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Tax rebates should start showing up in bank accounts Monday (AP)
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AP - Those long-promised tax rebates are now on their way to U.S. taxpayers. People who chose to have their rebates directly deposited into their bank accounts will see the money there beginning Monday. The government’s paper checks will start going out on May 9, a week earlier than previously announced.
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Roger Waters plays `Dark Side,’ unleashes giant pig (AP)
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AP - Roger Waters brought Coachella to a close with an epic two-set performance that included playing all of “Dark Side of the Moon” and unleashing a giant inflated pig into the night sky.
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Intestinal virus kills 19 children in China: report (AFP)
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AFP - Nineteen young children have died and nearly 800 others have fallen ill in a lethal intestinal virus outbreak in eastern China, state media reported Monday.
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Police: Dad confesses to holding daughter captive 24 years (AP)
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AP - Austrian police say a man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering seven children with her.
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Austrian tells how daughter kept in dungeon for 24 years: police (AFP)
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AFP - An elderly Austrian, portrayed by media as a “monster”, started Monday to tell how he imprisoned his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, police said, as the country expressed horror at the seven children she bore as his captive.
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Seventy dead in China train crash (AFP)
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AFP - Seventy people were killed and 420 injured early Monday when a passenger train from Beijing careered off the rails and slammed into another train in eastern China, state media reported.
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Austrian admits 24-year abuse of daughter in cellar (Reuters)
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Reuters - A 73-year-old Austrian man
has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless
cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police
said on Monday.
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Pistons rally to get even, Cavs and Hornets take big leads (AP)
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AP - The Pistons rallied to get even, the Cavs and the Hornets took commanding leads and the Suns stayed alive yesterday in the NBA playoffs.
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Mars, Buffet, cooperate in bid for Wrigley, newspapers say (AP)
“AP - Mars Inc. and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., were close to a deal to acquire the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company for more than $22 billion, according to media reports, a takeover with the potential to transform the confectionary industry worldwide.”
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Israeli strike kills 7 Palestinians (AP)
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AP - An Israeli tank shell slammed into a tiny Gaza Strip home Monday during a skirmish with gunmen, killing a Palestinian woman and four of her children as they prepared to sit down for breakfast, officials and relatives said.
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