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This edition was generated on Fri Jun 13 08:45:02 EDT 2008

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Sports News Update
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General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

Inflation jumps by biggest amount in 6 months
A shopper carries a bag in San Francisco, 2007. US retail sales surged a stronger-than-expected 1.0 percent in May, as American consumers appeared to splurge out more on purchases.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)
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AP - 4 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Inflation shot up in May at the fastest pace in six months, pushed higher by soaring costs for gasoline and other types of energy.

  • In this June 6, 2008 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, the sun rises over Camp Delta detention compound at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, in Cuba.  The Supreme Court ruled Thursday, June 12, 2008, that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool, File)
    Attorney general says detainee trials to go on AP - 58 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday the Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo detainees would not affect the trials of enemy combatants. A divided court ruled decided suspected terrorists have the right to go to federal court to seek their release from indefinite detention.

  • Eight-year-old Cub Scout Baileigh Rohde holds a candle and looks up at Boy Scout Josh Dohse, left, during a candlelight vigil in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, June 12, 2008, for the four Boy Scouts killed after a twister flattened their camp in Iowa Wednesday night. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
    Families, troops mourn 4 Scouts killed in tornado AP - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

    OMAHA, Neb. - First came the shock, then the grief. As dozens of people injured in a tornado at an Iowa Boy Scout camp recovered, families and friends tried to make sense of the deaths of four teenage Scouts who had gone to the elite camp to learn how to be leaders.

  • In this May 9, 2008 file photo, a foreclosure sign stands outside an existing home on the market in Denver. The stress from deepening debt is becoming a major pain in the neck, and backs and heads and stomachs, for millions of Americans. When people are dealing with mountains of debt, they're much more likely to report health problems, too, according to an Associated Press-AOL Health poll. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski/file)
    US foreclosure filings surge 48 percent in May AP - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - The number of U.S. homeowners swept up in the housing crisis rose further last month, with foreclosure filings up nearly 50 percent compared with a year earlier, a foreclosure listing company said Friday.

  • R&B singer R. Kelly enters the Cook County Criminal Court Building Thursday, June 12 2008, in Chicago as closing arguments begin in his child pornography trial. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
    Jury gets R. Kelly child porn case, adjourns AP - 1 hour, 8 minutes ago

    CHICAGO - It took six years to get this far, but a jury in R. Kelly's long-delayed child pornography trial is now deciding whether the R&B singer is guilty or not guilty of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl.

  • Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant (24) has his shot blocked by Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce (34) and Kevin Garnett in the second half of Game 4 of the NBA basketball finals Thursday, June 12, 2008, in Los Angeles. The Celtics beat the Lakers 97-91. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
    Celtics roar back, beat Lakers 97-91 in Game 4 AP - 54 minutes ago

    LOS ANGELES - In their comeback season, the Celtics saved the biggest one of all for the NBA finals. Boston rallied from a 24-point deficit and beat the Los Angeles Lakers 97-91 on Thursday night to take a commanding 3-1 lead in this history-rich series and move within one victory of a 17th championship that seemed impossible a year ago.

  • A U.S. soldier walks past a billboard of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Moqtada's father and grandfather while on a patrol in Baghdad's Sadr City, June 10, 2008. (Omar Obeidi/Reuters)
    Iraq says talks with U.S. on pact deadlocked Reuters - 1 hour, 6 minutes ago

    AMMAN (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday talks with the United States on a new long-term security pact were deadlocked because of U.S. demands that infringed Iraq's sovereignty.

  • U.S. President George W. Bush (R) walks through the gardens of the Vatican to the Lourdes Grotto alongside Pope Benedict XVI, June 13, 2008. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
    Bush, pope take break in calm of Vatican Gardens Reuters - 1 hour, 13 minutes ago

    VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict gave George W. Bush an unprecedented welcome in the tranquility of the Vatican Gardens on Friday before the U.S. president resumed his campaign to rally European support for sanctions against Iran.

