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BBC News |
11:54pm PDT |
Rolls Royce to hold strike talks |
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Summary: Rolls Royce and unions are set for talks after staff staged an unofficial walk out to protest the sacking of a union official. |
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BBC News |
11:54pm PDT |
Rolls-Royce to hold strike talks |
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Summary: Rolls-Royce and unions are set for talks after staff staged an unofficial walk out to protest the sacking of a union official. |
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BBC News |
11:53pm PDT |
Soldiers' bodies flown back home |
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Summary: The bodies of three Staffordshire Regiment soldiers are to be flown back to the UK on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:25pm PDT |
U.N. Slams Zimbabwe's Slum Destruction (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Zimbabwe's destruction of urban slums is a "disastrous venture" that has left 700,000 people without homes or jobs, violated international law and created a grave humanitarian crisis, according to excerpts of a harshly worded U.N. report. |
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Cnn.com |
11:14pm PDT |
House votes to extend Patriot Act |
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Summary: The House voted by a wide margin Thursday night to renew expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act, the collection of antiterrorism measures passed after the September 11, 2001, attacks. |
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Yahoo News |
11:08pm PDT |
Rice Seeks to Rescue Shaky Mideast Truce (AP) |
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Summary: AP - In a hastily arranged visit, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is seeking to rescue a shaky Mideast truce amid an escalation of violence before Israel's mid-August withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. |
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BBC News |
10:56pm PDT |
IVF 'postcode lottery' scrapped |
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Summary: For the first time in seven years, women from every part of Wales can get IVF treatment on the NHS. |
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BBC News |
10:56pm PDT |
One free IVF treatment for all |
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Summary: All patients will get be eligible for a free round of IVF providing they meet certain criteria - previously only available in south Wales. |
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Cnn.com |
10:51pm PDT |
Blasts probe turns to 'significant' evidence |
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Summary: Would-be terrorists left behind "significant" forensic evidence from devices that failed to detonate Thursday in London's Underground trains and on a double-decker bus, the city's police commissioner said. The incident came two weeks to the day after a se |
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BBC News |
10:48pm PDT |
Football: Wenger awaits Baptista |
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Summary: Arsenal's Arsene Wenger says he has a "50-50" chance of signing Sevilla's Julio Baptista. |
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BBC News |
10:47pm PDT |
Fall in number of PSNI complaints |
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Summary: The number of people making complaints to the police ombudsman has fallen by almost 100. |
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BBC News |
10:43pm PDT |
Race body reports rise in abuse |
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Summary: The number of hate incidents against Muslims has risen since the London bombs, a race body claims. |
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BBC News |
10:29pm PDT |
Child deportations face criticism |
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Summary: The SNP accuses the Home Office and Children's Reporter Administration of collusion over Dungavel deportations. |
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Yahoo News |
10:24pm PDT |
Police to Search Bags on NYC Subways (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Police will begin random searches of bags and packages carried by people entering city subways, officials announced Thursday after a new series of bomb attacks in London. |
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Yahoo News |
10:11pm PDT |
Guerrero Rallies Angels to Beat Yanks 6-5 (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Vladimir Guerrero broke out of his slump with a grand slam Thursday night to rally the Los Angeles Angels to a 6-5 victory over the New York Yankees. |
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Yahoo News |
10:04pm PDT |
Prosecutors Must Return Jackson's Property (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The judge who presided over Michael Jackson's child molestation case ordered prosecutors Thursday to return to the entertainer hundreds of items seized by investigators. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
London Hit Again With Explosions (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - LONDON, July 21 -- Four small explosions shut down the city's public transit system at lunchtime Thursday and sent panicked passengers fleeing for safety in an echo of the deadly suicide strikes of two weeks ago. Police reported one i |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
China Ends Fixed-Rate Currency (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - SHANGHAI, July 21 -- China on Thursday took an important step forward in its move toward a market economy, announcing it would increase the value of its currency, the yuan, and abandon its decade-old fixed exchange rate to the U.S. do |
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Crosswalk |
9:55pm PDT |
Gambling With Abortion: America's Seared Conscience (Part 2) |
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Summary: As "partial-birth abortion" emerged into America's consciousness, an Oregon woman named Jenny Westberg made a series of simple pen-and-ink drawings of the procedure. Those pictures--striking in their simplicity and devastating in their clarity--would chan |
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Crosswalk |
9:55pm PDT |
Same-Sex Matrimony: The Evolution of Marriage? |
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Summary: Stephanie Coontz, the director of public education for the Council on Contemporary Families writes that "gay marriage" is simply the next in the ongoing "evolution" of marriage and human relationships and we should simply accept it. Is she correct? Is thi |
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Cnn.com |
9:49pm PDT |
Recently hospitalized Brad Pitt makes appearance |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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BBC News |
9:43pm PDT |
Cricket: Harmison eyes recovery |
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Summary: Steve Harmison believes England can regain control of the first Test against Australia despite their batting collapse. |
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BBC News |
9:28pm PDT |
Tube travel disruption continues |
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Summary: London Underground says commuters face difficult journeys after minor explosions cause disruption to services. |
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BBC News |
9:12pm PDT |
Urgent hunt for London attackers |
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Summary: A huge police search is under way to find four would-be bombers after Thursday's attacks in London. |
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Cnn.com |
9:07pm PDT |
Tunnel started in Canada, ended in U.S. house |
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Summary: Federal agents have closed down the first known smuggling tunnel under the U.S.-Canada border and arrested on drug charges the three Canadians who allegedly built it, law enforcement authorities said Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:49pm PDT |
U.S. lawmakers see no reason yet to block Roberts (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators
said on Thursday they saw no reason so far that would warrant
Democrats trying to block U.S. Supreme Court nominee John
Roberts. |
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Yahoo News |
8:44pm PDT |
British police hunt fugitive London bombers (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Police are hunting up to four bombers
who struck at London's bus and underground train network in an
apparently failed bid to repeat the carnage of the July 7
blasts which killed more than 50 people. |
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Yahoo News |
8:29pm PDT |
Red Sox Nip White Sox on Ramirez's Homer (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Manny Ramirez homered in the top of the ninth, one pitch after Chicago third baseman Joe Crede dropped his foul pop up for an error, and the Boston Red Sox beat the White Sox 6-5 on Thursday night. |
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BBC News |
8:24pm PDT |
N Korea calls for US peace treaty |
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Summary: Pyongyang urges the US to sign a peace treaty to replace a 1953 armistice, ahead of nuclear talks next week. |
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Cnn.com |
8:21pm PDT |
Sources: Memo with Plame's name was marked secret |
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Summary: A classified State Department memorandum that has been the subject of questioning in a federal leak probe identifies a CIA agent by name in a paragraph marked "S" for secret, sources told CNN Thursday. |
