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General News Update
Sports News Update
Business News Update
Miscellaneous Daily Information
Boston Area Weather


General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

It's Super Tuesday coast to coast
AP - 3 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton fought for a breakout in their eyeball-to-eyeball Democratic duel while Republican John McCain hoped to bury his rival's presidential hopes in a blur of voting Tuesday from Alaska to the Atlantic.

Iraq

1.5 million widows

Iraqi women struggle to survive as violence claims their men.

NFL ON YAHOO! SPORTS

Giant upset

See highlights, photos and statistics from Super Bowl XLII.

Afghanistan

'Forgotten war'

Is the U.S. failing in Afghanistan?

60 MINUTES ON YAHOO! NEWS

Sushi samurai

This keeper of Japanese tradition pays thousands for one tuna.

  • Israeli police sappers examine the body of a suicide bomber at the scene of an attack in the town of Dimona, southern Israel, Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. A suicide bomber on Monday blew himself up in the southern town that houses Israel's secretive nuclear reactor, killing at least one Israeli and wounding six, one critically, Israeli authorities said. Police said they killed a second attacker before he had a chance to detonate his explosives belt. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
    Israel on high alert after bombing AP - 2 hours, 10 minutes ago

    JERUSALEM - Israeli security forces were on high alert Tuesday, sending beefed-up patrols to public areas such as shopping malls, bus stations and train depots after the first Palestinian suicide attack in more than a year.

  • Google selling more e-mail security AP - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. is adding more e-mail security and storage products for businesses, sharpening its aim on a Microsoft Corp. stronghold while the competition between the two rivals also heats up in Internet search and advertising.

  • Writers guild members picket outside Paramount Studios in Los Angeles Monday, Feb 4. 2008. A person familiar with negotiations says the striking Hollywood writers guild remains on track for a possible deal with studios, but specific language of a new contract has yet to be resolved. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
    TV-movie writers deal may come this week AP - 1 hour, 11 minutes ago

    LOS ANGELES - An agreement to end the three-month-old Hollywood writers strike could be ready in time to avoid disrupting the Oscars but studios and the union are still haggling over the precise language, two people familiar with the talks said.

  • In a file photo Britney Spears arrives for a post Grammy Awards party at a private residence  Feb. 8, 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif. .(AP Photo/Danny Moloshok/file)
    Spears' father retained as conservator AP - 1 hour, 55 minutes ago

    LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears' father was granted control of her finances until Valentine's Day by a judge who also barred the troubled pop star from contacting her friend and sometime manager, Sam Lutfi.

  • New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens reacts after giving up a home run to Cleveland Indians' Trot Nixon in the second inning during Game 3 of an American League baseball division playoff series in this Oct. 7, 2007 file photo, at Yankee Stadium in New York. The seven-time Cy Young Award winner is scheduled to give a deposition to lawyers from a congressional committee behind closed doors Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008, one day after his former New York Yankees teammate and workout partner Andy Pettitte delivered sworn testimony for about 2½ hours. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, File)
    Clemens heads to Capitol Hill today AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - Roger Clemens has chosen various ways to strongly deny using steroids or human growth hormone: a taped TV interview, a live news conference and, repeatedly, through his lawyers.

  • Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) greets supporters after a campaign rally at the Colonial Volunteer Fire House in Hamilton, New Jersey, February 4, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)
    A Super Tuesday showdown in 24 states Reuters - 50 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voters in 24 states make their choices in an unpredictable U.S. presidential campaign on Tuesday, with Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in a close fight and Republican John McCain aiming for a knockout blow against Mitt Romney.

  • Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama talks to the press on a flight from Wilmington, Delaware to Chicago, Illinois February 3, 2008. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
    Obama, Romney lead in California on Super Tuesday Reuters - 2 hours, 25 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama surged to a big lead over Hillary Clinton in California hours before "Super Tuesday" voting began in 24 states, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday.

  • A looter is chased by a group of Kisii men in the town of Chepilat February 4, 2008. (Peter Andrews/Reuters)
    Kenya death toll hits 1,000, parties talk Reuters - Tue Feb 5, 4:10 AM ET

    NAIROBI (Reuters) - The death toll from Kenya's post-election bloodletting has risen to 1,000, the Red Cross said on Tuesday, as political rivals began the toughest part of their negotiations so far.

