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Yahoo News |
11:59pm PDT |
G-8 Countries Trying to Reach Compromises (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Compromise appears to be within reach on the two centerpiece issues at this year's meeting of the world's most industrialized nations — relieving crushing poverty in Africa and developing a plan to combat global warming. |
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BBC News |
11:58pm PDT |
Asbo adviser mocks drink curb |
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Summary: A top government adviser is caught on tape branding anti-binge drinking messages "nonsense". |
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BBC News |
11:58pm PDT |
Asbo adviser mocks drink campaign |
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Summary: A top government adviser is caught on tape branding anti-binge drinking messages "nonsense". |
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BBC News |
11:58pm PDT |
Football: Gerrard bid talks |
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Summary: Chelsea are set to hold more talks with Liverpool over a British record move for midfielder Steven Gerrard. |
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BBC News |
11:58pm PDT |
Gerrard set to stay at Liverpool |
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Summary: Steven Gerrard has a change of heart and decides to stay at Liverpool. |
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BBC News |
11:58pm PDT |
Football: Gerrard to stay at L'pool |
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Summary: Steven Gerrard has a change of heart and decides to stay at Liverpool. |
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Yahoo News |
11:57pm PDT |
Gunmen strike Baghdad diplomats, U.S. urges calm (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Iraq and the United States sought to
prevent an exodus of diplomats from Baghdad on Wednesday after
an ambush prompted Pakistan to pull out its ambassador,
Bahrain's envoy was shot and Egypt's was kidnapped. |
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BBC News |
11:55pm PDT |
William's plane aborts landings |
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Summary: Dense fog and two aborted landings prevent Prince William from visiting a school during his New Zealand tour. |
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Yahoo News |
11:54pm PDT |
CORRECTED: Anti-G8 protesters clash with police (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - (Corrects spelling of camp location in second paragraph) |
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BBC News |
11:46pm PDT |
Strike called over Ayodhya attack |
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Summary: India's Hindu nationalist BJP calls a nationwide strike after Tuesday's attack on the Ayodhya religious site. |
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BBC News |
11:39pm PDT |
London makes last push |
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Summary: Bid chairman Lord Coe has started the final push aimed at bringing the 2012 Olympics to London. |
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BBC News |
11:32pm PDT |
Asbo tsar 'backs' binge drinking |
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Summary: A top government adviser is caught on tape branding anti-binge drinking messages "nonsense". |
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BBC News |
11:17pm PDT |
Sister moving house after murder |
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Summary: Robert McCartney's sister is to move out of her Belfast home over painful memories of his murder. |
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Yahoo News |
11:17pm PDT |
Bush Spending Part of Birthday in Denmark (AP) |
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Summary: AP - President Bush is spending part of his 59th birthday at a sprawling royal palace in Denmark where he stopped to thank the Danes for sending troops to Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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Yahoo News |
11:11pm PDT |
Reporters Face Jail in Fight Over Sources (AP) |
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Summary: AP - In a high-stakes battle over press freedom, two reporters face jail, possibly as early as Wednesday, for refusing to divulge their sources to a prosecutor investigating the Bush administration's leak of a CIA officer's identity. |
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Yahoo News |
11:11pm PDT |
Anti-G8 protesters clash with police in Scotland (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Anti-G8 protesters clashed
with police on Wednesday as the heads of the Group of Eight
industrialized nations prepared to meet at the heavily
fortified Gleneagles golfing resort near Edinburgh. |
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BBC News |
10:48pm PDT |
Teacher allegations review call |
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Summary: A head teacher cleared of assaulting a pupil wants a review of guidelines to deal with allegations in schools. |
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Yahoo News |
10:43pm PDT |
Few clues emerge as 2012 decision nears (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - The five world cities bidding for the
right to stage the 2012 Olympics began making their pitches on
Wednesday but few clues to the eventual winner emerged as the
process reached its halfway stage. |
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BBC News |
10:40pm PDT |
UUP to meet Orange Order leader |
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Summary: An Ulster Unionist Party delegation is to meet head of the Orange Order Robert Saulters in Belfast. |
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BBC News |
10:40pm PDT |
Police clash with G8 protesters |
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Summary: Police clash with hundreds of protesters as world leaders gather in Scotland for the G8 summit. |
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BBC News |
10:22pm PDT |
Japan 'war orphans' lose case |
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Summary: Japanese 'war orphans' abandoned in China in 1945 are not entitled to compensation, a court rules. |
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Cnn.com |
10:11pm PDT |
Police cameras watch -- and now hear, too |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Doubts on Vitamin E, Aspirin for Prevention (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - Neither low-dose aspirin nor Vitamin E supplements prevent cancer in women, and Vitamin E also does little or nothing to prevent heart disease in them, according to results of a large and authoritative study released yesterday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Military Expands Homeland Efforts (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - A new Pentagon strategy for securing the U.S. homeland calls for expanded U.S. military activity not only in the air and sea -- where the armed forces have historically guarded approaches to the country -- but also on the ground and i |
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Cnn.com |
9:49pm PDT |
Cities make final Olympic pitch |
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Summary: After a final, furious lobbying effort by an elite who's who of politicians and athletes, the International Olympic Committee meets in Singapore to decide which of five cities will host the 2012 games. |
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Yahoo News |
9:48pm PDT |
Detroit Automakers Seize on Incentives (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The American auto-buying public seems to have found an incentive it really likes — paying the same as the people who build the vehicles. |
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Cnn.com |
9:41pm PDT |
G8 summit to begin |
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Summary: The world's eight richest nations are set to open their annual meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland, after clashes sent 100 protesters to court and police are bracing for more violence. |
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BBC News |
9:29pm PDT |
Advert spitting complaints upheld |
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Summary: A soft drink advert showing people spitting should not be shown before 9pm, the advertising watchdog rules. |
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Crosswalk |
9:25pm PDT |
But What Does Europe Say?--On Citing Foreign Court Decisions |
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Summary: Observers of the U.S. Supreme Court have noted a disturbing pattern in recent court decisions: Some justices are citing foreign court decisions in framing their own interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. This amounts to an internationalizing of the Unit |
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Cnn.com |
8:52pm PDT |
Tropical Storm Cindy hits Louisiana |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
