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Yahoo News |
5:36pm PDT |
Voting begins in Myanmar referendum, despite cyclone
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Polling stations opened Saturday in parts of cyclone-hit Myanmar, as the military regime asked voters to approve a new constitution just one week after tens of thousands of people died in the storm. |
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BBC News |
5:34pm PDT |
Special Mass celebrates marriage |
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Summary: More than 700 couples with 43,000 years of marriage between them are renewing their vows at a Mass in Westminster Cathedral. |
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BBC News |
5:34pm PDT |
Why are more than 700 married couples converging on London? |
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Summary: More than 700 couples with 43,000 years of marriage between them are renewing their vows at a Mass in Westminster Cathedral. |
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Yahoo News |
5:28pm PDT |
Kids, mom lived with 90-year-old's corpse for weeks in Wis.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two children and their mother lived for about two months with the decaying body of a 90-year-old woman on the toilet of their home's only bathroom, on the advice of a religious "superior" who claimed the corpse would come back to life, authorities sa |
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BBC News |
5:10pm PDT |
Alarm at Google Yahoo partnering |
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Summary: US advocacy groups urge regulators to block any deal Google and Yahoo might strike after a two-week experiment. |
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Yahoo News |
5:08pm PDT |
U.S. makes changes to cremations for slain troops
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Pentagon ordered changes to
procedures for the cremation of slain troops after concerns
emerged about the military's use of a crematorium that burns
both human and animal remains, officials said on Friday. |
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Cnn.com |
5:06pm PDT |
Driver Patrick shaken after car hits crewman |
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Summary: INDIANAPOLIS -- IndyCar racing's biggest name was emotionally shaken Friday as Danica Patrick was involved in an incident on pit lane during Friday's practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway when her car hit a crew member from another team in pit lane. |
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Cnn.com |
5:05pm PDT |
U.S. Army: 45 barracks need immediate repairs |
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Summary: Of the 148,000 U.S. Army barracks inspected nationwide, 45 barracks at eight Army posts "were found to need immediate attention," according to Army officials. The inspections come after reports of substandard living conditions in some barracks at Fort Bra |
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Cnn.com |
5:05pm PDT |
45 Army barracks need immediate repairs |
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Summary: Of the 148,000 U.S. Army barracks inspected nationwide, 45 barracks at eight Army posts "were found to need immediate attention," according to Army officials. The inspections come after reports of substandard living conditions in some barracks at Fort Bra |
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BBC News |
5:01pm PDT |
Scientists' protest discouraged |
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Summary: Scientists are being discouraged from attending Parliament to show their support for proposed embryology and fertility legislation. |
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BBC News |
4:57pm PDT |
Exploring Zionism |
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Summary: Panellists exchange passionate views as Israel turns 60 |
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BBC News |
4:44pm PDT |
More homes on 'millionaires' row' |
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Summary: Sales of £1m properties in Scotland rose by 138% in 2007, according to research from the Bank of Scotland. |
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BBC News |
4:23pm PDT |
Canadian train put in quarantine |
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Summary: Passengers are isolated on a train in Canada, after one dies and several others experience flu-like symptoms. |
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Cnn.com |
4:21pm PDT |
Authorities to dig at old Manson family ranch |
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Summary: Authorities said Friday they will begin digging for evidence of graves at a California ranch that once was home to the infamous "family" of convicted killer Charles Manson.
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BBC News |
4:11pm PDT |
Parents blamed over gang culture |
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Summary: A senior police officer calls on parents to be more responsible as 10 teenagers are sentenced over the murder of two schoolboys. |
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BBC News |
3:45pm PDT |
Online anonymity |
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Summary: How to police purchases by teens on the Web? |
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Yahoo News |
3:42pm PDT |
Rapper DMX arrested for drugs, animal cruelty
(AP)
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Summary: AP - DMX was arrested on drug and animal-cruelty charges following an overnight raid on the rapper's house Friday, authorities said. The 37-year-old rapper, whose given name is Earl Simmons, initially tried to barricade himself in his bedroom but emerged |
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BBC News |
3:41pm PDT |
Device detonates inside toy store |
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Summary: Army technical officers find a partially detonated device at a toy store in Cookstown, County Tyrone. |
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Yahoo News |
3:26pm PDT |
Lebanon government denounces Hezbollah "coup" in Beirut
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group
took control of the Muslim half of Beirut on Friday in what the
U.S.-backed governing coalition called "an armed and bloody
coup." |
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Yahoo News |
3:09pm PDT |
Body of woman, 90, found on toilet in inhabited Wis. home
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A sheriff's deputy discovered the remains of a 90-year-old woman on a toilet in a house she apparently shared with a woman and two children. |
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BBC News |
2:57pm PDT |
Gunmen kill top Mexican policeman |
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Summary: Another senior police officer is gunned down in Mexico City, the fourth to be murdered in under two weeks. |
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BBC News |
2:57pm PDT |
Second police shooting in Mexico |
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Summary: Another senior police officer is gunned down in Mexico City, the fourth in under two weeks. |
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BBC News |
2:48pm PDT |
Return of education's 'Cold War' |
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Summary: Mike Baker considers the pressures facing the independent sector over the public benefit test. |
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Yahoo News |
2:44pm PDT |
U.N. launches Myanmar appeal and resumes aid flights
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United Nations appealed for $187
million in aid on Friday to help 1.5 million victims in
cyclone-ravaged Myanmar and said it would resume relief flights
despite the military government's seizure of food supplies. |
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BBC News |
2:43pm PDT |
Cabinet condemns Hezbollah 'coup' |
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Summary: Lebanon's government says the seizure of most of western Beirut by Shia group Hezbollah is "a bloody coup". |
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Yahoo News |
2:26pm PDT |
Aid on the way to devastated Myanmar but so is heavy rain
(AP)
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Summary: AP - More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar — but so is the heavy rain. A week after Cyclone Nargis flattened low-lying villages and killed whole families at a time, the military junta finally agreed Friday to allow a U.S. cargo plane to bring |
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Yahoo News |
2:26pm PDT |
Dig for human remains to begin at ranch where Manson hid
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The sheriff of the remote region where Charles Manson hid after a killing spree in the summer of 1969 said Friday that he will allow researchers to begin digging into the sandy soil in search of possible human remains. |
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Yahoo News |
2:24pm PDT |
Judge sends wrestler's son to jail for 8 months for crash
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A judge in Florida says the 17-year-old son of wrestler Hulk Hogan should serve eight months in jail for reckless driving. Nick Bollea was led off to begin his sentence immediately after Friday's ruling. He will be on five years' probation and lose h |
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Yahoo News |
2:24pm PDT |
Lilly pitches Cubs to 3-1 win over Diamondbacks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Ted Lilly kept his glove on his hand this time. |
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Yahoo News |
2:14pm PDT |
No infectious outbreak on Canadian train: officials
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Canadian health officials said
on Friday that a death and reported outbreak of flu-like
symptoms aboard a cross-Canada train were not due to an
infectious disease and in fact were likely not related at all. |