  • Local residents queue to get water from a fire engine in Chenzhou, Hunan province February 4, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)
    Millions in China to greet new year without power Reuters - 2 hours, 6 minutes ago

    KAILI, China (Reuters) - Railways and highways were returning to normal across China on Tuesday, but millions are likely to spend the biggest holiday of the year without power and water in what for some is the coldest winter in a century.

  • Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (L) sits beside the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee Tzachi Hanegbi during a committee meeting in the parliament in Jerusalem January 14, 2008. (Eliana Aponte/Reuters)
    Israeli lawmaker urges killing of Hamas leaders Reuters - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A senior member of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's party urged the Israeli government on Tuesday to order the assassination of Hamas political leaders in response to a bombing in Israel claimed by the Islamist group.

  • Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and co-chairman of her Pakistan People's Party, addresses a news conference in Karachi January 25, 2008. The party of assassinated Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto will on Tuesday publish her will in which she calls for her husband to lead the party and says she fears for the country's future. (Athar Hussain/Reuters)
    Bhutto said in will husband should lead party Reuters - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The party of assassinated Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto published her political will on Tuesday in which she called for her husband to lead the party and said she feared for the country's future.

  • Prince Andrew takes a brief tour of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery during his visit in Kiev, June 29, 2006. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
    Britain's Prince Andrew attacks Bush on Iraq Reuters - Tue Feb 5, 3:22 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Andrew launched a sharp attack on Tuesday on President George W. Bush for failing to listen to Britain during the conflict in Iraq.

  • Colombian soldiers fire during a combat exercise with U.S. instructor in a southern Colombian area once controlled by left-wing rebels in La Macarena, some 400 kms (248 miles) of Bogota in Meta province, Nov. 28, 2007. (Carlos Duran/Reuters)
    U.S. soldiers help war against rebels in Colombia Reuters - 2 hours, 50 minutes ago

    FLORENCIA, Colombia (Reuters) - When spies spotted a guerrilla chief camped on a jungle riverbank one afternoon late last year, Colombia's army quickly turned to U.S. soldiers to help plan his capture.

  • Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton addresses supporters in Worcester, Massachusetts. Democrats Barack Obama and Clinton slugged out a neck-and-neck tussle and John McCain aimed to close out the Republican race, as voting began on "Super Tuesday" -- a historic 24-state White House nominating showdown.(AFP/Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)
    Voters flock to polls on historic 'Super Tuesday' AFP - 1 hour, 51 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton slugged out a neck-and-neck tussle and John McCain aimed to close out the Republican race, as voting began on "Super Tuesday," a historic 24-state White House nominating showdown.

  • Foreign nationals leave the Chadian capital inside an armoured vehicle on February 4. Rebels in Chad trying to overthrow President Idriss Deby have agreed to an immediate ceasefire, as refugees streamed into neighbouring Cameroon by the thousands for fear of renewed fighting.(AFP/Pascal Guyot)
    Rebels in Chad accept ceasefire; refugees still fleeing AFP - 1 hour, 32 minutes ago

    NDJAMENA (AFP) - Rebels in Chad trying to overthrow President Idriss Deby agreed Tuesday to an immediate ceasefire, as refugees streamed into neighbouring Cameroon by the thousands for fear of renewed fighting.

  • Zimbabwe's former finance minister Simba Makoni, seen here in 2001, has announced he will challenge President Robert Mugabe as an independent candidate in next month's elections. Makoni is a senior member of the ruling ZANU-PF party.(AFP/File/Rajesh Jantilal)
    Zimbabwe's Mugabe to face polls challenge from ex-minister AFP - 2 hours, 34 minutes ago

    HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's former finance minister Simba Makoni, a senior member of the ruling ZANU-PF party, announced Tuesday he would challenge President Robert Mugabe as an independent in elections next month.

  • An artist's impression of the A2 aircraft. British engineers have unveiled plans for a hypersonic jet which could fly from Europe to Australia in less than five hours.(Reaction Engines/Adrian Mann)
    Hypersonic jet could reach Australia in under five hours AFP - 1 hour, 39 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - British engineers unveiled plans Tuesday for a hypersonic jet which could fly from Europe to Australia in less than five hours.

