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BBC News |
9:32am PDT |
Heart transplant toddler Zoe dies |
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Summary: A toddler who had a heart transplant last year dies a month before taking part in the British Transplant Games. |
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BBC News |
9:26am PDT |
Obama team decries cartoon image |
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Summary: Barack Obama's team voices outrage at a US magazine cover depicting him in Muslim dress and his wife as an armed terrorist. |
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BBC News |
9:26am PDT |
Obama team decry satirical image |
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Summary: Barack Obama's team voice outrage at a US magazine cover depicting him in Muslim dress and his wife as an armed terrorist. |
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Cnn.com |
9:22am PDT |
Russia sends warships to patrol in Arctic |
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Cnn.com |
9:21am PDT |
Obama camp calls New Yorker cover offensive |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama's campaign has sharply criticized The New Yorker magazine over the publication's latest cover illustration, which appears to portray the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his wife as terrorist enemies of the United States.
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BBC News |
9:21am PDT |
Bail plan for illegal immigrants |
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Summary: Illegal immigrants will be able to pay a "bail bond" to avoid being sent to a detention centre, under Home Office plans. |
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BBC News |
9:18am PDT |
Station's cash machine targeted |
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Summary: Hundreds of people who have used a cash machine at Cardiff's main railway station are warned of a cloning device found on it. |
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Cnn.com |
9:16am PDT |
Heroic troops repel at least 100 in Afghan fight |
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Summary: Afghan authorities released further details Monday of the insurgent attack at an outpost in eastern Afghanistan which killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 others.
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9:14am PDT |
South Africa earn draw at Lord's |
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Summary: The first Test between England and South Africa at Lord's ends in a draw after the tourists close 47 runs ahead at 393-3. |
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9:12am PDT |
Mbeki to discuss Zimbabwe crisis with AU chairman
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - South African President Thabo
Mbeki and the African Union's top diplomat will meet on Friday
to discuss the political crisis in Zimbabwe, an Mbeki spokesman
said on Monday. |
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BBC News |
9:08am PDT |
Flintoff returns to England squad |
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Summary: Andrew Flintoff is recalled to the England squad for the second Test against South Africa. |
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Cnn.com |
9:07am PDT |
Families hope poker cards help solve cold cases |
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Cnn.com |
9:00am PDT |
TSA launches leak investigation |
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Summary: Federal officers charged with keeping terrorists off planes are now searching their own ranks for staff who told CNN that few flights were protected by air marshals. CNN learned of the TSA investigation from a former federal air marshal and Iraq war veter |
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8:59am PDT |
Bush to lift offshore drilling ban in symbolic move
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush plans
to lift a ban on offshore drilling on Monday to combat soaring
energy prices, a largely symbolic move unlikely to have any
short-term impact on the high cost of gasoline. |
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Yahoo News |
8:54am PDT |
Slow-moving Tropical Storm Bertha rakes Bermuda
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tropical Storm Bertha raked Bermuda with high winds on Monday while kicking up choppy surf along the East Coast of the United States. |
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Cnn.com |
8:52am PDT |
Fed goes to war against shady home loans |
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Summary: The Federal Reserve today unanimously approved new mortgage lending rules meant to crack down on shady practices -- particularly subprime loans made to borrowers with weak credit. The new rules will apply to all mortgage lenders.
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BBC News |
8:48am PDT |
Police 'taken in' by canoe wife |
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Summary: The wife of the canoeist John Darwin who was presumed dead for five years "put on a great act" to dupe police, a court hears. |
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Yahoo News |
8:48am PDT |
Lee, Sheets to start All-Star game
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Cliff Lee of the Cleveland Indians and Milwaukee ace Ben Sheets will be the starting pitchers in Tuesday night's All-Star game at Yankee Stadium. |
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BBC News |
8:33am PDT |
Pakistan fears over US air raids |
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Summary: US air strikes in Pakistan's tribal belt are undermining the government's fight against militancy, a senior official says. |
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BBC News |
8:33am PDT |
Straw unveils elected Lords plan |
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Summary: Justice Secretary Jack Straw sets out plans for House of Lords reform, with most, possibly all, peers elected for the first time. |
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Yahoo News |
8:32am PDT |
Freddie finds eager debt buyers after rescue plan
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Freddie Mac passed its first test of
investor confidence on Monday as buyers flocked to its $3
billion sale of debt just hours after the U.S. government
pledged to extend more credit or buy shares in the nation's
largest mortgage finance com |
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Yahoo News |
8:26am PDT |
Anheuser-Busch being sold to InBev for $52 billion
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The maker of the King of Beers has agreed to go to work for the Belgian brewer InBev SA. |
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Yahoo News |
8:19am PDT |
Fed adopts plan to curb shady mortgage practices
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Federal Reserve has adopted rules to give home buyers more protection from the types of shady lending practices that have contributed to the housing crisis and propelled foreclosures to record highs. |
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Yahoo News |
8:17am PDT |
Sudanese president charged with genocide in Darfur
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court filed genocide charges Monday against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, accusing him of masterminding attempts to wipe out African tribes in Darfur with a campaign of murder, rape and deportation. |
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Yahoo News |
8:10am PDT |
Stocks trade mixed on plan to aid Fannie, Freddie
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks mostly declined in mixed trading Monday as investors worried that even a safety net set up over the weekend for mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac couldn't head off further troubles in the financial markets. |
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Cnn.com |
8:02am PDT |
Bush to lift executive ban on offshore drilling |
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Summary: President Bush will announce Monday he is lifting an executive ban on offshore oil drilling, the White House said.
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BBC News |
7:59am PDT |
Rabbit poisoned water to 100,000 homes |
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Summary: A rabbit is named as the cause of a sickness bug which was found in water supplies and led to thousands of homes having to boil water. |
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Cnn.com |
7:57am PDT |
Father of missing soldier says she's dead |
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Summary: Authorities have told the father of a missing female Fort Bragg soldier that she is dead, the father told a Raleigh television station.
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Cnn.com |
7:57am PDT |
Missing soldier's dad says daughter is dead |
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Summary: Authorities have told the father of a missing female Fort Bragg soldier that she is dead, the father told a Raleigh television station.
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Yahoo News |
7:51am PDT |
Bush to lift ban on exploring for oil in OCS
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush planned to
lift a ban on oil exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf on
Monday as part of an effort to ease record high oil prices, the
White House said. |
