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Trott wins gold as Kenny pips Hoy

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
Laura Trott wins omnium gold for Britain as Jason Kenny beats Sir Chris Hoy on his way to sprint silver at the World Track Cycling.
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Big lottery winners often prize anonymity

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
RED BUD, Ill. (AP) -- The tiny Illinois farm town of Red Bud is the kind of place with few strangers and few secrets. Yet the community of 3,700 has a lingering mystery on its hands: Who bought the winning Mega Millions lottery ticket, and why hasn't the winner of the world-record $656 million jackpot come forward?...
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Big lottery winners often prize anonymity

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
RED BUD, Ill. (AP) -- The tiny Illinois farm town of Red Bud is the kind of place with few strangers and few secrets. Yet the community of 3,700 has a lingering mystery on its hands: Who bought the winning Mega Millions lottery ticket, and why hasn't the winner of the world-record $656 million jackpot come forward?...
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Big lottery winners often prize anonymity

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
RED BUD, Ill. (AP) -- The tiny Illinois farm town of Red Bud is the kind of place with few strangers and few secrets. Yet the community of 3,700 has a lingering mystery on its hands: Who bought the winning Mega Millions lottery ticket, and why hasn't the winner of the world-record $656 million jackpot come forward?...
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Big lottery winners often prize anonymity

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
RED BUD, Ill. (AP) -- The tiny Illinois farm town of Red Bud is the kind of place with few strangers and few secrets. Yet the community of 3,700 has a lingering mystery on its hands: Who bought the winning Mega Millions lottery ticket, and why hasn't the winner of the world-record $656 million jackpot come forward?...
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Fountains off as ban takes effect

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
Water fountains across London are turned off as their water supply runs dry due to the hosepipe ban.
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Bluebell season 'to start early'

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
Drought conditions in the South East mean the region's bluebell season could be earlier and shorter than usual, according to the National Trust.
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Artist Thomas Kinkade dies at 54

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
The US painter Thomas Kinkade, best known for his pictures of idyllic landscapes, has died at the age of 54, his family say.
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Admiral: Fiery fighter jet crash 'miracle'

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
Three people missing after a Navy fighter hit apartment buildings in Virginia Beach have been accounted for. Officials are still checking under wreckage to make sure there are no casualties.
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Pilots in fiery Navy jet crash faced tough choices

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Zooming along at 170 mph in a fighter jet carrying thousands of pounds of volatile fuel, two Navy pilots faced nothing but bad choices when their aircraft malfunctioned over Virginia's most populated city....
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Challenges facing Romney in wooing female voters

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney is starting to hone his appeal to female voters, acutely aware as he turns to the general election that he has little choice but to narrow President Barack Obama's commanding lead among this critical constituency....

Post-Saleh Yemen shows resolve against al-Qaida

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- After years of stalling and halfhearted efforts under its now-ousted president, Yemen is finally showing resolve in the fight against al-Qaida's branch in the country, which has been behind a string of attempted attacks on the U.S., including a new foiled plot to bomb an airliner....

Fang Lizhi, who inspired Chinese dissidents, dies

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
BEIJING (AP) -- Fang Lizhi, one of China's best-known dissidents whose speeches inspired student protesters throughout the 1980s, has died in the United States, where he fled after China's 1989 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement. He was 76....

Diplomats: Nuclear agency chief to visit Tehran

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
VIENNA (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear agency chief will fly to Tehran over the weekend to sign a deal meant to allow his organization to resume a long- stalled search for evidence that Iran worked on developing nuclear arms, the agency and diplomats said Friday....

Two of Latin America's deadliest gangs join forces

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- - Hardened in the streets and prisons of California and deported in the 1990s to the Central American countries where they were born, the members of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang swiftly grew into a force of heavily tattooed young men carrying out kidnappings, murder and extortion....

Two of Latin America's deadliest gangs join forces

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- - Hardened in the streets and prisons of California and deported in the 1990s to the Central American countries where they were born, the members of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang swiftly grew into a force of heavily tattooed young men carrying out kidnappings, murder and extortion....

Are motorways vulnerable to fire?

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
Where is fire hazards review promised after M1 blaze?
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US helps Pakistan search for 135 buried in snow

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The U.S. sent a team of experts Sunday to help Pakistan search for 135 people buried a day earlier by a massive avalanche that engulfed a military complex in a mountain battleground close to the Indian border....

Police: 5 shootings in Tulsa, Okla., linked; 3 die

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Police believe separate shootings in Tulsa, Okla., in which three people were killed and two others were critically wounded are linked....
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Malawi confirms president's death; VP steps up

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 14:56
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) -- Malawi's government confirmed Saturday that President Bingu wa Mutharika is dead, and the vice president moved to take charge after more than a day of uncertainty over who was running this impoverished southern African country....
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