Archive for June 6th, 2009

Week In Review Speidi Conan Jon Kate Bask In The Glow Of New Moon

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Week In Review Speidi Conan Jon  Kate Bask In The Glow Of New Moon

Los Angeles (E! Online) –
Ah, the weekend. Time to relax, reboot and reflect on all the celebrity news…

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Airbus A330 Has History Of Airspeed Problems

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Airbus A330 Has History Of Airspeed Problems

PARIS (Reuters) –
Airbus has faced problems with the speed sensors on its A330 aircraft dating back to at least 2001, forcing changes in equipment as well as the pilot's flight manual, according to regulatory…

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Swat Mens First Post-Taliban Shave

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Swat Mens First Post-Taliban Shave

Swat men’s first post-Taliban shave
Zeeshan Zafar
BBC Urdu, Islamabad
Men who have fled the fighting in the Swat valley between the Pakistani military and the Taliban have little to cheer them.They have left their homes, lost their jobs and gone though…

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ProgrammesFrom Our Own CorrespondentPollution And Poverty In Kyrgyzstan

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
ProgrammesFrom Our Own CorrespondentPollution And Poverty In Kyrgyzstan

Pollution and poverty in Kyrgyzstan
By Alex Kirby
Kyrgyzstan
Twenty years after independence, the small Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan remains one of the poorest parts of the former Soviet Union, struggling to make its way…

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Lebanese Christians – Kingmakers In Vote

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Lebanese Christians - Kingmakers In Vote

Lebanese Christians – kingmakers in vote
By Natalia Antelava
BBC News, Beirut
There is a new joke in Beirut – Lebanon’s heated election campaign, it goes, has given birth to two new religious sects… Shia and Sunni Christians. In Lebanon,…

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Deaths In Mexico Day-care Fire Rise To 35 Children

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Deaths In Mexico Day-care Fire Rise To 35 Children

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) –
The death toll from a fire at a day-care center in northern Mexico rose to 35 children with at least 40 more hospitalized, many with life-threatening burns,…

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Carradine Mystery Deepens Family Seeks FBI Help

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Carradine Mystery Deepens Family Seeks FBI Help

BANGKOK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) –
The family of David Carradine has asked U.S. authorities to help unravel the mystery of his death, amid conflicting reports about how his body was found hanging naked in a Bangkok…

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Palin Helps NY Town Celebrate Alaska Anniversary

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Palin Helps NY Town Celebrate Alaska Anniversary

AUBURN, N.Y. – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin set aside politics only briefly Saturday to help Auburn officials celebrate their inaugural Founder’s Day and raise money for a museum honoring William Seward, the 19th-century U.S. secretary…

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Ooh La La Heros Welcome For Obamas In Paris

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Ooh La La Heros Welcome For Obamas In Paris

PARIS (AFP) –
US President Barack Obama and his family received a hero's welcome in Paris on Saturday as they were given a private tour of the famed Notre Dame cathedral.
Thousands…

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Five US Contractors Held In Slaying Of Another In Iraq

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Five US Contractors Held In Slaying Of Another In Iraq

BAGHDAD, IraqFive American security contractors were detained in connection with the killing of another American contractor last month inside Baghdad’s Green Zone, sources with knowledge of the investigation…

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David Carradines Family Asks For FBI Probe

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
David Carradines Family Asks For FBI Probe

LOS ANGELES (AFP) –
The family of US actor David Carradine, found dead this week in a Bangkok hotel room with rope tied around his neck and genitals, have called on the FBI to probe…

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Under Pressure Brown Mixes Obama And Omaha

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Under Pressure Brown Mixes Obama And Omaha

PARIS (AFP) –
Prime Minister Gordon Brown renamed the famed Omaha beach “Obama beach” in a slip-up while giving his D-Day commemoration speech in France on Saturday.
Brown, who is fighting for his political survival at…

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Hollywood To Portray Kenyas Pirate Whisperer

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Hollywood To Portray Kenyas Pirate Whisperer

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) –
When agents for Hollywood actor Samuel L Jackson came looking for Andrew Mwangura in Kenya, he could not meet them — he was on the run.
The man they call the “Pirate Whisperer” was…

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Man Sought For Threatening President Arrested

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Man Sought For Threatening President Arrested

SALT LAKE CITY – Authorities have arrested a man who allegedly told bank tellers while cleaning out his savings account in Utah that he was on a mission to kill President Barack Obama.
The Secret Service said Daniel…

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Experts Mull Over Lessons From Plane Crash

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Experts Mull Over Lessons From Plane Crash

LONDON – The mysterious disappearance of an Air France jet this week while flying over the Atlantic in fierce thunderstorms is stirring a debate about whether new technologies and procedures are needed to prevent similar…

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US Healthcare Revamp To Require Medical Coverage

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
US Healthcare Revamp To Require Medical Coverage

WASHINGTON (Reuters) –
U.S. lawmakers plan far-reaching insurance market reforms, and would require that businesses and individuals purchase medical coverage as they seek to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, an early draft of Senate legislation…

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Mystery Surrounds Kung Fu Actors Death

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Mystery Surrounds Kung Fu Actors Death

BANGKOK (Reuters) –
Mystery continued to shroud the death of actor David Carradine on Saturday, with rumor and speculation rife about how the star of 1970s-era U.S. television show “Kung Fu” met his demise.
With coroners awaiting the…

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US Bailout Repayment Seen Bigger Than Expected Report

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
US Bailout Repayment Seen Bigger Than Expected Report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) –
The Obama administration is expected to announce next week that a higher-than-expected number of large financial institutions will be allowed to repay their government bailout funds, the Washington Post reported…

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Missing Air France Jet Sent 24 Error Messages

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Missing Air France Jet Sent 24 Error Messages

UK World War I Veteran Marks 113th Birthday

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
UK World War I Veteran Marks 113th Birthday

LONDON – One of Britain’s last surviving veterans of World War I has celebrated his 113th birthday.
Henry Allingham, who is also Britain’s oldest man, marked the occasion Saturday with a cake and a…

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Mexican Day Care Fire Kills At Least 31

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Mexican Day Care Fire Kills At Least 31

MEXICO CITY, MexicoThe death toll from a fire Friday at a Mexican day care center in the northwestern state of Sonora has risen to at least 31, the government reported Saturday via…

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Shot Abortion Doctor Buried In US

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Shot Abortion Doctor Buried In US

Shot abortion doctor buried in US
Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of US abortion doctor George Tiller, who was shot dead at a church in Wichita, Kansas, last Sunday.Anti-abortionists had vilified Dr Tiller for being one…

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Missing Air France Jet Suffered Systems Failure

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Missing Air France Jet Suffered Systems Failure

PARIS (AFP) –
French investigators said Saturday that the Air France jet carrying 228 people which plunged into the Atlantic suffered multiple systems failures and had speed monitors that had failed on other planes.
The 24…

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Airbus Plans To Replace Faulty Speed Monitors

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Airbus Plans To Replace Faulty Speed Monitors

Smart Grid 151 Buzz Of The Electric Power Industry

Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Smart Grid 151 Buzz Of The Electric Power Industry

WASHINGTON – Thomas Alva Edison, meet the Internet.
More than a century after Edison invented a reliable light bulb, the nation’s electricity distribution system, an aging spider web of power lines, is…

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