  • An Irish flag flies next to a symbol of the euro currency at the entrance of the European Parliament in Brussels, June 13, 2008. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)
    Ireland rejects treaty in blow for EU Reuters - 51 minutes ago

    DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish voters have rejected the European Union's Lisbon treaty in a referendum, the government acknowledged on Friday, potentially scuppering EU reform plans.

  • Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony at the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, 350 km (217 miles) south of Tehran, April 9, 2007. (Caren Firouz/Reuters)
    U.S. warns defiant Iran ahead of Solana trip Reuters - Wed Jun 11, 4:46 PM ET

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - The United States warned a defiant Iran on Wednesday that "all options are on the table" to thwart its nuclear ambitions and the EU's top diplomat prepared to travel to Tehran in the latest bid to resolve the dispute.

  • Pakistan likely to accept joint U.S. attack inquiry Reuters - 16 minutes ago

    PARIS (Reuters) - Pakistan's foreign minister said on Friday he believed a U.S. offer to hold a joint investigation into an American air strike that killed 11 Pakistani soldiers would be useful and should go ahead.

  • Two soldiers talk at dawn at the entrance to a hangar at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, June 6, 2008. (Brennan Linsley/Pool/Reuters)
    Supreme Court rules for Guantanamo prisoners Reuters - Thu Jun 12, 7:08 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Guantanamo Bay prisoners can go before U.S. federal judges to challenge their years-long detention, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a landmark decision that delivered another setback for President George W. Bush's war on terrorism.

  • Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn of France (L) speaks with Japan's Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga at the Osaka International Convention Center during the G8 Finance Ministers Meeting in Osaka, western Japan, June 13, 2008. (Dai Kurokawa/Pool/Reuters)
    Dollar grabs spotlight at G8 inflation talks Reuters - Fri Jun 13, 4:53 AM ET

    OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar took centre stage as Group of Eight finance ministers gathered in Japan on Friday to wrestle with surging inflation and its impact on a slowing global economy.

  • Monks from the Magay teaching monastery ration out food before sitting down to eat, in Ashi Dagon Myothic, about 25 km (16 miles) south west of Yangon, Myanmar Thursday, June 12, 2008. Traditionally, monks walk bare foot before breakfast and lunch and gather food donated by local Buddhists who desire good fortune from Buddha. Buddhist monks in Myanmar have been instrumental in aiding relief efforts after Cyclone Nargis  hit the country on May 2-3, 2008, leaving 78,000 people dead and another 56,000 missing, mostly in the country's southern Irrawaddy delta region. (AP Photo)
    Foreign doctors leave cyclone-hit Myanmar Reuters - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

    BANGKOK (Reuters) - Foreign doctors have started leaving cyclone-hit Myanmar as the junta has closed down many relief camps in the affected areas, a senior Thai health ministry official said on Friday.

  • Election officials count the ballots for the Lisbon Treaty referendum in Dublin. Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has told the RTE broadcaster that the "no" camp appears to have won a crunch Irish referendum on the EU's new treaty.(AFP/Peter Muhly)
    'No' vote set to win Irish EU poll: justice minister AFP - 50 minutes ago

    DUBLIN (AFP) - The "no" camp appears to have won a crunch Irish referendum on the EU's new treaty, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern told the RTE state broadcaster Friday, calling the results "disappointing".

  • Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai, seen here on June 10, was detained by police ahead of the June 27 election. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe raised the spectre of war by warning that his staunchest supporters are ready to take up arms rather than let the opposition triumph in a June 27 election.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)
    Mugabe brandishes spectre of war in vote build-up AFP - 26 minutes ago

    HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe raised the spectre of war on Friday by warning his staunchest supporters are ready to take up arms rather than let the opposition triumph in a June 27 election.

  • The sun rises over the Camp Delta detention compound at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Supreme Court has ruled that Guantanamo prisoners can challenge their detention in US civilian courts. A senior US official says the military trials will continue despite the ruling by the Supreme Court.(AFP/Pool/File/Brennan Linsley)
    Court ruling a blow to Bush, but official says trials to proceed AFP - 33 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Supreme Court ruling that Guantanamo prisoners can challenge their detention in US civilian courts dealt a blow to President George W. Bush, but a senior official said Friday the military trials will continue.

