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GOP picks Fischer to face Kerrey in Nebraska

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
Nebraska state Sen. Deb Fischer won the Republican nomination for an open U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, official results showed, beating two better-funded candidacies for the opportunity to face off against a former U.S. senator for the open seat in November.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Appeal over potato laptop fraud

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
People across Manchester have fall victim to a scam in which they believe they are buying laptops but get a bag of potatoes.
Categories: BBC, News

Facebook to sell 25% more shares

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
Facebook says it will sell 25% more shares than first planned in its forthcoming flotation in response to strong demand.
Categories: BBC, News

VIDEO: House of Commons

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed a suggestion by Labour leader Ed Miliband that the police are "absolutely furious" with cuts to their budgets, retorting that cuts under Labour would be "deeper".
Categories: BBC, News

VIDEO: Live England squad announcement

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
Watch live coverage of the Euro 2012 England Squad announcement. (UK users only).
Categories: BBC, News

Group: Congo ex-general recruiting children again

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation published Wednesday....

US rendition 'torture' case heard

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
A German man who alleges he was subjected to "extraordinary rendition" by the CIA takes his case to the European Court of Human Rights.
Categories: BBC, News

Royal party takes barge journey

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
The Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles are in East Lancashire for the latest leg of the Diamond Jubilee tour.
Categories: BBC, News

Students in tornado-hit Ind. town await 'Lady A'

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Tornadoes battered their school and their homes. Their spring break was filled with cleanup and recovery work that has only just begun. But for one night, students at a southern Indiana high school hope to put all that aside to enjoy an evening that one of country music's biggest acts planned just for them....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Bringing back the punt

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
Town takes a punt at bringing back an old Irish note.
Categories: BBC, News

DRC rebel 'still recruits youth'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
Renegade general Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, is still forcing youngsters to fight for him in the Democratic Republic of Congo, campaigners say.
Categories: BBC, News

Hotel row AM faces Labour action

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
Labour AM Keith Davies faces further action from his party over his drunken behaviour at a five-star hotel, BBC Wales understands.
Categories: BBC, News

Google patents Project Glass design

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
Search giant Google patents the design of its augmented reality glasses, known as Project Glass.
Categories: BBC, News

Police to groom of slain bride: Turn yourself in

CHICAGO (AP) — Police are urging a newlywed suburban Chicago man wanted in the stabbing death of his wife to turn himself in as 32 law enforcement agencies and the FBI hunt for him.

Thirty-year-old Arnoldo Jimenez is accused of first-degree murder in the slaying of 26-year-old Estrella Carrera. She ...

Heckled May defends police change

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
Home Secretary Theresa May denies her relationship with the police is beyond repair after she was heckled at the Police Federation conference.
Categories: BBC, News

Body found in missing boy search

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
Police divers searching for a 16-year-old boy who went missing while fishing at a quarry in North Lanarkshire find a body.
Categories: BBC, News

Opinion: Save immigrant women in U.S.

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:51
Leith Anderson and Lynne Hybels says a new House version of the Violence Against Women Act erodes protections from abuse for immigrant women.
Categories: CNN, News
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