  • Guests stand next to Alstom's new high-speed AGV in La Rochelle. French engineering giant Alstom, creator of the high-speed TGV train, unveiled Tuesday a new-generation, super-fast prototype: quicker, cleaner, bigger -- and tailored specially for export.(AFP/Jean-Perre Muller)
    France's unveils super-fast train AFP - 37 minutes ago

    LA ROCHELLE, France (AFP) - French engineering giant Alstom, creator of the high-speed TGV train, unveiled Tuesday a new-generation, super-fast prototype: quicker, cleaner, bigger -- and tailored specially for export.

  • A Yahoo billboard.  Yahoo remained coy on Monday as Microsoft publicly touted the virtues of its 44.6-billion-dollar bid to take over the Internet firm and Google maneuvered behind the scenes to thwart it.(AFP/File/David Paul Morris)
    Microsoft urges Yahoo to accept 'generous' takeover offer AFP - Mon Feb 4, 9:12 PM ET

    NEW YORK (AFP) - Yahoo remained coy on Monday as Microsoft publicly touted the virtues of its 44.6-billion-dollar bid to take over the Internet firm and Google maneuvered behind the scenes to thwart it.

  • The logo of the World Bank is seen at the entrance to the building in Washington, DC. The World Bank named Monday Justin Lin Yifu, who defected from Taiwan to China and rose to become a top economic strategist for the communist country, as its chief economist, the first time a Chinese has held the job.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)
    Chinese professor named World Bank chief economist AFP - Tue Feb 5, 3:01 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The World Bank has named Justin Lin Yifu, who defected from Taiwan and rose to become a top economic strategist for communist China, its chief economist -- the first time a Chinese has held the job.

Most Popular Top Stories

  • A fishing boat sails past a large iceberg at the mouth of the Jakobshavns ice fjord near Ilulissat in this photo taken May 15, 2007. Global warming this century could trigger a runaway thaw of Greenland's ice sheet and other abrupt shifts such as a dieback of the Amazon rainforest, scientists said on Monday. (Bob Strong/Reuters)
    "Tipping point" on horizon for Greenland ice Reuters - Mon Feb 4, 5:09 PM ET

    OSLO (Reuters) - Global warming this century could trigger a runaway thaw of Greenland's ice sheet and other abrupt shifts such as a dieback of the Amazon rainforest, scientists said on Monday.

  • Paramilitary police walk amid snow to repair broken power towers in Chenzhou, Hunan province, February 5, 2008. Railways and highways were returning to normal across China on Tuesday, but millions are likely to spend the biggest holiday of the year without power and water in what for some is the coldest winter in a century. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) CHINA OUT
    China battles "coldest winter in 100 years" Reuters - Mon Feb 4, 11:21 AM ET

    CHENZHOU, China (Reuters) - Millions remained stranded in China on Monday ahead of the biggest holiday of the year as parts of the country suffered their coldest winter in a century.

  • FBI probes purchases of US aircraft by drug lords Reuters - Mon Feb 4, 7:37 PM ET

    MIAMI (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man has been charged with laundering drug profits to buy U.S. aircraft to smuggle cocaine, according to U.S. court documents, as the FBI broadens a probe into South American cocaine kings.

  • New York Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton chats with supporters during a campaign stop at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 3. Exhausted White House hopefuls have launched one last frenzied day of campaigning before a 24-state "Super Tuesday" -- the biggest one-day White House nominating contest in history.(AFP/Robyn Beck)
    How to untangle the politics of Super Tuesday primaries The Christian Science Monitor - Mon Feb 4, 3:00 AM ET

    Washington - A handful of candidates are competing in almost two dozen states, spread across the country.

  • An undated microscopic view of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells. Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen. (University of Wisconsin/Handout/Reuters)
    Finnish patient gets new jaw from own stem cells Reuters - Fri Feb 1, 1:47 PM ET

    HELSINKI (Reuters) - Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Texas Tech coach Bob Knight resigns

AP - Tue Feb 5, 4:57 AM ET

LUBBOCK, Texas - Bob Knight promised that when he finally decided to call it quits at Texas Tech it would be hard to find him.

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

U.S. stocks head for lower open

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, February 4, 2008. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
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Reuters
AP - 36 minutes ago

NEW YORK - U.S. stocks headed for a lower open Tuesday as investors awaited quarterly corporate reports and data to help indicate where the economy might be headed.

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Lateshow Top Ten List

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - February 5, 2008
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
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I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
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Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), (Snoopy)
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)

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