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This edition was generated on Thu Jun 5 08:45:01 EDT 2008

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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:

Clinton ending candidacy, supporting Obama
AP - 32 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton will end her historic bid on Saturday to become the first female president. Still unclear is whether she will ultimately share the Democratic ticket with Barack Obama, her rival in a presidential quest for the ages.

  • In this image from NASA TV Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, right, and astronaut Karen Nyberg are seen on the International Space Station, Wednesday, June 4, 2008. (AP Photo/NASA TV)
    Astronauts get ready for spacewalk AP - 5 minutes ago

    HOUSTON - Both the inside and outside of the international space station's newest room were getting spruced up Thursday.

  • A Pakistani investigator collects evidences at the site of Monday's massive car bomb blast outside the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, June 3, 2008. Denmark shared with Pakistani investigators video footage of the suicide car bombing against its embassy, as an Internet posting on Thursday, June 5, 2008 purportedly by al-Qaida claimed responsibility and threatened more attacks. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
    Al-Qaida claims Danish Embassy attack in Pakistan AP - 55 minutes ago

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Denmark shared a video of the suicide car bombing against its embassy in Islamabad with Pakistani investigators, as an Internet posting Thursday purportedly by al-Qaida claimed responsibility and threatened more attacks.

  • In this May 15, 2008 photo, actress Angelina Jolie arrives at the photo call for the film 'Kung Fu Panda' with her assistant Holly Goline at the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France.  (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)
    Jolie confidants: 'ET' knew twins source fake AP - 1 hour, 8 minutes ago

    NEW YORK - "Entertainment Tonight" aired a story about the birth of Angelina Jolie's twins despite being repeatedly told beforehand that the report was based on information from someone impersonating Jolie's assistant, according to documents and two people with knowledge of the exchange.

  • Detroit Red Wings' Dallas Drake, left, helps teammate Chris Osgood drink champagne out of the Stanley Cup in their locker room after they defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup hockey finals in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, June 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
    Hockeytown rejoices: Detroit wins 11th Stanley Cup AP - 1 hour, 9 minutes ago

    PITTSBURGH - Oil up the Winged Wheel, it's time for another victory parade. Hockeytown is home to the Stanley Cup — again. For the fourth time in 11 seasons, the Detroit Red Wings are the Stanley Cup champions. They used experience and grit to knock out the young up-and-coming Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night with a 3-2 victory in Game 6 of the finals.

  • In this Jan. 9, 2008 file photo, an E-Trade office is shown in Palo Alto, Calif. E-Trade Financial Corp. is giving its account holders an application that will let BlackBerry users get real-time stock quotes and trade on their phones. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, file)
    E-Trade makes it easier to trade on the BlackBerry AP - 1 hour, 50 minutes ago

    NEW YORK - As if BlackBerry users needed one more excuse to be glued to their screens, E-Trade Financial Corp. is giving its account holders an application that will let them get real-time stock quotes and trade on their phones.

  • Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks at his South Dakota and Montana presidential primary election night rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2008. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
    Clinton promises to "strongly support" Obama Reuters - Thu Jun 5, 2:35 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton will declare her strong support for Barack Obama's White House bid and rally supporters around him, she said in a letter on Thursday, drawing the curtain on a grueling 16-month nominating fight that badly split the Democratic Party.

  • Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is saluted by an Italian police officer as he arrives at a U.N. crisis summit on rising food prices at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome June 3, 2008. (Pier Paolo Cito/Pool/Reuters)
    Food summit may end without declaration of intent Reuters - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

    ROME (Reuters) - A summit on the global food crisis was at risk of closing without a declaration of intent on Thursday because of squabbling over side issues.

  • The Empire State Building on the New York skyline at sunrise is framed between airplanes at Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey September 13, 2006. (Gary Hershorn/Reuters)
    Continental Airlines cuts jobs, retires planes Reuters - 14 minutes ago

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Continental Airlines Inc said on Thursday it would cut 3,000 jobs, or about 6.5 percent of its work force, and retire 67 older planes as it scales down in the face of soaring fuel prices.

