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Yahoo News |
5:20am PDT |
Over 50 are injured in bomb explosion in Belarus
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Summary: AP - A homemade bomb exploded at an outdoor concert in Belarus' capital early Friday, injuring at least 50 people. Officials blamed hooligans. |
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5:19am PDT |
Friend denies death crash charges |
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Summary: A man appears in court charged with causing death by dangerous driving over a crash on the outskirts of west Belfast. |
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5:19am PDT |
Man denying crash death charges |
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Summary: A man appears in court charged with causing death by dangerous driving over a crash on the outskirts of west Belfast. |
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Yahoo News |
5:18am PDT |
Freed hostage Betancourt to return to France today
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Summary: AP - Ingrid Betancourt, freed from captivity and humiliation in the jungles of Colombia, returns to her beloved France and a hero's welcome Friday in the gilded halls of the presidential palace. |
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5:11am PDT |
Gas prices hit another high for holiday weekend
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Summary: AP - Fireworks aren't the only thing skyrocketing on this Fourth of July. The price of gas has hit another all-time high. |
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5:07am PDT |
Lab returns organs to wrong body |
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Summary: A man's funeral is delayed for five weeks after pathology staff misplace his organs in another person's body. |
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Yahoo News |
5:03am PDT |
Former hot-dog champ Kobayashi hungry to regain title
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Summary: AP - He's gone from hot-dog top dog to underdog. Renowned competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi is aiming to chomp his way back to the top of the annual Fourth of July hot dog eating competition on Coney Island after a disappointing three-dog loss last year |
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4:59am PDT |
Bush to address new citizens on 4th of July
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Summary: AP - President Bush will spend some time this July 4th at the home of the man who virtually wrote the Declaration of Independence. Bush plans to visit Thomas Jefferson's hilltop home, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va. He'll taking part in Monticello's a |
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4:57am PDT |
Toilet to catwalk |
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Summary: Excrement clearers join top models in New York |
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Yahoo News |
4:52am PDT |
Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
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Summary: AP - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when. |
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BBC News |
4:51am PDT |
Robbery clue to student murders |
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Summary: The death of two French students, who suffered more than 240 stab wounds, could be linked to a robbery, police reveal. |
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Yahoo News |
4:50am PDT |
Federer, Nadal a step away from Wimbledon final
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Summary: AP - The top two players in men's tennis are on course to meet in their third straight Wimbledon final, but both have to get through today's semifinals first. No. 1 Roger Federer plays Marat Safin and No. 2 Rafael Nadal meets Rainer Schuettler. |
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4:42am PDT |
Smallest planet shrinks in size |
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Summary: The smallest planet in the Solar System has become even smaller, studies by the Messenger spacecraft show. |
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4:40am PDT |
Opposition 'must accept Mugabe' |
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Summary: Crowds greet Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe as he returns from a summit where he defended his re-election. |
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Cnn.com |
4:36am PDT |
12 feared dead as canoes run over dam |
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4:35am PDT |
Belarus blast, not far from leader, wounds 50
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Summary: Reuters - About 50 people were wounded by a
home-made bomb in Belarus's capital on Friday at an
Independence Day concert attended by long-time ruler President
Alexander Lukashenko, officials said. |
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BBC News |
4:29am PDT |
Somalis flood to Yemen for refuge |
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Summary: Aid workers say thousands flood to Yemen for refuge as Somali fighting continues. |
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4:18am PDT |
Mugabe says opposition must drop claim to power
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Summary: Reuters - President Robert Mugabe said on Friday
that although he accepted the need for negotiations to end
Zimbabwe's crisis, the opposition must drop their claim to
power and accept that he was the country's leader. |
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BBC News |
4:13am PDT |
Hamas suspends talks over Shalit |
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Summary: Hamas suspends talks over a prisoner exchange deal due to involve the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. |
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Cnn.com |
4:13am PDT |
13 feared dead as canoes run over dam |
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BBC News |
4:08am PDT |
Massa sets early pace in practice |
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Summary: World championship leader Felipe Massa sets the pace in the first practice session at the British Grand Prix despite suffering a high-speed crash in his Ferrari. |
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BBC News |
4:07am PDT |
PM 'did not duck' expenses vote |
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Summary: Downing Street denies claims Gordon Brown "ducked" a vote on reforming MPs' expenses. |
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4:02am PDT |
Ben murder accused are remanded |
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Summary: Three men appear in court charged with the murder of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella. |
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BBC News |
4:00am PDT |
Delays hit pupils' test results |
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Summary: More than a million 11 and 14-year-olds in England will get their Sats results late this year because of administrative chaos. |
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4:00am PDT |
Who under wraps |
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Summary: How the finale of Doctor Who has been kept secret |
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3:57am PDT |
British GP will move to Donington |
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Summary: The British Grand Prix is to move from Silverstone to Donington Park from 2010, it has been announced. |
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Cnn.com |
3:50am PDT |
Tunguska blast still a mystery after 100 years |
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Summary: It produced a blast hundreds of times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb, was seen hundreds of miles away and narrowly missed obliterating an entire city -- but 100 years to the week after the mysterious explosion in Siberia, no one is any closer to underst |
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BBC News |
3:40am PDT |
Mugabe welcomed home by thousands |
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Summary: Crowds greet Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe as he returns from a summit where he defended his re-election. |
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Yahoo News |
3:36am PDT |
Wildfire chases July 4th visitors from Big Sur
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Summary: AP - Independence Day is normally a booming time for tourism here, with visitors settling into cliffside vacation homes or trekking out to campgrounds nestled among the redwoods. But this year, the only out-of-towners in Big Sur are firefighters working a |
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BBC News |
3:32am PDT |
Tracy Emin's stolen bronze sparrow returned to Liverpool |
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Summary: A small bronze sparrow which was part of a Tracey Emin sculpture which had gone missing from its home in Liverpool is returned. |
