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    Amazon tribe sighting raises contact dilemma (Reuters)

    Members of an unknown Amazon Basin tribe and their dwellings are seen during a flight over the Brazilian state of Acre along the border with Peru in this May, 2008 photo distributed by FUNAI, the government agency for the protection of indigenous peoples. Survival International estimates that there are over 100 uncontacted tribes worldwide, and says that uncontacted tribes in the region are under increasing threat from illegal logging over the border in Peru. (Funai-Frente de Proteção Etno-Ambiental Envira/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Dramatic photographs of previously unfound Amazon Indians have highlighted the precariousness of the few remaining "lost" tribes and the dangers they face from contact with outsiders.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 17:47:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Angelina Jolie birth reports contradicted (Reuters)

    Cast member Angelina Jolie (L) and actor Brad Pitt leave after the screening of 'The Exchange' by U.S. director Clint Eastwood at the 61st Cannes Film Festival May 20, 2008. Jolie has given birth in France to twins fathered by Pitt, bringing the Hollywood couple's brood to six children, according to the celebrity television program 'Entertainment Tonight.' (Vincent Kessler/Reuters)Reuters - Two weeks after actress Angelina Jolie publicly acknowledged she was expecting twins with actor Brad Pitt, contradictory reports circulated on Friday about whether she had given birth.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 18:49:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Plane skids off runway in Honduras, 3 dead (Reuters)
    Reuters - A passenger plane skidded off a runway at Tegucigalpa airport in Honduras on Friday on landing, veered onto a road and smashed into cars and a building, killing at least three people. -- read full article
    Fri, 30 May 2008 18:31:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    End of Democratic White House race could be near (Reuters)

    Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama shakes hands with a student after speaking at a town hall meeting at the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts in Thornton, Colorado May 28, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)Reuters - The end is near. Probably.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 12:07:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    U.S. emissions bill a "first step": U.N. climate chief (Reuters)

    Smoke is emitted from a factory at Keihin industrial zone in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo March 16, 2008. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)Reuters - A bill going to the U.S. Senate next week seeking deep cuts in U.S. greenhouse gases by 2050 is a "first step" but not enough to avert damaging climate change, the head of the U.N. Climate Panel said on Friday.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 18:28:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Crane collapses in New York City (Reuters)

    Construction workers try to secure a section of a damaged crane at the site of a crane collapse in New York May 30, 2008. (Chip East/Reuters)Reuters - A large crane collapsed in New York City on Friday, killing one person and damaging an apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side -- a day after city officials investigated the crane's operations.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 16:55:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Serena Williams loses at French Open (AP)

    United States player Serena Williams reacts after missing a point to Slovenia's Katarina Srebotnik during their third round match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris on Friday May 30, 2008. (AP Photo/David Vincent)AP - For Serena Williams, missed chances came in a flurry. She shanked overheads, hit wild volleys and squandered six break points Friday at the French Open. The result: a stunning third-round loss to Katarina Srebotnik, 6-4, 6-4.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 18:15:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Condoleezza Rice enlists in Kiss Army fan club (AP)

    This photo provided by the State Department shows Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, center, posing the hard rocker group Kiss, Thursday, May 29, 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden. From left are, Tommy Thayer, Paul Stanley, Secretary Rice, Gene Simmons and Eric Singer  (AP Photo/State Department, Anne Lyons)AP - The Kiss Army fan club has an enthusiastic new recruit: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 15:57:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Conflicting reports emerge on Angelina Jolie birth (AP)

    In this May 15, 2008 file photo, U.S. actors Brad Pitt, left, and Angelina Jolie arrive for the premiere of the film 'Kung Fu Panda,' during the 61st International film festival in Cannes, France. Jolie has given birth to twins in France, according to U.S. television show Entertainment Tonight Friday, May 30, 2008. The twins girls are reportedly named Isla Marcheline Jolie-Pitt and Amelie Jane Jolie-Pitt.  (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)AP - Has the Brangelina brood increased by two? There were conflicting reports Friday about the impending birth of Angelina Jolie's twins.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 18:47:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Vatican: Excommunication for female priests (AP)

    Pope Benedict XVI waves to pilgrims and faithful as he tours St. Peter's square during the weekly open-air general audience at the Vatican Wednesday, May 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri)AP - The Vatican insisted Friday that it is properly following Christian tradition by excluding females from the priesthood as it issued a new warning that women taking part in ordinations will be excommunicated.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 18:35:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Families reunited in China's quake zone (AP)

    A mother of a student who died in a school destroyed by May 12 earthquake,  cries at the site in Juyuan, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Friday, May 30, 2008.  The government announced Friday that the confirmed death toll from China's worst disaster in three decades was 68,858, an increase of about 350 from a day earlier. Another 18,618 people were still missing.   (AP Photo)AP - Most of the 8,000 children found alone after China's devastating earthquake have been reunited with their parents, Chinese officials said Friday.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 18:31:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Passenger jet overshoots runway in Honduras (AP)

    A man is carried away from the inside of a plane after it crashed in Tegucigalpa, Friday, May 30, 2008. A TACA airplane overshot a runway and slammed to a stop on a city street in the Honduran capital Friday, leaving at least one passenger dead and injuring several others. (AP Photo/Jose Osorio)AP - A Grupo TACA airplane overshot a runway and slammed to a stop on a city street Friday in the Honduran capital, leaving a pilot and a passenger dead and injuring several others.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 18:49:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Incomes and spending both slow in April (AP)

    A man shops for clothing inside a store in Chicago, 2004. US consumer spending and incomes both rose 0.2 percent in April, data showed, suggesting sluggish growth in the world's biggest economy is continuing.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Tim Boyle)AP - The first round of economic stimulus checks gave a boost to personal incomes in April but a huge question remains: Will people spend the checks quickly enough to keep the economy afloat?


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 18:18:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Democrats push for quick end to nomination battle (AP)

    Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at a Memorial Day event in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, May 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Democratic leaders are pushing for a quick end to their party's grueling presidential nomination battle, days ahead of the final primaries and a key party meeting. Supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton planned a weekend rally in hopes of saving her faltering candidacy.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 15:13:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Sect members waiting for children to be returned (AP)

    A woman of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints holds a hymn book in April 2008. The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that 468 children seized from the polygamist sect must be returned to their parents, saying state child welfare officials had overstepped their authority.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Deseret Morning News)AP - Now, the waiting begins. A Texas Supreme Court ruling paves the way for members of a polygamist sect to get their children out of foster care, but it remains unclear when that might happen or what kind of restrictions might be imposed.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 17:20:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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