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5:20am PDT |
Insect invaders |
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Summary: Meet the alien insects spreading throughout the UK |
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Yahoo News |
5:19am PDT |
Bush critic Krugman wins 2008 Nobel for economics
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. economist Paul Krugman, a well-known critic of the Bush administration for policies that he argues led to the current financial crisis, won the 2008 Nobel prize for economics on Monday. |
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5:13am PDT |
India's Sensex regains confidence |
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Summary: Shares recover on the Bombay Stock Exchange as the finance minister promises measures to help investors. |
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5:00am PDT |
Jonas Brothers to play Cowboys' Thanksgiving game
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Summary: AP - The Jonas Brothers will perform during halftime of the Dallas Cowboys' nationally televised Thanksgiving Day game against the Seattle Seahawks. |
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4:59am PDT |
Chicago may get 'gay-friendly' high school |
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Summary: Gay students bullied so much by classmates that their grades suffer may get a school more "friendly" to them in Chicago, Illinois. Local officials say the proposed Pride Campus will not be a "gay" school but will be open to anyone who has been victimized |
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4:55am PDT |
North Korea restores U.N. monitoring of atom site-diplomats
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Summary: Reuters - North Korea on Monday restored access for U.N. monitors to its atom bomb complex following a deal with Washington to salvage a denuclearization process endangered by disputes over verification, diplomats said. |
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4:53am PDT |
South Korea may expand projects with North Korea
(AP)
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Summary: AP - South Korea is considering expanding cross-border projects with North Korea following major progress in an international standoff over the communist country's nuclear program, an official said Monday. |
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4:50am PDT |
AP IMPACT: Iraq calmer but kidnappings spread
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Summary: AP - Five years ago, retired Air Force intelligence officer Kirk von Ackermann became the first of 39 Americans to be kidnapped in Iraq. He's still missing, his wife fearing she'll never see him again. |
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4:50am PDT |
Dentists 'playing the system' |
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Summary: Dentists in England are playing the system to maximise their profits, the government believes. |
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4:47am PDT |
Columnist Paul Krugman wins Nobel economics prize
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman won the Nobel economics prize on Monday for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect trade patterns and the location of economic activity. |
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4:46am PDT |
Burley hits back at striker Boyd |
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Summary: Scotland manager George Burley is standing by his decision not to play Kris Boyd against Norway. |
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4:42am PDT |
EU tells music lovers to turn down MP3 players
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Summary: AP - The European Union told music lovers Monday to turn down the volume of MP3 players, saying they risk permanent hearing loss from listening too long at maximum levels. |
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4:41am PDT |
Pedal power |
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Summary: It's not organised, there's no set route - so is it a demo? |
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Cnn.com |
4:39am PDT |
Children of the dust make $1, lose childhood |
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Summary: As she cleans the carbon rods from exhausted D-cell batteries, Marjina holds her young child on her lap and gently lulls her to sleep.
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4:39am PDT |
Kids, some just 3 or 4, labor in toxic dust |
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Summary: As she cleans the carbon rods from exhausted D-cell batteries, Marjina holds her young child on her lap and gently lulls her to sleep.
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4:34am PDT |
AL series shifts to Boston today, tied 1-1
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Summary: AP - The American League Championship Series resumes this afternoon in Boston. Jon Lester toes the rubber for the Red Sox against Tampa Bay's Matt Garza. In the National League, game 4 of the series is tonight in Los Angeles, with the Phillies leading 2 g |
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4:32am PDT |
Santander eyes Sovereign in hunt for bargains
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Spain's Santander said it was in talks to acquire Sovereign Bancorp Inc on Monday, as the euro zone's largest bank hunted for bargains in a sector that has been hit by the global financial crisis. |
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4:29am PDT |
Governments bail out banks, UK wants new Bretton Woods
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Governments across the world moved on Monday to shore up tottering global banks with multi-billion dollar bailouts and Britain called for a new Bretton Woods agreement to reshape the world financial system. |
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4:24am PDT |
UK interpreter 'spied for Iran' |
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Summary: An embittered Army interpreter serving in Afghanistan betrayed Britain to become an agent for Iran, a court has heard. |
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4:22am PDT |
Western shootout |
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Summary: Republicans under pressure as Obama courts Colorado |
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4:20am PDT |
Mugabe swears in vice presidents despite power feud
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe swore in his two vice presidents Monday, a senior government official said, despite an ongoing dispute with the opposition over a power-sharing deal. |
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4:20am PDT |
Krugman wins Nobel for economics |
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Summary: American Paul Krugman has won this year's Nobel economics prize for his work on trade patterns, it has been announced. |
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Cnn.com |
4:20am PDT |
7 die in New York City fires |
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4:19am PDT |
American Krugman wins 2008 Nobel for economics
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - American economist Paul Krugman won the 2008 Nobel prize for economics for bringing together analysis of trade patterns and where economic activity takes place, the prize committee said on Monday. |
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BBC News |
4:18am PDT |
Bunk beds fill Tate Turbine Hall |
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Summary: Two hundred bunk bed frames form part of the latest art installation to fill the Turbine Hall in London's Tate Modern gallery. |
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4:09am PDT |
Father killed by 'getaway gang' |
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Summary: A man dies and his son is badly hurt when they are run over by thieves fleeing from a supermarket in County Durham, police say. |
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Cnn.com |
4:08am PDT |
Firefighters take ferry to battle blaze |
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Summary: A wildfire on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay spread across 100 acres Sunday but didn't damage any buildings the the historic state park, a Marin County fire official said.
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4:07am PDT |
Beyond merger talks, GM eyes federal funds
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - What's good for General Motors Corp is good for the country. |
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4:06am PDT |
UK bank bailout to take big stakes in top banks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Britain waded in with 37 billion pounds ($64 billion) of taxpayers' cash to bail out three major banks on Monday, in a move that could make it their main shareholder. |
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4:05am PDT |
Tories demand pupil grant inquiry |
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Summary: The Conservatives call for an independent inquiry into the problems hitting England's education maintenance allowances. |