  • Chinese women hold a "Welcome Cross Straits" banner during the arrival of Taiwan's Chiang Pin-Kun in Beijing. China and Taiwan signed historic agreements on Friday to establish direct regular flights between the two sides and allow more mainlanders to visit the island, with the event broadcast on national TV(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)
    China, Taiwan sign historic deals on travel AFP - Fri Jun 13, 1:50 AM ET

    BEIJING, June 13, 2008 (AFP) - China and Taiwan signed historic agreements on Friday that from next month will see thousands more people travel every day between the two traditional rivals.

  • A giant panda roams the damaged China Conservation and Research Center in Wolong, after a powerful earthquake struck Sichuan province in May 2008. Chinese government experts have warned that the lives of nearly 90 percent of China's endangered pandas are in danger after last month's earthquake devastated their mountainous habitat.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)
    China's pandas in danger following quake: experts AFP - 2 hours, 15 minutes ago

    SHANGHAI (AFP) - The lives of nearly 90 percent of China's endangered pandas are in danger after last month's earthquake devastated their mountainous habitat, Chinese government experts have warned.

  • G8 finance chiefs wrestle with oil, food crises AFP - 23 minutes ago

    OSAKA (AFP) - Finance ministers from the world's leading industrialised powers discussed Friday the economic threat from soaring food and oil prices while backing new technology to battle global warming.

  • A laptop is seen under the logo of Yahoo at a trade fair in 2007. Yahoo and Google on Thursday announced a much-rumored alliance to put the Internet search king's expertise to work pumping money from its floundering rival's online advertising.(AFP/DDP/File/Michael Gottschalk)
    Yahoo, Google announce online ad alliance AFP - Fri Jun 13, 4:37 AM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Fresh from a failed courtship with Microsoft, Yahoo on Thursday rushed into Google's arms in the hope an alliance will improve its sagging fortunes and quell a rebellion by stockholders.

Most Popular Top Stories

  • A woman sits in front of the window as she looks at the Llosa del cavall reservoir in Sant Llorencs de Morunys, north of Solsona, April 5, 2008. If you're feeling stressed, rather than wallow in front of the television try looking out of the window, with a U.S. study finding scenes of nature can alleviate minor stress levels. (Gustau Nacarino/Reuters)
    Stressed? Give the TV a miss and look out the window Reuters - Thu Jun 12, 10:37 AM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - If you're feeling stressed, rather than wallow in front of the television try looking out of the window, with a U.S. study finding scenes of nature can alleviate minor stress levels.

  • Remnants from a Boy Scout uniform sits in the rubble in the tornado damage at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch near Little Sioux, Iowa June 12, 2008. (Omaha World-Herald/Matt Miller/Pool/Reuters)
    Boy Scouts among dead as tornadoes hit Midwest Reuters - Thu Jun 12, 2:57 PM ET

    DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - A tornado roared through a Boy Scout camp in Iowa and flattened a cabin where many campers had sought shelter, killing four teen-aged boys and injuring dozens of others.

  • Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama arrives in Blountville, Tennessee, June 5, 2008. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
    Obama launches Web site to fight rumors Reuters - Thu Jun 12, 9:52 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has launched a Web site to dispel rumors about his faith and patriotism and his wife's views on race that have dogged his candidacy for more than a year.

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Celtics roar back, beat Lakers 97-91 in Game 4

AP - 54 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES - In their comeback season, the Celtics saved the biggest one of all for the NBA finals. Boston rallied from a 24-point deficit and beat the Los Angeles Lakers 97-91 on Thursday night to take a commanding 3-1 lead in this history-rich series and move within one victory of a 17th championship that seemed impossible a year ago.

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Inflation jumps by biggest amount in 6 months

A shopper carries a bag in San Francisco, 2007. US retail sales surged a stronger-than-expected 1.0 percent in May, as American consumers appeared to splurge out more on purchases.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)
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AFP/Getty Images/File
AP - 4 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Inflation shot up in May at the fastest pace in six months, pushed higher by soaring costs for gasoline and other types of energy.

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Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 13, 2008
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
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Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)
The best way out is always through.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

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