  • A video provided to Reuters on March 21, 2006 by Hamourabi Human rights group shows covered bodies, which Hamourabi says, are of a family of 15 shot dead in their home in Haditha, in western Anbar province, Iraq. (Hammurabi Organisation via Reuters TV/Reuters)
    Marine acquitted in Haditha deaths Reuters - Thu Jun 5, 12:41 AM ET

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine officer was acquitted by a military jury on Wednesday on charges he tried to cover up the shooting deaths of two dozen unarmed Iraqi men, women and children at Haditha in 2005.

  • Smoke flows from the Fertiberia fertilizer factory in an industrial zone of Huelva, southern Spain, June 4, 2008, one day ahead of the UN's World Environment Day. (Javier Barbancho/Reuters)
    World Environment Day calls for end to CO2 addiction Reuters - Thu Jun 5, 4:00 AM ET

    WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The United Nations urged the world on Thursday to kick an all-consuming addiction to carbon dioxide and said everyone must take steps to fight climate change.

  • Army vehicles carrying military bridges and speedboats park along a high road in preparation for rescue efforts of the Tangjiashan quake lake in Jiuling town of earthquake-hit Jiangyou county, Sichuan Province June 5, 2008. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
    China's Wen flies over "critical" quake lake Reuters - 33 minutes ago

    CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made his third trip to the earthquake zone on Thursday to inspect a swelling "quake lake" as China looked to the future, planning reconstruction of schools, homes and hospitals reduced to rubble.

  • The USS Essex is seen from a helicopter about 80 nautical miles south of Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta May 16, 2008. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters)
    Myanmar arrests activist as U.S. aid ships leave Reuters - Thu Jun 5, 2:30 AM ET

    YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar has detained a top activist comedian involved in a private aid effort for cyclone victims, a relative said, as U.S. warships sailed away on Thursday after the military junta refused to accept their aid offer.

  • Danes working with Pakistanis investigating blast Reuters - 29 minutes ago

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Danish team has arrived in Pakistan to work with agents investigating a suicide car-bomb attack on Denmark's embassy which al Qaeda said it carried out in revenge for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

  • Hillary Clinton speaks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington. Clinton said she will bow out of her marathon campaign for the White House on June 7 and throw her full support behind Democratic rival Barack Obama.(AFP/Robyn Beck)
    Clinton will bow out, back Obama AFP - 1 hour, 8 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Hillary Clinton said she will bow out of her marathon campaign for the White House on Saturday, and throw her full support behind Democratic rival Barack Obama.

  • The entrance to Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in California. A court martial has acquitted a US Marine for his role in the deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha in Iraq in 2005, the sixth man to be exonerated in the affair.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)
    US Marine acquitted in Haditha killings AFP - 2 hours, 52 minutes ago

    LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A court martial has acquitted a US Marine for his role in the deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha in Iraq in 2005, the sixth man to be exonerated in the affair.

  • Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, seen here in May 2008. has returned to the campaign trail after his detention by police three weeks before a run-off election triggered international outrage.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)
    Tsvangirai returns to campaign trail AFP - 2 hours, 56 minutes ago

    HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai returned to the campaign trail Thursday after his detention by police three weeks before a run-off election triggered international outrage.

  • A hijacked commercial plane crashes into the World Trade Center September 11 2001 in New York. In the first step towards trying the alleged plotters behind the devastating September 11 attacks, five men including the accused mastermind will be arraigned June 5 before a US military judge in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.(AFP/File/Seth Mcallister)
    Alleged 9/11 plotters set for Guantanamo hearing AFP - 6 minutes ago

    US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (AFP) - Five men accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks will appear in public for the first time in years Thursday at a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

  • Turkish students demonstrate outside Istabul University in February 2008. Turkey's top court has convened to decide whether to cancel a law allowing women to wear Islamic headscarves in universities, a ruling that could set off a chain reaction for the Islamist rooted governing party and prime minister.(AFP/File/Sezayi Erken)
    Turkish court to rule on headscarf law AFP - 2 hours, 28 minutes ago

    ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey's top court convened Thursday to decide whether to cancel a law allowing women to wear Islamic headscarves in universities, a ruling that could set off a chain reaction for the Islamist rooted governing party and prime minister.

