn.com |
3:51am PDT |
Corpses piling up as Myanmar misery deepens |
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Summary: Myanmar's cyclone survivors do not have enough fuel to burn the rotting corpses of the dead as the country's military junta continues to drag its feet over access for aid groups.
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BBC News |
3:49am PDT |
Fewer letters widen Mail's losses |
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Summary: A slump in the number of stamped letters sees Royal Mail's losses widen to £279m in the year to March. |
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BBC News |
3:47am PDT |
Man, 72, held after woman's death |
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Summary: Police investigating the death of a 74-year-old woman in the north west Highlands arrest a 72-year-old man. |
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3:42am PDT |
Sounding off |
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Summary: Why are the hard of hearing so irked by noisy ads? |
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3:39am PDT |
Putin becomes PM in leadership 'tandem'
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Summary: AFP - Vladimir Putin will retain a "key role" in Russia for years as prime minister, new President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday, as the two men opened an unprecedented era of dual rule. |
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BBC News |
3:35am PDT |
Longbridge to see new cars built |
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Summary: The owners of the Longbridge car factory reveal plans to produce up to four new models at the plant. |
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Yahoo News |
3:28am PDT |
Myanmar backtracks on U.S. aid flight, U.S. says
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States is still waiting for
approval from Myanmar to start military aid flights for
survivors of Cyclone Nargis, its ambassador to Bangkok said on
Thursday. |
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Cnn.com |
3:26am PDT |
Gere, Spielberg skipping Olympics |
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Summary: Hip-hop performer will.i.am is no stranger to the political arena -- having spearheaded the Internet-favorite "Yes We Can" music video in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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BBC News |
3:26am PDT |
Four charged over 'Tigers' support |
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Summary: Four men are charged with conspiring to support the banned Tamil Tigers terrorist organisation, police confirm. |
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BBC News |
3:24am PDT |
Parents blamed for castle injury |
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Summary: Parents who hired a bouncy castle were to for an accident which left a boy of 11 with brain damage, a judge rules. |
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BBC News |
3:21am PDT |
Food waste on 'staggering' scale |
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Summary: People are needlessly throwing away 3.6m tonnes of food each year in England and Wales, research suggests. |
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3:20am PDT |
Blacklisted staff |
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Summary: How bad workers could end up on a national database |
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Yahoo News |
3:19am PDT |
Reuters photographer detained in Zimbabwe
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Reuters photographer covering
the aftermath of Zimbabwe's elections has been detained for
three days for allegedly using a satellite phone to transmit
pictures, the global news and information company said on
Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
3:19am PDT |
Protesters who snarled traffic arrested in New York City
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Summary: AP - Hundreds of demonstrators led by the Rev. Al Sharpton clogged intersections and snarled traffic across the city to protest the acquittal of three officers involved in the shooting death of an unarmed black man on his wedding day. |
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BBC News |
3:18am PDT |
Harass young thugs, police urged |
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Summary: The home secretary is urging police to turn the tables on youths who ignore warnings about anti-social behaviour. |
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Yahoo News |
3:18am PDT |
Tibetan woman holds Olympic flame atop Everest
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Tibetan woman took
the Olympic torch the last steps to the top of Everest on
Thursday, realizing "a dream of all Chinese people," but rights
groups criticized Beijing for politicizing the Games. |
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Cnn.com |
3:17am PDT |
Retail gas prices hit fresh record |
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Summary: Retail gasoline prices have jumped to new record high, auto group AAA's Web site showed Thursday.
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BBC News |
3:13am PDT |
Work to start on Olympic stadium |
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Summary: Building work on London's Olympic stadium will begin in two weeks' time. |
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Yahoo News |
3:11am PDT |
Grim fight for survival after Myanmar cyclone
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - More than one million homeless in Myanmar were battling to stave off disease and hunger Thursday, with the military government still limiting foreign assistance six days after a massive cyclone. |
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BBC News |
3:11am PDT |
Fake media file snares PC users |
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Summary: A booby-trapped media file is catching out tens of thousands of file-sharers, says a security firm. |
