CNN news 2008-05-06 加文本

From the cnn Center in Atlanta, I'm Nicole Lapin. Here are some headlines in NOW IN THE NEWS.

First lady Laura Bush is calling on Myanmar's military rulers to accept aid from the US and from the rest of the world. The State Department says that the military junta has so far refused to allow an American disaster team into that country to assess the damage from the deadly cyclone. Myanmar's government says that the death toll could reach 10,000. Relief workers say that the most urgent need right now is just clean water. Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless. It is the deadliest natural disaster in recent history to hit Myanmar, the country of course, formerly known as Burma.

Iraqi Interior Minister meanwhile is now reporting that 13 people have been killed in fighting in Baghdad with most of the death in the Sadr City slum. The US military is now saying that it killed ten militants. Meanwhile, Iran says it will not hold more security talks with the United States until Washington stops what it calls savage attacks in Iraq. There have been 3 previous rounds of talks.

The so-called "DC madam" killed herself to escape going to prison. Police have released Deborah Jeane Palfrey's suicide notes in which she called her conviction a (quote) "modern-day lynching". She wrote that she was unable to live out a sentence only to live prison to a (quote) "broken, penniless and very much alone existence". Palfrey hanged herself last Thursday at her mom's home right near Tarpon, Florida.

Georgia's Board of Pardons and Paroles have just rejected an appeal from a convicted killer scheduled to be executed by lethal injection tomorrow night. William Earl Lynd will be the first person put to death that way since the Supreme Court affirmed that lethal injection was a constitutional method last month. Lynd was sentenced to die for kidnapping and murdering his former girlfriend in 1988.

Today some Yahoo investors sold off the stock sending Yahoo's shares tumbling 19% at one point during the day. It comes two days after Microsoft withdrew its 46-billion-dollar bid to buy the giant internet portal. Microsoft CEO says that the two sides could not reach a deal. Yahoo had been pressed for a higher price. Both sides were trying to better compete with Google for the billions of dollars in internet advertising revenue.

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