  • The headquarters of TeliaSonera in Stokholm. Swedish Finance Minister Mats Odell has said that the government believed a 33-billion-euro (51-billion-dollar) bid for Swedish-Finnish operator TeliaSonera by France Telecom was too low.(AFP/File/Ingvar Karmhed)
    Swedish government rejects France Telecom bid for TeliaSonera AFP - 1 hour, 56 minutes ago

    STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Swedish Finance Minister Mats Odell said Thursday that the government believed a 33-billion-euro (51-billion-dollar) bid for Swedish-Finnish operator TeliaSonera by France Telecom was too low.

  • A man leaves the offices of British-Russian oil giant TNK-BP in central Moscow in mid March 2008. The head of British-Russian energy company TNK-BP has been summoned by Russian authorities for questioning as part of a tax probe, the company said, amid a battle for control of the firm.(AFP/File/Natalia Kolesnikova)
    Russia summons TNK-BP oil boss in tax probe: company AFP - 1 hour, 18 minutes ago

    MOSCOW (AFP) - The head of British-Russian energy company TNK-BP has been summoned by Russian authorities for questioning as part of a tax probe, the company said Thursday, amid a battle for control of the firm.

Most Popular Top Stories

  • Employees of an exchange bureau count US dollar currency notes at their office in New Delhi on May 23, 2008. India's economy grew nine percent in the last fiscal year, second only to China among big economies, but the better than expected figure was overshadowed by a surge in inflation, data showed Friday.(AFP/File/Prakash Singh)
    Amid economic slowdown, signs of new world order The Christian Science Monitor - Mon Jun 2, 5:00 AM ET

    The world economy is cooling this year thanks to a slowdown in the United States, but something new is playing out: This slowdown is serving to amplify a shift in financial power toward Asia and developing nations.

  • Two little figurines are seen on top of a wedding cake. A heated debate on gay rights opened in Greece hours after the country's first same-sex civil marriages were held on the small Aegean island of Tilos, sparking an immediate judicial reaction.(AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys)
    First Greek gay marriages spark judicial battle AFP - Tue Jun 3, 9:22 AM ET

    ATHENS (AFP) - A heated debate on gay rights opened in Greece on Tuesday hours after the country's first same-sex civil marriages were held on the small Aegean island of Tilos, sparking an immediate judicial reaction.

  • A couple watches the sunset on Venice Beach in Los Angeles December 26, 2007. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
    Men prefer being solo over a bad marriage: study Reuters - Mon Jun 2, 1:26 AM ET

    SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Bachelor Carl Weisman got fed up of being classified as a playboy, a loser or a commitment-phobe so he set out to find out exactly why he and a growing number of eligible men were steering clear of marriage.

  • A study by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has found that people who drink five glasses of wine a week halve the risk of rheumatoid arthritis.(AFP/File/Martin Bernetti)
    Alcohol cuts risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis AFP - Thu Jun 5, 4:47 AM ET

    PARIS (AFP) - People who drink alcohol are less prone to the sometimes crippling disease called rheumatoid arthritis compared with non-drinkers, according to a Scandinavian study published on Wednesday.

  • A wedding cake with statuettes of two women is seen in West Hollywood, California, May 15. California will hold its first gay marriages starting on June 17, state authorities told its public officials Wednesday, two weeks after the state Supreme Court quashed a ban on gay marriage in a historic ruling.(AFP/Gabriel Bouys)
    California sees business boom from gay weddings Reuters - Wed Jun 4, 7:44 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday clears the way for gay marriage ceremonies that could bring a business windfall to San Francisco and other cities starting this month.

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Hockeytown rejoices: Detroit wins 11th Stanley Cup

AP - 1 hour, 9 minutes ago

PITTSBURGH - Oil up the Winged Wheel, it's time for another victory parade. Hockeytown is home to the Stanley Cup — again. For the fourth time in 11 seasons, the Detroit Red Wings are the Stanley Cup champions. They used experience and grit to knock out the young up-and-coming Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night with a 3-2 victory in Game 6 of the finals.

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Continental Airlines to cut 3,000 jobs, capacity

AP - 25 minutes ago

DALLAS - Continental Airlines Inc. said Thursday it is cutting 3,000 jobs and reducing capacity in the fourth quarter by 11 percent, citing record fuel costs that have pushed the airline industry into a "crisis."

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 5, 2008
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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Clement Atlee
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
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Dave Barry (1947 - )
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)

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